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1601. MATTHEW REID, A.M., was laureated at the Univ, of St. Andrews in 1599, he was a member of the Assembly in 1602, and continued in 1608.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk.]

16-. ANDREW ANDERSONE, A.M., had his degree at the Univ. of St. Andrews in 1608, and was an expectant 4th Sept. 1611, adm. prior to 1627, when there were in the parish " fyve hundrethe and twentie communicantis, na schoole but grit necessitie of the sam," with a " stipend of v^c merkis," or L.27 15s. 63d. sterling. And he said, "There is na stipend sa small (the charge considderit) in this countrey, and trewly it is nocht suffcient to sustain ane honest man burdenit with sicane charge." He contributed, however, in 1636 iii li towards the building and library of Glasgow, and was a. member of the Assembly in 1638. He died before 12th Nov. 1641, aged about 54.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Stat. Reports 1627, St. Andrews Syn., and Stranraer Presb. Reg., Wodrow MSS., Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Bannatyne Miscell. ii., Stevenson's Hist., Reg. Pres.]

1643. WILLIAM HUME, A.M., graduated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 22d July 1637, adm. after 27th Sept. 1643; having been sent to England to attend the Galloway regiment, he was killed in the public service by a shot from the walls of Newcastle in 1644, aged about 27, in 1st min. He marr. 21st Dec. 1643 Barbara, daugh. of John Mein, elder, merchant, Edinburgh, and had a son William, who entered burgess and guild. brother of Edinburgh in right of his father 27th Nov. 1667. Mrs Hume petitioned Parliament, that her late husband " having borrowed money to furnish him for his charge in the army, and being cut off after four months service, she desired payment of the arrears due to him, and consideration to his posthumous child and herself, lie being their only means of subsistence," with a recommendation of the Gen. Assembly 1645 in her favour; on which, 5th March following, they ordained the sum of ij^m merks to be given to her and her child by the commissary or his deputes " out of the reddiest moneyis can be hade pertaining to the publict." In 1646 the Presb. allowed her a year's vacant stipend, which the Assembly of that year recommended, but which remaining unpaid, the Parliament recommended to be paid by the Committee of War in the Sheriffdom of Wigton.-[Edin. Grad., Stranraer Presb., Edin. Guild, and Reg. (Marr., and Bapt.), Acts Parl. vi., and MSS, Peterkin's Records, Balfour's Hist. Works iii., Rutherfurd's Lett.]

1647. GEORGE WAUGHE, A.M., had his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 17th April 1639, on the exercise at Perth 28th June 1643. In 1646 he was in attendance on Lord Balmerino, and was a witness to the testament of Mr Alexander Henderson 17th Aug., and was adm. in 1647; deprived in 1662 for non-conformity. He was accused before the Privy Council 24th Feb. thereafter "of still labouring to keep the hearts of the people from the present government in Church and State;" on his appearing, 24th March, the case was delayed. He was charged with turbulent and seditious carriage 14th July same year, but nothing more appears. The escheit of his goods was given to David M'Dowell of Carne 24th April 1667. He was indulged at Kells 3d Sept. 1672, but refused to accept it, was summoned before the Council 12th March after, and appointed to enter before 1st June, but he emigrated to Ireland, and got a charge in the Co. Down.-[Reg. Laur. Univ. Edin., Stranraer Presb. Reg., Wodrow's Hist., Reg. Sec. Sigill., Reid's Ireland ii., Aiton's Life of Henderson, &c.]

1663. ANDREW SYMSON, A.M., son of Mr Andrew S., min., author of Exposition on 2d