EDINBURGH] TRINITY 127 mon, Lamont's Diary; Baillie's Lett., hi.; Steven's Mem. of Heriot, Kirkton's Hist.] [JOHN GLENNIE, assistant to the col- legiate min. ; app. by the Town Council 13th Feb. 1661, and probably ordained, as he is styled "some time min. of Edinburgh," when he was admitted burgess and guild- brother, 10th Aug. 1687. He went to Ireland, and on 6th Sept. 1667 was Dean of Cashel and Prebendary of St Michael's, Dublin {Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 21st Jan. 1689).] JOSHUA MELDRUM, M.A. (St 1662 Andrews, 1633) ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy ; min. of Auchtertool 17th Feb. 1642 ; trans, to Kinghorn 26th June 1651 ; elected by the Town Council 6th Oct., trans, and adm. 5th Nov. 1662 ; died 2nd April 1673, aged about 60. He marr. Helen Wood (who died 13th July 1672, and was buried beside him in Grey- friars), and had issue—Andrew, min. of Mertoun. — [Edin. Counc, Guild, and Test. Reg. {Dunbl.) ; Lamont's and Nicoll's Diaries, Wodrow's Hist.] ANDREW CANT, trans, from Liber- 16?3 ton ; pres. by the Town Council, and adm. after 9th April 1673. In the following year a complaint was made to the Privy Council of Cant's "insolent carriage and expressions," upon which he was removed from his ministry in Edin- burgh, and confined to Liberton "till the King's further pleasure." Reponed in 1675, and trans, to the High Kirk Parish same year. — [Edin. Counc. Reg., Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., Pratt's Buchan.] ROBERT LAURIE, M.A., Bishop of 1674 Brechin, who had been min. in 1644, was appointed, 16th July 1674, "to preach ordinarily." He died March 1678, aged about 72.— [Wodrow's Hist., ii. ; Keith's Catal.] ANDREW CANT, younger son of 167g Alexander O, min. of Banchory- Ternan ; M.A. (Aberdeen, 6th March 1668); licen. by George, Bishop of Edin- burgh ; ord. to Second Charge, Leith, 30th Jan. 1671 ; elected by the Town Council 27th Jan. 1679 ; trans, and adm. soon after- wards. Deprived 26th April 1689, for not reading the Proclamation disowning James VII., and acknowledging William and Mary. Consecrated Bishop of the Non- jurant Church, Glasgow, 17th Oct. 1722 ; died 21st April 1730, in his 81st year. He marr. Margaret, second daugh. of James Thomson, clerk of Exchequer, and widow of William Stevenson, merchant (Prot. Book of jEneas Macleod, v., 172, 21st Nov. 1694). A daugh., Jean (marr., pro. 13th Oct. 1700, John Gordon, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh). Publications — Sermon preached on the 30th day of January, 1702/3 [Anniversary of the execution of Charles I.] (Edinburgh, 1703, 1704) ; and another on the same Anniversary (Edinburgh, 1715). — [Edin. Counc. and Reg. {Marr. and Bur.) ; Monro's Ajyology ; Acts Pari., ix. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6303 ; Wodrow's Anal., iii. ; Pratt's Buchan.'] HEW KENNEDY, of Easter Inch, Bath- 1689 §a^e ' educated at Glasgow and St Andrews; M.A. (Glasgow 1641); ord. to Mid-Calder 13th April 1643; a member of the Commission of Assembly 1648 ; assisted in forming the Protesting Presb. 6th Aug. 1651 ; deprived at the Restoration of Episcopacy 1660 ; returned to Mid-Calder at the Toleration, 1687, but was called to Edinburgh 22nd July same year, and settled (in a meeting-house) ; adm. to this charge 24th July 1689 ; Moderator of the first General Assembly after the Revolution, 16th Oct. 1690, " and managed their business with great tact." Died 25th April 1692, aged about 71, and was buried in Greyfriars, Edinburgh. He marr. (1) Margaret Buchanan, who died before 1662 {G. R. Inhib., 15th March 1665), and had issue—John, born 1654 {Edin. Sas., i., 409): (2) 6th June 1662, Margaret, daugh. of Joseph Douglas and Jean Sandilands, grand-daugh. of Lord Torphichen, and had issue—Jean (marr. Hugh Campbell) ; John, born 18th March 1649 ; Hew, born 25th Nov. 1652 ; Thomas, born 18th Nov. 1654 ; Margaret, born 15th