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coll. 10th June 1664; continued 26th Nov. 1665, and probably went to Hutton in Annandale.-[Kelso Presb., and Stow Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.]

1669. JAMES FLETCHER, A.M., already mentioned, indulged by the Privy Council 2d Sept.; he was fined by them 31st July 1673 for not observing, as they had commanded, the anniversary of the Restoration, and died at Ednam Hospital in 1690, aged about 60. He had ane silver masser, two silver dishes, and three silver spoons, estimat to xl ii., ane gold ring joined with two hands, and ane other gold ring, which belonged to his wyfe, ane gold braslet, and ane other gold ring, with the spark of ane diamond estimat to j^c li., Inventar and debts, j^m ix^c lij. li. Besides other legacies, he left to the ministers and sessions of Dundee, for the poor of the town, the fifth part of Provost Parker's land, with jm merks, and his whole books to Mr William Brown and Mr Robert Stark, preachers of the gospel, and Mr John Craig, writer, Edinburgh, to be equally divided, except my great Inglis Bible, with half-a-dozen of practical pieces, to Thomas Auchinleck, which he shall choose. He marr. Margaret Bower, who survived him, and had a daugh., who marr. Tbomas Auchinleck, apothecary in Dunse, who got a certificate from the united Presb. of Chirnside and Dunse for the vacant stipend at Nenthorn 7th Aug. 1690.-[Wodrow's Hist., Chirnside Presb., Dundee Sess., and Test Reg. (Peebles), Tablet of Dundee Mortifications.]

1689. ROBERT CALDER, a native of Moray, entered student at the Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen, in 1674, deprived by the Privy Council, 3d Sept. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, not praying for their Majesties William and Mary, but for James VII. He retired to Edinburgh, where he was banished the kingdom, but remained, and died 28th May 1723, aged 73.-Publications-The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, Lond. 1693, 4to; Three single Sermons, Aberd. 1701,-Edin. 1708, 8vo and 4to; Reasons for a Toleration of the Episcopal Clergy, Edin. 1703, 8vo; The Divine Right of Episcopacy, Edin. 1705, 8vo; The Lawfulness and Expediency of Set Forms of Prayer, Edin. 1706, 8vo; The Genuine Epistles of Ignatius, translated by Dr Wake, with a Vindication of them by Du Pin, and a Short Answer to Mr William Jameson's Nazianzeni Querela, his Impugning the Authority of the Epistles of Ignatius, Edin. 1708, 12mo; The Nail Struck in the Head; or, An Indictment Drawn up against Mr Anderson, Incumbent at Dumbarton, Edin. 1712, fol.; Remarks on Dialogue I. respecting the Oath of Abjuration, 1712; Miscellany Numbers relating to the Controversy about the Book of Common Prayer, Episcopal Government, the Power of the Church .in Ordering Rites and Ceremonies, &c., Edin. 1713, fol.; The Priesthood of the Old and New Testament by Succession, in two parts, Edin. 1716-1717, 12mo; Verses on King James's Death (Anal. Scot. i.), Roundell on the Death of Mr Williamson, and Answer thereto (Scotish Pasquils, i.).--MS. Acc. of Min. 1689, Fasti Aberd., Edin. Reg. (Bur.), Kirkton's Hist., Peterkin's Constitution of the Church.]

1692. WILLIAM BROWN, A.M., was laureated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 19th July 1661 called in Dec. 1691, and ord. 12th May following; died 17th Nov. same year, in 49th age, and 1st min.-[Edin. Grad., Presb. Reg., Tombst.]

1696. JAMES KER, A.M., acquired his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 18th July 1692, licen. by the Presb. of Kelso 23d April 1695, ord. 30th April 1696; died 26th Jan. 1754,