RABAN 400
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    • Solemn League and National Covenant
    • Antidote agaynst Poperie
    • The Old Roman Catholick
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    • Printing Workshops
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  • Raban Family
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In 1643, Edward Raban was obliged to print the Solemn League and National Covenant despite Aberdeen’s long resistance to it.  By 1643, both Parliament and the General Assembly had required all adults to swear to it on pain of confiscation and being declared an enemy of God, King and Country.  Many of those in Aberdeen who had argued against it fled overseas.  John Forbes, one of the Aberdeen Doctors (and son of Bishop Forbes) fled to Holland, remarking that he could not ‘profess what his conscience condemns’.  ​

...are to bee fold at his Shop at the end of the Broadgate

One of the most significant aspects of this volume is to be noted in the colophon at the bottom of the title page.  In 1643, Raban’s long-time associate David Melvill died and bequeathed to him his bookselling booth or shop in the Broadgate.  This is noted in Raban’s imprint details (along side the note about items ‘are to bee fold at his shop’.
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Raban 400 is a partnership involving Robert Gordon University, the University of Aberdeen Special Collections, Peacock & the Worm, and Aberdeen City Council Library and Information Service. It has been made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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  • Home
  • Digital Exhibition
    • Who was Edward Raban
    • Raban Revisted
    • Raban's Circle
    • Perth Assembly
    • Arrival in Aberdeen
    • Ornaments and Devices
    • Raban and the Bear
    • The Townes Armes
    • Time of Turmoil
    • Elusive to the end
    • Legacy
    • Raban at St Andrews
    • Theses Philosophicae
    • Poeticall Recreations
    • Raine from the clouds
    • First blast of the trumpet
    • A silver watchbell
    • Prognostications
    • Raban's Psalter
    • Funerals and Epitaphs for Bishop Patrick Forbes
    • Duplyes
    • Solemn League and National Covenant
    • Antidote agaynst Poperie
    • The Old Roman Catholick
  • Events
    • Printing Workshops
  • Printing Workshops
  • Raban Family
  • Up Close Day