40 OLD GREYFRIARS [PRESB. OF
sentation of Presbyterian Government;
Answer to Ten Questions concerning
Episcopal and Presbyterian Government.
—[Edin. Comic., Test., and Peg. {Bajrt. and
Bur.) ; Wodrow's Hist., MSS., and Anal.
;
Calamy's Accountand Continuation ; Watt's
Bibl. Britt., ii. ; Mum. Univ. Glasg., ii. ; S.
Presb. Eloq. ; Acts Pari., ix. ; Grant's Edin.
Univ., Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JAMES HART, born 1663, son of James
H., Provost of Jedburgh; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 11th July 1687); ord.
to Ratho 4th July 1692 ; called 29th July,
app. by the Presb. 9th, and adm. 20th
Sept. 1702. In autumn 1714 he was ap-
pointed by the Commission of Assembly
one of those to congratulate George I.
on his accession to the throne of Great
Britain, and in Aug. 1726 Almoner to His
Majesty; died 10th June 1729. He was
greatly opposed to the Union, and de-
nounced from the pulpit as a traitor to the
Church, his colleague Carstares, who was a
chief promoter of the measure. He marr.
(1) 4th Aug. 1692, MargaretLivingston : (2)
Mary Campbell, and had issue—John, born
1703 ; Alexander, born 1705 ; Mary, born
1707 ; William, born 1708 ; James, born
1709 ; David, born 1711 ; Charles,born 1712 ;
Archibald, wine merchant, Edinburgh, born
1713 ; Margaret, born 1715 ; Katherine,
born 1716 (marr. 22nd Feb. 1741, James
Thomson, merchant, Edinburgh) ; George
and Wilhelmina, born 1717; Frances, born
1718 (marr. 30th Aug. 1741,Andrew Steven-
son, writer, Edinburgh). Publications
—
The Qualifications of Riders and the Duty
of Subjects Described, a sermon (Edin-
burgh, 1703) ; The Journal of Mr James
Hart in 1714, ed. by Principal Lee
(Edinburgh, 1832).—[Test, and Reg. {Bur.) ;
Wodrow's Ann., iv. ; Stevenson's Hist., ii. ;
Murray's Biog. Ann., Journ. {Mem.), Experi-
ences ofJohn Ronald, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
WILLIAM BROWN, born Edinburgh
;
173 educated at High School and Univ.
;
M.A. (30th April 1700); licen. 22nd
April 1708 ; ord. to Second Charge, South
Leith. 25th July 1712 ; trans, to Lady
Yester's 19th Jan. 1721 ; trans, and adm.
23rd July 1730; died 23rd March 1736, in
1736
54th year. He marr. Bridget Balfour,
and had issue—Janet, born 3rd Dec. 1756,
died Dec. 1789 ; James, born 26th Jan.
1762. Publication
—
The Benefit and Com-
fort of the Christian Revelation, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1736).—[Test, and Reg. {Bur.) ;
Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv.]
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, born Chapel
of Wemyss, Fife, 30th June 1686
;
third son of William R. of Gladney
and Brunton,and Margaret Mitchell ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 14th June 1711
;
ord. to a congregation in London 1711
;
adm. to Borthwick 23rd Sept. 1714; trans.
to Lady Yester's 22nd Nov. 1733; trans,
and adm. 10th Oct. 1736; died 16th Nov.
1745. For many years he employed his
leisure hours investigating the transactions
occurring in the reign of Queen Mary,
which may have led his son, the Principal,
at an after period to complete them in his
valuable History. He marr. 20th Oct.
1720, Eleanor (died six days after her
husband), daugh. of David Pitcairn of
Dreghorn, Colinton, and Mary Anderson,
and had issue—William, his successor, the
historian ; Robert, born 10th Nov. 1722,
died 15th Jan. 1723 ; Mary, born 6th Nov.
1723 (marr. 17th Oct. 1751, James Syme,
min. of Alloa, and was the grandmother of
the 1st Lord Brougham and Vaux), died
9th April 1803 ; Margaret, born 16th Feb.
1725 (marr. 15th June 1750, Alexander
Bruce, merchant, Edinburgh), died May
1781 ; Elizabeth, born 25th Oct. 1727
(marr., pro. 2nd June 1754, Archibald
Hope) ; Patrick, jeweller, Edinburgh, born
6th Aug. 1729, died 8th Sept. 1790 ; Helen,
born 5th Feb. 1734, died 24th Jan. 1816,
unmarr. ; James, born 30th June, died
1st July 1737; Jane, born 4th July 1738
(marr. 4th July 1756, William Gifford);
Eupham, born 13th Feb. 1739 (marr. James
Cunningham of Hyndhope), died March
1807; Archibald, born 28th March 1741,
died March 1742. Publication
—
Ministers
ought to please God rather titan Men, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1737). He contributed
Paraphrases XXV., XLIL, and XLIII. to
the Collection published in 1745.
—
[Edin.
Counc., Borthwick Sess., and Reg. {Bur.) ;
Edin. and Alloa Reg., Edin. Test., Grey-