386 FENCAITLAND [PRESB. OF
1st Oct. of tbc same year. He was
admitted as an " indulged minister " to
this parish 2nd Sept. 1669, and died
(buried 6th) Feb. 1674. "No man," it was
said, " contributed more to the Restoration,
and received less benefit from it." He
marr. (1) Margaret Kirkaldy, and had issue
—James, of Earnslaw {Fife Sets., xii., 289)
;
Thomas, who died before 1667, when Alex-
ander is called second son (G. R. Inhib.,
12th March 1680); Janet ; Alexander, min.
of Logie ; Patrick, bapt. 28th Jan. 1642
(marr. Margaret Lothian), died before
1673 (G. R. Inhib., 26th Jan. 1674):
Elizabeth, bapt. 3rd Jan. 1643; Archi-
bald, bapt. 8th Jan. 1644; Robert: (2)
20th Aug. 1646, Margaret Boyd, who sur-
vived him, and was buried 13th July 1692,
and had issue—Eobert; Margaret, bapt.
18th July 1658. Publications
—
The Diary
of Mr Robert Douglas when with the
Scottish Army in England (1644); The
Sermon preached at Scone, January the
first, 1651, at the Coronation of Charles
II. (1651); Master Douglas, his Sermon
preached at the Down Sitting of the last
Parliament of Scotland (1661).— [Kirk-
ton's, Burnet's, and Wodrow's Hists. ;
Law's Memorials, Guthrey's Memoirs;
Notes and Queries (1st series), iv., 299,
(2nd series), vi., 50-1 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JAMESCOCKBURN, trans, fromAbbey
St Bathans; coll. after 21st May
1674 1674 . dem> after 21st Aug> 1684 .
died April 1687.—[Fountainhall's Diary,
and Dec, i.]
WILLIAM DENUNE,born 1656, second
son of Norman D., representative of
1685 the family of Catbole; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; MA. (1675) ; ord. to
Second Charge, Haddington, 1683; pres.
by Robert, Viscount Oxenfoord, and trans,
and inst. 9th March 1685; died 27th
Jan. 1704. He marr. Jan. 1688, Isabella,
daugh. of Dr George Hepburn of Monk-
rigg, and had issue—George ; John ; Helen ;
William ; Christian ; Isobel ; Marianne
(marr. 1706, Sir John Bruce Hope, Bart.).—
[Tombst. ; MS. Ace. ofMin., 1689 ; Archceul.
Scot., i. ; Douglas's Baronage, p. 453 ; Rule's
Sec. Vindication.']
1705
MATTHEW S1MSON, born 7th March
1673, third son of Patrick S., min. of
Renfrew ; studied at the Univ. of
Glasgow ; called 25th June, and ord. 10th
Sept. 1705; died 20th May 1756. He
marr. (1) 23rd Oct. 1707, Katherine, daugh.
of Robert Wallwood, merchant: (2) 12th
April 1710, Alison (died 24th Feb. 1736,
aged 50), daugh. of Andrew Drummond
of Megginch, and had issue—Alison, died
aged 26 ; Katherine, died aged 20 ; Patrick,
min. of Fala and Clunie ; Adam ; Helen
(marr. David Plenderleath, min. of Dal-
keith) ; Janet (who, in a year of great
scarcity, 1740, superintended the spinning
set on foot by the Kirk-session for employ-
ing the poor, and received "the cordial
thanks of the Kirk-session for the great
attention and trouble she had been at in
her philanthropic exertions ") ; James ;
Colin, surgeon, perished in the Black Hole
of Calcutta, 1756.— [Tombst., Wodrow's
Anal., Carlyle's Autob., Edin. Mar. Reg.]
GEORGEANDERSON, chaplain in the
family of Inveraray ; licen. by Presb.
of Perth 25th Dec. 1743; ord. to
Tulliallan 7th April 1745 ; pres. by Alex-
ander Hamilton of Pencaitland ; trans, and
adm. 7th June 1757 ; died 4th June 1793,
in 73rd year. He marr. 26th Dec. 1746,
Margaret Williamson, Torryburn, who died
1st April 1802.—[Tombst., Sinclair's Stat.
Ace]
DAVID PYPER, born Nairn, 6th April
7 1760, son of John P. and Marjory
Bremner ; master of the Charity
Workhouse, St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh,
1786; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th
April 1788 ; ord. by the Presbyterian Classis
at Newcastle 23rd June 1790; min. of a
congregation at Alnwick; pres. by Mrs
Mary Hamilton of Belhaven, and adm. 12th
Dec. 1793 ; died 23rd Dec. 1813. He marr.
9th Sept. 1790, Elizabeth (died 28th June
1812), daugh. of William Berry, and had
issue—Elizabeth, born 20th Nov. 1794,
died 1821 ; Hamilton, advocate, Edinburgh,
born 9th Feb. 1796, died 8th March 1868
;
Agnes (marr. Robert Dryborough Menzies),
died 30th April 1828 ; Christiana,born 24th
May 1798, died 15th Sept. 1805 ; Jemima,
1757