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FORBES, John of Ardmurdo
(About 1540-)
GRAHAM, Helen 'of Morphie'
(About 1546-)
FORBES, Alexander Bishop of Aberdeen, Right Reverend
(About 1564-1617)
STRATON, Christian of Craigie
(About 1570-)
FORBES, John Minister of Auchterless, Reverend Mr
(About 1603-)

 

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FORBES, John Minister of Auchterless, Reverend Mr 1

  • Born: About 1603

  General Notes:

(at Auchterless 1627)
"JOHN FORBES, M.A., son of Alexander F- of Aberdeen; regent in King's College, Aberdeen; adm. about 5th July 1627; dep. before 20th April 1641 for not supporting the Covenant, which sentence was approved by the General Assembly in 1643, and on 13th Feb. 1645 the Presb. was ordered by the Assembly to proceed to his excommunication. The Parliament recommended him in 1661 to the Privy Council 'for the bygane vacant stipend of Tarves' on account of his sufferings and loyalty. [Aberdeen Sheriff-Court Records, ii., 294; Privy Seal Eng. Reg., ii., 524; Acts of Parl., vii.. 123, 128; Spalding's Hist., 179.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae 2


Sources


1 e-books, Genealogy of the Family of Forbes from the account of Mathew Lumsden 1580 ed. William Forbes (1819).

2 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae by Hew Scott.

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