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ROBERT, a Scotch clergyman; born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1679; was educated at Glasgow University, and became minister of the 1703, where he remained all his life. He parish of Eastwood, Renfrewshire, in 1703, where he remained all his life. He published "The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution" (1721); and wrote a series of Scotch ecclesiastical biographies, the MSS. of which are_preserved in Glasgow University. From served in Glasgow University. From these there has been edited for the Maitof the Reformers and most Eminent Ministers of the Church of Scotland" of the Reformers and most Eminent (1834-1845). He has also edited Wodrow's "Analecta, or Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences" row's "Analecta, or Materials for a (1842-1843); and the Wodrow Society (formed in Edinburgh in 1841 for the publication of works of the early writers of the Reformed Church of Scotland) has published "Wodrow's Correspondence" (1842-1843), under the editorship ence" (1842-1843), under the editorship died in Eastwood, March 26, 1734.

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