70 OLD KIRK [PRESB. OF
Wodrow's MS. Biog., ii. ; Irving's Lives of
Scottish Writers, Memoirs by Bishoj) Syd-
serff, Macmillan's Aberdeen Doctors.]
JOHN MAXWELL, M.A. ; trans, from
1626 Second Charge ; trans, to the
Bishopric of Ross 26th April 1630
(q.v.).— [Edin. Counc. Reg., Row's and
Calderwood's Hists.]
DAVID MITCHELL [MITCHELSON],
1634 -M-.A. '} trans, from Second Charge in
1634; dep. 3rd Dec. 1638, for his
teaching of Arminianism and declining the
authority of the General Assembly. He
survived the Restoration, and on account
of his sufferings,had £200 allowedby Parlia-
ment from vacant stipends, 21st June 1661.
Hebecame Bishop of Aberdeen 1662 (q.v.).—
[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; ActsofAss., 1638 ; Peter-
kin's Rec, Kirkton's Hist. ; Acts Pari., vii.]
1641
ANDREW RAMSAY, born 1574, son of
Sir David R. of Balmain, Fetter-
cairn, and Catherine, daugh. of Sir
Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird ; M.A.
(Marischal College and Univ. of Aber-
deen) ; prosecuted his theological studies in
France, and occupied a professorial chair
in the Univ. of Saumur. In 1606 he
became min. of Arbuthnott. In 1613 the
Town Council obtained authority from the
Archbishop of St Andrews, directing him
to proceed to Edinburgh to stand " trials "
as one of the city ministers ; and he was
appointed on the 28th April of the following
year to the pulpit of the South-West con-
gregation. He continued his ministrations
there until Dec. 1620, when the new church
at the Greyfriars was taken over by the
South-Westcongregation. Hewas amember
of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct.
1615 and 15th June 1619; signed the
Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk
27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest
;
was proposed for the Principalship of Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen, 1620, but trans,
was refused. From 1620 to 1625 he was
Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh. At a
division of the city into four parishes,
25th Nov. 1625, the South-West Quarter
was once more relegated to the Greyfriars,
with R. as minister. He seems to have
been readm. there on 31st Jan. 1626
;
trans, and adm. to this charge 24th Dec.
1641 ; had a protection from the Marquess
of Montrose, after the battle of Kilsyth
in 1645 ; was Rector of the Univ. 1646
and 1647 ; dep. 27th July 1648, for favour-
ing the Duke of Hamilton's Engagement
with Charles L, a sentence which was
recalled 8th Nov. 1655. He retired to
Abbotshall, where he died, 30th Dec. 1659.
Bishop Guthrie describes him as "a guid,
modest, learned, godlie man, full of pietie
and learning ; an ornament to the Church
of Scotland." He marr. (cont. 18th Dec.
1605) Marie, daugh. of Sir Alexander
Fraser of Durris (G. R. Sas., xviii., 337),
and had issue—Robert of Woodston, min
of Ecclesgreig (G. R. Sas., Ii., 65) ; Sir
Andrew of Abbotshall, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, 1654, and Senator of the Col-
lege of Justice, 1671, died 27th Jan. 1688
;
Eleazer, bapt. 4th Dec. 1614 ; David,
bapt. 20th July 1625, died July 1660;
William, a preacher, who was presented
to Pencaitland 16th Aug. 1641, but gave
way to Calderwood, the ecclesiastical
historian, and subsequently was pro-
prietor of Woodston. Publications
—
Oratio (1600); Parcenesin et Orationes de
Laudibus Academics Salmuriensis ; Poemata
Sacra et Miscellanea etEjngrammata Sacra
(Edinburgh, 1633) [Del. Poet. Scot. II.];
A Warning to Come Out of Babell, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1638) ; A Treatise
(1646).
—
[Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, Counc.
Reg., and Reg. (Baj)t.) ; Reg. Sec. Sig.
;
Mem. of Montrose, ii. ; Peterkin's Rec.
;
Nicoll's and Lamont's Diaries, Row's and
Stevenson's Hists. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., vii.
;
Baillie's Lett. ; Acts Pari., vi. ; Guthrie's
Mem. ; Grant's Univ., i. ; Wodrow's Anal.,
iii. ; Cameron's Hist, of Fettercairn.]
THOMAS GARVINE [GARVEN,
1649 GAVINE1> MlA - (Glasg°w 1624);
min. of Colinton 1639 ; trans, and
adm. 28th Dec. 1649. He declined the
authority of the Sheriff, 22nd Aug. 1655,
in not praying for His Majesty. Deprived
1st Oct. 1662, for not submitting to
Episcopacy; died 1669, buried 25th Feb.,
aged about 65. He marr. Catherine