the Bishop of Galloway for nonconformity 1635, but reponed; a member of the As­sembly of 1638; trans, and adm. 16th Jan. 1639; one of the commissioners for visit­ing the Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 1649. Deprived in 1662, and died about 1676. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert Colvill of Cleish, and had issue—James; John, min. of Roxburgh, served heir to his father 16th Sept. 1676; Alexander, min. of Linlithgow; Janet (marr. Richard Bawling, skipper, Bo'ness). —[Wood's Cramond; Acts Parl., vi.; Wodrow's Hist., i.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5933; Murray's Life of Rutherford}

1663 JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; regent in  St Leonard's College, St Andrews; got a certificate from the Presb. to the Archbishop for ordination 11th March, 'and was adm. before 31st July 1663; trans. to South Leith 10th Sept. 1663.—[Anderson's  House of Hamilton, Lament's Diary, St Andrew’s Presb. Reg., Reg. Collat.}

1664 ALEXANDER YOUNG, trans, from Dalmeny and adm. 1664; trans, to the Archdeaconry of St Andrews in 1666. In 1671 he became Bishop of Edin­burgh, and in 1679 Bishop of Ross (q.v.). —[Edin. Reg. (Marr.) Wood's Hist, of Cramond, Lamont's Diary.]

1666 DAVID FALCONER, M.A.; regent in    St Leonard's College, St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews; got a testimonial to the Archbishop 17th Aug. 1665; adm. in 1666; pres. to the second mastership of St Andrews College in June 1674 (Warrant BK Scot., ii., 377); app. to the Professorship of Divinity in St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1675 (q.v.).—[St Andrews Presb. Reg., Wood's Hist, of Cramond, Lament's Diary.}

1675 JOHN SOMERVILLE [SOMERVELL], a   cadet   of   the   family   of   S.   of Cambusnethan MA Edinburgh

the Proclamation of the Estates, etc.; died at London, 1692. He marr. (1) Esther Scougall, and had issue—Janet (G. R. Sas., xxix., 11): (2) 5th Feb. 1674, Katharine, daugh. of James Brown, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (G. R. Sas., xli., 204), who survived him, and in whose right he entered burgess and guild-brother of Edinburgh, 27th Feb. 1689; she succeeded to his estate, 12th Feb. 1692, and had issue—Margaret, born 30th Aug. 1675; James, born 17th May 1679; Hugh, born 7th July 1681; William, born 10th Dec. 1682; Anne, born 9th Jan. 1685 (marr., cont. 21st Aug. 1704, George Dundas, surgeon - apothecary, Edinburgh : Edin. Sas., Ixxvi., 230); John, born 19th Sept. 1686, died 24th March 1689; Robert, born 1st Oct. 1689; and three children who died in infancy.—[Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.); Acts Pad., ix.; Wood's Hist, of Cramond; Min. Book Reg. Priv. Seal, v.; Fountainhall's Dec., i.; Peterkin's Con­stitution of the Church, Greyfriars Burials.}

1689 JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; adm. 16th    Dec. 1689; trans, to Greyfriars, Edin­burgh, 7th Sept. 1692. — [Colinton Sess. Reg., Wood's Cramond; Reid's Hist, of Presb. Ch. in Ireland, ii., iii.]

1694 WILLIAM HAMILTON, called 14th Aug., and ord. 26th Sept. 1694; app. Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh, and dem. 21st Sept. 1709. He was Principal in 1730 (q.v.). — [Anderson's House of Hamilton, Wood's Cramond; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Grant's Univ. of Edin., Warrick's Moderators.}

1712 JAMES SMITH, trans, from Morham (after a vacancy of two years); called 3rd Aug. 1711; adm. 16th Jan. 1712; Moderator of Assembly 9th May 1723; trans, to New North Parish, Edinburgh, 23rd July 1730. — [Wood's Cramond.'}