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On November 26th 1639 John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of Scotland and historian of Scotland, died.

Born in Mid Calder, the son of another John Spottiswoode who was Rector of the Kirk of Calder and invited John Knox to celebrate the first Protestant communion in the village.

Spottiswoode was educated at the University of Glasgow and married at South Leith in 1589. When King James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603, he was one of the entourage who accompanied his King to London and two years later was appointed a member of the Privy Council of Scotland.

He went on to become Archbishop of Glasgow and then Primate of Scotland and Archbishop of St. Andrews. Spottiswoode lived close to St Andrews at Dairsie Castle, building a church there in 1621. He crowned King Charles I in 1633 at the Palace of Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and was appointed Chancellor of Scotland in 1635.

John Spottiswood was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Perth which had been rigged to ensure acceptance of James VI's unpopular reforms, known as the Articles of Perth, which were intended to unify church practices between Scotland and England under an Episcopal system of church government .

King Charles I appointed himChancellor of Scotland in 1635, but Spottiswoode found himself caught between a monarch intent on introducing an unpopular prayer book, which resulted in the “Jenny Geddes” riots in St. Giles Kirk in Edinburgh. Thus in 1638, while the people signed the National Covenant, Charles dismissed Spottiswoode from the Chancellorship for having failed to enforce the Episcopacy, yet the General Assembly in Glasgow reintroduced Presbyterianism, deposing him as Archbishop and excommunicated him.

He escaped to Newcastle and then London. where he died in London on this day in 1639.