ADDIEWELL—COLINTON [PRESB. OF
min. of Patna; James Archibald, died in
infancy.
1894
THOMAS HENRY JONES, a native
of Canada ; educated at Edinburgh
Univ. ; M.A. (1887) ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 15th May 1891 ; assistant at
St George's, Edinburgh ; ord. 8th Nov. 1894 ;
res. 15th June 1898 ; min. at Bulawayo,
Rhodesia, 1898, at Beaconsfield, Cape
Colony, 1914.
1898
WILLIAM LOW JAMIE, born Edin-
burgh, 22nd Feb. 1860, son of David
J. ; educated at Canongate Burgh
School and Edinburgh Univ. j M.A. (1887)
;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 14th May
1890; assistant at Northesk; ord. 27th
Sept. 1898. Marr. 28th Aug. 1909, Eliza-
beth Forster, daugh. of W. R. Scott,
Addiewell.
COLINTON, originally HAILES.
[St Cuthbert's Church and parish of Halis
or Hailes, now Colinton, was founded about
1095 a.d. by Ethelred, Earl of Fife, son of
Malcolm III. and Queen Margaret. A
church dedicated by David de Bernham,
27th Nov. 1248, was probably destroyed
during the English invasion, 1544-5. A
church built on the present site in 1636 was
rebuilt in 1771, and again in 1907. Before
the Reformation the church belonged to
the Preceptory of St Anthony, Leith.]
ALEXANDER FORRESTER, probably
1567 of the Corstorphine family, reader in
1567.—[Reg. Min.]
JOHN DURIE, mentioned as min. in
156g 1569; trans, to Leith, May 1570.—
[Spottiswood's Hist., iii., 83; Reg.
Min. ; Wodrow's MS. Biog., i. ; Edin. Chr.
Inst., v. ; Relig. Mon., v. ; New Stat.
Ace, ix.]
ADAM LETHAM[LICHTON,LEIGH-
1574 TON], had charge of Currie, Hailes,
and St Catherine's of the Hopes
in 1574. There were readers at Currie
and Hailes, and the office of reader at St
Catherine's was vacant. The reader at
Hailes was Andrew Robeson.— [Reg.
Min.]
JOHN HALL, min. in 1579; trans, to
1579 Leith 24th Oct. 1596.- [Reg. Assig.,
Booke of the Kirk, Wodroiv Miscell.
;
Calderwood's Hist., iv.]
PETER HEWAT, trans, from the High
Kirk, Edinburgh, 26th Oct., and adm.
5th Nov. 1596; trans, to Greyfriars
Jan. 1597.—[Edin. Counc. Reg., x. ; Reg.
Assig.]
JAMES THOMSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
159g 12th Aug. 1592); called 23rd Jan.
1597; elected 23rd May, and adm.
14th July 1598. He refused to conform to
the Bishop's instructions regarding the
method of celebrating Communion, 5th
March 1634; died before 2nd April 1635,
aged about 63. He marr. Helen, daugh. of
John Leyis [Lees], merchant, Edinburgh,
and through her was entered burgess
and guild-brother of that city, 18th May
1608. His widow was admitted "as ane
ordinar pensioner by the Session of Edin-
burgh, to receive quarterly the sume of
20 merkis," 11th Oct. 1644.—[Test., Edin.
Gen. Sess., Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Reg.
Assig., Sec. Sigill., cvi. ; Old Dec, i. ; Sed.
Book of Teinds ; Row's and Stevenson's
Hists., i. ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 220.]
WILLIAM OGSTON, M.A.; regent in
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1619
;
on the commendation of Bishop
Forbes, he was pres. by Charles I. 1635.
Previous to the celebration of Communion,
he caused his parishioners to undergo his
examinations kneeling. Refusing to take
the Covenant, he was abused in Edinburgh
by a mob of women, 9th May 1637, who
waited on him after sermon, "and did
showre him with strokes." Deposed 4th
Jan. 1639, for deserting his flock " twenty
weeks togidder," etc. ; coll. at Corstorphine
in 1664.—[Wodrow's MSS. ; Baillie's Lett.,
i. ; Peterkin's Rec. ; New Stat. Ace, i.
;
Stevenson's Hist.]