EDINBURGH] CURRIE 15 his father"; proposed 21st Jan. 1591 ; adm. (colleague and successor) 16th Dec. 1591. In 1594 there was a complaint to the Presb. that William Wardlaw of Curriehill "brak up his rooms, cuist out his guds and geir, tramping his books under feitt," and " misused himselff by catchand him by ye neck and pulling him under his feet." He dem. Jan. 1631; died 12th Oct. 1634, aged about 66. He marr. (1) before 1596, Isobel Matheson : (2) after 1606, Janet Aird, who survived him, and had issue—Henry ; Adam ; James ; William, apprenticed 18th June 1628 to James Wright, hatmaker, Edinburgh ; Ronald ; Helen (marr., cont. 26th Sept. 1621, George Straiton, hatmaker, burgess of Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds, cccxxxvi., 105); Martha (marr. Alex. Hay of Ravelrig). — [Beg. Assig. ; Test., Edin. Comic, and Reg. Sas. and Rapt. ; Stat. Rep., 1627 ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 772, 890, 1386 —et Gen. 2093.] JOHN CHARTERIS, son of Henry C, 1631 Proiessor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh ; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (25th July 1624); pres. by the Town Council of Edinburgh 19th Jan., and adm. before 17th June 1631 ; died 14th Feb. 1668, aged about 64. He marr. 26th Sept. 1633, Rebecca, died 23rd March 1676 (she is called Sara in the register of her interment in Greyfriars), second daugh. of Laurence Henderson, merchant, Edinburgh (A. Guthrie, Prot. Bk., iv., 225), and had issue—Rebecca ; Isobel; Laurence, advocate, 1668, died 19th Aug. 1676; John (A. Peters, Prot. Bk., 10th Oct. 1664) ; Barbara.—[Craufurd's Univ. ; Edin. Cotinc., xiv. ; Edin. Test, and Regs. ; Wodrow's Hist., i. ; Sed. Book of Teinds; Inq. Ret. Ayr, 346; Gen. 2492—de Tut. 635, 636.] JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, son of John S. 1668 °^ Kirkton, Dundee, and Jean, daugh. of James M'Gill of Rankeillor ; edu- cated at St Leonard's College, St Andrews ; M.A. (25th July 1663); ord. and coll. 22nd Oct. 1668; became Presb. clerk; deprived by the Committee of Estates, May 1689, for taking away the key of the kirk door, not preaching, not reading the Proclamation, and not praying for King William and Queen Mary. He died in 1699, aged about 56. He marr. 17th Dec. 1668, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter Chisholm, bailie of Dunblane, and had issue—James, died in 1680 ; Henry, W.S., of West Lochgelly, held a bursary on Robert Johnston's foundation, 7th Aug. 1685, died 9th Oct. 1731 ; John, student at the Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar of the Presb. in 1686 and 1687; and two daughters alive in June 1772 {The Scottish Antiquary, Sept. 1880). — [Act. Red. Univ. St And. ; Corstorphine and Ratho Sess., Edin. Comic. Reg., xxxiii. ; Reg. Collat. ; Acts Pari., ix. ; Peterkin's Constitution of the Church, Malcolm's House of Drum- mond; MS. Ace. of Mm., 1689; Douglas's Peerage^] HENRYHAMILTON, M.A. (Edinburgh, .aM 11th Feb. 1681); ord. to Falkland 1690 ; trans, and adm. 1691 ; trans, to Donaghadee 6th Nov. 1700. He marr. Esther, daugh. of Andrew Stewart, min. of Donaghadee.—[Corstorphine Sess. Reg.] ROBERT TAYLOR, ord. to Houston ll701 1695 ; trans, and adm. 13th Nov. 1701; died 10th Aug. 1713. He marr. March 1699, Margaret, daugh. of Hew Yerner, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue—Margaret (marr. 13th July 1727, Andrew M'Farquhar, Excise officer in South Leith).—[Edin. Test, and Regs.] MUNGO CLARKSON, a native of 1714 Selkirkshire, brother to John C, baker, Edinburgh (Services, 1729) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th April 1711; called 29th Dec. 1713; having previously been presented to Galashiels, his ordination was delayed till 23rd Dec. 1714; died 28th Oct. 1717. JOHN SPARK, tutor in the family of 1(_ig Erskine of Grange; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 6th July 1718; called 22nd April; ord. 11th Aug. 1719, in opposition to the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh. When returning from a meeting of the Presb. at Edinburgh, he was drowned in crossing the Water of Leith on horseback, at the " Sclait fuird,"