418 SPOTT [PRESB. OF
1574
1577
Twelve Scots Trials, Jean Lang's North and
South of Tweed.]
JOHN MELVILL, son of Richard M.
of Baldowy, min. of Maryton ; min.
of Crail 1560 ; adm. 1574. He marr.
(cont. 17th June 1575) Margaret, sister
of Alexander Boyd of Petkyndie.
—
[Reg.
Assig., Wodroiv Miscell., Ind. Reg. ofDeeds.]
JAMES GIBSON, min. in 1576; trans.
1576 to Saltoun 1577.—[Reg. Assig.]
PATRICK SIMSON, M.A. ; adm. in
1577, when Aldhame and the Bass
were also under his care; trans, to
Cramond 1582.—[Row's and Calderwood's
Hists. ; "Wodrow's Anal, and MS. Biog.,
iv. ; Select Biog., i.]
CUTHBERT BONCLE, pres. to the
1585 vicaraSe °f Whitekirk by James
VI. 3rd May 1580 ; trans, and adm.
about 1585; died 20th Jan. 1592. He
marr. 20th April 1585, Katherine, daugh.
of Alexander Gullane, portioner of East-
barns, who survived him.
—
[Reg. Assig.;
Test, and Reg. Deeds, xxxvi. ; Calder-
wood's Hist.]
NICOL SUDDIE, formerly of Stenton,
1593 menti°ned as mm« iQ 1593.
—
[Reg.
Assig.]
ALEXANDER HOME, mentioned as
15g6 "parson of Spott" in 1596. He
marr. Janet Hamilton {Milne
Home Papers, 258).
CHRISTOPHER KNOWES of Swyne-
1618 wo°d> M.A. ; min. in 1618; trans,
to Coldingham in 1622.—[Inq. Ret.
Gen., 777.]
JOHN SINCLAIR, second son of
1627 Robert S. of Longformacus ; M.A.
(St Andrews, 27th July 1616) ; adm.
1627 ; still min. 11th April 1641 ; date of
death unknown. He marr. Marion Stewart,
to whom he gave a liferent of 300 merks
out of the lands of Muirtown, and had
issue—Archibald, apprenticed to James
Ker, skinner, Edinburgh, 21st Jan. 1657
;
James, apprenticed to William Sinclair,
merchant, 26th Sept. 1649; Robert, his
successor, 1665.— [Douglas's Baronage,
Innerwick Sess. Reg.]
WILLIAM DOUGLAS of Stoneypath,
brother of Sir Archibald D. of
Whittingehame ; a decreet arbitral
between him and John Sinclair anent the
Kirk of Spott was given in Douglas's
favour 8th July 1641 (Reg. ofDeeds, dxxx.)
;
died 1642. He marr. Elizabeth Cranstoun,
who survived him, and had issue—Isobel
(marr. Arthur Douglas, afterwards of
Whittingehame).
ANDREW WOOD, M.A. ; pres. by Sir
1643 Archibald Douglas of Spott, andadm. 7th Aug. 1643 ; trans, to Dun-
bar 1665.— [Keith's Catal. ; Chambers's
Ann., ii.]
1665
ROBERT SINCLAIR, M.A. ; ord. and
coll. 9th June, and inst. 4th Sept.
1665 ; trans, to Dirleton in 1683—
[Reg. Collat., Tynningh. and Whittingeh.
Sess. Reg.]
1683
ARCHIBALD BUCHAN, M.A. (Edin-
burgh 1670) ; ord. to Queensferry
26th Sept. 1682; pres. by William
Murray of Spott, trans, and inst. 21st
Aug. 1683. On 27th Jan. 1689 he was
roughly treated by some of his parishioners,
who early in the morning carried him in
a half-naked condition into church, and
dared him to officiate any longer as min. of
the parish ; deprived by the Privy Council
10th Sept. 1689, for not reading the Pro-
clamation of the Estates, nor praying for
William and Mary; died soon after. He
marr. Margaret Mowbray, who survived
him (Treas. Sed. Bk., 9th Aug. 1697).—
[MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Sinclair's Stat,
Ace]
ANDREW BROWN, M.A. (Glasgow,
16Q3 27th July 1676); ord. 19th April
1693; died 20th March 1726, in
his 65th year. He marr. 12th Dec. 1693
Isobel Chalmer (died 7th May 1712, aged
51), descended from the family of Gadgirth,
and had issue—Andrew ; Giles ; Clara
;
Robert ; Jean (marr. the succeeding in-
cumbent).
—
Tombst., Sinclair's Stat. Ace]