ix.; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Peterkin's Constitution of the Church,.]

1689 JAMES WEBSTER, was a probationer at the first meeting of Presbyterian min. in Lothian and Tweeddale 6th July 1687; ord. in 1688 to the congregation at Craigmillar (which is said to have been the first meeting-house opened by the Presbyterians after liberty was granted to them), and appears as the junior min. of Presb. 25th July of that year. Permission was given him by the Committee of Estates, 17th May 1689, to exercise his ministry at the kirk without prejudice to the patron, and on 29th May 1689 he preached his first sermon as min. of Liberton. Trans. to Whitekirk in 1691.-[Acts Parl., ix.; Archoeol. Scot., i.; Wodrow's Hist., ii.; Boston's and Webster's Mem.; Edin. Chr. Inst., iii.]

1692  GIDEON JACQUE, M.A. (Edinburgh 1665); got a ministerial charge in Ireland; adm. before 16th Oct. 1692; returned to Ireland in 1695; was settled at Wexford, and subsequently removed to Ulster, but refused to take the Oath of Abjuration in 1703, though he was then without a charge; finally settled in England. By his wife, Judith Waulkets, he had a son, William.-[MS. Acc.. of Min., 1689; Archoeol. Scot., i.; Reid's Ireland, iii.]

1697 SAMUEL SEMPLE, born 1666, son of Gabriel S., min. of Jedburgh, and Margaret, daugh. of Sir Patrick Murray of Blackcastle; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (3rd July 1693); ord. 31st Aug. 1697; died 7th Jan. 1742. He marr. 2nd Nov. 1701, Elizabeth (died 18th Jan. 1748, aged 77), daugh. of Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony, and had issue-Mary (marr. John Swinton of Swinton, advocate), died 4th Sept. 1768. Publications-He projected a "History of the Christian Religion from its first plantation in Scotland." The design was encouraged by four successive General Assemblies (1708-9-10-11), as well as by a grant of £300 from the Treasury. Visiting

Liberton in 1727, Wodrow writes (Analecta, vol. iii., p. 428), “Mr S. tells me that his History is ready for the press, and he designs to print it in London or here. He let me see a vast many papers, upwards of 30 quires, he had caused copy out of the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and other collections in England." The work was never published. Many attempts have been made to recover the MS., but without success.-[Douglas's Bar., Test. and Edin. Req. (Marr.), Acts of Ass.; Archoeol. Scot., i.; Wodrow's Corresp. and Anal.; New Stat. Acc., i.; Edin. Chr. Inst.; Burke's Commoners, ii.]

1741 JOHN JARDINE, pres. by George II. 28th Feb., and ord. (assistant and successor) 30th July 1741; trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 6th Dec. 1750.-[Archoeol. Scot., i.; Morren's Ann., i.]

1751 DAVID MOUBRAY, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd Oct. 1738; ord. to Currie 25th Sept. 1740; pres. by George II. 25th Jan., trans. and adm. 28th May 1751; died 3rd Oct. same year, in 36th year. He marr. Sarah (died 13th Dec. 1774), daugh. of George Fordyce, min. of Corstorphine, and had issue- George, Accountant- General at Madras, H.E.I.C.S., born 6th June 1747; Richard, born 17th Aug. 1749; Jane, died 29th July 1775.-[Test. Reg.; Archoeol. Scot., i.]

1752 THOMAS WHYTE, born 1717, son of James W. of Stockbriggs, Lesmahagow; M.A. (Edinburgh); licen. by Presb. of Lanark 3rd June 1747; pres. by George II. 31st Oct. 1751; ord. 20th Aug. 1752. He was in the theatre when the tragedy of Douglas was originally acted, and called before the Presb. 12th Jan. 1757, he was suspended for three weeks. He died 13th Jan. 1789. He marr. 20th April 1757, Anne (died 2nd June 1774, in 48th year), third daugh. of Daniel Bethune, min. of Rosskeen, and had issue-James; Daniel, born 17th May 1759; Gordon; David, born 15th Feb. 1762 ; Thomas, born 19th March 1764, died 19th Nov. 1768; Kenneth, born