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packing, whilst Duncan, although threatened with imprisonment, was left alone. He was now very old, but he preached to a small congregation assembled in his own home, including several of the families mentioned in the list from 1713. In 1729, he baptized the infant son of a later Lady
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Episcopal meeting house was opened in Broad Close opposite the old university buildings in Glasgow's High Street, with a Mr. Wingate as its minister. Neither Duncan nor Wingate had taken the necessary oaths, so the magistrates closed it again shortly afterwards. Wingate was sent
80:. Along with many clergy with Episcopalian sympathies Duncan was rabbled from his parish in 1688, struck and abused, his furniture smashed, and he and his family thrust out of doors. The following year the Episcopalian structure of the Church was abolished by Act of the Scottish Parliament,
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to be sinful. At this period, Episcopal clergy in
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in 1710, and his name is included in a list of
Glasgow’s Episcopalians dating from 1713, a list which also includes John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield (father of
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