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<p> a Scotch clergyman, third son of [[William]] Forbes of Corse, was born about 1566; studied at San Salvator's College, and took his degree from the University of St. Andrews in 1583; was admitted to the living at Alford in 1593. He was commissioned in 1605 to wait upon the king to inform his majesty what the assembly of [[Aberdeen]] had done in opposition to the royal pleasure, he having been the moderator. The privy council condemned him to be imprisoned, first in [[Edinburgh]] castle, then in the castle at Blackness. In 1606, he, with five others, was tried at [[Linlithgow]] on the charge of treason, declining to acknowledge the authority of the privy council, and banished, October 23, 1606, for life. He went to [[Sedan]] in 1607, became the minister to the British merchants at Middleburgh, laid the foundation of a Scottish church there in 1611, removed to the church at [[Delft]] in 1621, was displaced by orAer of the British government, and died about 1634. He published, The Saint's Hope, and its Infalibleness (1608): — Two Sermons (eod.): — A Treatise Tending to the Clearing of [[Justification]] (1616, 4to): — A Treatise how God's [[Spirit]] may be Discerned fiom Man's Spirit (Lond. 1617): — Four Sermons on 1 Timothy 6 (1635, 4to): — [[Certain]] [[Records]] Touching the [[Estate]] of the Kirk in 1605, 1606: — Three [[Letters]] to James VI (1851). See [[Fasti]] Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:545. </p>