186 NEW STREET—ROXBURGH PLACE [PRESB. OF NEW STREET CHAPEL. [Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 16th March 1794. By Act 30 & 31 Vict. cap. 107 (20th Aug. 1862), which uncollegiated the parish of Canongate, New Street was erected into a parish quoad sacra, but no min. was appointed. By Act 33 & 34 Vict. cap. 87 (9th Aug. 1870) the charge was abolished in 1884, and the parish was divided between Trinity and Canongate parishes.] DAVID DICKSON, trans, from Both- ,_ _ kennar, and adm. 22nd Oct. 1795 ; dem. 27th Feb. 1799, on appointment to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh. DAVID SAVILE, born 1774, educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1791) ; tutor in the family of David Johnston of Lathrisk ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 4th May 1796 ; Lecturer in Theology at Northampton ; joined the Presbyterian Classis at Long Lawford 9th April 1798 ; ord. by Presb. of Cupar to Little Harborough, Warwickshire, 10th July 1798 ; trans, to St Andrew's, Dun- fermline, 1799; trans, to this charge 10th Oct. 1799 ; died 12th June 1810. He marr. Ann (died 23rd June 1834), daugh. of Commissary-General Petrie, and had issue —David, died 28th May 1816 ; Mary (marr. John Anderson, merchant, Mexico), died at Edinburgh 8th Oct. 1844 ; Ann Petrie, missionary of the Church of Scotland, India (marr. John Anderson, min. of Coulter) ; Elizabeth Saville, died 31st Oct. 1884, aged 75. Publications— Salvation only to be obtained through Christ, a sermon (Edin- burgh, 1803); The Progress of Man, an essay (Edinburgh, 1804); A Letter to the Members of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, respecting the Election ofa Secretary (Edinburgh, 1805) ; Disserta- tions on the Existence, Attributes, Providence and Moral Government of God (Edinburgh, 1807) ; Discourses on the Peculiar Doctrines of Revelation (Edinburgh, 1810) ; Sermons (Edinburgh, 1814).—[Tombst., Old Calton Churchyard.] ROBERT KAY, trans, from Kinclaven, and adm. 18th Oct. 1811 ; dem. on appointment to West Parish, Perth, 9th Nov. 1813. 1811 WILLIAM DUNN, son of William D., watchmaker, Glasgow ; ord. 18th Aug. 1814 ; died 7th June 1822. He marr. 20th Feb. 1816, Eliza (died 3rd March 1824), daugh. of Alexander Campbell, col- lector of Excise. JOHN CLARK, M.A. ; ord. 25th April 1823; trans, to Second Charge, Canongate, 12th Sept. 1833. WILLIAM NISBET, only son of William N., Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 25th April 1832 ; assistant at Clarkston Chapel ; ord. 25th Sept. 1834. Joined the Free Church ; min. of Canongate Free Church 1843; died 27th Sept. 1869. He marr. Catherine Arthur, who died 6th Jan. 1859. Publication— The Voluntary Sup- port of the Christian Ministry, the Only Method Acceptable to God, and Beneficial to the Church (Edinburgh, 1835). ROXBURGH PLACE CHAPEL. [Formerly a chapel belonging to the Belief Church. The introduction of an organ in 1829, while agreeable to the minister and practically all his congrega- tion, was vigorously opposed by the neigh- bouring congregations, who petitioned the Synod to suppress the innovation. On the Synod's deciding against the use of instrumental music in public worship, the congregation ceased connection with the Relief body, 17th May 1829. On 26th June 1833, minister and people were admitted into the Church of Scotland, and a parish quoad sacra was declared by Act of Assembly, 31st May 1834. A debt of £4000 having accumulated, the church passed by sale into the hands of private parties. In 1856 the building was pur- chased by the trustees of Lady Glenorchy's Church, and it was occupied by that con- gregation till 1913, when a new church