Council 14th Jan. 1639; confirmed by the Assembly at Aberdeen 1640; trans. and adm. 28th Oct. 1641; was a member of the Commission of Assembly 1642-6, and died March 1647. He marr. Jean Bonar, and had issue-James; Elizabeth (Reg. Horn., xxvi., 235; Fife Reg. Sas., v., 276, xviii., 354); George, in the service of the King of Poland, created a baronet, 28th July 1671; William and Helen (twins); Catherine; David; Robert, in 1666 lieutenant in the Polish army (Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 18th Nov. 1672).-[Edin. Counc., Bapt., and Gen. Sess. Reg.; Baillie's Lett., i. ; Acts of Ass.]

1648 JOHN SMITH, probably son of John S., min. of Maxton; M.A. (Edinburgh, 14th July 1621); licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 14th Aug. 1634; ord. to Burntisland 1634; pres. by the Town Council and Kirk-session 16th March 1647; trans. and adm. 17th March 1648; a member of the Commissions of Assembly 1648-9; app. by Parliament one of the Visitors of the Univ. of St Andrews 16th Jan. 1649, and of Edinburgh 31st July 1649; taken prisoner at Alyth 28th Aug. 1651, by the English army, carried to Tynemouth Castle and afterwards to London, where he was liberated, and returned to Edinburgh 29th March 1653. Refusing to conform to Episcopacy the parish was declared vacant, 7th Aug. 1662; he died in the neighbourhood of Prestonpans, 9th Dec. 1667. He drew up some of the public papers on the part of the Resolutioners against the Protesters. He marr. Eupham Monipennie (buried 22nd Dec. 1672), and had issue Eupham, bapt. 29th July 1649; James, bapt. 20th Oct. 1661; John, M.A. (G. R. bas., xxviii., 88).-[Edin. Counc., Gen. Sess., and Reg. (Bapt.); Acts of Ass. and Parl., vi., vii.; Lamont's, Nicoll's, and Brodie's Diaries; Baillie's Lett., iii.; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., and Anal., i. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5682.]

1663 ALEXANDER CAIRNCROSS, born  about 1637, son of George C. (a dyer in the Canongate for many years, in which occupation he was so

successful that he was enabled to regain part of the estate of Colmslie, Lauderdale, which belonged to his progenitors), and Christian Ogilvie; studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (26th July 1657); licen. by George, Bishop of the diocese, 31st Oct. 1662; elected by the Town Council 29th April 1663; pres. to Ayton by Charles II. 13th Oct. 1664, but did not remove; trans. to Dumfries in 1668; became Bishop of Brechin (1684), Archbishop of Glasgow (1684), and finally (1693) Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland; died unmarr. 14th May 1701. -[Keith's Catal., Edin. Counc. Reg., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1669 JOHN MACQUEEN, M.A. (Edinburgh 27th July 1663); ord. to Carmichael 1666; pres. by the Town Council 16th Dec. 1668; trans. and coll. 29th Jan. after. He was suspended "for a foolish frolic," Dec. 1683, but reponed Feb. 1684; Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal 28th Jan. 1688; deprived by the Convention of Estates, 26th April 1689, for not reading

the Proclamation against owning James VII., and not praying for William and Mary. He became min. of Welton, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire; and was app. in 1698 to St Mary's, Dover, where he died 10th Jan. 1733, aged about 90. He marr. 21st Dec. 1668, Helen Meldrum, and had issue-Margaret, bapt. 18th Jan. 1670; Mary, bapt. 22nd Dec. 1671; Helen, bapt. 10th Dec. 1673; Isabel, bapt. 9th Sept. 1675; John, bapt. 5th Nov. 1678. Publications-God's Interest in the King (London, 1687); The 2fagistrates' Dignity, Duty, and Danger, a sermon (London, 1693); The Good Patriot set forth in the -Example of the Public-spirited Centurion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1694) ; A Divine and Moral Essay on the Christian Pilgrim's Conduct (London, 1699) ; A Sermon on the Victory of Blenheim; etc.-{Edin. Counc., Guild, and Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.); Acts Parl., ix.; Fountainhall's Diary, Kirkton's Hist.; HS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Steven's Mem. of Heriot, Batchellor's Dover, Reg. Collat. and Privy Seal, Carstares' State Pap.; Chambers's Ann., ii.]