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- Alexander Moncrieff (c. 1613 — 6 October 1688) was a minister with the Church of Scotland. The youngest son of Matthew Moncrieff of Kintillo, Alexander Moncrieff took a prominent part in the church history of the seventeenth century. Moncrieff graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1635, and was a preacher and on the shortlist for Kirkcaldy about six years afterwards. On 14 June 1643 he was presented by Charles I to the parish of Scoonie, and admitted on 26 September. He was a member of the Commission of Assembly in 1647. He subscribed the Solemn League and Covenant on 31 December 1648; and was one of the Commissioners appointed to visit the University of St Andrews in January 1649. He gave in a protest to the Presbytery against the public Resolutions on 3 December 1651. He was named by Oliver Cromwell as one of the commissioners for authorising ministers to enjoy their benefices, etc., in the provinces of Perth, Fife, and Angus. He presented a petition from himself and other ministers of Fife against the Toleration and other encroachments, and having thus made himself obnoxious to the Government was imprisoned on a charge of praying for the King. He along with nine other ministers who had met to draw up an address to the King were arrested and confined in Edinburgh Castle on 23 August 1660. On 12 July 1661 he was barred by the King and Parliament from exercising any office within the parish, to which he was confined. A decree was passed against him for holding conventicles, 16 July 1674, and soon the magistrates of Perth were appointed to arrest him. He died 6 October 1688, after having several times eluded the search of his persecutors, and was buried in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. His grandson, also Alexander Moncrieff, was one of the first four ministers of the Secession Church. (en)
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