Lucy Busfield; Robert Imes
Bodleian Library Rawlinson catalogue (MS. Rawl. D. 830); ODNB (entry for Michael Bruce, Article: 3743); FES (entry for John Crookshanks, sr., vol. 4, p. 241)
Scottish Presbyterian minister, who settled at Raphoe in Ireland in the time of the Commonwealth and of Charles II, and who afterwards returned to Scotland. On 23 June 1664, Scotland’s privy council, having been informed of the seditious practices of Crookshank and minister Michael Bruce, both of whom the council described as fugitives from Scotland, ordered them to appear before it by 27 July. The council ordered government troops to apprehend the two ministers, and when they had not appeared or been captured by 9 August, the council outlawed them both. Crookshank was killed at the battle at Pentland Hills in 1666. Son of minister John Crookshank (Crookshanks).