Monzievaird, New Monkland, Bluevale; ord. 4th March 1902.  Marr. 6th June 1906, Helen Vida Dunsmuir, daugh. of David Hamilton and Martha Dunachie, Port-Glasgow.

DALKEITH.

[Founded in 1406 as a collegiate church, dedicated to St Nicholas, and a prebend of the Deanery of Restalrig.  On the dissolution of the Deanery a parish was erected by Parliament, 5th June 1592.]

1565 ROBERT WILSON, app. by the Assembly of 1562 to minister "in such kirk as shall be thought good "; adm. probably in 1565; trans. to Newbattle about 1573.—[Booke of the Kirk; Zurich Lett., ii.; Reg. Min.; New Stat. Acc., i.]

1573 THOMAS DOUGLAS of Clapperton,  son of Robert D. of Pumpherston, min. of Strathbrock, now Uphall, 1570; adm. here 1573; pres. to the Deanery of Restalrig by James VI. 10th Nov., with consent of the prebendaries and chapter; in 1575 he had also charge of Lasswade and Glencorse; died in June 1575. He marr. Marion Hamilton, who survived him, and had issue—James, his heir.—[Reg. Assig., Colleg. Ch. of Mid-Lothian, Test. Reg., Wodrow Miscell.]

1575 GEORGE   RAMSAY, trans.  from Foulden; nominated by James VI., 29th Oct. 1575, to the Deanery of Restalrig; trans. to Lasswade before 1582.—[Reg. Assig. and Min; New Stat. Acc.]

1576 ANDREW ROBESON, reader.

1582 ANDREW SIMSON, the first of a line of famous mins. of that name, appears as a student of St Salvator's College, St Andrews, in 1554, and of St Leonard's in 1559. He was master of the Grammar School of Perth (probably his native place) between 1550 and 1560. He embraced the doctrines of the Reformation through reading

Sir David Lindsay's Book of the Monarchic, descriptive of the rise and progress of popery. In 1562 he was min. at Dunning and Cargill; was trans. to Dunbar 28th June 1564 (where he also acted as schoolmaster); and adm. to this charge about October 1582. He declined the terms of the Act of Uniformity passed in 1584, by which all who signed bound themselves to acknowledge the spiritual jurisdiction of the crown, but afterwards he was allowed to comply in a milder formula of his own (Priv. Counc. Reg., 1578-85, 703) On 15th Dec. 1585 he was (being a distinguished Latinist and grammarian) appointed one of a committee to consider the best method of teaching Latin in the Scottish schools. Some years later the Privy Council directed that his Rudimenta (along with James Carmichael's Liber Secundus) should take the place of all other books on the subject.  He died "in a good old age, "probably in 1590. He marr. Violet Adamson, daugh. of a Perth, baker, and sister of Patrick Adamson (or Constant), Archbishop of St Andrews, and had seven sons, six of whom became mins.—Patrick (of Spott and Stirling); Archibald, his successor; Alexander (of Mertoun); Richard (of Sprouston); William (of Burntisland and Dumbarton); Abraham (of Norham); Matthew, Professor of Humanity, Glas­gow; and three daughs. (of whom Katherine marr. Alexander Home, min. of Dunbar; Violet marr. James Carmichael, min. of Haddington).   Publications — Rudimenta Grammatices in gratiam juventutis Scoticce conscripta (Edinburgh, 1587), better known as the Dunbar Rudiments; Ad Comitem Fermolodunensem Carmen (1610), though probably by Archibald, his son).—[Reg. Assig., Excheq. Buik, Booke of the Kirk, Colleg. Ch. of Mid-Lothian, Row's and Calderwood's Hists.; Edin. Chr. Inst., i., New Stat. Acc., M'Crie's Knox, Dict. Nat. Biog., The Simsons.]

1586 ARCHIBALD SIMSON, born 1564, son of Preceding; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1585); assistant to his father 1586; clerk to the Presb. 10th