74 OLD KIRK [PRESB. OF THOMAS CLARK, trans, from Meth- 1841 Vei1 ' ant^ a<^m- 19t^ ^"Ug' 1841 ' trans, to St Andrew's, Edinburgh, 17th Nov. 1843. JOHN CLARK, born Glasgow, 15th 1844 ^arch 1>790> son °f J°hn C. ; edu- cated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1814) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 5th May 1819 ; ord. to New Street Chapel, Edinburgh, 25th April 1823 ; trans, to Second Charge, Canon- gate, 12th Sept. 1833 ; trans, and adm. 6th June 1844 ; died unmarr. 1st Sept. 1859. Collegiate, or Second Charge. [Uncollegiated by the Presbytery, 27th April 1836, with a view to the erection of Greenside.] 1598 JOHN HALL, trans, from Leith, and adm. 7th Dec. 1598. Hesitating to believe in the Gowrie Conspiracy, or to offer thanksgiving for the royal deliverance on 5th Aug. 1600, he was dis- charged from preaching in any part of His Majesty's dominions, under pain of death, but afterwards declaring himself satisfied as to the truth of the affair, he was re- poned ; trans, to the East, or Little Kirk, at the King's request, after 21st Feb. 1610. —[Edin. Counc. and Privy Comic. Reg., Rooke of the Kirk; Row's, Spottiswood's, and Calderwood's Hists. ; Orig. Lett., i. ; Melvill's Autob.] JOHN MAXWELL, M.A. ; trans, from Trinity Parish ; elected by the Town Council 14th Dec. 1625 ; adm. 27th Jan. 1626; trans, to First Charge same year. — [Edin. Conn. Reg.'] 1626 1628 DAVID MITCHELL [MITCHELSON], M.A. ; trans, from Garvock ; pres. by the Town Council 25th Jan., and adm. before 9th April 1628 ; trans, to First Charge about 1634. — [Edin. Counc. Reg.] DAVID FLETCHER, M.A. (St Andrews 1625) ; elected by the Town Council1685 29th April, and adm. 22nd May 1635. Deposed 1st Jan. 1639 for declining the preceding Glasgow Assembly, and reading and defending the Service Book ; reponed 27th Aug. 1639. He became min. of Mel- rose, and held the Bishopric of Argyll in conjunction (q.v.).—[Edin. Counc. Reg., Peterkin's Rec. ; Acts Gen. Ass., 1638; Monteith's Mort., ii. ; Baillie's Lett., i. ; Stevenson's Hist. ; Wodrow's MS., lxiii.] 1647 JAMES HAMILTON, born 1600, son of Gawen, third son of Hans H., vicar of Dunlop, and nephew of Viscount Claneboye ; studied at Glasgow Univ. ; acted for a time as his uncle's land agent in Ireland ; ord. by Bishop Echlin min. at Ballywalter, Co. Down, 1626 ; dep. for refusing to use the Service Book 1636 ; was adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland in 1638, and settled at Dumfries. He was commissioned by the Assembly of 1642, 1643, to visit the Presbyterians in the north of Ireland, and when returning was captured by Sir Alex- ander Macdonald (Montrose's lieutenant), and imprisoned for ten months with great hardship in Mingary Castle ; pres. by the Town Council 13th July, and adm. 26th Nov. 1647. He was a member of Assembly 1648, and along with James Guthrie was appointed to draw up an account of the duties of elders, and a form for visitation of families. He was nominated by the Estates, May 1650, for examining Montrose after his capture. In Jan. 1651 he was one of those who met with the Protesters at St Andrews to adjust their differences, but without effect. While sitting with a com- mittee of the Estates at Alyth, 28th Aug. 1651, he was seized, with others, by the English army, carried into England, and detained in the Tower of London for nine- teen months. Released by Cromwell's order, 20th Nov. 1652, he returned to Edinburgh, where he preached till the res- toration of Episcopacy drove him from his pulpit and compelled him to retire to Inver- esk, 7th Aug. 1662. He died at Edinburgh, 10th March 1666. He marr. (1) Elizabeth, daugh. of David Watson, min. of Killeavy, Ireland, by whom he had fifteen children ; of whom Archibald, min. of Killinchy, Jane, Mary, Margaret, and Elizabeth, only arrived at maturity : (2) Anna, daugh. of