man offence." He marr. Beatrix, daugh. of Patrick Crichton of Lugton and Gilmerton, who survived him, and had issue-John, his successor; James, D.D., Bishop of Clogher, Ireland, born 7th Sept. 1567, died (buried) 31st March 1644-5; William; Rachel (marr. James Tennent of Linhouse); Judith, died before 1593 (Reg. of Deeds, xliv., 438).-[Douglas's Bar., Reg. Assig.; Knox's Works, ii.; Test. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Wodrow's Biog. and Miscell.; Pitcairn's Cr. 7 vials, ii.; Spottiswood's, Calderwood's, Row's, Cook's, and Hetherington's -lists.; Scott's Lives; Baillie's Lett., iii.; New Stat. Acc., i.; M'Ure's Glasg.; Chalmers's Caled., ii.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1583 JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (secundus), born at Greenbank in the parish, 1565, eldest son of preceding; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1581); app. assistant and successor to his father 1583. He was pres. to the vicarage of Calder-Clere by James VI. 1594, but dem. in 1596, and had from His Majesty a gift of stipend, 12th April 1599. In 1601 he was chaplain to Ludovic, Duke of Lennox, ambassador to the court of France. While attending James VI. on his visit to England on acceding to the united Crown, in 1603, he was promoted to the Archbishopric of Glasgow and nominated a Privy Councillor, but continued min. here. He was four times Moderator of Assembly, in 1610, 1616, 1617, and the Perth Assembly, 1618, which sanctioned the Five Articles. Called to the see of St Andrews in 1615, he crowned Charles I. at Holyrood in 1633, and was Chancellor of Scotland in 1635. Seconding the King's efforts to introduce a liturgy, he became obnoxious to the Covenanters, and was deposed and excommunicated by the Glasgow Assembly of 1638. He died at London, 26th Nov. 1639, and was interred in Westminster Abbey. He marr. 1599, Rachel, daugh. of David Lindsay, Bishop of Ross, and had a numerous family, of whom only three survived him-Sir John of Dairsie; Sir Robert, President of the Court of Session, having sided with Montrose, was taken prisoner at Philiphaugh, and sentenced to death by the Scottish

Parliament, 16th Jan. 1646; Anne (marr, Sir William St Clair of Roslyn). Publication-History of the Church of Scotland, from the Year 203 to the Rein of James VI. (London, 1655; new edition, Spottiswood Society, 1847, with Life by Russell). See also Spot. Soc. Miscell., vol. i. (1844). [Melvill's Autob., Keith's Catal., Row's and Calderwood's Hists., Duppa's Life, Cowan's Lo-rd Chancellors of Scotland, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1604 ROBERT GILMOUR, M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th July 1598); petitioned for by the Session 8th April, he was adm. (colleague) 2nd Aug. 1604; pres. to the vicarage of Calder-Clere by James VI. 3rd March 1610; died 23rd Nov. 1616, aged about 39. He marr. 12th April 1613, Marie Cleland, who survived him, and had issue -James; John; Robert, apprenticed 29th June 1636, to Alexander Inglis, litster, Edinburgh. - [Craufurd's Univ., Uphall Sess. sand Test. Reg., Reg. Sec. Sig., Calderwood's Hist.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 801.]

1617 JOHN TENNENT, younger son of James T. of Linhouse, and grandson of John Spottiswood (primus); M.A. (Glasgow 1606); was on the exercise there 22nd Dec. 1613; having been pres., he produced a letter from the Bishop (Spottiswood) to the Presb. for his admission 3rd Sept.; was pres. by James VI. to the vicarage of Calder-Clere 5th, and to the vicarage of C. 15th Oct. 1617; was on the Commission for Church Discipline 21st Oct. 1634; died 29th June 1638, aged about 52. He marr. (cont. 20th and 27th Feb. 1619 Reg. of Deeds, ccclii., 74) 21st April 1619, Nicolas, daugh. of Andrew Lamb, Bishop of Brechin, afterwards of Galloway, who survived him (alive in 1643), and had issue - Margaret; John; Rachel; Andrew; Bethia. A grandson, William Tennent, was Laird of Cairns in 1693.-Iflun. Univ. Glasg., iii; Test. Reg.; Maitland, ii., and Bannatyne Miscell., iii.; Baillie's Lett. i.]

1638 GEORGE DUNBAR, probably of the  family of Dunbar of Cumnock; min. of Cumnock in 1599, of Ayr 1608; deprived by Privy Council 1611; became