1595 PHILIP HISLOP, M.A., regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh; called Nov. 1593; adm. assistant 1st Jan. 1595; died 1596, aged about 29. He marr. Sarah Weir, died 1596, and had issue-Richard, apprenticed to John Little, tailor, Edinburgh, 4th Nov. 1612 (only surviving child in 1615). [Reg. Assig., Craufurd''s and Bower's Hists. of the Univ. Edin., Edin. Apprentice Reg.]

1597 ADAM COLT, born Perth 1562, youngest  son of Blaise C. of Leonardly, Provost of Perth, and Egidia Fleming; educated at Perth and St Salvator's College, St Andrews; M.A. (1583); regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1586; min. of Borthwick in 1595. He was one of a committee appointed by the Assembly to consider the Articles submitted by the King, 1596; trans. and adm. to this charge 1597, and one of the ministers proposed for Edinburgh 1598. He was opposed to the transportation in 1601 of the three city ministers who had offended the King, and His Majesty being present in the Assembly, called him “a seditious knave." With .Tames Gibson he was a Commissioner to Merse and Teviotdale. In 1606 he was a member of the conference held at London, previous to the establishment of Episcopacy. After a detention at Court of ten months, more fortunate than some of his brethren, he was allowed to return on condition of keeping within the bounds of his parish. He dem. 3rd June 1641, and died, according to his wish (it being not unusual for him in prayer to ask of God that he might die at his work of preaching), very soon after his last sermon, Friday, 24th March 1643, in his 82nd year. (The date on his tombstone-1651-is incorrect.) He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Sir James Johnston of Elphinston, and Janet, daugh. of Sir John Melville of Raith (ancestor of the Earls of Melville), and had issue Oliver, his successor; John, min. of Roberton; James; William; Robert; George born 1614; Elizabeth (marr. the Laird of Falsyde); Isobel (marr. David Merchiston min. of Ormiston); Sybil (marr. Robert Douglas); Margaret, born 25th July 1611

Geills (marr. James Robertson of Brunstane), died 7th Feb. 1645. Publication Report of the Parishes of Inveresk and Musselburgh, 1627 (Maitland Club). (Colt's papers, which were interesting and valuable, perished by fire at Dalkeith; only a few were preserved. His portrait, painted by George Jameson, is extant.).-[Reg. Assig. et Sec. Sig., Melvill's Autob., Booke of the Kirk; Calderwood's, Spottiswood's, and Row's Hists.; Livingston's Charac.; Stat. Reports, 1627; Hope's Diary, Sinclair's Stat. Acc., Need Stat. Acc., Colt Family History.]

1632 OLIVER COLT, born 31st Dec. 1597, son of preceding; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh and at Saumur in France; M.A. (14th July 1621); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 5th July 162 7; ord. and inst. (assistant) 5th Dec. 1632; a member of Assembly 1638; pres. by Charles I. 14th May, coll. 3rd, and inst. 4th .June 1641. He had a protection from Montrose 20th Aug. 1645; took shelter in Dundee when East and Mid-Lothian were overrun by the English army in 1651; died 30th Dec. 1679. He marr. 29th Jan. 1634, Catherine, daugh. of John Logan of Bonnington (of the Restalrig family), and Janet, daugh. of John Keir, Spittal, and had issue-Adam, born 22nd Jan. 1635, died in infancy,- John, born 15th Oct. 1640, M.A. 1666, died 1679; Sir Robert, Solicitor General, born 16th Nov. 1641, died Jan. 1694; James, deputy-governor of Edinburgh Castle, born 1st Jan. 1659; Harry-, Margaret, born 1636 (marr. Archibald Chisholm, min. of Newbattle), died 23rd April 1680; Jean, born 1639 (marr., cont. 31st Aug. 1664, William Menzies of Raw, W.S.); Anne, born 14th Oct. 1640 (marr. Alexander Ainslie of Blackhall); Janet, born 15th April 1643 (marr. James Hunter, min. of Dunning); Catherine, born 27th Nov. 1647.-[Reg. Sec. Sig.; Haddington Presb., Test., Edin. Guild, and Reg. (Marr.); Mem. of Montrose, Malcolm's House of Drummond; New Gen. Reg. Sasines, x.; Sinclair's Stat. Acc., New Stat. Acc., Monteith's Theater of  Mortality, Colt Family History.]