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the Assembly 1601 he refused to vote for the translation of ministers recommended by His Majesty. When nominated Moderator of Presb. by the Assembly 1606, the Presb. were charged by the Privy Council 20th Jan. thereafter to receive him as such within twenty-four hours after notice under pain of rebellion, he was bold enough to refuse to accept the office, and was therefore put to the horn. Again in favour, however, he was appointed in 1608 to visit the kirks of Annandale, Ewesdale, and Eskdale, with the Archbishop of Glasgow. He was also a member of the conference at Falkland 4th May 1609. At the Assembly 1617 he had courage gently to admonish the Archbishop of St. Andrews for his doctrine at its opening; and when obedience to the Articles of Perth was urged at the Synod in Nov. 1618 he exhorted the brethren with tears, in his sermon before them, to stand to the liberty and government of the Church as established before the appointment of the bishops. He died in 1623, aged about 68, having been one of those mentioned by Livingston “as eminent for grace, gifts, faithfulness, and success."[Wodrow Miscell., Reg. Assig., and Pres., Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist., Presb., Test., Jedburgh, and Dalkeith Presb., and Priv. Counc. Reg., Excheq. Buik, MS. Geneal., Smith's Icon. Scot., Melvill's Autob., Livingston's Charac., Milne, and Bower's Descrip., &c.]

1627. THOMAS FORRESTER, A. M., attained his degree at the Univ. of St Andrews, 22d July 1608. He was proposed by the Archbishop of Glasgow for Ayr 10th March 1623, and on 17th the Session agreed after they had convocated the haill body of the town, to write the Bishop and send a commissioner to show "that he was not a meet man to be minister among them," yet he was Ares. by James VI. 10th April, but farther proceedings do not appear. About 1632 he gave xx li toward building the Library in the College of Glasgow. In 1634 the parish, containing an area of seven miles by four, and about two thousand communicants, had a decreet of augmentation, and the Archbishop having declared it expedient, provision was made 11th July for a second min., but this was not carried out. Mr F. was deposed 11th Dec. 1638, having been " accused of avowing that the Service-book was better than preaching, that preaching was no essential part of God's worship, that all prayers should be read of books, that he made his altar and rails himself, stood within, and reached the elements to those who kneeled without, avowed Christ's presence there, but whether sacramentally or by way of consubstantiation, or transubstantiation, he wist not; he maintained Christ's universal redemption, and that all in our Service-book was good, used to sit at preaching and prayer, baptize in his own house, make a way through the church for his kine and sheep, made a waggon of the old communion table to lead in his peau, declared that to make the Sabbath a moral precept was to Judaize, that on it it was lawful to work, caused lead home his corns on it, maintained that our Confession of Faith was faithless, only an abjuration of many things better than these we swore to, keeped no thanksgiving after communion, and affirmed our Reformation to have brought more damage to the Church in one day, than the Pope and his faction had done in a thousand years." He died in 1642, aged about 54. He marr. Margaret Kennitie, who had a recommendation for supply from the Privy Council to Parliament 9th April 1661, died 19th January 1666, and had a daugh. Marjory who marc. James Alison, tailor, Canongate, and obtained a pension of £20 sterl., from Charles II. 14th March 1679.-Publication-A Satire, in two parts, relating to Public Affairs 1638-1639. (Scot's Mag. lxix, Scot. Pasquils. iii.) Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (Cleveland's Poems, Milne's Descrip.).-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Ayr Sess., Test.,