HADDINGTON] PENCAITLAND 385 the Kirk of Scotland to her Beloved Children (1620) ; A Dialogue anent the verging of Nerv Ceremonies upon the Kirk of Scotland (1620) ; Queries concerning the State of the Church of Scot!'and (1621 and 1638) ; The First and Second Books of Discipline (1621) ; The Altar of Damascus (1621) ; The Course of Con- formitie (1622) ; Reply to Dr Morton's General Defence of Three Nocent Ceremonies (1622); Paraclesis contra Danielis Tileui Silesii Parcenesin ad Scotos Genevensis dis- ciplince zelotas Conscriptam (1622) ; Altare Damascenvm (1623); An Exhortation of the Particular Kirks of Christ in Scotland to their Sister Kirk in Edinburgh (1624); An Epistle of a Christian. Brother, exhort- ing another to keep Himselfe vndefiledfrom the Present Corrujitions brought in to the Ministration of the Lord's Supper (1624); A Dispute upon Communicating at our Confused Communions (1624); The Pastor and the Prelate (1628, 1692, 1843); A Re- i lamination of the Five Articles enacted at Perth (1636); The Re-examination of two of the Articles abridged (1636); An Answer to Mr J. Forbes of Corse, his Peaceable Warning (1638); The True History of the Church ofScotland (1678) j The History of the Kirk of Scotland, 8 vols. (Wodrow Society, Edinburgh, 1842-9).—[Life {Hist., viii.) ; living's Scot. Writ., Wodrow's Ana/., Row's and Stevenson's Ilists., Bail- lie's Lett. ; Acts Pari., vi. ; Advocates' Lib. Catal. ; Grub's Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, 1861, ii., iii. ; Walker's Senilis], Theology and Theologians, 1862; Diet. Nat. Biog.] ALEXANDER VERNOR, M.A. (Edin- burgh, 23rd July 1636) ; schoolmaster of Musselburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith, and ord. 18th March 1653 ; coll. 12th Dec. 1*162; died 1st April 1669, aged about 53. He man*. Isobel (died in July 1714, aged 102), daugh. of Andrew Makghie, inin. of Dirleton, and had issue—Catherine. —[Beg. Sec. Sig. and Collat., Dirleton Sess. Beg., Wbdrow's Hist."] [GEORGE SHIEL, M.A., min. of Duris- deer, was pros, by Charles II. 16th April, and coll. 14th May lfi6i), but his inst. was VOL. I. 1653 1669 cancelled July following. — Reg. Sec. Sig. and Collat.] ROBERT DOUGLAS, son of Robert, an illegitimate son of Sir George D. of Lochleven, brother of William, fifth Earl of Morton. Educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1614) ; licen. about 1617. Almost immediately afterwards he was engaged as chaplain to one of the brigades of Scottish auxiliaries co-operating with Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War. During that period he is said to have had no other book to read but the Bible, and committed nearly the whole of it to memory. Returning to Scotland he became min. of Second Charge, Kirkcaldy, in 1628. He was a member of Assembly in 1638, and was trans, in 1639 to the Second Charge of St Giles, Edin- burgh. In 1641 he was removed to the Tolbooth Parish. He was Moderator of Assembly 1642—as also in 1645, 1647, 1649, and 1651. In 1643 he was elected a com- missioner to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. In 1644 he was chaplain to one of the Scots Regiments in England. In 1649 he was again min. of St Giles, and assisted in the presentation of the Solemn League and Covenant to Parlia- ment. In 1650 he was one of the mins. who waited on Charles II. at Dunferm- line, to obtain his signature to a declaration of religion, when Charles refused to sign, and a serious division of the Church ensued. Douglas became a leader of the Resolu- tioners, the moderate party. On 1st Jan. 1651 he preached at the coronation of Charles II. at Scone. Sent prisoner to London by Cromwell in 1653, he was soon released. In 1654 he was summoned to London (with others) to consult with the Protector upon the affairs of the Church of Scotland. In 1659 he preached the sermon at the opening of Heriot's Hospital. In 1661 he preached before Parliament. After the Restoration he was offered the Bishopric of Edinburgh, but indignantly declined, and remonstrated with Sharp for accepting the Archbishopric of St Andrews. On 27th June 1662 he was translated to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, but refusing to conform to Episcopacy, he was deprived 2 B