John Corbet

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John Corbet [1]

a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Glasgow University in 1623; became schoolmaster at Renfrew; was appointed minister at Bonhill in 1637; declined the authority of the general assembly in 1638; was deposed in April 1639, and fled to Ireland, where he played a deceitful part, for which he was "hewed in pieces by two swine-herds in the arms of his wife," in 1641, aged about thirty-eight years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:346.

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