1627  ANDREW LEARMONTH, M.A., son of John L. of Balcomie and Birkhill, and Elizabeth Myrton of Randerston; regent in Old College, St Andrews; pres. by Charles I. 7th Sept. 1627, and adm. soon after. In 1638 he informed the King of the outrages of the people against those ministers who were zealous in his service. Deposed in 1639 for calling the Covenanters perjured, etc. He was obliged to quit the Kingdom; lived in great want, and died 4th Nov. 1662, leaving not enough to bury him. His widow, Agnes Aytoun, obtained a grant from the vacant stipends in 1662 (Privy Council Decreta). He had issue - Jean; David; John; Margaret. - [Edin. Reg. (Bapt.), Wodrow, MSS., Durie's Dec., Lochleven Pap.; Baillie's Lett., i.; Peterkin's Records, Stevenson's Hist.]

1639 ARCHIBALD NEWTON, born Edinburgh 1605; M.A. (Edinburgh, 23rd July 1625); one of the masters in the High School 19th Feb. 1630; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 29th Sept. 1631; went abroad, where he suffered imprisonment for a too free criticism of the Romish Church; adm. min. of Duddingston 1635; trans. and adm. 19th May 1639; pres. by Charles I. 8th Sept. 1641; died 2nd June 1657. He left (Test., 27th .June 1657) £100 to the kirk-session; to Robert Douglas (of the High Kirk) "four of the best of my books at his awne choosing"; and the rest of the books he left to be "equallie devyded" between John Smyth of Trinity Parish, and Richard Waddell, afterwards min. at Dunbar. Publication- Uldericus Veridicus, sine de state ecclesice Scoticanm dialoyus (Edinburgh, 1657, anon.; see copy in the Univ. Lib., Edinburgh).- [Crawfurd's Univ., Test. Reg., Steven's High School, Tombst., Baird's Duddingston.]

1659 ANDREW CANT, adm. 10th March 1659; traps. to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 13th July 1673.-[Kennedy's Ann. Aberd., ii.; Wodrow's Hist., i.; Dalkeith Presb. Reg.; Baillie's Lett., iii.; Brodie's Diary.]

1674 NINIAN PATERSON, a native of Glasgow; MA. (Glasgow 1657); ord. to a parish in Dumfriesshire (name unknown) 1666; trans. to Dalserf 1668; traps. to Smailholm 1671; traps. and adm. 14th Oct. 1674, when a riot took place; dep. for immorality. He petitioned the Presb. of Dalkeith, 10th Oct. 1683, to have the sentence relaxed; compliance was delayed, "until it shall be made more apparent that he is reformed in his life and conversation." Died Dec. 1688, aged about 52. He marr. 31st Aug. 1668, Margaret Somerville, and had issue.-Jean; Ninian; Margaret, bapt. 19th Jan. 1672. Publications -Epigrammatum libri octo, cum aliquot Psalmorum Paraphrasis Poetica (Edinburgh, 1678); The Fanatick Indulgence Granted (London, 1683); Obsequies to the Mmory of Alex., Bishop of Ross (1683); Ova the Death of General Dalziel (1685); On the Birth of the Prince of Wales (1688); and many other Elegies, etc., mostly printed on single sheets.[Dalkeith Presb. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.); Wodrow's Hist., ii.; Scot. Pasq., i.; Advocates' Lib. Catal.]

1683 ROBERT FARQUHAR, M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen); regent there 1675-81; recommended by Presb. of Aberdeen for license 5th June 1677; inst. at Cullen in Feb. 1682; traps. and inst. 12th April 1683; died 6th March 1687. He marr. Christian Udney, and had issue - George; Mary (marr. 16th Feb. 1702, John Carre, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh).-[Cullen Sess. and Dalkeith Presb. Reg.]

1689 ALEXANDER CUMING [CUMIN], bursar of the Presb. for 1684 and 1685; deprived by the Committee of Estates, 14th -lay, for not reading the Proclamation, nor praying for King William and Queen -Mary. He preached his farewell sermon 19tb May 1689. In 1701 he had 350 merks bequeathed to him by John Cuming, min. of Birnie. He died in Edinburgh, 26th April 1713, in 61st year. -[Ratho Sess., Test. (Moray), and Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) - Archoeol. Scot., i.; Acts Parl.,