North-West quarter sen March last to 1st Nov." Signed the protest to the King and Parliament in support of the Liberties of the Kirk, 14th June 1617. He long officiated as Presb. and Synod clerk, and died 30th Nov. 1630, aged about 69. He marr. (1) Beatrice, daugh. of Robert Pont, min. of St Cuthbert's, and had issue-Robert, bapt. 30th July 1595; James, bapt. 28th March 1599; Rachel, bapt. 8th Aug. 1602: (2) Katherine Bruce, who died before 1609 (G. R. Inhib., xix., 242; xxxvii., 204), and had issue-Robert: (3) Beatrix Muirhead, who survived him, and had issue-John, bapt. 2nd Sept. 1610; Margaret; Charles, his successor; Andrew; Jean; Rebecca (marr., cont. 22nd June 1640, James, son of James Ritchie, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh: Reg. of Deeds, dxxxix., 227); Thomas, died 23rd Feb. 1649. Publication-Translation of an Exposition upon some Select Psalms of David, written by Mr Robert Rollock, out of Latine (Edinburgh, 1600).-[Reg. Assig.; Edin. Counc. Bapt., and Test. Reg.; Calderwood's Hist.; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, ii.; New Stat. Acc., i.; Craufurd's Univ.; Rollock's Sel. Works, i.; Lee's Memorial.]

1630 ROBERT MONTEITH [MONTETH, MENTEITH] "of Salmonet," bapt. 25th Jan. 1603, third and youngest son of Alexander M., merchant, Edinburgh, and Rachel Sandilands, Edinburgh; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (14th July 1621) ; Professor of Philosophy in the Univ. of Saumur, where he continued four years, and returned, " with an great shew of learning." He was pres. by Charles I., ord. (at St Andrews) by the Archbishop, and adm. 28th Dec. 1630, but engaging in an illicit amour with Dame Anna Hepburn, wife of Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield, he fled the country, and was denounced rebel 7th Oct. 1633. He joined the Roman Catholic Church at Paris, where he obtained the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, and was made a canon of Notre-Dame by the Cardinal de Retz. He died before 13th Sept. 1660. From his brother, William M. of Carribber and Randeford, was descended Sir James Stuart M., Bart., of Closeburn. He marr. Marion Broun,

who was dead 1639 (Edin. Sas., xxviii., 150). Publications-A Remonstrance to the King of Great Britain, in French (Paris, 1652); Histoire des Troubles del a Grande Bretagne depuis 1663 jusques à 1646 (Paris, 1661), translated by Captain James Ogilvie (London, 1739); also a Pasquil against Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, formerly min. of Edinburgh; and some Essays which were admired as specimens of the purity of style and facility of diction which a foreigner could attain in the French language.-[Craufurd's and Bower's Univ., i.; Edin. Reg. (Bapt.); Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xviii.; New Stat. Acc., Scot's Stagg. State; Morrison's Dec., x.; Scots Mag., lxxxiv.; Calderwood's Hist., viii.; Baillie's Lett., iii.; Riddel's Comment., Bruce's Sermons (Life); Nimmo's Stirlingsh., i.; Hill Burton's The Scot Abroad, Francisque Michel's Les Ecossais en France, Baird's Duddingston, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1633 JASPER HUME, M.A (Edinburgh, 24th July 1619); pres. by Charles I. 20th Sept. 1633; died Feb. 1635, aged about 34. Marr. Margaret, daugh. of John Livingstone, in Wester Duddingston (Edin. Sas., xxv., 207), who survived him and marr. Charles Lumsden, min. in 1640. -[Reg. Sec. Sig., cvi.]

1635 ARCHIBALD NEWTON, M.A.; pres. by Charles I. 14th Feb. 1635; trans. to Liberton 19th May 1639.

1640 CHARLES LUMSDEN (secundus), son of Charles L. (primas), bapt. 22nd March 1614; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (22nd June 1633); adm. 8th Sept. 1640; pres. by Charles I. 23rd Aug. 1641; continued in 1681, and was alive at the baptism of a grandchild, 3rd May 1686. He marr. (1) Margaret (died Sept. 1643), daugh. of John Livingstone, in Wester Duddingston (Reg. of Deeds, dxi., 249), widow of Jasper Hume, and had issue-Charles, min. of Kirknewton; Jean; Margaret; Robert: (2) Beatrix Melvill, who was buried in Greyfriars, 8th June 1696, and had issue Beatrix, bapt. 25th Nov. 1655; Margaret (marr., cont. 7th March 1673, Robert Bell, writer, Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 23rd