38 OLD GREYFRIARS [PKESB. OF
ANDREW RAMSAY, M.A. ; adin. 28th
April 1614 ; trans, to the Old Kirk
Parish, probably about 1640-1.—
[E<fin. Gounc. Re<j.; Row's, Stevenson's,
and Calderwood's Ifists. (vii.) ; Jfaitland
Miscdl., ii. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., ci.]
GEORGE GILLESPIE, M.A. ; trans.
1642 ^rom Wemyss ; elected and pies, by
the Town Council 12th Oct. 1641 ;
adm. 23rd Sept. 1642 ; trans, to the High
Kirk Parish after Sept. 1647.
—
[Edin. Comic.
Reg., Murray's Life of Rutherford.']
[WILLIAM RAIT, min. at Brechin, was
1848 nominated 22nd March 1648, his
presentation being "imbraced with
ane hearty thanksgiving," but he did not
accept.]
ROBERT TRAIL, born 1603, son of
1849 Colonel James T., of Killcleary,
Ireland, Gentleman of the Privy
Chamber to Henry, Prince of Wales, and
grandson of the Laird of Blebo, and
Matilda Melvill of Carnbee ; M.A. (St
Andrews, 21st July 1621) ; studied at the
Protestant College ofSaumur ; English tutor
in France to the sister of the Due de
Rohan 1628 ; chaplain to Archibald, Mar-
quess of Argyll (beheaded 1661); ord. to
Elie 17th July 1639 ; chaplain to the Scots
army at Marston Moor 1644 ; elected by
the Town Council 7th Nov. 1648 ; trans,
and adm. 23rd March 1649. In 1650 he
attended the Marquess of Montrose on the
scaffold. He preached before Charles II.
at his coronation at Scone in 1651. In
1654 he was appointed by Cromwell one
of those for certifying the ability and piety
of such as were fit to be admitted to the
ministry in the Lothian and Border pro-
vinces. With several others he was com-
mitted to Edinburgh Castle, 23rd Aug.
1660, for engaging in a new Remonstrance,
where he lay for ten months, when, having
fallen sick, he was temporarily permitted
to return home. He was next charged
with high treason before the Privy Council,
when he obliged himself, 11th Dec. 1662,
to remove from the kingdom within a
month, under pain of death. Owing to
tempestuous weather he experienced diffi-
culty in finding a ship in which to sail
to Holland, and the Privy Council granted
him a month's further grace in which
to take his departure. In a petition he
states that he " is towards the age of
sixty years, if not more, and so cannot
weill take such ajourney in such a season
without evident hazard of his life " {Reg.
P. C). For some years he carried on a
weekly correspondence with his friend
Guthrie of Fenwick. Returning to Edin-
burgh, he died 12th July 1678, and was
buried in Greyfriars. A portrait of him
is preserved in Smith's Iconographia Scot
and Pinkerton's Scottish Gallery. He marr.
23rd Dec. 1639, Jean (died Dec. 1680),
daugh. of Alexander Annand of Auchter-
allan, Aberdeenshire, and Margaret Cheyne
(who suffered imprisonment, June 1665,
for corresponding with her husband in his
exile), and had issue—William, min. of
Borthwick ; Robert, min. in London,
and Bass Rock prisoner, born 1642, died
16th May 1716 ; James, Lieut, of Stirling
Castle, bapt. 10th March 1650, died 1721
;
Helen (marr. Thomas Paterson, min.
of Borthwick); Agnes, born 1646, died
1690 (marr. Sir James Steuart of Good-
trees, Lord Advocate) ; Margaret, born
1648, died 1717 (marr. James Scott of
Bristo, writer in Edinburgh). Publication
—A Letterfrom a Father to his Children,
—[Elie Sess., Edin. Comic., Gen. Sess.,
Guild, and Reg. (Rapt, and Bur.) ; Acts
Pari., vii. ; Lamont's and Nicoll's Diaries
;
Rutherford's and Baillie's Lett., iii. ; Peter-
kin's Rec. ; Wodrow's Hist., i., ii., andAnal.
iv. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxiii. ; Chambers's
Arm., ii. ; Wilson's Diss. Churches, i.
;
Muii. Univ. Glasg.,\\.; Steven's Scott. Ch.,
Rotterd.; Murray's Life of Rutherford,
Lockerby's Life of J. Brown, Lord
Guthrie's Chalmers and Trail Ancestry,
Bryce's Old Greyfriars (portrait).]
ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A.; trans, from
the East (St Giles) Church, to make
provision for the new Bishop of
Edinburgh, 2nd June 1662, but deprived