John Row (1568–1646) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian and one of the Scottish Reformers. As minister of Carnock in Fife, he was a leading opponent of Episcopacy.
Row's Historie of the Kirk of Scotland (1558–1637), left by him in manuscript, is an original authority for the period.
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