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'''James Drummond''' was a seventeenth century Scottish covenanting field preacher. He was imprisoned on [[Bass Rock]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillimore |first1=R.P |title=The Bass Rock : its history and romance |date=1911 |publisher=R.P. Phillimore |location=North Berwick, Scotland |page=97 |url=https://archive.org/details/bassrockitshistophil |
'''James Drummond''' was a seventeenth century Scottish covenanting field preacher. He was imprisoned on [[Bass Rock]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillimore |first1=R.P |title=The Bass Rock : its history and romance |date=1911 |publisher=R.P. Phillimore |location=North Berwick, Scotland |page=[https://archive.org/details/bassrockitshistophil/page/97 97] |url=https://archive.org/details/bassrockitshistophil |accessdate=14 February 2019}}</ref> for around nine months.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Porteous |first1=James Moir |title=The Scottish Patmos. A standing testimony to patriotic Christian devotion |date=1881 |publisher=J. and R. Parlane |location=Paisley |page=[https://archive.org/details/scottishpatmosa00portgoog/page/n61 58] |url=https://archive.org/details/scottishpatmosa00portgoog |accessdate=3 March 2019}}</ref> At the time of his incarceration his occupation was listed as chaplain to Margaret, Marchioness of Argyll.<ref>{{cite book |last1=M'Crie |first1=Thomas, D.D. the younger |title=The Bass rock: Its civil and ecclesiastic history |date=1847 |publisher=J. Greig & Son |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bassrockitscivil00mcri/page/n358 199]–202 |url=https://archive.org/details/bassrockitscivil00mcri |accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref> |
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==Legal trouble== |
==Legal trouble== |
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Drummond was first jailed in the [[tolbooth]] in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field [[conventicles]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wodrow |first1=Robert |title=The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution |date=1832 |publisher=Blackie |location=Glasgow |pages=270, 356, 364 | |
Drummond was first jailed in the [[tolbooth]] in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field [[conventicles]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wodrow |first1=Robert |title=The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution |date=1832 |publisher=Blackie |location=Glasgow |pages=[https://archive.org/details/thehistoryofthes02wodruoft/page/n283 270], 356, 364 |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/thehistoryofthes02wodruoft |accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> He stayed in prison a short time because he confessed and assured the committee that he would not continue. He was given a conditional discharge on 21 July 1674. |
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He was re-arrested in [[Glasgow]] and summoned to appear before a committee of the [[Privy Council of Scotland|Privy Council]] in Edinburgh. This time he refused to avoid holding conventicles and so was jailed on the Bass Rock from 28 January 1677 until 5 October 1677, when he was given a conditional release to [[Kilmarnock]] and afterwards to [[Kintyre]]. He attended the General Meeting of Presbyterian ministers after the [[Declaration of Indulgence|Toleration]], on 6 July 1687. In 1688 it was reported to the council that he had been preaching in a malt barn near [[Stow of Wedale|Stow]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Robert |title=Annals of Colinsburgh: With Notes on Church Life in Kilconquhar Parish |date=1896 |publisher=Andrew Elliot |location=Edinburgh |pages=123-126 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog |
He was re-arrested in [[Glasgow]] and summoned to appear before a committee of the [[Privy Council of Scotland|Privy Council]] in Edinburgh. This time he refused to avoid holding conventicles and so was jailed on the Bass Rock from 28 January 1677 until 5 October 1677, when he was given a conditional release to [[Kilmarnock]] and afterwards to [[Kintyre]]. He attended the General Meeting of Presbyterian ministers after the [[Declaration of Indulgence (1687)|Toleration]], on 6 July 1687. In 1688 it was reported to the council that he had been preaching in a malt barn near [[Stow of Wedale|Stow]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Robert |title=Annals of Colinsburgh: With Notes on Church Life in Kilconquhar Parish |date=1896 |publisher=Andrew Elliot |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog/page/n131 123]-126 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog |accessdate=5 March 2019}}</ref> |
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==After the Revolution== |
==After the Revolution== |
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[[File:Ruins of the old parish kirk (geograph 3682727).jpg|thumb|Ruins of the old [[Kilconquhar]] parish kirk]] |
[[File:Ruins of the old parish kirk (geograph 3682727).jpg|thumb|Ruins of the old [[Kilconquhar]] parish kirk]] |
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After the [[Glorious Revolution]], Drummond began preaching in [[Kilconquhar]], [[Fife]] towards the end of March 1691. On 25 June 1691 he was called to be the minister there, and continued until his death on 29 September 1699.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ecclesiastical records. Selections from the minutes of the Synod of Fife, M.DC.XI.-M.DC.LXXXVII |date=1837 |page=208 |url=https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalre00abbo |
After the [[Glorious Revolution]], Drummond began preaching in [[Kilconquhar]], [[Fife]] towards the end of March 1691. On 25 June 1691 he was called to be the minister there, and continued until his death on 29 September 1699.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ecclesiastical records. Selections from the minutes of the Synod of Fife, M.DC.XI.-M.DC.LXXXVII |date=1837 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalre00abbo/page/208 208] |url=https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalre00abbo |accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> For his last year, Drummond’s health rendered him unable to discharge his ministerial work. “Frequently there was no lecture but only one sermon on the Sabbaths, ‘the minister not being in very good health.’ At the visitation of the Presbytery in 1698 he complained that his charge was weighty and heavy; and, that he had neither ability nor mynd to discharge his duty as he wold. To which it was answered that it was not in the power of the Presbytery to make his charge lighter, and that he behooved to look for his furnitur from the Lord, who is able to strengthen his weak servants in the acceptable discharge of their duty.”<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dickson |first1=John |title=Emeralds chased in Gold; or, the Islands of the Forth: their story, ancient and modern. [With illustrations.] |date=1899 |publisher=Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier |location=Edinburgh and London |pages=208–209 |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000058DB2#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=237&xywh=-478%2C-1%2C3793%2C2303&r=0 |accessdate=3 March 2019 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614065440/http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000058DB2#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=237&xywh=-478%2C-1%2C3793%2C2303&r=0 |url-status=dead }}{{PD-notice}}</ref> |
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==Family life== |
==Family life== |
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He married Mary Montgomery, who survived him, and had children — Mary, and others.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1925 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |page=209 | |
He married Mary Montgomery, who survived him, and had children — Mary, and others.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1925 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc05scot/page/209 209] |volume=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc05scot |accessdate=23 February 2019}}{{PD-notice}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Grant |editor-first1=Francis J. |title=The commissariot record of St. Andrews. Register of testaments, 1549-1800. Ed. by |date=1902 |publisher=Printed for the Society by J. Skinner |location=Edinburgh |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924008858718;view=1up;seq=116 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 05:12, 27 September 2024
James Drummond | |
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| Church | Church of Scotland |
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| Born | James Drummond |
| Died | 29 September 1699 Kilconquhar, Fife |
| Denomination | Presbyterian |
James Drummond was a seventeenth century Scottish covenanting field preacher. He was imprisoned on Bass Rock[1] for around nine months.[2] At the time of his incarceration his occupation was listed as chaplain to Margaret, Marchioness of Argyll.[3]
Legal trouble
[edit]Drummond was first jailed in the tolbooth in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field conventicles.[4] He stayed in prison a short time because he confessed and assured the committee that he would not continue. He was given a conditional discharge on 21 July 1674.
He was re-arrested in Glasgow and summoned to appear before a committee of the Privy Council in Edinburgh. This time he refused to avoid holding conventicles and so was jailed on the Bass Rock from 28 January 1677 until 5 October 1677, when he was given a conditional release to Kilmarnock and afterwards to Kintyre. He attended the General Meeting of Presbyterian ministers after the Toleration, on 6 July 1687. In 1688 it was reported to the council that he had been preaching in a malt barn near Stow.[5]
After the Revolution
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After the Glorious Revolution, Drummond began preaching in Kilconquhar, Fife towards the end of March 1691. On 25 June 1691 he was called to be the minister there, and continued until his death on 29 September 1699.[6] For his last year, Drummond’s health rendered him unable to discharge his ministerial work. “Frequently there was no lecture but only one sermon on the Sabbaths, ‘the minister not being in very good health.’ At the visitation of the Presbytery in 1698 he complained that his charge was weighty and heavy; and, that he had neither ability nor mynd to discharge his duty as he wold. To which it was answered that it was not in the power of the Presbytery to make his charge lighter, and that he behooved to look for his furnitur from the Lord, who is able to strengthen his weak servants in the acceptable discharge of their duty.”[7]
Family life
[edit]He married Mary Montgomery, who survived him, and had children — Mary, and others.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ Phillimore, R.P (1911). The Bass Rock : its history and romance. North Berwick, Scotland: R.P. Phillimore. p. 97. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ Porteous, James Moir (1881). The Scottish Patmos. A standing testimony to patriotic Christian devotion. Paisley: J. and R. Parlane. p. 58. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ M'Crie, Thomas, D.D. the younger (1847). The Bass rock: Its civil and ecclesiastic history. Edinburgh: J. Greig & Son. pp. 199–202. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Wodrow, Robert (1832). The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution. Vol. 2. Glasgow: Blackie. pp. 270, 356, 364. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Dick, Robert (1896). Annals of Colinsburgh: With Notes on Church Life in Kilconquhar Parish. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot. pp. 123-126. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Ecclesiastical records. Selections from the minutes of the Synod of Fife, M.DC.XI.-M.DC.LXXXVII. 1837. p. 208. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Dickson, John (1899). Emeralds chased in Gold; or, the Islands of the Forth: their story, ancient and modern. [With illustrations.]. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. pp. 208–209. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Scott, Hew (1925). Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation. Vol. 5. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. p. 209. Retrieved 23 February 2019. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Grant, Francis J., ed. (1902). The commissariot record of St. Andrews. Register of testaments, 1549-1800. Ed. by. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by J. Skinner. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
