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    Scotland, active in Whig politics. Carstares was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow, Scotland, the son of the Rev. John Carstares, a Covenanter. He was educated...
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    They included Sir George Campbell of Cessnock, John Cochrane, and William Carstares. The Earl of Argyll had left London for the Netherlands in August...
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    remained loyal to James VII. On the advice of William Carstares, who later became minister of the High Kirk, William II supported the abolition of bishops in...
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  • Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656) 1715 – William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649) 1734 – Rob Roy MacGregor...
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    Detail showing body in a burial shroud, grave of William Carstares, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh (1720)...
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    George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642) December 28 William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649) Joanna Koerten, Dutch painter (b. 1650)...
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    Carson FRSE (1780–1850), rector of the High School 1820–1845, author William Carstares (1649–1715), churchman and statesman Colonel Francis Charteris (1675–1732)...
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    Burnet later made a violent attack on the character and credibility of William Carstares, the Crown's chief witness, who testified that while dining in the...
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    who accompanied William were Scots exiles, including the Earl of Melville, the Duke of Argyll, his personal chaplain William Carstares and Gilbert Burnet...
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    William Carstares 1716 William Wishart (primus) 1730 William Hamilton 1732 James Smith 1736 William Wishart (secundus) 1754 John Gowdie 1762 William Robertson...
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