EDINBURGH] CRAMOND 11 the Bishop of Galloway for nonconformity 1635, but reponed ; a member of the As- sembly of 1638 ; trans, and adm. 16th Jan. 1639 ; one of the commissioners for visit- ing the Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 1649. Deprived in 1662, and died about 1676. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert Colvill of Cleish, and had issue—James; John, min. of Roxburgh, served heir to his father 16th Sept. 1676 ; Alexander, min. of Linlithgow ; Janet (marr. Richard Dawling, skipper, Bo'ness). —[Wood's Cramond ; Acts Pari., vi. ; Wod- row's Hist., i.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5933; Murray's Life of Rutherford.] JOHN HAMILTON, M.A. ; regent in 1663 ^ Leonard's College, St Andrews ; got a certificate from the Presb. to the Archbishop for ordination 11th March, and was adm. before 31st July 1663 ; trans, to South Leith 10th Sept. 1663.—[Ander- son's House of Hamilton, Lamont's Diary, St Andreivs Presb. Reg., Reg. Collat.] ALEXANDER YOUNG, trans, from 1Rfi4 Dalmeny and adm. 1664 ; trans, to the Archdeaconry of St Andrews in 1666. In 1671 he became Bishop of Edin- burgh, and in 1679 Bishop of Ross (q.v.). —[Edin. Reg. {Marr.), Wood's Hist, of Cramond, Lamont's Diary.] DAVID FALCONER, M.A. ; regent in 1666 ^ Leonarc^'s College, St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews ; got a testimonial to the Archbishop 17th Aug. 1665 ; adm. in 1666 ; pres. to the second mastership of St Andrews College in June 1674 (Warrant Bk. Scot., ii., 377) ; app. to the Professorship of Divinity in St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1675 (q.v.).—[St Andrews Presb. Reg., Wood's Hist, of Cramond, Lamont's Diary.] JOHNSOMERVILLE[SOMERVELL], . 7 a cadet of the family of S. of Cambusnethan ; M.A. (Edinburgh, July 1642); ord. to St Boswells 1662; trans, to Kirkcowan 1666 ; trans, to Glasserton 1667 ; trans, to West Calder 1668 ; trans, to Mid-Calder 1672 ; trans, and adm. 1675 (G. R. Horn., 22nd Aug. 1678) ; deprived 2nd May 1689 for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, etc. ; died at London, 1692. He marr. (1) Esther Scougall, and had issue—Janet (G. R. Sas., xxix., 11): (2) 5th Feb. 1674, Katharine, daugh. of James Brown, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (G. R. Sas., xli., 204), who survived him, and in whose right he entered burgess and guild- brother of Edinburgh, 27th Feb. 1689 ; she succeeded to his estate, 12th Feb. 1692, and had issue—Margaret, born 30th Aug. 1675 ; James, born 17th May 1679 ; Hugh, born 7th July 1681 ; William, born 10th Dec. 1682; Anne, born 9th Jan. 1685 (marr., cont. 21st Aug. 1704, George Dundas, surgeon - apothecary, Edinburgh : Edin. Sas., lxxvi., 230) ; John, born 19th Sept. 1686, died 24th March 1689 ; Robert, born 1st Oct. 1689; and three children who died in infancy. — [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bai)t.); Acts Pari., ix. ; Wood's Hist, of Cramond; Min. Book Reg. Priv. Seal, v. ; Fountainhall's Dec, i. ; Peterkin's Con- stitution of the Church, Greyfriars Burials.] JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; adm. 16th 1689 ^ec*^^ ' ^rans ' ^° Greyfriars, Edin- burgh, 7th Sept. 1692.— [Colinton Sess. Reg., Wood's Cramond; Reid's Hist. of Presb. Ch. in Ireland, ii., iii.] WILLIAM HAMILTON, called 14th 16g4 Aug., and ord. 26th Sept. 1694; app. Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh, and dem. 21st Sept. 1709. He was Principal in 1730 (q.v.).— [Anderson's House of Hamilton, Wood's Cramond ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Grant's Univ. of Edin., Warrick's Moderators.] JAMES SMITH, trans, from Morham 1712 (a^er a vacancy of two years) ; called 3rd Aug. 1711; adm. 16th Jan. 1712 ; Moderator of Assembly 9th May 1723; trans, to New North Parish, Edinburgh, 23rd July 1730.— [Wood's Cramond.] ROBERT HAMILTON, called 10th Dec. 1731 1730; ord. 4th April 1731; trans, to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 7th Oct. 1736.— [Wood's Cramond; Bower's Univ., ii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Morren's Ann., ii.]