Robert Baillie

Robert Baillie (1599-1662) was a Scotch Presbyterian divine, born in Glasgow. He resisted Laud's attempt to thrust Episcopacy on the Scotch nation, and became a zealous advocate of the national cause, which he was delegated to represent twice over in London. He was a royalist all the same, and was made principal of Glasgow University. "His Letters and Journals" were published by the Bannatyne Club, and are commended by Carlyle as "veracious," forming, as they do, the subject of one of his critical essays.

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Robert Baillie the Scott, Robert Barclay, Robert Bell, Robert Bellarmine, Robert Benchley