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remained the property of the brother, and not of the 

 nephew of Dr Hunter." 



l)r Bu'llie had an elder brother, who died at an 

 early age, and two sisters who survive him, Agnes 

 and Joanna, the latter the well known authoress of 

 a " Series of Plays on the Passions." He mar- 

 ried Miss Sophia Denman, daughter of the late 

 eminent physician, and sister of the present at- 

 torney general, and of lady Croft. Dr Baillie died 

 at Duntisbourne House, near Cirencester, in Glou- 

 re-tershire, on the 23d September, 1823, in the 

 62d year of his age, leaving a widow with a son 

 and daughter. He. bequeathed by will .300 to 

 the College of Physicians, London, together with all 

 his medical and anatomical lxx>ks, and the plates of 

 his " Illustrations of Morbid Anatomy," and also a 

 farther sum of 4000, in case his son, William Hun- 

 ter Baillie, should die without issue. To the same 

 body he had previously, during his lifetime, given all 

 his collection of anatomical preparations, and a sum 

 of 600. Three hundred pounds were also left to 

 the society for the relief of the widows and orphans 

 of medical men, and the rest of his property to his 

 widow and family. His will was proved in the prero- 

 gative court, in October, 1823, and the effects sworn 

 to be under 80,000. It was dated 21st May, 1819. 

 Besides the two works already noticed, Dr Baillie 

 published an anatomical description of the gravid 

 uterus, and two anatomical papers in the Transactions 

 of the Royal Society, for the years 1788 and 1789. 

 He also published eleven essays in the Transactions 

 of the Society for the promotion of Medical and Chir- 

 urgical knowledge, and seven papers in the Medical 

 Transactions, published by the London College of 

 Physicians. 



BAILLIE, Robert ; an eminent and learned Scottish 

 presbyterian clergyman, was born at Glasgow, in 

 1599. Having studied divinity in his native univer- 

 sity, he received, in 1622, episcopal orders from 

 archbishop Law, of Glasgow, and became tutor to the 

 son of the earl of Eglintoune, by whom he was pre- 

 sented to the parish church of Kilwinning. In 1626, 

 he was admitted a regent at the college of Glasgow, 

 and, on taking his chair, delivered an inaugural ora- 

 tion, De Mente Agenle. About this period he appears 

 to have prosecuted the study of the oriental languages, 

 in which he is allowed to have attained no mean 

 proficiency. Though educated and ordained as an 

 episcopalian, he resisted the attempt of archbishop 

 Laud to establish the use of the common prayer in 

 Scotland, and joined the presbyterian party. In 

 1638, he was chosen to represent the presbytery of 

 frvine in the General Assembly, by which assembly 

 the royal power was braved in the name of the whole 

 nation, and episcopacy formally dissolved. In the 

 ensuing year, when it was found necessary to vindi- 

 cate the proceedings of tlie Assembly with the sword, 

 Baillie entered heartily into the views of his coun- 

 trymen. He accompanied the army to Dunse Law, 

 in the capacity of preacher to the earl of Eglintoune's 

 regiment. This expedition ended in a treaty between 

 the Scottish leaders and their sovereign, in terms of 

 which hostilities ceased for a few months. On the 

 renewal of the insurrectionary war next year, Baillie 

 accompanied the Scottish army on its march into 

 England, and became the chronicler of its transac- 

 tions. Towards the end of the year 1640, he was 

 selected by the Scottish leaders as a proper person 

 to go to London, along with other commissioners, to 

 prepare charges against archbishop Laud, for his in- 

 novations upon the Scottish church, which were 

 alleged to have been the origin of the war. He had, 

 in April before the expedition, published a pam- 

 phlet, entitled, u Ladensium Avrtxar* ;,,; : the Can- 

 lerburiarfs Self-conviction ; or an Evident Demon- 



stration of the avowed Arminianismr, Poperie, and 

 Tyrannie of that Faction, by their own coiifi s- 

 sinns." which perhaps pointed him out as fit to take 

 a lead in the prosecution of the great Antichrist of 

 Scottish presbytery. Of this, ami almost all the 

 other proceedings of his public life, he lias left a 

 minute account in his letters and journals, which are 

 preserved entire in the archives of the church of 

 Scotland, and in the university of Glasgow, and of 

 which excerpts were published in 2 vois. 8vo, Edin- 

 burgh, 1775. These reliques of Mr Baillie form va- 

 luable materials of history. Not long after his 

 return to his native country, in 1642, lie was appoint- 

 ed joint professor of divinity at Glasgow, along with 

 Mr David Dickson, an equally distinguished, but less 

 moderate divine. It affords some proof of the esti- 

 mation in which he was now held, that he had the 

 choice of this appointment in all the four universities 

 of Scotland. He performed his duties from this period 

 till the restoration, and at the same time attended 

 all the General Assemblies as a member, excej. t dur- 

 ing an interval in 1643-6, when he was absent as a 

 delegate to the Westminster assembly of divines. 

 From 1646 to 1649, he discharged his ordinary duties 

 as a theological teacher, without taking a leading 

 part in public affairs. But in the latter year, he was 

 chosen by the church as the fittest person to carry its 

 homage to king Charles II. at the Hague, and to in- 

 vite that monarch to assume the government in Scot- 

 land, under the limitations and stipulations of the 

 covenant. After the restoration, though made prin- 

 cipal of his college through court patronage, he 

 scrupulously refused to accept a bishopric, and did 

 not hesitate to express his dissatisfaction with the re- 

 introduction of episcopacy. He died July, 1662, in 

 the 63d year of his age. Mr Baillie, besides his let- 

 ters and journals, and a variety of controversial 

 pamphlets, suitable to the spirit of the times, was the 

 author of a learned work, entitled, Opus Historicum 

 et CAro?wlogicum, which was published in folio at 

 Amsterdam. He was a man of extensive learning 

 understood no fewer than thirteen languages, among 

 which were Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Samarium, 

 Arabic, and Ethiopic, and wrote Latin with flu- 

 ency. 



BAJLLTK, Robert, of Jerviswood, a distinguished 

 Scottish patriot of the reign of Charles II., was the 

 son of George Baillie of St John's kirk in Lanarkshire, 

 cadet of the ancient family of Baillie of Lamington, 

 who appears to have purchased the estate of Jervis- 

 wood, also in Lanarkshire, in the reign of Charles I. 

 from a family of the name of Livingstone. The cir- 

 cumstance which first brought him into public notice 

 deserves to be given in detail, as it t<-nds to illustrate 

 the profligacy of that government, under which he 

 eventually fell a martyr. 



During the administration of the duke of Lander- 

 dale, a wretch of the name of Carstairs had bargained 

 with archbishop Sharpe to undertake the business of 

 an informer upon an uncommonly large scale; having 

 a troop of other informers under him, and enjoying a 

 certain reward for each individual whom he could 

 detect at the conventicles, besides a share of the fines 

 imposed upon them. It may be supposed than an 

 individual who could permit himself to enter upon a 

 profession of this kind, would not bp very scrupulous 

 as to the guilt of the persons whom he sought to 

 make his prey. He accordingly appears to have, at 

 least in one noted instance, pounced upon an indivi- 

 dual who was perfectly innocent. This was the Rev. 

 Mr Kirkton, a nonconformist minister it is true, but 

 one who had been cautious to keep strictly within 

 the verge of the law. Kirkton was the brother-in- 

 law of Mr Baillie of Jerviswood, by his marriage to 

 the sister of that gentleman, and he is eminent in. 



