James Kirkton

(1628-1699)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kirkton, James, 1628-1699 DNB: Kirkton, James (d. 1699), Church of Scotland minister and historian LBT ID: JaKirkt1699 VIAF ID: 64150478 LOC ID: n92073791	B/BAP: 1628 DIED: 1699-09-17
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Minister of the Tolbooth parish in Edinburgh and author of The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland which circulated in manuscript until published by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in 1817.
REFERENCES TO James Kirkton: Walter Scott to John Murray, 15 May 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 4 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XX. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 46 Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 1: ¶ 1