EDINBURGH] BUCCLEUCH—CANONGATE 23
trans, and adm. 8th March 1882 ; died 22nd
Jan. 1901. He marr. Margaret Johnston
(died 26th Dec. 1901), daugh. of James
Caie, Inspector of Post Offices, Chatham,
New Brunswick, and had issue—Ian Went-
worth, Wairoa, New Zealand, born 31st
Dec. 1876.
DAVID ANDREW ROLLO, M.A.,
1901 B.D. ; trans, from Avendale 17th
May 1901 ; trans, to Springburn,
Glasgow, 24th Sept. 1907.
JAMES EDWARD HOUSTON, M.A.,
1908 ®*^' ' trans, from Cambuslang, and
adm. 15th Jan. 1908 ; trans, to Shaw-
lands, Glasgow, 19th Feb. 1913.
NEIL MACLEOD ROSS, born Glen-
lgl3 dale, Skye, 24th Sept. 1873, son of
Kenneth R. and Margaret Macleod ;
educated at Glasgow High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1904), B.D.
(1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1904 ;
assistant at Holburn, Aberdeen, and St
Andrew's, Edinburgh ; ord. to St James's,
Kirkcaldy, 13th March 1907 ; trans, to
Rosemount 10th Aug. 1911 ; trans, and
adm. 17th Sept. 1913. Marr. 21st Aug.
1907, Helen Annand, M.A., daugh. of
David Smith, Alyth, and has issue—Janet
Morag, born 21st Feb. 1909; Kenneth
David, born 25th Feb. 1913, died 3rd
March 1914.
CANONGATE, formerly
HOLYROODHOUSE.
[The Privy Council, at His Majesty's
desire, 13th Sept. 1672, forbade the use
of the church at Holyrood as a Parish
Church, that it might be set apart as a
Chapel Royal, and a chapel for the Knights
of the Thistle (Treas. Reg., iii., 449). The
congregation worshipped in Lady Yester's
Church until the new church in the
Canongate was opened in 1691.]
JOHN CRAIG, app. in 1561 ; trans.
1561 (c°Ueaoue to John Knox) 2nd July
1562. "The counsale, understanding
the tedious and havie laboris be thair
minister, Johnne Knox, in preiching thris
in the ouek and twis on the Sounday,
ordanis with ane consent to solist and
persuade maister Johnne Craig, presentlie
minister of the Canongait, to accept upoun
him the half chargeis of the preaching in
the said kirk of Edinburgh for sic gude deid
as they can aggre on."
JOHN BRAND, formerly a canon in the
1564 Abbey of Holyrood, was employed
by Archbishop Hamilton, during
the progress of the Reformation, to carry a
message to John Knox, "That howsoever
he had introduced anotherForm of Religion,
and reformed the doctrine of the Church,
whereof it might be there was some reason ;
yet he should do well not to shake loose the
Order and Policy received, which had been
the work of many ages, till he were sure of
a better to be settled in place thereof."
Examined and admitted by the Superin-
tendent of Lothian in 1564. He was pres.
by James VI., 5th Jan. of that year, to the
chaplaincy of St Ninian ; died 2nd Sept.
1600, having "served many years with good
commendation." He marr. (1) Elizabeth
Johnston, and had issue—James, who had
a pension of £40 out of the Archbishopric
of St Andrews, 1580 {Reg. Sec. Sig., 475)
:
(2) Abigail Smyth, and had issue—Eliza-
beth ; Katherine ; John, student of philo-
sophy, who killed a young man with a
knife at St Leonard's Crags, 27th May
1615, for which he was sentenced to be
beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh ; James
(St Andrews K. S. Reg. Scot. Hist. Soc,
627) ; Janet (marr. James Brown : Reg. of
Deeds, xlv., 277); Katherine, bapt. 19th
March 1600 (Edin.)—[Keith's Hist., Reg.
Min. ; Assig., Test., and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Booh
of the Kirk ; Zurich Lett., ii. ; Wodroiv
and Maitland Miscell., ii. ; Pitcairn's Cr.
Trials, iii. ; Wodrow's Biog., i.]
HENRY BLYTH, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge, and adm. 1601 ;
deprived by the Court of High
Commission, 26th Jan. 1620, it being His
Majesty's pleasure he "should not return,
and that he wald give obedience in some
other place." He was settled at Eccles in
1622.— [Reg. Assig., Priv. Counc. Reg.;
Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, ii. ; Row's and Calder-
wood's Hists. ; Orig. Lett.']