56 ST GILES [PKESB. OF the Gowrie Conspiracy, or to offer thanks- giving for the King's escape ; on 6th Aug. 1600 he was inhibited from preaching, and on 10th Sept. was called before the Privy Council, when he declared himself satisfied as to the truth of the plot against the King. He was reponed ; was Moderator of Assembly in 1601 ; would join in no steps for the relief of the brethren who held an assembly at Aberdeen in 1605 ; nominated constant Moderator of Presb. in 1606 ; was a member of the Court of High Commission 15th Feb. 1610 ; trans, in terms of His Majesty's request, and adm. after 21st Feb. 1610. He was a member of General Assembly same year, and again of the Court of High Commission 21st Dec. 1615. In 1616 he drew up (with John Adamson, min. of Liberton), a Confession of Faith and Catechism. In 1617 he signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk, but withdrew his protest, and de- mitted March 1619, being then old and infirm. In the latter years of his life, sus- pected of having encouraged resistance to the Articles of Perth, he was ordered by the Privy Council to remove to Montrose. He died Aug. 1627. He marr. Margaret Arnot, niece of John Johnston, writer, Edinburgh, and of John Arnot, burgess of Edinburgh (Sas., 6th June 1592 ; Prot. Bk. of Henry Elder, p. 895), and had issue—John ; William ; Andrew, bapt. 19th July 1601 ; Eobert, bapt. 19th Oct. 1604. Publication — Catechism (Edinburgh, 1619). — [Edin. (Bapt.), Counc, Guild, and Test. Beg. ; Orig. Bett., Booke of the Kirk, Mel- vill's Autob., Scott's Apolog. Narr., Row's and Calderwood's Hists. ; Wodrow's MS. Biog., ii.] WILLIAM STRUTHER [STRUTH- ERS], born at Glasgow about 1578; probably son of the reader there ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1599) ; an " expectant " in the Merse in 1602 ; on the exercise at Glasgow 21st March 1604 ; adm. min. of Kirkintilloch 8th March 1607 ; trans, to High Church, Glasgow, 3rd May 1612 ; trans, to St Giles, Edinburgh, after 15th June 1614 ; one of four app. by the Assembly of 1616 to answer the books and pamphlets written by the Papists, and to revise the Confes- sion of Faith previous to publication. He signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest ; was a member of the Court of High Commission 15th June 1619 ; trans, and adm. 25th Jan. 1626. On the erection of the diocese of Edinburgh, he became Dean, and died 9th Nov. 1633. To the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow he left 6000 merks for theological bursaries. He marr. Elizabeth (died Feb. 1641), daugh. of Andrew Roberton of Stonehall, and had issue—Andrew, whose son John was served heir to his grandfather (G. R. Inhib., 9th May 1645); Margaret; William, bapt. 29th June 1617 ; James and Elizabeth (twins) ; Samuel. Publications — Christian Observations and Resolutions (Edinburgh, 1628 ; another edition, 1629) ; A Booking Glasse for Princes and People, with a Booking Glasse for Princes and Popes (Edinburgh, 1632) ; True Happiness, or King David's Choice (London, 1633) ; Better to the Earl of Airthe ; Grievances of Ministers (1635) ; The Sanctuary of the Troubled. Soul (anon.).—[Edin. (Bapt.), Counc, and Test. Reg. ; Row's and Calder- wood's Hists. ; Baillie's Bett., iii. ; Demp- terii Hist., ii. ; Deeds Coll. of Glasg., Kirk Pap. ; Bannati/ne Miscell., ii. ; Wodrow's MS. Biog., ii.] THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A. ; trans. from Trinity Parish; pres. to the Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles I. 18th Jan. 1634 ; elected by the Council, adm. 19th Feb., and dem. 30th July 1634, having been consecrated Bishop of Brechin (q.v.).—[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Wodrow's MS. Biog., ii.] JAMES HANNAY, son of John H, bailie and burgess in the Canongate (of the family of Hannay of Sorbie, Wigtownshire); M.A. (Edinburgh,22nd July 1615); min. of Kilmaurs in 1620; trans, to Canongate in 1624 ; pres. to the Deanery by Charles I. 13th May and 20th Oct. 1634 ; pres. by the Council 30th March 1635, and adm. soon after. On 23rd July 1637 he proceeded to read " Laud's Liturgy " 1635