Prestonkirk p.415
|
charged by the Privy Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him within
twenty-four hours after notice, under pain of rebellion. He was a
member of the Court of High Commission 21st Dec. 1615, and died 28th
Aug. 1618, aged about 51. He marr. Agnes Ramsay, who survived him
(Reg. of Deeds, ccclxi., 12th June 1623), and had issue Marion (marr.
24th May 1617, Christopher Knowes, burgess of Dunbar, min. of Coldingham);
William, entered 26th May 1617 apprentice to John Fullerton; Robert,
apprentice to John Bisset, merchant, 17th June 1629; a daugh. marr.
16th Oct. 1625, William Carnegie, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh;
Margaret (marr., cont. 19th and 21st April 1632 (-Reg. of Deeds, cccclxxviii.,
377) James Craw, jr., of Whitfield). -- [Reg. Assig.; Haddingt. Presb.,
Priv. Counc., and Test. Reg.; Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.] 1619 JOHN DALZELL, a descendant of John D. of
Knownoble, in the parish
of Shotts, Lanarkshire; a cadet of the Dalziels of that ilk; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 28th July 1610); on the exercise at Haddington 8th June
1614; schoolmaster at Prestonpans; pres. 1619; a member of Assembly
1638, and of several others; died between 21st July 1669 and 25th
Aug. 1669. He marr. (1)18th Feb. 1617, Elizabeth (died Oct. 1656),
daugh. of James Young, min. of Tynninghame, and had issue--William;
Robert of Knownoble; Andrew
(apprenticed, 31st Jan. 1655, to John Foulis, apothecary, Edinburgh),
apothecary in Wallingford, Berkshire; Thomas; a daugh., who marr.
David Laing, called brother-in -law by William, eldest son, 1664 (G.
R. Sas., x., 179); two sons were drowned in the Tyne, close to the
mansegate: (2) Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Melvill of Garvock, widow
of, Thomas Maitland, min. of Garvald (Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 8th Feb.
1666). John Dalzell, according to Acts and Decreets, cccli., 190,
obtained presentation to the parsonage and vicarage from Walter, Earl
of Buccleuch, on promise to pay 1000 merks to John Clerk, M.A., who
had the Earl's promise of the benefice.-[Haddingt. Presb., Prestonp).,
Innerw. and Tynningh. Sess., Test. |
(Edin. and Haddingt.), and
New Gen. Reg. Sasines, iii., x.; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.; Acts of
Ass., Baillie's Lett., Stevensons Hist.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 355.] 1670 JOHN DARNGAVEL,
M.A. (Edinburgh 1655); min. of Southdean in 1667; trans. and coll.
24th March 1670; he was accused, 1st April following, by Isabel Cruickshanks
(before the kirksession of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh), of immorality,
and was probably dep.-[Edin. N. E. Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.] 1671 GEORGE SHIELS
[SHIELL], M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1663) ; min. of Durisdeer in
1669; trans. and Coll . 22nd June 1671. For preaching against popery
in the Abbey Church of Holyrood, 11th April 1686, "declaring
the Pope was as little infallible as the Bishop of the Isles, etc.,"
he was sharply reproved at the Synod two days afterwards; deprived
by the Privy Council, 29th Aug. 1689, for not
reading the Proclamation of the Estates, nor praying for William
and Mary, but for James vii-[Rea. Collat., Tynningh. Sess.
Reg., Fountainhall's Diary ; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.] 1679 GILBERT RULE, M.D.; indulged by the Privy
Council; took charge of a meeting-house at Linton Bridge, East Linton, for a
time. He became min .of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh.-[Wodrow’s Hist., Calamy's
Account, Grant's Hist. Univ. Edin., Crichton's Life of Blackadder.] 1690 JOHN HARVIE, was a min. at the first meeting
of Presbyterians in the Synod after the Toleration, 6th July 1687;
min. in 1690; died 12th Aug. 1691, leaving John, his heir.-[S. Leith
Sess. Reg ; 1692 JOHN FORREST, M.A. (Glasgow 1654); ord. to
Tulliallan 1660; deprived 1662. He held conventicles, for which Bishop
Leighton refused to prosecute him; was indulged at Carmichael 1676;
returned to Tulliallan in 1690; trans. to Falkland 1691; trans. |
