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F ancestry counts in determining a man's career, John Dury could not easily have escaped following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, and entering the ministry.

His grandfather was that John Dury (1537-1600) who, as a monk of Dunfermline suspected of heresy, was ordered to be shut up till death, the sentence being pronounced by his cousin, George Dury, abbot of Dunfermline, to whose hatred of the new doctrines many of the persecutions that took place in Scotland during this stormy period