21 March 1734 A.D. Scottish historian, Rev. Robert Wilson, tells the horrors of Anglican militancy, supremacism, repression and murder in the post-1662 period
21 March 1734 A.D. Scottish historian, Rev. Robert Wilson, tells the horrors of Anglican militancy, supremacism, repression and murder in the post-1662 period. Robert Wodrow (1679 – 21 March 1734) was a Scottish historian and Parish minister. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Bibliography 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Biography Robert Wodrow was born at Glasgow , where his father, James Wodrow , was a professor of divinity. Robert was educated at the university and was librarian from 1697 to 1701. From 1703 till his death, he was parish minister at Eastwood, near Glasgow. He had sixteen children, his son Patrick being the "auld Wodrow" of Burns 's poem "Twa Herds". [1] Works Wodrow's major work, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution , was published in two volumes in 1721–1722 (new ed. with a life of Wodrow by Robert Burns, DD, 1807–1808). [1] This recorded ...