A Short Account of the Life And Writings of Robert Barclay
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This was the son whom David Barclay, on his * The same G. Laurie, to whom, jointly with William Penn and Nicolas Lucas, West Jersey had been assigned for the benefit of the creditors of Bylinge, the proprietor. Morse's American Geography. t Memoirs, 53. F 2 66 death-bed, spoke of with particular affec- tion.^ The reader will recollect that David Barclay had been induced by John Swin- ton, a fellow prisoner in the castle of Edinburgh, to examine the religious principles of Friends. F This John S...win- ton had been attainted by the parliament of Scotland, prior to the^overthrow of the regal government ; and, on its re-es- tablishment, committed to prison in con- sequence of that attainder. J In the mean time he had adopted the profession of Friends ; and when at length he was brought to trial, and called on to show cause why he should not receive sen- tence according to his attainder, he waved some strong and valid pleas in point of law, which he might have made ; and replied, that at the time his crimes were imputed to him c he was in the " gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquU * See page 12.
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