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at the Univ. of Glasgow in 1601, pres. to the Vicarage by James VI. 12th March 1602. Continued in 1606, when his initials were inscribed on the pulpit.-[Reg. Pres., & Assig., Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Inscrip. on Pulpit.]

1615. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, A.M., obtained his degree at the Univ. of Glasgow in 1607. In 1627 there were "six hundredth communicantis in the paroche," with "no schooll, neither foundatioun for any, but gryt necessitie their suld be ane." Mr R. gave xl. merks towards the building and library in the Univ. of Glasgow in 1632, and died in June 1639, aged about 52. The insicht &c., was valued at xx merks. Frie geir, d.d., j^m iij^° xijs. iiijd. He was twice marr. and had issue from each. (Mr Alex. Robertson, preacher, who was engaged at Pentland, a.nd executed at Edinburgh 14th Dec. 1666, is supposed to have been a son by his first marriage.) His second wife, Grissell Gordoune, survived him.-IMun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Reg. Assig., Sec. Sigill., and Pres., Commis. to Ass. 1638, Stat. Reports 1627, Wodrow's Hist., and MSS., Test. Reg. (Dumf.)]

1640. GEORGE GLEDSTANIS, A.M., trans. from Troqueer, pres. by Charles I. 18th Dec. 1641, was a member of the Commission of Assembly in 1647, continued 15th May 1662, and was confined to the parish for his non-conformity to Episcopacy. He died in 16 7 6, aged about 69. He marr. Jane Porteous, who died at Dumfries 28th May 1703, and had three sons and three daugh., of whom George was proprietor of Crocketford.-(Sess., Presb., Dumf. (Bur.), and Test. Reg. (Dumf), Reg. Sec. Sigill, and Pres., Acts of Ass., Wodrow's Hist.]

1666. JOHN LYONE, A.M., studied at St Salvator's College, and attained his degree at the Univ, of St Andrews in 1662, holding a bursary from the Presb. of Forfar, where he passed trials and was recommended 30th Nov., licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh 8th Dec. 1664, and ord. by him 15th Sept. 1665. Three persons in disguise came to his house in Nov. 1669, dragged his wife outside, and searched for him, but missing their aim, spoiled his house; for this assault the parish was decerned to pay him vj^c 1ii. He was outed by the rabble at the Revolution.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Kirkden Sess., and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Reg. Collat., Wodrow's Hist., MS. Acc. of Min. 1689.]

1689. JOHN HEPBURN, A.M., son of James H., farmer in Moraysh., had his degree at the Univ. and King's College Aberdeen in 1669, ord. by Presbyterian ministers at London in 1678. He was accused of intruding into the ministry, "thereby debauching weak men and silly women, drawing them into rebellious methods in Ross-sh.," 6th March 1680, and declared fugitive 5th May 1684; called hither in 1680, 1686, and 1689. He was suspended by the Gen. Assembly, 4th Jan. 1696, for disorderly courses, which sentence was taken off by the Assembly 30th Jan. 1699, on his promising to confine his ministry to the parish. In 1696 he was also tried before the Privy Council for not taking the oaths to government, and adjudged to confine himself to the town of Brechin, and two miles around, and, in case he find not caution, to be imprisoned in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, which was changed after to the castle of Stirling, where he remained about three months, but was prevented for nearly three years from returning to the parish. He was suspended by the Commission of Assembly in 1704, served with a long libel, and deposed, after many warnings, 9th April 1705, "having neither dispensed the Lord's Supper to others, nor partaken thereof himself for more than sixteen years, and been guilty of a continuous tract of erroneous, seditious, and divisive doctrines, and schismatical