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Biographical Sketch
"in a manner becoming the life which he had spent;" and his friend Andrew Melville, uncle of James, honoured his memory in many Latin epitaphs in praise of his courageous opposition to the king and court.
Robert Dury was a worthy son of his father, and threw himself zealously into work for the Scottish Church. Besides faithful labour for his parishes of Abercrombie and Anstruther, he made missionary visits to the island of Lewis, the Shetland Islands, and the Orkneys, where a desire for Protestantism was beginning to manifest itself.
As courageous as conscientious, he did not hesitate, in 1605,
