EDINBURGH] OLD GREYFRIARS 39 for not submitting to Episcopacy, 1st Oct. 1662 ; settled at Pencaitland 1669.—[Edin. Counc. Reg., Lamont's Diary ; Wodrow's Hist., i.] JOHN ROBERTSON, a West country- 1662 man > ^-^- (Glasgow 1654); chaplain to Alexander, Earl of Leven ; min. of the Second Charge, Kirkcaldy, 1658 ; trans, to Dysart 1661 ; pres. by the Town Council 6th Oct., trans, and adm. (in the High Church) 6th Nov. 1662. Having countenanced a movement in favour of a National Synod, he incurred the king's displeasure, who, 16th July 1674, directed his removal to the manse of Auchterless. In 1675 he submitted, petitioning to be restored to his charge, and was released by the Privy Council 27th April of that year ; was Almoner to His Majesty 24th March 1681 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 6th Nov. 1686) ; died 11th Jan. 1691. He marr. Jan. 1659, Elizabeth Scott, a gentlewoman in the Leven family, who was buried in Grey- friars, 26th Jan. 1692.— [Edin. Counc, Guild, Corstorphine Sess., and Reg. (Bur.) ; Lamont's and Nicoll's Diaries; Wodrow's Hist., ii. ; Rule's Sec. Vindication ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.] GILBERT RULE, born about 1629, probably in Edinburgh, where his brother, Archibald, was one of the bailies (there is some likelihood, however, that he was born at Elgin in Oct. 1628, see Tate's Alnwick) ; after a distinguished career at the Univ. of Glasgow, where he was regent, he became (at an unusually early age), Sub-Principal of King's College, Aber- deen. Thence he went to Alnwick to be minister of a Dissenting congregation. After the Restoration he was much molested by local authorities, who tried to force upon him the use of the English Prayer Book. In 1662 he was ejected under the "Barthol- omew Act." He returned to Scotland, preached for a time in Fife, but incurring the displeasure of the Privy Council, fled to Franceand Holland. He took the degree of M.D. at Leyden, and practised medicine. In 1679 he was in Berwick-on-Tweed, where he was engaged both as a minister and a doctor. He was indulged at Linton Bridge, East Lothian, in the same year, but on going to Edinburgh and officiating at the baptism of a niece's child in St Giles (though with the full consent of Turner, the Episcopal minister), he was appre- hended and sent to the Bass. The sea air made him seriously ill, and after three months he was discharged under bond to quit the kingdom. He returned to Berwick, where he evaded arrest by keeping on the English side of the Tweed. For a time he was minister of a congregation in Dublin, and on 7th Dec. 1688 he received a call to this charge, which was confirmed by the Town Council, 24th July 1689. He was Principal of the Univ. in the following year, and retained both situations till his death, 7th June 1701. Engaging usually in study till a late hour, he was termed " the Evening Star " (in contrast to the Professor of Divinity, who was called "the Morning Star"), and was dis- tinguished for great learning, piety, candour, and moderation. He marr. 4th Feb. 1655, Janet Turnbull (who was buried 7th March 1699), and had issue—Gilbert, M.D. ; Andrew, advocate, died Dec. 1708 ; Alexander, Professor of Hebrew in Edin- burgh Univ. 1694 ; Rachel ; Janet. Pub- lications — A Modest Answer to Dr Stilling- flee£s Irenicum (London, 1680) ; Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland (1687) ; "A Sermon preached before Parliament from Isaiah ii. 2" (Edinburgh, 1690), and others; A Rational Defence of Ron - Conformity (London, 1689) ; A Vindication of the Church of Scotland (London, 1691); A Second Vindication of the Church of Scot- land (Edinburgh, 1691); A Defence of the Vindication of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1694) ; A Sermon preached at the Meeting of Council of George Heriot's Hospital (Edinburgh, 1695); The Cyprianick Bishop Examined, and Round Not to be Diocesan (Edinburgh, 1696); The Good Old Way Defended (Edinburgh, 1697); Discourse of Suppress- ing Immorality ami Promoting Godli- ness (Edinburgh, 1701) ; A Vindication of the Purity of Gospel-worship ; A Reprc-