COLLEGIATE CHARGE.

[Discontinued in 1843 when a minister was required for St George's Church.]

1708 ROBERT SANDILANDS [SANDELANDS], ord. min. of Swinton 24th Sept. 1691; trans. to Newbattle 6th May 1695; called 9th Sept., and app. by the Presb. 9th Dec. 1702; adm. 3rd Jan. 1703; died 10th Jan. 1732, aged 70. He marr. 6th Nov. 1698, Sophia, daugh. of Sir Mark Carse of Cockpen, and had issue-Mark; Margaret (marr. l6th Sept. 1733, George Miller, merchant, Edinburgh); Agnes, a child, died 17th Dec. 1705. Publication-The Salutation of Endeared flowing forth (London, 1683); edited Sermons of his colleague, Andrews, in 1711.-[Edin. Counc., Newbattle Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.).]

1732 WILLIAM HAMILTON, born 1669, son of Gavin H. of Airdrie; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, ord. to Cramond 26th Sept. 1694; app. Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh 21st Sept. 1709; called 23rd March, and adm. 8th Aug. 1732, holding in conjunction the Principalship of the University, to which he was app. in 1730; he was Moderator of Assembly in 1712, 1716, 1720, 1727, and 1730; died 12th Nov. 1732. He marr. at Glasgow, 25th Feb. 1696, Mary Robertson, who died 22nd Jan. 1760, aged 85, and had issue-William, merchant, and Gavin, bookseller, both in that city; Robert, min. of Cramond, and Professor of Divinity; Gilbert, also min. of Cramond; Jean (marr. 6th July 1718, Hugh Cleghorn, merchant, Edinburgh); Margaret (marr. 16th May 1731, William Tod, merchant, Edinburgh); Anne (marr. John Horsley, M.A., rector of Newington Butts, Surrey [not J. H., author of Brittania Romana], and was mother of Samuel, the distinguished Bishop of St Asaph). Publication-The Truth and Excellency of the Christian Religion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1732). -[Cramond Sess., -Test., and Reg. (Bur.); Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv., and Corresp., i.; Anderson's House of Hamil.ton;

Bower's Univ., ii.; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Leechman's Life, Serm. i.; Wood's Hist. of Cramond.]

1733 JOHN GLEN, son of John G., min. of Stichill; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 5th Aug. 1718; ord. to Stichill 5th March 1719; trans. to New Greyfriars 14th Dec. 1732; trans. and adm. 22nd Nov. 1733; died 8th Jan. 1768. He marr. 11th July 1732, Mary (died 8th April 1761), daugh. of John Osburne, merchant, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.-[Test. Reg., Carlyle's Autob.]

1768 JAMES BROWN, bapt. 17th Dec. 1724, youngest son of John B., min. of Abercorn; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (27th April 1742); licen. by Presb. of Perth 23rd July 1745; ord. to Melrose 10th Feb. 1748; trans. to New Greyfriars 9th July 1767; trans. and adm. 24th Nov. 1768; Moderator of the General Assembly 22nd May 1777; died 6th May 1786. He took a great interest in the improvement of the translations and paraphrases of sacred Scripture, and was appointed, 28th May 17 76, convener of the Assembly's Committee, whose selection, approved of 1st June 1781, came into general use. He marr. (1) 3rd June 1748, Helen (died 4th June 1754), third daugh. of Captain Lawrence Drummond, and had issue -John, born 7th April 1749, died 4th Aug. 1757; Katharine, born 19th April 1750, died 9th Nov. 1752; Elizabeth, born 26th Sept. 1751, died 7th May 1764; Helen, born 5th Feb. 1753 (marr. 12th June 1777, William Somerville, merchant, Glasgow); Mary, born 7th May 1754 (marr. John Pattison, advocate): (2) 13th Nov. 1755, Marion (died 3rd Oct. 1786), daugh. of Robert Tod, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue Robert of Kirklands, W.S., born 5th Aug. 1758, died 6th Nov. 1812; James, min. of Newburn; John, born 16th May 1761, died 8th Dec. 1767; Thomas, merchant, Edinburgh, born 3rd July 1766, died 4th Oct. 1801; Janet, born 27th Sept. 1756, died 22nd April 1759; Margaret, born 2nd Oct. 1757, died 11th Jan. 1768; Marion, born