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John Duncanson (minister)

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associates in the said treasonable act committed in the month of April last bypast". The treasonable act referred to was their seizing and holding the castle and town against the King (James VI.), whence they issued a proclamation declaring that their only object in seizing arms was to deliver the King from evil counsellors (Earl of Arran and others). The Earl is said to be Provost of Stirling at this time. John Duncanson must have been very active, because he was, along with others, excluded from the remission and pardon and protection granted by the King to the “ bailies, councillors, community, and inhabitants, with their wives and children".
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He demitted his parochial charge after 16 January 1571. He was subsequently presented to the Vicarage of the Chapel Royal on 17 March 1567. He later demitted the post before 25 January 1574, on appointment to the Sub-Deanery. He was elected Moderator of General Assembly on 7 August 1574, also Commissioner of Galloway, and appointed with others to draw up the Second Book of Discipline in 1576 and 1578. He died on 4 October 1601, aged about 100.
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Duncanson as minister of the burgh had a manse assigned to him by the Town Council on 31 October 1560. He was appointed by the Assembly 27 June 1563, in conjunction with another, to plant kirks in Menteith. He was then appointed minister of the King's House (or Dean of the Chapel Royal of Stirling).
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In 1584, when he was upwards of eighty years of age, he was concerned in the so-called “ treasonable proceedings of the Earls of Angus and Mar, the Master of Glammis, with their colleagues and accomplices, and for reception, support, intercommuning, and defence of the said persons and their
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History of the Chapel royal of Scotland, with the register of the Chapel royal of Stirling, including details in relation to the rise and progress of Scottish music and observations respecting the Order of the
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On 26 October 1591 Duncanson was appointed to a commission to try, examine, and if required torture people suspected of witchcraft. The others appointees were Sir John Cockburn of
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He wrote a Reply to Tyrie, the Jesuit's Refutation of Knox's Answer to a former work, which was appointed to be revised by the General Assembly March 1673.
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The College of St. Leonard: Being Documents with Translations, Notes and Historical Introductions. University of St. Andrews, 1905, page 58
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Dunbar, Linda J. Reforming the Scottish Church: John Winram (c. 1492–1582) and the Example of Fife, 2017, pgs. 211-212
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in 1556, around the time that he accepted the reformed faith. He held this position until 1566. He was the
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Lectures on the history of the Church of Scotland : from the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement
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Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation
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Vol. 1. Glasgow: Printed for the Glasgow Stirlingshire and Sons of the Rock Society. pp. 
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He relinquished the charge about 1571. He was the King's Minister, tutor and chaplain to King
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Walter, apprenticed to Robert Middleton, tailor, Edinburgh, 4 March 1594-5 ;
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William, apprenticed to Harry Smith, cutter, Edinburgh, 31st Jan. 1593 ;
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clergymen who willingly converted to the Protestant doctrines at the
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Calderwood's Hist., iii. 187, 330, 344 passim, iv. 191 passim
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Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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Extracts from the records of the royal burgh of Stirling .
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Records of Royal Burgh of Stirling, 1519–1666, 75, 76
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Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1585-1592
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Roman Catholic
Reformation
St Leonard's College, St Andrews
minister
Stirling
James VI
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Ormiston
Robert Bruce
William Litill
Provost of Edinburgh
John Arnot
Alloa
Clackmannanshire
Alexander Hume






Scott, Hew
Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation
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Rogers, Charles
History of the Chapel royal of Scotland, with the register of the Chapel royal of Stirling, including details in relation to the rise and progress of Scottish music and observations respecting the Order of the thistle
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