Note 77 — The Life of Mr. David Calderwood.

Mr. Calderwood gave in a protest against the assembly 1649, for enabling the directory for election of ministers, which protest was not given in, so favours of patronage, as the author of the modest inquiry would insinuate, for Mr. Calderwood in his Altare Damascenum hath affirmed once and again, in the strongest terms, the people's right to choose their own pastor.