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Podcast: The Semper Reformata Podcast
Episode: History Podcast Trailer - Rev Sandy Peden
Description: It’s Scotland, and it’s 1662, the year of ‘the Great Ejectment.’ King Charles II was tightening his grip on the church by controlling its clergy, using the chain of authority through archbishops and bishops, and loyal land owning patrons who were influential in clergy appointments. But around one third of ministers left or were forced to leave rather than accept the dictates of the so-called Patronage Act. They were excluded from their pulpits, to be replaced in most parishes by Episcopalian curates.Among those ejected was the minister of New Luce, in Galloway, Rev Alexander Peden, dubbed by...