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and ordered by the Privy Council, 6th June 1682, to be confined to the Bass till it was paid, for preaching at conventicles. On presenting a petition engaging to leave the kingdom he was set at liberty.-[Sess. and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Reg. Old Dec. ii., Macfarlane Mss., Wodrow's Hist., Bass Rock, &c.]

16-. JOHN HOME, A.M., graduated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 15th July 1650, licen. by the Presb. of Dalkeith 1st Nov. 1658, and by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 16th Dec. 1662; deprived in 1681 for not taking the Test.; and died at Edinburgh in 1690, aged about 60.[Edin. Grad., Reg. Collat., Macfarlane MSS.]

168--. JOHN MELVILL, A.M., acquired his degree at the Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen, 2d July 1667; deprived by the Privy Council 29th Aug. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and not praying for their majesties William and Mary.-[Fasti Aberd., Macfarlane MSS., Peterkin's Constitution of the Church.]

1689. JOHN LITHGOW, of Redpath, returned before 4th Dec. 1689; restored by the Act of Parliament 25th April 1690, was a member of the Assembly 16th Oct. thereafter, and retired to his estate in 1694. A son, Thomas, was seized with him in an annual rent furth of the lands of Bodisbeck in July 1664.-[Dumfries Presb., Sess., New Gen. (Sasines), and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Reg. Gen. Ass. 1690, Macfurlane MSS., &c.]

1694. ROBERT DARLING, A.M., took his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 29th July 1685, called unanimously -, and ord. (colleague and suc.) 20th Nov. 1694, was called to Gask in 1699, but did not accept it, and died 1st Dec. 1716, aged 47, in 23d min. He marr. 2d May 1697, Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of James Urquhart, merchant, Linlithgow, and had a son, James, preacher-[Sess, Linlithg. Sess., Presb., Syn., and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Tombst., Macfarlane MSS.]

1717. ROBERT MALCOLM, A.M., obtained his degree at the Univ. of St. Andrews 7th Feb. 1707, became tutor in the family of Lord President Dalrymple of North Berwick, was licen. by the Presb. of Haddington 27th Nov. 1716, and the Presb. of Cupar also signified " they are well satisfied, being one they are hopeful that will prove useful in the Lords work," called 21st March, and ord. 29th Aug. 1717; died 24th March 1761, in 74th age, and 44th min. He should have succeeded to the family estate in the par. of Cupar, but his relative, being a keen Episcopalian, left it to another branch. By a wise, pious, and amiable behaviour in private life he acquired the esteem of all and supported the dignity of the sacred character, which he uniformly adorned by diligent attention to the duties of his office, and rising above the disappointment of his early life be founded poor houses for the reception of four families, giving the appointment to the Kirk-Session. He marr. Agnes Campbell, who died 30th Oct.17 67 and had a son George, farmer at Burnfoot, and a daugh. Wilhelmina. The son had a family of seventeen, three of whom rose to be Knight Companions of the Bath, Sir Pulteney, Admiral in the Navy, Sir John, Major-General in the army and Governor of Bombay, and Sir James, Colonel of Marines; besides these, there were Robert, a judge and afterward a clergyman in India, Gilbert, a Rector in the Church of England, David, merchant at Madras, Sir Charles, Captain in the Royal Navy, &c. Such distinctions seldom, or perhaps never before, happened to the family of a minister in Scotland.-[Act Rect. Univ. St. And., Presb., Syn., and Cupar Presb. Reg., Tombst., New St. Acc., iv., xv., Macfarlane MSS]