the north-west portion of St Giles was fitted up 20th Dec. 1699. Having been the place where Sir John Gordon of Haddo was imprisoned previous to his decapitation in 1644, it was generally called Haddo's-hold, and from its size, the Little Kirk. During alterations in St Giles, the congregation was accommodated in the Methodist Chapel, Nicolson Square, from 1829-35, and in Brighton Street Chapel from 1835 to 1843, when they returned to the nave of St Giles. At the restoration of the Cathedral by Dr William Chambers, a sum of £10,000, raised chiefly by voluntary contributions, was vested in the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and a new building erected near the Meadows, to which the congregation removed in 1880.]

1693 SAMUEL HALLIDAY [HALIDAY],  M.A. (Glasgow 1656); min. at Omagh, Ireland, 1662; trans. to Dunscore 26th Nov. 1689; trans. to Dryfesdale 1st June 1691; trans. and adm. probably in Nov. 1693. He is described as “now minister in Ireland," 6th July 1694 (Treas. Reg., iv, 229); was settled at Ardstraw, and died in 1724, aged 87. He had a son Samuel, min. in Belfast, a chief promoter of the Non-subscription of Creeds and Confessions of Faith.-[Edin. Counc. Reg.; Wodrow's Anal., ii.; Reid's Ireland, iii.]

1699 GEORGE ANDREWS, M.A. (Edinburgh 1685); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 3rd July 1688; ord. to Tarbolton 28th March 1689; trans. to Prestonpans 10th Oct. 1694; trans. and adm. 1699; died 15th May 1705, in 39th year. He marr. Geills Millar, and had issue--George, teller in the Royal Bank, died 1st May 1739, aged 44; Rachel; Margaret (marr. 10th July 1717, William Rae, merchant, Haddington). Publication -, Sermon upon the Twelfth Chap. of Hebrews (Edinburgh, 1711, posthumous).-[Edin. Counc, Prestonpan's Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.).]

1710 JOHN FLINT, a protege of the United Societies or Cameronians, and educated at Groningen Univ. at their expense. For some reason, on his return

to Scotland he was disowned by the Societies. He became min. of Lasswade in 1688; had been called to the city in 1695, on 18th July 1697, and a third time 6th Sept. 1697; app. by the Presb. 7th Dec. 1709; adm. 1st Jan. 1710. He refused to take the oath of allegiance in 1712; died 19th Jan. 1730, in 71st year. A worthy, affectionate, zealous man, and of considerable learning as a linguist. He marr. Janet Elphinston, and had issue John. Publications - A Synod Sermon (Edinburgh, 1705); Examen. Doctrine D. Johannis Simson, in academia Glasguensi professoris (Edinburgh, 1717); and was serviceable in publishing Poole's Synopsis Criticorum. He revised Boston's Fourfold State and Treatise on Hebrew Accentuation. -[Lasswade Sess. and Reg. (Bur.), Boston's Mem.; Wodrow's Anal., iv., Corresp., i., and MSS., lxxxii.]

1730 JAMES SMITH, trans. from Cramond, and adm. 23rd July 1730; app. Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh, and dem. 27th April 1732, although several " of the elders and deacons appeared, craving he might be continued, there being no inconsistency in discharging both offices."

1732 JOHN GOWDIE, trans. from Lady Yester's; adm. 14th Dec. 1732; Moderator of Assembly 3rd May 1733; dem. 1st Aug. thereafter, on appointment as Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh (q.v.).-[Bower's Univ., ii.)

1733  JAMES SMITH, tutor in the families of Dalrymple of Cousland and Dundas of Arniston; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 26th Oct. 1703; ord. to Morham 24th Sept. 1706; trans. to Cramond 16th Jan. 1712; Moderator of Assembly 1723; Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1732; trans. and readm. to this charge 25th July 1733; Principal of the University 12th Oct. 1733 (which he held in conjunction); one of His Majesty's chaplains. Died at Coldstream in returning from Bristol, 14th Aug. 1736, in 56th year. He marr. Catherine Oswald, who died 6th Aug. 1730, in her 46th year. Publications-The `Misery of Ignorant and