EM
discussed religious matters (encouraging Presbyterian resistance to Episcopalian reform backed by the monarchy) with the several radical ministers who were then and later well-known: Samuel Rutherford
(some of whose letters to her survive), William Livingstone
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Elizabeth Melvill
John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent...
