384 PENCAITLAND [PRESB. OF
ANDREW BLACKHALL, min. in 1567,
Ormiston and Cranstoun being in
the charge.
1576 JOHN GRAY, reader.
1567
JAMES GIBSON, trans, from Saltoun,
and adm. 1580; trans, to Tranent
1597.
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\Reg. Assig.]
ARCHIBALD OSWALD, M.A. (St
Andrews, 21st March 1580) ; min.
of Hutton 1586-94, of Smailholm
1595, of Tranent (assistant) 1595 ; trans.
and adm. 11th May 1598 ; pres. to the
vicarage of Saltoun by James VI. 23rd
Jan., and coll. 16th May 1599, " with this
provision, that he sail demitt quhen it sail
pleis God to offer the occasion to ane to be
planted there." He visited Robert Bruce
at Berwick in 1601, after he had fled
from Edinburgh. In 1603 he waited on
the King at Haddington when passing to
London after the Union of the Crowns.
He was a member of Assembly 1608, and
was one of the Conference for maintaining
unity among the brethren, which met at
Falkland 4th May 1609 ; dem. before 4th,
and died 16th Feb. 1631, aged about 71.
He marr. in 1598, Katherine, daugh.' of
Adam Weddell, portioner in Preston, and
had issue—John, his successor ; Archibald ;
Robert; James, styled youngest in 1618
(Reg. of Deeds, ccclv., 315) ; Archibald.
—
[Boohe of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.,
MelvilPs A utob. ; Stat. Rejwrts, 1627; Inq.
Ret. Gen., 3581.]
JOHN OSWALD, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge, Montrose, and adm.
(assistant) 7th July 1629 ; pres. by
Charles I. 4th Feb., coll. and inst. 20th
May 1631 ; a member of General Assembly
1638 ; trans, to Aberdeen 17th Nov. 1641.—
[Beg, Sec. Sig., Baillie's Lett., Stevenson's
Hist.]
DAVIDCALDERWOOD, born probably
at Dalkeith in 1575 ; studied at the
Univ. of Edinburgh, and took his
degree of M.A. 12th Aug. 1593. In 1605
he became min. of Crailing. A vigorous
opponent of Prelacy, he stepped into the
controversial arena for the first time
publicly when James Law, Bishop of
Orkney, attempted to set aside an election
of members to the General Assemblyby the
Presb. of Jedburgh. Calderwood protested,
and was deprived of his right to sit in
Church Courts, being precluded also from
going outside the bounds of his parish. In
1617 he resisted the royal intentions still
further, and was summoned to Holyrood to
give an account of his "mutinous and
seditious " deed. He was deprived of
his charge, confined first at St Andrews
and afterwards at Edinburgh, and finally
ordered to quit the country. He went to
Holland, and did not return till the death
of James in 1625. He had no charge, how-
ever, until 1641, when he was pres. to
this parish by Charles I. 4th Nov., and
adm. 15th Dec. 1641. He assisted in
drawing up the Directory for Public
Worship, but concentrated most of his
time on his great work, the History of the
Kirk of Scotland. In his 73rd year the
General Assembly, to enable him to perfect
the work, voted an annual subsidy of
£800 Scots. The History which he com-
piled was thrown into three different forms.
The first and largest extended to 3136
pages ; less than half of this work is now
among the manuscripts of the British
Museum, presented by the historian's
nephew, Sir William Calderwood of Polton
(Lord Polton). The second, a digest of the
first, was published by the Wodrow Society
(this MS. is in the Advocates' Library).
The third, an abbreviation, was first pub-
lished in 1678. Though little attractive in
a literary sense, the History is the main
quarry for information on the ecclesiastical
annals of Scotland from 1527 to 1625.
Calderwood died unmarried, at Jedburgh,
29th Oct. 1650. Publications—Protestation
mill Treatise from Scotland (1608); De
Regimine Ecclesice Scoticanee brevis Relatio
(London, 1618); A Solution of Doctor
Resolatus [Bishop David Lindsay], his
Resolutions for Kneeling (1619) ; Perth
Assembly (1619); Parasynagma- Perthense
(1620) [an abridgment in Latin of the
preceding work]; Defence of our Argu-
ments against Kneeling in the Act of
Receiving the Sacramental Elements of
Bread ami Wine (1620); The Sjieech of