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for brethren not then excluded from their charges. He soon followed the example of others, preaching in the fields, or conventicles as they were termed, in which, for daring and attendance, he was equalled by few, and made some very narrow escapes. Having had letters directed against him from the Privy Council 25th Jan. 1666, he withdrew under hiding to Edinburgh, and with some others secretly officiated until the rising at Pentland led the government to measures of greater severity against him and other offenders. In 1674 orders were given for his apprehension. Another citation was given 11th August 1677. He went to Rotterdam the year following, and was serviceable in healing differences between Fleming and M'Cuard, but returned, and was in Edinburgh in June 1679. On 5th April 1681 he was made prisoner in his house at Edinburgh, and after an examination was sentenced to be confined on the Bass, which he entered on the 7th of same month. After a confinement of upwards of four years on the " tight little island," his health gave way, and though allowed by the Privy Council 3d Dec. 1685 to be immediately liberated " in regard of his great danger, on bond of v^m merks to confine himself to the town of Edinburgh," yet he died there in Jan. 1686, aged 63, or according to his biographer 71. He succeeded to the Baronetcy, but as the title was all that was left of the estate of his ancestors, and his own name had been branded with rebellion, he did not assume it, nor has it been since claimed by his descendants. "A deep sense of religion was ever present on his mind, and pervaded the whole tenor of his life. His trust in the Divine goodness never forsook him." The difficulties and hazards by which he was surrounded he encountered with unshrinking fortitude. Though labouring under a defective utterance, his oratory was of such a powerful and impressive kind, that there are well-vouched instances of the remarkable success by which it was attended. His conscience he preserved unshackled by oaths and bonds, free from all degrading impositions. And while firm in maintaining his own opinions, he was liberal to his opponents, not censuring those who differed from him. No district in the Lowlands of his native country was left without proofs of his zeal in the itinerating labours of his ministry. He marr. in 1646, Janet, daugh. of Mr Homer Haning, a wealthy and respectable merchant in Dumfries; she died 9th Nov. 1688, and had five sons and two daugh., Dr William, physician to King William; Adam, merchant in Sweden, and latterly in Edinburgh; Robert, a student in Holland; Thomas, merchant in New England; Colonel John, deputy-governor of Stirling; a daughter that died, and Elizabeth, who marr. Mr Young, writer, Edinburgh.-Publication-Sermon (Crichton's Mem.)- [Crichton's Mem., Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Presb., Edin. Guild, and Peg. (Bur.), Wodrow, and Kirkton's Hist., Tombst., Wodrow's Anal., and Corresp., Edin. Chr. Inst. xxiii., New St. Acc. ii., iv., viii., ix., &c.]

1668. JAMES MAIR, A,M., a native of Banff, obtained his degree at the Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen, in 1656, became schoolmaster of Grange, and then of Cullen, where he entered 21st June 1659, licen. by the Presb. of Fordyce 11th July 1660; died in July 1682, aged about 46. He had ane parcel of books estimat to lij li, and the insicht j^c xviij li xvjs. viijd. He marr. Margaret Creichtone, who died at Edinburgh 2d April 1705, aged 70, and had a son, John, and two daugh. Janet and Margaret. [Fasti Aberd., Dumfries Sess. (Bapt., and Bur.), Edin. (Bur.), and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Wodrow's Hist.]

1683. JAMES GLENDINNING, A.M., studied at St Leonard's College, and had his degree from the Univ. of St Andrews 25th July 1676; outed by the rabble in 1689. He died in Sept.