James Drummond (chaplain)

Drummond was first jailed in the tolbooth in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field conventicles.{{cite book |last1=Wodrow |first1=Robert |title=The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution |date=1832 |publisher=Blackie |location=Glasgow |pages=[https://archive.org/details/thehistoryofthes02wodruoft/page/n283 270], 356, 364 |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/thehistoryofthes02wodruoft |accessdate=23 February 2019}} He stayed in prison a short time because he confessed and assured the committee that he would not continue. He was given a conditional discharge on 21 July 1674.

He was re-arrested in Glasgow and summoned to appear before a committee of the Privy Council in Edinburgh. This time he refused to avoid holding conventicles and so was jailed on the Bass Rock from 28 January 1677 until 5 October 1677, when he was given a conditional release to Kilmarnock and afterwards to Kintyre. He attended the General Meeting of Presbyterian ministers after the Toleration, on 6 July 1687. In 1688 it was reported to the council that he had been preaching in a malt barn near Stow.{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Robert |title=Annals of Colinsburgh: With Notes on Church Life in Kilconquhar Parish |date=1896 |publisher=Andrew Elliot |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog/page/n131 123]-126 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog |accessdate=5 March 2019}}

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After the Glorious Revolution, Drummond began preaching in Kilconquhar, Fife towards the end of March 1691. On 25 June 1691 he was called to be the minister there, and continued until his death on 29 September 1699.{{cite book |title=Ecclesiastical records. Selections from the minutes of the Synod of Fife, M.DC.XI.-M.DC.LXXXVII |date=1837 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalre00abbo/page/208 208] |url=https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalre00abbo |accessdate=23 February 2019}} For his last year, Drummond’s health rendered him unable to discharge his ministerial work. “Frequently there was no lecture but only one sermon on the Sabbaths, ‘the minister not being in very good health.’ At the visitation of the Presbytery in 1698 he complained that his charge was weighty and heavy; and, that he had neither ability nor mynd to discharge his duty as he wold. To which it was answered that it was not in the power of the Presbytery to make his charge lighter, and that he behooved to look for his furnitur from the Lord, who is able to strengthen his weak servants in the acceptable discharge of their duty.”{{cite book |last1=Dickson |first1=John |title=Emeralds chased in Gold; or, the Islands of the Forth: their story, ancient and modern. [With illustrations.] |date=1899 |publisher=Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier |location=Edinburgh and London |pages=208–209 |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000058DB2#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=237&xywh=-478%2C-1%2C3793%2C2303&r=0 |accessdate=3 March 2019 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614065440/http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000058DB2#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=237&xywh=-478%2C-1%2C3793%2C2303&r=0 |url-status=dead }}{{PD-notice}}

He married Mary Montgomery, who survived him, and had children — Mary, and others.{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1925 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc05scot/page/209 209] |volume=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc05scot |accessdate=23 February 2019}}{{PD-notice}}{{cite book |editor-last1=Grant |editor-first1=Francis J. |title=The commissariot record of St. Andrews. Register of testaments, 1549-1800. Ed. by |date=1902 |publisher=Printed for the Society by J. Skinner |location=Edinburgh |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924008858718;view=1up;seq=116 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}

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