Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

Henderson, Samuel Rutherford, Robert Baillie, and
George Gillespie. The elders associated with them
were the Earl of Cassilis, Lord Maitland, and Sir
Archibald Johnston of Warriston. They met in
Henry VII's Chapel, and on the approach of winter
they retired to the Jerusalem Chamber.
They were presided over by Dr. William Twiss,
the prolocutor -- "a venerable man verging on
seventy years of age, with a long pale countenance,
an imposing beard, lofty brow, and meditative eye,
the whole contour indicating a life spent in severe
and painful study."[6] More the scholar than the
man of business, he was succeeded in the chair,
after a year's occupancy, by Mr. Charles Herle --
"one," says Fuller, "so much Christian, scholar,
gentleman, that he can unite in affection with those
who are disjoined in judgment from him."[7] At
the prolocutor's table sat his two assessors -- Dr.
Cornelius Burgess, active and intrepid, and Mr.
John White, the "Patriarch of Dorchester." On
either hand of the prolocutor ran rows of benches
for the members. There they sat calm, grave,
dignified, with mustache, and peak beard, and
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