Modern British Heresy

  1690- Church 1749 >1799 >1849 >1899 >1949 >1999 2000- % Anti-Burgher 2 2 1 Associate Presbytery 1 1 1 Baptist 1 1 2 1 Burgher 1 1 1 Church of England 10 4 12 20 9 2 57 31 Church of Ireland 2 1 3 2 Church of Scotland 8 3 19 6 36 20 Congregational 1 3 4 2 Orthodox Congregational 1 1 1 Congregational Union 1 1 1 Episcopal Church of Scotland 2 1 3 6 3 Free Church of Scotland 8 1 9 5 Glasite 1 1 1 Independent Calvinist 1 1 1 Irish Presbyterian Church 1 1 1 Methodist 2 3 2 7 4 Methodist (Calvinist) 1 1 1 Methodist / Glasite 1 1 1 Methodist / Moravian 1 1 1 Methodist New Connection 1 1 1 Primitive Methodist 1 1 1 Weslyan Methodist 3 1 4 2 Presbyterian 3 2 1 1 7 4 Quaker 1 2 2 5 3 Relief Church 2 2 1 Roman Catholic 2 1 5 8 4 Sabbatarian Baptist 1 1 1 Scotch Baptist 2 2 1 Secession Church 1 1 1 United Free Church 1 1 1 United Presbyterian Church 1 5 6 3 United Secession Church 8 8 4 30 18 58 49 18 4 6 183 Church of England & Church of Scotland 93 - 51% of all cases All Meth

  George Garden 1649-1733 Episcopalian Minister Church of Scotland Wiki , DNB The course of events prior to prosecution George Garden was ordained by Bishop Scougall in 1677 as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. He succeeded his father as minister of the church at Forgue in Aberdeenshire [ Wiki ] in 1674 and, in 1679, he was appointed to the church of St Machar, Aberdeen, the city's Cathedral, from which, in November 1683, he moved to the church of St. Nicholas, also in Aberdeen. By this point he was also a Doctor of Divinity.  The gatehouses to St Macher, Aberdeen In the words of the supposed old Chinese curse, he was doomed to live in interesting times. (Though the phrase could be from Yorkshire - here ). The Revolution of 1688, and the institution of the presbyterian Church of Scotland as the State church, was not to Garden's liking.  1692 he was deposed from his post by the Scottish Privy Council for 'not praying for their Majesties, William and Mary.'