Application was made to the Assembly; 26th June 1566, for his admission to the ministry in the city, and the matter was remitted for consideration as to his fitness and sufficiency. He is mentioned as fourth minister, 23rd Jan. 1578; though in the Book of Assignation he appears as reader only, ten years afterwards, 1588. He died in 1595, leaving a widow, Janet Wilson.[Knox's Works, ii.; M'Crie's Knox, ii.; Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig.; Wodrow's Biog., i.; Wodrow Miscell., Booke of the Kirk; Keith's, Spottiswood's, and Calderwood's Mists.; Bannatyne Miscell., ii.; Lee's Lett., Maclaren's Ann. Tax.]

1584 JOHN EDMESTOUN [EDMONSTON], formerly of Crail; adm. 1584; trans. to Dunning in 1586. (Edin. Counc. Reg.]

1585 JAMES HAMILTON, min. of Dalry, in Galloway; elected 27th Nov. 158.1, and “admitted for a time at His Majesty's command," 16th April 1585. He returned to his former charge in same year. - [Edin. Counc. Reg.]

1585 WILLIAM WATSON, entreated by the Council to remain and teach "fifteen days," 5th March 1584; adm. 13th April 1585. He was imprisoned for a time in the end of that year, for comparing James VI. to Jeroboam. After the tumult, 17th Dec. 1596, for which he and his brethren were blamed, he withdrew to Fife, made an apology, and was restored to civil liberty, 22nd April 1597. He returned and re-entered on duty 24th July following. On the division of the city, he was admitted to the South or Old Kirk Quarter.-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig., Melvill's Autob., Row's and Calderwood's Hists.]

1586 JOHN COWPER supplied the vacancy for a time, and was elected by the Town Council 23rd Nov. 1586. Refusing to pray for Queen Mary, then under sentence of death, he was ordered by the King to leave the pulpit, that his place might be supplied by Patrick, Archbishop of St Andrews, and was imprisoned in the Castle of Blackness, on which the city gave him £40 Scots in consideration of

the expense to which he had been subjected; trans. to High Church, Glasgow, Feb. 1587.-[Test. and Edin. Counc. Reg.; Books of the Kirk, Melvill's Autob.; Spottiswood's, Petrie's, Row's, Calderwood's, and Cook's Hists.; Reg. Assig.; Wodrow MS.]

1589 JOHN DAVIDSON, formerly of Liberton; ordered to continue" till he be provided as the Kirk and Council crave"; chosen 3rd June 1589; trans. to Second Charge, Canongate.-[Books of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.]

1589 JAMES BALFOUR, trans. from Idvies 8th Oct. 1589. After the tumult in the city, 17th Dec. 1591, he was apprehended, but escaped to Fife by the assistance of the citizens, was put to the horn, made an apology, was relaxed there-from 22nd April 1597, and returned to his charge 24th July 1597. On the division of the city he was admitted to the North-West Quarter, in the East or Little Kirk, in 1598.-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Melvill's Autob., Calderwood's Hist.; Acts Parl., iv.]

1607  PATRICK GALLOWAY, born about 1551, son of Thomas G., Baxter, burgess of Dundee, and Christian Nicoll; was min. of Fowlis Easter in 1576; trans. to Perth 25th April 1581; suspected of attachment to Gowrie interest, he had to take refuge in England, and failing to appear before the Council, was outlawed 6th June 1584. He became min. of the King's House 11th Feb. 1589-90, and was Moderator of Assembly 4th Aug. 1590 and 10th Nov. 1602; chaplain to James VI., and attended His Majesty at the Hampton Court Conference, 1604, acting as intermediary between the Presb. of Edinburgh and the King; adm. end of June 1607; member of the Courts of High Commission, 15th Feb. 1610, 21st Dec. 1615, and l5th June 1619. He signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest, the most obnoxious of the measures by which James sought to override the Assembly having been withdrawn. On the division of the city in 1625, he was nominated to St Giles, and his admission appointed for