Orders were issued in England for his apprehension in 1637, but he escaped to Scotland, and preached for some time in Ayr. But the weather proved so boisterous that they were beaten back, and, returning to Scotland, he lived partly in that country and partly in England. It would appear that even in Scotland and in Ireland presbyterians were received into the episcopal church without subscription.Įxcommunicated and ejected, Blair, along with a company of others, 'fitted out a ship,' intending to go to New England in 1635. Yet the former sentence was renewed, with excommunication, by Bramhall, bishop of Derry, the same year. By the interposition of the king (Charles I) he was restored in May 1634. But he was suspended in the autumn of 1631, and deposed in 1632 for nonconformity. This reason seems improbable, for having gone over to Ireland he was called to Bangor there and ordained by the Bishop of Down on 10 July 1623. Cameron, who favoured episcopacy, as principal of the university ' ( Anderson, Scottish Nation). In 1622 he resigned his professorship, 'in consequence,' it is alleged, 'of the appointment of Dr. In 1616 he was licensed as a preacher of the gospel in connection with the established church (presbyterian) of Scotland. In his twenty-second year he was appointed a regent or professor in the university. He is stated to have acted as a schoolmaster in Glasgow. His father was a merchant-adventurer, John Blair of Windyedge, a younger brother of the ancient family of Blair of that ilk his mother was Beatrix Muir (of the house of Rowallan), who lived for nearly a century.įrom the parish school at Irvine Blair proceeded to the university of Glasgow, where he took his degree of M.A. BLAIR, ROBERT (1593–1666), divine, a native of Irvine, Ayrshire, was born in 1593.
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