CLAPPERTON, John Minister of Coldstream, Reverend Mr 1
- Born: About 1550
- Marriage (1): SPENCE, Joanna in 1574 1
- Died: 1617 1
General Notes:
(at Coldstream in 1576)
"JOHN CLAPPERTON, a native of the county, was in 1570 exhorter at Livingston; trans, to Hutton in 1571: trans. and adm. in 1576, when Simprin also was in the charge; app. by the General Assembly that year as Visitor of Merse and Lammermuir: this was several times renewed: in 1583 his district extended from the Forth to Berwick, he was apprehended, 25th May 1584, by two archers of the Guard, and taken to Edinburgh. He was charged, 7th Dec. following, with not giving obedience to his Ordinary, and was one of those who signed an address to the King on that matter. At the Assembly, 1586, he dissented against annulling the sentence which had been passed upon Archbishop Adamson. While acting as one of the
Commissioners of the Assembly at Edinburgh, he was ordered by His Majesty, 24th Nov. 1576, to leave within twenty-four
hours and attend his congregation. By the Assembly, 1586, he was appointed constant Moderator of the Presb., which was
enjoined by the Privy Council, 17th Jan. thereafter, to receive him as such within twenty-four hours after notice, under pain
of rebellion. Charged by the Synod to demit that office, he did so, for which he was called before the Privy Council, where
he expressed his readiness to accept it of new. After this he appears to have been wholly submissive to the measures of the Court. He died in 1617. He was a member of at least sixteen General Assemblies. Calderwood says of him, 'The man was ambitious, and readie to embrace any preferment.' He marr. (1) 1574, Joanna Spence, Chirnside, and had issue Samuel Spence, colonel of horse under Gustavus Adolphus, and Governor of Finland, born 1570, died at Womer, 1622; Christian, born 1580 (marr. 1600, Alexander Lauder of Gunsgreen); Anne, bapt. at East Nisbet Chape], 1585 (marr 1604, Robert Brounfield of Todridge); Margaret, born 1589 (marr. 1610, Robert Lauder, W.S., Edinburgh); Elspeth, born 1592 (marr. 1613, Patrick Craw of Heughead); John, min. of Ednam; George, born 1598 : (-2) 1611, Barbara Seton of Nottridge, near Haddington, and had issue William, min. of Coldstream; Patrick, born 1615. His widow survived him and marr. secondly, Andrew Ramsay, min. of Eyemouth, and thirdly, John Poole in Tranent)."
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
John married Joanna SPENCE in 1574.1 (Joanna SPENCE was born about 1555.)
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