EDINBURGH] CURRIE 15
his father"; proposed 21st Jan. 1591 ; adm.
(colleague and successor) 16th Dec. 1591.
In 1594 there was a complaint to the
Presb. that William Wardlaw of Curriehill
"brak up his rooms, cuist out his guds and
geir, tramping his books under feitt," and
" misused himselff by catchand him by ye
neck and pulling him under his feet." He
dem. Jan. 1631; died 12th Oct. 1634,
aged about 66. He marr. (1) before 1596,
Isobel Matheson : (2) after 1606, Janet Aird,
who survived him, and had issue—Henry ;
Adam ; James ; William, apprenticed 18th
June 1628 to James Wright, hatmaker,
Edinburgh ; Ronald ; Helen (marr., cont.
26th Sept. 1621, George Straiton, hatmaker,
burgess of Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds,
cccxxxvi., 105); Martha (marr. Alex. Hay
of Ravelrig).
—
[Beg. Assig. ; Test., Edin.
Comic, and Reg. Sas. and Rapt. ; Stat.
Rep., 1627 ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 772, 890, 1386
—et Gen. 2093.]
JOHN CHARTERIS, son of Henry C,
1631 Proiessor of Divinity in the Univ. of
Edinburgh ; educated at Edinburgh
Univ.; M.A. (25th July 1624); pres. by
the Town Council of Edinburgh 19th
Jan., and adm. before 17th June 1631
;
died 14th Feb. 1668, aged about 64. He
marr. 26th Sept. 1633, Rebecca, died 23rd
March 1676 (she is called Sara in the
register of her interment in Greyfriars),
second daugh. of Laurence Henderson,
merchant, Edinburgh (A. Guthrie, Prot.
Bk., iv., 225), and had issue—Rebecca
;
Isobel; Laurence, advocate, 1668, died
19th Aug. 1676; John (A. Peters, Prot.
Bk., 10th Oct. 1664) ; Barbara.—[Craufurd's
Univ. ; Edin. Cotinc., xiv. ; Edin. Test, and
Regs. ; Wodrow's Hist., i. ; Sed. Book of
Teinds; Inq. Ret. Ayr, 346; Gen. 2492—de
Tut. 635, 636.]
JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, son of John S.
1668 °^ Kirkton, Dundee, and Jean, daugh.
of James M'Gill of Rankeillor ; edu-
cated at St Leonard's College, St Andrews ;
M.A. (25th July 1663); ord. and coll.
22nd Oct. 1668; became Presb. clerk;
deprived by the Committee of Estates,
May 1689, for taking away the key of the
kirk door, not preaching, not reading the
Proclamation, and not praying for King
William and Queen Mary. He died
in 1699, aged about 56. He marr. 17th
Dec. 1668, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter
Chisholm, bailie of Dunblane, and had
issue—James, died in 1680 ; Henry, W.S.,
of West Lochgelly, held a bursary on
Robert Johnston's foundation, 7th Aug.
1685, died 9th Oct. 1731 ; John, student
at the Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar of
the Presb. in 1686 and 1687; and two
daughters alive in June 1772 {The Scottish
Antiquary, Sept. 1880).
—
[Act. Red. Univ.
St And. ; Corstorphine and Ratho Sess.,
Edin. Comic. Reg., xxxiii. ; Reg. Collat.
;
Acts Pari., ix. ; Peterkin's Constitution of
the Church, Malcolm's House of Drum-
mond; MS. Ace. of Mm., 1689; Douglas's
Peerage^]
HENRYHAMILTON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
.aM 11th Feb. 1681); ord. to Falkland
1690 ; trans, and adm. 1691 ; trans,
to Donaghadee 6th Nov. 1700. He marr.
Esther, daugh. of Andrew Stewart, min. of
Donaghadee.—[Corstorphine Sess. Reg.]
ROBERT TAYLOR, ord. to Houston
ll701 1695 ; trans, and adm. 13th Nov.
1701; died 10th Aug. 1713. He
marr. March 1699, Margaret, daugh. of
Hew Yerner, merchant, Edinburgh, and
had issue—Margaret (marr. 13th July 1727,
Andrew M'Farquhar, Excise officer in South
Leith).—[Edin. Test, and Regs.]
MUNGO CLARKSON, a native of
1714 Selkirkshire, brother to John C,
baker, Edinburgh (Services, 1729)
;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th April
1711; called 29th Dec. 1713; having
previously been presented to Galashiels,
his ordination was delayed till 23rd Dec.
1714; died 28th Oct. 1717.
JOHN SPARK, tutor in the family of
1(_ig Erskine of Grange; licen. by Presb.
of Dalkeith 6th July 1718; called
22nd April; ord. 11th Aug. 1719, in
opposition to the Magistrates and Town
Council of Edinburgh. When returning
from a meeting of the Presb. at Edinburgh,
he was drowned in crossing the Water of
Leith on horseback, at the " Sclait fuird,"