Chalmers, James (4), A.M
Chalmers, James (1), A.M
a Scotch clergyman, was promoted from being regent at King’s College, Aberdeen; admitted to the living at New Machar before 1651; transferred to Cullen in 1652; appointed by Parliament in 1662 one of the visitors to the University of Aberdeen, and the same year was called south by the bishop of St. Andrews, and was promoted to Dumfries in 1663. The privy council ordered that as he had been at great charges in caring for the king’s interest in Church and State, he was to have the salary due to his predecessor (who had been deprived and imprisoned), as well as that from his former parish. He was transferred by the king to Paisley in 1667; continued Aug. 18,1669, and died before Aug. 4,1675, aged about fifty years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1, 569; 2, 197; 3, 508, 673.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Chalmers, James (2), A.M
a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1682; was appointed minister at Kirkpatrick-Fleming in 1686, and deprived by the privy council in 1689 for not praying for the-king and queen. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1, 622.
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Chalmers, James (3), A.M
a Scotch clergyman, son of the minister at Fettercairn, was admitted to the living at Cullen in 1689 and deprived in 1695 for non-jurancy. He was the last minister settled there under Episcopacy, which was abolished one month before his deprivation. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3, 673.
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Chalmers, James (4), A.M
a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1698; was licensed to preach in 1699; called to the living at Elie in 1700, and ordained. He died Jan. 20, 1741, aged about sixty-three years. His son John succeeded to the benefice. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2, 425.