DUNBAR] PRESTONKIRK 415
charged by the Privy Council, 17th Jan.
1607, to receive him within twenty-four
hours after notice, under pain of rebellion.
He was a member of the Court of High
Commission 21st Dec. 1615, and died 28th
Aug. 1618, aged about 51. He marr. Agnes
Eamsay, who survived him {Reg. of Deeds,
ccclxi., 12th June 1623), and had issue
—
Marion (marr. 24th May 1617, Christopher
Knowes, burgess of Dunbar, min. of
Coldingham) ; William, entered 26th May
1617 apprentice to John Fullerton ; Robert,
apprentice to John Bisset, merchant, 17th
June 1629 ; a daugh. marr. 16th Oct. 1625,
William Carnegie, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh ; Margaret (marr., cont. 19th
and 21st April 1632 {Reg. of Deeds,
cccclxxviii., 377) James Craw, jr., of Whit-
field).— [Reg. Assig.; Haddingt. Presb.,
Priv. Counc., and Test. Reg. ; Booke of the
Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.]
JOHN DALZELL, a descendant of John
-
lq D. of Knownoble, in the parish of
Shotts, Lanarkshire ; a cadet of the
Dalziels of that ilk; M.A. (Edinburgh,
28th July 1610); on the exercise at Had-
dington 8th June 1614 ; schoolmaster at
Prestonpans ; pres. 1619 ; a member of
Assembly 1638, and of several others ; died
between 21st July 1669 and 25th Aug. 1669.
He marr. (1) 18th Feb. 1617, Elizabeth (died
Oct. 1656), daugh. of James Young, min.
of Tynninghame, and had issue—William ;
Robert of Knownoble ; Andrew (appren-
ticed, 31st Jan. 1655, to John Foulis,
apothecary, Edinburgh), apothecary in
Wallingford, Berkshire ; Thomas ; a daugh.,
who marr. David Laing, called brother-
in-law by William, eldest son, 1664
{G. R. Sas., x., 179); two sons were
drowned in the Tyne, close to the manse
gate : (2) Margaret, daugh. of Andrew
Melvill of Garvock, widow of> Thomas
Maitland, min. of Garvald {Reg. of Deeds,
Mack., 8th Feb. 1666). John Dalzell,
according to Acts and Decreets, cccli., 190,
obtained presentation to the parsonage and
vicarage from Walter, Earl of Buccleuch,
on promise to pay 1000 merks to John
Clerk, M.A., who had the Earl's promise
of the benefice.
—
[Haddingt. Presb., Pres-
tonp., Innerw. and Tynningh. Sess., Test.
{Edin. and Haddingt.), and New Gen. Reg.
Sasines, iii., x. ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.
;
Acts of Ass., Baillie's Lett., Stevenson's
Hist.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 355.]
JOHN DARNGAVEL, M.A. (Edin-
1&7Q burgh 1655); min. of Southdean in
1667; trans, and coll. 24th March
1670 ; he was accused, 1st April following,
by Isabel Cruickshanks (before the kirk-
session of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh), of
immorality, and was probably dep.
—
[Edin.
JV. E. Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.]
GEORGE SHIELS [SHIELL], M.A.
167 (Edinburgh, 27th July 1663); min.
of Durisdeer in 1669 ; trans, and
coll. 22nd June 1671. For preaching
against popery in the Abbey Church of
Holyrood, 11th April 1686, "declaring the
Pope was as little infallible as the Bishop
of the Isles, etc.," he was sharply reproved
at the Synod two days afterwards ; de-
prived by the Privy Council, 29th Aug.
1689, for not reading the Proclamation of
the Estates, nor praying for William and
Mary, but for James VII.
—
[Reg. Collat.,
Tynningh. Sess. Reg., Fountainhall's
Diary; MS. Ace. of Min,, 1689.]
1679
GILBERT RULE, M.D. ; indulged by
the Privy Council ; took charge of
a meeting-house at Linton Bridge,
East Linton, for a time. He became min.
of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh.—[Wodrow's
Hist., Calamy's Account, Grant's Hist.
Univ. Edin., Crichton's Life of Black-
adder.]
1690
JOHN HARVIE, was a min. at the first
meeting of Presbyterians in the
Synod after the Toleration, 6th July
1687 ; min. in 1690 ; died 12th Aug. 1691,
leaving John, his heir.
—
[S. Leith Sess. Reg.
;
Reg. Gen. Ass. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7216.]
JOHN FORREST, M.A. (Glasgow
1654); ord. to Tulliallan 1660;1692 deprived 1662. He held conven-
ticles, for which Bishop Leighton refused
to prosecute him ; was indulged at
Carmichael 1676 ; returned to Tulliallan
in 1690 ; trans, to Falkland 1691 ; trans.