University of Edinburgh. He may be said to have been its principal promoter, and its best and wisest friend during the first year of its history, 1583. He marr. Janet (died 1592), daugh. of Alexander Guthrie, common clerk of Edinburgh, and had issue-James; Elizabeth; Katharine (marr. (1) Gilbert Dick; (2) Patrick Galloway, min. of St Giles, 1607). Publications -Heads and Conclusions of the Policie of the Kirk [jointly]; Letters to their Flocke in Edinburgh [jointly] (Calderwood's Hist., iv.); Account of the Life and Death of that Illustrious Man, John Knox (Knox's Works, vi.; Christ. Mag., vi.).-[Edi-n. Counc. and Test. Reg., Reg. Assig., Petrie's and Calderwood's Hists., Wodrow's Biog.; Grant's Univ. of Edin., i.; New Spalding Club Collections, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1587 ROBERT BRUCE, recommended by Andrew Melville to the General Assembly, and called 1587. On the division of the city into parishes, he was translated to the New or Little Kirk in 1598.-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Sermons (Wodrow's Life), Reg. Assig., Petrie's and Calderwood's Hists.; Scots May., lxiv.; Maclaren's Ann. Tax; Acts Parl., iii., iv.]

THE COLLEAGUES, or those to whom no parochial district had been allowed, or has been discovered:

1562 JOHN CRAIG, trans. from Holyrood house; adm. after 18th June 1562. He proclaimed, or rather denounced, the marriage of Queen Mary and the Earl of Bothwell in May 1567; was Moderator of the General Assembly, 2nd March 1569; trans. to Montrose in 1571.-[Edin. Coun. Reg.; M'Crie's Knox, ii.; Spottiswood's, Petrie's, Row's, and Calderwood's Hists.; Edin. Chr. Imt., iii.; Lee's Lett., Maclaren's Ann. Tax.]

1573 JOHN DURIE, trans. from Leith; adm. before 6th Aug. 1573. In 1580 he was Visitor or Superintendent of Teviotdale. With his colleagues, Lawson and Balcanquhal, he attended the Earl of Morton at his execution, 1581. He became conspicuous in the conflicts between the

King and the Church, and for inveighing against the Court on a Fast Day, 23rd May 1582, he was called before the Privy Council and ordered to quit Edinburgh and desist from preaching. By and by he was permitted to return, when he was met and welcomed by a great concourse of people, 4th Sept. 1582. " At the Nether Bow they took up the 124th Psalm, `Now Israel may say, and that truly,' and sang it in such a pleasant tune, in all the four parts, these being well known to the people, who came up the street bareheaded and singing, till they entered the kirk. This had such a sound and majesty as affected themselves and the huge multitude of beholders who looked over the shots and forestairs with admiration and amazement. The Duke [Lennox] himself was a witness, and tare his beard for anger, being more affrayed at this sight than anything he had ever seen since he came to Scotland. When they entered the kirk Mr Lawson made a short exhortation in the reader's place to thankfulness, and after the singing of a psalm the people departed with great joy" (Calderwood's History, iii.). In Nov. 1583 he was again charged to leave the city, and was confined to Montrose, of which parish he became minister the year following.-[Reg. Assig., Melvill's Autob., Wodrow, Miscell.; Wodrow's Biog. (i.) and MS. Biog. (i.); Petrie's, Spottiswood's, and Row's Hists.; Edin. Counc. Reg.; Edin. Chr. Inst., v.

1574  WALTER BALCANQUHAL, adm. Whitsunday 1574; dem. May 1596, so as to allow a parochial division of the city which had been proposed for some time; adm. to Trinity Parish for the North-East Quarter of the city, 1598.[Reg. Assig., Edin. Counc. Reg., Melvill's Autob.; Petrie's, Spottiswood ;s, Row's, and Calderwood's Hists., i., ii.]

1578 JOHN CAIRNS, probably son of Henry  C., skipper in Leith (who was forced to leave the country, being denounced as a fugitive and condemned for heresy in 1538), was one of those who privily held meetings in maintenance of the Protestant faith in the city in 1555, and was "lectour of the morning prayers," or reader, in 1561.