PLETCHER FLETCHER

Andrew, a Scottish political writer, the son of Sir Robert Wletcher of Saltoun, born in 1653, died in London 1716. He opposed the court in the Scottish Parliament, and had to retire to Hell and. In 1685 he joined the enterprise of the Duke of Mon mouth. He afterwards took refuge in Spain and in Hungary, and returned to England at the Revolution. He brought forward measures to secure the religion and liberties of the nation ou the death of the queen (Anne), and earried various limitations of the prerogative, forming part of the Act of Security, rendered nugatory by the Scottish union, which he vehemently opposed, FLETCHER, Giles, brother of Phineas Fletcher and cousin to the dramatist John Fletcher, an Wnglish poet and clergyman, born 1580, died 1623. He published Christ's Victory and Triwmph over Death in 1620.