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William Guild (1586-1657)
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Translated to the second charge
of Aberdeen in 1631, he supported episcopacy, and for the next few years
he vacillated between that and support for the Kirk, eventually subscribing
the Covenant in 1636. Early in 1640 he fled to the Netherlands for a time,
but returned to be appointed Principal of King's College in August in
place of Dr William Leslie who had been expelled by the Covenanters. It
was probably during this visit abroad that Guild acquired the last surviving
copy of the protest of the Bohemian nobles against the burning of the
Reformer Jan Hus in 1415, the so-called 'Bohemian Protest', which he bequeathed
to the College of Edinburgh and which became one of the attractions which
brought a series of visitors to the College Library as part of the standard
tour of the City of Edinburgh during the following hundred years.
He wrote a number of theological works, of which the best known is
probably "Moses unvailed" (1619) |
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