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(London, 1646); Male Audis, an Answer to Coleman's Male Dicis (London, 1646); A Treatise of Miscellany Questions (Edinburgh, 1649); Ana Useful Case of Conscience Discussed (Edinburgh, 1649); Works, with memoir by W. Dl. Hetherington, LL.D., 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1843-6); Notes of Debates and Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines; edited by David Meek (Edinburgh, 1846). -[Wodrow's Anal. and Hist., Livingston's Charac.; Mitchell and Struthers's minutes of Westminster Assembly, 1874; Mitchell's Westminster Assembly, 1884; Brodie's Diary, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

 

1649 ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A.; trans. From Tolbooth Parish; elected by the Town Council 22nd Dec. 1648, and adm. in 1649. Refusing to accept the Bishopric of Edinburgh on the establishment of Episcopacy, he was removed to the Greyfriars, or South-West Quarter, 2nd June 1662, "that the bishop might be provided."-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Lamont's and Nicoll's Diaries, Baillie's Lett.]

 

1662 ROBERT LAURIE, M.A.; trans. from Tron Parish; pres. to the Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles II. 23rd, and coll. 24th Sept. 1662; prom. to the Bishopric of Brechin in 1672 (q.v.).-[Min. book Reg. Privy Seal, Reg. Collat., Keith's Catal., Nicoll's and Brodie's Diaries, Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists.]

 

1672 JOHN PATERSON, trans. from Tron Parish; pres. to the Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles II. 13th May, and adm. before 6th Aug. 1672; adm. burgess and guild-brother 13th Nov. 1673; prom. to the Bishopric of Galloway in 1674. In 1679 he became Bishop of Edinburgh and Archbishop of Glasgow in 1687 (q.v.). -[Min. - book Reg. Privy Seal, Edin. Counc. and Guild Reg.]

 

1675 WILLIAM ANNAND, born Ayr, 1633, son of William A., min. of Ayr, afterwards vicar of Throwley, and rector of Leaveland, both in Kent; educated at King's College and Univ., Aberdeen, and University College, Oxford; M.A.

(Aberdeen 1649), B.A. (Oxford  1655), M.A. (Oxford 1656); ord. by Thomas, Bishop of Ardfert, 1656, as assistant preacher at Weston-in-the-Green, Oxfordshire; vicar of Leighton-Buzzard, Bedfordshire; chaplain to John, Earl of Middleton; min. of the Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1663; trans. to Tron, Edinburgh, 16th Aug. 1672; pres. to the Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles II. 28th April (Privy Seal, ii., 516), and coll. 19th May 1675; D.D. (St Andrews, 1st Oct. 1685); died 13th June 1689. Interred in Greyfriars. He marr. 14th Jan. 1670, Helen (buried 20th Feb. 1687), second daugh. of John Lundie of Auchtermairnie, and had issue-Barbara, buried 28th March 1687. Publications - hides Catholica (London, 1661-2); Panem Quotidianum (London, 1661); A Sermon in the Defence of the Liturgic (1661); Pater Noster, a Treatise on the Lord's Prayer (London, 1670); Mysterium Pietatis (London, 1671); Doxologia, or Glory to the Father, etc. (London, 1672); Dualitas, or a Twofold Subject on the Power and Honour, etc., of Magistracy (Edinburgh, 1674); A Funerall Elegie upon the Death of George Sonds, yr., 1665, is ascribed to A. in the British Museum Catalogue.-[Reg. Privy Seal, Monro's Apology; Wood's Ath. Oxon., iv.; Lamont's Diary, Grub's Ecclesiastical Hist. of Scotland, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

 

1689 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, son of John H. of Bangour; M.A. (Glasgow 1649); studied both medicine and divinity; ord. to Dalmeny 2nd July 1656; dep. 1662; removed to Dalserf by order of the Privy Council 1677; called (after the Toleration) 6th Sept. 1687; appointment confirmed by the Town Council 24th July 1689; he removed to his former parish (Dalmeny) in terms of the Act of Parliament 25th April 1690, but returned same year, and died Dec. 1696, aged about 70. He bequeathed 2100 to the poor of Dalmeny. He was the means of preventing the Duke of Hamilton, during a sitting of the Convention of Estates, from bringing in a measure which would have included many of the Episcopalian clergy under the benefit of the Act for restoring the Presbyterian ministers- He marr. (1) Anna Scott, who

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