Robert Blair was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who became a Westminster Divine and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1646. A supporter of the Scottish Reformation, he r
Couston Castle where Robert Blair died.
Emigrants memorial, Larne commemorating the first ship to leave Larne for America in 1717. The Eagle Wing left Groomsport in 1636 and was over halfway there when they turned back. (The Mayflower sailed in 1620).
Westminster Abbey, west facade
Robert Blair's Gravestone
Robert Baillie was a Church of Scotland minister who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the Covenanters.
Robert Blair (moderator)
…twenty-second year he was appointed a regent or professor in the university. One of his students was the future author of polemics for the Covenanters, Robert Baillie. In 1616 he was licensed as a preacher of the gospel in connection with the established church (presbyterian) of Scotland. In 1622 he resigned his…
Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1847, Palace of Westminster