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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE HISTORY OF BllECHIN FROM 1560 TO 1600. We come now to treat of a period which produced changes on every burgh in Scotland, but more especially on those burghs which were the seats of Episcopal dignitaries, we mean the Reformation in 156O. The Earl of Argyle, who was then the most popular and most potent nohleman in Scotland, had the influence to introduce into the see of Brechin Alexander Campbell, a son of the family of Ardkinglass, who, at the period of his induction in 1566, appears to have been a mere youth; for we find that, the year after his induction, he got liberty from Queen Mary to go abroad for his education; and in the Book of Assumptions of 28th January 1573-4, it is noticed that he was then at Geneva at the schools. As there are no documents with Campbell's name existing in Brechin from 1569 to 1579, we are inclined to suppose that he had been abroad between these periods; and we adopt this opinion the more readily, because we find that, although his licence to go abroad for seven years was granted in 1567, he was present with Regent Moray in the convention at Perth in July 1569. During the absence of the bishop for the period alluded to, David, archdean of Brechin, commendator of Dryburgh, managed the temporalities of the bishoprick of Brechin. Alexander Campbell, as we have said, was inducted into the see in 1566, and he died bishop of Brechin in 1610, so that he filled the Episcopal chairfor forty-four years, from which circumstance, independent of other authorities, it might fairly be inferred that he was not a very old man when he was elevated to the dignity of a bishop. But the most remarkable circumstance connected with this gentleman, was the terms ofthe grant in his favour of the bishoprick. By this document Campbell was empowered t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217587617
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 134
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217587615
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr

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