“We here go to cause preach the Gospel where it was never heard, and not to subdue but to civilize the Savages, for their ruin could give us neither glory nor benefit.”
About William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640
William Alexander, later the first Earl of Stirling, was born about 1567 at Menstrie in Clackmannanshire, near Stirling, Scotland, and died in London on 12 February 1640. He belonged to that distinctive early Stuart class of men for whom poetry, government service, courtly advancement, religious reflection, and…