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1634-1638 A.D. David Lindsay—Bishop of
Edinburgh (Church of Scotland)
David Lindsay (bishop
of Edinburgh)
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David Lindsay
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In office
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1634–1638
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Predecessor
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Successor
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Vacant (until 1662)
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Orders
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Consecration
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November 23, 1619 (as Bishop of Brechin)
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Personal details
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Born
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Died
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1641
England
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Early life and career
Next year, however, he
resigned his mastership, while petitioning the town council to "take
consideration of his estate, and that he may have ane sufficient moyan
quhairupon he may lieve as ane honest man", but it was not till 1620 that
he obtained a full payment of the augmentation then voted to his stipend.
Meanwhile, in 1616 he became a
member of the high commission; in 1617 he defended at St Andrews, before James
VI, some theses about "the power of kings and princes", and in 1618 supported the
"king's articles" at the Perth general assembly, advancing similar arguments in the following years.
Bishop of Brechin
Bishop of Edinburgh
On July 23, 1637, the Sunday
appointed for the introduction of a new service book, he was present at both
the services in the St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. It was here that Jenny Geddes threw a stool at his head as he read from The Book of Common Prayer. At both services he was pelted as he left the
church, and in the afternoon there arose a great clamour in the streets, and
the cry was "Kill the traitour". The Earl of Roxburgh took him up in his coach, but stones were cast at
it, and some of them hit Lindsay so that with great difficulty he reached his
lodgings at Holyrood.
The anonymous author of A breefe and true Relation of the Broyle &c., first printed as an appendix to Rothes' Relation (Bannatyne Club, 1830), is the sole authority for crediting Lindsay with
displaying "the most shameful pusillanimity on this occasion".
Deposed and excommunicated by the Glasgow general assembly in 1638, "he retired", says Mr. Lippe, "to
England, and died there in 1641".
Death and family
Such is not, however, Robert Wodrow's statement, and Jervise places his death between 1638 and 1640, as in the
latter year his son John, was served heir to him in the estate of Dunkenny. Documents in National Archives of Scotland however reveal that he died in December 1641, and
information from the Northumberland County Record Office indicate that he was
buried at Berwick on December 15.[2]
Lindsay married Christian
Rutherford, widow of one of Lindsay's predecessors as master of Dundee Grammar
School, either in, or sometime before, 1603. After her death he married
Katherine Ramsay, daughter of Gilbert Ramsey of Banff.
Sources (from DNB
article)
Wodrow's Biographical Collections, ed. by
the Rev. Robert Lippe (New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1890); A. Maxwell's Hist.
of Old Dundee (Edinb. 1884); Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot. vol. iii. pt. ii.; Lives
of the Lindsays; Andrew Jervise's
Land of the Lindsays; Keith's Scottish Bishops, p. 167.
Notes
1.
Jump up^ David Mitchell, The History of Montrose (1866), p43
2.
Jump up^ Watt & Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 166.
References
Groome, F.
H., "Lindsay, David (d 1641?), bishop of Edinburgh", Dictionary of National Biography,
1892
Stevenson,
David, "Lindsay, David (c.1575–1639/40)", Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 14 April 2008
edited by D.E.R. Watt and A.L. Murray. (2003), Watt, D. E. R.; Murray, A. L., eds., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad
annum 1638, The Scottish Record Society, New Series, Volume 25
(Revised ed.), Edinburgh: The Scottish Record Society, ISBN 0-902054-19-8, ISSN 0143-9448, OCLC 186075005
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