260 SYMINGTON [PEESB. OF JOHN SYMOXTOX, probably son of 1592 ^Yilliani S. of that ilk ; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. before 5th Feb. 1592 ; in 1593 Thankerton was also under his charge ; was still min. in 1597. — [Reg. Assig.] JOHX LIXDSAY, min. of Carstairs ; leoi Pres - t° the vicarage by James VI. ; resigned previous to 9th Sept. 1607, and returned to Carstairs. — [Reg. Assig.] ROBERT LIXDSAY, pres. to the 1607 vicarage by James VI. 9th Sept. 1607. 1623 1649 ANDREW GUDLAD, son of David G., infeft as heir of his brother John in two acres near St Andrews (Fife Sas., xii., 198); M.A. (St Andrews 1599); pres. in 1623 ; dep. 31st Aug. 1648, " being found altogether unprofitable, and a contemner of the acts and constitutions of the Kirk tending to the Reformation and settling of the true religion."— [Act. Red. Univ. St And., Test. Reg. (Lan.).] GEORGE PHIX, schoolmaster of South Leith 13th Feb. 1645; pres. by Sir William Baillie of Lamington 23rd May 1649 ; adm. 17th July 1649 ; continued 5th May 1657 ; but the charge was vacant 4th May 1658 ; ejected by Presb. after three years process (P. C. Deereta, 1662). [At Slamannan in 1661.] — [S. Leith Sess., Presb., Dalkeith.] JOHXRAE, son of William R., merchant, 16_a burgess of Edinburgh, to whom he was served heir 7th Feb. 1666 ; edu- cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1651); adm. between 4th May and 2nd Xov. 1658 ; deprived by the Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He became one of the most zealous of the Covenanting preachers ; and for eight years peregrinated the country, conducting public worship on the hillsides and in private houses. In 1670 he was committed to the Canongate Tolbooth. Thence he was taken to Stirling Castle, and afterwards to that of Dumbarton. Liberated in 1672 under the " Indulgence Act," he was permitted to discharge all his ministerial duties provided he would limit his sphere of effort to the Cumbraes. This he refused to do, and along with John Welsh and others, went about from place to place "holding con- venticles, marrying, baptizing, and dispens- ing the Lord's Supper." For nine years he assiduously carried on these earnest labours. In 1681 he was captured and sent to the Edinburgh Tolbooth, and three years later to the Bass, where he died, and was buried at Xorth Berwick. — [Inq. Ret. Gen., 4962 ; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., Crichton's Mem. of BlacTcadder.] JOHX LAW, M.A. (Edinburgh, 14th 1665 July 1659) ; died in 1675, aged about 36. He marr. Helen, daugh. of John Law of Ryesland, and had issue—John ; William ; Helen (marr. John Law, portioner of Ryesland : G. R. Sas., xxviii., 35). — [Test. Reg. (Lan.).] ROBERT LAWSOX, pres. by James, 1676 Bishop of Dunblane, and inst. 10th April 1676 ; trans, to Libberton and Quothquan 26th July 1681.— [Stoio Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.] AXGUS MACKIXTOSH, M.A.; inst. 16g2 and adm. 24th April 1682 ; trans, to Stonehouse after 1st April 1685. — [Test. Reg. (Lan,).] JOHX LOGAX, inst. 2nd May 1686; 1686 continued 2nd May 1688, but outed by the rabble 1689.—{MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.] 1692 WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, son of Thomas C. of Eastend and Janet Baillie; M.A. (Edinburgh, 9th July 1688, and held a bursary of philosophy at Glasgow in 1690); ord. 20th Sept. 1692; died unmarr. before 11th May 1699, aged about 31. — [Test. Reg. (Lan,); Inq. Ret. Gen., 1784.] PATRICK MITCHELL, licen. by 1700 Presb. of Peebles 17th Aug. 1699; called 3rd Jan., and ord. 25th April 1700 ; died 18th Dec. 1711, in his 50th year. He marr. Oct. 1702, Elizabeth Plenderleath, who survived him. — [Test. Reg. (Lan.), Tombst.]