Edinburgh] ST GILES 53
Application was made to the Assembly,
26th June 1566, for his admission to the
ministry in the city, and the matter was
remitted for consideration as to his fitness
and sufficiency. He is mentioned as fourth
minister, 23rd Jan. 1578, though in the
Book of Assignation he appears as reader
only, ten years afterwards, 1588. He died
in 1595, leaving a widow, Janet Wilson.
—
[Knox's Works, ii. ; M'Crie's Knox, ii.
;
Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig. ; Wodrow's
Biog., i. ; Wodrow Miscell., Booke of the
Kirk; Keith's, Spottiswood's, and Calder-
wood's Hists. ; Bannatyne MiscelL, ii.
;
Lee's Lett., Maclaren's Ann. Tax.]
JOHN EDMESTOUN [EDMON-
STON], formerly of Crail ; adm.
1584 ; trans, to Dunning in 1586.
—
[Edin. Counc. Reg.]
JAMES HAMILTON, min. of Dairy, in
Galloway; elected 27th Nov. 1584,
and "admitted for a time at His
Majesty's command," 16th April 1585. He
returned to his former charge in same year.
—{Edin. Counc. Reg.]
WILLIAM WATSON, entreated by the
Council to remain and teach " fifteen
days," 5th March 1584; adm. 13th
April 1585. He was imprisoned for a time
in the end of that year, for comparingJames
VI. to Jeroboam. After the tumult, 17th
Dec. 1596, for which he and his brethren
were blamed, he withdrew to Fife, made
an apology, and was restored to civil
liberty, 22nd April 1597. He returned
and re-entered on duty 24th July follow-
ing. On the division of the city, he was
admitted to the South or Old Kirk Quarter.
—[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig., Melvill's
Autob., Row's and Calderwood's Hists.]
1585
1585
1586
JOHN COWPER supplied the vacancy
for a time, and was elected by the
Town Council 23rd Nov. 1586.
Refusing to pray for Queen Mary, then
under sentence of death, he was ordered by
theKing to leave the pulpit, that his place
might be supplied by Patrick, Archbishop
of St Andrews, and was imprisoned in the
Castle of Blackness, on which the city
gave him £40 Scots in consideration of
1589
the expense to which he had been sub-
jected ; trans, to High Church, Glasgow,
Feb. 1587.—{Test, and Edin. Counc. Reg.
;
Booke of the Kirk, Melvill's Atitob. ; Spottis-
wood's, Petrie's, Row's, Calderwood's, and
Cook's Hists. ; Reg. Assig. ; Wodrow MS.]
JOHN DAVIDSON, formerly of Liber-
1589 *on > ordered to continue " till he be
provided as the Kirk and Council
crave " ; chosen 3rd June 1589 ; trans, to.
Second Charge, Canongate.
—
[Booke of the
Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.]
JAMES BALFOUR, trans, from Idvies
8th Oct. 1589. After the tumult in
the city, 17th Dec. 1591, he was
apprehended, but escaped to Fife by the
assistance of the citizens, was put to the
horn, made an apology, was relaxed there-
from 22nd April 1597, and returned to his
charge 24th July 1597. On the division of
the city he was admitted to the North-
West Quarter, in the East or Little Kirk, in
1598.
—
[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig.,
Booke of the Kirk, Melvill's Autob., Calder-
wood's Hist. ; Acts Pari., iv.]
PATRICK GALLOWAY, born about
1607 1551, son of Thomas G., baxter,
burgess of Dundee, and Christian
Nicoll ; was min. of Fowlis Easter in 1576 ;
trans, to Perth 25th April 1581 ; suspected
of attachment to Gowrie intei'est, he had
to take refuge in England, and failing to
appear before the Council, was outlawed
6th June 1584. He became min. of the
King's House 11th Feb. 1589-90, and was
Moderator of Assembly 4th Aug. 1590 and
10th Nov. 1602 ; chaplain to James VI.,
and attended His Majesty at the Hampton
Court Conference, 1604, acting as inter-
mediary between the Presb. of Edinburgh
and the King ; adm. end of June 1607
;
member of the Courts of High Commis-
sion, 15th Feb. 1610, 21st Dec. 1615, and
15th June 1619. He signed the Protesta-
tion for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th
June 1617, but withdrew his protest, the
most obnoxious of the measures by which
James sought to override the Assembly
having been withdrawn. On the division
of the city in 1625, he was nominated to
St Giles, and his admission appointed for