1614 ANDREW RAMSAY, KA.; adm. 28th April 1614; trans. to the Old Kirk Parish, probably about 1640-1.[Edin. Counc. Reg.; Row's, Stevenson's, and Calderwood's Hists. (vii.); Maitland Miscell., ii.; Reg. Sec. Sig., ci.]

1642 GEORGE GILLESPIE, M.A.; trans. from Wemyss; elected and pres. by the Town Council 12th Oct. 1641; adm. 23rd Sept. 1642; trans. to the High Kirk Parish after Sept. 1647.-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Murray's Life of Rutherford.]

1648 [WILLIAM RAIT, min. at Brechin, was nominated 22iid March 1648, his presentation being “imbraced with ane hearty thanksgiving," but he did not accept.]

1649 ROBERT TRAIL, born 1603, son of  Colonel James T., of Killcleary, Ireland, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry, Prince of Wales, and grandson of the Laird of Blebo, and Matilda Melvill of Carnbee; M.A. (St Andrews, 21st July 1621); studied at the Protestant College of Saumur; English tutor in France to the sister of the Duc de Rohan 1628; chaplain to Archibald, Marquess of Argyll (beheaded 1661); ord. to Elie 17th July 1639; chaplain to the Scots army at Marston Moor 1644; elected by the Town Council 7th Nov. 1618; trans. and adm. 23rd March 1649. In 1650 he attended the Marquess of Montrose on the scaffold. He preached before Charles II. at his coronation at Scone in 1651. In 1654 he was appointed by Cromwell one of those for certifying the ability and piety of such as were fit to be admitted to the ministry in the Lothian and Border provinces. With several others he was committed to Edinburgh Castle, 23rd Aug. 1660, for engaging in a new Remonstrance, where he lay for ten months, when, having fallen sick, he was temporarily permitted to return home. He was next charged with high treason before the Privy Council, when he obliged himself, 11th Dec. 1662,

to remove from the kingdom within a month, under pain of death. Owing to tempestuous weather lie experienced difficulty in finding a ship in which to sail to Holland, and the Privy Council granted him a month's further grace in which to take his departure. In a petition he states that he " is towards the age of sixty years, if not more, and so cannot weill take such a journey in such a season without evident hazard of his life" (Reg. P. C.). For some years he carried on a weekly correspondence with his friend Guthrie of Fenwick. Returning to Edinburgh, he died 12th July 1678, and was buried in Greyfriars. A portrait of him is preserved in Smith's Iconographia Scot and Pinkerton's Scottish Gallery. He marr. 23rd Dec. 1639, Jean (died Dec. 1680), daugh. of Alexander Annand of Auchterallan, Aberdeenshire, and Margaret Cheyne  (who suffered imprisonment, June 1665, for corresponding with her husband in his exile), and had issue-William, min. of Borthwick; Robert, min. in London, and Bass Rock prisoner, born 1642, died 16th May 1716; James, Lieut. of Stirling Castle, bapt. 10th March 1650, died 1721; Helen (marr. Thomas Paterson, min. of Borthwick); Agnes, born 1616, died 1690 (marr. Sir James Steuart of Goodtrees, Lord Advocate); Margaret, born 1648, died 1717 (marr. James Scott of Bristo, writer in Edinburgh). Publication -A Letter from a Father to his Children, -[Elie Sess., Edin. Counc., Gen. Sess., Guild, and Reg. (Bapt. and Bur.) ; Acts Parl., vii.; Lamont's and Nicoll's Diaries; Rutherford's and Baillie's Lett. iii.; Peterkin's Rec.; Wodrow's Hist., i., ii., and Anal. iv.; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxiii.; Chambers's Ann., ii.; Wilson's Diss. Churches, i.; Mun. Univ. Glasg., ii.; Steven's Scott. Ch., Rotterd.; Murray's Life of Rutherford, Lockerby's Life of J. Brown,, Lord Guthrie's Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, Bryce's ON Greyfriars (portrait).]

1662  ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A.; trans. from the East (St Giles) Church, to make provision for the new Bishop of Edinburgh, 2nd June 1662, but deprived