1904 WILLIAM BRUCE MUIR [afterwards of Trinity, Aberdeen].

1907 WALTER SHAW.

OLD GREYFRIARS.

[In 1598 Edinburgh was divided into four parishes, and on 18th May of that year the High or Upper Tolbooth, then situated in the west part of St Giles, was allocated as a church for the South-West Quarter of the city. In the following year the "bigging of ane new kirk in the Kirk-of-Feyld yaird" was proposed, being either to the south or east of the present University buildings. That proposal was given cap, and another made, 6th Nov. 1601, of "bigging a kirk in the Greyfriars buryingground" (formerly the garden of the Grey Friars convent), "ye maist meitt and convenient plaice." Nothing, however, was done until 1612. The church was built very slowly, and was not opened till Christmas 1620, when Patrick Galloway preached. In Nov. 1650 much of the inside work was destroyed by the English soldiery. Following a reparation about 1653, the church was soon after (1656) divided into two by a partition wall, which, however, was removed in 1663. Unfortunately the steeple was used as a magazine for holding gunpowder. On 7th May 1718 it was blown up, and part of the church carried away. Another catastrophe followed more than a hundred years later. Through the overheating of one of the flues the building took fire on the morning of Sunday, 19th Jan. 1845, and in a few hours nothing was left but the strong old rubble walls. After considerable delay it was again restored, and reopened 13th June 1857.]

1598 ROBERT ROLLOCK, born 1555, son of David R., of Kincledie and Powis, and Mariota Livingston, connected with the noble family of that name; educated at Stirling Grammar School and St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1573); regent and sole teacher at Edinburgh College, 1585-6; Principal 1587 -9;

preached every Sunday at seven A.M., in the East Kirk; took full charge of the East Kirk 1596; Moderator of General Assembly 1597; adm. 18th April 1598; died 8th Jan. 1599; a man of singular piety and integrity of life, unceasing in his labours, and vigilant in his superintendence. He marr. in 1587, Helen, daugh. of James Baron of Kinnaird, who survived him, and had a posthumous daugh., Jean, bapt. 22nd April 1599 (marr. Robt. Balcanquhal, min. of Tranent). Publications - Comment in epistol. ad Ephesios (Edinburgh, 1590); Comm. in libr. Danielis (1591); Analysis epistol. ad Rornanos (Edinburgh, 1594); Quaestiones et Responsiones aliquot de foedere Dei, et de Sacramentis (Edinburgh, 1596); Tractatus de Vocatione efficaci (Edinburgh, 1597); Comm. in epistol. ad Thessalonicenses et Analysis in epistol. ad Philemonena (Edinburgh, 1598); Comm. in selectos Psalmos (Genev., 1598); Comm. in Evangel. secund. Joannem (Genev., 1599); Certaine Sermons (Edinburgh, 1.599); Comm. in epistol. ad Colossenses (Edinburgh 1600); Comm. in epistol. ad Corinthios (Herborn, 1600); Analysis in epistol. ad Galatas (London, 1602); Tractatus brevis de Providentia Dei, et de Excommuunicationce (Genev., 1602); Comment. in prioris Epist. Petri (London, 1603); Analysis in epistol. Ad Hebraeos, et Tractatus de Justificatione (Edinburgh, 1605); Lectures upon the History of the Passion (Edinburgh, 1616); Select Works, edited by William M. Gunn, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1844-9).--[Vita Rolloci, Robert Crawford; Grant's Hist. Univ., Edin. Counc. and Guild Reg. (Bapt.), Sel. Works, Melvill's Autob.; Spottiswood's, Row's, and Calderwood's Hists; Livingston's Charac., Mackenzie's Lives; Dempster Hist., i.; Eccl. Anal. Scot., i.; Middleton's Appendix, Nimmo's Stirlingsh., Watt's Bibl. Britt., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1599 PETER HEWAT, M.A.; trans. from Second Charge; app. by the Town Council 16th Jan. 1599; removed to East or Little Kirk in 1610.-[Fdin. Counc. Reg.; Booke of the Kirk, Row's and Calderwood’s Hists; Orig. Lett., i.]