160 ST THOMAS'S—SOUTH LEITH [PKESB. OF ROBERTGEORGEFRASER,born 14th April 1832, son of Robert William F., min. of St John's, Edinburgh ; edu- cated at High School and Univ. of Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1858 ; assistant at Govan, Montrose, and Bridge of Allan ; ord. 22nd Dec. 1864 ; res. 25th July 1900; died 18th Nov. 1905. He marr. 25th June 1904, Margaret, daugh. of Donald Sharp, Comrie. He was an artist of some merit, and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy. 1900 GAVIN MILLAR, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 28th Nov. 1900; trans, to Logie- Almond 12th May 1904. 1904 JAMES ALEXANDER FLEMING, born Wilton, Hawick, 26th June 1865, son of James F. and Agnes Alexander; educated at Teviot Grove Academy, Hawick, Dalkeith Academy, Moray House Normal Training College, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1891); held scholastic appointments at Dunoon Gram- mar School, Fort William, Portobello ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith May 1903; assistant at South Leith ; ord. 28th Sept. 1904; F.R.G.S. (1911). Marr. 9th Sept. 1912, Marian Mackenzie, Glasgow. SOUTH LEITH, FORMERLY RESTALRIG. [By the first General Assembly of the Reformed Kirk of Scotland "it was found reasonable and expedient that the parochiners of Restalrig sould repaire to the Kirk of Leith, and that the Kirk of Restalrig sould be razed and utterlie destroyed as a monument of idolatrie." In Nov. 1595 the Presb. gave commission to David Lindsay and John Brand "to con- verse with the neighbours for planting a kirk on the north side of the brig of Leith.'' As a result of this, overtures were presented that a parish might be made "of the north side of the brig of Leith, and some towns next adjacent, as Pilrig, Bonnington, Waraston, and New- haven." In an Act of Parliament, 24th June 1609, it was ordained that all the inhabitants of Restalrig should resort thereto " as into ane paroch kirk, as they have done in times past," and that the kirk of Restalrig should be superseded and extinct "from henceforth and for ever." After Toleration was granted, 28th June 1687, a meeting-house was taken in Sheriff- brae, 7th July following, and William Wishart, formerly min. of Kinneil, in- dweller in Leith, began to preach the following Sunday, and continued until a minister was settled.] 1560 DAVIDLINDSAY (primus) of Pittormie (Test, of Alexander Guthrie of Hal- kerton : Edin. Tests.), son of Alex- ander L. of Haltoun and Rachael Barclay of Mathers. Having travelled in France and Switzerland, he imbibed Reformation prin- ciples, and was one of twelve original ministers nominated in July 1560 to the " chief places in Scotland," the town assigned him being Leith. He was present at the first General Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560. Out of seventy-three suc- ceeding Assemblies, his name occurs in fifty; while in those of Feb. 1569, Oct. 1577, Oct. 1582, 1586, 1593, and 1597 he was Moderator. He visited Knox on his deathbed in 1572, and at Knox's request, though "he thought the message hard," went to the castle of Edinburgh to warn Kirkcaldy of Grange that unless he gave it up he "should be brought down over the walls of it with shame, and hung against the sun " (Calderivood, iii., 234 ; Knox's Works, vi., 657). He visited Kirkcaldy after his condemnation, and was sent by him to Morton to intercede for his life, Kirkcaldy's whole estate being offered as a ransom. The intercession failed, and at Kirk- caldy's special request, Lindsay attended him on the scaffold, and thus was witness of the literal fulfilment of the doom pro- nounced by Knox. He filled a conspicuous place in affairs both of Church and State ; was "the minister whom the court liked best," and almost the only one of the clergy of that time who complied with the King's request to pray for Queen Mary before her execution. He accompanied James to