EDINBURGH] OLD KIRK 71 Whyte, who survived him, and had issue —Thomas, apprenticed to Patrick Dickson, merchant, Edinburgh, 28th Feb. 1649; Jean ; David, died Aug. 1672 ; Anna, bapt. 20th Aug. 1654; Margaret, bapt. 17th Nov. 1656 ; James, bapt. 4th July 1659 ; Elizabeth (Edin. Sas., i., 243) ; Barbara, buried 18th Jan. 1660 ; and Katherine, buried 13th June 1660. — [Edin. Counc, Gen. Sess., Guild, Test., Beg. (Bapt. and Bur.), and Cupar Beg. (Deaths) ; Nicoll's, Lamont's, and Brodie's Diaries; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., Blair's Atitob., Peter- kin's Bee.] AECHIBALD TURNEK, born 1629, son of Patrick T., min. of Dalkeith ; M.A. (Edinburgh, July 1642) ; ord. to Borthwick 23rd March 1648 ; trans, to North Berwick 18th Dec. 1649 ; elected by the Town Council 22nd Oct., trans, and adm. in the High Church 15th Nov. 1662 ; Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal 4th June 1663. The Privy Council, 2nd July 1674, being informed "of some insolent expres- sions at a meeting of Presbytery," removed him to Glasgow; but having expressed regret for his action, he returned in the following year. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him ; he died 30th March 1681. He marr. Rebecca (died 2nd Dec. 1675, aged 47, buried in Greyfriars), daugh. of Alexander Couper of Failford, W.S. (G. B. Inhib., 7th March 1666).—[Edin. Counc, Guild, and Test. Beg. ; Lamont's and Fountainhall's Diaries; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists. ; Nisbet's Her., i. ; Beg. Sec. Sig., vii. ; Inq. Bet. Fife 1196, Had- dingt. 342, and Gen. 6298 ; Blair's Autob. ; Monteith's Mort., ii.] ALEXANDER RAMSAY, M.A. (Mari- schal College, Aberdeen, 1658) ; min. of Auchinleck 1663 ; trans, to Grey- friars, Edinburgh, 1669 ; trans, to High Church 1672 ; retrans. to Greyfriars 1674 ; trans, and adm. after 18th March 1681. He was suspended, 16th Feb. 1686, for expressing his fears of popery, but was reponed. Deprived by the Privy Council, 10th Sept. 1689, for not praying for King William and Queen Mary, but praying for King James and the bishops. He died 1681 17th Aug. 1702, in his 64th year. He marr. (1) Jean M'Lauchlan, buried in Grey- friars, 26th June 1689 : (2) Jean Orrock, widow of Gilbert Lyon, D.D., min. of Kinghorn (Privy Seal Eng. Beg., v., 112). A son, Robert, merchant in the city, died in Nov. 1716; a daugh., Jean, marr. 10th Aug. 1720, Alexander Falconer, advocate. —[Test, and Edin. Counc. Beg. ; Fountain- hall's Diary and Dec, i. ; Beg. Bur., Peter- kin's Const. ; Kirkton'sandWodrow's Hists., iii. ; Rule's Sec. Vindication, Monro's Apol. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.] DAVID BLAIR, born 1637, eldest son of Robert B., min. of St Andrews,1691 • and his second wife, Katherine Montgomerie of Braidstone, daugh. of Viscount Montgomerie of Airds ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (28th July 1656). He emigrated to Holland and made his residence at Leyden. On the erection of a second charge in the Scots Church at the Hague in 1688, he was ord. 20th June of that year ; elected to Rotterdam in the following year, but refused, having been called, 28th June 1689, to Edinburgh (New Meeting-house) ; chaplain to His Majesty 1st Aug. 1690 ; a member of Assembly 16th Oct. 1690 ; adm. 9th Aug. 1691 ; declined call to Inveresk Feb. 1693 ; Moderator of Assembly 2nd Feb. 1700; died 10th June 1710. He marr. 10th Feb. 1697, Eupham Nisbet of Hillhead, Parish of Bothwell (Macfarlane's Top. Coll., i., 421 (died 2nd June 1740, aged 75), daugh. of Archibald Nisbet of Carfin, and had issue— Robert, min. of Athelstaneford, author of The Grave; Archibald, min. of Garvald ; Eupham (marr. Robert Hunter, min. of Livingston) ; Katherine (marr. 23rd Feb. 1725, Andrew Dunlop, min. of Ormiston).—[Blair's Autob., Hill's Life of Blair, Blair's Serm. ; Steven's Ch. Botterd. . Brim/ Seal, v. ; Peterkin's Constitution, Wodrow's Anal, and MS., Hamilton's Lanark ; Hist. Gen. Ass., 1690 ; Leven and Melv. Pap. ; Acts Pari., ix., xi.] JAMES NISBET, born 1676, probably brother-in-law of preceding ; edu- cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (13th July 1625); chaplain to the Laird