EDINBURGH] BUCCLEUCH—CANONGATE 23 trans, and adm. 8th March 1882 ; died 22nd Jan. 1901. He marr. Margaret Johnston (died 26th Dec. 1901), daugh. of James Caie, Inspector of Post Offices, Chatham, New Brunswick, and had issue—Ian Went- worth, Wairoa, New Zealand, born 31st Dec. 1876. DAVID ANDREW ROLLO, M.A., 1901 B.D. ; trans, from Avendale 17th May 1901 ; trans, to Springburn, Glasgow, 24th Sept. 1907. JAMES EDWARD HOUSTON, M.A., 1908 ®*^' ' trans, from Cambuslang, and adm. 15th Jan. 1908 ; trans, to Shaw- lands, Glasgow, 19th Feb. 1913. NEIL MACLEOD ROSS, born Glen- lgl3 dale, Skye, 24th Sept. 1873, son of Kenneth R. and Margaret Macleod ; educated at Glasgow High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1904), B.D. (1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1904 ; assistant at Holburn, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's, Edinburgh ; ord. to St James's, Kirkcaldy, 13th March 1907 ; trans, to Rosemount 10th Aug. 1911 ; trans, and adm. 17th Sept. 1913. Marr. 21st Aug. 1907, Helen Annand, M.A., daugh. of David Smith, Alyth, and has issue—Janet Morag, born 21st Feb. 1909; Kenneth David, born 25th Feb. 1913, died 3rd March 1914. CANONGATE, formerly HOLYROODHOUSE. [The Privy Council, at His Majesty's desire, 13th Sept. 1672, forbade the use of the church at Holyrood as a Parish Church, that it might be set apart as a Chapel Royal, and a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle (Treas. Reg., iii., 449). The congregation worshipped in Lady Yester's Church until the new church in the Canongate was opened in 1691.] JOHN CRAIG, app. in 1561 ; trans. 1561 (c°Ueaoue to John Knox) 2nd July 1562. "The counsale, understanding the tedious and havie laboris be thair minister, Johnne Knox, in preiching thris in the ouek and twis on the Sounday, ordanis with ane consent to solist and persuade maister Johnne Craig, presentlie minister of the Canongait, to accept upoun him the half chargeis of the preaching in the said kirk of Edinburgh for sic gude deid as they can aggre on." JOHN BRAND, formerly a canon in the 1564 Abbey of Holyrood, was employed by Archbishop Hamilton, during the progress of the Reformation, to carry a message to John Knox, "That howsoever he had introduced anotherForm of Religion, and reformed the doctrine of the Church, whereof it might be there was some reason ; yet he should do well not to shake loose the Order and Policy received, which had been the work of many ages, till he were sure of a better to be settled in place thereof." Examined and admitted by the Superin- tendent of Lothian in 1564. He was pres. by James VI., 5th Jan. of that year, to the chaplaincy of St Ninian ; died 2nd Sept. 1600, having "served many years with good commendation." He marr. (1) Elizabeth Johnston, and had issue—James, who had a pension of £40 out of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, 1580 {Reg. Sec. Sig., 475) : (2) Abigail Smyth, and had issue—Eliza- beth ; Katherine ; John, student of philo- sophy, who killed a young man with a knife at St Leonard's Crags, 27th May 1615, for which he was sentenced to be beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh ; James (St Andrews K. S. Reg. Scot. Hist. Soc, 627) ; Janet (marr. James Brown : Reg. of Deeds, xlv., 277); Katherine, bapt. 19th March 1600 (Edin.)—[Keith's Hist., Reg. Min. ; Assig., Test., and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Booh of the Kirk ; Zurich Lett., ii. ; Wodroiv and Maitland Miscell., ii. ; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, iii. ; Wodrow's Biog., i.] HENRY BLYTH, M.A. ; trans, from Second Charge, and adm. 1601 ; deprived by the Court of High Commission, 26th Jan. 1620, it being His Majesty's pleasure he "should not return, and that he wald give obedience in some other place." He was settled at Eccles in 1622.— [Reg. Assig., Priv. Counc. Reg.; Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, ii. ; Row's and Calder- wood's Hists. ; Orig. Lett.']