Edinburgh] THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH—TRINITY 125
1807) ; Moderator of Assembly 21st May
1818; died 30th Aug. 1828. He marr.
(1) 29th Feb. 1788, Christian (died 23rd
April 1796), daugh. of Dr Robert Innes of
Giffordvale : (2) 15th Oct. 1801, Jean (died
1st Jan. 1838, aged 67), daugh. of Thomas
Kinnear, banker, Edinburgh, and had
issue—Daniel, born 23rd Nov. 1803, died
14th Nov. 1809; Elizabeth, born 31st May
1806; Mary, born 27th Jan. 1808 (marr.
James Barclay Mellis, min. of Tealing);
Jane, born 30th Dec. 1810 ; Margaret, born
12th May 1814 (marr. Charles James
Kerr) ; Jane (marr. John Gordon Lorimer,
D.D., min. of St David's, Glasgow. Pub-
lications
—
Reflectionson the Death ofH.R.II.
Princess Charlotte (Edinburgh, 1817) ; The
Acclamation of the Redeemed, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1818) ; A Sermon after the
Interment of Robert Balfour, D.D. (Edin-
burgh, 1818) ; Account of Kippen (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace, xviii., xxi.).—[Lorimer's Fun.
Serm., Haldane's Mem.]
TRINITY CHURCH.
[Originally founded in 1462 asa collegiate
church by Queen Mary of Gueldres, widow
of James II., though only choir and tran-
septs were erected. In 1584 it became
the church for the North-East Quarter of
the city. The Town Council, 14th Jan.
1595, "caused make ane loft in the east
end fit for the students and regents of
the Town's College in the Kirk-of-Field."
The interior was greatly damaged by
CromwelPs troops in Nov. 1650, but was
restored in 1653. Of decorated Gothic,
displaying exceeding grace of execution,
it was almost the only large illustration of
the Scottish Gothic which gave promise
of being developed with distinctive features
of peculiar excellence. In 1848 this
venerable edifice was sold to the North
British Railway Co. for about £18,000.
The stones were carefully numbered and
laid aside with a view to the church
being rebuilt on a new site. Unfortunately
the Town Council did not carry that out,
but placed many obstacles in the way, with
the hope apparently that the congregation
would disappear and the church should not
be needed. Despite many difficulties the
members held loyally together and steadily
increased, till in 1873, when the new church
was opened, there were over 800 on the roll.
All that remained of the stones were built
into the apse. Long litigation before the
Court ended in a judgment of the House
of Lords, who reversed a decision of the
Court of Session that all the money must
be spent on the new church, and allowed
only £7000. For a time the congrega-
tion met in the Calton Convening Rooms,
a place too small to hold all the com-
municants. Afterwards the kirk-session
hired the Waterloo Rooms, at a rent of
£70, which the Town Council refused to
pay, but soon after sent them to worship
in John Knox's Free Church, at a rent
of £400 a year. After three years there, in
1861 the congregation removed to a part
of St Giles, where they remained until
the new church was opened.]
WALTER BALCANQUHA.L [BAL-
15 CANQUHALL], is almost certain
to have been born at Balcanquhal,
Strathmiglo, probably in 1548 (cf. Sib-
bald's List of Hei-itors). After studying
at St Andrews, he was exhorter at Aber-
dour in 1571, and entered St Giles on
Whit Sunday 1574. At that time he is
described in James Melvill's Diary
(Wodrow Society, p. 41) as "ane honest,
upright-hearted young man, latlie enteret
to the ministerie of Edinburgh." He was
elected to the chaplaincy of the Altar
called Jesus, 20th Nov. 1579. Having
preached against the influence of the
French at Court, 7th Dec. 1580, he was
called before the Privy Council, 9th Jan.
1581, and admonished. He attended the
Earl of Morton on the eve of his execu-
tion, 1581. He opposed the Acts of Parlia-
ment of 1584, and was obliged to flee for
safety to Berwick-on-Tweed [while here,
his wife along with Mrs Lawson ad-
dressed to the Archbishop a long and
most extraordinary letter of rebuke and
vituperation (Calderwood, iv., 126 ; P. C.
Reg., iii., 691) ], but on returning after the
storm had passed, came once more into