DALKEITH] INVERESK, oh MUSSELBURGH 325
1595
PHILIP HISLOP, M.A., regent in the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; called Nov.
1593 ; adm. assistant 1st Jan. 1595 ;
died 1596, aged about 29. He marr. Sarah
Weir, died 1596, and had issue—Richard,
apprenticed to John Little, tailor, Edin-
burgh, 4th Nov. 1612 (only surviving
child in 1615).— [Beg. Assig., Craufurd's
and Bower's Hists. of the Univ. Edin.,
Edin. Apprentice Beg.]
1597
ADAM COLT, born Perth 1562, youngest
son of Blaise C. ofLeonardly, Provost
of Perth, and Egidia Fleming ; edu-
cated at Perth and St Salvator's College,
St Andrews; M.A. (1583); regent in the
Univ. of Edinburgh 1586; min. of Borth-
wick in 1595. He was one of a committee
appointed by the Assembly to consider the
Articles submitted by the King, 1596
;
trans, and adm. to this charge 1597, and one
of the ministers proposed for Edinburgh
1598. He was opposed to the transporta-
tion in 1601 of the three city ministers
who had offended the King, and His
Majesty being present in the Assembly,
called him "a seditious knave.
:
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With
James Gibson he was a Commissioner to
Merse and Teviotdale. In 1603 he was
amember of the conference held at London,
previous to the establishment of Episcopacy.
After a detention at Court of ten months,
more fortunate than some of his brethren,
he Avas allowed to return on condition of
keeping within the bounds of his parish.
He dem. 3rd June 1641, and died, accord-
ing to his wish (it being not unusual for
him in prayer to ask of God that he
might die at his work of preaching), very
soon after his last sermon, Friday, 24th
March 1643, in his 82nd year. (The date
on his tombstone—1651—is incorrect.) He
marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Sir James John-
ston of Elphinston, and Janet, daugh.
of Sir John Melville of Raith (ancestor of
the Earls of Melville), and had issue
—
Oliver, his successor ; John, min. of Rober-
ton ; James ; William ; Robert ; George,
born 1614; Elizabeth (marr. the Laird of
Falsyde) ; Isobel (marr. David Merchiston,
min. of Ormiston); Sybil (marr. Robert
Douglas); Margaret, born 25th July 1611 ;
Geills (marr. James Robertson of Brun-
stane), died 7th Feb. 1645. Publication
—
Report of the Parishes of Inveresk awl
Musselburgh, 1627 (Maitland Club). (Colt's
papers,which were interesting and valuable,
perished by fire at Dalkeith ; only a few
were preserved. His portrait, painted by
George Jameson, is extant.).
—
[Beg. Assig.
et Sec. Sig., Melvill's Autob., Booke of the
Kirk; Calderwood's, Spottiswood's, and
Row's Hists. ; Livingston's Charac. ; Stat.
Reports, 1627 ; Hope's Diary, Sinclair's
Stat. Ace, Neiv Stat. Ace, Colt Family
History.]
OLIVER COLT, born 31st Dec. 1597,
1632 son °^ Preceding ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh and at Saumur in
France; M.A. (14th July 1621); licen.
by Presb. of Dalkeith 5th July 1627;
ord. and inst. (assistant) 5th Dec. 1632 ; a
member of Assembly 1638 ; pres. by Charles
I. 14th May, coll. 3rd, and inst. 4th June
1641. He had a protection from Montrose
20th Aug. 1645 ; took shelter in Dundee
when East and Mid-Lothian were overrun
by the English army in 1651 ; died 30th
Dec. 1679. He marr. 29th Jan. 1634,
Catherine, daugh. of John Logan of Bon-
nington (of the Restalrig family), and
Janet, daugh. of John Keir, Spittal, and
had issue—Adam, born 22nd Jan. 1635,
died in infancy ; John, born 15th Oct. 1640,
M.A. 1666, died 1679 ; Sir Robert, Solicitor-
General, born 16th Nov. 1641, died Jan.
1694 ; James, deputy-governor of Edin-
burgh Castle, born 1st Jan. 1659 ; Harry
;
Margaret, born 1636 (marr. Archibald
Chisholm, min. of Newbattle), died 23rd
April 1680; Jean, born 1639 (marr., cont.
31st Aug. 1664, William Menzies of Raw,
W.S.) ; Anne, born 14th Oct. 1640 (marr.
Alexander Ainslie of Blackhall) ; Janet,
born 15th April 1643 (marr. James Hunter,
min. of Dunning) ; Catherine, born 27th
Nov. 1647.
—
[Beg. Sec. Sig. ; Haddington
Presb., Test., Edin. Guild, and Beg.
(Marr.) ; Mem. of Montrose, Malcolm's
House of Drummond ; New Gen. Reg.
Sasines, x. ; Sinclair's Stat. Ace, New
Stat. Ace, Monteith's Theater of Mor-
tality, Colt Family History.}