18 DUDDINGSTON [PRESB. OF
North-West quarter sen March last to 1st
Nov." Signed the protest to the King and
Parliament in support of the Liberties of
the Kirk, 14th June 1617. He long offici-
ated as Presb. and Synod clerk, and died
30th Nov. 1630, aged about 69. He marr.
(l) Beatrice, daugh. of Robert Pont, min. of
St Cuthbert's, and had issue—Robert, bapt.
30th July 1595 ; James, bapt. 28th March
1599; Rachel, bapt. 8th Aug. 1602: (2)
Katherine Bruce, who died before 1609 {G.
R. Inhib., xix., 242 ; xxxvii., 204), and had
issue—Robert : (3) Beatrix Muirhead, who
survived him, and had issue—John, bapt.
2nd Sept. 1610 ; Margaret ; Charles, his
successor ; Andrew ; Jean ; Rebecca (marr.,
cont. 22nd June 1640, James, son of James
Ritchie, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh:
Reg. of Deeds, dxxxix., 227) ; Thomas, died
23rd Feb. 1649. Publication—Translation
of an Exposition upon some Select Psalms of
David, written by Mr Robert Rollock, out
of Latine (Edinburgh, 1600).
—
[Reg. Assig.
;
Edin. Counc. Rapt., and Test. Reg. ; Calder-
wood's Hist. ; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, ii. ; New
Stat. Ace, i. ; Craufurd's Univ. ; Pollock's
Sel. Works, i. ; Lee's Memorial.]
ROBERT MONTEITH [MONTETH,
1630 MENTEITH] "of Salmonet," bapt.
25th Jan. 1603, third and youngest
son of Alexander M., merchant, Edin-
burgh, and Rachel Sandilands, Edin-
burgh; educated at the Univ. of Edin-
burgh; M.A. (14th July 1621); Professor
of Philosophy in the Univ. of Saumur,
where he continued four years, and
returned, "with an great shew of learn-
ing." He was pres. by Charles I., ord.
(at St Andrews) by the Archbishop, and
adm. 28th Dec. 1630, but engaging in an
illicit amour with Dame Anna Hepburn,
wife of Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield,
he fled the country, and was denounced
rebel 7th Oct. 1633. He joined the Roman
Catholic Church at Paris, where he obtained
the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, and
was made a canon of Notre-Dame by the
Cardinal de Retz. He died before 13th
Sept. 1660. From his brother, William
M. of Carribber and Randeford, was
descended Sir James Stuart M., Bart.,
of Closeburn. He marr. Marion Broun,
who was dead 1639 {Edin. Sas., xxviii.,
150). Publications
—
A Remonstrance to the
King of Great Britain, in French (Paris,
1652) ; Histoire des Troubles del a Grande
Bretagne depuis 1663 jusques a 1646
(Paris, 1661), translated by Captain James
Ogilvie (London, 1739) ; also a Pasquil
against Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, formerly
min. of Edinburgh; and some Essays
which were admired as specimens of the
purity of style and facility of diction which
a foreigner could attain in the French
language.—[Craufurd's and Bower's Univ.,
i. ; Edin. Reg. (Rapt.) ; Sinclair's Stat.
Ace, xviii. ; New Stat. Ace, Scot's Stagg.
State ; Morrison's Dec, x. ; Scots Mag.,
lxxxiv. ; Calderwood's Hist., viii. ; Bail-
lie's Lett., iii. ; Riddel's Comment, Bruce's
Sermons {Life) ; Nimmo's Stirlingsh., i.
;
Hill Burton's The Scot Abroad, Francisque
Michel's Les Ecossais en France, Baird's
Duddingston, Diet. Nat. Biog.1
JASPER HUME, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1633 24th July 1619) ; pres. by Charles
I. 20th Sept. 1633; died Feb. 1635,
aged about 34. Marr. Margaret, daugh. of
John Livingstone, in Wester Duddingston
{Edin. Sas., xxv., 207), who survived him
and marr. Charles Lumsden, min. in 1640.
—[Reg. Sec. Sig., cvi.]
ARCHIBALD NEWTON, M.A. ; pres.
1635 by Cnarles !• 14tl1 Feb - 1635 i trans-
to Liberton 19th May 1639.
CHARLES LUMSDEN {secundus), son
1640 °^ Charles L. (primics), bapt. 22nd
March 1614 ; educated at the Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (22nd June 1633);
adm. 8th Sept. 1640; pres. by Charles I.
23rd Aug. 1641 ; continued in 1681, and
was alive at the baptism of a grandchild,
3rd May 1686. He marr. (1) Margaret
(died Sept. 1643), daugh. of John Living-
stone, in Wester Duddingston {Reg. of
Deeds, dxi., 249), widow of Jasper Hume,
and had issue—Charles, min. of Kirk-
newton ; Jean ; Margaret ; Robert : (2)
Beatrix Melvill, who was buried in Grey-
friars, 8th June 1696, and had issue-
Beatrix, bapt. 25th Nov. 1655 ; Margaret
(marr., cont. 7th March 1673, Robert Bell,
writer, Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 23rd