360 DIRLETON [PRESB. OF served heirs.— [Test, and S])ott Sess. Reg. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7215 ; Fountainhall's Dec, L] LAUEENCE CHARTERIS, born 1625, 1688 son °^ Henry O, Principal and Pro- fessor of Divinity, Edinburgh Uni- versity, and sometime min. of North Leith ; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (20th July 1646); ord. and inst. min. of St Bathans 9th Feb. 1654 ; con- forming to Episcopacy, he was coll. 17th Oct. 1662. He disapproved of the methods used to enforce Episcopacy, and refused a bishopric. He was a friend of Archbishop Leighton, and in 1670 was one of the six preachers sent by him to advocate the " accommodation." Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 1675. Resigned on account of the Test Act 1681 ; inst. to this charge 27th Sept. 1688. In 1690 he read, as ordered by the Privy Council, the proclamation enjoining a fast for national sins, but he dissociated himself from the General Assembly's mention of the introduction of Prelacy as the great national defection. "The defection has not been from the truth or from the fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, but from the life of God and the power of religion, and from the temper and correction which the Gospel requires in us." He retired to Edinburgh in 1697, and died in Dec. 1700. He was unmarr. Burnet describes him as one who "had great tenderness in his temper, and was a very perfect friend and a most sublime Christian." Publications — The Difference betiveen True and False Christianity (Edin- burgh, 1703) ; Spiritual Discourses (Edin- burgh, 1704) ; The Corruption of this Age and the Remedy thereof (Edinburgh, 1704 ; republished 1761); A Catalogue of Scot- tish Writers (Edinburgh, 1833).—\Burnet, i. ; Wodrow's Hist. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Edin. Reg. (Bur.).] JAMES CLARK, M.A.; trans, from Innerwick ; called 5th April, and adm. 14th Dec. 1697 ; trans, to Tron Parish, Glasgow, 11th March 1702.— [Acts of Ass., 1702.] JAMES ALSTON, born 1679, son of 1703 James A., merchant, Edinburgh ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1697); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th July 1702 ; app. by the Town Council of Edin- burgh Morning Lecturer in the Tron Church, 12th May 1703; called 1st July, and ord. 22nd Sept. 1703; Moderator of Assembly 6th May 1725, and 1st May 1729 ; one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland 1726; died 19th April 1733, and was buried in St Giles Churchyard, Edinburgh. He took a lead- ing part in the management of church affairs, was mentioned for the Principal- ship of the University of Glasgow in 1727, and had the offer of the Professorship of Divinity in that of Edinburgh in 1730. He marr. 15th June 1705, Janet (died 19th March 1769), daugh. of Matthew Reid, min. of Hoddam, and had issue—James, of Redsyde, born 1707, died 19th Dec. 1761 ; William, W.S., died 5th July 1775 ; Mar- garet, only daugh. (marr. 1735, James Hamilton, surgeon to the Forces).—[iV. Berivick Sess. Reg., Wodrow's Corresp. and Anal., Boston's Memoirs, Warrick's Moderators.'] JAMES GLEN, licen. by Presb. of Kelso 1st May 1716 ; ord. to Whit- tingehame 17th July 1717 ; pres. by William Nisbet of Dirleton ; trans, and adm. 13th Nov. 1733 ; died 16th Jan. 1749. He marr. Elizabeth Elliot, who died April 1743, and had issue—William ; Alexander, his successor.—[Test. Reg., Carlyle's Atitob.] HUGH [or HEW] BANNATINE, eldest son of James B., min. of Trinity Parish,Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlith- gow 21st Sept. 1743 ; enlisted as a volunteer 1745 ; travelled abroad as tutor to John- ston of Hilton ; ord. to Ormiston 26th May 1747 ; trans, and adm. 26th Oct. 1749 ; died unmarr. 26th Feb. 1769.—[Mac- kenzie's Life of Home, Carlyle's Autob. ; Test. Reg. ofDeeds, Dal., 8th March 1769.] ALEXANDER GLEN, bom 1726, son of James G., min. in 1733 ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 10th Oct. 1749; ord. to 1733 1749 1769