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408 RENFREWSHIRE.
for propagating Christian knowledge. He dyed March 8th, 1719,
aged fifty-two years, at the seat of his affectionate kinsman, Sir
John Maxwell, of Pollok, one of the senators of the Colledg of
Justice; and is interred in the burial-place of that honorable
family, which, by permission of the honorable proprietor, is like-
wise design'd for the burial-place of his dear spouse, Katherin Corn-
wall, daughter of James Cornwall, of Bonhead, who has erected
this monument to the memory of her dearly beloved husband."
A tombstone denotes the resting-place of the Eev. Eobert
Wodrow, the celebrated historian. Youngest son of Mr. James
Wodrow, Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, he
was born in that city in 1679. Having studied at Glasgow College,
he became librarian to the institution. Licensed in 1703, he was
in the same year ordained minister of Eastwood. His acceptance
as a preacher led to his receiving calls from Glasgow and Stirling,
both of which he declined. At the Union in 1707, he was member
of a committee for supporting the interests of the Church. On
the accession of George I. he was with some others deputed by the
General Assembly to plead with Government for the abolition of
Church patronage. His great work " The History of the Sufferings
of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Eevclution,"
was published in 1721-2, in two folio volumes. It was approved
by the General Assembly, and dedicated to George I., who presented
the author with 100 guineas in token of his royal approval. Mr.
Wodrow designed to publish a series of biographical memoirs of
eminent ministers of the Church of Scotland ; many of these are
preserved in MS. in the Library of Glasgow University. The
materials on which he founded his " History," including twenty-
four volumes of his correspondence, are preserved in the Advocates
Library, and in the archives of the Church. Selections from his
memoirs entitled " Collections upon the Lives of the Eeformers,"
in two quarto volumes, were published at Glasgow in 1834 and
1845. Three octavo volumes of his " Correspondence " and his
" Analecta," or Diary, jn four volumes, have also been printed. Mr.
Wodrow died 21st March, 1734, in his fifty-fifth year, and the
thirty-first of his ministry.