Unto the Reverend Moderator, and remanent members of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. William Earl Marischal of Scotland, and the heritors and elders of the paroch of Fetteresso, ...
Marischal, William Keith,Earl,approximately 1665-1712.
Church of Scotland.Parish of Fetteresso.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1705]
'The Kirk being vacant the Presbytery called Mr. John Webster to be Minister, thus taking the appointment unjustly out of the hands of the Petitioners who have called Mr. Samuel Semple, Minister of Libertoun, to the charge. Mr. Semple, however, has declined to accept, and the Petitioners ask the Assembly to prevail with Mr. Semple, and if that should fail they will immediately apply to another qualified person. Mr. John Webster was admitted March 13th, 1705, and translated to New Deer, April 1707. On the death of Mr. John Milne, the previous Minister, in January 1703, Mr. Gideon Guthrie, an Episcopal clergyman, with connivance of Earl Marischal "intruded himself into the church and manse," and kept possession until May 1709, when by sentence of the Court of Justiciary he was ejected, so that it would appear that Webster was only nominally Minister of the Parish.' - Cat. of Engl. broadsides.
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Cat. of Engl. broadsides,
Scotland Edinburgh.