Nicol Dalgleish
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Nicol Dalgleish | |
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| Church | Church of Scotland |
| In office | 1586 - 1591 |
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| Born | 1560 |
| Occupation | Moderator of the General Assembly |
Nicol Dalgleish was a 16th century
Life
Nicol was born about 1560. His brother Thomas Dalgleish was a burgess in
In 1582 he was tried for his life, accused of supporting rebel clergy who had fled from the King. He was acquitted, was tried again. This time it was for corresponding with the rebels - one (partisan) source says that he had merely looked at a letter one of the rebels had written home to his wife. He was sentenced to death, but this was not carried out. It was reported that the scaffold that had been prepared for him was left standing outside his home for several weeks.
He was appointed Chaplain to the Earl of Angus in the early summer of 1586, and left St Cuthbert’s in October of that year. Unfortunately, the Earl died two years later (in 1588) and Nicol had to find another living. He was licensed by the Assembly to find himself some other parish, as "he could not continue for lack of provisioun, 12 July 1586, and had ane testimoniall from the haill parochin
In fact, his
Nicol was settled in Pittenweem by 1588.[1]
References
- Old and New Edinburgh; Volume III, Chapter XVIII, page 131 by James Grant (Edinburgh 1880)
- Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae The succession of Scottish ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, by the Rev. Hew Scott, D.D. Edinburgh 1911