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Biographical Sketch
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to attend as a member the General Assembly at Aberdeen which the king had prohibited. For this he was summoned before the Privy Council and ultimately banished with five others, their conduct during the trial gaining the highest esteem and admiration. Driven from his home in the midst of the severities of a Scottish winter, Robert Dury, with his large family of young children, sought refuge in Holland, that haven for the oppressed of the seventeenth century, and was made first minister of the Scottish Church at Leyden, where he died eleven years later.
Although but four years old when his grandfather died, John
