312 CRICHTON [rRESB. OF
and was a member of Assembly same year.
He was appointed one of two for visiting
the ministers in the Merse ; died Dec.
1596. He left a widow, Elizabeth Borth-
wick.
—
[Reg. Min. et Assig., Edin. Presb.
and Test. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Excheq.
Buik, Melvill's Autob., Wodrow Miscell.,
Calderwood's Hist.]
1583 DUNCAN WALKER, reader.
WILLIAM PENMAN, son of William
P., burgess of Musselburgh, educated
at Univ. of StAndrews ; M.A. (1595)
;
still min. in 1637. He marr. (cont. 20th
Oct. 1600), Marion, eldest daugh. of Thomas
Wilkie, portioner of Saughton Hall (G. R.
Inhib., x., 175), and had issue—Adam, min.
of Cockpen ; William, min. of Morebattle
;
and Gideon, his successor.— [Act. Rect.
Univ. St And. ; Reg. Assig., and Old Dec.,
iv. ; Kirk Pap., Calderwood's Hist. ; Stat.
Reports, 1627 ; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, iii.]
GIDEON PENMAN of Hagbrae, son
of preceding; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (23rd July 1636) j
licen. by the Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd May
1638 ; adm. (assistant) 2nd July 1639 ; pres.
to the vicarage by Francis, second Earl
of Buccleuch ; coll. 18th, and inst. 30th
March 1641. An Act of Parliament was
passed in his favour, 15th March 1661, for
payment of bygone stipend. Deposed for
adultery, 4th March 1675. He was ordered
to be apprehended for witchcraft, 4th Aug-
1678, and imprisoned for the same, 3rd Oct.
1678. He marr. (1) (cont. 19th Feb. 1642)
Martha, eldest daugh. of James Scott of
Hagbrae : (2) Sept. 1651, Jean, daugh. of
William Livingston, min. of Lanark, and
had issue—George of Hagbrae ; James
;
William, merchant, Edinburgh ; and a
daughter (marr. David Ker, merchant,
Edinburgh).
—
[Reg. Sec. Sig., Wodrow's
and Kirkton's Hists. ; Acts Pari., vii.
;
New Gen. Reg. Sasines, v. ; Nicoll's
Diary.]
1671
PATRICK TRENT, M.A., trans, from
Coulter, and adm. (colleague) after
4th May ; trans, to Temple ] 676.
ROBERT SPOTTLSWOOD, M.A. (Glas-
1676 °ow 1(^) > 01'd-mm - °f Temple 1663 ;
pres. by Adam Hepburn of Humbie ;
trans, and inst. 8th Sept. 1676 ; deprived
for not taking the Test 1681. [Afterwards
min. of Abbotrule.]
—
[Test. Reg. (Glasg.),
Wodrow's Hist.]
ROBERTARBUTHNOT, pres.byAdam
1682 Hepburn of Humbie; trans, from
Colmonell, and inst. before 30th
March 1682; trans, to Cranstoun 1682.
ANDREW DONN [DUNN], educated
1682 at Marisclml College, Aberdeen,
1662-6; inst. 30th Nov. 1682; de-
prived by the Privy Council 29th Aug.
1689, for not reading the Proclamation of
the Estates, and not praying for King
William and Queen Mary. He died before
19th Nov. 1700. He left a widow (name
unknown), and had two sons, Andrew and
Alexander.—[Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ; MS. Ace.
of Min., 1689 ; Const, of the Church.]
MATHEW SELKRIG [SELCRAIG,
1690 SELKIRK], M.A. (Glasgow 1662);
bursar in philosophy ; licentiate in
1678; was rudely assaulted for his sup-
posed favour to the Indulgence ; called by
a number of the parishioners of Crichton,
Cranstoun, Ormiston, and Humbie, after
toleration was granted, and ord. at Steel's
Mains, by mins. within the Synod, Nov.
1687; the call being homologated 10th
Aug., he was adm. 18th Sept. 1690; died
30th Nov. 1728, aged about 86. He marr.
(name unknown), and had issue—Mathew,
died 1698 ; Robert, merchant, Edinburgh
;
and a daugh. (marr. James Grierson, min.
of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh).
—
[Mun.
Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Wodrow's Hist., Reg.
Gen. Ass., S. Presb. Eloq., New Stat. Ace]
CHARLES PRIMROSE, educated at
172g Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1697) ; ord.
to Bellie 25th Feb. 1702; trans, to
Forres 28th Oct. 1707 ; trans, to Elgin 7th
May 1717 ; trans, and adm. 24th June
1729; died 21st Jan. 1735, aged about 58.
He marr. Agnes, sister and co-heir of John
Moffat of Easter Morriston, innkeeper in
Edinburgh, and had issue—James, his suc-
cessor.—[Carlyle's Autob.]