406 ALDCAMBUS—DUNBAR [PRESB. OF
1595
ALEXANDER LUMSDEN, M.A.
;
adm. 1595 ; trans, to Hutton before
1599.—[Reg. Assig.]
THOMAS BONAR, M.A. ; adm. 1599;
15 trans, to Simprin in 1606.
—
[Reg.
Assig.]
JOHN LAUDER, adm. 1607; trans, to
1607 Cockburnspath 1608 (Reg. of Deeds,
cxcv., 220).
DUNBAR.
[Formerly a collegiate church dedicated
to St Bey, a female saint of little fame,
who is said to have led an anchoretical life
on the Great Cumbrae, in the Firth of
Clyde. Founded by Patrick, ninth Earl of
Dunbar, in 1342, it was the first College
Kirk in Scotland. Its prebends were
Pinkerton, Heatherwick, or Belton, Whit-
tingehame, Pensheil, Duns, Stenton, and
Spott.]
JOHN MANDERSTON, perhaps more
1560 Pr0Perly John Home, of the family
of Manderston ; was canon of the
collegiate church at the Reformation.
He was one of those appointed by the
Archbishop of St Andrews to attend the
court on the divorce sued for by Lady Jean
Gordon against James, Earl of Bothwell,
whenQueen Mary was detained at Dunbar.
1563
GEORGE HOME, son of George Home
ofBroxmouth, " parson of Pincarton,"
became " rector of Dunbar."
JASPER HOME of Lawfield, "rector
1563 of Dunbar."—[Miller's History.]
1564
ANDREW SIMSON, trans, from Dun-
ning; adm. in 1564; pres. to the
parsonage by James VI. 31st Aug.
1568. He dem. before 11th Sept. 1580, and
was trans, to Dalkeith before 1582. The
catastrophe known as the Lost Drave of
Dunbar occurred during his ministry here :
"A fearful judgment of God fell forth at
Dunbar about the year 1577, whereof I
was an eyewitness. My father, [A. S.] of
good memory, being minister thereof, when
1582
going to the church, saw a thousand boats
setting their nets on the Sabbath. He
weeped, and feared that God would not
suffer such contempt. It being a most
calm day as ever was seen at that season
—
at midnight, when they went forth to draw
their nets, the wind arose so fearfully that
it drowned eight score and ten boats, so
that there was reckoned in the coast side
fourteen score of widows " (Session Minutes).
—[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk ; Zurich
Lett., ii. ; Wodrow's Annal., Miscell., and
Biog., i. ; Row's, Calderwood's, and Miller's
Hists. ; Archceol. Scot., iv. ; St Baldred of
the Bass, The Simsons.]
1576 WILLIAM KELLIE, reader.
ALEXANDER HOME of Houndwood
and Fairnyside, son of George H. of
Broxmouth ; pres. by James VI. 13th
Sept. 1582 ; dem. previous to 21st May
1601 ; styled "parson of Pinkerton " in 1615
;
died in Dec. 1623. He marr. (1) Feb. 1586,
Katherine Simson (died 1615), daugh. of his
predecessor) ; (2) Jean, sister of William
Home, who survived him (marr. (2)
Patrick Home of Law (G. R. Sas., xviii.,
100), and had issue—Alexander ; George.
—
[Row's and Calderwood's Hists., Wodroio
MSS. ; Melvill's Autob., Miller's Hist.]
JAMES KELLIE, M.A. ; adm. (assistant
1589 to Preceding) 1st April 1589 ; trans,
to Whitekirk in 1592.
JAMES HOME, brother of George H.
1599 °^ lawfield (Reg. of Deeds, ccccx.,
356) ; MA. (StAndrews 1596) ; adm.
1st June 1599 ; pres. by James VI. 21st May
1601 ; he was summoned before the Court
of High Commission, 26th June 1620, for
not observing the holy days, nor celebrating
the Communion according to the directions
of the Perth Assembly ; died 1st Oct. 1634,
and was buried at Tynninghame. He marr.
(1) Mary Lauder, who died 5th May 1614 :
(2) (cont. 11th April 1615) Elizabeth,
daugh. of William Learmonth of Hill (Reg.
of Deeds, ccccxvii., 434), who died about
1629 (ib.), and left issue—James, eldest (A.
and D., cccclxxi., 312) ; William ; Robert
;
Henry ; Isobel (marr. William Purves)
;