17 Facts About David Calderwood

David Calderwood was a Scottish minister of religion and historian.

David Calderwood found a home in the Low Countries, where he wrote his great work, the Altare Damascenum which was an attack on Anglican episcopacy.

David Calderwood was present at the Glasgow Assembly in 1638, and saw episcopacy and the high church liturgy swept away from the Church of Scotland.

David Calderwood died at Jedburgh, a fugitive from his parish of Pencaitland; and buried in the churchyard of Crailing, where the first years of his ministry were spent.

David Calderwood was born at Dalkeith, Midlothian, and educated at the college of Edinburgh.

David Calderwood openly protested against the jurisdiction of the bishop, for which offence he was deprived of his right to attend church courts, and required to confine himself to the limits of his parish, Silenced in this way and prevented from taking any part in public proceedings, he applied himself the more earnestly to the authority.

David Calderwood went to Holland, where he remained till the death of James in 1625.

Proof was given that David Calderwood was alive and in full vigour by the publication of a work entitled "Altare Damascenum", which, though appearing under the anagram of 'Edwardus Didoclavius,' was at once recognised as the production of David Calderwood.

David Calderwood was employed, along with David Dickson and Alexander Henderson, in the drawing up of the Directory for Public Worship, which continued to be the recognised document for regulating the service in the Church of Scotland.

David Calderwood was educated at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of MA in 1593.

David Calderwood was summoned to St Andrews and examined before the king, but neither threats nor promises could make him deliver up the roll of signatures to the Remonstrance.

David Calderwood was deprived of his charge, committed to prison at St Andrews and afterwards removed to Edinburgh.

David Calderwood was appointed minister of Pencaitland in East Lothian, in about 1640, where he was one of those appointed to draw up the Directory for Public Worship.

David Calderwood continued to take an active part in the affairs of the church, and introduced in 1649 the practice, now confirmed by long usage, of dissenting from the decision of the General Assembly, and requiring the protest to be entered in the record.

David Calderwood left behind him a historical work of great extent and of great value as a storehouse of authentic materials.

An abridgment, which appears to have been prepared by David Calderwood himself, was published after his death.

The manuscript, which belonged to David Calderwood Durham, was presented to the British Museum.