of David Seton in Tranent (Reg. of Deeds, cccxcvi., 79), and had issue-Gustavus, whose descendants were in America.[Edin. Reg. Sasines, Reg. Sec. Sig.; Acts Parl., vii.]

1646 ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1627); schoolmaster of Musselburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 27th Oct. 1631; min. of Bara 1643; trans. and adm. 23rd Sept. 1646; pres. by Charles I. 30th Oct. following; died 1658, aged about 51. He marr. Helen Mawer, who survived him, and had issue - Helen (marr. William Ogilvie, merchant, Edinburgh) (Privy Seal Reg. Eng., ii., 214). She was alive and had many children, 1697 (ibid.).-[Reg. Sec. Sig. and Old Dec., i.]

1659 PATRICK SCOUGAL, M.A.; trans. from Leuchars, and adm. 29th Jan.  1695; he was one of the Commissioners appointed by Parliament, 28th May 1661, for trying the witches in Samuelston; pres. by Charles II. 4th Oct. 1662; promoted to the Bishopric of Aberdeen in 1664 (q.v.).-[Reg. Sec. Sig., Lamont's Diary; Acts Parl., vii.]

1665  GILBERT BURNET, born Edinburgh, 18th Sept. 1643, eleventh and youngest son of Robert B., of Crimond, Senator of the College of Justice (Lord Crimond), and Rachel Johnston, sister of Lord Warriston; educated at home; entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1652; took the degree of M.A. in 1657; for one year he studied law, then betook himself to divinity. While a student at Oxford he was offered the living of Banchory-Ternan by his cousin, Sir Alexander Burnet of Leys, but refused on account of his youth ; licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 6th Oct. 1664; pres. by Charles II. 13th Oct. 1664 (Reg. Sec. Sig., i., 322); ord. and coll. 16th Feb., inst. and adm. 29th June 1665; clerk of the Presb. 9th May 1667. He asked the Presb. to examine the Library left to the ministers of Saltoun by Norman Leslie, min. of Gordon, which had been catalogued by his predecessor and Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun ; trans. and

adm. Professor of Divinity in Univ. of Glasgow 2nd Dec. 1669; res. 10th Sept. 1674; app. preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London, and Lecturer at St Clement Danes; D.D. (Oxon. 1680); deprived in 1684; he went to reside on the Continent, and returned to England in 1688 as chaplain to William of Orange. In 1689 he was appointed Bishop of Salisbury. He died 17th March 1715. Communion cups presented by him to Saltoun are still in use. The minister's library, schoolmaster's salary, the poor of the parish, and the children of the public school are still benefited by his bequest (about £1100), "as an expression of gratitude to that parish which had the first fruits of my labour and among whose people I had all possible kindness and encouragement." He marr. (1) 1671, Lady Margaret Kennedy (died May 1685), daugh. of John, sixth Earl of Cassilis: (2) at the Hague (prob. 25th May 1687), Mary Scott (died of smallpox, 8th June 1698), originally of Scottish extraction, but of a family long settled in Holland, and had issue William, Governor of New York, born March 1688, died 7th Sept. 1729; Gilbert, rector of East Barnet, prebendary of Salisbury, born 1690, died 17th June 1726; Sir Thomas, Judge of Common Pleas, born 1694, died 8th Jan. 1753; Mary, born 1692 (marr. 1712, David Mitchell, nephew of Admiral Mitchell); Elizabeth (a twin), born 1692 (marr. April 1714, Richard West, Lord Chancellor of Ireland): (3) June 1700, Elizabeth (died 3rd Feb. 1708), daugh. of Sir Richard Blake, Kt., and widow of Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, Worcestershire, and had issue-two children who died infants (Ballard, British Ladies, p. 403, note). Publications-A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland (1673); The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of .lames and William, Dukes of Hamilton (1677); The History of the Reformation of the Church of England (vol. i., 1679; vol. ii., 1681; vol. iii., 1714), vide Pocock's edition, Clarendon Press (1865); Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1680); Life and Death, of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. (1682);