of Popery Discovered.-[Edin. Counc. Beg. (Bur.); Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv.; Grant's Univ., ii.; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Acts Parl., ix., xi.; Boston's Mem., Pennecuik's Works; Test., 26th Nov. 1708, recorded 23rd Feb. 1709 (Reg. of Deeds, Mack.); Warrick's Moderators.]

1710 JOHN STEEDMAN, son of Robert S., min. of Carriden; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 19th Feb. 1699; ord. to Dalmeny 16th Aug. 1699; called 20th July, app. by Presb. 22nd Nov., and adm. 27th Dec. 1710; died 24th Nov. 1713, aged 35. He marr. 9th Jan. 1701, Jean, second daugh. of John Kinnaird, min. of East Calder, and had issue-Robert (colonel in the Scots Brigade in the Dutch service); Jane (marr. Adam Rolland of Gask); Sarah, died 17th July 1716; Sophia (marr. John Gray, min. of Dollar); Margaret; John, surgeon, Scots Greys; Alexander, died in Jamaica, Oct. 1735; Rachel, died at Edinburgh in 1716; Marion (marr. William Black, clerk to the Regality of Dunfermline).-[Dalmeny Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.); Wodrow's Corresp. i.; Erskine's Supp. to Gillies's Collect.]

1715 MATTHEW WOOD educated at Univ.  of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 27th Nov. 1704; ord. to Leslie (Fife) 3rd Feb. 1709; trans. to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 18th March 1711; trans. and adm. 16th Jan. 1715; died 19th Oct. 1741, in 65th year. He marr. 13th Dec. 1711, Katherine, daugh. of Bailie William Hutchison who, as his widow, obtained a decreet of the Court of Session against the Magistrates for the ann. 9th June 1747. -[Reg. (Bur.), Hart's Journal; Morrison's Digest and Dict., i.]

1745  WILLIAM WISHART (secundus), son of William W., min. in 1707; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; min. of the Scots Church, Founder's Hall, London; elected Principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh 1737, receiving at the same time a call to be min. of New Greyfriars; trans. and adm. 20th June 1745. He supported the measures of the popular party in the Church, and dissented 15th

May 1751, from a resolution of the General Assembly, censuring the Presb. of Linlithgow for not proceeding in the settlement of Torphichen as appointed by the preceding Assembly. He died 12th May 1753. He marr. (1) 1st Dec. 1724, Margaret (died 27th Feb. 1746), daugh. of Thomas Halyburton, Professor of Divinity, St Andrews, and had issue-William Thomas of Foxhall, died 3rd Dec. 1799; a son, died Jan. 1739; Ann, died in 1819, aged 82; Janet (marr. Mr Maxwell, merchant, Dundee); Margaret (marr. 27th Oct. 1766, James Macdowall, merchant, Edinburgh); Cordelia (marr. 6th Jan. 1724, John Moncrieff of Rumgay, M.D.): (2) 17th March 1747, Frances, daugh. of James Deans of Woodhouselee. His widow marr. in 1754, John Scott of Stewartfield, and subsequently John Strother Ker of Littledean. Publications- Charity the End of the Commandment, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1731); A Sermon preached before the Societies for Reformation of Manners in London (1732) [on which was founded a libel for heresy, from which he was acquitted by the General Assembly, 20th May 1738]; Answers to the Charge exhibited before the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale (Edinburgh, 1738); edited Scougal's Life of God in the Soul of Man (Edinburgh, 1739); Select Sermons of Dr Benjamin Whichcote (Edinburgh, 1742); Ernesti's Preface to Cicero (1743); Public Virtue recommended, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1746); Volusenus' (Florence Wilson) 'De Animi Tranquillitate (Edinburgh, 1751); Discourses on Several Subjects (London, 1753); Essay on the Indispensable Necessity of a holy and Good Life to the Happiness of Heaven (London, 1753). - [Test. and Reg. (Bur.); Erskine's Disc., i.; Wodrow's Anal., iii.; Wilson's Diss. Churches, ii.; Morren's Ann., i.; Somerville's Life, Carlyle's Autob.; Playfair's Bar., iii.; Grant's Univ., ii.]

1754 JOHN JARDINE, born 1715, son of Robert J., Loclamaben; licen. by Presb. of Lochmaben 7th Sept. 1736; ord. to Liberton 30th July 1741; trans. to Lady Yester's 6th Dec. 1750; trans. and adm. 11th Oct. 1754; D.D. (St Andrews,