royal favour. On 2nd Jan. 1586 he preached before the King (though James "rebuked him from his seat in the loft" for some of his opinions); he attended the coronation of Queen Anne, 17th May 1590. In 1596 his bold utterances again brought him into conflict with the sovereign, and a warrant having been issued, again he escaped to Yorkshire. He demitted in May 1597, in order to admit of new parochial divisions of the city, and on 18th April 1598 he was admitted to this charge. On 10th Sept. 1600 he was called before the Privy Council for questioning the genuineness of the Gowrie Conspiracy, but, professing to be satisfied with its reality, he was dismissed. He was a member of the Assembly of 1602. Along with Robert Pont he took protestation at the cross of Edinburgh, in name of the whole Kirk, against the verdict of the Assize finding the brethren who met in Gen. Assembly at Aberdeen guilty of treason. For condemning the proceedings of the Gen. Assembly, 1610, he was again called before the Privy Council, and admonished. Falling into bad health, he ceased preaching, 16th July 1616, and died 4th Aug. 1617. He bequeathed 1000 merks towards the. stipend of a Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of James Marjoribanks, merchant, in right of whom he entered burgess and guild-brother of the city, 15th Feb. 1591, and had issue -Robert, min. of Tranent; Walter, D.D., Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1611, chaplain to James VI., Dean of Rochester 1624, Dean of Durham 1639, one of the executors of George Heriot, and author of the Statutes for the regulation of Heriot's Hospital, born 1586, died 25th Dec. 1645; John; Samuel, bapt. 11th Jan. 1595-6; Katherine (marr., pro. 30th Sept. 1601, Nicol Udward, Dean of Guild, Edinburgh); Rachel (marr., pro. 31st Oct. 1605, John Makcubine, merchant, Edinburgh); Sara; Margaret; Libra. (Edin. Com. Rec. Dec., 20th Nov. 1592-3); Anna (G. R. Inhib., viii., 384).-[Edin. Counc. Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.);

Steven's Mem. of Heriot, Booke of the Kirk, Craufurd's Univ. Edin., Melvill's Autob., Diet. Nat. Biog.]

1626 THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A., formerly of St Giles; adm. 26th Jan. 1626; trans. to the Deanery of Edinburgh in 1634; Bishop of Brechin 1634; Bishop of Galloway 1635; Bishop of Orkney 1662 (q.v.).-[Edin. Counc. Reg.; Orig. Lett., ii.; Diet. Nat. Biog]

1639 WILLIAM COLYILL, M.A.; trans. from Cramond; pres. by the Town Council 14th Jan. 1639, and adm. soon afterwards. In the same year he was sent by the Covenanters to solicit the aid of the King of France against the despotic proceedings of Charles I. On his way through England his papers were seized, and he was incarcerated at Newcastle till the victory of the Scots at Newburn, when he was released, Aug. 1640. On the new parochial division, Dec. 1641, he was removed to the Tron Parish.-[Edin. Counc. Reg.]

1644 ROBERT LAURIE, son of Joseph L., min. of Perth; M.A. (St Andrews 1636); ord. to Perth nth May 1641; pres. by the Town Council 25th Dec. 1643; trans. and adm. 29th March 1644; trans. to the Tron Parish in 1648; trans. to the High Kirk Parish 1662, and being the only min. of the city who conformed to Episcopacy was popularly known as " The Nest Egg." In 1672 he became Bishop of Brechin, but returned to this charge in 1674.

1649 HEW [HUGH] MACKAIL [MACKAILE], min. of Percietown [Presb. of Irvine] 1633; trans. to Irvine 1642; elected by the Town Council, trans. and adm. after 12th Oct. 1649; died March 1660. He marr. Sybella Stevenson (died between 9th March 1665 and 26th Sept. 1666), and had issue - Matthew, medical writer, M.D., Aberdeen, 1657-96 [see Dict. Nat. Biog.]; Margaret (marr., pro. 2nd Sept. 1653, George Dickson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh).-[Edin. Counc., Test., and Canongate Reg. (Bur.); Maekaile's