deaths
October 29, 1650
David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (born 1575)
David Calderwood
David Calderwood was a Scottish minister of religion and historian. Calderwood was banished for his nonconformity. He found a home in the Low Countries, where he wrote his great work, the Altare Damascenum which was an attack on Anglican episcopacy. He was present at the Glasgow Assembly in 1638, and saw episcopacy and the high church liturgy swept away from the Church of Scotland. He died at Jedburgh, a fugitive from his parish of Pencaitland; and buried in the churchyard of Crailing, where the first years of his ministry were spent.
October 29
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 63 days remain until the end of the year.