150 JUNIPER GREEN—KIRKNEWTON [PRESB. OF
CHARLES MAURICE SHORT, born
1906 Swansea, 17th June 1853, son of
Charles S., D.D., Dundee, formerly
of Swansea, and Mary Harrington ; educated
at Swansea Grammar School and Cheshunt
College ; adm. as a licentiate by the
General Assembly 1886; assistant at Lin-
lithgow ; ord. to Kingscavil 9th Aug. 1887 ;
app. to this charge 21st Feb. 1892 ; adm.
first min of the parish 18th Dec. 1906.
Man*. 2nd Dec. 1903, Lucy Greig, daugh.
of Alexander Robertson, banker, Edin-
burgh, and Annie Rose. Publication—
Sermon on Church Defence (Edinburgh,
1893).
KIRKNEWTON.
[Originally in the Presb. of Edinburgh,
and annexed by the General Assembly,
July 1591, to Linlithgow; East Calder,
in the Presb. of Linlithgow, was united
by the Court of Teinds, 23rd Jan. 1751.]
1572 JAMES MOWBRAY, reader.
1573
JAMES HAMILTON, M.A.; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton. Letters of
collation were made in his favour
by John, Archbishop of St Andrews, 6th
June 1573 (Moray Inventory). Ratho and
Gogar were also in his charge. He was
appointed to Bathgate, Oct. 1593, "but
went not," and died 31st May 1612. His
sister, Elizabeth, widow of William
Buchanan of Auchmar, was executrix.
—
[Reg. Assig. and Min. ; Test. Reg. ; Wod-
row Miscell. and Biog., i. ; Calderwood's
JTist., iv., viii.]
1576 JOHN TOD, reader.
ANDREW BALFOUR, son of James B.,
1613 m*n ' °^ ^ Giles, Edinburgh; edu-
cated at Univ. there ; M.A. (25th
July 1607) ; after being on the exercise of
that Presb. some years, was pres. by James,
Lord Balmerino, 8th July 1612 (the right
to present being disputed and claimed by
Archbishop Spottiswood) ; adm. 24th Feb.
1613 ; got leave from Presb. of Linlithgow,
of which this parish then formed a part, to
visit his uncle, James Melvill, at his special
desire, then in bad health at Berwick, 28th
July 1613 ; signed the Protestation for the
Liberties of the Kirk, 27th June 1617
and was imprisoned for the same ; died
7th July 1624, aged about 37. He left
James, advocate, clerk of session, born
1619 (who had a son Governor of the
Darien Company, and whose son pur-
chased the estate of Pilrig) ; Andrew,
apprenticed 23rd July 1634 to John
Inglis, merchant, Edinburgh ; John ; Eliza-
beth.—[Melvill's Autob., Uphall Sess. and
Test. Reg. ; Calderwood's Hist., vii. ; Orig.
Lett., ii. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 203
—
de Tut.,
387-90 ; The Balfours of Pilrig.']
JAMES LAING, son of John L., min
1625 of Greenock ; M.A. (Glasgow 1617)
;
licen. 19th April 1620 ; ord. to Aber-
corn 7th March 1624 ; trans, and adm.
1625. It was stated against him at the
Synod, 5th Nov. 1644, that upon the day
of thanksgiving for the taking of New-
castle, he uttered the words in his sermon
—"That is a devilish joy to rejoice at the
calamitie of our brethren, who are under
one king, one faith, one baptism, and if our
fathers were living, they would laugh to
see us trouble ourselves needlesslie," which
words, however, he publicly denied. He
obtained a protection from the Marquess
of Montrose, 20th Aug. 1645, which is the
last heard of him. He marr. before 1635,
Agnes, daugh. of Patrick Sharpe, min. of
Strathbrock, and widow of Alexander
Somerville of Humbie (Moray Inventory),
and had issue—William, apprenticed 8th
Jan. 1645 to William Alexander, merchant,
Edinburgh ; Agnes.— [Linlithgotv Presb.
and Uphall Sess. Reg., Sed. Rook of
Teinds ; Reg. Old Dec, iii. ; Baillie's Lett. ;
Mem. of Montrose, ii. ; Acts Pari., vii.
;
Peterkin's Records; New Stat. Ace, i.]
JOHN COLVILL, M.A. (St Andrews
1648 1635); adm. 12th April 1648; died
Feb. 1663, aged about 48. Leaving
neither wife nor children, a question was
raised before the Court of Session respect-
ing the ann, which was found "to belong
to the nearest of kin, a nephew (John
Colvill, advocate, son of the Principal)
;