Moderator of Presb. 1606; died 8th Dec. 1629. He marr. (1) Margaret Preston (died before 10th Feb. 1607), widow of Alexander Robertson, younger of Dalcapen (Reg. of Deeds, xxiv., 33), and had issue-Nicol: .John; Margaret (marr., cont. 11th Jan. 1609, Duncan Forrester, brother of Sir .James F. of Garden): (2) Margaret Murray, who survived him, and had issue -William; Helen (marr. William Rodger, younger, of Heringdean).-[Priv. Counc: and Test. Reg., Reg. Assig.; Acts Part., iii.; Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist., Colleg. Ch. of Mid-Lothian; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, iii.]

1616 JAMES PORTEOUS, M.A. (St Andrews 1598); ord. min. of Soutra 1609; trans. and adm. (assistant) 8th Aug. 1616; pres. by James VI. 20th June, and inst. 3rd July 1617; adhered to the Protestation in behalf of the Liberties of the Kirk same year. He was summoned before the High Commission 23rd June 1620 for not observing the Articles of the Perth Assembly; pres. to Melville by His Majesty 8th Aug. 1620; inst. in Feb. 1621; was a member of Assembly 1638; died end of 1643, aged about 65. He inarr. Christian Simson, who survived him, and had issue- Archibald, min. of Covington; Patrick; Rachel; Margaret. (Andrew Watson and Archibald Beg were readers under Porteous in 1622 and 1623.)-[Test. and Sess. Reg., Reg. Assig. et Sec. Sig., Livingston's Charac.; Orig. Lett., ii.; Mem. of Elginton , ii.]

1644 JAMES FAIRLIE, M.A., regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh; min. of South Leith 1625; Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1629; min. of Greyfriars 1630; Bishop of Argyll 1637; after being disappointed in his suit for Largo and other parishes, he was recommended by the Commission of Assembly to the heritors and parishioners to be their minister. They accepted him "verie willinglie," 3rd March 1644; Pres. by Charles I. 16th Nov., and adm. 26th Dec. 1644; coll. 6th March 1645; died between 7th and 21st Feb. 1658, aged about 70. He marr, (1) Agnes Rankin,

daugh. of a burgess in Edinburgh, and had issue-Janet, bapt. 30th Jan. 1623; Margaret, bapt. 21st .Jan. 1625; Mary; Barbara; Robert: (2) 18th Nov. 164,, Bessie Nicoll (died March 1658), widow of Robert Carnegie, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue-James, who became executor. An interesting question was raised by the heritors against the executor, who had obtained decreet for the whole stipend of 1658 as ann, such being the former practice. The Lords found, 5th July 1662, "that the ann being a half-year's stipend more than the min. served for, he has only the right to the Michaelmas, proprio jure, and half a year thereafter as the ann." Publication -Two Poems in The Muses' Welcome. -[Test. and Edin,. Reg. (Bapt.); Reg. See. Sig., and Old Dec., iv.; Baillie's Lett., Morrison's Digest.]

1659 JAMES CUNNINGHAM, M.A. (St Andrews 1648); called 13th March, and ord. 22nd June 1659. Deprived by the Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662.-[Reg. Sec. Sig., Wodrow's Hist., Act. Rect. Univ. St And.]

1663 JAMES LOGAN, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1616); min. of Smailholm in 1629; pres. by Charles II. 4th May, and coll. 9th Oct. 1663; buried in Greyfriars 13th Jan. 1670, aged about 74. He marr. 21st April 1630, Margaret Maxwell, Edinburgh, and had issue-John, a min. in Ireland; Margaret (marr. John Alexander).-[Reg. Sec. Sig. and Collat.; Test., Edin. (Beer.), and Canongate Reg. (Marr.).]

1670 JOHN MAKMATH, M.A. (Edinburgh, 31st .July 1662); min. of Ratho 1663; trans. and coll. 18th Jan. 1670. He was on several occasions violently assaulted both in his house and on the highway, and was compelled to petition the Committee of Estates, who, 1st May 1689, ordered the heritors to secure him in the peaceable exercise of his ministry, and in the possession of his house and goods. About Nov,