GORDON, William 1
User ID: B521. General Notes: "In 1624 Gordon of Craig as 'an excommunicat and trafficking papist,' was obliged to leave the Kingdom; in 1637 Gordon of Cairnboro and in 1638 Gordon of Cowdraine were cited before the Synod of Strathbogie, as was William Gordon, in Avochie, in 1650. The following year this good man being asked by the Presbytery 'why he frequented not God's public worship and communicated not, answered, he was not of our profession, but was ane Roman Catholic, who was brought up in the House of Huntly in the popish religion. Being desired to conform himself to the reformed religion of the Kirk of Scotland, answered, he could not at the first till better information, etc., etc."' |