Oct. 1588; ord. 3rd June 1591. In 1605 he reached Aberdeen too late to take part in the Assembly, which met in defiance of the royal prohibition, but affirmed his adhesion to all its Acts. He was summoned before the Privy Council, and dismissed on promising more moderate behavior in future. On 27th June 1C 17 he signed, in name of fifty-four others, a protest against a proposed Act of Parliament which sought to make the King supreme ruler of the Church. The bill was withdrawn, but Simson was summoned before the Court of High Commission, deprived of his charge, and confined to the town of Aberdeen.   On acknowledging his offence he was allowed to return home. He was ordered to "re-compear" before the same Court, 7th June 1620, but escaped this through the intercession of William, Earl of Morton. He died in Dec. 1628.   He marr. (1) Katherine Crichton (Edin. Reg., 1st Feb. 1604), who died before 10th Feb. 1607, and had issue — Christian; Elizabeth; Jean: (2) before 26th Sept. 1607, Elizabeth Stewart, who survived him. Publications— Christ's Seven Words upon the Cross (1620);Hepta-meron, the Seven Days (St Andrews, 1621); Samson's Seaven Lockes of Haire (St Andrews, 1621); Hieroglyphica Animalium  Terrestrium, etc.  (Edinburgh, 1622-4); A Sacred Septenarie (1623); In-duas Epistolas Petri (1632); Philomela Dalkeithiensis, a congratulatory poem in praise, of His Majesty [James VI.] (in The Muses' Welcome, Edinburgh, 1618); Letter to the High Commission, and an Apologetik (Orig. Lett; ii.); A Sermon on John v. 35 (Select Biog; i.); Life of Patrick Simson, ed. W. K. Tweedie, for the Wodrow Society, Edinburgh, 1845. Other works left in MSS., include Annales Ecclesioe Scoticance and   Historia  Ecclesiastica Scotorum, now in the Advocates' Library (1558-1625).— [Act. Sect. Univ. St And.; Wodrow's MS. Biog., iv.; Edin. Presb. and Test. -Reg., Reg. Sec. Sig. and Assig., Lochleven Pap., Booke of the Kirk; Spottiswood's, Row's, and Calderwood's Hists.; Scot's Stagg. State, Forbes’s

Records, Scot's Apol. Rel.; M’Crie’s Melville, ii.; Orig. Lett., New Stat. Acc., Colleg. Ch. of Midlothian; Acts Parl., iii.; Dict. Nat. Biog., The Simsons.]

1629 PATRICK TURNER, born 1575, son of Patrick T., who was son of Peter T., merchant, Edinburgh; M.A. (Edinburgh, 10th Aug. 1595); min. of Borthwick 1604; pres. by Charles I. 19th Oct. 1628; trans. and adm. 2nd March 1629; died Aug. 1634.  He marr. (1) Marjory Denniston, and had issue—John: (2) Jan. 1612, Margaret, daugh. of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow, who survived him, and had issue—Sir James, Scottish soldier of fortune, who served in the Swedish army, and afterwards in that of the Covenanters in England, and after the Restoration commanded troops employed against the Nonconformists in the South of Scotland (reputed prototype of Scott's " Dugald Dalgetty "); Archibald, min. of the Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh; Jean; Mar­garet; Anna (marr., pro. 1st July 1635, Robert Inglis, merchant, Edinburgh); Mary; Lilias (marr. May 1638, Mungo Law, min. of Greyfriars, Edinburgh). Publication—Three Latin Poems (Simson's Hieroglyphica). — [Reg. Sec. Sig., Test. and Canongate Reg. {Marr.), Turner's Mem., New Stat. Acc., Crockett's The Scott Originals.]

1635 HEW CAMPBELL, brother of John C. of Schankstoun; M.A. (Glasgow 1619); pres. by Charles I. 25th Sept. 1634; ord. 20th Jan., and inst. 5th Feb. 1635. He was a member of the Commissions of Assembly 1643, 1644, 1649. In Nov. and Dec. 1650, the Cromwellians were quartered in the church.  He was dep. 13th Jan. 1659; died in April 1674, aged about 74.  He marr. (cont. 20th Aug. 1633) Margaret, daugh. of George Smith, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (Prot. Book, Guthrie), and had issue—Elizabeth (marr. William Henry, apothecary and burgess in Edinburgh). — [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Reg. Sec. Sig., Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bur.), Acts of Ass., Lament's Diary, New Stat. Acc.}