Wodrow's MS. Biog., ii.; Irving's Lives of Scottish Writers, Memoirs by Bishop Sydserf Macmillan's Aberdeen Doctors.]

1626 JOHN MAXWELL, M.A.; trans. from Second Charge; trans. to the Bishopric of Ross 26th April 1630 (q.v.). - [Edin. Counc. Reg., Row's and Calderwood's Hists.]

1634 DAVID MITCHELL [MITCHELSON], M.A.; trans. from Second Charge in 1634; dep. 3rd Dec. 1638, for his teaching of Arminianism and declining the authority of the General Assembly. He survived the Restoration, and on account of his sufferings, had £200 allowed by Parliament from vacant stipends, 21st June 1661. He became Bishop of Aberdeen 1662 (q.v.). [Edin. Counc. Reg.; Acts of Ass., 1638, Peterkin's Rec., Kirkton's Hist.; Acts Parl., vii.]

1641 ANDREW RAMSAY, born 1574, son of Sir David R. of Balmain, Fetter cairn, and Catherine, daugh. of Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird; M.A. (Marischal College and Univ. of Aberdeen); prosecuted his theological studies in France, and occupied a professorial chair in the Univ. of Saumur. In 1606 he became min. of Arbuthnott. In 1613 the Town Council obtained authority from the Archbishop of St Andrews, directing him to proceed to Edinburgh to stand “trials" as one of the city ministers; and he was appointed on the 28th April of the following year to the pulpit of the South-West congregation. He continued his ministrations there until Dec. 1620, when the new church at the Greyfriars was taken over by the South-West congregation. He was a member of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1615 and 15th June 1619; signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest; was proposed for the Principalship of Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1620, but trans. was refused. From 1620 to 1625 he was Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh. At a division of the city into four parishes, 25th Nov. 1625, the South-West Quarter was once more relegated to the

Greyfriars, with R. as minister. He seems to have  been readm. there on 31st Jan. 1626; trans. and adm. to this charge 24th Dec. 1641; had a protection from the Marquess of Montrose, after the battle of Kilsyth in 1645; was Rector of the Univ. 1646 and 1647; dep. 27th July 1648, for favouring the Duke of Hamilton's Engagement with Charles I., a sentence which was recalled 8th Nov. 1655. He retired to Abbotshall, where he died, 30th Dec. 1659. Bishop Guthrie describes him as “a guid, modest, learned, godlie man, full of pietie and learning; an ornament to the Church of Scotland." He marr. (cont. 18th Dec. 1605) Marie, daugh. of Sir Alexander Fraser of Durris (G. R. Sas., xviii., 337), and had issue-Robert of Woodston, min of Ecclesgreig (G. R. Sas., li., 65); Sir Andrew of Abbotsball, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1654, and Senator of the College of Justice, 1671, died 27th Jan. 1688; Eleazer, bapt. 4th Dec. 1614; David, bapt. 20th July 1625, died July 1660; William, a preacher, who was presented to Pencaitland 16th Aug. 1641, but gave way to Calderwood, the ecclesiastical historian, and subsequently was proprietor of Woodston. PublicationsOratio (1600); Parcenesin et Orationes de Laudibus Academice Salmuriensis; Poemata Sacra et Miscellanea et Epigrammata Sacra (Edinburgh, 1633) [Del. Poet. Scot. II.]; A Warning to Come Out of Babell, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1638); A Treatise (1646).-[Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, Counc. Reg., and Reg. (Bapt.); Reg. Sec. Sig.; Mem. of Montrose, ii.; Peterkin's Rec.; N icoll's and Lamont's Diaries, Row's and Stevenson's Hists.; Edin. Chr. Inst., vii.; Baillie's Lett.; Acts Parl., vi.; Guthrie's Mem.; Grant's Univ., i.; Wodrow's Anal., iii.; Cameron's Hist. of Fettercairn.]

1649 THOMAS GARVINE [GARVEN, GAVINE], M.A. (Glasgow 1624); min. of Colinton 1639; trans. and adm. 28th Dec. 1649. He declined the authority of the Sheriff, 22nd Aug. 1655, in not praying for His Majesty. Deprived 1st Oct. 1662, for not submitting to Episcopacy; died 1669, buried 25th Feb., aged about 65. He marr. Catherine