10 CRAIGLOCKHART—CRAMOND [PRESB. OF
1903
first min. of the parish 12th Jan. 1898 ; res.
12th Nov. 1902; died 21st Nov. 1902. He
marr. 24th Jan. 1867, Margaret Glenny (died
13th Nov. 1897), daugh. of Arthur Thomson,
banker, Aberdeen, and had issue—William
Arthur, actor, born 7th March 1869.
ALFRED WILLIAM ANDERSON,
born 20th Sept. 1869, son of Alex-
ander A., min. of Rhynie ; educated
at Aberdeen; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893)
licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1893
assistant at Dunnottar ; ord. to Leslie
Aberdeenshire, 28th Aug. 1895 ; trans, and
adm. 18th May 1903. He marr. 8th April
1896, Elizabeth, daugh. of William Bain,
Aberdeen.
CRAMOND.
[A mensal or patrimonial kirk, dedicated
to St Columba. Previous to the Reforma-
tion it belonged to the Bishop of Dunkeld.]
WILLIAM CORNWALL, reader and
1573 exnort;er ; had a glebe assigned to
him 6th April 1573.— [Act. and
Dec, 214.]
GEORGE LUNDIE is mentioned by
Calderwood (iii., 47) as min. 6th Aug.
1575. He was then at Dalmeny,
with Aldcathie, Abercorn, and Cramond
in his charge, till 1577.
—
[Beg. Assig.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, trans, from
1580 Lesmahagow; trans, to Mordington
in 1581.—[Beg. Assig.]
PATRICK SIMSON, M.A. ; trans, from
1582 Spott ; trans, to Stirling 7th Aug.
1590.—[Reg. Assig., Booke of the
Kirk.']
MICHAEL CRANSTOUN, son of
15 Thomas C, min. of Liberton ; ord.
to Selkirk 1580 ; trans, to Liberton
1585 ; trans, and adm. to the vicarage
Feb. 1592, to which he was pres. by
James VI. 20th March 1603; declined a
call to Leith 1593 ; another to Lanark
1597. In 1596 he was styled "a verie
forward minister," and on 20th Dec. im-
prisoned for "stirring up a tumult and
uproare" in Edinburgh. In 1603, on the
1575
Union of the Crowns, he was one of the
ministers who met His Majesty "on their
knees, and prayed for him," at Haddington,
on his way toLondon ; and also one of those
who met at Linlithgow in 1606 to confer
with " the imprisoned ministers " previous
to their trial for declining the royal
authority in "causes spiritual." He died
in 1631. He marr. Agnes, sister of James
Murehead, min. of North Leith, and
had issue—John, min. of South Leith
;
Nathaniel, apprenticed to Walter Scott,
merchant, Edinburgh, 1607 ; Caleb, ap-
prenticed to Andrew Lauder, bookbinder,
Edinburgh, 1603 ; Jean ; William; Margaret
(marr. David Balsillie, min. of Corstor-
phine).
—
[Beg. Assig., Test. Beg., Melvill's
Autob. ; Calderwood's Hist., v.-vii. ; Orig.
Lett., i. ; Wood's Hist, of Cramond.]
WILLIAM KING, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1631 25th July 1607) ; regent in the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; adm. 1631
;
died June 1632, in his 44th year, and was
buried in the Canongate. He marr. (1)
a daugh. of Alex. King, advocate : (2)
29th Aug. 1616, Margaret (died Nov. 1620),
daugh. of Richard Casse of Fordel, and
had issue—William ; Jean (marr. George
Trotter, W.S.), died 20th Dec. 1644 ; Mar-
garet : (3) Margaret (died 1645), daugh.
of And. Couper, writer, and had issue
—
William and Alexander (who both died
young) ; Margaret ; Isobel ; Marie (pos-
thumous). Publication—Two Poems in The
Muse's Welcome, 1617.—[Craufurd's Univ.,
Test, and Edin. Beg. {Marr. and Bapt.) ;
Inq. Bet. Gen., 1908, 3098—de Tut., 355,
356, 1338, 1339, 1340; Wood's Hist, of
Cramond ; Dempsterii Hist. Eccl., ii.]
WILLIAM COLVILL, M.A. ; ord. 1635
;
trans, to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
1639.— [Edin. Comic. Beg., xiv.,
xv. ; Wood's Cramond ; Wodroiv MSS.,
Ixiii. ; Baillie's Lett., i. ; Guthrie's Mem. ;
Stevenson's Hist., ii. ; Murray's Life of
Btdherford.]
WILLIAM DALGLEISH, born 1599,
son of James D., grandson of Robert
D. of that ilk ; M.A. (St Andrews
1615) ; ord. to Kirkmabreck 1634 ; dep. by