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22nd Feb. 1620; Thomas (G. R. Sas., xxix., 72); John, min. of Currie, eldest son and heir (A. Guthrie, Prot. Book, 133).-Publication-NarratioVitoe et Obitus sanctissimi doctissimique viri D. Roberti Rolloci, Scoti Ministri Evangelii et Rectoris Academics Edinburgensis (Wodrow Soc., 1826).-[Edin. Reg. (Bapt.), Grant's Univ., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

 

1627 DAVID FORRESTER, M.A., above mentioned; trans. from Rathven, through the influence of Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of Stirling, cousin of his wife; pres. by the elders, deacons, and inhabitants 5th Aug., and readm. 20th Sept. 1627; died June 1633, aged about 45. He marr. (1) 30th Jan. 1614, Margaret, daugh. of Duncan Paterson, merchant, burgess of Stirling, and Marion Alexander, and had issue- Duncan, one of the regents in the Univ. of Edinburgh, who was served heir 13th Nov. 1633; John; George : (2) Margaret, daugh. of Robert Hamilton, brother to the Laird of Preston, and had issue-James; Margaret.-[Stirling, Prestonpans Sess., and Test. Reg.; Row's and Calderwood's Hists., vii.; Craufurd's Univ.

 

1636 ANDREW FAIRFOUL [FAIRFULL], M.A. ; trans. from Leslie, Fife; pres. by Charles I. 25th Sept. 1641; trans. to Duns in 1652 ; became Archbishop of Glasgow (q.v.).-[Reg. Sec. Sig.; Balfour's Hist. Works, iii.; Acts Parl., v., vii.; Guthrie's Mem., Baillie's Lett.]

 

1653 JOHN KNOX, youngest son of John K., min. of Bowden; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (15th July 1641). When a probationer he joined the army in favour of Charles II., and became chaplain to Sir John Brown's Regiment of Horse; was present at the Royalist defeat at Inverkeithing, 19th July 1651; chaplain in the family of Archibald, Earl of Angus; ord. to this charge 1653. He was deprived of the use of his church by the English soldiery, and preached in the citadel; removed from it also, he conducted public worship with his parishioners at Newhaven; deprived by the

Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. Though advised to visit the Court, where he might have received promotion, he preferred remaining at home, and sharing in the sufferings of those maintaining the Presbyterian form of Church government. He was min. again in 1687.-[Wodrow's MSS., xxxiii., and Hist., i., iv.; Acts Parl., vii.; Crichton's Life of Blackadder.]

 

1663 JAMES REID, M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 1652); schoolmaster of Grange 1652-5; adm. min. of Second Charge, Kirkwall, 8th Nov. 1660; pres. by "the haill inhabitants"; coll. 15th July, and inst. 1663  died in 1671, aged about 39. He marr. 30th March 1664, Margaret, daugh. of Magnus Prince, Kirkwall, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue-James (Aberdeen Inhib., 11th Sept. 1678). His widow marr. Robert Traill, merchant, Edinburgh.-[Reg. Collat., S. Leith and Shapinsay Sess. Reg.; Reg. Old Dec., ii.; Acts Parl., vii.; Morison's Dec., xviii.]

 

1672 THOMAS WILKIE, M.A.; trans. From Galashiels; pres. by the elders, deacons, and inhabitants, 8th Dec. 1671; coll. (by James, Archbishop of St Andrews), and inst. 4th Jan. 1672; trans. to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, in 1687. [Edin. Counc., xxxii.]

 

1682 JAMES HUTCHESON, M.A.; trans.  from Inch, Wigtownshire, and adm. in 1682; trans. to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, in 1687.-[Edin.Counc., xxxii.]

 

1687 JAMES LUNDIE, M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 1657); ord. to Tron, Second Charge, Edinburgh, 1663; trans. to St Giles, Edinburgh, 1668; trans. to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1672; trans. to Tron, First Charge, Edinburgh, 1675; trans. to Dalkeith 1680; deprived on account of the Test 1681; pres. unanimously by the inhabitants 5th Sept. 1687, and adm. soon after; died 31st March 1696, aged 56. He marr. (1) 2nd March 1671, Catherine Chrystie, and had issue James, bapt. 4th June 1672; Archibald, min of Saltoun - Margaret born 24th

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