John Row

Row, John (1568–1646). Scottish ecclesiastical historian, born at Perth, son of John R., one of the Scottish Reformers, was minister of Carnock in Fife, and a leading opponent of Episcopacy. His Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, 1558–1637, left by him in manuscript, was printed in 1842 for the Wodrow Society. It is an original authority for the period.

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