1807); Moderator of Assembly 21st Ma; 1818; died 30th Aug. 1828. He mar (1) 29th Feb. 1788, Christian (died 23rd April 1796), daugh. of Dr Robert Innes of Giffordvale : (2) 15th Oct. 1801, Jean (die 1st Jan. 1838, aged 67), daugh. of Thomas Kinnear, banker, Edinburgh, and hay issue-Daniel, born 23rd Nov. 1803, died 14th Nov. 1809; Elizabeth, born 31st May 1806; Mary, born 27th Jan. 1808 (marr James Barclay Mellis, min. of Tealing) Jane, born 30th Dec. 1810; Margaret, born 12th May 1814 (mar. Charles James Kerr); Jane (marr. John Gordon Lorimer D.D., min. of St David's, Glasgow. Publications-Reflections on the Death of H.R.H Princess Charlotte (Edinburgh, 1817); The Acclamation of the Redeemed, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1818); A Sermon after the Interment of Robert Balfour, D.D. (Edin burgh, 1818) ; Account of Kippen (Sinclair'; Stat. Acc., xviii., xxi.).-[Lorimer's Fun Serm., Haldane's Mem.]

TRINITY CHURCH.

[Originally founded in 1462 as a collegiate church by Queen Mary of Gueldres, widow of James II., though only choir and transepts were erected. In 1584 it became the church for the North-East Quarter of the city. The Town Council, 14th Jan, 1595, "caused make ane loft in the east end fit for the students and regents of the Town's College in the Kirk-of-Field.' The interior was greatly damaged by Cromwell's troops in Nov. 1650, but was restored in 1653. Of decorated Gothic, displaying exceeding grace of execution, it was almost the only large illustration of the Scottish Gothic which gave promise of being developed with distinctive features of peculiar excellence. In 1848 this venerable edifice was sold to the North British Railway Co. for about £18,000. The stones were carefully numbered and laid aside with a view to the church being rebuilt on a new site. Unfortunately the Town Council did not carry that out, but placed many obstacles in the way, with the hope apparently that the congregation

would disappear and the church should not be needed. Despite many difficulties the members held loyally together and steadily increased, till in 1873, when the new church was opened, there were over 800 on the roll All that remained of the stones were built into the apse. Long litigation before the Court ended in a judgment of the House of Lords, who reversed a decision of the Court of Session that all the money must be spent on the new church, and allowed only £7000. For a time the congregation met in the Calton Convening Rooms, a place too small to hold all the communicants. Afterwards the kink-session hired the Waterloo Rooms, at a rent of £70, which the Town Council refused to pay, but soon after sent them to worship in John Knox's Free Church, at a rent of 2400 a year. After three years there, in 1861 the congregation removed to a part of St Giles, where they remained until the new church was opened.]

1598 WALTER BALCANQUHAL [BALCANQUHALL], is almost certain to have been born at Balcanquhal, Strathmiglo, probably in 1548 (cf. Sibbald's List of Heritors). After studying at St Andrews, he was exhorter at Aberdour in 1571, and entered St Giles on "'hit Sunday 1574. At that time he is described in James Melvill's Diary (Wodrow Society, p. 41) as "ane Honest, upright-hearted young man, latlie enteret to the ministerie of Edinburgh." He was elected to the chaplaincy of the Altar called Jesus, 20th Nov. 1579. Having preached against the influence of the French at Court, 7th Dec. 1580, he was called before the Privy Council, 9th Jan.1581, and admonished. He attended the Earl of Morton on the eve of his execution, 1581. He opposed the Acts of Parliament of 1584, and was obliged to flee for safety to Berwick-on-Tweed [while here, his wife along with Mrs Lawson addressed to the Archbishop a long and most extraordinary letter of rebuke and vituperation (Calderwood, iv., 126; P. C. Reg., iii., 691)], but on returning after the storm had passed, came once more into