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versifies nineteen biblical narratives from the Old Testament, such as 'Pharaoh's Tyrannie and Death', 'David and Goliath' and 'Destruction of Sodom'. Known collectively as 'Boyd's Bible' – though Boyd never did versify the entire Bible – these poems' critical estimation has never been high:
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and Sylvester's other works. Boyd's Deed of Mortification indicated that a portion of the money he donated to Glasgow was to be used for printing his poems; it never was. However, the bibliographer Gabriel Neil did print four poems from
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criticized Boyd for his 'fruitles designe' in seeking to have his psalter adopted. These books were printed by George Anderson, an unofficial printer to the university whom Boyd supported during his time as Vice-Chancellor.
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Boyd celebrated the Scottish victory but stopped short of saying that the King himself had been defeated. After many magistrates and ministers subsequently fled Glasgow, Boyd remained behind and met
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during the 1630s and 1640s, and bequeathed a generous legacy to the university including his library and large manuscript collection of unpublished sermons and verse.
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in 1625. During the 1630s and 1640s he served as Dean of Faculties, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the Glasgow University.
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Boyd also left a substantial quantity of scriptural versifications. Boyd's autograph manuscripts, which are held at
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He was a moderate royalist who, like many faculty members at Glasgow, was initially reluctant to subscribe to the
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in October 1648: Cromwell was advised to 'pistol the scoundrel' but instead invited Boyd for dinner.
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His printed prose consists of a variety of devotional works. The largest is the prose treatise
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and in 1611 became Regent Professor. He returned to Glasgow in 1621 and became Minister of
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The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, A. M., Principal of the University of Glasgow
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in 1855, and David Atkinson produced an edition of Boyd's Selected Sermons for the
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A Sermon of Preparation to the Communion and A Sermon for the Day of the Sacrament
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was to guarantee Presbyterian church government in Scotland. In a poem about the
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Atkinson, David W. (1977). "Zachary Boyd and the Ars Moriendi Tradition".
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Three collections of Boyd's verse were printed during his lifetime.
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tradition to offer solace to those approaching death.
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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in France. There he followed courses of his kinsman
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University of Glasgow
Pinkhill
Ayrshire
University of Glasgow
Saumur
Robert Boyd
Barony Parish
National Covenant
Scottish Presbyterian
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Battle of Newburn
Oliver Cromwell
Job
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Old Testament
rhymed psalter
Scottish General Assembly
Westminster Assembly
Robert Baillie
Ars moriendi
catechism
Glasgow University Library
John Marshall Lang
Josuah Sylvester
Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas
Scottish Text Society

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