He was a curate, until he refused to take the oath of loyalty to George I
on his accession.
Wilson, Adrian. “The Politics of Medical Improvement in Early Hanoverian London”. The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, Cambridge University Press, pp. 4-39.
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He was then reduced to working as a Latin teacher until eleven years later he...
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Catharine Trotter
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's son, John Cockburn
, was designed for the church like his father but had a fancy to go into the army instead.