JOACHIM. 



CAMERON. RF.V. RICHARD. 



a. tl emia* forth from him WM bat a aiagU vol.m. 



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and M at i wen not that Baooinet aod admirabU oompo- 

 toUMtMteand judgment M well 



i* OMigteted. have their 



" BhA^M fM_ *t|-e, bonM nffMke>* 



Oibaon and Mr. Oough 

 of UM principal EnIU> edition*. 



den began to be looked 

 ofhisage. Hecarried 

 with the learned both at home and 

 Ti..- (.rrU-n.l 



lisa, though a 



of W*etojUri*r School in 1 5M, 



teas aTmgnlnraaj hi 1M7. without having paaaed through 

 ocVee of herald or punuivanL This WM dutaatoful to 

 era of the Collage of Anna, and led to what moat have 



Mann, bill IBllgtillTa% MM 



TV. reaMiBder of hie hietory is to be found in a catalogue of hk 

 ritiBC*. We ahall towoh upon them briefly. Hi. 



' Annals of the 



i* the neat in celebrity to hi* ' Britannia,' an 

 Ma dfee* of the event* of that reign, delivered in pure and 

 t Latinity. He intended a ainiiUr work on the reign of James, 

 kwt of thi* only the hn-li wre prepared. Hi* folio volume of the 

 work* of accae of our old Latin ekronidcn WM printed at Frankfurt 

 MlMS. It biont* to UM eat of Latin ehrooielers on Engliah affairs. 



WaUngham. Oiraldo* CambreosU, and others. 

 bs* mJBnr work* two only need be mentioned, hi* ' Remain* 

 ng Britain.' published in 1*01, a very amusing and instructive 

 ; and a avaaU Greek grammar for the UM of Westminster 

 which WM ftrst published in 1597. 



re*hd the ace of nventy-two. He died on the 9th of 

 IMS. at Chieelbnnt in Kent, and waa interred in Weat- 

 Abbey, a great ammblafe of the learned and illustrious doing 

 at hi* faoeral A monument WM erected to hi* memory, 

 It has hi* boat, with the left hand resting on the 



*,' 



Ha never married, and at hi* death left a good estate, the greater 

 part ef which be devoted, a little before hi* death, to founding an 

 BJilsrial lecture in the University of Oxford, now called the Camden 

 fTifciniiilf of History. Camden ha* always been regarded with 

 pavahar rrpet by BnfUah hiatorioal inquirer* and antiquaries ; and 

 when in ISM they founded a "Society for the Publication of early 

 HMorioland Literary R< 



'Society for the Publication of early 

 ." it was felt that the most appropriate 



tUa which could be'givm to it would be that of their moet distin- 

 Tbe Camden Society' has since continued 



lace within the reach of hiatorioal student* a man of 

 tried and valuable ' remaina concerning Britain,' and baa 



at Lei?*, and 



a worthy mnnnaent to the memory of Carnden. 



OACHIIf, waa born at Bambert; in 1500, .tu.iicd 



i a worthy i 

 HI US. JO. 



a great friend of UeUnethon and other reformer*. 



The Dak. of Wurteabtrg cave him the direction of the new Univer- 

 sity of Tubingen. In 1541 be WM charged by Henry duke of Saxony 

 with lihimlB, the UBivonity of Uip<%, of which he WM afterwards 

 iffilnlii rector. In 1546 the Emperor Maxlmllisn. who had called 

 him to Vienwa to eoaealt him about tome important tate-affair, 

 wished to reeaia him M hi* oouncUlor, but Camerariua declined the 

 Whreaiaeeewatof bklaflrmiUea. He died at Leipzig in April, 1674. 

 CMaeraiiM WM oae ef the moat dbtinguished acholan of Uie age of 

 beIW.rBa*^ TU following are hie priadpal work* :--!.' Libelln* 

 SeaeiartMa*,' contaiam*; nminia and preoeut* from Py tbagora*, phocy- 

 MM. Soioo. and ntracu turn Tyrts.ua, Simonides, CalTimaofaus, Ac. 

 & XarrMM de H. Flbmo Heaso,' Including biographical notice* of 

 *w*ml other leaned BMB of thesain. ace. J. ' Vita Philippi Melanch- 

 the**, a coed Uo,rrapby of that dirtinguiabed reformer. 4. 'De 

 rebe Twaiate Conanwntarii duo' 6. Hhtoria Synod! Nicema.' . 

 *' *iO*- fclih.doo.'7. VitaManriUIBaxonUeEUctoria.' 

 . 'Da lAvinaUamm OeweribaV . 'De Numiamattbu* Qraworum 

 10. ' l-hneeophieai OoneoaHtooes,' written by him aod 

 . 11. ' Hietorica Narralio de Kratrum Ortbodoxorum 

 in lleheniU. Moravia, at Polonia;' beaide* numerona tran.lv 

 en Ocero, Aristotle, Sophodea. 4c. 

 and be wrote a work on the 

 which enjoyed considerable 



-*" P M S! >fa "*-* >> . " fail 1 ****" owMiioT'of'tba duchy 

 Hie anawd eon, Joaehiaa. WM a distinguished pbyaMan, 



\!5-^'~ U *"^ } ??:. " **"* 



. , f- , II, 



in lUly, WM arnntij by the Inquisition at 

 d* reieaavd, and on hi* return to Germany 

 of UM new Univcraity of Altorf. He wrote 



Horaruin sabseeiraram Ceuturiw xs,' 3 vola. 4to, Frankfurt, 1024, a 

 work ofleo reprinted. 



CAMKRON. RBV. RICHARD, founder of the soot of Carolinian-, 

 tr*t acquired notice M one of those minuter* of the Church of s,- ,.t l.u, i 

 who ntoat boldly opposed UM measure* of Charles II. and his adviiers 

 for enforcing the Episcopal form of worship on the Scottish people. 

 The arbitrary measures adopted by the government thoroughly roused 

 the spirit of the people, ana among those who gave fullest expression 

 to the popular sentiments was Richard Cameron. Not only were bis 

 doctrines obnoxious to the government, but many of his brethren of 

 the clergy dreaded his seal, which they considered extreme, and at a 

 meeting neld in Edinburgh in 1677 they formally reproved him for his 

 conduct. Cameron retired to Holland, but soon returned to Scotland ; 

 and on the 22nd of June 16SO, in company with about twenty other 

 psmnnn of similar eentiments with himself, well armed, he entered the 

 town of San.|iihar in Dumfriesshire, and at the markeUroas tli.ro 

 proclaimed, in a ceremonious manner, a declaration, that Charles 

 Stuart (nv i-f; the king), although descended from the race of their 

 ancient kings, had by his perjuries in the breach of his covenanted 

 vow*, his tyrannical government, and his usurpation over their civil and 

 religious liberties, dissolved their allegiance and forfeited all right .m<l 

 title to the crown. The party kept together in arms for a month in the 

 mountainous district between Nithsdale and Ayrshire ; but at length, 

 on the 20th of July, while lying at Airdsmoas in Kyle, they were 

 surprised by a large body of horse and foot under the direction of the 

 government, and in the short skirmuh which followed, Cameron wai 

 killed, and his followers were dupened or takeu prisoner*. A neat 

 monument has been recently placed on the spot where Cameron full, 

 replacing an old and plainer structure. 



Among the more earnest followers of Cameron was Cargill, who 

 continued to preach the doctrine* of the sect in the fields : and in 

 September following, at a conventicle held in the Torwood. between 

 Kalkirt and Stirling, pronounced a solemn excommunication agaiust 

 Lhe king and his brother the Duke of York, the dukes of Monmouth, 

 Lauderdale, and Rothea, the lord-advocate, and General Sir Thomas 

 Dalzell of Biuns, for their exertions against the supremacy of the 

 pure church of Scotland, their perjury in reference to the covenant, 

 md their cruelty and oppression towards the people of Qod. To 

 these acts of the royalists was soon afterwards added the Tvstof 1681, 

 againit which the covenanters published their testimony at Lanark 

 on the 12th of January 1682, adhering to and confirming the Sanquhar 

 declaration, and giving reasons at length for their disowning the king's 

 authority. This they again did, and declared their firm resolution of 

 constant adherence to the covenant, in their Apologetic Declaration 

 of the 28th of October 16S4 ; and on the accession of James duke of 

 York to the throne, they published another declaration at Sanquhar 

 on the 2Sth of May 1685, when in they renewed their previous decla- 

 rations, and further protested against the accession of the Duke of 

 York, an a professed and excommunicated papist, and against popery 

 itself in all its heads, as abjured by the national covenant. Ill these 

 circumstance*, it is plain the Revolution was an event which they 

 would bail in common with the other Presbyterians, but the latter 

 acquiesced in arrangement* with the government into which the 

 former refused to enter; and they have since continued to testify 

 a^iinat tho Revolution settlement, as they now also do against the 

 Article* of Union, the Toleration Acts, the conduct of the church, 

 and generally, all association whether of church or state with those 

 who do not adopt the principles of Scripture, the Reformation, aud 

 the covenant. 



They have been most commonly known as Camerouians from Riclmnl 

 Cameron ; but they are otherwise called ' M'Millana,' or ' AI'Mill; 

 from the name of the first minister who espoused their cause after the 

 Revolution. But these, as well as the terms 'Whigs' and 'Mountain 



in,' which are also occasionally applied to them, they regard as 

 accidental epithet*. They are sometimes nlxo called 'Covenanters,' 

 from their adherence to the national covenant of Scotland, and tho 

 solemn league and covenant of the three kingdoms. Their proper 

 designation however, or that which they themselves adopt, is that of 

 ' Reformed Presbyterians.' 



They bold the Holy Scriptures to be the absolute rule of faith nnd 

 conduct, and to contain the standard of these both in church and 

 state. Next to this they adopt the early standards of the Church of 

 Scotland, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the larger and shorter 

 catechisms of the church, the books of discipline, and the Westminster 

 Directory for Public Worship. And lastly, they regard the national 

 covenant of Scotland as a continuing obligation. To these are to b 

 added the documents publinhed by the body itself in explanation of 

 their principles, namely, their 'Judicial Act and Testimony,' the 5th 

 edition of which WM published at Glasgow in 1818 ;' A short Account 

 of the Old Presbyterian Dissenters,' published by authority of the 

 pridiytcry in 1806; and an "Explanation and Defence of the Term* 

 of Communion adopted by the Reformed Presbyterian Church.' 



The religious body was formed into a presbytery on the 1st of 

 August 1749, under the title of the Reform Presbytery. They have 

 now a synod, consisting of the Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar- 

 uock, Dumfries, and Newton Stewart presbyteries. The number of 

 nhurches I* 41 ; their places of worship contain about 15,000 t-ii 

 They have also several churches in Iri-Uml, Nova Scntia, 



