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 Wilson, John, 
 
 The Presbytery of Perth 
 
THE 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF PERTH 
 
 OR, 
 
 MEMOIRS OF THE MEMBERS, 
 
 MINISTERS OF THE SEVERAL PARISHES WITHIN 
 THE BOUNDS; 
 
 FROM THE EEFOEMATION TO THE PEESENT TIME; 
 
 COMPILED FROM THE RECORDS OF PRESBYTERY AND 
 OTHER SOURCES, 
 
 BY THE REV. JOHN WILSON, 
 
 CLERK OF PRESBYTERY, AND MINISTER OF FORGANDENNT. 
 
 Published at the Bequest oj the Brethren, 
 
 PERTH: 
 MRS, C. PATON, 32, ST. JOHN'S STREET. 
 
 MDCCCLX. 
 
PERTH: 
 PRINTED AT THE PEBTHSHIRE JOVKXAL OFFICE. 
 
DEDICATIOlf. 
 
 TO THE EEVEREND HIS FATHERS AND BRETHREX, 
 
 THE PRESBYTERY OF PERTH. 
 
 THE FOLLOWING BRIEF MEMOIRS OF THEIR PRKDECKSSOH 
 
 IN OFFICE, 
 
 COMPILED CHIEFLY FROM THE PRESBYTERY RECOKDS, 
 
 ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY 
 
 THEIR GRATEFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, 
 
 JOHN WILSON, P.C. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The following Extract from tlie minutes of Pres- 
 bytery explains the natm'e and occasion of this 
 attempt to perpetuate the names of those who 
 have been privileged to officiate as Ministers 
 within the Bounds ; — 
 
 "At Perth, the 30th day of March, 1859, the 
 Clerk laid on the table a List of the Ministers of 
 the several Parishes within the bounds of the 
 Presbytery from the Keformation to the present 
 time, with biographical notices, compiled from the 
 Records of Presbytery and the history of the 
 periods referred to — Whereupon it was moved by 
 Mr Wotherspoon, and unanimously agreed to, that 
 the special thanks of the Presbytery be given to 
 the Clerk for said List of Ministers, with relative 
 notices, carefully and discriminately compiled by 
 him, and that the same be gratefully accepted and 
 preserved as a valuable accession to the Records 
 of Presbytery." 
 
 A general desire having been expressed by the 
 Brethren to have these Biographical Notices made 
 accessible to all in a more convenient form, the 
 compiler willingly undertook the labour of pre- 
 ]?aring them for publication, and has spared no 
 pains to make them as accurate and complete as 
 
Vi. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 possible. The parocliial arrangement has been 
 followed for the sake of ready reference, so tliat 
 those interested in any particular parish may find 
 at once a continuous epitome of its ecclesiastical 
 history down from the earliest times. A few 
 antiquarian notes, chiefly ecclesiastical, have been 
 prefixed to each parish, which may be interesting 
 to those who are curious in such matters. Some 
 of these facts are derived from the Old and New 
 Statistical Accounts of Scotland, but most of them 
 from the "Book of Scone," printed and presented 
 to the Bannatyne Club by William Smythe, Esq. 
 of Methven, under the title, " Liber Ecclesie de 
 Scon — Munimenta vetustiora Monasterii Sancte 
 Trinitatis et Sancti Michaelis de Scon." For the 
 facts regarding the ministers who lived prior to 
 the time when the Eecords of Presbytery now 
 extant begin, the compiler is indebted to the 
 '•' Booke of the Universall Kirk" and the Histories 
 of Row and Calderwood — to MSS. in the Advo- 
 cates' Library, and especially, to "The Register 
 of Ministers and thair Stipends sen the yeir of 
 God, 1567," published by the Maitland Club— 
 and to "The Books of the Assignations of Stipends, 
 from 1576 to 1615," deposited in the General 
 Register House. 
 
 In drawing up these Memoirs, the compiler has 
 endeavoured to give extracts from the minutes of 
 Presbytery illustrative of the great events in the 
 history of the Church. In this way, information 
 is given in regard to the subversion of Presbytery 
 in the time of James VI. — to its re-establishment 
 at the Second Reformation in 1638 —to the 
 
INTRODUCTION. \1U 
 
 restoration of Episcopacy in 1662, and the final 
 re-establishment of Presbytery at the Revolution 
 — to the forms of procedure in the Presbytery at 
 these different periods in regard to the trials, 
 ordination, and admission of ministers — to the 
 passing of the Five Articles of Perth — the at- 
 tempted introduction of the Service-Book — the 
 solemn League and Covenant — the origin of the 
 First Secession — and other matters which Avill be 
 readily found by a reference to the Index and 
 Table of Contents. 
 
 As the compilation is chiefly founded on the 
 Records of the Presbytery of Perth, the folloTxdng 
 short account of them may not be uninteresting : — 
 
 The first volume of the Record of Presbytery 
 now extant, begins with a minute of date the 22d 
 day of April, 1618, A previous volume, however, 
 is referred to in a minute of date March 15th, 
 1626. Said minute is indexed on the margin — 
 *' The former Buke of the Presbyterie deliverit to 
 Mr Henry Adamsone" — and is as follows : — 
 
 " The qlk day producit the buke of the Presby- 
 terie be Mr Johne Cruickshank, beginning (the 
 date is scarcely le;:iible, but it seems to be) 1593, 
 yeir of God, and deliverit to Mr Henry Adamsone, 
 clerk present, quha sail be comptable to the 
 bretherin of the Presbyterie tharfore, quhansoever 
 they require the same." 
 
 This volume was probably lost along with all 
 the other Records, during the troubles which pre- 
 ceded the Revolution, and has never been re- 
 covered. The subsequent volumes, containing 
 minutes of the proceedings of Presbytery from 
 
Vni. INTEODUCTION. 
 
 1618 to 1681, were bought at a sale in Edinbiirgii, 
 and restored to the Presbytery so late as the year 
 1740. In January, 1738, the Presbytery were 
 informed, by a letter from Mr Spence, agent for 
 the Church, that they had been purchased by Mr 
 Maul, whom he had requested to give them up for 
 the price he paid for them ; but that Mr Maul 
 refused to do so, and that his Majesty's Solicitor- 
 General was of opinion that a process should be 
 instituted before the Lords against the havers, in 
 name of the Moderator and Presbytery. The 
 Presbytery instructed their representatives to 
 consult the Dean of Faculty, and to bring the 
 matter before the Commission, with a view to get 
 their concurrence in any process that might be 
 necessary for the recovery of said Eecords. In a 
 subsequent letter, Mr Maul intimated to the 
 Presbytery that, if he had bought the Eegisters 
 for himself he would willingly have given them up, 
 but that, as he had purchased them by commission 
 for the Advocates' Library, they could not be 
 given up without the consent of the Faculty. 
 
 After protracted negotiation, they were ulti- 
 mately restored to the Presbytery, as appears from 
 the following minute of the General Assembly : — 
 
 " The Registers of the Presbytery of Perth' s^ 
 j>roceedings from the 22d of ApriJ, 1618, to the 
 Slst September, 1681, inclusive, being lately re- 
 covered, an order is made for payment of the 
 charges laid out thereon, being £3, 3s." Ass^ 
 1740. Sess. 10. 
 
 A minute of Presbytery of date 28th May, 1740, 
 is as follows : — 
 
INTRODUCTION. IX. 
 
 " This day it was reported that the Presbytery 
 Commissioners to the last General Assembly had 
 recovered the Presbytery Kegisters at the public 
 expense." 
 
 With the exception of an interval from 1681 to 
 1690, during which period it is believed few meet- 
 ings of Presbytery were held, the Records are 
 complete from 1618 to the present time. The 
 following is a list of the Volumes now extant, and 
 of the period embraced in each : — 
 
 Vol. 1.— From April 22, 1618, to lOtli November, 1647. 
 
 2.— From November 24, 1647, to 27th March, 1661. 
 
 3.— From October 29, 1662, to 21st September, 1681. 
 
 4.— From July 30, 1690, to 26th September, 1700. 
 
 5.— From October 23, 1700, to 4th October, 1705. 
 
 6.— From October 24, 1705, to 6th April, 1710. 
 
 7.— From April 19, 1710, to 13th April, 1715. 
 
 8.— From April 20, 1715, to 26th March, 1719. 
 
 9.— From April 29, 1719, to 27t]i September, 1722. 
 
 10.— From October 31, 1722, to 23d Deceuiber, 1725. 
 11.— From January 26, 1726, to 9th April, 1730. 
 
 12.— From May 6, 1730, to 1st April, 1736. 
 
 13.— From April 28, 1736, to 26th March, 1741. 
 
 14.— From April 8, 1741, to 14th September, 1744. 
 
 15.— From Septembcr26, 1744, to 26th April, 1749. 
 
 16.— From May 31, 1749, to 15th June, 1757. 
 
 17.— From July 7, 1757, to 9th February, 1763. 
 
 18.— From March 2, 1763, to 31st July, 1771. 
 
 19.— From August 28, 1771, to 26tli March, 1777. 
 
 20.— From April 30, 1777, to 26th March, 1783. 
 
 21.— From April 10, 1783, to 27th August, 1788. 
 22.— From September 24, 1788, to 24th September, 1795. 
 23.— From December 30, 1795, to 31st December, 1806. 
 24.— From February 25, 1807, to 30th January, 182S. 
 25.— From February, 27, 1828, to 26th December, 1838. 
 26.— From January, 30, 1839, to 16th December, 1846. 
 27.— From January 7, 1847, to 28th March, 1855. 
 
 28.— From April 20, 1855, to tho Present Tune. 
 
X. INTRODUCTION'. 
 
 CLERKS OF PRESBYTERY 
 
 We may be pardoned for appending to the fore- 
 going account of the Records of Presbytery the 
 names of those who have been their custodiers. 
 
 Mr Henry Adamsone was Clerk in March, 
 1626, when " the former Buk of the Presbyterie 
 was deliveryt to him by Mr John Cruickshank."' 
 He seems to have been appointed to the office 
 some years before, and continued therein till his 
 death in 1637. He was also Reader in the church 
 of Perth, as appears from the following minute of 
 date May 3d, 1620 :— 
 
 ^' Whilk day the Moderator and Brethrein hav- 
 ing knowledge and consideration of the good gifts 
 of Mr Henry Adamsone, Reader in Perth, ad- 
 mitted him to teitch publicly in the Parish Kirk 
 of Perth, or elsequhair as he sal be employed." 
 
 After the death of Mr Adamsone, the Presby- 
 tery resolved that the Clerkship should be held by 
 a minister, and that the appointment should be 
 only for a limited period ; as appears from the fol- 
 lowing minute :—'' Perth, March 24, 1637.— Be- 
 cause of the death of Mr Henry Adamsone, last 
 clerk of the Presbyterie, it is appointed that in 
 tyme coming ane actual minister sal be chosen 
 clerk ; and Mr Alexander Petrie is chosen clerk 
 for this half-year." He was re-appointed, but held 
 the Clerkship only for one year, having on the 28th 
 of March following " demitted the office of clerk." 
 
I^^TRODUCTION. XI. 
 
 Mr Patrick Eyxd, minister ;it Dron, was 
 Clerk for the next half-year, up to November 7th, 
 1G88, wheu 
 
 Mr RoBEPwT Laurie, one of the ministers of 
 l^erth, was appointed to the office, and held it till 
 February 3d, 1641, when 
 
 Mr Alexaitder Balneatis, younger of Tib- 
 bermure, was appointed on the 21st April following. 
 The Presbytery resolved that the Clerk be " con- 
 tinued only for half-a-year." 
 
 ^Ir Alexander Dundie, an expectant, was 
 chosen Clerk on the 20th October, 1641, but re- 
 signed on the 30th March following, " alleging 
 his own unfitness for the office." 
 
 Mr Alex^vnder Petrie, minister of Ehynd, 
 was thereupon re-elected for the current half-year. 
 
 Mr Alexander Balneatis re-appointed 16th 
 October, 1642, '^ till the next Synod." 
 
 Mr Edward Richardson, of Forteviot, ap- 
 pointed 19th April, 1643, ^' till the next Pro- 
 vincial." Do., 18th October, 1643; and so on. 
 It having been the practice to appoint a new Clerk 
 every six months, along with a Moderator for the 
 current half-year. 
 
 Mr L. Garioche's signature as Clerk appears 
 for the first time March 14th, 1666 ; but the first 
 minute apparently in his handwriting is of date 
 the 11th October, 1665. He continued to hold 
 the Clerkship down to the last meeting under 
 Episcopacy, of which the minutes are extant — 
 viz., 21st September, 1681. 
 
 !Mr John Sibbald. After the Revolution it 
 would appear that the Presbytery had no regularly 
 
Xn. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 appointed Clerk for two years — a Mr John Dow 
 officiating as Clerk pro. tern., up to 26tli October, 
 1692, when Mr John Sibbald was appointed to the 
 office, as appears from the following minute : — 
 ^' The Moderator and Brethren taking to considera- 
 tion their want of a Presbyterie Clerk, they doe 
 unanimously elect and choice Mr John Sibbald 
 their Presbyterie Clerk." 
 
 A minute of date 28th November, 1694, fixes 
 the amount of salary to be paid to the Presbytery 
 Clerk, by the several Kirk-sessions within the 
 bounds. It is as follows : — 
 
 "The Presbytery appoints all the Kirks and 
 Parishes within their jurisdiction, whether sup- 
 plied by prelatical incumbents or vacant, as well 
 as those that are legally settled, to pay to the 
 Clerk of the Presbyterie ane Rex Dollar yierlie, 
 and that at the meeting of Synod in October, com- 
 mencing from the Synod in the month of October, 
 1692 ; and so furth to continue yierlie thereafter 
 during his incumbency, w4th power to him to call 
 and pursue for the same as accords, and to grant 
 discharge thereof, appoynting their Moderator to 
 grant the said Mr John an extract hereof." 
 
 Mr Sibbald's penmanship is very distinct and 
 
 beautiful ; and under his Clerkship the Record is 
 
 most carefully and correctly kept. He begins his 
 
 first minute, which is not at the commencement of 
 
 a, volume, but in the middle of a page, thus — 
 
 "RECORDS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIES 
 
 OF PERTH, DUNKELD, AND HALF OF 
 
 THE PRESBYTERIE OF AUCHTERARDER. 
 
 BY MR JOHNE SIBBALD, THER CLERK." 
 
 He was also Clerk of Synod, and continued to 
 
INTRODCUTION. XUIV 
 
 hold both oflSces till his death in 1708. A minute 
 of date the 26th January, 1709, bears that "Mr 
 John Sibbald, Clerk of the Presbytery, having, 
 died lately, they choised Mr Patrick Wylie, one 
 of their probationers, to be their Clerk for a tryale 
 . till the next Synod, and continued the Clerk's dues 
 upon Mr Sibbald's relict until the said Synod." 
 
 Mr Patrick Wylie's trial seems to have 
 given satisfaction, as the appointment was con- 
 firmed March 17th, 1709. He also succeeded Mr 
 Sibbald as Clerk of Synod, and continued to hold 
 both offices till his death, which was intimated to 
 the Presbytery on the 26th January, 1737. 
 
 Mr Andrew Schaw, minister, St. Madoes, 
 appointed February 23d, 1737. Mr Coventrie, 
 minister at Kilspindie, and Mr Patrick Duncan, 
 writer, Perth, were also proposed as candidates. 
 Mr Schaw held the office only for a short time, 
 having resigned on the 22d August, 1739. 
 
 Mr James Austin, merchant in Perth, was un- 
 animously elected August 22, 1739. Died in 1745. 
 
 Mr Walter Miller, writer in Perth, elect ad 
 28th August, 1745. 
 
 Mr Anthony Dow, of Kilspindie, appointed 
 vSeptember 18, 1799. Resigned 28th August, 1811. 
 
 Mr Daniel M^Kenzie, appointed 28th August, 
 1811. Died in May, 1813. 
 
 Mr Taylor, of Tibbermore, appointed 30th 
 June, 1813. Resigned November 24, 1830. 
 
 Mr John Ed. Touch, of Kinnoull, appointed 
 November 24, 1830. Died June 11, 1852. 
 
 Mr John Wilson, of Forgandenny, appointed 
 July 28, 1852. 
 
THE PRESBYTERY OF PERTH, 
 
 ABEEDALGIE. 
 
 This parish is formed by the union of the two 
 Parishes of Aberdalgie and Dupplin, the former of 
 which, in the time of Episcopacy, was inchided in 
 the Diocese of Dimkeld, and the latter in the Dio- 
 cese of Dunblane. 
 
 The POPULATION of the parish, in 1755, was 320: 
 in 1798, 523 ; and in 1851, 343. 
 
 The Records of the Kirk-session, containing 
 minutes of the proceedings, commence in 1613, 
 and are kept with great regularity down to 1656. 
 After a blank of 35 years, they are again complete 
 from 1691 to 1717. The volume from 1717 to 
 1736 has disappeared; from 1736 to the present 
 time the Kecord has been carefully kept. 
 
 MINISTEES. 
 
 The earliest ecclesiastic whose name has been 
 discovered in connection with this parish is — 
 " Adam, Parsoun of Duppling and Vicar of Perth," 
 who is mentioned in the " Rotuli Scotia?," of date 
 
2 PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. 
 
 2d September, 1296. In 1489, " Sir John Myrton, 
 Canon of Dunkeld, Prebendary of Forgandennie, 
 and Kector of the Parish Church of Dupplin," 
 appears as witness to a charter of the Carthusian 
 Convent and Priory of Perth. 
 
 Although the Reformed Religion was recognized 
 by the Committee of the Scottish Parliament ia 
 1560, as the religion of the State, and Protestant 
 ministers were appointed to most of the principal 
 towns, it was several years thereafter before they 
 were admitted into many of the remote country 
 parishes ; in 1564, owing probably to local influ- 
 ence, the churches of Aberdalgie and Dupplin re- 
 mained closed against ministers of the Reformed 
 Faith. Among the Heads and Articles of Cora- 
 plaint submitted by the Assembly of that year to 
 the Lords of the Secret Council, we find the fol- 
 lowing : — 
 
 " To require punishment of sic as hes steiked the 
 doors of the Paroch Kirk, and will not open the 
 same to Parochiners that presented themselves to 
 have heard the Word of God preached ; sic as 
 Pasley, Aberdeen, Cowie, Dvppline, and Aber- 
 dagyV — Bukeofthe Universal Kirk, Asa.Yiii.Sess. 1. 
 
 After the Reformation, some time necessarily 
 elapsed before a sufficient number of qualified 
 ministers could be obtained to supply all the 
 churches throughout the land. In these circum- 
 atances, it was frequently found expedient to 
 commit the pastoral superintendence of several 
 parishes to one ordained minister, having under 
 him a class of probationers, called Readers or 
 Exhorters, to assist in conducting public worship 
 
PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. $ 
 
 and Imparting religious instruction, until properly 
 qualified ministers could be provided. The duties 
 of the office are thus defined in the First Book of 
 Discipline : — 
 
 "For Readers— To the churches vvhere no 
 ministers can be had presentlie must be appointed 
 the most apt men that distinctlie can reid the Com- 
 mon Prayers, and the Scriptures, to exercise them- 
 selves and the Church till they grow to greater 
 perfection ; and in process of time he who is but a 
 reidar may attain to a further degree, and by con- 
 sent of the Church and discreet ministers, may be 
 permitted to minister the Sacraments; but not 
 before he is able somewhat to persuade by whole- 
 some doctrine, besides his reading, and be admitted 
 to the ministry as before is said." — Chap. iv. sec. 5. 
 
 Agreeably to this arrangement, it appears from 
 the " Book of the Assignation of Stipends for the 
 year 1574," preserved in the Advocates' Library, 
 and printed in the first volume of the AToodrow 
 Miscellany, that the Parishes of Tibbermure, 
 Dupphn, Aberdalgy, and Pitcarne, were thus 
 superintended by one minister, having under him 
 readers at the several churches. The following are 
 then- names and emoluments : — 
 
 "Alexander Young, minister, £133 6s Sd, and 
 kirklands. 
 
 " William Gibson, reidar at Tibbermure, £20. 
 
 " Robert Simsoun, alias Glook, reidar at Dip- 
 pllne, £26 13s 4d. 
 
 " Johnne Moir, reidfir at Aberdagy, £16, and 
 kirklands." 
 
 These were probably the first teachers of the 
 
 A 
 
4 PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. 
 
 Protestant Faitli settled in those parishes, except^ 
 perhaps, Mr Willia^i Melkose, who, in 1569^ 
 is referred to as " minister and parsoun of Diplin,"' 
 but probably he had been the Popish incumbent 
 prior to the Eeformation. 
 
 From the Books of Assignation in the Kegister- 
 office, it appears that the following individuals, in 
 succession, held the office of Eeader at Aber- 
 dalgy, viz.: — 
 
 Laurence Daa, whose name appears for the 
 first time in 1676. 
 
 Patrick Weemys, whose name appears for the 
 first time in 1594. 
 
 Mr John Weemys, whose name appears for the 
 first time in 1596. 
 
 Mr Andrew Playfair, the first Protestant 
 minister, was ordained on the 14th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1613, under the Episcopal form of Church 
 Government, which then prevailed. He was 
 present at the first meeting of Presbytery, the 
 minutes of which are now extant, of date the 
 2 2d day of April, 1618. He concurred in those 
 measures which led to the subversion of Epis- 
 copacy, and conducted the exercise at a meet- 
 ing held on the 5th September, 1638, when the 
 minutes bear that, " Letters were produced from 
 the Tables at Edinbro to the Bretherein of the 
 Presbyterie concerning the preparation for ane 
 Assemblie, and the choosing of Commissionars 
 thereto, deated at Edinbro, together with direc- 
 tions and instructions for that effect, with some 
 other considerations concerning reuling Elders 
 and Commissionars to the Assemblie." From the 
 
PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. 5 
 
 Record it appears that he was often absent from 
 the meetings of Presbytery, and the Statistical 
 Account says he " was superanuated during the 
 keen debates between the Kesolutioners and Pro- 
 testers, and incapable of taking an active part in 
 these troublous times." The minute of date 29th 
 August, 1655, bears that, " Compeared Mr Andrew 
 Playfair, younger, and did deayre that in regard 
 of his father's sickness and inabilitie, his charge 
 might be supplied by them. The Presbyterie 
 condescends to supplie the kirk, but delays the 
 nominating of any one for that effect till the next 
 day." 
 
 From subsequent minutes it appears that Mr 
 Playfair offered "ane hundredth merks for to 
 maintain ane helper." After protracted negotia- 
 tions, Mr Francis Hay, Laird of Balhousie, pro- 
 mised, with the assistance offered by Mr Playfair, 
 to provide a sufficient stipend at the sight of the 
 Presbytery, to a helper to be called by the Kirk- 
 session, with his consent as heritor. 
 
 Mr George Haliburton (called " younger" 
 to distinguish him from his cousin of the same 
 name, one of the ministers of Perth, who, conform- 
 ing to Episcopacy at the Restoration, was ap- 
 pointed Bishop of Dunkeld in 1662, and died in 
 1664, of whom hereafter), was, in pursuance of the 
 foregoing arrangement, after the usual trials on the 
 6thday of August, 1657, ordained and admitted 
 " to be helper to, and conjunct minister with, Mr 
 Andrew Playfair, present minister at the kirke of 
 Aberdagie and Duplin, and to succeed to the 
 ministrie there after his decease." From this it 
 
6 PARISH OF ABERDALGIE, 
 
 appears that the practice of aiFordicg Assistants 
 and Successors to aged or infirm ministers was very 
 early adopted by the Church. In his case, too, we 
 have an example of the manner in which licen- 
 tiates from other Presbyteries were admitted pro- 
 bationers within the bounds of the Presbytery at 
 that early period. " On the 17th of December, 
 1656, ane testimonial was produced by Mr George 
 Haliburton, younger, dated at Glasgow, Novem- 
 ber 10th, 1656, subscribed by the Moderator 
 and Clerk, bearing that he did pass his tryalls be- 
 fore the Presbyterie of Glasgow according to the 
 Acts of the General Assemblie of this Church, and 
 that thereupon they had licensed and authorized 
 him to preach the Gospel where it sail please the 
 Lord to open a doore to him. The Presbyterie 
 having; read and considered the said testimonial, 
 did unanimouslie approve the samine, and there- 
 upon did authorize him to preach publicly within 
 their bounds." 
 
 Mr Haliburton was ejected for non-conformity 
 in 1662, along with five other members of the 
 Presbytery, viz., Messrs Alexander Pitcairne, of 
 Dron, who survived the Eevolution; David Orme, 
 of Forgandenny ; John Crookshanks, of Eedgor- 
 ton, killed at the Battle of Pentland; Eobert 
 Young, of Dunbarney ; and John Murray, of 
 Methven. Through the kindness of his friend 
 and patron, Mr George Hay of Balhousie, himself 
 a great sufferer for nonconformity, an asylum was 
 provided for the outed minister in a cottage at 
 Dupplin, where he lived with his family in great 
 privacy till his death, which took place in 
 
PARISH or ABERDALGIE. 7 
 
 16S2. He married Margaret Play fair, the daugli- 
 ter of his predecessor, who was " allied by the 
 mother's side to some of the best families in 
 the Kino'doRi." Unto them were born in their 
 retreat at Dupplin eleven children, all of whom 
 died young, except their eldest daughter, 
 Janet, und Thomas, afterwards famous for his 
 piety and learning. Upon the death of his 
 father, ^Ir Thomas was carried for safety by 
 his widowed mother to Holland, where he studied 
 Latin at the School of Erasmus. He returned to 
 Scotland at the Eevolution ; and, after studying 
 nt St. Andrews, Avas licensed to preach by the 
 Presbytery of Kirkcaldy on the 22d June, 1699. 
 In the month of November following, he received 
 competing calls from the parishes of South Leith, 
 Elie, and Ceres, Having preferred Ceres, he was 
 settled there May 1st, 1700. On the 26th April, 
 1710, he was admitted Principal and Profe.'rsor of 
 Divinity of the New College, St. Andrews ; and 
 died there September 23d, 1712, at the early age 
 of 38, leaving a v/iilow (Janet Watson, of St. 
 Andrews), and one son and five daughters, besides 
 two sons and a daughter who predeceased him. 
 
 Mv MuNGO Weemys, son of David Weemys, 
 minister at Scone, and grandson of Patrick, first 
 Protestant minister at Dunbarnie, was, on a pre- 
 sentation from George, Bishop of Dunkeld, trans- 
 lated from the Parish of Giendevon, and admitted 
 minister at Aberdalii^ie on the 23d Au<?ust, 1663. 
 His name appears for the last time on the sederunt 
 of Presbytery of date the 14th August, 1667, 
 And he must have died or been removed before 
 
8 PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. 
 
 the loth of July following, when his successor 
 entered upon his trials. 
 
 Mr David Lawder was admitted on the 26th 
 August, 1668, as appears from the following 
 minute of that date : — 
 
 " Whilk day the brethren being met, Mr David 
 Lawder was admitted to the functione of the 
 ministrie at the church of Aberdalgie, and Mr 
 James Carnegie preached." 
 
 He died or was translated before the 20th De- 
 cember, 1676, on which day an application was 
 made by the Session to the Presbytery to supply 
 the parish during the vacancy. The vacancy was 
 probably supplied by the induction of Mr David 
 MoNCRiEFFE, whoso name appears for the first 
 time (and very seldom thereafter) as a member of 
 Presbytery on the 9th May, 1677, though there is 
 no notice taken of his admission in the minutes. 
 
 Mr John Hardie was admitted on the 19tb 
 February, 1679, and deprived at the Revolution* 
 Mr Andrew Hardie was minister of the nei2:hbour- 
 ing Parish of Forgandenny from 1667 to the 
 Eevolutron, aDc! it is presumed they were related, 
 
 Mr David Schaw, a probationer, having re- 
 ceived a call from the Kirk-session, and the Laird 
 of Balhousie, sole heritor, having signified his con- 
 currence, he was, after the usual trials, ordained 
 and admitted minister on the 23d September, 1691. 
 
 The Presbytery having deposed Mr WiUiam 
 English, minister at Kilspindie, a call from the 
 heritors and Kirk-Session of that parish, in favour 
 of Mr Schaw, was laid on the table of the Presby- 
 tery on the ISth February, 1717; in compliance 
 
PARISH OF ABERBALGIE. V 
 
 with which they resolved to translate him thither^ 
 notwithstanding protests and appeals taken against 
 that proceeding, both by Mr Schaw himself and 
 the parishioners of Aberdalgie. In pursuance of 
 their resolution, the Presbytery did accordingly 
 translate Mr Schaw, and admit him minister at 
 Kilspindie on the 5th March, 1717. On the 23d of 
 June following, Aberdalgie church was declared 
 vacant, and the Presbytery were about to moderate 
 in a call to a new minister, when the Commission 
 of the General Assembly, which met in August, 
 overturned their whole proceedings, ^^ and declared 
 that Mr English was and still is minister of Kil- 
 spindie," and " that the said Mr David Schaw was 
 and still is minister at Aberdalgie." But he was 
 not allowed long to remain there, for a call having 
 been offered to him by the heritors and Kirk- 
 session of Auchterarder, and he having left the 
 matter entirely to the decision of the Presbytery, 
 they did, on the 17th August, 1718, resolve to 
 translate him to that parish. He was translated 
 accordingly, and the church of Aberdalgie declared 
 vacant on the 12tli day of October following. 
 
 !Mr James Mercee, proprietor of Cievage, in 
 the Parish of Dunning, was translated from For- 
 teviot, and settled in Aberdalgie on the 31st De- 
 cember, 1718. Mr Mercer took a prominent part 
 in the proceedings against Mr Ebenezer Erskine, 
 for the sermon preached by him before the Synod 
 of Perth and Stirling in October, 1732, which led 
 to the first Secession from the Church of Scotland. 
 He was, in consequence of this, obnoxious to all 
 who-either countenanced or deprecated the Seces- 
 
10 PARISH OF ABERDALGIE. 
 
 sion. On the loth of September, 1733, he received 
 a call from the heritors of Dron to be minister of 
 that parish, but another call having been given by 
 the elders to Mr David Black, son of Mr Thomas 
 Black, minister at Perth, the Presbjterj resolved 
 to refer the case to the Synod. It ultimately came 
 before the Assembly in 1735, who refused to trans- 
 late Mr Mercer, and continued him in his charge 
 at Aberdalgie. In 1739, he received a presenta- 
 tion from the Magistrates of Edinburgh to the 
 Parish of Currie ; but the right of patronage being 
 disputed, the case came before the Assembly in 
 1740, Yvdien, after much discussion, a motion was 
 carried to the effect, "That in respect of the 
 difficulties attending the call to Mr Mercer to the 
 Parish of Currie, the Assembly cannot proceed to 
 settle him in that parish while these difficulties re- 
 main, &c." He died at Aberdalo-ie in 1744. 
 
 Mr Thomas Ranken, was translated from the 
 Parish of KinnouU, and admitted to Aberdalgie on 
 the 6th of November, 1745. He was settled, not 
 on a presentation, but on a call at large ; and the 
 mode of procedure adopted on the occasion shows 
 how long the Act of Queen Anne anent patronages 
 was in coming into practical opei^ation. The 
 heritors and elders craved the Presbytery to ap- 
 point a day for moderating in a call — on the day 
 appointed a ieet of four was proposed^ " and tlie 
 'parishioner's ivere dedred io add if thei/ pleased any 
 other mimster gq' probationer of t:his church, but tliey 
 all acquiesced in the foresaid Mst" — the roll of 
 heritors, elders, and heads of families was then 
 called over and votes marked, when Mr Rankea 
 
PAKISH OF ABERDALGIE. 11 
 
 was unanimously elected. He was a native of the 
 Parish of Aberdalgie (see minute of Presbyteiy 
 2d December, 1731), and a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Perth ; and as a i\lr William Ranken 
 appears throughout the proceeding as factor for the 
 Earl of Kinnoull, whose residence was then as now 
 in Aberdalgie Parish, Mr Eankine had probably 
 personal or family reasons for leaving the large 
 Parish of Kinnoull, for the much smaller living of 
 Aberdalgie. He died on the 14th of May, 1781. 
 Mr William Garvie was translated from the 
 Parish of West Calder, and admitted to Aber- 
 dalgie on the 10th of January, 1782. He died at 
 a very advanced age on the 21st of May, 1831. 
 By his deed of settlement, he left the Avhole of his 
 means and effects, amounting to the sum of one 
 thousand, two hundred, and eighty pounds, to the 
 Presbytery as Trustees — the free interest, or annual 
 revenue arising therefrom, to be applied for the 
 purpose of maintaining two young men as bursars 
 in the study of Divinity at the New College of St 
 Andrews. For many years before his death, Mr 
 Garvie was incapacitated by age and infirmity for 
 the discharge of his pastoral duties, which were 
 performed by assistants, of whom he had several 
 in succession ; among others, Dr Eussell, now 
 the venerable minister of Dunning. In his youth, 
 Dr Russell was a diligent and successful student, 
 particularly of languages and philosophy ; but 
 since he became a minister, he has devoted him- 
 self almost exclusively to the critical study of the 
 New Testament Scriptures in the original tongue ; 
 
12 PAEISH OF AP.ERDALGIE. 
 
 and there are few ministers so thoroughly versed 
 in that department of sacred literatm'e. 
 
 Mr Chakles Calder Stewart, ordained on 
 the 15th of March, 1832. Having signed the Act 
 of Separation and Deed of Demission, laid before 
 the Grenerai Assembly on the 24th of May, 1843, 
 by the founders of the Free Church, he was, on 
 the 16th of June following, declared by the Pres- 
 bytery to have ceased to be a minister of the Church 
 of Scotland. 
 
 Mr MAITLA.ND Thomson, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Kirkcudbright, was ordained on the 
 15th of September, 1843. He died on the 11th 
 January, 1846. 
 
 !Mr John Sharp was licensed by the Presby- 
 tery of Dunse in 1829, and subsequently for 
 several years conducted an academy in ]\Ian- 
 chester with much success. Eeturnins: to Scot- 
 land, he for some time acted as assistant to the 
 Rev. J. G. Beveridge, minister of Inveresk ; and 
 having received a presentation to Aberdalgie, he 
 was ordained and settled there on the 14th day of 
 May, 1846. 
 
ABERNETHY. 
 
 The ancient form of the name of this parish is 
 Abernethyn, said to denote the town upon the 
 Nethy, which is the name of a small stream that 
 flows past the village. Wynton, in his " Oryginale 
 Ohronikill of Scotland," gives it this name in the 
 following stanza, alluding to the invasion of Scot- 
 land by William the Conquerer in 1072 : — 
 
 " Ae thousand twa and seventie yare, 
 William bastard with his powere, 
 In Scotland cam, and wasted syne, 
 And rode through' t, till Abernethyn." 
 
 The name given to it by the Highlanders was Ohair, 
 or Abair Nadchfain, which is said to mean the 
 work of Nectair, or Neathar, the name of more than 
 one of the Pictish Kini^s. Nectan the I. beo-an to 
 reign A.D. 456, and is said to have founded the 
 church here. It was the seat of the Bishop of 
 the Picts, and Fordun says there were three elec- 
 tions of bishops at Abernethy, while as yet there 
 was only one bishop in the countiy . Kenneth III., 
 after subduing the Picts, translated the See to St 
 Andrews in 840. The Culdees had one of their 
 principal seats here, and a college at which were 
 taught the sciences in so far as they were then 
 known. About the year 1240, the altarage of the 
 church was transferred to the Bishop of Dunblane, 
 who engaged to provide for the due performance of 
 
14 PARISH OF ABERNETHY. 
 
 the religious services. Towards the end of the 
 13th century, the ancient monastery of the Culdees 
 "was subverted, and changed into a Priory of Canons 
 regular, from the Abbey of InchafFray. 
 
 The Session Registers do not go far back. The 
 earlier volumes seem to have been lost at the 
 time of the Secession in 1736, and have never been 
 recovered. The Register of Baptisms begins in 
 1667, and, with the exception of a few years before 
 and after the Secession, has been regularly kept 
 since. 
 
 The population in 1755 was 1490 ; in 1790, 
 1415 ; and in 1851, 2026. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Patrick Galt was minister in 1570, with 
 a stipend of " foure score pounds, and twentie 
 pounds mair sin Lammas, 1569," having under him 
 Mr John Weemys as Reidar. (See MS. Register 
 of Ministers in the i^dvocates' Library). 
 
 Li 1574, as appears from the Register of Minis- 
 ters and Reidars published in the first volume of 
 the Woodrow Miscellany, Abernethy, along with 
 Dumbarnie, Poty, MoncriefFe, Dron, Rhynd, Eglis- 
 magirdil, and Arngosk, was under the pastoral 
 superintendence of Patrick Weemys, with Reidars 
 under him at these several places, with the excep- 
 tion of Poty, Moncreiffe, and Dron, which, as the 
 Record bears, " neidis na Reidars." John 
 Weemys (perhaps the son of Patrick), was still 
 Reidar at Abernethy, with a salary of £SQ 13s 4d, 
 with the kii'klands. 
 
PAEISH OF ABERNETHY. 15 
 
 ;Mr Aechibald Moxcrieffe, son of William, 
 the eldest son, and lieir apparent of Sir William 
 Moncrieffe of that ilk, after receiving his educa- 
 tion in England, was admitted minister of Aber- 
 nethy about the year 1579. His name frequently 
 appears in the histories of the period as an active 
 supporter of the King and the Court party in their 
 endeavours to subvert Presbytery, and introduce 
 Episcopacy. It is alleged he had the ambition to 
 aspire to a Bishopric, and was on the King's list 
 for that office, though he never attained it. He 
 and his brother are named as Commissioners in an 
 Act of the Secret Council, for tlie support of the 
 Protestant religion, in 1589. He was one of a 
 committee of four nominated by the General 
 Assembly, in 1602, to examine the reports of the 
 brethren appointed for the visitation of Presby- 
 teries. He zealously co-operated with his two 
 brothers-in-law, David Murray of Balgonie, and 
 Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, in forwardino- 
 the violent measures of the King in the Provincial 
 Assembly of Perth in 1607. He was present at 
 the Golden Assembly at Glasgow in 1610. He 
 was named by the Court party a member of the 
 Privy Conference at the General Assembly held 
 at Perth in 1618, at which the celebrated Five 
 Articles were passed, and also a member of the 
 High Commission in 1619. His father, in 1570, 
 got a charter under the Great Seal conferring upon 
 him "Locum Seu Monastcrium de Elcho cum 
 Horto," &c. ; and in 1601, Archibald, minister of 
 Aberaethy, was appointed Prior and Commendator 
 of that Priory and Monasterv with a rio'ht to all 
 
16 PARISH OF ABERNETHY. 
 
 the rents and emoluments belonging thereto. He 
 married Margaret, sister of Sir George Auchinleck 
 of Balmanno, who was admitted a Lord of Session, 
 February 14th, 1626, by whom he had three sons 
 and three daughters. His eldest son, Archibald, 
 succeeded him as minister of Abernethy, and his 
 second son, George, was afterwards minister of 
 Arngask. The date of his death is not kno\\Ti, but 
 he was alive on the 29th August, 1632, when Mr 
 George MoncriefFe " was appointed to exercise in 
 room of his father." 
 
 Mr Archibald Moncrieffe, son of the pre- 
 ceding, was translated from the Parish of Dollar, 
 to which parish he had been ordained in 1619, and 
 admitted conjunct minister with his father at Aber- 
 nethy by the Bishop of Dunkeld, as intimated to 
 the Presbytery on the 26th May, 1630. The 
 Bishop having arrogated to himself the power of 
 the Presbytery, and admitted Mr MoncriefFe with- 
 out their knowledge or concurrence, the Presby- 
 tery protested against the proceedings, refused to 
 acknowledge him as a co-Presbyter, and resolved 
 to " complain to the Judge Ordinarie for remeid." 
 Their complaint, if made, seems not to have been 
 sustained, as there is no notice in the record of any 
 further proceedings in the matter ; and ]Mr Archi- 
 bald, junior, was certainly minister of Abernethy 
 on the 28th October, 1635, when he was appointed 
 to give institution to his brother George " at the 
 Parish Kirke of Arnegosk, and enter him to his 
 ministrie there." He subscribed the Solemn 
 League and Covenant, along with his co-Presbyters, 
 on the 21st of March, 1638. The minute of that 
 
PARISH OF AKEENETHY. 17 
 
 date bears that, "The Covenant with God is re- 
 newed by uplifting of hands, immediately after 
 sermon, publicly in the kirk, and subscribed on 
 parchment by Messrs John Kobertson, Archibald 
 Moncrieffe," &c. 
 
 In pursuance of an Act of the Provincial Synod, 
 enjoining them " to go about the visitation of the 
 kirks withm their bounds conforme to the Acts 
 of Assemblie," the Presbytery resolved to visit the 
 Kirk of Abernethy on the 9th July, 1659. The 
 visitation was accordingly held, and continued 
 from week to week for no fewer than twelve ses- 
 sions; but what the cause of these protracted 
 proceedings was does not appear from the Eecord 
 of Presbytery, the minute merely stating that the 
 diet of visitation was held, and that the proceed- 
 ings were "contained in the Booke of the Visita- 
 tione of Kirkes." The result, however, was the 
 suspension of Mr Moncrieffe, as appears from the 
 following minute :— " At Perth, the 21st day of 
 January, 1657 (^.nter alia)— The twelfth and last^ 
 sessione of visitatione of the Kirke of Abernethie 
 was holden at Perth the foresaid day, when Mr 
 Archibald Moncrieffe was suspendit from his 
 ministrie at the Kirke of Abernethie." 
 
 After repeated applications, the Presbytery con- 
 sented to repone Lir Moncrieffe, on condition that 
 he gave public satisfaction to the kirk, and sub- 
 scribed a bond for part of the salary of a helper. 
 He was reponed accordingly, as appears from the 
 following minute of date 19th June, 1660 :— 
 
 "The Presbyterie taking the premises into their 
 consideration, did and doth by these presents relax 
 
18 PARISH OF ABERNETHY. 
 
 him from the sentence of suspension, and open his 
 mouth, and restore him to the exercise of his 
 ministrie at Abernethie, with a helper to be joined 
 with him in the ministrie as soon as possible 
 may be.'' 
 
 He was present at the last meeting of Presby- 
 tery previous to the restoration of Episcopacy, and 
 " approved in lyff and doctrine." The date of his 
 death is unknown ; but his name does not again 
 appear on the Record. And as no other minister 
 seems to have been appointed, it is probable that 
 he lived to about the year 1671, the duties of the 
 parish being discharged by a helper, who, not be- 
 ing a member of Presbytery, is not mentioned in 
 the minutes. He married Barbara, eldest daugh- 
 ter of David MoncriefFe of Balcaske, one of six 
 brothers who all belonged to the household of 
 James YI. 
 
 Mr Robert Jenkine was admitted minister on 
 the 17th January, 1672. On the 27th December 
 preceding, ^' Mr Jenkine produced to the Presby- 
 tery a letter from the Lord Archbishop of St 
 Andrews, desiring the Presbytery to appoint one 
 of their number to preach at Abernethy at the 
 admission of the said Mr Robert Jenkine to the 
 functione of the holy ministrie at the said church 
 of Abernethie," which desire the Presbytery com- 
 plied with, and he was admitted accordingly. 
 
 On the day of his admission, the minute bears 
 that, " As the ministers were entering the church 
 for the admission of Mr Robert Jenkine to the 
 exercise of his ministrie there, compeared Mr 
 Patrick CoAvpar, and Andrew Duncan, servitors to 
 
PARISH OF ABERXETHY. 19 
 
 my Lord and the Tutor of Stormont, and did, in 
 the name of the Tutor of Stormont and my Lord, 
 his pupil, in presence of the Moderator and 
 Reverent brethren there present, protest that the 
 admissione of the said Mr Robert to the said 
 church of Abernethie, by verteu of a Presentation 
 by the King's Majestic miclit no ways be pre- 
 judicial to the right of patronage, which my Lord 
 Stormont did claim to the said church ; and upon 
 this their protestation, they took instruments in 
 Clerk of Presbytery his hands, and desyred it to 
 be marked in the Presbytery Booke." 
 
 Mr Jenkine continued minister of Abernethy 
 until the Revolution, and was deposed by the 
 Council for not praying for William and Mary, on 
 the 7th September, 1689. 
 
 Mr Alexander Dunning was ordained on the 
 29th April, 1691. Mr Dunning seems to have 
 been an expectant within the bounds, as before his 
 call to Abernethy he was frequently employed by 
 the Presbytery to supply vacant churches. 
 
 On the 4th February, 1691, " Colfargie and 
 Greenside presented to the Presbytery a call from 
 the Parish of Abernethy to Mr Alexander Dun- 
 ning, to be their minister, which the Presbytery 
 taking to their consideration, they delivered the 
 said call to the said Mr Alex. Dunnino;, recom- 
 mendmg him to have his serious thoughts there- 
 anent.'' Mr Dunning accepted the call, and was 
 ordained accordingly. He died in July, 1719. 
 
 Mr Alexander Moncrieffe, ordained 14th 
 September, 1720. He was the son aud heir of 
 Matthew Moncrieffe, Esq. of Culfixrgie, a consider- 
 
20 PAKISH OF ABERNETHY. 
 
 able estate in the parish, and was born there about 
 the year 1696. His grandfather, the Rev. Alex- 
 ander Moncrieffe, was minister of Scoonie, in 
 Fife, from 1643 to the Restoration, when he 
 was ejected for non-conformity, and died in 
 1688. Mr Alexander, junior, after studying in 
 Scotland, went abroad to prosecute his studies 
 at the University of Leyden; and soon after 
 his return, was licensed by the Presbytery of 
 Perth to preach the gospel. He was one of 
 three who, along with Ebenezer Erskine, pro- 
 tested against the sentence of the Assembly of 
 1733, ordering Mr Erskine to be rebuked at their 
 bar, for reflecting upon the Judicatories of the 
 Church in his memorable sermon before the Synod 
 of Perth and Stirling in October, 1732. In this 
 way Mr M. became one of the fathers of the Seces- 
 sion ; and after a lengthened process, he was, along 
 with the other seceding brethren, deposed from the 
 office of the ministry, and his chureh declared 
 vacant by the Assembly of 1740. He was in 
 1742 appointed successor to Mr William Wilson 
 of Perth, as Professor of Divinity to the General 
 Associate Synod, and superintended the education 
 of their students till his death. He continued to 
 reside at Culfargie ; and out of his private funds 
 erected a large Secession Meeting-house, and made 
 over to the congregation four or five acres of 
 valuable land as a glebe and site for the manse 
 and offices of the incumbents. He published two 
 volumes of sermons, and several pamplilets, on 
 subjects connected with the controversies of the 
 times ; and died at Culfargie in 1761. 
 
PARISH OF ABERXETHY. 21 
 
 Mr Andrew Gray, afterwards D.D., was 
 ordained 16tli June, 1747. The Eight of Pre- 
 sentation seems to have fallen to the Presby- 
 tery, jure devoluto; and, as was usual in such 
 cases at that time, the parishioners were allowed 
 a hearing of different candidates, selected by 
 the heritors and Kirk-session. In this instance 
 the candidates were Mr Andrew Gray, a proba- 
 tioner of the Presbytery of Edinburgh ; Mr Wil- 
 liam Corrie, a j^robationer of the Presbytery of 
 Kirkcaldy ; and Mr Francis Adams, son of Mr 
 James Adams, minister at Kinnaird, in the Pres- 
 bytery of Dundee. At the moderation of the call, 
 it was found that a majority of the heritors, and 
 also of the elders and heads of families, had voted 
 for Mr Gray, and his call was sustained accord- 
 ingly. Mr Gray was the author of an interesting 
 and useful volume of discourses on the parables 
 of our Lord, to which is prefixed a learned disserta- 
 tion on parables and allegorical writings in 
 general. He died on the 27th November, 1779. 
 
 Mr William Duncan was translated from the 
 neighbouring Parish of Newburgh, in the Presby- 
 tery of Cupar, and admitted to Abernethy on the 
 13th day of July, 1780. He was ordained minister 
 at Newburgh on the 2d day of March, 1775, and 
 soon thereafter married Miss Jane Gillespie, 
 daughter of Principal Gillespie of St Andrews, by 
 whom he had a numerous family — two of whom 
 have long laboured with much acceptance and suc- 
 cess, as ministers of the Church of Scotland, viz., 
 David, who succeeded his father as minister at Aber- 
 nethy, and Alexander, minister at Coylton, in the 
 
22 PARISH OF ABERNETHY. 
 
 Presbytery of Ayr. Mr Duncan died on the 
 12tli day of March, 1809. 
 
 Mr David Duncan, was ordained successor to 
 his father, on the 21st day of September, 1809. 
 He was at a very early age sent to prosecute his 
 studies in the University of St Andrews, and while 
 there, for some time boarded in the same family 
 vnth. two fellow-students, who have since risen to 
 the highest eminence in their respective profes- 
 sions, viz., Thomas Chalmers, whose fame is 
 in all the Churches, and John Campbell, now Lord 
 High Chancellor of the United Kingdom. Mr 
 Duncan having completed the fiftieth year of an 
 eminently faithful and useful ministry on the 21st 
 day of September last, the Presbytery, in token of 
 their respect for him as their revered and beloved 
 Father, requested the Moderator to convey to him 
 in their name, the congratulations of the Presby- 
 tery, which was accordingly done, as appears from 
 the following minute : — 
 
 "Perth, 21st September, 1859.— Mr Duncan 
 being present, the Moderator, in a suitable address, 
 conveyed to him the hearty congratulations of the 
 brethren, on his having completed the fiftieth year 
 of his ministry at Abernethy, and assured him of 
 their earnest desire and prayer that the hopes and 
 consolations of the Gospel, which he had so long 
 and so faitliflilly ministered unto others, might 
 continue to be the comfort and solace of his declin- 
 
AENGOSK— ARNGOSKE— 
 ARNGASK. 
 
 The Counties of Perth, Fife, and Kinross meet 
 not far from the church, and the parish is situated 
 in nearly equal proportions in these three counties. 
 It must originally have been of very small extent, 
 but was considerably enlarged in 1642 by the lands 
 of Easter and Wester FordelJ, Paris, Deugiie, 
 Blair, Plaines, and Glendymiln, disjoined from 
 the Parish of Forgandenny: and again in 1669, as 
 appears from a minute of Presbytery, by the an- 
 nexation of certain lands disjoined from Orwell 
 and Strathmiglo. From the Chartulary of Cam- 
 buskenneth, preserved in the Advocates' Library, 
 we learn that, in 1281, "Gilbertus Frisley Domi- 
 nus de Forgay" gave to God and to the monasterv 
 of Cambuskenneth, the patmnage of the church of 
 Arngask. In 1282 there is a charter of resigna- 
 tion in favour of said monastery, by " Radolphus 
 Dominus de Symmersdbuni," Eector of the Church 
 of Arngask. Of the same date there is a docu- 
 ment entitled " Institutio ejusdem Ecclesiae, <S:c," 
 followed by a confirmation, by the chapter of St 
 Andrews and John, Prior of the Cathedral, of the 
 Church and Churchlands of Arngask. In 1295, 
 ^' Henricus de Frislay Dominus de Forgey" made 
 a grant of the mill of Arngask, with two acres of 
 
24 PAKISH OF ARNGASK. 
 
 land near it, to the Abbey of Cambuskenneth;, 
 pro salute animae suae, which grant was confirmed 
 by his successor, and ratified by a charter under 
 the Great Seal of King Kobert I., at Glasgow, in 
 1325. In 1389, Hugh Barclay, Laird of Kippa 
 and Arngask, " for the salvation of his own soul, 
 and the souls of his T3redecessors and successors, 
 granted in pure and perpetual alms, to God and 
 the Blessed Mary, and the Predicant Friars of 
 Perth, ten shillings sterling out of his lands of 
 Arngask to be paid in equal proportions at two 
 terms of the year — viz., five at the Feast of Pente- 
 cost, and other five at the Feast of the Blessed 
 Martin in wmter, for the sustenance of one burn- 
 ing lamp in the choir of the foresaid Friars, from 
 year to year for ever.'^ In 1527, the heiress of 
 Arngask, who had married Sir Andrew Murray of 
 Balvaird, founded a chaplainry in the Parish 
 Church of Arngask, and endowed it, with an 
 annuity of 14 merks and two acres of land. One 
 of the witnesses to the Deed of Mortification is 
 "John Bullerwale, Curate of the said Church of 
 Arngask." By an Act of Parhament, in 160% 
 the Abbey of Cambuskenneth, with which Arngask 
 and many other kirks had been connected for 
 several centuries, was erected into a temporal 
 Lordship in favour of John Earl of !Mar. 
 
 The Session Eecords commence in 1688, and 
 have been regularly kept since that time. 
 
 The Population in 1755 was 736; in 1790, 554;; 
 and in 1851, 689. 
 
 It was many years after the Reformation beforer 
 this parish was provided with a fixed pastor* lis 
 
PARISH OF AEXGASK. 25 
 
 1569, Jolin Pitblado was Reader, ■v\'itli a salary of 
 £16, under the pastoral superintendence of Mr 
 Patrick Wemis or Weemys, minister of Dunbar- 
 nie, as appears from the Register of Ministers ; 
 and in 1574, Alexander Wardlaw was reader, 
 with a salary of £14 and the Kirklands. It 
 appears from the Presbytery Record that, in 1624, 
 a Committee was appointed " to travel mth my 
 Lord of Mar concerning the planting of the Kirke 
 of Arngoske." Their endeavours, however, had 
 been unsuccessful, as a minute of date November 
 12, 1628, bears that, '' At Arngoske ther is nae 
 minister, nor nae provision for a minister." 
 ■ In August, 1633, an application was made to 
 the Presbytery, that Mr George Moncrieffe, son of 
 the minister at Abernethy, might be " licensed to 
 preach at Arngoske, till the said Kirke be provydit 
 and plantit." The Presbytery gave him licence 
 ^^ till the ist day of November and nae farder, lest 
 under pretext of his serving the cure the plantation 
 thereof be hindered," In October, 1635, a letter 
 was laid before the Presbytery from the Arch- 
 bishop of St Andrews, " shewing the admission of 
 ]Mr George Moncrieffe to be minister at Arngoske, 
 whereupon the brethrein ordains his brother, Mr 
 Archibald Moncrieffe (successor to his father at 
 Abernethy), to give him institution at the Parish 
 Kirk, and to enter him to his ministrie." 
 
 ^Ir Geokge Moncrieffe, therefore, was the 
 iirst Protestant minister of Arngask, He was 
 admitted, as above stated, in October, 1635; and 
 •continued in the discharge of his parochial duties, 
 throughL all the troubles and changes of that 
 
26 PARISH OF AENGASK. 
 
 eventful period, for nearly 30 years. He con- 
 curred in the overthrow of Episcopacy in 1638^ 
 and was one of the sixteen ministers who, in 1 662, 
 conformed again to Prelacy. He was " appro vyn 
 in lyff and doctrine" at a meeting for privy censure^ 
 on the 21st September, 1664, and died before the 
 18th January following, when " compeired John 
 Annan, ane of the elders of the Parish of Arngosk,, 
 desyring some to preach at that kirke till it sould 
 please God they were plantit.'^ 
 
 Mr Robert Geddies, or Geddie (the name 
 appears in both forms in the Record), was admit- 
 ted in August, 1665. A minute of the 30th of 
 that month bears that, " Mr James Gillespie" 
 reported that, comforme to the Presbyterie's order, 
 he went to Arngosk and did admit jSIr Robert 
 Geddeis to the ministne at the said church, ^vho 
 was unanimously accepted by the Heritors thereof.'' 
 A Mr Robert Geddies signed the Solemn League 
 and Covenant before the Presbytery on the 21st 
 March, 1638, but whether the minister of Arngask 
 was a relation of his does n©t appear. He con- 
 tinued Episcopal minister of Arngask till after the 
 Revolution, when he was served with a libel by 
 the Presbytery for drunkenness, and deposed from 
 the ministry on 8th October, 1690. 
 
 Mr GiLiiERT Melville, who had been a field 
 preacher in the time of persecution, was appointed 
 to preach at Arngask immediately after the Re- 
 volution, and before the deposition of Mr Geddies. 
 But having accepted a call to Glendevon, he was 
 loosed from Arngask on the 2d June, 1694. 
 
 Mr John Dempster, having received a unani- 
 
PARISH OF ARNGASK. 27 
 
 moiis call from the Heritors and Kirk-session, was 
 ordained and admitted minister on the 27th 
 February, 1695. He was loosed from Arngask on 
 the 13th March, 1706, and translated to St Ma- 
 does on the 27th of that month. 
 
 Mr James Gillespie, a probationer within the 
 bounds of the Presbytery of Stirling, on " a very 
 unanimous call," which " all the elders and heritors 
 subscribed, nernine contradicente,^'' was ordained on 
 the 2lst of May, l'/07. The day of his death is 
 not specified, but it appears from the Session Re- 
 cord that he preached for the last time on the 23d 
 November, 1729, and was buried on the 8th of the 
 followino: month. He received a call to Kinfauns 
 19th August, 1713, but the Presbytery refused to 
 translate him. 
 
 Mr John Johnstone, was ordained on the 10th 
 March, 1731. There was no presentation, but a 
 call at large, signed "by twenty-three heritors, 
 all the elders, being seven in number, and seventy- 
 five heads of families." Mr Hugh Mitchell and 
 ]SIr Alexander M^CuUoch, probationers, were put 
 on the leet along with Mr Johnstone. He died on 
 the 28th December, 1746. The Rev. Dr David 
 Johnstone, for many years the minister of North 
 Leith, and much esteemed for his philanthrophy 
 and Christian worth, was his second son. 
 
 Mr Andreav Williamson, ordained and ad- 
 mitted on the 3d November, 1747. In the course 
 adopted at his settlement, we have an example of 
 the way in which patrons generally waived their 
 right of presentation nearly forty years after the 
 Act restoring Patrona<2re was the law of the land. 
 
28 PARISH OF ARNGASK. 
 
 On the 24th June, ^^ John Hay, of Parish, and 
 several others of the heritors and elders," appeared 
 before the Presbytery, and requested them to 
 moderate in a Call in favour of one or other of the 
 following probationers, of whose gifts and minis- 
 terial abilities they had been well informed, viz.: — 
 LIr James Knox and Mr Alexander Pitcairn, pro- 
 bationers in the bounds of the Presbytery of St 
 Andrews, and Mr Andrew Williamson, in the 
 Presbytery of Edinburgh, and Mr James Johnston, 
 in the Parish of Perth. At the same diet, a letter 
 was given in from John Craigie, Esq., younger of 
 Dunbarnie, the Patron, giving his consent to the 
 said moderation, " provided the Presbytery con- 
 fine the election to the above-named individuals." 
 On the day of the moderation, Mr Johnston was 
 chosen all but unanimously, or, as the Record 
 bears, '^ nemine contjYtdicente,save o?2e." He had been 
 licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh on the 
 27th January, 1742 ; and continued to be minister 
 of the parish for 35 years, when he was translated 
 to Auchtergaven in December, 1782. 
 
 ^Ir William Lang, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Cupar, was ordained on the 18th September, 
 1783. The form of procedure in his case was 
 somewhat different — Messrs Adam & David Low, 
 joint proprietors of Easter Fordell, having bought 
 the Patronage from Mr Craigie, laid on the table 
 of the Presbytery a presentation in favor of Mr 
 Lang, and along with it a Petition, numerously 
 signed by the Heritors and heads of families, re- 
 questing the Presbytery to moderate in a Call " to 
 the said Mr Lang to be their minister." Previous 
 
PARISH OF AENGASK. 29 
 
 to his admission to Arngask, he had for several 
 years acted as assistant to Sir Kobert Preston, one 
 of the ministers of Cupar. He died on the 10th 
 January, 1827. 
 
 'Mi Alexander Burt, one of the heritors of 
 the parish, was ordained assistant and successor to 
 Mr Lang on the 14th October, 1819. He Avas 
 licensed by the Presbytery of Perth on the lOth 
 of June, 1814. 
 
 By Act viii. Assembly 1856, the Parish of Arn- 
 gask was disjoined from the Presbytery of Perth 
 and united with several others to form the new 
 Presbytery of Kinross. 
 
CULLASS — CULLESSE — COLASSE 
 —COLACE— COLLAGE. 
 
 Collace was a parish prior to the time of the 
 lieformation. In " The estat and order of the 
 Presbyteries within the bounds of the Commis- 
 sioners, presented by my Lord Clerk Register, and 
 sett down by his Lordship's travells, at the request 
 of tlie Kirk" in 158G, it is specified as one of the 
 parishes under the superintendence of '' The Laird 
 of Dun." 
 
 The Parochial Registers extant commence in 
 ITlo, and have been regularly kept since that time. 
 An earlier volume was revised by the Presbytery 
 in 1()95, but has disappeared. 
 
 The population of the parish in 1755 was 499; 
 in 1791, 473; in 1821, 691; in ISol, 581. 
 
 ^Ir James Anderson is the first Protestant 
 minister of this j^arish of whom we have any ac- 
 count. Li " the Register of Ministers," &c., from 
 1567 to 1573, there are the following entries : — 
 
 " Bendoquhi', James Anderson, minister, 100 
 merkis sen IMovember, 1569 — the rest in Auguse." 
 
 " Kettins, James Anderson, minister, 100 
 merkis, November, 1569 — the rest in Perth- 
 •schyre." 
 
 " CuLLAS, James Thrift, Reidar, XX. merkis." 
 
PARISH OF COLLAGE. 31 
 
 And in " the Book of Assignation of Stipends" 
 for 1574, it is stated tlms : — 
 
 " Bendoquhy, Ketyns, Culless — 
 
 James Anderson, minister, £133 6s 8d. 
 
 Eobert Dryisdaill, reidare at Bendoquhy, £1G. 
 
 James Jameson, reidare at Ketyns, £16 and k.L 
 
 James Thrift, reidare at Culles, £20. 
 
 From which it is inferred that, at the periods 
 referred to, these three parishes were under the 
 pastoral superintendence of Mr Anderson, with 
 Eeaders under him at each. At all events, he 
 was minister of Col lace in 1589, as appears from a 
 poem published by him that year, with the follow- 
 ing title : — " Ane Godlie Treatise, called the First 
 and Second Coming of Christ, with the tune of 
 the Winter Nicht ; showing briefly of our blind- 
 ness. By James Anderson, minister of the Evan- 
 gel at Collace." The poem was dedicated " To 
 the Richt Godlie, worshippful, and vigilante Pas- 
 tor in Christi's Kirke, John Erskine of Dun, 
 especial Planter and Builder of Christis' Kirke 
 within the bounds of Anguse, Meamis, Stormont, 
 an<3 Gowrie." It has been frequently reprinted. 
 The date of Mr Anderson's death is not known. 
 
 Mr Heneie Guthrie is mentioned in the 
 Book of Assignation for 1588-9 as minister of 
 Collace, and seems to have held the living down 
 to the year 1596. 
 
 Mr Patrick Smyth, admitted in 1596, was 
 minister when the Presbytery Record commences 
 in 1618. His death was reported on the 16th of 
 June following, as appears from the following 
 minute : — 
 
32 PARISH OF COLLAGE. 
 
 ^' Wliilk day compearit Mr George Hallybur- 
 tone, parochiner of Collace, for himself, and in 
 name of the rest of the parochiners, and earnestlie 
 desyrit that the Presbytery wold appoint Mr 
 James Lyons, ane Expectant in the Presbytery, 
 to teitch in the Paroch Kirk, for supplying them 
 with the preaching of the Worde until they be 
 provydit with ane minister, being now destitute 
 sen the decease of umquhyle !Mr Patrick Smyth, 
 last minister thereat. T\niilk Godlie desyre the 
 brethrein granted, and ordained the said Mr 
 James Lyons to teitch in the said kirke on Son- 
 day next, and aye and quhj-le he be dischargit." 
 
 Mr AxDREW Forester, ordained on the 17th 
 February, 1620, not without opposition from cer- 
 tain of the parishioners, " backit with ane lettre 
 from the Ladie of Pitcure." On the 19th January, 
 Mr Forester laid before the Presbytery a letter 
 from my Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, " willing 
 them to direct ane of ther number to the Kirke of 
 CoUace, for giving institution to the said Mr 
 Andrew, to whom he had alreadie given collation 
 orderly." On the 9th February following, " com- 
 perit George Brown and divers others proclaimers 
 of CoUace, and protested that Mr Andrew Forester 
 be not ordained minister at their kirke, specially 
 because, he, being a minister of before, brings not 
 ane testimonial from his Presbyterie testifying of 
 his doctrine, lyff, and conversation ; and other 
 reasons contenit in the protestation as the samyn 
 bearis. The Presbyterie understanding that my 
 Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, knowing per- 
 fectly of the doctrine, qualifications, lyfF, and con- 
 
PAEISH OF COLLAGE. 33 
 
 versation of tlie said Mr Anclro, his Lordship has 
 given him admissione to the said Kirke of Collace, 
 as ane man qualified and able to use the function 
 of a minister of the Kirk of God, in respect whereof, 
 nae other testimonie is requisit ; and ordeins Mr 
 John Guthrie to give him institutions to the 
 ministrie of the said kirke, the 17th day of Feb- 
 ruarie instant, without furder delay." His death 
 was reported to the Presbytery on the 9th Novem- 
 ber, 1631, when Mr James Halybmlon, and cer- 
 tain others of the parishioners, compeared before 
 the Presbytery, " declairing and regretting that 
 they had gotten no preaching of the word sen the 
 death of their last minister, Mr Andrew Forester." 
 The Presbytery appointed " Mr John Straquhan 
 to preach ther the next Sabbath, and Mr Johne 
 Wood, younger, to supplle his place at St Martin's." 
 yix \ViLLiA3ki Hallyburtoune, admitted on 
 the 17tli July, 1632. He was a native of Collace, 
 being designated in the Presbytery Record 
 "Brother germain to James Hallyburtoune of 
 Buttergask," an heritor of the parish. After being 
 admitted to the exercise, he was appointed to 
 preach at Collace during the vacancy ; and having 
 received a presentation, he was "put to his tryells," 
 which he passed to the satisfaction of the Presby- 
 tery, as appears from a minute of date 13th June, 
 1632 : — " Whylk day ordeint a testimonial to be 
 direct to the Archbishope witnessing the qualifica- 
 tions of Mr AYilliam Hallyburtoune, in so many 
 tryels as he had given, as also his honest conver- 
 satione, so far as they can heare or knowe." On 
 the 11th of July, the minute bears that "a lettre 
 
34 PAKISH OF COLLAGE. 
 
 was received from the Archbishop declairing that^ 
 upon sight of their testimonial, he had given Mr 
 WiUiam Hallyburton ordination, and therefore 
 desvrinfr that some brethrein be direct to the kirk 
 of Collace to give him Institution ;" which was ac- 
 cordingly done on the Tuesday thereafter. In this 
 case we have the several steps in the form of pro- 
 cedure followed at that time in the induction of 
 ministers clearly defined, viz.: — 
 
 1. Admission to the Exercise. 
 
 2. Presentation directed to the Archbishop or 
 
 Bishop. 
 
 3. Letter from the Archbishop desiring the 
 
 Presbytery to take the Presentee on Trials. 
 
 4. Testimonial from the Presbytery to the 
 
 Archbishop certifying that the Presentee's 
 Trials had been sustained. 
 
 5. Ordination by the Archbishop. 
 
 6. Institution by the Presbytery. 
 
 The date of Mr Hallyburton's death is not recorded; 
 but it is supposed to have been in 1663 or 1664. 
 
 Mr William Hallyburton, probably son of 
 the preceding, was admitted on the 1st of June, 
 1664, as appears from a minute of date the 31st 
 of May : — " Mr Thomas Straquhan was ordeict to 
 go to Collace on Tuesday, the 1st day of June, to 
 give Institutione to Mr WiUiam Hallyburton, upon 
 the Archbishop's collation." He must have died 
 or been translated before 16th February, 1670, at 
 w4iich date the parish was again vacant. 
 
 Mr George M^Gruthar, admitted 3d August, 
 1670, and deprived by the Committee of Estates, 
 in 1689, "for praying for King James's happy 
 
PARISH OF COLLAGE. 35 
 
 restoration to the Throne, and for confusion to 
 his enemies." 
 
 Mr James Ca3IPBell, ordained July 6th, 
 1692; on which day, "after prayer, the brethrein 
 having considered that Mr James Inglis, in ab- 
 sence of Mr Samuel Nairne, had preached, his 
 text 1st Cor. iv. 1., and after sermon, thebrathrein 
 had given ordinatione to !Mr James Campbell, 
 with impositione of hands, and other solemnities 
 used in the lyke cases, they declare him a minister 
 of the Gospel, and appoint him to the parish of 
 Colace for the ordinarie exercise of his ministrie." 
 He died before the close of 1707; at least, the 
 church was then vacant. 
 
 INIr John Smith, a licentiate of the Presbytery 
 of Brechin, was ordained on the 24th August, 
 1709. Previous to his settlement there was a 
 protracted vacancy and much litigation, in conse- 
 quence of two competing calls having been given 
 — one in favour of Mr John Adamson, and the 
 other in favour of !Mr James Eobertson. The 
 General Assembly ordered " both calls to be laid 
 aside, and an orderly election fallen upon anew for 
 settling this parish." Mr Smith held the incum- 
 bency only for a few years, having died in Decem- 
 ber, 1713. A tombstone erected to his memory 
 in the churchyard bears the following inscription: — 
 "HERE LIES THE BONES AND ASHES 
 
 OF 
 
 THE EEV. JOHN SMITH, MINISTER OF COLLAGE, 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 
 10th DECEMBER, A.D., 1712. OF HIS AGE 32. 
 
 * Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.' 
 
 THESE WERE HIS LAST WORDS, 
 
 * Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through 
 
 our Lord Jesus Christ.^ Rom. v. 1."- 
 C 
 
36 PARISH OF COLLAGE. 
 
 Mr James Ramsay, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery? was ordained September 16tli, 1713. He 
 had to leave his parish during the Rebellion in 
 1715, as appears from a minute of Session of date 
 October 22d, 1715. ^^ This day the minister repre- 
 sented to the Session the danger and hazard he 
 was daily in, by reason of numerous parties of 
 rebels that came and Avent to and from the town 
 of Perth, which was then in their possession ; and 
 that he was not in safety to stay in the place, far 
 less to exercise his ministerial function among 
 them, any longer. . . He told them he was 
 obliged to retire for some time, until it pleased 
 Grod to dispel that storm which so terribly threat- 
 ened the Church." He was not long, however, in 
 beino' enabled to return. Another minute of date 
 12th February, 1716, bears that — "After service, 
 the Session met with solemn prayer and thanks- 
 o'ivino' for the sreat deliverance the Church had 
 met with from the imminent danger she was in by 
 the army of rebels, now dispersed by the wise 
 conduct of His Grace the Duke of Argyle 
 and the minister, having commended and approved 
 the good conduct of the elders during their late 
 troubles, concluded with prayer." 
 
 He was probably related to Mr Ramsay, minis- 
 ter at Bendochy, who appears frequently to have 
 assisted him on communion occasions. He died in 
 1739. 
 
 Mr John Faichney or Fechney, a native of 
 Perth, and Hcentiate of the Presbytery (see minute 
 of date 21st March, 17 33), was ordained on the 25th 
 March, 1740. One account calls him the brother. 
 
PARISH OF COLLACE. 37 
 
 but more probably he was the nephew, of Mr James 
 Faichney, minister of St Martin's, from 1712 to 
 1747; and of whom hereafter. At the moderation 
 of the call, the following probationers were put on 
 the leet along with him :— Mr James Scott, of the 
 Presbytery of Dunkeld ; Mr Andrew Ramsay, of 
 the Presbytery of Auchterarder ; and ]\ir Hugh 
 Whyte, of the Presbytery of Glasgow. He 
 finished a long and useful ministry on the 1st 
 December, 1773. 
 
 Mr Hamilton Kilgoue, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Paisley, having been presented by 
 the Crown, was ordained on the loth September, 
 1774, and died, after a short incumbency, on the 
 12th of October, 1777. 
 
 Mr John Baird, was ordained 23d September, 
 1778, and translated to Dunning on the 27th 
 February, 1783. 
 
 :Mr William M^Leish, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Meigle, who had been ordained by the 
 Presbytery of Auchterarder on the 11th of Feb- 
 ruary, 1783, but does not seem to have had a 
 parochial charge, as no process of transhttion vras 
 instituted, was admitted on the 1st of May, 1783. 
 After a lengthened process, he was suspended by 
 the Presbytery, and the parochial charge com- 
 mitted to Mr John Sogers, who was ordained 
 assistant and successor on the 20th February, 1800. 
 Mr M^Leish died on the 13th July, 1812. 
 
 Ml' John Rogers, ordained assistant and suc- 
 cessor in 1800, came into full possession of the 
 benefice on the 13th July, 1812. For many 
 years he was, from age and infirmity, laid aside 
 
38 PARISH OF COLLAGE. 
 
 from active duty, and died on the 27th Decem- 
 ber, 1851. 
 
 Mr Andrew Alexander Bonar, a descendant 
 of Mr John Bonar, minister at Perth from 1756 
 to 1761 J was ordained assistant and successor to 
 Mr Rogers on the 26th September, 1838. On the 
 19th of ]\iarch following, he obtained the permis- 
 sion of the Presbytery " to form one of a committee 
 sent out by the General Assembly to Palestine, 
 with a view to collect information reo-ardino: the 
 present state of God's ancient people." And on 
 the return of the deputation, he and his friend and 
 fellow traveller, the pious and amiable Mr Robert 
 Murray M^Cheyne, of St Peter's Church, Dundee, 
 published, at the request of the Jewish Committee, 
 a very interesting account of their proceedings, 
 under the title of " A Narrative of a Mission of 
 Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland 
 in 1839." Mr Bonar continued to assist ^ir 
 Rogers till 1843, when, having signed the Deed of 
 Demission, he was on the 16th June declared by 
 the Presbytery to be no longer a minister of the 
 Church of Scotland. He continued for some 
 years thereafter minister of the Free Church at 
 Collace, when he was translated to Finnieston 
 Free Church, in the Presbytery of Glasgow. 
 
 Mr James Laing, a probationer within the 
 bounds, who, when a divinity student, had held 
 the BeUscroft Bursary for Session 1823-4, was 
 ordained assistant to Mr Rogers on the 20th April, 
 1844. After a protracted ilhiess, he died on the 
 26th July, 1851. 
 Mr Thomas Leishman, son of Dr Leishman, 
 
PARISH OF COLLAGE. 39 
 
 minister of Govan, was ordained sole minister of 
 Collacc on the 1st of July, 1852. After an 
 incumbency of tliree years, he was translated to 
 the Parish of Linton, in the County of Eoxburgh, 
 on the 18th May, 1855. 
 
 Mr Thomas Brown, son of Mr Thomas Brown, 
 minister of Innerkip, in the Presbytery of Gree- 
 nock, was ordained on the 1st of November, 1855. 
 
DEON. 
 
 Before the Eeformation there were two small 
 chapels in this parish, besides the Parish Churchy, 
 viz. — Pottie, at the month of Glenfarg, the only 
 vestige of which remaining is part of the founda- 
 tion ; and Ecclesiamagirdle (or Exmagirdle as it 
 is called in the district), at Gienearn, part of which 
 still remains. In the Parish Churchyard lie the 
 remains of Mr John Wellwood, a celebrated field 
 preacher in the time of the Persecution under 
 Charles II. He was ejected from the Parish of 
 Tarbolton, in Ayrshire, in 1677, and, after many 
 persecutions, died at Perth, about two years after 
 his expulsion, and was brought out, under cloud of 
 night, and buried at Dron, where there >vere many 
 Covenanters, they being kept together by their 
 minister, the famous Mr Alexander Pitcairne, of 
 whom below. In the Old Churcliyard at Ec- 
 clesiamagirdle, a tomb-stone has been erected over 
 the grave of Thomas Small, another of " The Cloud 
 of Witnesses," who suffered martyrdom for his ad- 
 herence " to Scotland's covenanted work of He- 
 formation.** 
 
 Session Records. — The Parochial Eegisters- 
 commence in 1682 (the earlier volumes having 
 been lost in those troublous times), and have been 
 continued regularly ever smce. 
 
PARISH OF DEON. 41 
 
 Population. — The population of the parish, in 
 17oo, was 598; in 1791, 450 ; and in 1851, 394. 
 
 For several years after the Reformation, Dron, 
 with several of the neighbouring parishes, seems not 
 to have been provided with an ordained minister, 
 but only with a Reader, under the pastoral super- 
 intendence of Mr Patrick Weemys, the minister of 
 Dumbarnie. In "The Resfister of Ministers sen 
 1567," is the following entry: — 
 
 " Dr.ON — John Thomson, Reidar, in his rowm, 
 the same stipend sen beltym, 1569 — i.e., xx libs." 
 In the Book of Assignations for 1574, the same 
 district was still under the care of Mr Weemys, 
 but it is stated that " Poty, Moncriefte, and Drone 
 neecJes na reidars." 
 
 Master PATPtiCK Ryxd or Rhynd, son of the 
 Rector of the Grammar School of Perth, is the 
 first minister of Dron of whom we have any ac- 
 count. He was minister in 1618 ; subscribed the 
 Covenant in 1638 ; was censured by the Presbytery 
 fornon-residence, 8th April, 1640; anddiedinthe end 
 of that year, or the beginning of 1641. There is 
 a remarkable prediction concerning him, by John 
 Row, first minister of Perth, and its fulfilment, 
 mentioned in Row's "Historic of the Kirk of 
 Scotland," page 456. 
 
 Mr William Bell, who, on the 17th Novem- 
 ber, 1641, "producithis presentation to the kirk 
 of Dron, past the seals, whereupon the brethren of 
 of the Presbytery appointed Mr John Hall to teach 
 the next Sunday in the kirk of Dron, and admit 
 die said Mr William." He seems to have been a 
 native of the district, for on the 19th November, 
 
42 PAEISH OF DROJf. 
 
 1634, " the Brethren ordeins a testhnonlal to be 
 given to Mr William Bell, direct to the Archbishop 
 of St Andrews, or any other Bishop within whose 
 Diocie he may obtein a kirk." Mr Bell was trans- 
 lated to Errol, 1st December, 1652, and continued 
 minister there till his death, on the 20th December^ 
 1665. He was the founder of the Bellscroft or 
 Dron Bursary, having mortified certain lands in the 
 parish of Dron, to be under the management and 
 at the disposal of the Presbyteiy of Perth, for the 
 purpose of maintaining a student of divinity at the 
 New College of St Andrews, with a view to his be- 
 comino; a licentiate of the Church of Scotland. 
 The following is a copy of Mr Bell's Deed of 
 Mortification : — 
 
 "Be it kend to all men be their present 
 ietteris that I, Mr Williame Bell, minister 
 at Erroil, and heritable proprietor of the Kirklands 
 of Drone, occupied jn-esentlie be Andro Balmanno 
 and Andro Hendersone,, Tenants; Andro Bal- 
 manno having ane House and Yaird, for the 
 quhilk he payes yeirly fourteen marks ; and Andro 
 Hendersone having Houses, Yairds, Barnes, Byres, 
 ■with some Aikers of Land, lying aboot the Kirk- 
 yaird, and sax Bigg^s, lyings at the Wester March 
 of Newbigging, for al! which, he jxiyes yearly 
 Twelf Boils Victual, half Bearc, half Meal, four 
 Loads of Coals, and auchteene Puttrie. That I,, 
 the said Mr Williame, moved by the zeal of God,, 
 in the propagatione of the Gospel of Chryst, and 
 in Testimonie of my thankfulness to God, for my 
 late recovery from ane daingerus disease, have 
 dedicated^ dotted^ and mortified, lykas by this pre- 
 
PARISH OF DRON. 43 
 
 sent charter dedicates, dotts, and mortifies the fore- 
 said Houses, Toftes, Croftis, Pairtis, Pendikells, 
 and quhatsumever pertinents thairofF, to the 
 Brethrein of the Presbyterie of Perthe, present and 
 to cum, giving them full power to sett and lease 
 Tennants, sett Tacks, and do quhatsumever is con- 
 venient to be done in that kynd, for the purpose 
 following, to -witt, to maintene yearly one Young 
 Man at his Studies of Divinitie, at the Ncav 
 Colledge of St Andrews (bye and attour the Bur- 
 sar quha is mainteened alreadie by the Presbyterie, 
 according to the Actes and present practice of the 
 Kirk), to be nominated and presented be the said 
 Presbyterie, ane Yung Man of good report and 
 weil qualified in his former studies, being neither 
 seditiouslie nor schismatticalie disposed. Ane 
 minister's sone of the said Presbyterie, quliilk 
 fealling, ane marchant's sone of the Brughe of 
 Perthe, and fealling of bothe theese, quhomsoever 
 the Presbyterie present and to cum sail nominate 
 and present, being qu£ilified as said is. Providin 
 always I lieve no children of my owin to inherit 
 the said landis, and reserving alwayes my own 
 and my wife's life rent thereof, quhilk provision 
 faiizing and reservation being expired, then, and 
 in that case, this mortification to be in vigor and 
 force, and not till then. In witness quhairof I 
 have wriaten and subserived thir presents with my 
 hand, at Erroll, the fift of Februarie, One Thousand 
 Sex Hundreth fiftie and Nyne Yearsr 
 
 Maister Williame Bell, 
 Minister at Erroll." 
 
44 PARISH OF DRON. 
 
 Mr William Weemys, son of David Weemys, 
 minister of Scone, was translated from the parish 
 oi Monzievaird, and admitted to the parish of Dron 
 on the 3d Jidy, 1653. The term of his incmn- 
 bencj was very short, for, on the 30th November 
 of the same year, " compeared Lam'cnce Dron and 
 Peter Duncan, elders of the parish of Dron, and, 
 in regard of the removal of their late minister, Mr 
 William Weemys, by death, desired the Presbytrie 
 to supplie the vacand charge at their kirk. The 
 Presbytrie appointed the kirk of Dron to be sup- 
 plied everie fifteen days by the brethren of the 
 Presbytrie conforme to the order of the catalogue, 
 and ordains Mr James Gillespie to begin the next 
 Lord's Day." 
 
 Mr Alexander Pitcairne was ordained and 
 admitted on the 29th September, 1656, and was 
 one of " near 400 ministers" thrown out of their 
 churches in 1662, for non-conformity to Prelacy. 
 By an Act of Parliament, passed in September of 
 that year, it was declared that all ministers who 
 had been admitted after the abolition of Patronage 
 in 1649, should have no right to their Stipends 
 unless they obtained presentation from the lawful 
 Patrons and collation anew from the Bishop of the 
 Diocese ; and unless they did this they were com- 
 manded, to remove themselves and their families 
 out of their parishes, before the 1st day of Novem- 
 ber following, and not to reside within the bounds 
 of their respective parishes. More than a third of 
 the Presbyterian ministers were ejected for non- 
 compliance with this Act. Among others, ^Ir 
 Pitcairne was deprived of his ministry, and the 
 
PARISH OF DRON. 45 
 
 churcli of Dron declared yacant. But, although 
 outlawed and persecuted, he continued to live in 
 the parish and neighbourhood, and to dispense the 
 ordinances of religion to such as had the courage 
 to attend his ministrations. He was the leading 
 spirit among the Covenanters of the district, and 
 the field meetings held under his auspices were 
 attended by great numbers of all classes of the 
 people. After braving many dangers, and making 
 many narrow escapes, Mr Pitcairne was at last 
 compelled to relinquish his post. Woodrow gives 
 the following account of the circumstances : — 
 
 " This year, 1682, the Eeverend Mr Alexander 
 Pitcairn, who by good Providence had been 
 minister at Dron, near Perth, for many years, was 
 forced to leave his charge. He was, indeed, an 
 eyesore to the Episcopal clergy in that country. 
 After he had sitten many citations and summons 
 to remove, the Marquis of Athole came and turned 
 him out. I hear no further accounts of this worthy 
 and learned minister, w^ho is known through the 
 Reformed Churches by his writings, only I find 
 Holland w^as the place of his shelter, where he 
 continued until the Liberty, when he, with many 
 other worthy ministers, returned home from their 
 exile." Book HI., p. 390. 
 
 He returned to his charge after the Revolution, 
 as appears firom the minute of the first meeting of 
 the Presbytery of Perth after that happy event. 
 It is as follows:— "At Perth, the 30th day of 
 July, 1690 years, Mr Alexander Pitcairne, minister 
 at Drone, having now returned to the exercise of 
 his ministrie there again, by virtue of ane Act of 
 
46 PARISH OF DRON". 
 
 the Conventlone of Estates of tins Kingdom, or- 
 dainlns: ministers that were outed from their minis- 
 trie, anno, 1662 (when our Presbyterian Govern- 
 ment was overtm^ned, and Prelacie introduced), 
 and that are yet alive, to return now to their 
 former charges ; and the said Mr Alexander Pit- 
 cairne, being at the]foresaid time Moderator of this 
 Presbyterie, doetli now again, with the hearty 
 consent and approbation of the brethren present, 
 tak the chair J^ 
 
 He was not long permitted to continue in his 
 charge at Dron, having in the following year been 
 appointed Principal of the Old College of St 
 Andrews. The Record of date December 9th, 
 1691, bears that, " The Moderator and brethren 
 finding that the said parish is desolate, througli the 
 removal of Mr Alexander Pitcairne, who is settled 
 Principal of the Old College of St AndrcAvs, and 
 is removed totally from Dron to that place, they 
 have appointed Mr Alexander Dunning to preach 
 at the kirk of Dron the next Lord's Day, and to 
 declare the said kirk vacant." 
 
 Although Mr Pitcairne was " outed," and his 
 church declared vacant in 1662, there is no evi- 
 dence of any Episcopalian incumbent having been 
 appointed until twenty years afterwards. In 1682, 
 an attempt was made to induct Mr John Taylor, 
 but the people, strongly attached to Mr Pitcairne, 
 who still laboured amons; them at the hazard of 
 liis life, seem to have violently and successfully 
 opposed the intrusion of his successor. "Woodrow 
 says — "May 29th, 1682. Upon information of a 
 riot in the Parish of Dron, upon the person of Mr 
 
PAEISH OF DRON. 47 
 
 George Drummond (minister of St Madoes), serv- 
 ing an edict for Mr Taylor to be minister there, 
 the Council order a troop of horse, under Lord 
 Ross's command, and a company of foot, under 
 Captain Maitland, to quarter in that parish, and 
 receive orders from the Marquis of Athole, and 
 seize upon the persons active therein, particularly 
 Mr Alexander Pitcairne and his beadle, who are 
 reputed to have hounded them out : And by 
 a letter to the Marquis, the Council order him to 
 hold courts, and convene old and young, men and 
 women, who were in the kirk and did not assist 
 the minister, and fine such as are capable of fining, 
 and imprison and scourge others for an example, 
 and report to the Council. With this letter they 
 send instructions to Lord Ross and Captain Mait- 
 land to ' march to Dron, and quarter there till 
 further order, to concur with the Marquis of 
 Athole in executing the laws against the rioters ; 
 to get information of such as had accession thereto 
 from Messrs Drummond and Taylor, and the neigh- 
 bouring ministers and gentlemen ; that such as 
 committed any violence upon the ministers be sent 
 over as prisoners to the Council, with the names 
 of such as cannot be apprehended ; to concur for 
 instaling the minister as the Bishop shall direct, 
 and to insert the names of the heritors of the 
 parish in the Council letters sent them, with those 
 of the ringleaders, and principal actors whom they 
 cannot apprehend, that they might compear before 
 the Council, June 7th.' " 
 
 In pursuance of this order, an armed force was 
 for a time quartered at Dron. Mr Pitcairne was 
 
4b PAEISH OF DROK. 
 
 clnven into banishment; many of his adherents 
 were imprisoned and fined. Two at least were shot. 
 After these severe proceedings, Mr Taylor was 
 inducted. There is no Secord of the proceedings of 
 Presbytery from 1681 to 1G90; but among "the 
 writts and evidents" of the Bellscroft Bursary 
 lands, there is a charter of confirmation containing 
 a new donation of said lands, granted by " Mr 
 John Taylor, parson and yichy of Dron, dated the 
 day of March, 1689." 
 Mr John JEdie, or Edie, hiiving received an 
 unanimous call, which was laid before the Presby- 
 tery on the 23d March, 1692, by " the Laird of 
 Corbs, heritor, and Laurence Johnstone, ruling 
 elder," was ordained and admitted on the 2 2d 
 September following. The Eecord bears, that 
 " Mr Samuel Nairne obeyed the Presbyterie's 
 order and preached this day- —his text, 2 Tim., ii. 4. 
 After sermon, the brethren ordained Mr John 
 Adie, a minister of the Gospel, with imposition of 
 hands, and other solemnities used in the lyke caice, 
 and admitted him pastor of that congregation." 
 
 Mr John Colquhoun. The date of Mr Edie's 
 death or translation has not been ascertained, but 
 the church was vacant on the 28th May, 1697, 
 when a deputation from the Kirk-session waited 
 upon the Presbytery, and craved them to appoint 
 a day for moderating in a call for some one to be 
 their minister. A call was unanimously given to 
 Mr Thomas Frazer, probationer, but the Presby- 
 tery " considering that the General Assembly had 
 discharged all Presbyteries concerned to settle 
 probationers born on the north side of the River of 
 
PARISH OF DROX. - 49 
 
 Tay, In any parish on the south side thereof, and 
 finding Mr Thomas Frazer to be such, they cannot 
 therefore settle him in Dron." Thereafter a call 
 was given to Mr John Colquhoun, minister of 
 Cathcart (who, about the same time, also received 
 a call from the Parish of Eattray), and a process of 
 translation having been carried through, he was 
 admitted minister of Dron on the 27th Aj^ril, 1698, 
 and died on the 28th of April, 172(3. He had a 
 daughter, Margaret, married to David Caw. 
 
 Mr Thomas Tullidelph. The Earl of 
 Wemyss having agreed to waive his right of pre- 
 sentation, and to "leave the settlement of the 
 parish to the choice of the people and Presby- 
 tery ;" the Presbytery, at the request of the heri- 
 tors and elders, " allowed them a hearing of three 
 young men, probationers, io luit, Mr David Mar- 
 shall, in the family of Innermay, Mr Alexander 
 M^Culloch, in Perth, and Mr Andrew Schaw, in 
 the family of Balmanno." But Avhen a call came 
 to be moderated, the only candidates proposed 
 were Thomas Tullidelph, preacher in the Presby- 
 tery of Edinburgh (the son, it is believed, of Mr 
 John Tullidelph, who was minister at Dunbarnie 
 from 1691 to 1714), and Mr William Wilson, one 
 of the ministers of Perth; and the vote being taken, 
 it was found that "all the heritors except one, 
 also the whole elders, and a great majority of the 
 heads of famihes, had voted for Mr Tullidelph." 
 The call in his favour was accordingly sustained, 
 and he having laid before the Presbytery testi- 
 monials from the Presbyteries of Chirnside and 
 Edinburgh, and passed the usual trials, was 
 
50 PARISH OF DEON. 
 
 ordained and admitted minister of Dron on the 2d 
 day of November, 1727. He was translated to the 
 Parish of Markinch in October, 1731, and again 
 translated to be Principal of St Leonard's College, 
 St Andrews ; thereafter, that Institution having 
 been united to the College of St Salvador (in 1747), 
 he became Principal of the United College, and 
 minister of St Leonard's Parish, where, for several 
 years before his death, he was assisted in the dis- 
 charge of his parochial duties by Principal Hill. 
 In 1742, he was chosen Moderator of the Gene- 
 ral Assembly, Mr John Cleghorn, minister at 
 Weemyss, and Mr Alexander Maclaggan, at Little 
 Dunkeld, having been put on the leet along with 
 him. He died on the 14th November, 1777. 
 
 After the translation of Mr Tullidelph, the parish 
 remained vacant for several years, in consequence 
 of protracted litigations. On the 13th day of 
 September, 1733, a call was moderated in by the 
 Presbytery, when the following gentlemen were 
 put upon the leet, viz. : — ^ir James Mercer, 
 minister at Aberdalgie, and Messrs David Black, 
 George Blackie, and John Faichney, probationers 
 within the bounds. On the vote being taken, it 
 was found that " all the heritors, being seven in 
 number, had voted for Mr Mercer ; and all the 
 elders, being four, voted for the said Mr Black.'^ 
 The Presbytery, by the casting vote of the 
 Moderator, referred the matter to the Synod; 
 and after a long process, the General Assembly of 
 1735 (Session 11th) passed an Act, "Kefusing to 
 transport Mr James Mercer to the Parish of Dron^ 
 and continuing him in his charge at Aberdalgie. 
 
PARISH OF DRON. 51 
 
 Tlie controversy which then agitated the Church 
 was carried on with great keenness within the 
 bounds of the Presbytery of Perth, and perhaps 
 the popular feeling was nowhere stronger than in 
 Dron. The Covenanting spmt implanted by Mr 
 Pitcairne still survived ; and many of the old 
 parishioners would remember the persecutions and 
 cruelties of the Athole Highlanders. Besides, Mr 
 Mercer was particularly obnoxious to them, in 
 consequence of his having taken a very active part 
 in the proceedings against Mr Ebenezer Erskine. 
 It is remarkable, however, that the members of 
 Presbytery seem to have been unanimous in their 
 opposition to patronage. Among the instructions 
 given to their Commissioners to the Assembly in 
 1732, we find the following : — 
 
 " Primo — That the Assemblie address the King 
 against patronages, a great grievance to this church, 
 and if, instead thereof, we must have a civil statute, 
 that it be such as is agreeable to the known prin- 
 ciples of this Church." 
 
 " Sexto — That the Assemblie take proper mea- 
 sures to discourage ministers and probationers 
 from accepting presentations ^ 
 
 Mr Mercer having been set aside, the parishioners 
 on the 27th October, 1736, petitioned the Presby- 
 tery to moderate in a new call. On the day of the 
 moderation, August 18th, 1737, seven heritors and 
 one elder voted for JNIr Miles, or Myles, a proba- 
 tioner in the Presbytery of Cupar, and one elder 
 for Mr Mair, brother to Mr Mair of Orwell ; and 
 on the heads of families being asked for their con- 
 currence, two voted for Mr Miles, and sixty-nine 
 
 D 
 
52 PARISH OF DRON". 
 
 for Mr Mail*. The lieritora protested against Mr 
 Mair being put on the leet, on the ground that he 
 associated " with certain persons who had seceded 
 from the Church." The Presbytery refused to 
 sustain either call, which gave Mr Mercer occasion 
 to say in his Reasons of Dissent, that, as there was 
 no likelihood of the heritors and people agreeing, 
 and as the Presbytery refused to settle Mr Mair 
 on the votes of the heads of families without the 
 heritors, and to settle Mr Miles on the votes of 
 the heritors without the people, "there was an 
 easy prohability that the Parish of Dron might be 
 vacant for everT 
 
 The Synod, on appeal, sustained the call in 
 favour of Mr Miles, but Mr M^ntosh of Errol, and 
 Mr Pilmar of Forgandenny, the ministers appointed 
 by the Presbytery to serve his edict, and preside 
 at his ordination, refused to fulfil their appoint- 
 ments ; and on the 2d May, 1739, the Presbytery, 
 " seeing they could not find a quorum to eifectuate 
 the settlement," resolved to refer the matter to the 
 General Assembly. The Assembly remitted the 
 case to the Synod. Mr Miles was set aside, and 
 as the heritors and heads of families continued at 
 variance, the Presbytery took the matter into their 
 own hands, and made a new appointment. 
 
 Mr Robert Bryce, a probationer within the 
 bounds of the Presbytery of Dunfermline, was 
 accordingly ordained, and admitted on the 12th of 
 May, 1741, and died on the 23d December, 1756. 
 Mr David Dow, a licentiate of the Presbytery 
 of Fordoun, was the first minister settled in this 
 parish on a presentation, and without a call at 
 
PARISH OF DRON'. 53 
 
 large. Ha was presented, or rather, as the Ee- 
 cord expresses it, recommended by the Govern- 
 ment, and the Presbytery moderated in a special 
 call in his favour, no other candidates being put 
 upon the leet, as was uniformly done in all pre- 
 vious cases. After the usual trials, he was ordained 
 and admitted on the 9th May, 1758, and died on 
 the 2d January, 1808, having very nearly com- 
 pleted the fiftieth year of his ministry. Two of 
 his sons were his co-Presbyters for many years 
 before his death, viz., Mr Anthony Dow, minister 
 at Kilspindie, and Mr David Dow, minister at 
 Errol. 
 
 Mr Alexander Isdale was, on the 9th April, 
 1807, ordained assistant and successor to Mr Dow, 
 and came into full possession of the benefice on 
 the 2d January following. He is said to have 
 been somewhat peculiar in his habits, and many 
 anecdotes are still told concerning him in the dis- 
 trict. He had a remarkably retentive memory, and 
 it is said that on occasion of National Fasts or 
 Thanksgivings, it was his practice, instead of keep- 
 ing the day appointed, and preparing a special 
 sermon of his own, to shut his church, and go and 
 hear some gifted brother at a distance. Then, on 
 the Sabbath foUomng, he delivered nearly verbatim 
 to his own people at Dron the sermon which he 
 had heard. He kept up to the last the now all 
 but obsolete custom of pirliecuing ; being in the 
 habit of going up to the pulpit at the close of the 
 service, and giving his people an abstract of the 
 sermons preached by his assistants on Communion 
 occasions, with any remarks thereon which he 
 
54 PAEISH OF DKOIS^. 
 
 thought necessary. His criticisms on these occa- 
 sions were frequently more free than pleasant to 
 his assistants. One day when he had gone over 
 and criticised rather severely the forenoon sermon, 
 the minister who had preached in the afternoon^ 
 and who was still sitting behind him in the pulpit, 
 gently pulled his coat tail as a hint to him to deal 
 more leniently with his discourse. Mr Isdale 
 turning round to him said sufficiently loud to be 
 heard by the people, " Ye need na be feared, man ! 
 I'll no middle wi' your's. I never heard onything 
 frae you that was worth the comin' o'er." 
 
 He died on the lltli November, 1834, leaving 
 several descendants, one of whom was subsequently 
 minister of the Q. S. Church of Invirtiel, near 
 Kirkcaldy. 
 
 Mr Patrick J. ^Iacfarlane, A.M. and M.D., 
 son of Dr ]\iacfarlane, for many years well-known 
 and highly esteemed as a physician in the city and 
 county of Perth, received a presentation from the 
 Crown as successor to Mr Isdale. 
 
 On the day of the moderating in the call, which 
 took place on the 7th April, 1835, it was found 
 that there was no roll of male heads of families, 
 nor any Kirk-session to make up one, (nor had 
 there been for tAventy-eight years,) as prescribed by 
 tlie Interim Act and Regulations, commonly called 
 the Veto Law, passed by the preceding General 
 Assembly. The Presbytery referred the matter 
 to the Synod. The Synod remitted to the Pres- 
 bytery to cause a roll to be made up, and to pro- 
 ceed agreeably to the Interim Act and Regulations. 
 The General Assembly, however; on the motion of 
 
PARISH OF DRON. 55 
 
 Lord Moncrieffe, reversed the sentence of the 
 Synod, and Instructed the Presbytery to sustam 
 the call, and proceed with the settlement accordmg- 
 to the rules of the Church. 
 
 Mr Macfarlane was ordamed and admitted ac- 
 cordingly on the 11th day of August, 1835. He 
 suffered from severe bodily affliction during the 
 greater part of his short incumbency, and the duties 
 of the parish were performed by assistants. He 
 died on the 28th day of January, 1844. 
 
 Mr Charles Goodall, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Dumfermline, was ordained on the 5th 
 day of September, 1844. 
 
DUNBAENEY. 
 
 DUNBERNEY— DUNBAENIE— 
 DUNBAENEY— DUMBARNIE, 
 
 The Teinds and Patronage of tlie Parish of 
 Dunbarney formerly belonged to the Town-Council 
 of Edinburgh, and formed part of the St Giles' in 
 that city. A charter given by James YI. at Holy- 
 rood House on the 15th March, 1603, confirms a 
 former charter of date 14th April, 1582, " ordain- 
 ing and declaring that in all time coming, the 
 churches of Dunberny, Potty, and MoncrieiFe, 
 shall belong to the Provost, Bailiff, Council, and 
 community of the said town of Edinburgh, 
 too-ether with the emoluments of the Rectory of 
 the aforesaid church of Dunberny, whereof the 
 said churches of Potty and MoncrieiFe are ap- 
 pendages, and were anciently annexed to the 
 collegiate church of St Giles." We have already 
 noticed the chapel at Potty, under the Parish of 
 Dron, to which it was annexed, quoad spiritualia,. 
 in 1652, having been disjoined from the Parish of 
 Dunbarney. The dilapidated ruins of the chapel 
 of MoncrieiFe still exist near the Mansion House. 
 The interior is used as a burying place by the 
 family of MoncrieiFe, and has been so for many 
 o'cnerations. Duncan MoncrieiFe of that Ilk and 
 his lady were buried there so long ago as 1357. — 
 Douglas's Baronage, 
 
PARISH OF DUNBARNET. 57 
 
 The Register of Baptisms commences in 1594, 
 and is comprised in two quarto volumes. The Re- 
 cords or Minutes of the Kirk-session begin April 
 27, 1657 (the earlier volumes having been lost). 
 They have been kept regularly ever since, and con- 
 tain a curious account of the proceedings of the 
 Session for upwards of two centuries. 
 
 The Register of Deaths, or, as it is entitled, 
 "The Names of the Defunct Persones," commences 
 on the 1st December, 1598 ; and the cash book of 
 the Kirk-session, or " Distributions to the misterful 
 within the Parochin of Dunberny," in November, 
 1600. 
 
 The population in 1755 was 764; 1792, 1260; 
 1851, 1066. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Patrick Wemyss was probably the first 
 Protestant minister of Dunbarney. In 1569, as 
 appears from the " Register of Ministers, Readers, 
 &c.," his stipend as minister of Dunbarney, Potty, 
 and Moncrieffe,was £100 Scots; which in 1599 was 
 augmented to £240 Scots ; and in 1607 was added 
 '^ the hail vicarage of Dron, with the third of the 
 chaplainries of Dunkeld, called St Ninians, and St 
 Peter's in Perth," amounting to £15 8s lOd Scots. 
 In 1586, he was, along with five other ministers, 
 appointed by the General Assembly " to lead and 
 deduce processe against the Bishop of Dunkeld, 
 if they find occasion of slander to arise by him, in 
 life, doctrine, or conversation, at any time betwixt 
 this and the next Assemblie Generalle." In 1611, 
 
58 PARISH OF DUNBARNEY. 
 
 lie was present at a meeting of the Diocesan Synod 
 at St Andrews. He is supposed to have been the 
 father of Mr David Wemyss, ivho was minister at 
 Scone from 1620 to 1664, and who had f3nr sons 
 ministers, viz., John, ordained minister of Dun- 
 bamey in 1665 ; Mungo, first minister of Glen- 
 devon, and afterwards at Aberdalgie ; George^ 
 who was ordained assistant and successor to his 
 father at Scone, in 1656 ; and a fourth, who was 
 minister at Lecropt. The year of Mr Wemyss^ 
 death has not been ascertained. 
 
 Mr WiLLixiM Black was minister in 1618. 
 His name appears as one of those who subscribed 
 a protestation given in to Parliament in June, 
 1617 ; and he either died or was translated in 1622 
 or 1623. 
 
 Mr John Hall was ordained and admitted 
 minister on the 6th November, 1623. Owing to 
 the want of convenient manses, it appears from the 
 Kecord to have been customary for many of the 
 country ministers to reside in Perth. Perhaps 
 this may account for the fact that the names of 
 several of Mr Hall's children are inserted in the 
 Perth Session-register as having been baptised 
 there. He was translated to Kilspindie in 1646. 
 
 Mr Robert Young, son of ]Mr Andrew 
 Young, minister of Abercorn, and who had 
 been Professor of Humanity in the University 
 of Edinburgh from 1638 to 1643, was presented by 
 the Town-Council of Edinburgh to the Kirk of 
 Dunbarney, and admitted minister there on the 3d 
 February, 1647. He was ejected for Noncon- 
 formity on 13th December, 1664. 
 
PARISH OF DUNBARNET. ' 59 
 
 The following notice of him occurs in ^^ Wood- 
 row's Church History," viz. :■ — 
 
 "March 12th, 1673.— The Council came to be 
 a little more severe, and that day the most part of 
 the outed ministers who had not entered their con- 
 finement were called before the Council. Com- 
 peared inter alios Mr Robert Young, a very worthy 
 minister in Perthshire, who had been very im- 
 periously turned out by Bishop Sharp. When he 
 came in before the Council, he complained he had 
 been most iniquitously turned out of his charge. 
 The Bishop had taken upon him to depose Mr 
 Young by a sentence passed in his own chamber, 
 one minister only being with him there ; and 
 whether his consent was asked or given, the com- 
 plainer did not know. From this sentence Mr 
 Young appealed to the Privy Council, and begged 
 their Lordships would consider the wrong done him; 
 and required the Bishop, who was present, being 
 in this affair a party, might be removed when this 
 cause was discussed. The Bishop rose up, and 
 alleged Mr Young had been orderly deposed by 
 liim and the Synod of Fife. Mr Young offered upon 
 his peril to prove, by the date of his sentence, that 
 he was deposed before the Synod met ; and if the 
 Bishop had caused insert his illegal sentence, after 
 it was passed, in the Records of the Synod, that 
 w\as Avhat he could not help. Mr Young was re- 
 moved a little, and when called in, the Chancellor 
 signified to him that it was the Council's pleasure 
 he should go to his confinement before the 1st of 
 June." 
 
 Mr Young was Moderator when the Presbytery 
 
60 PARISH OF DUNBARNEY. 
 
 was closed, and the members prohibited from meet- 
 ing, by order of Cromwell, in the time of the Pro- 
 tectorate, as appears from the following minute : — 
 
 "Perth, March 28th, 1655.— Compeared Cap- 
 tain Alderson and Captain Kelk, officers in the 
 English garrison in Perth, and did declare to the 
 Presbytery that they had warrand from the Gene- 
 ral of the English Forces, and the Governor of the 
 Garrison of Perth, not to suffer such meetings to 
 be, but to dissolve them. Whereupon the Modera- 
 tor protested that it was ane encroachment upon 
 the liberties of the Church of Christ, and did ap- 
 point the Clerk to mark the samine, to the whilk 
 protestation all the brethren present did adhere. 
 The brethren thinks fit that the next meeting of 
 Presbytery be called for at conveniencie by the 
 present Moderator (Mr Young), and for that effect 
 appoynts the brethren to be fr'equent at the Synod 
 for consulting thereanent." 
 
 The Presbytery, however, was not long in abey- 
 ance, for within a month Mr Young called a meet- 
 ing, which was held, not at Perth, but Kilspindie, 
 probably as being more out of the reach of the 
 English garrison. 
 
 By his last will, dated at Edinburgh, 4th July, 
 1677, Mr Young mortified 500 merks to the Kirk- 
 session of Dunbarney, the interest of which to be 
 paid yearly to the Schoolmaster " for his encourage- 
 to teach puir bairns." 
 
 Mr John Weemys, son of David Wemyss, 
 minister at Scene from 1620 to 1664, and grandson 
 of Mr Patrick Wemyss, mentioned above, was 
 ordained 8th June, 1665, having previously been 
 
PARISH OF DUNBARNEY. 61 
 
 chaplain to Viscount Stormont. He was one the 
 Presbytery Bursars in 1658, 1659, 1660, and died 
 8th June, 1675. 
 
 Mr John Omay, translated from St Madoes, 
 12th January, 1676 ; and translated to Methven 
 on 30th July, 1679, where he died in 1693. 
 
 Mr David Anderson, admitted on the 4th 
 September, 1679, having previously been Professor 
 of Humanity in St Leonard's College, St Andrews. 
 He was translated to Perth on the 27th October, 
 1680, " with all haste ;" and having been found 
 guilty of disaffection to the new Government, he 
 was deprived of his pastoral office on the 27th 
 July, 1689, soon after the battle of Killicrankie. 
 
 Mr John Balnea ves, who was ordained as- 
 sistant and successor to his father at Tibbermore 
 on the 24th August, 1673, was translated to Dun- 
 barney on the 5th January, 1681. He was ejected 
 soon after the Revolution, as appears from the fol- 
 lowing minute of Presbytery : — ^' The Episcopal 
 incumbent having been very early deprived of his 
 office, the lairds of Kilgraston and Dunbarney 
 presented a Call to the Presbytery, August 9th, 
 1690, in favour of Mr John TuUidaph, preacher 
 of the Gospel, to be minister at Dunbarney." 
 After the Revolution, Mr Balneaves seems to have 
 lived on his estate of Friartown, in the parish of 
 St Martins. In a bond, dated that year, he styles 
 himself " minister of Dunbarney." 
 
 Mr John Tullidaph, Tullideff, or Tulli- 
 delph, son of Principal Tullidaph of St Leonards, 
 and father of Thomas, afterwards, in succession, 
 minister of Dron and Markinch, and Principal of 
 
^2 PARISH OF DUNBARNEY. 
 
 St Andrews, was ordained and admitted on the 
 14tli January, 1691 ; and died 26th August, 1714. 
 
 Mr Thomas Finlayson was ordained and ad- 
 mitted 11th September, 1717, after a long vacancy, 
 during which a popular call had been given by the 
 lieritors, elders, and heads of families, to Mr 
 Chapman, minister of Moneydie, and declined. 
 Mr Finlayson died 22d May, 1744. 
 
 Mr James Lindsay w^as translated from the 
 Parish of Leuchars, and inducted into Dunbarney 
 on the 20th June, 1746. He was a man of great 
 popular gifts, and took an active part in the pro- 
 ceedings of the Church Courts. He was involved 
 in the protracted litigations connected with the 
 famous Dunse case, having, on the 23d December, 
 1748, received a popular call, in opposition to the 
 presentee of the patron. The Assembly of 1750 
 sustained the call to the presentee, and appointed 
 the Presbytery to proceed with his settlement. 
 In that same Assembly, we find Mr Lindsay taking 
 part in the discussion which took place on the re- 
 port given in by the committee appointed by the 
 preceding Assembly to consider a Scheme for the 
 Augmentation of Ministers' Stipends. Being of 
 the popular party, he seems to have been lukewarm, 
 if not hostile, to a scheme supported chiefly by the 
 moderate influence. He was translated to Loch- 
 mabcn immediatelyafter the rising of the Assembly, 
 viz., on the 23d May, 1750. 
 
 Mr James Gillespie, was translated from the 
 parish of Abdy on the 21st March, 1751, a unani- 
 mous call having been given him by the heritors, 
 elders, and heads of families. He was licensed by 
 
PARISH OF DUNBARNEY. 63 
 
 the Presbytery of Perth on 28th August, 1745, 
 and is supposed to be the son of Mr James Gillespie, 
 minister at Arngask, mentioned before. He was 
 translated to be Principal of St Andrews on the 
 25th October, 1757. His daughter, Jane, having 
 married Mr William Duncan, minister at Aber- 
 nethy, was the mother of the present venerable 
 minister of that parish. 
 
 Mr David Beatson, ordained 10th May, 1759, 
 a previous call having been given to Mr George 
 Lyon, minister at Strathmiglo. Mr Beatson died 
 18th August, 1795. 
 
 Mr James Beatson, son of the aforesaid, was 
 translated from Kingsbarns on the 26th Novem- 
 ber, 1795; and died 17th November, 1820. 
 
 The Messrs Beatson are now worthily repre- 
 sented by J. Beatson BeU, Esq., W.S., the 
 respected agent for the Church. 
 
 Mr JoHis^ Anderson (now D.D.), ordained 9th 
 August, 1821 ; and translated to Newburgh, 26th 
 September, 1833. Dr Anderson is well known in 
 the scientific world by his geological writings, and 
 the interesting discoveries he has made in that 
 science. Among other works he has published 
 the following:— "Dura Den: a Monograph of the 
 Yellow Sandstone and its Remarkable Fossil 
 Deposits;" "The Course of Creation;" "The 
 Geology of Scotland," &c. 
 
 Mr Alexander Cumming, ordained on 23d 
 January, 1834. Mr Gumming having signed the 
 Deed of Demission, his church was ordered to be 
 declared vacant on the 16th June, 1843. He 
 continued for several years minister of the Free 
 
64 PAKISH OF DUNBARNEY. 
 
 Church at Dunbarney, and was afterwards trans- 
 lated to the East Gorbals Free Church in the 
 Presbytery of Glasgow. 
 
 Mr Thomas Dickinson Kirkwood, a licentiate 
 of the Presbytery of Edinburgh, was ordained on 
 the 14th September, 1843. 
 
AEROLL— EROL— EEEOLL— 
 EEEOL. 
 
 The name of the parish is found in all these 
 different forms, and is said to be derived from the 
 Gaelic word Ear-iul^ which signifies Eastern Land- 
 mark. The most ancient charter belonging to the 
 estate of Errol, and constituting it a barony, was 
 granted in the time of William the Lion, who 
 reigned from 1166 to 1214. Dominus Ricardus 
 de Creche, Rector of the Parish Church of Errol, 
 is mentioned in a letter of the Bishop of St 
 Andrews, in the Book of Scon, of date 1st July, 
 1429. 
 
 Session Records. — The parochial registers 
 consist of 15 vols., and are very complete, com- 
 mencing at the time of the Reformation, and 
 coming down, with a few short intervals, to the 
 present time. There is a blank between the years 
 1654 and 1666; and from 1788 to 1819 there are 
 only a few detached minutes. 
 
 The POPULATION of the parish in 1755 was 
 2229; 1801,2685; 1851,2796. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Alexander Allerdas. —In the Registar 
 of Ministers sen the year 1569, is the following 
 entry : — " Arroll, with the appendicles, Mr Alex- 
 ander AUerdaS; minister, j.c. lib." 
 
66 PARISH OF ERROL. 
 
 Maister Alexander Dunmure — From the 
 following extract from the Book of xAssignation for 
 1574, it appears that Mr Dunmure was then mini- 
 ster of Errol and several of the adjoining parishes. 
 
 " Erroll, Eait, Kilspindy— 
 "Mr Alexander Dunmure, minister, £100 and kl. 
 " Mr William Powry, reidare at Erroll, £30 and k.l. 
 " Neil Ramsay, reidare at Rait, £1 6 and k.l. 
 " Andre Stewart, reidare at Kilspindy, £20." 
 
 Mr James Smith — Mr Scott, in his lives of the 
 Scots Reformers, says that " during the last year 
 of Mr Row's ministry, Mr James Smith, a man 
 much approven, was Reider in the Church of 
 Perth, and in 1582 became minister of Errol." 
 
 Dr John Strang or Strange is the first Pro- 
 testant minister of whom we find any account. 
 In the " New Statistical Account," he is said to 
 have been minister of Errol from 1614 to 1626. 
 In the Ecclesiastical Records and Annals of the 
 time, he is uniformly designated Doctor Strang, 
 and seems to have been one of the first who ob- 
 tained that degree. Calderwood says, " Upon the 
 29th Julie, 1616, Mr Robert Home, Mr Peter 
 Bruce, Mr James Martin (Principals of the three 
 Colleges of St Andrews), Mr Patrick Melome, 
 Mr Henrie PhUip, Mr John Strang^ Mr James 
 Blair, and Mr David Barclay, were inaugurate 
 Doctors at St Andrews. This noveltie was brought 
 in amongst us without advice or consent of the 
 Kirk. Mr John Carmichael, Mr David Mearns, 
 and Mr John Dykes refused to accept that degree. 
 Dr Young was the director of the solemnities of 
 of this action." Yol. vii., p. 222. But though 
 
PARISH OF ERROL. 67 
 
 Calderwood speaks of it as a " noveltie," the degree 
 of Doctor was recognised by the first Reformers. 
 Thus, so early as 1569, we find the following Act 
 of Assembly : — " Concerning proceeding by degrees 
 in schools to the degree of a Doctor of Divinitie, 
 it was ordained that the brethren of the Colledges 
 of St Andrews convene and forme such order as 
 they sail think meit ; and that they present the 
 same to the next Assemblie, to be revisit and con- 
 sidered, that the Assemblie may eke or diminish as 
 they sail think gude, and that the order allowed 
 may be thereafter established." — Cald. ii., p. 478. 
 And, accordingly, the "Second Book of Discipline," 
 finally approved of and recorded by Assembly 1581, 
 declares, " ane of the twa ordinar and perpetual 
 functions that travel in the Word is the office of 
 the Doctor, wha also may be callit Prophet, 
 Bishop, Elder, &c. Under the name and office of 
 a Doctor, we comprehend also the order in schules, 
 colledges, and universities, whilke has been from 
 tyme to tyme carefullie maintainit, as well amang 
 the Jewes and Christians as araang the prophane 
 nations." Dr Strang was a member of the Gene- 
 ral Assembly which met in Perth in 1618, and at 
 which the famous Five Articles were passed. Scott, 
 in his Apologetical Narration, says of this Assembly 
 — " Noblemen, barons, burgesses, bishops, and 
 doctors sat at a long table upon formes ; but mini- 
 sters were left to stand behind, as if their place 
 and pairt had been onlie to behold. The bishops 
 carrie some majestic on their part to dash simple 
 ministers." And of the taking of the vote on the 
 Five Articles, he says — " The pretended Moderator 
 
68 PARISH OF ERROL, 
 
 (Spottiswood) took the catalog of names from the 
 Clerk, and called first on the King's OommissioneiF 
 and their assessors ; then the nobleineD, bishops^ 
 and barons ; then the doctors and ministers ; and^ 
 last of all, the burgesses. All the doctors, except 
 Dr Strang, voted for the Articles." — p. 263. Not- 
 withstanding this vote, however, Dr Strang seems 
 to have continued in favcur \Tith Spottiswood and 
 the Court party, for his name appears in the King's 
 warrant for the renewal of the High Commission 
 Court in 1620 — which Eow says consisted of 
 " some earls and lords, all the eleven bishops, some 
 officers of State, some barons, all the doctors of 
 theologie, sundrie ministers, all of Diotrephes 
 humour, and thrie commissars." In the absence 
 ©f the Bishop, Dr Strang frequently acted as 
 Moderator of the Presbytery of Perth down to the 
 year 1626, when he was translated to succeed the 
 celebrated Mr Robert Boyd, of Trochrig, as Prin- 
 cipal of the College of Glasgow, as appears from 
 the following minutes of Presbyteiy : — " Januarie 
 auchteen, 1626 — Moderator, Alexander, Bishop of 
 Dunkeld — Whilk day producit anelettre be my 
 Lord of Dunkeld, direct from my Lord Archbishop 
 of Saint Andros, declaring the King's Majesty's 
 will in the transportation of Doctor John Strang 
 from the Parish of Errol to be Princif)al of the 
 Colledge of Glasgow, and giving to the said Dr 
 John Strang full power of transportation; and 
 because the said Dr John Strang is to transport 
 himself presentlie, he asks that the brethren suld 
 have a care that the Kirk of Errol, in the mean- 
 time, suld nat vaik without preaching, but that 
 
PARISH OP ERROL. 69 
 
 everie brother quha is ane actual minister sail sup- 
 |)lie the place per vices unto the plantation tliereof, 
 and that they may minister the sacrament of baptism, 
 — To the whilk the Moderator and the brethren 
 present dotli willinglie consent." Dr Strang had 
 received a Call to be one of the ministers of Edin- 
 burgh in 1620 — which he declined.— Cald. vii., 
 451. He died at Edinburgh, and was buried in 
 the Greyfriars Churchyard, next to his prede- 
 cessor, Principal Boyd. — Bow's History^ p. 438. 
 
 Mr Alexander Omay was translated from the 
 Parish of Money die to Errol on the 14th day of 
 June, 1626, as appears from the following minute 
 of that date : — " Whilk day, reported by Mr 
 Patrick Omay, that the Presbytery of Dunkeld 
 had agreed to the transportation of Mr Alexander 
 Omay, ministery of Moneydie, to be minister of 
 Errol ; and the Moderator, my Lord Bishop of 
 Dunkeld, declarit that he had given him his licence 
 of transportation." Mr Omay died before the 
 24th of August, 1639, as a minute of that date 
 bears that " there was a lettre received, directed 
 to the Presbytery by the Laird of Hayes, desiring 
 them to have a care to appoint some ministers to 
 preach at Errol, and supplie that place until they 
 got a minister of their ain. The brethren thought 
 that the hail ministers should supplie in turn, be- 
 ginning with the ministers of Perth." A stone 
 iBarcophagus, adorned with various sepulchral em- 
 blems, and covered with inscriptions, still marks 
 Lis grave in the churchyard of Errol. 
 
 Mr Thomas Hallyburton (January 29, 1640J, 
 gave in a presentation in his favour from " ray 
 
70 PARISH OF EKROL, 
 
 Lord Kinnoull to the Kirk of Errol, parsonage and 
 vicarage, and all duties belonging thereto f and 
 on the 12th of February following, the Presbytery 
 agreed to his transportation from the Parish of 
 Kinnoull, and appointed his admission to Errol to 
 take place on the following Sabbath. 
 
 Mr William Bell was translated from Dron 
 to Errol on the 1st December, 1652. Mr Bell 
 was the founder of the Dron or Bell's Croft Bur- 
 sary, as already mentioned under the Parish of 
 Dron. There is the following mention of him in 
 the first minute of Presbytery after the re-esta- 
 blishment of Episcopacy at the Restoration, of date 
 the 29th October, 1662 :— "Mr Henry Guthrie, 
 minister of Kilspindie, being appointed by my Lord 
 Archbishop of St Andrews, Moderator of the Pres- 
 bytery of Perth, and in his absence Mr William 
 Bell, minister at Errol." He died in the end of 
 the year 1665; his death was intimated 20th 
 December. A tombstone has been erected to his 
 memory in the churchyard; and under a scroll with 
 this inscription — Movs patef, Hora latet — there is 
 a brief historical record of his ministry. 
 
 Mr John Nicolson — 5th September, 1666 — 
 " The Presbytery having received a letter from the 
 Lord Archbishop to goe on to the admissione of 
 Mr John Nicolson to the Kirk of Errol, the edict 
 being served at the said Kirk of Errol after ser- 
 mon the last Lord's Day, by Mr Thomas Fowler, 
 minister at Kinnoull, according to the execution on 
 the back thereof, the Presbytery called all the 
 heritors and parishioners at the Church of Perth 
 thrie several tymes, and none compearand to ob- 
 
PARISH OF ERROL. 71 
 
 ject. The Presbytery appointed their reverend 
 brother, Mr Plenry Auchinleek, to preach at Errol 
 the next Lord's day, and proceed to the admissione 
 of the said Mr John Nicolson." Mr Nicolsoir 
 seems to have continued minister of Errol nntil the 
 Revolution — at least, the last minute of Presby- 
 tery extant prior to that event bears that, at a 
 meeting for privie censure, " Mr John Nicolson 
 being removed, was approvine in lyfFand doctrine." 
 Mr Samuel. Nairne was translated from the 
 Parish of Moonzie, and admitted to Errol on the 
 12th January, 1692, Although a petition was 
 given in to the Presbytery, stating that Mr Nairne 
 ^' had preached in the Kirk of Errol to the great 
 satisfaction of the hail congregation there as- 
 sembled, who are longing to have him admitted 
 there," his induction was not effected without 
 difficulty ; and the following minute may be quoted 
 as a specimen of the rabblings which w^ere then 
 not un frequent at the settlement of ministers : — 
 *^ At Perth, the sext day of January, ane thousand 
 sex hundredth and nyntie-two years, which day 
 the Presbyterie met, and after prayer, compeared 
 Mr William Reid, and reports that, he being 
 stopped to enter within the church at Errol, did 
 preach publicly standing within a door near the 
 entrie to the kirkyard, and in the hearing of the 
 hail congregation there assembled, did serve Mr 
 Samuel Nairne's edict, and that upon the day ap- 
 pointed, immediately after sermon in the forenoon, 
 before the dissolving the congregation, in all points 
 conform to his order. The brethren finding this 
 to be legally done, in respect that he offered to 
 
72 PARISH OF EREOL. 
 
 enter the kirk, but was liindered by a rabble, ther 
 approve the same, and order their officer to call at 
 the most patent door of the Kirk of Perth, that if 
 any had anything to object to the life or doctrine 
 of the said Mr Iriamnel Kairne, they may declare 
 the same. The Laird of Megginch for himself^ 
 and in name of the Paroch of Errol, asked and 
 took instruments in the hands of the Clerk to the 
 Presbytery, which they ordered to be recorded."* 
 ^■Ir Kairne died in December, 1720. After 
 his death, although the Act restoring patronage 
 had then been in force for nearly ten years, the 
 l^ritors and Kirk-session, agreeably to the usage 
 under the Act 1690, proceeded to call a minister, the 
 patron not interfering in the matter. Several in- 
 dividuals were proposed, and some of them called^ 
 but various difficulties in the Church Courts pre- 
 vented any of them from being settled. After re- 
 peated disappointments, a unanimous call was, in 
 April, 1722, given to Mr Lachlan Macintosh of 
 Dalmunzie, who was then minister of Dunning ; 
 but the Presbytery of Auchterarder refused to 
 loose him from liis existing charge. Other 
 attempts were made duiing the two succeeding 
 years, but without success, as no candidate could 
 be found who commanded a decided majority in 
 hjs favour. At last, a second unanimous call was 
 given to Mr INIacintosh in November, ] 724, and 
 the consent of the Presbytery of Auchterarder 
 having been obtained, he was,, to^ the great delight 
 of the parish, admitted ju7'e devolnto, after a pro- 
 tracted vacancy of upwards of four years, 
 Mr Lachlan Macintosh aforesaid was ad- 
 
PARISH OF ERROL. 73 
 
 knitted on the 15th February, 1725. He took an 
 active and prominent part in the business of the 
 Church Courts, and was one of three ministers 
 «ent by the Assembly of 1734 as a Commission 
 " to address the King and Parliament for obtain- 
 ing relief from the grievance of patronage." He 
 vv-as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1736, 
 and was again urged to become a candidate for 
 that high honour in 1743, but declined. During 
 the Assembly of that year, he was seized with an 
 epidemic then prevailing in Edinburgh, from the 
 effects of which he never recovered ; but died on 
 the 13th of May, 1744. 
 
 Mr James Weemyss, m.inister at Fem, having 
 received a unanimous call from the heritors and 
 elders, with the concurrence of the patron, was 
 translated from said parish on the 30th day of 
 October, 1744 ; and died on the Gth July, 1758. 
 
 Mr James Jobson^ translated from Abernyte 
 on the 7th June, 1759; and died 10th December, 
 1794. Mr John Barclay, w.1k) afterwards became 
 famous as the founder of the sect of the Bereans, 
 for some years acted as assistant to Mr Jobson. 
 
 Mr David Dow, son of the minister of Dron, 
 was ordained 54th September-, 1795 .; and died 23d 
 November, 1818. 
 
 Mr James Geierso?^, D.D., licensed 22d No- 
 vember, 1816. Having received a presentation 
 from Joha Lee AJlan, Esq. of Errol, he was 
 ordained on the 12th day of August, 1819. The 
 Presbytery, om the 16th of June, 1843, found that, 
 m consequence of his having signed the Deed of 
 DemJsgaonj he was no longer a minister of the 
 
74 PARISH OF ERROL, 
 
 Church of Scotland, and ordered the parish to 1 e 
 declared vacant. He received the degree of D.I), 
 in the year 1853, and was unanimously elected 
 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free 
 Church in the year following. Dr Grierson has 
 published several very able and interesting theolo- 
 gical works. 
 
 Mr William Turnbull^ a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Hamilton, was ordained on the 7th 
 December, 1843. After a short, but efficient and 
 acceptable incumbency, he died suddenly on the 
 28th January^ 1849. 
 
 Mr John Caird, M.x4l ., a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Greenock, and successively minister at 
 Newton-on-Ayr and Lady Tester's Church, Edin- 
 burgh, was translated from the latter parish and 
 admitted to Errol on the 4th October, 1849. 
 While at Errol he declined many presentations; 
 but at last accepted a call to be minister of the 
 newly erected Church of West Park, in the Pres- 
 bytery of Glasgow, to which church he was trans- 
 lated on the 24th day of December, 1857. " His 
 praise is in all the Churches." 
 
 Mr Robert Graham was translated from the 
 Parish of Abernyte, in the Presbytery of Dundee^ 
 and admitted minister of Errol on the 1st of ApriU 
 1858. He had been admitted assis-tant and suc- 
 cessor at Abernyte on the 27th July, 1848, and 
 succeeded to the full possession of the benefice oa 
 the 5th of January, 1850* 
 
FOEGANDENNY. 
 
 FFOHGUNDEVYNI — FORGUNDEINE — 
 
 FORGANDENIE— FORGANDENNIE— 
 
 FORGAN— FORGAKDEYNIE. 
 
 This parisfe was anciently in the Diocese of 
 Dunkeld. In " the Jleport on the State of Certain 
 Parishes in Scotland, made to his Majesty's Com- 
 mission for the Plantation of Kirks, in pursuance 
 of their ordinance, dated 12th April, 1627," it is 
 stated — " The Kirk of Forgundennie is ane of the 
 kirkes of the Diocie of Dunkeld and chapter there- 
 of, and sae has ever bein past memorie of man." 
 The name of " Sir John Myrton, Canon of the 
 Cathedral of Dunkeld, and Prebendarie of Forgan- 
 deynie, and Rector of the Parish Kirk of Duplin," 
 occurs as witness to a charter of the Carthusian 
 Convent and Priory of Perth, dated 31st I>ecem- 
 ber, 1489. 
 
 The report above quoted says — " Ther ar twa 
 chaplanries in the parochin, to wdt, St Marie's, 
 possessed by Freeland, ane lyaek patronage haldin 
 of the Lord Dirleton, and pays yierlie rent to the 
 minister £8 15s 9^d, assignit to him of auld by his 
 assignation, under the name of the third pairt 
 chaplainrie of Forgundenie ; and St Catherine's 
 Chapel, also foundit within Forgundenie, and pays 
 of yierlie rent 40 sh. to the minister." 
 
 The barony of Forgundenny seems anciently td 
 
76 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 have belonged to tlie noble family of Glammis. By 
 a charter of the monastery of Scone, of date 24th 
 February, 1433, " John Lyon, Knight, and Lord 
 of Glammis, out of pure devotion, for the purpose 
 of maintaininsr a dallv service at the altar dedicated 
 to the Blessed Virgin in the great church of the 
 said Monastery, for his well-being while he lived 
 among men, and for the salvation of his soul when 
 he mio:rated from this li2:lit, also for the salvation 
 of all his ancestors and successors, gives and grants 
 to the Abbot and Monastery, quadraginta solidos 
 annualis redditus (whatever that may be) lo be 
 paid annually out of his lands, the barony of For- 
 gundevyni, in the county of Perth." But before 
 the Reformation, the barony, or estate of Forgun- 
 denny, was divided into the three properties of 
 Freeland, Rossie, and Newtown of Forgundenny 
 or Condle. 
 
 The population of the parish in 1627, according 
 to the report above referred to, must have been 
 about three times as great as it is now. That re- 
 port 6ays — " Ther wil be of communicantis within 
 the said parochin, aucht hundreth or thereby." 
 But the parish was also at that time much larger 
 in extent, the lands of Easter and Wester Fordel, 
 Paris, Deuglie, Blair, Plaine, Glendie, and Glendie 
 Mill, having, in 1642, been disjoined from Forgun- 
 dennv, and annexed to the Parish of Arngask. 
 Besides, there were at that time many villages 
 situated in different parts of the parish, scarcely 
 a vestige of which now remains. 
 
 In 1721, there were in the parish "900 cate- 
 chizable persons," that is persons above 12 years 
 
PARISH OF FOEGANDENlSrr. 77 
 
 of age, so that the whole population would be about 
 1200. In 1 755, the population was 1295 ; in 1790, 
 978; in 1821, 902 ; in 1851, 828. 
 
 Session Records. — The earliest register of 
 marriages and baptisms now extant commences on 
 the 4th September, 1695, and the minutes of 
 Session on the 2d of June 1709, and have been 
 continued regularly ever since. That there were 
 records of a much earlier date appears from the 
 - IbllowinG: minute of Session of date 4th Februarv, 
 1714:— 
 
 " The minister reported that he, with the clerk, 
 had prepared an account of the poor's-money on 
 bond and cash, and of the utensils belonging to the 
 church, and the same being given in was read, 
 which is as follows : — When the present minister, 
 Mr Peter Pilmar, was ordained here, which was on 
 May 13th, 1703, he found in the box left by his 
 predecessor, Mr William Dick, two bonds, &c., 
 and for utensils there is a Bible, a Confession of 
 Paith, and the Acts of Assembly, Communion 
 Tables, with cloaths and napkins for the same, four 
 silver cups, two old and two new, the two new ones 
 gifted by the late David Lord Ruthven, and two 
 basins, six registers, two whereof were left by Mr 
 Hardie, Episcopal minister, the third containing an 
 account of the contracts, proclamations, marriages, 
 and baptisms, the fourth a register of burials, and 
 the fifth and sixth registers of the Acts and pro- 
 ceedings of the Session." 
 
 The Session approved of this report, and ap- 
 pointed the minister to give a double of it to the 
 Presbytery. 
 
78 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 When these earlier records were lost there is no 
 means of knowing. That they were extant in 
 1638 appears from a certified extract in the posses- 
 sion of Laurence Oliphant, Esq. of Condie. It is 
 entitled " An extract of the Children's names called 
 Oliphant that are recorded in the Register of the 
 Session of Forgandenny between the years 1G54 
 and 1695 ;" and ends thus, " That the above is a 
 just extract is at Forgandenny, this 22(1 day of 
 December, attested by William Toshach, Session- 
 clerk." 
 
 William Lauder was probably the first Pro- 
 testant minister of Forgundenny. At all events, 
 he held the living in 1567, as appears from the 
 following entry in the Reglstar of Ministers for 
 the years 1567-1573:— 
 
 " Forgundennie, Forteviot, and Muckarsie — 
 " William Lauder, minister, four score libs, and 
 
 twenty mair sen Lammas, 1569. 
 " George Thomson, reidar at Muckarsie, £20. 
 "Patrick Eilston, reidar at Forteviot, £16 andk.I. 
 " Gabriel Crichton, reidar at Forgundenie, £19 26 
 
 7|d." 
 
 We have already referred to the oflice of Reader. 
 It may be further explained that the state of the 
 Church at that period rendered temporary ex- 
 pedients neces-sary for the supply of spiritual in- 
 struction to the people. Immediately after the 
 Reformation, there was, as may be supposed, a 
 great scarcity of Protestant ministers. So late as 
 the year 1596, that is thirty-six years after Pro- 
 testantism was the religion of the country, there 
 was, as stated by the General Assembly in an 
 
PAKISH OF FOEGANDEKNY. 79 
 
 address to the King, "above 400 parish kirks 
 destitute of the ministrie of the Word, bye and 
 atour the kirks of Argyle and the Isles." To sup- 
 ply this destitution, it became a common practice 
 to combine three or four, or even a greater number 
 of parishes under the pastoral superintendence of 
 one minister, with the assistance of a Reader, as he 
 was called, to serve under him in each parish. It 
 •was the duty of the Reader to preside at the con- 
 gregational meeting in the absence of the minister, 
 to read large portions of Scripture and the appointed 
 prayers from " the Book of Common Order," and 
 to assist the minister in other parts of his minis- 
 terial work. In the necessity of the times, this 
 expedient was found to be of great practical benefit. 
 In parishes where there was no fixed minister, the 
 Reader kept the people together ; and as very few 
 of the people could read, it was of the utmost con- 
 sequence to have the Word of God regularly read 
 to them. As the number of ministers increased, 
 the office of Reader became less necessary, and was 
 formally suppressed in 1581 by the following Act 
 of Assembly : — 
 
 " Anent Beaders." 
 " Forsuamickle as in Assemblies preceding, the 
 office of Reidar was concluded to be no ordinar 
 office in the Kirk of God, and the admission of 
 them suspendit to the present Assemblie; the 
 kirk has in ane voice voted, and concluded farther, 
 that in tymes comin, nae Reidar sail be admitted 
 to the oflice be anie having power within the Kirk." 
 At the time of which we treat, Forgandenny was 
 under this temporary or transition system, Mr 
 
80 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY- 
 
 William Lauder being minister, and Gabriel 
 Creichton, Reader. Mr Lauder died at Candle- 
 mas, 1572. 
 
 Mr John Row was his successor. Nothing 
 further is known of him than that he was probably 
 a near relation of his namesake, the coadjutor of 
 John Knox, and first Protestant minister of Perth, 
 After Mr Row of Perth's death, the minister of 
 Forgundenny seems to have been a kind friend to 
 his numerous orphan family ; and at his own death, 
 which took place in 1589, he was succeeded by one 
 of them as minister of Forgundenny. 
 
 Mr William Row, primus, was the second son 
 of John Row, minister of Perth. He was born 
 about the year 1563, and one of the witnesses at 
 his baptism, and probably his namefather, was 
 William Lord Ruthven, afterwards first Earl of 
 Gowrie. That nobleman, having early adopted 
 Protestant principles, was a zealous promoter of 
 the Reformation. As Provost of Perth, he did 
 everything in his power to strengthen the hands of 
 the minister, and in many ways rendered efficient 
 service to the Church, which was then struggling 
 into existence. In his father's house William Row 
 prosecuted his studies with great advantage, the 
 Reformer being as distinguished for his scholarship 
 as for his zeal and ability as a minister of the 
 Church. At family worship in his house, the 
 passage of Scripture, if from the Old Testament 
 was read in Hebrew, and if from the New Testa- 
 ment in Greek ; and Row, the historian, states 
 that his sons at eight years of age were able at 
 worship to read the chapter in the origuaal kn- 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY, 81 
 
 guages. Mr William Row had seven brothers, 
 four of whom became ministers, viz., James, 
 minister at Kilspindie ; John, minister at Carnock ; 
 Archibald, minister at Stobo ; Colin, minister at 
 St Quivox. Mr William, minister at Forgundenny, 
 was a zealous Presbyterian, and took an active part 
 in resisting the encroachments of the Court party 
 upon the liberties of the Kirk. He was a man of 
 u bold and determined character, and spoke his 
 mind freely, even in the presence of the King, 
 without regard of consequences. Like many of 
 his cotemporaries,hehad great difficulty in believing 
 the account put forth by Royal authority of that 
 mysterious event in Scottish history, known by 
 the name of the Gowrie Conspiracy, and being 
 strongly attached by gratitude and friendship to 
 the young noblemau who then came to an untimely 
 end, he fearlessly, before the Privy Council at 
 Stirling, defended them from the imputation of 
 treason and intended murder ; and was prosecuted 
 on that account. In 1606, his name appears as one 
 of the subscribers to a remonstrance to Parliament 
 against bishops. He was retiring Moderator of the 
 Synod of Perth in 1607, at their first meeting 
 after the passing of the obnoxious Act appointing 
 the bishops, or nominees of the Crown, permanent 
 Moderators of the Church Courts. The King had 
 sent down Lord Scoon, a man of violent temper 
 and dissolute manners, to concuss the Synod to 
 appoint a Moderator whom he had named. On 
 his way to the church to preach the opening ser- 
 mon, ^Ir Row received a threatening: messao-e from 
 Lord Scoon, telling him that if he uttered a word 
 
82 PARISH OF FORGANDENNT. 
 
 against constant Moderators he would pull hiin out 
 of the pulpit. Mr Row replied, that "he was 
 througlie resolvit what to speak, and would give 
 just occasion of offence to no man." He took for 
 his text Amos vii., 10-13, calling Amaziah " the 
 Bishop of Bethel." In defiance of the warning 
 which he had received, he proceeded to demon- 
 strate that no constant Moderator ousrht to be 
 tolerated in the Church ; but, knowing that Lord 
 Scoon did not understand Latin or Greek, he 
 cunningly avoided naming the office in English, 
 and used the learned title, Fraestas advitam. His 
 device succeeded, and he got through his sermon 
 without molestation. At the close. Lord Scoon 
 said to one of his attendants, " Ye see how I 
 daunted the minister, but I wonder Vvho it was he 
 preached so much against, called Praestas ad vi- 
 tamr 
 
 The Synod thereafter met for business, and when 
 Mr Row was proceeding to call the roll for the 
 election of a new Moderator, Lord Scoon rose in 
 great wrath, and attempted to pluck it out of his 
 hand, but the minister of Forgandenny was not to 
 be put down in that way. Being a man of great 
 bodily strength, he seized his Lordship by the 
 collar with his right hand, and fixed him in his chair, 
 quietly exhorting him to "speak with reverence 
 and reason;" and, holding the roll of members in 
 his left, he proceeded to call over their names, 
 when Mr Henry Livingstone was chosen Modera- 
 tor. Row, the Historian, gives a graphic account 
 of a violent and somewhat ludicrous scene which 
 followed. For the part he took on the occasion, 
 
PAEISH OF FORGAKDENNY. 83 
 
 Mr Row " was put to the horn. He was sought 
 for to be apprehended and imprisoned, so that he 
 was forced with manie a foul step to lurke here and 
 there among his friends." 
 
 I have not been able to ascertain how long he 
 remained in exile. The General Assembly, which 
 met at Linlithgow in the following year, asked the 
 Royal Commissioners to petition the King in name 
 of the Assembly for his restoration to his charge ; 
 but whether the petition was granted or not does 
 not appear. He was, at all events, again officiating 
 at Forgandenny in 1618, when the Records of 
 Presbytery commenced. But diu-ing that interval 
 great changes had taken place. By banishing 
 some, bribing others, and intimidating the rest, 
 James had succeeded in carrying out his plans for 
 the subversion of the Presbyterian form of Church 
 Government. Bishops had been appointed to the 
 several Dioceses, with full Episcopal powers, and 
 *' the very name of Presbytery was rejected as 
 odious to the King, a word which he could not 
 bear with patience." The ministers still held their 
 weekly meeting, but their minutes, instead of as 
 they used to do, running in this form, " The Pres- 
 bytery met and was constituted ;" now began with 
 such phrases as these, " The ministers of the 
 bounds," or " The brethren of the exercise met, 
 and did so and so." There were still Kirk- 
 sessions in the several parishes for the exercise of 
 discipline, but the elders no longer had seats in 
 the superior Church Courts. The bishops lorded 
 it over the Church. The King ruled the bishops, 
 and exercised supreme and absolute jurisdic- 
 
84 PARISH OF FORGANDEKNY, 
 
 tion over all cases and all classes, civil and eccle- 
 siastical. 
 
 There were &till, however, in every district of 
 the country, many staunch old Presbyterian 
 ministers, who made no secret of their dissatisfac- 
 tion with these arbitrary proceedings. Of this 
 number Mr Eow was one. He was frequently 
 censured for not attending the weekly exercise, or 
 meeting of the brethren, presided over by the 
 bishop ; and finding that all further opposition was 
 in the meantime useless, he seems to ha^ve devoted 
 himself to his pastoral duties — preaching, cate- 
 chizing, and administering ordinances — as if no 
 such persons as bishops had been in existence. 
 That he continued true to his Presbyterian prin- 
 ciples, appears from the following, anecdote re- 
 corded concerning him : — When, the infirmities of 
 old age began to tell, it was found necessary to 
 appoint an assistant to him in the ministry. 
 Through the friendship of his old fellow-student^ 
 Mr Alexander Lindsay, who had been appointed 
 Bishop of Dunkeld, and as such was patron of the 
 parish, an arrangement was m^de which could not 
 but be gratifying to his feelings^ The bishop was 
 a man of meek and gentle disposition ; and though 
 Mr Row and he now differed in their opinions in 
 regard to Church Government, he had not forgotten 
 their old friendship, and gladly embraced the op- 
 portunity of doing him a kindness, by appointing 
 his son his helper and successor. Knowing the 
 temper of his friend, he allowed him to take his 
 own way as far as possible, and act up to liis cha- 
 acter as a zealous Presbyterian. On the day of 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 8o 
 
 the ordination, Mr Lindsay kindly said to him, 
 ^^ Mr William, I do not come to this meeting as a 
 bishop, but as your friend and co-presbyter, and I 
 promise that I shall not ask your son any other 
 questions than those which are contained in the 
 Psalm-Book (or Book of Common Order)." Mr 
 Kow was sensible of his friendship, and gratefully 
 accepted the liberty so kindly granted. After 
 service they adjourned to the manse for dinner, 
 the Bishop along with the others ; and Mr Eow, 
 when marshalling his guests, thus characteristically 
 addressed him — " Mr Alexander," said he, for he 
 would never call a bishop my Lord, " you know 
 you and I were condisciples at College, and Mr 
 John Malcolm, now minister at Perth, was our 
 master. It is, therefore, fit that your master should 
 sit at the table above you." '' Perfectly right," 
 said the Bishop, and with Christian courtesy and 
 good humour gave place to Mr Malcolm. " It 
 must be acknowledged," says Eow, the historian, 
 in narrating the circumstance, " that that Bishop 
 was not verie proude." 
 
 Mr Row, senior, survived for ten years after the 
 ordination of his son. He was naturally of a 
 robust constitution, and great bodily strength, but 
 in the later years of his life much afflicted with 
 the gout and other infirmities. His disease could 
 scarcely be the result of high living ; for, at the 
 commencement of his ministry, his stipend was 
 only £100 Scots; and after the appointment of 
 his son as assistant, an old document tells us, that 
 " The hail stipend betuix them baith was onlie 40 
 bolls of victual, £100, and 100 merkis ;" which 
 
88 PARISH OF rORGANDENNY. 
 
 sums are together equivalent to £13 17s 9^d ster- 
 ling. He died in the beginning of October, 1634, 
 in the 71st year of his age, and the 45th of his 
 ministry. 
 
 Mr William Row, junior, was appointed as- 
 sistant and successor to his father on the 29th 
 June, 1624. His life was no less eventful than his 
 father's. In the year after his ordination King 
 James died, and troublous times followed. The 
 ill-advised attempt, a few years later, to force a 
 semi-popish Liturgy upon an unwilling people, at 
 length brought matters to a crisis, and resulted in 
 what has been justly called the Second Reforma- 
 tion. At the memorable Assembly, which met at 
 Glasgow in 1638, Prelacy was abjured as contrary 
 to the principles of the Church of Scotland — the 
 Archbishops and Bishops were deposed — the Ser- 
 vice Book, the Book of Canons, and the Court of 
 High Commission were condemned — and Presby- 
 terianism in all its entirety restored as the only 
 form of Church Government in this National 
 Church. 
 
 Mr Row was not one of the three Commissioners 
 sent from the Presbytery of Perth, but he was 
 present at the Assembly. For we find from the 
 proceedings that a complaint was lodged against 
 the Bishop of Dunkeld for prelatic conduct, " by 
 the Laird of MoncriefFe, and IMr William Row, 
 minister of Forgandenny, in name of the gentrie 
 and burgesses of Perth." His venerable uncle, 
 Mr John Row, minister at Carnock, was one of 
 five put upon the leet for Moderator, and though 
 not elected, took an active and influential part in 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 87 
 
 all the proceedings. At an extraordinary meeting 
 of the Presbytery of Perth, held on the 18tb 
 February, 1639, Mr William Row was appointed 
 their Commissioner " to a meeting of nobilitie, 
 gentrie, and others favourable to the happie bygone 
 Reformation; to be halden in Edinburgh on the 
 20th day of Februarie instant." In the following 
 year he received a more important appointment, 
 having been chosen one of the military chaplains 
 to accompany the Covenanters into England. The 
 Regiment raised in this district was commanded 
 by James Earl of Montrose, afterwards the famous 
 Marquis, who then held extensive property in 
 Strathearn. As every Regiment had its chaplainSy 
 the Presbytery of Perth drew up a leet of four to 
 be submitted to his Lordship, that he might select 
 the two whom he preferred. The following minutes 
 of Presbytery are interesting, as shewing not only 
 Montrose's preference for Mr Row, but also Mr 
 Row's patriotic zeal, mingled with affectionate 
 solicitude for his family and people ; — 
 
 " Perth, June ::4th, 1640.— Mr David Weemys, 
 one of those who wer appointed to present the leet 
 for ministers to the Camp to the Earl of Montrose, 
 reported that, having occasion to meet with his 
 Lordship at Scone, he declared to him the Presby- 
 terie's diligence in this matter, shewing who were 
 the four they had put on leet — Whereupon his 
 Lordship made choice of Mr William Row, and 
 remitted to the Presbyterie to appoint anie other 
 whom they pleased. Mr William desyred of the 
 Presbyterie before they would lay that charge upon 
 him, that they would hear what he had got to say 
 
88 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 — who appoynted Mr Jolin Hall and Mr James^ 
 Fowlar to reason with him, and hear him. Upon 
 their return, they reported what were Mr William' s- 
 objections; and they were answered, and he satis- 
 fied, after this manner. First— for the charge of 
 his Kirk, they appoynt that everie one of the 
 ministers suld supplie Sunday about, and keep 
 Session at his Kirk; as for baptisms, marriages, 
 and visitations of the sick, they lay them upon the 
 neighbouring ministers. Second — for the charge 
 of his familie, they promise that, if it suld please 
 God to call him home in that expeditione, they 
 sail doe all that the law of God and men requyres^ 
 and add charitie besydes." 
 
 Mr Kow having made these prudent arrange- 
 ments, entered upon his military duties with a 
 salary of half-a-crown a-day (equal to twopence- 
 half-penny of the present currency), the sum fixed 
 at a previous meeting of Presbytery, as appears 
 from the following minute : — - 
 
 " The Moderator proposed concerning the num- 
 ber of the ministers that should be sent with the 
 Kegiment? and their stipends? and who should 
 be the men? For the first, they agreed two 
 should be the number. For the second, it was 
 considered everie one of them should have in 
 allowance half-a-crown in the day ; and so taking^ 
 40 days* pay with them, everie one should have 60 
 pounds in hand — the members collecting this. 
 They agreed that every minister vnthin the division 
 should pay presentlie 4 libs. 10 sh., and if anie 
 have anie grievances (as all may not pay alike), 
 those who complained should be relieved, and 
 
PARISH OF FORGANOENNY. 89 
 
 those more able bear the burden. For the third 
 point, they made a leit of 4 — to wit, Mr William 
 Row, Mr John Duncan, Mr Archibald Moncrieife, 
 and Mr John Cruickshank. This leit they 
 thought fit should be presentit to the Earl of 
 Montrose, Crowner of the Regiment, that he 
 might nominate anie two of them he pleased. Or, 
 If that my Lord should nominate anie other within 
 the Presbytery, or -elsewhere, they should give him 
 the foresaid stipend." 
 
 Mr Row was not " called home in that expedi- 
 tione." The two armies lay for some time looking 
 at each other across the Tv/ eed, without coming to 
 blows — until at last, a pacification having been 
 effected, the Covenanters broke up their camp, 
 -and left the King and the Parliament of England 
 to settle tbeir own affairs. 
 
 Great events followed, but nothing more is heard 
 •of Mr Row until 1650, when Charles IL came to 
 Scotland, in the vain hope of preserving to himself 
 this his ancestral Kingdom, He was crowned at 
 •Scone on New- Year's Day, 1651 ; and there for 
 some time kept his Court, surrounded by a nume- 
 rous band of Presbyterian minii^ers (of whom pro- 
 bably Mr Row was one), whose care it was to 
 remind him of his duty. Every morning and 
 evening througliout the week there was a lecture 
 and a long pray-er. One Fast Day, Bishop Burnet 
 says, there were six -sermoiss on end without inter- 
 mission, and candidly adds, " I was there myself, 
 and not a little weary of so tedious a service." 
 
 Mr Row died in April, 1658. His last illness 
 2ii«st have been short, as he was present at a 
 
90 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 meeting of Presbytery on the last day of Marcli^ 
 and then approved m life and doctrine. He was 
 taken to his rest, after an eventful life, in the 34th 
 year of his ministry, just in time to escape the 
 dark days of persecution and blood which soon 
 after followed. He left several children. William 
 and Robert Row, who were licensed by the Pres- 
 bytery of Perth some years before, were probably 
 his sons; and another son, Thomas, appeared before 
 the Presbytery on the 25th of August, 1658, as hi& 
 father^s executor, and in name of the family gave in 
 a petition craving, among other things, £40, as the 
 value of trees planted by his father upon the glebe 
 of Forgiindenny . 
 
 After the death of Mr Row, the parishioners 
 were some time in getting a minister to their 
 mind. The Act of Patrona2:e havins: been abo- 
 lished in 1649, the right of election was vested in 
 the Kirk-session. They first give a unanimous 
 call to Mr Harrie Auchinleek, then minister at 
 Mains, in the Presbytery of Dundee, and after- 
 wards one of the ministers of Perth; but "the 
 Presbytery of Dundee moved the said Mr Harrie 
 not to translate from his chai'ge at the Mains." 
 Being disappointed of hims,. the parishioners of 
 Forgandenny next gave a ligiianimous call to Mr 
 John Anderson, minister at Auchtergaven, only to 
 meet with another disappointment, for the Presby- 
 tery of Dunkeld " did appoint the said Mr John 
 Anderson not to transport." Mr Andeison con- 
 formed to Episcopacy at the Restoration — again 
 became Presbyl^erian at the Revolution — was a 
 a short time thereafter translated to Perth — and 
 
PAEISH OF FORGANDENNY. 91 
 
 finally, translated to Edinburgh in 1691. The 
 people of Forgandenny next craved from the 
 Presbytery a hearing of Mr David Williamson, 
 helper to Mr Balfour of Abdie, but afterwards gave 
 a unanimous call to Mr David Orme, a licentiate 
 of the Presbyter}^ of Cupar, and this time their 
 call was successful. 
 
 Mr David Oume was ordained and admitted 
 on the 30th August, 1660, but deposed very soon 
 afterwards for refusing to receive collation anew 
 from the Bishop, and to conform to Episcopacy. 
 During the protracted vacancy which preceded his 
 ordination, the Presbytery had taken steps for a 
 new territorial arrangement of the parishes of 
 Forgandenny, Muckersie, and Forteviot. It ap- 
 pears from the Kecord of Presbytery that the 
 parishes were perambulated by a committee ap- 
 pointed for the purpose, and new boundaries 
 desisined. But this wise measure was lost siijht 
 of in the confusion which ensued. Another scheme 
 suggested by the heritors at this time was more 
 successfully carried out. The vacant stipend, 
 which had accumulated during the vacancy, was 
 mortified for the purpose of aiding to support a 
 schoolmaster at the Path of Condie, in the Ochil 
 part of the parish. The money thus raised 
 (amounting at present to £62) is vested in the 
 Kirk-session, as trustees, for behoof of the school, 
 and the interest is annually paid to the teacher. 
 The minute of Presbytery relative to the matter 
 is as follows : — 
 
 "At Forgundennie Kirk, 30th August, 1660, 
 the Presbyterie being convened after the admis- 
 
92 PAEISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 sione (of Mr Orme), together with the heritors 
 and elders, compeared Laurence Oliphant of 
 Condle, and presented ane supplicatione in name 
 of the inhabitants of the Ochilg, wherein they de- 
 sire, bi reason of the far distance frae the scule in 
 Forgandenie, quhairby their children are frustrate 
 of education in leters, that the Presbyterie would, 
 with consent of the heritors, applie the vacant 
 stipend for erecting of ane scuie among them." 
 
 Which petition having been granted, this was 
 the foundation and first endowment of the school 
 at Path of Condie, which rtow for two centuries 
 has been of incalculable benefit to that part of the 
 parish. 
 
 The foregoing extract also shows that at this 
 date a school was in operation at Forgandenny, 
 which must have been instituted subsequent to 
 1627, at which time "There was no foundation 
 nor provydit rent for ane school nor hospital 
 within the said parochin, but baith were neces- 
 sarie." A minute of Presbytery of date the 28th 
 of March, 1649, shows how very defective the 
 means of education then were, and how small a 
 proportion of the population were at that time able 
 to read. There was that day submitted to the 
 Presbytery " A list of those famihes wherein some 
 of them can read within the parishes following: — 
 Scone, 25; Dron 36; Dunbarnie, 55; St Madoes, 
 9; Rynd, 25; Kinnoull, 18; St Martins, 13; Red- 
 gorton, 9; Arngask, 16; Abemethie, 100." In 
 1616 the Privy Council had passed an Act de- 
 claring "That in every parish in this kingdom 
 where convenient means may be had for enter- 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 93 
 
 taining a school, a school shall be established, and 
 a fit person appointed to teach the same, upon the 
 expense of the parishioners, according to the 
 quality and quantity of the parish;" and the Scot- 
 tish Parliament in 1G33 ratified this Act of Council. 
 But it was not till after the E evolution that this 
 law was carried into effect, and the present ad- 
 mirable parochial school system universally estab- 
 lished. For example, so late as October, 1716, 
 there was laid before the Presbytery a representa- 
 tion concerning the necessity of a school in the 
 parish of Forteviot, in which it is declared " that 
 said parish, lying within two or three miles of the 
 town of Perth, has no legal school, for whatever 
 pains Mr Mercer and his predecessors have been 
 at with with the heritors." That " upon the south 
 side of the river of Earn there is no school betwixt 
 Forgandenny and Dunning, which is four long 
 miles," and that a school was most necessary, " for 
 of all the parts of the said parish there is none so 
 pestered with disaffected persons as that very 
 place about the kirk of Forteviot." 
 
 After Mr Orme's ejection, local tradition says 
 that a chapel was built for him by the Lord 
 Ruthven of that day, within the grounds of Free- 
 land— a report which is confirmed by a circum- 
 stance recorded by Woodrow, that in 1662 Lord 
 Huthven was fined £4800 for attending conven- 
 ticles, and harbouring outed ministers. William 
 Oliphant of Forgun (probably of Ardargie) was at 
 the same time fined £1200, and a general fine 
 exacted from the Parish of Forgandenny amount- 
 iDg to no less than £11,335. 
 
94 PARISH OF FOEGANDENNT. 
 
 As has been already mentioned, Dron was the 
 head-quarters of the Covenanters of this district, 
 where Mr Alexander Pitcairne continued to 
 preach for twenty years, after sentence of outlawry 
 had been pronounced against him. At a field 
 preaching, on the boundary between the two 
 parishes, a poor Covenanter was martyred while 
 endeavouring to flee for his life, and a tombstone 
 has been erected over his grave in the churchyard 
 of Forgandenny. Woodrow gives the following 
 account of the circumstance : — " By an attested 
 account, I find this year 1678 there was a Conven- 
 ticle in Perthshire, at the hill of Coltenacher 
 {i.e. Colteuchar), in the Parish of Forgandenny. 
 And upon the Lord's-day, an officer, with a party 
 of wild Highlanders, came suddenly upon them, 
 and without any orders to dismiss, or essaying to 
 seize any of them, discharged their pieces among 
 the poor unarmed people. By a good Providence 
 there was but one man killed — Andrew Breddie, 
 a Wright by trade, who lived at Lord Ruthven's 
 gate in the green at Freeland. He left behind 
 him a widow and four orphans." Woodrow also 
 mentions another sufierer — Laurence Gibson, 
 ^' who was married to a servant of the excellent 
 family of Euthven." Being apprehended by the 
 soldiers, he was first confined in the Tol booth of 
 Perth, thence conveyed prisoner to Edinburgh, 
 tried by the Council, and sentenced to be a private 
 soldier in one of the Scotch reo^iments in the ser- 
 vice of the States. He lived to come home, and 
 was a servant at Freeland for many years. 
 
 Mr John Liddel, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 95 
 
 tery of Penpont, in DuDifriesshire, who, at the 
 time of his induction, was chaplain to the Bishop 
 of Dunkeld, w^as admitted on the 12th of August, 
 1663, and translated to Scone on the 21st Feb- 
 ruary, 1667. 
 
 ]\Ir Andrew Hardy was admitted in June, 
 1667, and deprived at the Revolution in 1690. 
 
 It was five years after the Revolution before 
 this parish was provided with a minister. A 
 minute of Presbytery of date 27th March, 1695, 
 is as follows: — 
 
 " It being incumbent on the Presbytery to 
 invite probationers to their bounds, where there 
 are so many vacancies; and hearing of the good 
 qualifications of Mr William Dick, probationer 
 within the bounds of the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy, 
 they appoint a letter to be written to him inviting 
 him to their bounds, and another letter to the 
 Presbytery of Kirkcaldy to allow him to come 
 hither." 
 
 Mr William Dick complied with this invita- 
 tion, and on the 13th May following, at a meeting 
 which was attended "by the most part of the 
 heritors, and all the elders," received a unanimous 
 call to be minister of Forgandenny. He was 
 ordained on the 4th September, 1695, but con- 
 tinued in the charge only for seven years, having 
 been translated to the Parish of Cupar-in-Fife, by 
 the Commission of the General Assembly in June 
 1702. Mr Dick married in September, 1698, 
 Mistress Euphem Carmichael, in the Parish of 
 Abernethy, by whom he had children. 
 
 Mr Peter Pilmar, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 
96 PARISH OF FORG AN DENNY. 
 
 tery of Edinburghj was called on the 18tli of 
 November, 1702, and ordained on the 13tli of May, 
 1703. He seems, indeed, to have been, as the in- 
 scription on his tombstone bears, " a zealous, pious, 
 and painful minister." He is said to have sym- 
 pathized deeply with the Erskines, and other 
 fathers of the first Secession, and was much com- 
 forted durlns: a linoerino' illness bv the friendly 
 visits of Mr William Wilson, of Perth, one of the 
 seven seceding brethren. He got into trouble in 
 1738, for refusing to fulfil an appointment of Pres- 
 bytery, to preside at the ordination of an unaccept- 
 able presentee to the Parish of Dron ; and died on 
 the 16th day of February, 1740, in the 60th year 
 of his age, and 37th of his ministry. 
 
 Mr Pilmar was married in March, 1705, to 
 Helen Yorston, of the New North Kirk Parish, 
 Edinburgh, by whom he had five sons and five 
 daughters. 
 
 Mr John Glen, a licentiate of the Presbytery 
 of Stirling, was unanimously elected by the heritors 
 and Kirk-session to succeed Mr Pilmar. Another 
 proof, that though the law restoring patronages 
 had been passed about thirty years previously, yet 
 the patrons seldom exercised their legal right of 
 nomination, but allowed ministers to be elected by 
 the heritors and elders, according to the Act passed 
 at the Revolution settlement^ Previous to his in- 
 duction to Forgandenny, Mr Glen was for some 
 time chaplain to the regiment of cavalry com- 
 manded by that brave soldier and pious Christian, 
 Colonel Gardiner. He was ordained on the 23d 
 of April, 1741, and for many years discharged the 
 
PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 97 
 
 pastoral duties of the parish with great fidelity and 
 acceptance. He died on the 10th day of October, 
 
 1792, in the 84th year of his age, and 52d of his 
 ministry. He married on the 14th August, 1741 
 Elizabeth Thomson, of the Parish of Arngask, 
 daughter of John Thomson, merchant, Edinburgh, 
 by whom he had two daughters, one of whom 
 married a Mr Johnstone, and from her are de- 
 scended the Glen Johnstones of Perth and 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Mr John Willison, minister of West Calder, 
 was translated from that parish, and admitted 
 minister of Forgandenny on the 17th of September, 
 
 1793. He died on the 7th of February, 1828, in 
 the 74th year of his age, and 43d of his ministry ; 
 having been eight years minister of West Calder, 
 and thirty-five years minister of Forgandenny. 
 He was buried in the same grave in which his 
 predecessor, Mr Glen, had been interred thirty- 
 six years before. In a sermon which was preached 
 on the Sabbath after his funeral, and afterwards 
 published by his friend and neighbour, Mr Robert- 
 son of Forteviot, a just tribute is paid to his gifts 
 and graces. He is described as having been in a 
 high sense of the tenn, " a man of God," piety 
 being the chief element of his character. He had 
 been a distinguished student at College, and till 
 the close of his life, could, where opportunity 
 offered, give proof of his early proficiency. He 
 was very earnest and affectionate in the discharge 
 of his ministerial duties, and few are said to have 
 been more successful in winning souls to Christ, or 
 helping forward those who sought the way to Zion 
 
98 PARISH OF FORGANDENNY. 
 
 with their faces turned thitherward. At a time 
 when they were not so generally supported as they 
 are now, he took an active part in promoting Bible 
 and Missionary Societies, and for many years acted 
 as secretary to the Bible Society of Perth ; and 
 while he was thus zealous in promoting the com- 
 munication of religious instruction to those at a 
 distance, he did not neglect those placed more im- 
 mediately under his care. In proof of which, it 
 may be mentioned that by his last will and settle- 
 ment, he mortified and bequeathed two acres of 
 ground, which he purchased, adjoining the glebe, 
 and a house which he had built upon it, the annual 
 rent to go towards payment of the salary of the 
 teacher at the Path of Condie. Mr Willison 
 married the Hon. Janet Ogilvie, daughter of 
 William, eighth Lord Banff, but left no children. 
 
 Mr James Drummond, was ordained on the 
 11th of September, 1828, and having signed the 
 Deed of Demission, which was laid by the founders 
 of the Free Church before the General Assembly 
 in 1843, the Presbytery of Perth appointed the 
 church to be declared vacant on the 16th day of 
 June following. 
 
 Mr John Wilson, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Biggar, was ordained and admitted on the 
 21st day of September, 1843. On the 28th of 
 July, 1852, he was unanimously appointed to suc- 
 ceed the Rev. John Edward Touch, of Kinnoull, in 
 the office of Presbytery Clerk. 
 
FOETEVIOT> 
 
 FORTEVIACK— FORTHEVEOTH— 
 FORTHEVIOT— FORTEVIOT. 
 
 Forteviot was anciently a residence of the 
 Pictish Kings. Kenneth the Second died here 
 after defeatino; the Picts, and unitino; them with 
 the Scots into one kingdom in the year 858- — See 
 Wf/7iton and the Jll.S.S. of Melrose. Halyhili, near 
 the present church, was a favourite summer resi- 
 dence of Malcolm Canmore, and other Scottish 
 Kings, who granted many charters from this place. 
 The Mill of Forteviot is mentioned by Wynton — 
 and tradition says that the miller's daughter was 
 the mother of King Malcolm. 
 
 Edward Baliol encamped on the Miller's Acre the 
 night before the bloody Battle of Dupplin, which 
 was fought on the 31st of July, 1332. 
 
 The church is said to have been founded by 
 Hungus, King of the Picts. At an early period it 
 was attached to the Abbey of Cambuskenneth ; 
 but latterly to the College of St Andrews. 
 
 Muckarsie, now annexed to Forteviot, was 
 formerly a separate Parish — the former being in 
 the Diocese of Dunkeld, and the latter in that of 
 St Andrews. There was a Reader at Muckarsie 
 for many years after the Reformation, but no 
 Protestant minister was ever settled there before 
 a 
 
100 PARISH OF rORTEVIOT. 
 
 1635, when Mr William Marshall was admitted. 
 His death is not mentioned in the Presbytery 
 Record ; but no successor was appoinied to him, 
 and Muckarsle, therefore, ceased to be a separate 
 charge. A handsome chapel has been erected on 
 the b'ite of the old church, as the burying place of 
 the family of Invermay, and the church-yard 
 surrounding it, in which there are several very old 
 tombstones, is religiously preserved. 
 
 There was also another church at Kirktown of 
 Mailor, in a detached portion of tlie parish, near 
 Craigend ; but no minister has been settled there 
 since the Reformation. 
 
 The Population of the united parish in 1755, 
 was 1164; in 1795, 970; in 1821, 797; in 1851, 
 638. 
 
 Session Records. — There is a Register of 
 Births commencing in 1710, and, excepting a blank 
 from 1713 to 1720, it has been regularly kept from 
 that time to the present. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 As mentioned under the preceding parish, it was 
 many years after the Reformation before Forteviot 
 and Muckarsie were provided with stated ministers, 
 the parishes at that time being under the pastoral 
 superintendence of the minister of Forgandenny, 
 with a Reader under him at each. In 1574, as 
 appears from the Register of Ministers, the Readers 
 were — 
 Patrik Eilstoun, at Forteviot, stipend, £16 & kX 
 George Thomson, at Mukkarsie, £20, 
 
PAEISH OF FORTEVIOT. 101 
 
 Mr James Ross Is the first minister of For- 
 teviot of whom I have found any notice. He was 
 one of the Commissioners from the Presbytery of 
 Perth to " the Gencrall Assemblie, halden at 
 Halyrudehouse, on the 10th of December, 1602/' 
 (B.U.K., page 502.) His death was reported to 
 the Presbytery on the 17th day of December, 1634, 
 up till which time there has been no Protestant 
 minister settled in the parish of Muckarsie, Mr 
 Ross having taken the pastoral snperintendance 
 of botli parishes ; but upon his death the parishes 
 were disjoined, and a minister appointed for each. 
 The record of the proceedings of Presbytery in 
 regard to their trials and induction Is interesting, 
 as showing the growing power of the bishops, and 
 the change which was then gradually taking place 
 in the Government of tlie Church. To show this 
 more clearly, we may first quote the minute of the 
 proceedings which took place on the appointment 
 of Mr Row as helper to his father in the neigh- 
 bouring parish of Forgandenny, ten years be- 
 fore : — 
 
 " The Presbytrie of Perth haldin in the revestrie 
 of the parish kirk thereof, on the 12th day of June, 
 1624 — Alexander, Bishop of Dunkeld, Moderator. 
 Whilk day is producit ane supplicatione from the 
 parochiners of Forgandennie, desiring Mr William 
 Row, younger, to be admitted to be their second 
 minister, to he\p Mr William Row, elder, his father, 
 their minister, now in his auld age. Whilk desire 
 is granted ; the Moderator and brethren ordains 
 his tryals to go forward, &c., &c., .... 
 Perth, 16th June, 1624— Whilk day it is raported 
 
102 
 
 PAKISH OF FORTEYIOT- 
 
 be certain gude brethreln that Mr William Eow^ 
 younger, taught publicly in the parish kirk of Perth 
 upon Thursday last, whilk was ane ordinarie 
 preaching day, with ane great lyking and ane gude 
 report of all that heard him. Whilk report is 
 allowit as ane pairt of his tryals, and appoynts his 
 
 ordination to gang forward Again, 
 
 on the 23d day of June, 1624 — Whilk day is pro- 
 ducit ane edict servit in the parish kirk of Forgan- 
 denny, on Sunday last, charging all and sundrie 
 that has to say against the doctrine, life, and 
 conversatione of Mr Wm. Row, younger, to com- 
 pear this day to object. Whilk edict being oft 
 and divers tymes callit at the revestrie dore, law- 
 ful time of day bidden, nane compearit to object. 
 The Moderator and brethren ordeins his ordination 
 to be the 29th day of June instant, at the said 
 kirk of Forgun, be my Lord Bishop of Dunkeld, 
 and to be assisted by Mr John Malcolme, Doctor 
 John Strang, c&c, &c. Mr John Malcolme to 
 teach." 
 
 This was the form of procedure in 1624. See 
 next the method followed in the settlement of the 
 minister of Muckarsie, in 1634 : — 
 
 " At Perth, the 17th day of December, 1634— 
 Whilk day producit ane letter be Mr William 
 Marshall, showing he was presented by Alexander 
 Bishop of Dunkeld to the kirke of Muckarsie, be- 
 ing ane of the kirks of the said Diocie, and lyeing 
 within the boundis of this Presbyterie, now vacant 
 throughe decease of Mr James Ross, last minister 
 thereofe, desireing to put the said Mr William to 
 his tryells, and to report a testimonial thereon. 
 
PARISH OF FORTEVIOT. 103 
 
 To the whiche desyre as gud and expedient the 
 brethren condescends, and thereupon ordeens the 
 said Mr William to give a Common Head against 
 the next day. ^ Dc peccato originali.' " 
 
 At Perth, the twenty-fourth day of December, 
 1634 years— Whilk day Mr William Marshalle 
 intreated the common place and controversie, * de 
 peccato originali/ and allowed as a sufficient try ell 
 to the ministrie, and particularly to the kirke of 
 Muckarsie, within the boundes of the said Presby- 
 tericj and of the Diocie of Dunkekl, as also the 
 brethren having considerat the divers tryells given 
 be said Mr William before, in adding, exerciseing, 
 handling of controversies, and publike preaching 
 withine the boundes of the Presbyterie of Pertbe, 
 as also having preached divers tymes in the parish 
 kirke of Perth with gud acceptation and applause, 
 ordeene his testimonial to be direct and given out 
 accordingly." 
 
 Mr Marshalle's edict was returned duly served, 
 and transmitted to the Bishop ; and the minute of 
 the 7th January, 1635, is to this effect : — 
 
 " Whilke day receivit ane letter from the Rev. 
 Father, xVlexander, Bishop of Dunkeld, showing 
 that the edict had been duly served and endorsed, 
 and the brethren's testimoniale given out accord- 
 ingly ; testifying also the said Mr William his 
 literature and abilitie to travell in the ministrie, 
 and his gud conversation. That thereupon he did 
 proceed (according to the use of the Churche) and 
 gave imposition of hands, ordeening Mr William 
 Rowe, minister at Forgundenicj of the Diocie of 
 Dunkeld. and within the Presbyterie of Perth, to 
 
104 PARISH OF FORTE VIOT. 
 
 goe to the said klrke of Muckarsie, and give said 
 Mr William Marshall institution thereunto ; whilk 
 the said Mr William Kowe promised to do, and 
 report his diligence." 
 
 Compare the foregoing with the minute of the 
 settlements at Forteviot, of date the 4th March, 
 1635 :— 
 
 " Whilk day there was a letter presented directe 
 from my Lord St Andrews, shewing that the 
 maisters of the ncwe college had presented Mr 
 Edwarde Richardson to the kirke of Forteviot, as 
 also testifying his literature and conversation, and 
 therefore willing that he should not be tryed be the 
 brethren ; but onlie to offer himself unto them, and 
 to be received as one of theire fellowship — his kirke 
 being within their bounds — as the act of his ad- 
 missione represented, likewise at greate lengthe, 
 doeth report. Whereupone the brethren are con- 
 tented to accepte him by the hand, with conditione 
 that first he teache in the parishe kirke of Perth 
 (in respecte they have never heard him), and cer- 
 taine brethren appointed to heare him ; as also, 
 orders Mr John Robertson to go the nexte Sabbath 
 and teache at the kirke of Forteviot, and give him 
 institution thereto in presence of the parishioners.'" 
 
 The foregoing minutes show how the power of 
 the Presbyteries was gradually dimmlshing and 
 the power of the bishops increasing. Thus, in Mr 
 Row's case, although the Bishop sat as Moderator, 
 he sat merely as Primus inter pares, and the minute 
 runs in name of " the Moderator and Brethren."" 
 And the steps taken w^ere "ane supplicatione from 
 the people" — trials by the Presbytery — an edict 
 
PARISH OF FORTEVIOT. 105 
 
 served in the usual form — and ordinal ion by the 
 Bishop, by appointment of the Presbytery, in the 
 parish church, before the parishoners. In the 
 second case, that of j\fr Marshall of Muckarsie, the 
 steps taken were — a presentation from the Bishop 
 —trials by the Presbytery — an edict in common 
 form — ordination by the Bishop in private and of 
 his own authority — and institution by the Presby- 
 tery. Whereas, in this Forteviot case, the only 
 step is a letter from "my Lord St Andrews,'* 
 shewing that Mr Richardson had been appointed, 
 testifying his literature and conversation, and "will- 
 ing that he should not be tried again by the 
 brethren, but onlie to offer himself unto them and 
 be receivit of their fellowship." The Presbytery, 
 while -declaring themselves " contented to receive 
 Mr Eichardson by the hand," seem not to have 
 been Insensible of the enc»'oachment upon their 
 liberties, and " in respect they had never heard" 
 the presentee, they insisted upon his preaching 
 before a committee of their number before they 
 would grant him institution. 
 
 Mr Edward Richardson, inducted 4th March, 
 1635. Deposed by Commission of General As- 
 sembly, as reported to the Presbytery on the 13th 
 June, 1649. By a minute of date May 8th^ 1650, 
 ^* The Session of Forteviot are appointed to give 
 in a list of expectants be the neixt day, in regaird 
 the Presbyterie ar not well pleised with the lettre 
 they gave in tliis day," . . . ^' May 15th, 
 1650. — In reference to the ordinance of last day, 
 the elders of Forteviot gave in a lettre this day 
 for election of their minister — viz., Mr Joshua 
 
JU6 PARISH OF FORTEVIOT- 
 
 Omeldrum, minister at Ochtertule, Mr Robert 
 Mercer, and Mr William Barclay, expectant. 
 The leit being voyced, the Presbytery did unani- 
 mously nominate Mr William Barclay to be 
 minister at Forteviot, and appoints him to enter 
 upon his tryals." 
 
 Mr William Barclay was accordingly or- 
 dained on the 27th January, 1651, as appears from 
 the following minute : — " After sermon and 
 frequent incalling on the name of God, Mr W^ii- 
 liam Barclay, according to the ordinance of the 
 Presbytery, was this day admitted minister of 
 Fortsviot during the whole tymeofhis lyfe, by 
 the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery, and 
 giving him the right hand of fellowship, and was 
 also accepted by the heritors and elders in name of 
 the rest of the parishioners, all whilke was per- 
 formed according to the Word of God and Acts of 
 the General Assembly." He was deposed for 
 dnmkeness on the 8th October, 1690. 
 
 After the Revolution, in consequence of the 
 scarcity of ministers, Forteviot was for some years 
 vacant. 
 
 On the 27th August, 1691, Mr Robert Anderson 
 reports to the Presbytery, "that he went and 
 moderate to the Session of Forteviot, where there 
 was ane unanimous Call voted and subscribed for 
 Mr Patrick Coupar, minister of Pittenweem." But 
 some difficulty had occurred, for on the 19th of 
 June, 1694, the Kirk -session applied to the 
 Presbytery to moderate in a new Call, when a 
 unanimous Call was again given to Mr Coupar, and 
 Commissioners appointed to prosecute his trausk- 
 
PAEISH OF FORTEVIOT. 107 
 
 tion On the Call being presented to Mr Coiipar 
 he " said he woidd take it to consideration." On 
 the 28th November, the Session again urge the 
 Presbytery " to renew the call long since given to 
 Mr Patrick Coupar, alleging they had some hopes 
 it might be now effectual." Cammissioners were 
 accordingly appointed to go a second time to the 
 Presbytery of St Andrews, the Presbytery left Mr 
 Coupar to decide for himself, and he decided to 
 continue in Pittenweem. 
 
 Mr Alexander Chalmers, who was licensed 
 by the Presbytery of Perth on the 27th November, 
 1695, was unanimously called to Forteviot on the 
 29th January, and ordained minister of that parish 
 on the 9th September, 1696, after a sermon by 
 Mr Tullidelph, on Isaiah vi. 6. — '' Here am I, send 
 me " — " with solemn prayer and impositione of 
 hands, and other solemnities usual in like caices." 
 His incumbency, however, was but a short one, for 
 the parish was agam vacant on the 28th July, 
 1697. 
 
 Mr Andrew Harlaw was licensed by the 
 Presbytery of Perth, on the 16th September, 1698. 
 On the 1st March following, a Call Avas laid before 
 the Presbytery in his favour, ^* signed by the chief 
 Heritors, all the Elders, and many Maisters of 
 families." Which Call having been accepted by 
 Mr Harlaw, he was ordained, and admitted on the 
 12th May, 1699. While under trials for ordina- 
 tion, he received a call from the parish of Auchter- 
 a,rder, and another from the parish of Trinity-Gask. 
 Soon after, Mr Harlaw lapsed into gross immorality, 
 and was deposed by the Presbytery — their sentence 
 
103 PARISH OF FORTEVIOT. 
 
 being confirmed by the Commission of Assembly^ 
 as reported September 29th, 1703. 
 
 Mr James Walker. After a protracted 
 vacancy and litigation, Ih James Walker was 
 translated from the parisli of Auclitergaven, and 
 admitted to Forteviot on the 29th January, 1707. 
 He was translated to Ferryport-on-Craig, 1 709. 
 
 Mr Ja31es Mercer, ordained 21st February, 
 1711 i translated to Aberdalgie, 31st December, 
 1718. (See Aberdalgie.) 
 
 Mr James Mackie.— A minute of Presbytery 
 of date August 26th, 1719, is as follows:— 
 
 "it having been represented that one Mr James 
 Mackie, cha])lane to the Laird of Invcrmay, who 
 is in tliir bounds at the time, and is licensed to 
 preach the Gospel, and that the paroch of Forteivot 
 is very desirous of a hearing of him some Lord's- 
 day betwixt and the next Presbytery ; which the 
 Presbytery taking into consideration, and having 
 heard a savoury account of him, from some of the 
 Brethren who are acquaint with him, agreed to call 
 for his licence, he being upon the spot, and being 
 called in, he produced his licence, which was read, 
 and it carrying a testificat in the bosom of it, the 
 Presbytery were very well satisfied with it. . . . 
 and appointed Mr Mackie to preach at Forteviot 
 on Sabbath week." 
 
 The parishioners of Forteviot having given a 
 Call to Mr Mackie, and the right of presentation 
 having fallen to the Presbytery jure devoluto, he 
 was appointed accordingly, and, after the usual 
 trials^ ordained on the 24th day of March, 1720. 
 He was translated to the Parish of St Kinians on 
 
PARISH OP FORTEVIOT. 109 
 
 the 26th December, 1733, but not without much 
 opposition. As he had taken an active part, along 
 with his friend, Mr Mercer, of Aberdalgie, in the 
 proceedings against Mr Ebenezer Erskine, conse- 
 quent upon his famous Synod sermon in October, 
 1732, he was very unpopular in that quarter; and 
 the Presbytery of Stirling refused to sustain his 
 Call. A Committee of the General Assembly was 
 appointed to admit him, and when they met for 
 that purpose the Presbytery refused to give them 
 their countenance — only three of their number 
 attendinof " the clandestine meetins^." But Mr 
 Mackie was a decidedly evangelical minister, and 
 zealously promoted the revivals of religion which 
 followed that at Cambuslang in many districts of 
 Stirlingshire. He was brought forward as a can- 
 didate for the Moderatorship of the Gener.il 
 Assembly, in 1751, by the promoters of the 
 Scheme for the Augmentation of Ministers' Sti- 
 pends ; and carried the election against Principal 
 Wishart, by a majority of 76 to 62. 
 
 Mr ^^lexaxdeh Mair. After the translation 
 of Mr Mackie, the election having fallen to the 
 Treshy tery jure devolutOy was left by them to the 
 heritors, and Kirk-session, and heads cf families. 
 Many candidates were heard ; among others, Mr 
 James Petrie, from the Presbytery of St Andrews; 
 Mr James Reid, from the Presbytery of Auchter- 
 arder; Mr John Mair, brother of Mr Mair, of 
 Orwell ; Mr Hugh Why te, from Auchtergaveci ; 
 and Mr David Black, son of Mr Black, one of the 
 ministers of Perth, and afterwards his father's col- 
 league. But on the day of moderating in the Call, 
 
110 PARISH OF FOUTEVIOT. 
 
 Messrs Black and Mair were the only two put upon 
 the leet ; and the vote being taken, it was found 
 that Mr Mair was elected by a great majority — the 
 state of the vote being : 
 
 For Mr Mair — 8 heritors ; all the elders, viz., 6; 
 and 102 heads of families. For Mr Black, 6 
 heritors and 56 heads of families. 
 
 Mr Mair was accordingly ordained, and admitted 
 on the 4th May, 1736. He was the son of Mr 
 William Mair, a proprietor in the parish of Strath- 
 miglo, and having finished his course of study in 
 the University of St Andrews, was licensed to 
 preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Edinburgh 
 in the year 1733. After his settlement in Forte- 
 viot he was remarkably faithftd in the discharge 
 of all his pastoral duties, particularly in the in- 
 struction of the younger members of his flock, 
 whom he catechized regularly in the church every 
 Sabbath afternoon. For their benefit he drew up 
 ^' An Krplanation of the Shorter Catechism,''' which 
 was published after his death, has gone through 
 several editions, and is still used in the district. 
 When lyioderator of the Synod of Perth and Stir- 
 ling he preached a sermon on the Errors of Popery, 
 which the Synod requested him to publish, but he 
 declined doing so at the time, until he should have 
 added some explanatory extracts from Popish 
 authors. It was published after his death in 1768, 
 and again in 1779. Being of a mild and peace- 
 able disposition, he seldom interfered in public 
 aiFairs ; but was deeply grieved by the divisions 
 wliich at that time agitated the Church in regard 
 to Patronage. The Presbytery of Perth having 
 
PARISH OF FORTEVIOT. Ill 
 
 refused to obey an order of the General Assembly 
 to admit Mr, afterwards Dr, James Oswald, to the 
 Parish of Methven, were summoned to answer for 
 their conduct at the bar of the Assembly, 1751. 
 This is said to have so deeply affected Mr Mair 
 that it threw him into a nervous fever, of which 
 he died on the loth of May, 1751. Soon after his 
 ordination he married Miss Jane Orr,.said to have 
 been a lady of superior acquirements, and assiduous 
 in her attention to the poorer parishioners. They 
 had no children. Mr Mair's brother, John, was 
 chosen Rector of the Grammar School of Ayr in 
 1732 ; and in 1761 was appointed Rector of Perth 
 Academy, which office he held till his death in 
 1769. He was the author of the well-known 
 " Introduction to the Mahing of Latin,^' Translations 
 of Csesar and Sallust, Treatises on Arithmetic and 
 Bookkeeping, and other useful schoolbooks. An- 
 other brother, William, was a manufacturer in 
 Perth. 
 
 Mr Harby Inglis, father of Dr John Inglis, so 
 long a leader in our Church Courts, and grand- 
 father of tlie Right Hon. the Lord Justice-Clerk, 
 was ordained on the 23d April, 1752 ; and died 
 on the 30th September, 1799. 
 
 Mr William Henderson, ordained 1st July, 
 1800; died 27th February, 1822. 
 
 Mr Robert John Robertson, translated from 
 Gask on the 19th September, 1822, to which he 
 was ordained in 1815. Mr Robertson died on the 
 30th day of November, 1856 ; and his memory is 
 still fresh in the hearts of his co-Presbyters. 
 Mr James Anderson, a graduate of the Uni- 
 
112 PARISH OP FORTKVIOT. 
 
 versity of St Andrews, and licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Meigle, was translated from Wal- 
 lacetown Chapel, Dundee, to which he was or- 
 dained on the 26th August, 1S56, and admitted to 
 Forteviot on the 7th May, 1857. 
 
 [Since writing the above, I find from the Book 
 of Assignation, in the Register Office, that " Mr 
 Colein Rind" was minister of Forteviot in 1593 
 --J.W.1 
 
KILSPINDIE AND RAIT. 
 
 KYNSPINEDIN-KYLSPYNDY— KIL- 
 SPINDIE -KATE— RAIT. 
 
 Prior to the Reformation these formed two 
 separate parishes, but have been united ever since. 
 "Malcohn Abbe de Knyspinedin" is mentioned in 
 the Book of Scoon as witne3s to a charter granted 
 in the time of Alexander 11 ; and Ilenry Cramhyy 
 vicar of the church of " Kylspyndy," is witness to 
 another charter of date 4th November, 1491. 
 
 The Parish Church of Kilspinedy was one of 
 the churches of the Abbey of Scone. See Bull of 
 Pope Benedict in the reign of Robert III. " John 
 de Rate granted certain privilegs to the Abbot of 
 Scone by a charter dated 1332." 
 
 Rate declared to be a chapel of the Abbey of 
 Scone in a charter of the time of William the Lion. 
 
 The Population of the united parishes in 
 1755 was 828; in 1795, 718; in 1821, 722; in 
 1851, G84. 
 
 Session Registers. — The Registers of this 
 parish consist of several volumes, in which are also 
 included the minutes of the Kirk-session. The 
 earliest entry is dated July 27, 1656, and they 
 have been regularly kept down to the present time- 
 
114 PARISH OF KILSPINDIB, 
 
 MINISTEES. 
 
 Mr Alexander Jarden is the first of whom 
 we find any notice. It is in the following extract 
 minute of the General Assembly, as given in the 
 Bulk of the Universall Kirk, of date the last day 
 of December, 1563 : — 
 
 " Tuiching the question proponit be the Super- 
 intendent of Fyfe, anent Alexander Jarden, 
 minister of Kilspindie, Inchture, and Rait (who 
 had ftiUen under scandal), whether he suid be 
 againe admitted to the ministrie or not ? The 
 Kirk suspendit the said Alexander frae all func- 
 tions of the ministrie within the Kirk, quhile the 
 nixt Assemblie, and then to receive answer." 
 
 At next Assembly, of date 30th June, 1564 — 
 " The hail Kirk, in consideration of his marriage 
 and public satisfaction of the kirk quhair the 
 offence was committed, ordainit the said Alex- 
 ander to mak humble requeist to my Lord of 
 Murray to be content that the said Mr Alexander 
 sould be received again to his ministrie in respect 
 of the premises ; and thereafter, that the Super- 
 intendent of Fyfe sould receive him againe to his 
 ministrie as of before." 
 
 Mr Alexander Dunmure, in 1574, was 
 minister of Errol, Rait, and Kilspindie, with a 
 stipend of £100 and kirklands — having under 
 him "Neil Ramsay, Reidare at Rait, £16 and 
 k.l.;" and " Andro Stewart, Reidare at Kilspindie, 
 £20; and Maister William Powry, Readare at 
 at ErroUj £30 and k.l." Perhaps there was an- 
 
PARISH OF KILSPINDIE. 115 
 
 other minister, a Mr Klnnear, between these dates. 
 (Sec MS. in Advocates' Library.) 
 
 The firet of whom we find any accountj is Mr 
 James Row, eldest son of Mr John Row, the 
 Reformer. He was baptized on the 25th day of 
 June, 1562, and ordained minister of Kilspindie 
 in the year 1587. Mr Row was a staunch 
 Presbyterian, and his name appears as one of the 
 " forty-two honest men" who " subscry vit" the 
 Protestation hiid before " that Parliament wherein 
 the bishops first rode, at Perth, anno 1606." He 
 is supposed to have been the father of Mr James 
 Row, of Muthil, who was a member of the Reform- 
 ing Assembly at Glasgow, in 1638. The date and 
 manner of his death arc thus related in an old MS., 
 quoted by Mr Scott, in his Lives of the Refor- 
 mers : — *' December 29th, 1614. Mr James Row, 
 minister at Kilspindie, and Mr Robert Rhind, 
 minister at Lono^foro^an, who had G^one well to bed 
 in a house in Dundee, were found dead in the 
 xnorninc:." 
 
 Mr George Stmer (probably) ordained in 
 1615, died in 1622. 
 
 Mr David Williamson, ordained 16th August, 
 1622. The year of his death is not recorded, but 
 he seems to have long laboured under bad health. 
 In a minute of date the 4th December, 1644, it is 
 recorded that " the Heritors of Kilspindie in their 
 own name and in name of the elders and parish- 
 ioners, gave in ane supplicatione, humblie suppli- 
 cating that tlie brethren of the Presbytery would 
 grant unto them the liberty to nominate the 
 minister which they desyre to be conjunct helper 
 II 
 
1 1 6 PAKISn OF KILSPINDIE. 
 
 to their present minister, now infirm through age 
 and gickness." 
 
 ^Ir Joiix Hall was translated from Dimbarnie, 
 and admitted to Kilsj)indie on the 27th May^ 1646* 
 He was present for the last time at a meeting of 
 Presbytery on the 9th January, 1G50, and the 
 vacancy was intimated to the Presbytery on 6th 
 February following. 
 
 Mr Harrie Guthrie — A minute of Presby- 
 tery of date March 19th, 1656, is as follows: — 
 
 " Compeared Robert Whittet and Alexander 
 Davidson, elders of the Paroch of Kilspindie, and 
 producit ane commission from the said Session of 
 Kilspindie, dait thereat the 16th March, 1656, 
 together with anc supplication in name of th© 
 parishioners of Kilspindie, bearing that, seeing 
 they have unanimously nominated Mr Harrie 
 Guthrie, some tyme minister at Stirling, to be 
 their minister, and given him ane call to that 
 eifect, the Presbytery suld interpose their autho- 
 ritic for their speed ie plantation. Ane lettre from 
 the Presbyterie of Stirling was producit and read, 
 giving the said Mr Harrie anc ample testimonial 
 of his life and qualifications, and recommending 
 him to the Presbyterie of Perth, that upon the 
 call of the congregation of Kilspindie they may 
 receive him in the Lord. — Dait at Stirling March 
 5th, 1656, The Presbyterie having perused the 
 premises, doe delay the consideration of the call 
 and nomination until such tyme as the said Mr 
 Harrie be heard preach to the parishioners of 
 Kilspindie, and for that effect they appoynt ane 
 lettre to be wreatin him to come and preach ther 
 
PAKlSn OF KILSPINDIE. 117 
 
 the nixt Lard's-dav, or the Lord's-day cum aucht 
 days, and to be present at the Presbytery the nixt 
 day, the 2d of Apryle. From quhilk nominatioa 
 call aiid forsaid act Mr John Murray and Mr 
 John Crulkshank dissented." 
 
 Mr Guthrie was translated from Stirling, and 
 admitted to Kilspindie on the 2d April, 1658. 
 He was a leadlno* member of the Presbytery, and 
 for several years acted as permanent ^loderatorby 
 appointment of the Archbishop of St Andrews? 
 His appointment is recorded in the following 
 minute, which is the first after the re-establish- 
 ment of Episcopacy at the liestoration : — " At 
 Perth, the 29th off October, 1682, Mr Ilairie 
 Guthrie, minister at Kilspindie, being appointed 
 by my Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, Modera- 
 tor of the Presbyterie of Perth, and in his absence, 
 Mr William Bell, minister at Errol, upon the 
 warrant giv^en to the clerk under the said Modera- 
 tor his hand, to advertise the whole brethren to 
 meit, both for doctrine and disciplin, as formeriie, 
 who reported that he advertised the whole brethren, 
 particularlie by letter." The following brethren 
 convened to witt : — ^' Mr Plairie Guthrie, Kil- 
 spindie ; Mr David Wemys, Scone ; James Fow- 
 ler, Kinfauns ; William Bell, Errol ; Thomas 
 Strachan, St IMartins ; Archibald Moncrieffie, 
 Abernethy ; George MoncriefFe, Arngask ; James 
 Gillespie, Rhynd ; Alexander Balneavis, Tibber- 
 more ; James Campbell, St ^ladoes ; James Oly- 
 phant, Kinnoull ; William Barclay, Forte viot ; 
 George Weemys, A.S., Scone. Absent — Mr 
 William Halybmton, Collace ; Mr George Haly- 
 
118 PAKISH OF KILSPINDIE. 
 
 burton, Perth ; Mr William Colvill, Pertli." The 
 above minute is interesting, as showing the large 
 proportion of the members of Presbytery who con- 
 formed to the nevy order of thinn^s. The noncon- 
 formists were — Mr (}eorge Halyburton, Aber- 
 dalgie ; Mr Alexander Pitcaime, Dron ; Mr David 
 Orme, Forgandenny ; Mr Kobert Yoimg, Dun- 
 barnie ; Mr John Cruickshanks, Kedgorton ; Mr 
 John Mun'ay, Methven. These ministers, along 
 with more than a third of their brethren through- 
 out the Church, were cast out of their charges 
 becau?e they would not take the new oath pre- 
 scribed by the Privy Council, and declare their 
 submission to the bishops. Woodrow says — 
 •^ Scotland was never witness to such a Sabbath 
 as the last those ministers preached ; and I know 
 no parallel to it save the 17th August, 16G2, to 
 the Presbyterians in England. It was not now, as 
 it came to be afterwards in the year 16S9, when 
 the Episcopal ministers left their congregations, 
 the people in many places, through the west and 
 south, obliging them to promise they would never 
 return to them ; but when those I am now speak- 
 ing of took their leave of their dear flocks, it was 
 a day not only of w^eeping, but howling, ^ like the 
 weeping of Jazer as when a besieged city is 
 sacked.' " Mr Guthrie's name last appears in the 
 minutes of. Presbytery of date 9th January, 1665. 
 Mr John Blair was admitted September 26, 
 1667 ; and deprived in 1691 for refusing to submit 
 to the Presbytery, and declare his allegiance to the 
 new Government, along with Mr Auchterlony of 
 Redgorton, Mr Balneavis, Tibbermuir, and John 
 
PAKISH OF KILSPINDIE. 119 
 
 Gall of Klnfaims. They were Hbelleel for contu- 
 macy and disorderly practices ; and among other 
 witnesses against them compeared ^' Patrick Maner^ 
 Leddel in Redgorton, and deponed that Mr Patrick 
 Auchterlony neitlier keeped fasts nor thanksgivingSj 
 Dor made intimation--, or read proclamations 
 thereanent ; as also, was witness to the scandalous 
 marriage of Serjeant Dickson and Widow Caw." , 
 
 . . « " Mr Andrew Petrie, precentor, Kin- 
 fauns, depones upon oath that Mr John Gali 
 keepit not the fast for King William's success in. 
 his expeditione to Ireland, nor yet the thanksgiving. 
 He also depones that Mr John Blair in Kilspindie 
 <lid not keep the fast for said expeditione." On 
 the 14th Janu:iry, 161U, " The Presbyterie and 
 their assistants, taking to their serious considera- 
 tion the whole proeess against the aforementioned 
 incumbents, they doe suspend from tlie exercise of 
 their mlnlstrie t\i2 aforesaid John Blair, &c., and 
 refers them for censure to the next provincial 
 meetlnir of Perth and Stirlins:.'" 
 
 Mr »\'iLLr\M I.voLis 01- E\'aLT3ri was translated 
 from the p irlsli of Kirkpatrick-Durham, and ad- 
 mitted to Kilspindie on the 25th day of September, 
 1698. The nalnute of the proceedings on that 
 occasion m:\ ■ bs quoted as an example of the 
 method then fdhiwad ia the admission of ministers. 
 The edbt h iviag bee.^ returned duly served : — 
 •^'The Presbyterie resolved to proceed to the ad- 
 mission ; :nul Mr Andrew Darlinsr beinfj formerlie 
 appointed to preich thereat, preaehit on the tv. 
 chap, of lOzeklel's P/ophecy, and 21 verse--" Son 
 of man, cause Jerusalem to know," &c.; and after 
 
120 FARISn OF KILSPINDIE, 
 
 sermon, the Presbyterie admitted the said Mr 
 William Inglis minister of the parish of K ilspindic^ 
 with solemn prayer^ mid after solemnities usuaJ 
 in the like caice ; and theresifter, Mr Inglia got 
 institution from the Moderator, by delivering ta 
 him ane Bible, the keys of the kirk door, ai.d the 
 bell-string, whereupon he asked ami took instru- 
 ments in the clerk's hands." Mr Inglis would 
 seem to have been a man of a somewhat hcr.dstrong 
 and violent temper, which involved him in trouble^ 
 and led to his being prosecuted before the ( hurcb 
 Courts for intemperate language and slanderous 
 accusations, as a])pears from a minute of date the- 
 3d October, 1716— ^-'i he minutes of the Synod 
 that met in April last bomg produced, and the 
 Presbyterie having heard the minute with lelerence 
 to Mr English, minister at Kilspindie, read, con- 
 cerning whOTii there has been a proce&s lor some 
 time in dependance before the Synod, founded on? 
 a complaint given in against him by the Presby- 
 terie of Perth, and another by JoeepJi Ajistin of 
 Kilspindie, of his charging them vnth things of a 
 very heinous nature, which, if trwe, would haver 
 rendered the Presbyterie unworthie of the cha- 
 racter of ministers, and of being rep-uteil a Court of 
 Chri&t, and Kilspindie of being a fit member of 
 any society — the Presbyterie finds that Mr Eng-^ 
 Hsh did publiely and judicially promise before the 
 Synod to give in a demissio'ne of his relation tohis^ 
 .;:harge as minister of Kilspindie, &c." . . . , 
 '■' Accordingly, the Presbytery, in obedience to 
 the appoint me at of the Synod, do agree that the 
 kirk of Kilspindie be declared vacant thjo next 
 
PAniSH OP KILSPINDIE. 121 
 
 LorcVs-day, being the seventh day of this current 
 month." Thereafter, Mr David Schaw was, in 
 the face of his own ])rotest and appeal, translated 
 from Aberdalgie, and admitted to Kilspindie 5th 
 March, 1717. But Mr English carried the matter 
 by appeal to the superior Courts ; and the Com- 
 mission of the General Assembly did, on the 15th 
 day of August following, reverse the sentence of 
 the Synod and Presbytery, and "declare that Mr 
 AVilliani English was and still is minister at Kil- 
 spindie;" as also, they " did reverse the proceiUire 
 and sentence of the Presbytery of Perth transport- 
 ing the Iveverend Mr D:ivid Schaw from the 
 i'arish of Abcrdalgie to that of Kilspindie, and 
 declared that the s;tid Mr David Schaw was and 
 still is minister of Aberdalgle."' In consequence 
 of this decisi<m, Mr English continued minister of 
 Kilspindie until the 21st of December, 172G, when 
 he petitioned the Presbytery to appoint one " to 
 the ministrie with him among that people, in 
 respect tlmt he is now both old and valetudinary" 
 which petition was con^plied with. 
 
 Mr RoRKUT CovKNTRY was Ordained 6th Sep- 
 tember, 1727 ; died 19th February, 17G1. 
 
 Mr Alan Stkwart was ordained 21st January, 
 17G2 ; died 7th December, 1787. 
 
 Mr Anthonv Dow, afterwards D.D., eon of 
 Mr Dow of Dron, was ordained on the 12th 
 February, 1689. He was clerk to the Presbytery 
 of Perth from September 18th, 1790, to*28th 
 Angust, 1811, when he resigned the office. He 
 was translated to the Parish of Irongray, in the 
 Presbytery of Dumfries, on the 5th June, 1818. 
 
122 PARISH OF KILSPINDIE. 
 
 Mr David Black, ordained 23d September, 
 1818, and died 13th March, 1850. 
 
 Mr William Lang Wotherspoon was ad- 
 mitted on the 24th September, 1850, having been 
 translated from the Parish of Panbride, to which 
 parish he was ordained assistant and successor qu 
 the 2d October, 1844. 
 
KINFAUNS. 
 
 KINF A TIT EN E S-K YNF A WN Y S— 
 
 KLNFAUNIS— KINFAUNES— 
 
 K I N F A W N 1 S — K I N F A W I N S. 
 
 " Kinfannes," prior to the Kcformation, was in 
 the Dioseso of St Andrews. It is declared to be 
 a cliapjl of the Abbey of Seone in a confirmation 
 granted by Richard, IVishop of St Andrews, in the 
 time of Williatn the Lion (sec Liber dc Ecclesia 
 de Scon, published by the Bannatyne Ckib, to 
 whom it was presented by William Smythe, Esq. 
 of Methven"), and a;rain in a Bull of Pope Ilono- 
 rius Iir., dated at the Lateran on the 16th of the 
 Kalends of .Janunry, 122i). 
 
 In " the rent.ill of the Abbacle of Scowne, 1561," 
 the Kirk of Klnf.mns is valued at £33 6s 8d; 2 
 bolls, 2 firlots of "(juh'it;" 5 chalders, 15 bolls 
 beir; and 4 chaklers of " nieill." 
 
 Tin-: Population of the jiarish in 1755 was 639; 
 1793,628; 1S21,802; 1851,650. 
 
 Sv:ssn)N-KKC()Kns.^'rhe Registers of Births 
 and M u'riagcs commence in 1613, and have been 
 continued re;i:nhirly ever sine, except that in the 
 former theri is a l»lank from 1691 to 1700, and in 
 the hitter from 1692 to 1700. 
 
124 PAllISH OF KINFAUNS. 
 
 The minutes of the Klrk-session also commence 
 in 164G, and embrace the Ibllowing periods: — 
 From 29tli March, 1G46, to 2()th Augu.-^t, 1694; 
 14th July, 1700, to 20th March, 1709 ; 29th May, 
 1735, to 7th January, 1747; (Uh January, 1760, 
 to 2d December, 1789; 29th January, 1817, to 
 the present time. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr William E d:\ioxstone. It appears from 
 the '^ Kegistar of Ministers" that ^Ir Edmonstone 
 was minister between 15G7 and 1572, with a 
 stipend of 100 merks. In 1570 he received an 
 augmentation of 50 merks, and '^ 70 merks mair for 
 Cargil!." He seems to have died or been trans- 
 lated before 1574, for in that year the parish was 
 under the pastoral superintendence of Mr V\ illiam 
 Eynd of Kinnoull, with James Smith as Reader at 
 Kinfauns, with a stipend of £1G and k.l. 
 
 Mr Robert Ramsay was minister in 1^90, as 
 appears from the Book of Assignations in the 
 Register Office. 
 
 Mr Aekxander Bruce was a member of the 
 Presbytery of Perth, and is supposed to have been 
 minister of Kinfauns in 1618. The last time his 
 name appears on the Record, is in the following 
 minute : — 
 
 " '1 he Presbytery of Perth, haldin in the reves- 
 trie of the Paroch Kirk thereof, the 22d day of 
 August, 1G20— Alexrmder, Bishop of Dunkeld, 
 Moderator. ^Miilk day Mr Alexander Bruce 
 handlit the common head, &c." 
 
PAPvisn OF KI^•FAU^'s. 125 
 
 The church was vacant before the 16th April, 
 1623— 
 
 " Whilk day producit anc lettre from my Lord 
 Archbishop of St Andrews, together with anc edict 
 to be servit in the kirk of Kinfawins on Sunday 
 nixt, charging all and sundrie that has to objector 
 say agains the doctrine, lyffe, and conversatione of 
 Mr James Fowlar, that they compear before the 
 Presbyterie the last day of April current, to show 
 why he may not be minister of Kinfawins." 
 
 Mr. I AMES Fowlar was ordained on the 11th 
 day of ^lay, 1623, and continued minister there 
 for the long term of 44 years, through all the 
 troubles and changes of that chequered and event- 
 ful peiiod. He does not seem to have taken any 
 active part in the business of the Church Courts ; 
 and on the 2d October, 1639, at a meeting for 
 privy censures, *' he was censured for not keeping 
 the Presbyterie, but excusit because of his sickli- 
 ness and infirmitie." As an example of the troubled 
 state of the country at that time, and of the zeal 
 and unanimity with which all classes engaged in 
 the war then being carried on, the following minute 
 may be quoted : — 
 
 '' The ordinar exercise was intermitted, bccaus 
 baith pastors and people were gone out in armea 
 to tha border, to stand in defence of their country, 
 religion, and libertyes." 
 
 Mr Kowlar had two sons, David and Thomas, 
 both of whom appeared before the Presbytery for 
 trials, on the 18th of March, 1663, Thomas after- 
 wards became minister of Kinnoull. Mr Fowlar 
 died June Ist, 1667 ; for a minute of date June 
 
126 PARISH OF KIXFAL'XS. 
 
 19th of that year bears, that " Sir William Blair of 
 Kinfawnes compeared, and desired the Presbytery 
 to supplie the clmrch of Kinfawnis during thetyme 
 of the vacancie." 
 
 Mr Joiix Murray was, on the 18th July, 1667, 
 ^^ admitted to the functlone of the ministrie at the 
 said cliurch of Kinfawnes, and Mr Hall K'amsay 
 preached, and did deliver him to the congregation 
 as their minister." There is no Record of the pro- 
 ceedings of Presbytery from the 21st of September, 
 1681, until after the Uevohition ; during which 
 period Mr Murray s^ems to liave died or been 
 translated. The minute of the former of these 
 dates bears, that " Mr Jolm Murray being removed 
 (for privy censure), was appro vine in lyff and 
 doctrine." 
 
 Mr JoHX Gall was inducted Miiy 15th, 1687, 
 and deposed for contumacy and irregular practices 
 on the 'iSth July, 1697, as appears from the follow- 
 ing minute of that date : — 
 
 " The Presbytcrie considering the process 
 (against Mr Gall of Kinfauns and^ Mr Hall of St 
 Madoes), and their great contuuiacie at this tyme, 
 neither Mr Gall nor Mr Hall compearing, notwith- 
 standing for citations deulie executed and called, 
 together with their formerlie contemptuouslie de- 
 clining the authoritie of the Presbytcrie and Synod; 
 the Presbytcrie, therefore, judges the said Mr John 
 Gall and Mr Thomas Hall, worthie of depositione, 
 and actuallie deposes them from their office of the 
 ministrie ; and a})poynt3 Mr Lyall to preacli at 
 Kinfauns kirk. Sabbath next, and there to read 
 and intimate piiblicklie the sentence of depositione 
 
PARISH OF KINFAUXS. 127 
 
 against Mr John Gall, incumbent In Kinfaims, and 
 thereafter to declare his kirk vaiking." 
 
 Mr Matthew Coupar was, on the 12th Sep- 
 tember, 1700, translated from the Parish of Ochil- 
 tree, and admitted to the Parish of Kinfauns. The 
 edict having been returned, duly served — 
 
 "Mr Tunning, the Moderator, formerlie ap- 
 pointed to preach in order to his admissione, 
 preached on the 2d ep. to the Cor., 3d chap., and 
 5th verse ; and thereafter the Eev. ^Ir Matthew 
 Coupar was admitted minister and pastor of the 
 said paroch of Kinfauns, with all the solemnities 
 used in the lyke case ; and then the brethren pre- 
 sent, as also the elders of the said congregation, to 
 signify their heaity concurrence and consent to his 
 admissione, took him by the hand ; and having 
 closed the action with prayer and praise, the 
 Moderator gave the said Mr Matthew Coupar in- 
 Btitutione, by c^elyvering him the kirk bible, keys 
 of the kirk doors, and bellstrings ; whereupon Mr 
 Coupar for his part, and James Bro^vn, elder, in 
 name of the rest of the elders and parochiners, 
 asked and took instruments in the clerk's hands." 
 
 Mr Coupar died in February, 1712, and the 
 church was declared vacant on the 23d of March 
 folio tvino*. 
 
 o 
 
 In the exercise of the jure devolutum the Pres- 
 bytery nominated one of their probationers, Mr 
 James Kamsay, to the vacant charge. The heritors 
 and elders objected, and craved a hearing of Mr Ro- 
 bert Kinloch, a probationer in the Presbytery of 
 Dundee ; and having appealed to the Synod, the 
 Synod ordered the Presbytery to " allow the paroch 
 
128 PARISH OF KIXFAUNS. 
 
 of Klnfauns a hearing of Mr Kinloch on two or 
 three Lord's-days, which had been so long insisted 
 on ; and thereafter to settle whomsoever they 
 found the pluralitic of heritors, elders, and heads 
 of families did chose to be their minister." Mr 
 Kinloch was appointed to preach accordingly; but 
 in the meantime a communication was received 
 from the Presbyter}^ of Dundee, intimating '- that 
 the town of Dundee had given him a unanimous 
 Call to be their minister," which Call he accepted ; 
 and thereafter the Presbytery resolved to moderate 
 in a Call at large, when, " by a great plurality of 
 voices," Mr James Gillespie, minister at Am- 
 gask, was chosen. But Mr Gillespie having 
 declined the Call, the l^resbytery refused to tran- 
 sport him. Whereupon the parishioners craved a 
 hearing of three probationers, viz., Messrs Robert 
 Lyon, in th3 Presbytery of Meigle, Thomas Beve- 
 ridge, and William Campbell — which having been 
 granted, the said Mr Kobert Lyon was chosen ; 
 and, after the usual trials, was ordained, and 
 admitted on the 8th of April, 1714. A minute of 
 date the 26th of August, 1730, bears that '* th« 
 reverend and worthy Mr Kobert Lyon, minister at 
 Kinfauns, died upon the first day of this current 
 month of August." 
 
 On the 19th October, 1731, a Call was mode- 
 rated in for one to be his successor, when the 
 Presbytery " gave out a leet, viz., Messss David 
 Black, Charles Phut, George Blair, and George 
 Blaikie, all of them preachers of the Gospel in this 
 Presbytery; and the heritors and elders having 
 been asked if they were all satis Sed with the leet, 
 
PAFvISn OF KINFAUNS. 129 
 
 or if they had any others to add to the same, they 
 answered they ^verc satisfied therewith, and had 
 none to add." Votes being taken, Mr Phnt was 
 elected ; and, after the usual trials, ordained, and 
 admitted on the 16th March, 1732. He died on 
 the 21st October, 1758. 
 
 Mr James Scott was ordained on the 20th 
 September, 1759, and translated to Perth on the 
 4th November, 1762, where he continued to labour 
 with maoh acceptance and success until November 
 19, 1807, when lie resigned on the disjunction of 
 the Old Parish of Perth, and its erection into four 
 separate parishes as at present. 
 
 Mr John Nimmo was ordained 11th August, 
 1763; died 9th July, 1764. 
 
 Mr George Chapman, ordained 19th Septem- 
 -ber, 1765 ; died 30th October, 1795. 
 
 Mr John Duff, ordained 19th January, 1797 ; 
 died 8th Marcli, 1816. 
 
 Mr Robert Gordon (afterwards D.D.) — 8'> 
 well known for his eloquence as a preacher, and so 
 highly esteemed for his apostolic character— was 
 licensed by the Presbytery at Perth on the 27th 
 July, 1814; ordained minister of Kinfauns, on the 
 12th September, 1816 ; anii translated to Hope 
 Park Chapel,Edinburgh,on the 3 1st January, 1821. 
 
 Mr Jame3 M'Laggan fafterwards D.D.) was 
 translated from Auchtergaven, and admitted to 
 Kinfauns on the 10th May, 1821, and seceded 
 16th June, 1843. Shortly after which he became 
 a Professor in the Free Church College at Aber- 
 deen. 
 
 Mr Lachlan McLean was ordained 25tb 
 
130 PARISH OF KINFAUN3. 
 
 ^September, 1843, and translated to Liff and 
 Benvie, 21st July, 1852, 
 
 Mr George Smyttan Davidson was a dis- 
 tmsuished student. He carried off the Greek 
 medal at the High School of Edinburgh — obtained 
 the highest prize in the Greek and Hebrew classes 
 in the University of Edinburgh — and was second 
 in several other classes. Having taken the degree 
 of M.A. in said University, he passed his private 
 probationary trials before the Presbytery of Edin- 
 burgh, and was transferred to the Presbytery of 
 Dumfries, by whom he was licensed, on the 13th 
 October, 1841. After prosecuting his studies for 
 9ome time in Germany, he returned to Scotlaod 
 ami taught the Greek classes for Professor Mac- 
 pherson, in King's College, Aberdeen, during 
 session 1844-5. Having been elected Rector of 
 the General Assembly's Normal Institution, Edin- 
 burgh, he presided over that Seminary with much 
 efficiency from June, 1845, to January, 1853, 
 when he was appointed to his present charge. He 
 waa ordained on the 24th January, 1853. 
 
KINNOULL. 
 
 KYNHOUL — KYNNOWLE- 
 KYNNOWLL. 
 
 Prior to the Reformation, and in the time of 
 Episcopacy, KinnouU was in the Diocese of St 
 Andrews. " Patricius Yhoung, Rector Ecclesiae 
 Parochialis de Kynhoul," is mentioned in a letter 
 from the Archbishop of St Andrews, of date the 
 1st July, 1429. 
 
 The Population of the parish in 1755 was 
 1,163; in 1795, 1,465; in 1821, 2,674; in 1851, 
 3,134. 
 
 Session-Records. — The Session Registers com- 
 mence in 1618, and with the exception of a blank 
 from 1725 to 1730, have been regularly brought 
 down to the present time. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr William Rynd, or Rind, or Rhynd, or 
 
 Rynde. The name of this venerable and learned 
 
 man appears for the first time in a list approved of 
 
 by the First General Assembly, which met in 
 
 Edinburgh, on the 20th day of December, 1560, 
 
 as " the names of them quhilks the ministers and 
 I 
 
132 PARISH OF KINNOULL. 
 
 commissioners thinks most qualified for the admi- 
 nistering of the Word of God and Sacraments, and 
 reading of the commone prayers publicklie in all 
 kirks and congregations, and given up by them 
 everie one within their owDe bounds." He was 
 admitted minister of KinnouU very soon after the 
 above date ; and as coadjutor of Mr John Howe, 
 minister of Perth, for many years took an active 
 part in the affairs of the Church. In 1578, he 
 was one of the brethren appointed by the General 
 Assembly " for maiking ane overture of the policie 
 and jurisdictione of the kirk, and uttering the plaine 
 and simple meaning of the Assemblie there- 
 anent," with instructions " to tak pains, resoun, 
 confer, and deliberate gravely and circumspectly 
 upon the Heads of the said policie, and to report 
 their opinions advisedlie to the next General 
 Assemblie." In 1586, with consent of the King, 
 the Assembly appointed Commissioners in every 
 province " for trlell of anie slander in the lyfe, 
 conversatione, or doctrine of the Bishops," and Mr 
 Eind's name appears as one of the Commissioners 
 for trial of the Bishop of Dunkeld. In 1581, 
 the King submitted a scheme for dividing the 
 Church into " 600 kirks, and everie kirk to have a 
 minister, their stipends and living to be modified 
 in foure degrees, viz., an hundredth at 500 merk 
 the piece, twa hundredth at 300 merk, twa hun- 
 dredth at 100 pund the piece, and an hundredth 
 at 100 merk ; and 600 kirks to be divided into 50 
 Presbyteries, 12 joined in every Presbytery or 
 thereabout, and three of these Presbyteries, or 
 more, or fewer, as the countrie lyeth, to niske a 
 
PARISH OF KINNOULL. 133 
 
 Dlocle." "The Assemblie understanding what 
 was his Majesty's care over the kirk, praised God 
 that had so moved his heart," and appointed a 
 Commission for carrying his proposal into effect, 
 with instructions " that a beginning be had of 
 the Presbyteries instantlie," of which Commis- 
 sion Mr Rynd was one. In 1590, he was 
 appointed one of the assessors to the Moderator 
 of the General x\ssembly, "to advise him what 
 things were needful to be propounded and treated 
 in the Assembly." Mr Rhynd was married to 
 " Beatrix Pitcairn, a daughter of a family of that 
 name in Strathearn," by whom he had a large 
 family. His son, James, was minister of Long- 
 forgan, and was found dead in bed, with his 
 brother-in-law, Mr James Row, minister of Kil- 
 spindie, as formerly noticed. His son, William, 
 was tutor to the Earl of Gowrie, having been " his 
 pedagogue at the schules baith at home and in 
 Italic ;" and after what is called the Gowrie Con- 
 spiracy, he was " tortured in the boots where he 
 
 gott chops, so that his legs were 
 
 crushed, and he sorely tormented, but they could 
 never extort out of him anie privitie or knowledge 
 of the fact." Another son, Colin, was also a 
 minister. Mr Rynd lived to a great age, and 
 died 20th February, 1610. 
 
 Mr NiNiAN Drummond, son ot Harry, first 
 laird of Riccarton, who was a valiant man, and a 
 favourer of the Reformation so early as 1555. 
 Mr Drummond had four brothers, all of whom 
 seem to have been distinguished men in their day. 
 The eldest, Harry, succeeded his father in the 
 
134 PARISH OF KINNOULL. 
 
 estate of Rlccarton. The second, William, married 
 the heiress of Pitcairns. The third, Sir David, 
 who was supreme Judge of the Bishops' Court of 
 Vason in France, was knighted by Pope Clement 
 VIII. in ] 598, and came to Scotland in the year 
 1600 to negotiate regarding the accession of James 
 YI. to the English crown ; and the fourth, Thomas, 
 He had also five sisters, who were all married to 
 gentlemen of rank and influence. (It may be 
 noticed that his grandfather had five sisters, famous 
 in their day for their superior beauty and accom- 
 plishments. 1st, Margaret Drummond, privately 
 married to James IV., and ancestress of the Earls 
 of Huntly; 2d, Ehzabeth, Countess of Angus, 
 grandmother of Henry Lord Darnley, who married 
 Mary Queen of Scotland, from whom not only the 
 Royal Family of Great Britain, but most of the 
 Sovereigns of Europe are descended ; 3d, Beatrix, 
 Countess of Arran, and grandmother of Lord 
 Ochiltree, a great promoter of the Reformation, 
 whose daughter, Margaret, was married to John 
 Knox ; 4th, Euphemia, Lady Fleming, from whom 
 are descended the noble families of Wigton, 
 Lauderdale, Livingston, Linlithgow, Callendar, 
 Montrose, Athole, Crawford, Errole, and Rox- 
 burgh ; and 5th, Annabella, Countess of Montrose. 
 So much for the princely and aristocratic con- 
 nections of Ninian Drummond, the first Protestant 
 minister of Kinnoull). Mr Drummond seems to 
 have, been translated from Dunblane to Kinnoull 
 in the year 1610, as in the narration of "The pro- 
 ceedings against the prisoners in Blackness penned 
 by themselves, and transmitted to their fellow- 
 
PARISH OF KINNOULL. 135 
 
 sufferers in Dumbarton ;" he is mentioned as " one 
 of sundrie guid brethrein," who came to support 
 them at their trial at Linlithgow in 1606, and 
 styled " Mr Ninian Drummond, from Dunblane." 
 His name first appears in the Record in a minute 
 of date 20th June, 1618, and thereafter he appears 
 to have acted very frequently as Moderator of the 
 Presbytery in the absence of the Bishop of Dun- 
 keld, down to the 15th April, 1635, the minute of 
 which date bears that " Mr John Robertson, 
 minister of Perth, was Moderator, be appointment 
 of my Lord Bishop of St Andrews." Mr Drum- 
 mond's death was reported to the Presbytery on 
 the 27th August, 1635. 
 
 Mr Thomas Halyburtox, whose name ap- 
 pears for the first time in a minute of date the 29tU 
 April, 1635:— 
 
 " Whilk day, ^Ir Thomas Halyburton produced 
 a testimonial showing his abode at the New College 
 of St Andrews, his studies and qualifications, his 
 publick exercising, &c., recommending him there- 
 by to all Archbishops, Bishops, Presbyteries, and 
 brethren of the Ministrie, craving to be admitted 
 to the exercise ; whilk petition, as reasonable and 
 useful is granted. Whereupon Mr William Haly- 
 burton is ordeinit to exercise, and the said Mr 
 Thomas to add." 
 
 These two gentlemen were supposed to have 
 been brothers. WilUam was admitted to exercise 
 within the bounds, on a testimonial from the Pres- 
 bytery of Meigle, on the 16th November, 1631, 
 and is designated " brother-german to James 
 Halyburton of Butergoyle. H^ was ordained 
 
136 PARISH OF KINNOULL. 
 
 minister at Collace, on the 11th July, 1632. Mr 
 Thomas' presentation to Kinnoull, by the Arch- 
 bishop of St Andrews, was laid before the Presby- 
 tery on the 27th August, 1635, and, after the usual 
 trials, he was admitted minister thereof on the 16th 
 September following, when his name appears for 
 the first time on the sederunt. He united with 
 the majority of his brethren in the great movement 
 which led to the OTerthrow of Episcopacy, and the 
 restoration of Presbytery in 1 638, as appears from 
 the following minute, which is interesting, as show- 
 ing the means used by the Covenanters to secure 
 unanimous co-operation : — 
 
 " Att Perth, 29th August, 1638, Mr John Ro- 
 bertson, Moderator — This day, a motion was given 
 in to the brethren for fear that any man suld be 
 corrupted among them with budds and bryberie ; 
 that everie ane of them suld gyfF ther aith that 
 they were not alreddie corrupted ; and that they 
 suld not be corrupted to do anie thing prejudicial 
 to the freedom of the General Assemblie, or to the 
 Covenant ; and gyff that they suld be dealt with 
 in any private way to be corrupted, that they suld 
 reveal the same. The whilk they did all that were 
 present, by the extension of their hands — viz., Mr 
 John Roberstone (Perth), Joseph Lawrie (Perth)^ 
 Thomas Hallyburton (Kinnoull), David Weemyg; 
 (Scoone^, William Hallyburtone (Collace), Alex- 
 ander Omay (EitoI), Alexander Petrie (Rhynd)^ 
 Patrick Rynd (Dron), Thomas Hall (Dunbamie), 
 Alexander Balnea vis (Tibbermore), John Cruik- 
 shanks (Redgorton)." 
 
 By a minute^ of date the 13th of March^ 1639, 
 
PARISH OF KINNOULL. 137 
 
 the Presbytery "gave license to Mr Thomas Haly- 
 burton to accompany my Lord Kinnoull's children 
 to London;" and on the 12th of February follow- 
 ing, he was transported from Kinnoull to the 
 church and parish of Errol, having first been called 
 upon by the Presbytery to " subscribe the Cove- 
 nant, and promise by oath not to delapidate the 
 benefice during his tyme there." 
 
 Mr James Olypiiant, on the 2d of June, 1640, 
 ^* gave in a presentation from my Lord Kinnoull 
 in his favour to the vicarage and parsonage of Kin- 
 noull, and requiring the Presbytery to enter upon 
 his tryals." He was ordained 16th September, 
 1640, and on the 1st of October following, "report 
 was made of the admission of Mr James Olyphant 
 to the kirke of Kinnoull." He conformed, with a 
 majority of the Presbytery, to the new form of 
 Government at the Restoration. His name ap- 
 pears for the last time on the sederunt of date 18th 
 January, 1 665 ; and his death Was reported to the 
 Presbytery on the 19th of April following. Dur- 
 ing the earlier part of his ministry he seems to have 
 resided chiefly in the family of his patron, Lord 
 Kinnoull, in consequence of which he was cen- 
 sured for non-residence. He was cited to appear 
 before the Commission of the General Assembly 
 as a malignant. In 1649, he preached a sermon 
 against women praying or teaching in public, and 
 was so severe upon the sex in general that he 
 again came under the censure of his ecclesiastical 
 superiors. During his incumbency, the Highland 
 host, after the Battle of Tibbermore, in September, 
 1644; sacrilegiously killed and roasted sheep in the 
 
138 PARISH OF KINNOULL. 
 
 church of Kinnoull, and burnt the Communion 
 Tables and other seats for firewood. 
 
 Mr Thomas Fowlar, son of Mr James Fowiar^ 
 minister of Kinfauns, was presented to Kinnoull by 
 the Archbishop of St Andrews, August 16, 1665 ; 
 and admitted minister thereof 28th November fol- 
 lowing. He was " approven for lyff and doctrine'* 
 at a meeting for privy censure on the 21st Sep- 
 tember, 1681. Though deprived at the Revolu- 
 tion, he continued for several years to dispense 
 religious ordinances among the parishioners of 
 Kinnoull, with whom he was a great favourite. 
 At last, in 1697, he was compelled to leave the 
 parish, and on his departure " delivered up to the 
 Kirk-session the kirk box and above 500 merks in 
 money therein." 
 
 The following extract minutes of the Presbytery 
 of Perth will show the steps taken to fill up the 
 vacancy in the parish after the Kevolutio-n : — 
 
 "Perth, 20th July, 1691.— This day was pre- 
 sented a Call to Mr John ^die by the parishionei*s 
 of Kinnoull, which the Presbytery delyvered to 
 him, recommending eame&tlie the acceptance 
 thereof." 
 
 "Perth, 6th August, 1691.— The Presbytery 
 appoynts Mr John -ZEdie to preach at Aberdalgie 
 on Sabbath next, that Balhousise might hear him, 
 in order to his subscribing the Call of Kinnoull." 
 
 "Same day. — The Presbytery receives a letter 
 from Balhousie, shewing his willingness to sub- 
 scribe Mr iEdie's Call for Kinnoull." 
 
 But, from some cause or other, Mr ^die was 
 unwilling to close with the appointment ; and at a 
 
PARISH OF KINNOULL. 139 
 
 meeting on the 9th September, he appeared before 
 the Presbytery, and '^ oiFered to give back his Call 
 to Kinnoull, but the Presbytery would not take it 
 off his hands — so he left it on the table before the 
 Moderator." 
 
 Mr ^die was soon afterwards ordained minister 
 of Dron, and the heritors and Kirk-session of 
 Kinnoull thereafter gave a unanimous Call to Mr 
 John Olyphant. They were again unsuccessful, 
 and the parish remained vacant for several years. 
 Mr Andrew Darling. On the 12th May, 
 1697, "Mr Schaw reported that he moderate at 
 the meeting in Kinnoull parish as was appointed, 
 when they elected Mr Andrew Darling, minister at 
 Hoddam, and signed a Call to him, which Call, at- 
 tested by Mr Schaw, is now produced and read 
 over, and being considered with the reasons of 
 transportation, and Mr Schaw's report concerning 
 Balhousie, the most considerable heritor in that 
 parish, that at his going off the kindgom, he de- 
 clared to Mr Schaw, and desired him to show it to 
 the Presbytery, that he would be satisfied with the 
 minister the Presbytery were pleased to settle in 
 Kinnoull. Whereupon the Presbytery declared 
 the Call legal, and appointed the Moderator to 
 attest it as approven, and send it with the reasons 
 of transportation and ane mission in the Presby- 
 tery's name, to the Moderator of the Comniissione, 
 craving all convenient despatch.'" After the usual 
 steps, Mr Darling was admitted minister of Kin- 
 noull on the 2d day of February, 1698. He died 
 in the end of 1732. 
 Mr Thomas Rankin, ordained and admitted on 
 
140 PARISH OF KINNOULL. 
 
 the 6th March, 1733. Translated to Aberdalgie 
 on the 6th November, 1745. 
 
 Mr Patrick Bannerman, translated from St 
 Madoes to Kinnoull, 13th November, 1746. 
 Translated to Salton, 6th November, 1760. 
 
 Mr Patrick Meik, translated from Moneydie, 
 29th July, 1761. Died 18th July, 1782. 
 
 Mr Lewis Dunbar, translated from Dunning, 
 7th November, 1782. Died 22d February, 1829. 
 
 Mr John Edward Touch, translated from 
 Madderty, 24th September, 1829. Died 11th 
 June, 1852. Mr Touch was for many years 
 Presbytery and Synod Clerk; and his accurate 
 business habits, and knowledge of church forms, 
 were highly valued by his Co-presbyters. He 
 acted as Clerk p.t. to the General Assembly in 
 1849, during the Moderatorship of Dr Simpson. 
 
 Mr John Anderson, A.M., was translated from 
 the East Kirk Parish, Perth, on the 18th Novem- 
 ber, 1852, to which parish he was admitted on the 
 27th February, 1845, having been translated 
 thither from the parish of St John's, Dundee, to 
 which he was ordained on the 22d August, 1844. 
 Mr Anderson is an elegant and accomplished 
 scholar, and favourably known to the public as 
 the author of" The Pleasures of Home," "Legends 
 of Glencoe," and other poems. 
 
LOGIEALMOND. 
 
 By a Deed of Disjunction and Erection, of date 
 the 20th December, 1854, the Lords Commissioners 
 for the Plantation of Kirks did, on a petition from 
 the Right Hon. William Earl of Mansfield and 
 others, disjoin certain lands from the parishes of 
 Monzie, Moneydie, Little Dunkeld, Methven, 
 Redgorton, and Fowlis- Wester, and annex and 
 erect said lands "unto a parish quoad sacra in 
 connection with the Church of Scotland, to be 
 called the Church and Parish of Logiealmond'" — 
 the said petitioners having secured a permanent 
 endowment or stipend for the minister, to the 
 amount of one hundred and twenty pounds sterling 
 per annum ; £90 of which being provided by the 
 Earl of Mansfield, and £30 by the EndowTnent 
 Committee of the General Assembly. 
 
 In ancient times, there had been a church at 
 Chapelhill in Logiealmond, with a burying-place 
 attached ; but no minister had been settled there 
 after the Reformation till the year 1834, when the 
 delapidated chapel was repaired, and re-opened for 
 public worship, and the Rev. Mr Omond, now 
 minister of Monzie, appointed to officiate there. 
 The church having become the property ot the 
 Earl of Mansfield, his Lordship, in addition to the 
 
142 PARISH OF LOGIEAI.MOND. 
 
 above liberal contribution towards the stipend of 
 the minister, conveyed it over to the Church of 
 Scotland as a place of worship for the new parish 
 of Logiealmond, and bound himself to make due 
 provision for its maintenance in all time coming. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Adam Milroy, having passed the usual 
 college curriculum with distinguished success, and 
 received the degree of M.A. from the University 
 of Glasgow, was licensed by the Presbytery of Ayr 
 to preach the gospel. Having been appointed by 
 the Earl of Mansfield to the church and parish 
 quoad sacra of Logiealmond, he was ordained and 
 admitted there on the 15th June, 1854. He was 
 translated to the neighbouring parish of Moneydic 
 on the 18th November, 1858. 
 
 Mr Patrick Macgregor, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of St Andrews, was admitted minister 
 of Logiealmond on the 17th of February, 1859. 
 
METHVEN. 
 
 Methven is mentioned in history as early as the 
 year 970, when Colenus, King of the Scots, is said 
 to have been killed in that neighbourhood 
 by Robaurd, Thane of Methven. It was in the 
 neighbourhood of Methven Castle that the English 
 army, under the Earl of Pembroke, defeated 
 Robert the Bruce, in the year 1306 ; and it was 
 there, that Margaret, daughter of Henry the VII. 
 of England and mother of James V. of Scotland, 
 died in 1540 — she having married as her third 
 husband Henry Stewart, afterwards Lord Meth- 
 ven. 
 
 The church of Methven, in the Diocese of St 
 Andrews, was founded in 1433, by Walter Stewart, 
 Earl of Athole, a younger son of Robert II. It 
 was a collegiate church, and served by a Provost 
 and several Prebendaries. The revenues at the 
 Reformation were valued at £117 Scots, and 40 
 chalders of meal. Auldbar, now united to Aber- 
 lemno, was conferred on the collegiate church of 
 Methven, and the care thereof served by a chap- 
 lain. In 1621, the minister of Methven is styled 
 ^^ Provost of Methven, and Chaplain of Auldbar." 
 
 Population. — The population of the parish in 
 1755, was 1790; in 1790, 1786; in 1821, 2904 ; 
 in 1851, 2454. 
 
144 PARISH OF METHVEN. 
 
 Session Records. — The earliest Record com- 
 mences in 1662, and, with the exception of an 
 interval from 1730 to 1749, has been continued 
 regularly to the present time. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Alexander Young was minister between 
 1567 and 1570, with a stipend of six score pounds 
 and " £6 of annuals of the Quheite Friars, besyde 
 St Johnstone." 
 
 Mr James Bering or Heron was minister in 
 1574, when the following entry appears in the 
 Registar of Ministers ; — 
 
 " Mr James Hering, minister, and now provydlt 
 Provoste and Parsone, per se has stipend the twa 
 pairt of his awin Provostrie of Methven, payand 
 the Reidars at Methven and Auldbar, extending 
 to 6 chald, 2 B., 2 pts. beir ; 13 chald, 5 B., 3 pts. 
 meil ; and £78 8s 5d money. Mr Edmond Mon- 
 <:rieife, Readar at Methven, with a stipend of 
 £16 and kirklands. 
 
 Mr John Young, son of Mr Alexander Young, 
 first minister of Tibbermore, was minister in 1593. 
 (Scots Reformers, 170). 
 
 Mr Robert Murray, proprietor of Woodend, 
 a small estate in the neighbourhood, was minister 
 in 1618, when the Record of Presbytery com- 
 mences. His brother, William, was minister at 
 Dysart, and maternal ancestor of the ducal house 
 of Argyle. His brother, Thomas, was tutor to 
 Charles I.; and the tutor's son being educated 
 with the young Prince, became a great favourite 
 
PAKISH OF METHVEN. 145 
 
 at Court, and was created Earl of Dysart. The 
 minister of Methven took an active and influential 
 interest in the affairs of the Church. A minute 
 of date September 13, 1637, is as follows: — "It is 
 appointed that the brethren sail give in a supplica- 
 tion to the Lords of the Secret Council the next 
 Council day against the Service Book — Mr Johnne 
 Robertson and Robert Murray to be penners of 
 the supplication." On the 25th October follow- 
 ing, said supplication was signed by Mr Murray, 
 and fifteen other members of Presbytery, the re- 
 maining four brethren being absent. And on the 
 8th November — " There was given in to Mr John 
 Robertson the supplication against the Service 
 Book, subscribed particularly by the parishioners 
 of Perth, Collace, St Martins, Kilspindie, Drone, 
 Redgorton, and Tippermuir, craving to be ex- 
 hibited the next Council day before the Lords of 
 the Secret Council ; and Mr Robert Murray, &c., 
 promised to exhibit the supplications of their ain 
 parishes." On the 29th November, a Commission 
 subscribed by all the brethren present, " was 
 given to Mr Robert Murray for attending the 
 King's answer to the supplications." On the 
 14th March, 1638 — " It is appointed that the 
 Covenant with God will be read the next Sunday 
 in all the kirkes of the Presbyterle ; and sail be 
 subscribed by all the parocheners wha can write ; 
 and the Sunday thereafter, it sail be solemnlie re- 
 newed by all the people ^\^th solemn fasting ; and 
 the next Wednesday immediately thereafter, it 
 sail be renewed by the ministers in the kirks of 
 Perth, with uplifted hands, and subscribed — * Mr 
 
H6 PARISH OF METHVEN. 
 
 Kobert Murray,' to have doctrine conforme." On 
 the 24th September, 1638, Mr Kobert Murray 
 and Messrs Robertson and Petrie, ministers, and 
 the Earl of Wemyss, ruling elder, were elected 
 Commissioners to the memorable Assembly, held 
 at Glasgow, on the 21st of November following. 
 
 Mr John Murray "was on the 15th Januar}^, 
 1648, admitted conjunct minister with his father 
 in the kirk of Methven, and thereafter his suc- 
 cessor." He seems also to have inherited his 
 father's zeal for Presbytery and Scotland's Cove- 
 nanted work of Reformation. Soon after the Re- 
 storation, Charles II. issued a proclamation, 
 declaring, that until a meeting of Parliament the 
 Government of Scotland should be administered by 
 a Committee of Estates named by him. The 
 members of that Committee, there was good 
 reason to believe, were quite prepared to carry out 
 the King's designs against the Church, and as the 
 Presbyteries " did very much fear and jalouse Mr 
 James Sharp, now at London,' a few of the more 
 zealous brethren resolved to send in a " Supplica- 
 tion" to the King, reminding him of his ovra and 
 the nation's Covenant, and calling upon him, in 
 fulfilment thereof, to exercise his royal power, for 
 the preservation of the reformed religion, and for 
 the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, and supersti- 
 tion. They accordingly met in Edinburgh for the 
 purpose of drawing up this Supplication, on the 
 23d August, 1660, the day of the first meeting of 
 the Committee of Estates, almost the first Act, of 
 which was to issue a warrant for the apprehension 
 of Mr James Guthrie, minister at Stirling, and ten 
 
PARISH OP METHVEN. 147 
 
 other remonstrating and protesting ministers 
 (among whom were Mr John Murray, minister at 
 Methven, and Lir Alexander MoncriefF, minister 
 at Sconie) then met in conventicle and private 
 meeting." These brethren were seized accord- 
 ingly, and all their papers, while they were en- 
 gaged iu the very act of dramng up a draft of the 
 proposed General Supplication. Woodrow says 
 — " Mr James Guthrie was never liberate till a 
 glorious martyrdom when the Truth made him 
 free, and the rest underwent very great hardships." 
 A minute of Presbytery, of date 23d January, 1661, 
 bears that " ane lettre w-as received from Mr John 
 Murray, daet at Edinbro' December 26th, 1660 
 years, wherein he gives thanks to the Presbyterie 
 for expressing their brotherlie love to him, by their 
 €are to supplie his charge this tyme bygane, since 
 his restraint, and therefore humbly entreats the 
 Presbyterie to continue their care to provide some 
 to supplie his charge, seeing he still lyis under 
 restraint." A letter from one of his fellow- 
 prisoners of date June 13th, 1661, says — " I need 
 not write to you how matters go here. This I 
 must say, your imprisoned and confined brethren 
 are kindly dealt with by our kind Lord. We know 
 it fares better with us when you, and such as you, 
 mind us at the Throne. We are waiting from day 
 to day what men wiU do with us. We are expect- 
 ing banishment at the least, but our sentence must 
 proceed from the Lord." After long delay, Mr 
 Murray was brought before Parliament on a charge 
 of high treason, inasmuch as he was concerned in 
 drawing up the " Remonstrance" preiented to the 
 I 2 
 
148 PAKISH OF METHVEN. 
 
 Estates at Perth, October 23, 1660; also, a so- 
 called seditious pamphlet, published in 1653, called 
 the " Causes of God's Wrath ;" also, for being 
 present at the secret meeting in Edinburgh m 
 August, 1660. Woodrow says — " What issue the 
 Parliament came to as to Mr Murray I know not. 
 It would seem he was turned over -with others to 
 the Councill." He continued in confinement till 
 the 18th July, 1672, "on which day Mr John 
 Murray, sometime prisoner in the Tolbooth of 
 Edinburgh, for alleged house conventicles, was 
 liberate, and confined to the Parish of Queensferry, 
 ordained to wait upon ordinances, and to abstain 
 from keeping conventicles." October, 2d March, 
 1681, a Mr John Murray, of Borrowstouness, was 
 tried for high treason, and charged with being pre- 
 sent at an avowed conventicle at Torwood — with 
 being privy to the murder of Archbishop Sharp — 
 and with being concerned in printing the " Queens- 
 ferry Covenant and Sanquhar Declaration." He 
 was sentenced to be hanged, but recommended to 
 the King's clemency. Whether this was the same 
 Mr John Murray does not appear. 
 
 Mr Hugh Ramsay was translated from Caputh, 
 and admitted minister at Methvenonthe 16th day 
 of November, 1662, as appears from the following 
 minutes :- — 
 
 "Perth, 29th October, 1662— Maister Hugh 
 Ramsay, late minister at Caputh, did this d^ pro- 
 duce ane presentation to the provestrie and kirke 
 of Methven, the modified stipend, manse, and 
 glebe, and vicarage thereof — subscrybit by the 
 patron, Charles Duke of Lennox and Richmond. 
 
PARISH OF METHVEN. 149 
 
 dated at Holyrudhouse, August 7th, 1662— to- 
 gether with ane collation thereupon subscrybit and 
 sealed by my Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, dated 
 thereat, the 17th day of October, 1662 years." 
 
 "Perth, November 19, 1662.— Maister William 
 Bell, minister at Errol, reported that, conform to 
 ane ordour direct from the Archbishop of St 
 Andrews to him, he preached at Methven the last 
 Lord's-day, the 16th of November instant, and re- 
 ceived Mr Hugh Ramsay minister there, and 
 delivered him to the congregation as their minister. 
 The said Mr Hugh being present, was accepted by 
 the brethren as one of their faternitie and number." 
 " The Provost of Methven, his burial," is re- 
 ported in a minute of Presbytery, of date the 12th 
 March, 1679. 
 
 Mr John Omay was translated from Dunbar- 
 ney, and " admitted to the functione of the holy 
 ministrie at the church of Methven, on the 30th 
 July, 1679." On the 15th November, 1693, "a 
 petition was given in from some of the heritors and 
 elders and parishioners of the Parish of Methven, 
 craving their kirk to be declared vaiking (their 
 last incumbent being dead)." The Presbytery seem 
 not to have been very sure how their complying with 
 this petition would be received by the people of 
 Methven generally— many of whom appear to have 
 had a hankering after the old regime—'' For they 
 appointed Mr Robert Anderson, minister at Pert); , 
 to write, in their name, to the Laird of Methven,' 
 desyring patent doors to the said kirk, which bcint: 
 granted, they appointed the said Mr Anderson to 
 preach at Methven for the end aforesaid." 
 
150 PARISH OF METHVEN. 
 
 Mr William Moncrieffe was ordained on the 
 19th June, 1694, and died on the 6th November, 
 
 1748. He was descended from William, second 
 son of John Moncrieffe of Eupness, in Orkney. 
 He married Bethia, daughter of Sir John Mon- 
 crieffe of Tibbermallo, and had issue, a son John, 
 minister of Rhjnd, who succeeded to the estate of 
 Tibbermallo. In 1711, Mr Moncrieffe received a 
 call from the Parish of St Martins, but the Pres- 
 bytery refused to transport him. 
 
 Mr James Oswald (^afterwards D.D.) whose 
 settlement was keenly opposed, and led to much 
 litigation before the Church Courts. The facts of 
 the case were as follows : — Mr Oswald was 
 minister of Dunnet, in the Presbytery of Caith- 
 ness. On the 22d February, 1749, he was pre- 
 sented to the Parish of Methven by David Smythe, 
 Esq., when the Presbytery appointed a small com- 
 mittee of their number " to go out to the Parish 
 of Methven to inquire who will join in giving a 
 Call to the presentee." On the 29th March, 
 
 1749, the committee reported two heritors and 
 twelve heads of families, and not one elder, were 
 willing to concur in a Call to the presentee. In 
 these circumstances, the Presbytery resolved to 
 delay giving judgment, and appointed a committee 
 to deal with Mr Smythe to drop the presentation, 
 and use their endeavours to bring about a better 
 understanding between parties. Both parties ap- 
 pealed, and the General Assembly ordered the 
 Presbytery " to moderate in a new Call to Mr 
 James Oswald alone''— which having been done, 
 It was signed by ten heritors and twenty-two 
 
PARISH OP METHVEN. 151 
 
 heads of families, and the Presbytery found that, 
 *^as they cannot go on at present to settle Mr 
 Oswald, on account of the smailness of the concur- 
 rence, did, and hereby do, delay giving any further 
 decision in the matter." The Assembly of 1750, 
 ■on appeal, " peremptorily ordained the Presbytery 
 to admit Mr Oswald as minister at Methven on or 
 before the 10th day of July next, with certifica- 
 tion of their incurring very high censure in case 
 of disobedience." A majority of the Presbytery, 
 <3onsisting of nine ministers and nine elders, de- 
 clared " that though they had no freedom to take 
 any active part in said settlement, they would lay 
 no bar in the way of those members who had 
 freedom, but leave them to act agreeably to their 
 opinion." A committee having been appointed to 
 represent to the Commission the difficulties the 
 Presbytery were under — the Commission appointed 
 a riding committee of their number, consisting of 
 twelve ministers and two elders to proceed to 
 Methven, and "admit Mr James Oswald, 
 minister at Dunnet, to the ministry at Meth- 
 ven, on the 12th day of December next — Mr 
 Alexander M^LaofOfan at Little Dunkeld, or 
 failing him, Mr Robert Menzies at Comrie, to 
 preach and preside ; which was done accordingly, 
 and reported to the Presbytery at their next meet- 
 ing, when Mr Oswald's name was added to the 
 roll. Mr Oswald was a man of considerable literary 
 abilities. In 1766, he published An Appeal to 
 Common Sense, in reply to Hume ; in 1770, A 
 Sermon on the Divine Efficacy of the Gospel Dispensa- 
 tion ; and in 1774, Six Sermons on tlie General 
 
l52 PAEISH OP METHVENo 
 
 Judgment In 1765, he was chosen Moderator of 
 the General Assembly, and the same year obtained 
 the degree of D.D. The sermon preached by him 
 before the Assembly in 1666, and the closing ad- 
 dress, was also published, along with Letters on 
 some points of importance contained in the Sermon. 
 He lived to a very advanced age, and on the 30th 
 April, 1783, demitted his charge to the Presby- 
 tery in these terms — '^ Having for many years past 
 been deprived, through the infirmity of age, of the 
 satisfaction of concurring with my brethren of the 
 Presbytery in promoting the interest of our Lord^ 
 and being, through the increase of tliis infirmity,, 
 disabled from the discharge of the duties of the 
 pastoral office in the Parish of Methven, I find it 
 Incumbent on me to resign my charge," &c. ; which 
 resignation was accepted by the Presbytery on the 
 4:th day of June following, and the church declared 
 vacant. 
 
 Dr Oswald bequeathed £100 to the parish of 
 Methven, the interest of which to be distributed 
 annually to the poor householders not upon the 
 poors'-roll. He died at Scotstown, on the 2d 
 August, 1793. 
 
 Mr John Dowe was admitted on the 19th 
 February, 1784, having been translated from the 
 parish of Canonbie, in the Presbytery of Langholm. 
 Mr Dowe discharged the pastoral duties of the 
 parish, and took an active and influential part in 
 the business of the Church Courts for the long 
 space of forty years, and died on the 17th No- 
 vember, 1823. 
 
 Mr Thomas Clark, afterwards D.D., was or- 
 
PARISH OF METHVEN. 153 
 
 dained on the 12th August, 1824, and was a 
 leading member of the Presbytery until the 19th 
 August, 1841, when he was translated to the Old 
 Kirk, Edinburgh. He was again translated to St 
 Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, in 1843, where he 
 continued till his death, in 1856. Dr Clark was 
 for many years the zealous and efficient Convener 
 of the Colonial Committee of the General As- 
 sembly. 
 
 Mr Thomas Buchanan, afterwards D.D., and 
 F.R.S. A., was translated from the Parish of Logie- 
 rait, to which parish he was ordained in 1832, and 
 admitted to Methven on the 4th November, 1841. 
 Dr Buchanan was a profound scholar, an able 
 theologian, and one of the most accomplished 
 linguists of his time. Besides many able contri- 
 butions to periodical literature, he published a 
 volume of sermons as a farewell gift to the 
 parishioners of Loglerait. He died suddenly on 
 the 24th August, 1859. 
 
 Mr John Wilson, A.M., was translated from 
 the second charge, Dysart, and admitted minister 
 of Methven on the 16th day of December, 1859. 
 Mr Wilson was licensed by the Presbytery of 
 Paisley, in December, 1848. Thereafter was 
 assistant in tbe Parish of North Leith, and or- 
 dained and admitted to the second charge of the 
 Collegiate Parish of Dysart, in December, 1850. 
 At the time of his translation to Methven, Mr 
 Wilson held the office of Clerk to the Synod of 
 Fife, and to the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy. 
 
MONEYDIE. 
 
 MONIDIE— MON YDIE— MONEDIE -^ 
 MONEYDIE, 
 
 This parish, until comparatively a recent period^ 
 formed part of the Presbytery of Dunkeld, from 
 which it was disjoined, and annexed to the Presby- 
 tery of Perth by the General Assembly in 1758. 
 So early as 1480, the living was held by Mr Alex- 
 ander Myln, author of a rare and curious work, 
 entitled " Lives of the Bishops of Dunkeld." Mr 
 Myln styles himself " Canon of Dunkeld, and Pre- 
 bendary of Moneydie." In the Cathedral Church 
 of Dunkeld, there is a tombstone with the follow- 
 ing inscription : — " Hie jacet eximius vir Magister 
 Alexander Douglas, Rector de Moneydie, qui obiit 
 17 December, Anno Domini, millesimo quintgen- 
 tesimo XLYIII." 
 
 The Population of the parish, including 
 Logiealmond, in 1755 was 1,492 ; 1795, 1,320. 
 
 Session Records. — The Parish Register com- 
 mences in 1655. The volume embracing the period 
 from 1680 to 1717 has been lost. There is an- 
 other blank from 1666 to 1670. With these 
 exceptions, the Record has been kept with toler- 
 able correctness. 
 
PARISH or MOKEYDIE. 155 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Maister Thomas Makgibbon, previous to 1570, 
 was minister " of Monydie, Ragortoun, Loncardie, 
 Kinclavin, and Auchtergavin," having under him 
 as Readers, Alexander Colt and Alexander Creich- 
 ton, and James Lauder, Exhorter, with the Pre- 
 bendary of Fordishaw for his stipend. (MS. in 
 Advocates' Library.) In 1574, Mr Colt had been 
 ordained as minister of Redgorton and Loncardie ; 
 and the following is the entry in the Register of 
 Ministers relative to Mr Makgibbon : — 
 
 " Monydie, Kinclevin, Auchtergavin — Maister 
 Thomas Makgibbon, minister, £133 6s 8d ; Alex- 
 ander Creichton, Reidare at Monydie, £20 ; Pat- 
 rick Salmound, Reidare at Kinclevin, £22 ; Wil- 
 liam Creichton, Reidare at Auchtergavin, £6 13s 
 4d and k.L." 
 
 Mr Walter Struthers had been Prebend of 
 Money die at the time of the Reformation. For 
 Connell, in his " Treatise on Tithes," states that 
 in 1568 Mr Struthers (who was a native of Glas- 
 gow, and possessed heritable property there) 
 brought an action against Mr Makgibbon, calling 
 upon him to produce his " provision to that Pre- 
 bend." 
 
 Mr Alexander Omay was minister of Money- 
 die in 1608. (See Book of Assignations, in Regis- 
 ter Office). In 1626 he was translated to the 
 Parish of Errol. His son, John Omay, was minis- 
 ter successively of the parishes of St Madoes, 
 Dunbarnie, and Methven. We have not ascer- 
 tained who succeeded Mr Omay in Moneydie ; but 
 
156 PARISH OP MONEYDIE. 
 
 Mr David Drummond (called John In Doug- 
 las' Baronage) was ordained on the 17th May, 
 1655, at which period the Session Record begins. 
 He married Katherine, daughter of Patrick 
 Smythe of Braco, and Catherine, daughter of Mr 
 George Graham, minister of Scone, and afterwards 
 Bishop of Orkney, and had issue, Mr David Drum- 
 mond, advocate, Treasurer to the Bank of Scot- 
 land, Dr John Drummond, an eminent physician 
 in Edinburgh, and several daughters. 
 
 Mr William Smythe, son of Mr Smythe of 
 Braco, succeeded his brother-in-law as minister of 
 Moneydie. He was ordained about the year 1678; 
 at all events, was minister in 1679. He was born 
 in 1646 ; and married one of the daughters and 
 co-heiresses of Arthur Ross, successively Bishop 
 of Argyle, Galloway, and Glasgow, and Arch- 
 bishop of St Andrews — by whom he had a son, 
 James Smythe of Aitherny, one of the most emi- 
 nent surgeons of his time in Scotland. This James 
 had three dauixhters — one of whom was married to 
 Dr Thomas Cannichael, physician in Perth ; an- 
 other to Martin Lindsay, writer, Edinburgh, repre- 
 sentative of the ancient family of Dowhill ; and 
 the third, to Dr Robert Wood, physician in Perth. 
 
 Muoh has bean said and written about the in- 
 tolerance of the Presbyterians, and the rigorous 
 measures adopted by them, when they obtained the 
 ascendancy at the Revolution, against Episcopalians. 
 But the case of Mr S n ythe, and several others that 
 occur in our local Records, are evidence to the 
 contrary. It may be true that the great principle 
 of toleration was not understood so fully then as 
 
PARISH OF MONEYDIE. 157 
 
 it is now, but when we remember the fiery trial 
 out of which the Church of Scotland had then re- 
 cently been brought, and the personal, as well as 
 pecuniary, sufferings to which many of the ministers 
 and elders constituting our Ecclesiastical Courts had 
 been subjected, the leniency with which they 
 treated those whom they could not but regard as 
 their persecutors, was more than might have been 
 expected. In the King's letter to the first Gene- 
 ral Assembly after the Revolution, he recommended 
 temperate measures. " A calm and peaceable 
 procedure, " says his Majesty," will be no less pleas- 
 ing to us than it becometh you. We never could 
 be of the mind that violence was suited to the 
 advancing of true religion, nor do we intend that 
 our authority shall ever be a tool to the irregular 
 passions of any party. Moderation is what re- 
 ligion enjoins, neighbouring Churches expect, and 
 we recommend to you." And the Assembly cor- 
 dially responded to those sentiments. " If," said 
 they, " after the violence for conscience sake, 
 which we have sufi^ered, and these grievous abuses 
 of authority in the late reigns, whereby through 
 some men's irregular passions we have so severely 
 smarted, we ourselves should lapse into the same 
 errors, we should certainly prove the most unjust 
 towards God, foolish towards ourselves, and un- 
 grateful towards your Majesty, of all men on earth. 
 The God of love, the Prince of peace, with all the 
 Providences that have gone over us, and circum- 
 stances that we are under, as well as your Majesty's 
 most obliging pleasure, require of us a calm and 
 peaceable procedure." And again in their anewer 
 
158 PARISH OF MONEYDIE. 
 
 to the King's letter in 1698, they saj, " The Gene- 
 ral Assembly is still ready to assume such ministers 
 as served under the late Prelacy, whose lives and 
 doctrines render them so useful to the Church, and 
 who apply to them in terms and methods proposed 
 by former Assemblies, and shall recommend the 
 same to inferior judicatories." In consequence of 
 these recommendations, many Episcopalian minis- 
 ters were admitted into the Church, and allowed 
 to continue in the exercidc of their ministry, as 
 appears from an address presented to Queen Anne 
 by the Assembly in 1712, at a time when the 
 Jacobite party were endeavouring to curtail the 
 liberties of the Church. " That your Majesty (says 
 that address) may be satisfied of the injustice of 
 these calumnies, wherewith we are reproached for 
 excessive rigour, we cannot but lay before your 
 Majesty this pregnant instance of our moderation 
 — that since our late happy establishment, there 
 have been taken in^ and continued^ hundreds of 
 dissenting ministers, upon the easiest terms' Of 
 these indulged ministers, there were several within 
 the bounds of the Presbytery of Perth, of whom 
 Mr Smythe was one; and it was not until 1710 
 that, in consequence of great irregularities and 
 contumacy on his part, the Presbytery felt them- 
 selves constrained to adopt proceedings against 
 him, he having then removed from Moneydie, and 
 intruded himself into the Parish of Methven — 
 ^' where (says the libel) there is and hath 
 been for many years a fixed Gospel ministry." 
 As a further proof that the Episcopalian ministers 
 continued in possession of their parishes for many 
 
PARISH OF MOKEYDIB. 159 
 
 years after the Revolution, it may be mentioned 
 that, so late as the 5th November, 1702, when the 
 Presbytery of Perth comprehended the Presby- 
 teries of Weem and Dunkeld, and the half of Auch- 
 terarder— 55 parishes in ail— only 26 of these, 
 or less than a half, were supplied with Presbyterian 
 ministers. A minute of the above date, after 
 giving the names of these 26 ministers, adds— 
 
 " There was no more ministers to List at this 
 tyme. The rest of the churches being either 
 vacant or served hy Incumbents." 
 
 The only churches then provided, within the 
 bounds of the Presbyteries of Weem and Dunkeld, 
 were Auchtergaven, Little Dunkeld, Lethendie, 
 Kinloch, Kinclaven, and Eattray. 
 
 Mr James Fleming was ordained and admitted 
 minister of Moneydie on the 26th June, 1701. 
 His incumbency, however, seems to have been very 
 short, for on the 5th of March following the church 
 was again declared vacant. 
 
 Mr Alexander Chapman was ordained 25th 
 August, 1702 ; and died in 1716. 
 
 Mr John Gardner, ordained 6th August, 
 1717 ; and died or was translated before 1739. 
 
 Mr Gilbert M^usTN was settled on a unanimous 
 Call in 1739, but seems soon thereafter to have 
 fallen into vicious habits, which gained for him an 
 unenviable notoriety. He was brought before the 
 Assembly of 1748, under a libel for maltreating 
 his wife, for drunkenness, profane swearing, and 
 other immoralities. Among other instances of bad 
 treatment of his wife, he was accused of not pro- 
 viding for her and his famHy as he ought, " par- 
 
160 PARISH OF MONEYDIE. 
 
 ticularly one summer day, he gave them only bear- 
 meal, though he had two cows calved in his byre." 
 He was accused of " searching for his beadle with 
 an axe in his hand ; and imagining he lurked below 
 the stair in the Manse^ he struck upon the stair 
 with the axe until he broke one of the steps, and 
 then thinking he had killed him, he bade some of 
 the people come and take the corpse of the beadle 
 from under the stair." Strange as it may appear, 
 he seems nevertheless to have been a favourite 
 with the people of Moneydie, as a petition was 
 sent up to the Assembly, signed by one residing 
 heritor, four elders, and upwards of ninety heads of 
 families, " praying that he might be continued their 
 minister." 
 
 Mr Patrick Meik was translated from Rattray 
 to Moneydie on the 26th December, 1754. On 
 the 14th day of June, 1758, he was admitted a 
 member of the Presbytery of Perth, as appears 
 from the following minute : — " Which day com- 
 peared Mr Patrick Meik, minister at Moneydie, 
 and gave in an extract of an Act of the General 
 Assembly of the Church of Scotland, dated the 3d 
 day of June current, which was read, whereby the 
 said General Assembly do disjoin the said parish 
 of Moneydie from the Presbytery of Dunkeld, and 
 annex it to the Presbytery of Perth in all time 
 coming, as the said extract fully bears. Which 
 being considered by the Presbytery, they appointed 
 the said Mr Patrick Meik's name to be added to 
 the roll of this Presbytery, whereupon he took 
 instruments in the Clerk's hands." Mr Meik was 
 translated to KinnouU on the 29th July, 1761. 
 
PARISH OF MONEYDIE. 161 
 
 Mr George Frazer was translated from Eed- 
 gorton,and admitted to Money die on the 27th May, 
 1762; and died on the 8th March, 1807. Mr 
 Frazer was twice married, and had a numerous 
 family. George, one of his sons, died at Grenada, 
 in 1795 ; another, James, was lost at sea, in a 
 voyage from Richmond, in Virginia, to Antigua, 
 in 1798; and another was father of Mr Robert W. 
 Frazer, M.A., minister of St John's Church, Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Mr James Somerville was ordained on the 
 17th September, 1807 ; and died 30th November, 
 1827. 
 
 Mr 'John W. Thomson, son of Dr William 
 Thomson, of the Middle Kirk, Perth, was ordained 
 on the 7th August, 1828. Having signed the 
 Deed of Demission, laid before the General As- 
 sembly by the founders of the Free Church, he 
 ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scotland, 
 and the parish was appointed to be declared vacant 
 on the 16th of June following. 
 
 Mr Robert T. Auld was ordained 26th 
 September, 1843 ; and died on the 2d June, 1858. 
 
 Mr Adam Milroy, an A.M. of the University 
 of Glasgow, was licensed to preach the Gospel by 
 the Presbytery of Ayr, in July, 1852 — ordained 
 first minister of the newly erected parish of Logie- 
 almond, on the 15th June, 1854 — and translated 
 to Moneydie on the 18th November, 1858. 
 
PERTH. 
 
 The Picts, after they embraced the Christian 
 faith, are said to have consecrated the church and 
 bridge of Perth to John the Baptist. Hence it 
 was called St Johnstoun — anciently Bertha, as 
 appears from the following sentence in Fordun's 
 Scotichronicon : — 
 
 ^^ Villa St Johannis, quae nunc Perth dicitur, 
 Bertha dicebatur." 
 
 The Church of St John Baptist is mentioned 
 in a Charter of Confirmation by William the 
 Lion to Henry Bald, " Aurifaber de Perth." 
 
 Prior to the Reformation there were in Perth 
 and the neighbourhood numerous monasteries and 
 other religious houses, viz. : — 
 
 1. The Dominican or Blackfi'iars Monastery, at 
 the north side of the town, founded by Alexander 
 n., in 1231. 
 
 2. The Carmelite or Whitefriars Monastery at 
 Tuiilum, founded in the reign of Alexander III. 
 
 3. The Charterhouse or Carthusian Monastery, 
 situated near where the Hospital now stands, 
 founded by James I., and Jane, his Queen, in 
 1429. 
 
 4. The Franciscan or Greyfriars Monastery^ 
 wliich stood in the Greyfriars Churchyard, 
 founded by Lord Oliphant, in 1460, 
 
PERTH. 163 
 
 5. The Nunnery of St Mary Magdalene, after- 
 wards annexed to the Carthusian Monastery. 
 
 6. The Nunnery of St Leonard the Abbot, 
 founded before 1296. 
 
 7. Our Lady's Chapel, at the foot of the High 
 Street, was an old building in 1210. 
 
 8. St Laurence's Chapel, at the Castlegavel, 
 founded before 1405. 
 
 7. The Chapel of St Ann, Mother of the 
 Virgin, which stood at the south side of St John's 
 Church. 
 
 10. St James' Chapel, also at the south side of 
 St John's Church. 
 
 11. Chapel of Loretto, near the head of South 
 Street. 
 
 12. St Paul's Chapel, at northwest corner of 
 Newrow. 
 
 13. The Rood Chapel at South Street Port. 
 
 14. The Chapel of St Katherine, at Ckypotts. 
 The Population of Perth is said to have been 
 
 in 1562, 6,075; in 1755, it was 9,019 ; in 1801, 
 16,388; in 1821, 18,197 ; in 1851, 23,835. 
 
 Session Eecords. — The Records of the pro- 
 ceedings of the Kirk-session consist of 30 volumes; 
 the earliest entry is of date 1577. 
 
 The Register of Baptisms consists of 24 volumes, 
 commencing in 1561. 
 
 The Register of Marriages consists of 12 vols., 
 and begins in 1567. 
 
 Perhaps there is no Session in Scotland the 
 Records of which are so complete, or which huve 
 been so carefully kept. 
 K 
 
164 PERTH. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr John Row was the first minister of Perth 
 after the Reformation. He was born in the year 
 1526, " in a landward room called Row betwixt 
 Stirling and Dunblane." He was educated in the 
 Grammar School of Stirling, and afterwards passed 
 his course in the College of St Andrews. He 
 practised there for some time as a lawyer before the 
 Conslstorial Court, and afterwards went to Rome, 
 where he became famous for his great learning, 
 both in divinity and the laws ; and, having ob- 
 tained the degree oi Doctor utrinsque juris, both at 
 Rome and Padua, he was, in 1556, appointed, by 
 Pope Paul IV., agent for the Kirk of Scotland at 
 the Court of Rome. In 1558, the Pope being 
 alarmed by the reports which reached him of the 
 state of affairs in Scotland, sent Mr Row home to 
 bis native country, armed with authority as his 
 Commissioner or Legate, to oppose the progress of 
 the Reformation there. But the Great Head of 
 the Church had other work in store for him. After 
 various disputations with John Knox and others, 
 he was convinced of the errors of Popery, and hav- 
 ing embraced the new doctrines, became a zealous 
 and efficient agent in promoting the cause of the 
 Refoi-mation. For some time, like Knox and his 
 other associates, he acted as an itinerant preacher, 
 devoting the great learning and eloquence for 
 which he was distinguished, to the propagation of 
 the reformed religion. His grandson — the his- 
 torian — has recorded the following interesting par- 
 ticulare conceT^ning him :■-— 
 
PERTH, 1S5 
 
 •* After the Reformation was established by law 
 in 1580, Mr Row was admitted minister of Kenno- 
 way, where he married the Laird of Balfour's 
 daughter — Margaret Bethune — the lands of 
 Kennoway being ane Baronie, belonging to the 
 Laird of Balfour. Shortlie thereafter he was, by 
 the General Assemblie, transported to Perth, the 
 second burgh of the kingdom, where he lived and 
 died beloved and regretted by all gude men. In 
 those days the Grammar Schule of Perth was 
 famous, many noble and gentle men sent their 
 sonnes to be educated there ; and manie of them 
 were tabled with Mr Johnne Row, to be helped by 
 him in their education. As they spok nothing in 
 the schule and fields but Latin, so nothing was 
 spoken in his house but French. The portion of 
 Scripture read before and after meals, if it was in 
 the Old Testament, was read in Hebrew — for he 
 was the first man that brought the knowledge of 
 the Hebrew tongue to Scotland, and taught some 
 of his children to read it when they were foure or 
 fyve years of age ; if it was in the New Testament, 
 it was read in these — Greek, Latin, French, and 
 English. He was, by the General Assemblle, 
 made superintendent of Galloway. He died but a 
 young man, A.D. 1580, Oct. 16, in the 54th year of 
 his age." 
 
 A history of his life, after he became minister of 
 Perth, as Mr Scott justly remarks in his Lives of 
 the Reformers, would include the whole history of 
 the Church of Scotland down to the time of his 
 death. He was almost constantly a Commissioner 
 to the General Assembly, was at least four times 
 
16S PERTH. 
 
 chosen their Moderator — and being a member of 
 their principal committees, no ecclesiastical business 
 of any great consequence seems to have been 
 managed without him. He was one of the six 
 ministers to whom, in 1560, the Lords of the Con- 
 gresration save a solemn charoje " to committ to 
 writing in ane buik their judgments touching the 
 Eeformation of religion." Consequently, he was 
 one of the compilers of those standards of the 
 Church, the Old Confessions of Faith and the First 
 Book of Discipline. Mr Kow left a family of six 
 sons and two daughters. Five of his sons were 
 ministers, viz., James, at Kilspindie ; William, at 
 Forgandenny ; Archibald, at Stobo ; Colin, at St 
 Quivox ; and John, at Carnock. The last named 
 was father of the famous Mr John Eow, Principal 
 of King's College, Aberdeen, and writer of the 
 history which bears his name. Of Mr Row's two 
 daughters, the eldest, Catherine, was married to 
 Mr William Eig, a rich merchant in Edinbro, " of 
 whom," says the historian, " came a numerous off- 
 spring, and posteritie of many rich people." The 
 other, Mary, was married to Mr James Eind, 
 minister of Longforgan, son of William Eind, first 
 Protestant minister of KinnouU. There is an 
 niiecdote recorded concerning him, which is in- 
 teresting, as throwing light on the circumstances 
 of the family, and manifesting the humble yet 
 confident reliance of the dying father on the 
 guardian care of the AU-bountiful Provider. It is 
 this— 
 
 '^ There was one passage remarkable in the tyme 
 of his sickness, a little before his death. The 
 
PERTH. 167 
 
 master of the gramer scule, commonlie callit 
 Dominie Rynd, cam to visit him, and said, * Sir, 
 ye hae monie small bairns, and alas! yee hae little 
 or noe gear to leave them : what will become of 
 themf — I fear they beg through the countrie. 
 Sir, yee have not been careful to gather gear to 
 them as yee micht, both at Rome and since ye 
 cam to Scotland.' Mr John Row turninir him to 
 the wall, lay silent a pretty space, pouring out his 
 soul to God. Thereafter, turning himself, he says 
 — ^Dominie, I have been thinking on that yee 
 wes saying to me. I will not justifie myself, nor 
 say I have been careful eneuch to gather gear to 
 ray bairnes. I think I micht, and ought to have 
 clone more that way than I have done. But, 
 Dominie, I have laid over my bairnes upon God, 
 and the weil ordered covenant, for we must lippen 
 much to the auld charter ' Providehit Dominus' 
 But, Dominie, let me tyme about speak to you. 
 Yee have but ae son, and yee have great riches to 
 give him ; and ye mak a god of your gear ; and 
 yee think who but your onlie son — my son, say 
 yee, he will have enough. But, Dominie, it fears 
 me ye have little credit, and farre less comfort be 
 him. Yea, it may be that when my bairns, whom 
 I have laid ower upon God's gracious and all- 
 isufficient Providence, may have competencie in the 
 world, your son may have much mister, and be 
 beholden to some of mine, for ^ It is God's blessing 
 that mikcth rich.' And the event did speak 
 the fulfilling of this prophesie of the dying servant 
 of Jesus Christ, for Mr Row's family were all well 
 provydit for ; and Dominie Ry nd, his onlie rich 
 
168 PERTH. 
 
 heir, he wes minister of Dron, and wes a vcri^? 
 prophane and dissolute man; given to drmiken- 
 Bess and manie evil vices, so that he became verie 
 poore ; and in his own tyme, for povertie, was 
 forced to sell his bookes to Mr Johne Kow, the 
 schoolmaster of Perth, son to Mr John Kow, minis- 
 ter at Carnock, and gi-andson to him w4io uttered 
 the prophesie ; and after his death, his wife, for 
 povertie, turned ane gangrell poore woman, selling 
 some small wares, and often was refreshed with 
 meat and drink in the house of one of Mr John 
 Row, minister at Carnock, his sonnes, minister of 
 Seires, in Fife." (Row*s History, p. 457). 
 
 In accordance with the common belief of the 
 period, the saying of the dying minister is called 
 a prophecy. But it did not require a prophet tc> 
 fortell either that vice and drunkenness will bring 
 a family to poverty, or that God will provide for 
 the children of his servants who put their trust in 
 Him. The story is but another fulfilment of the 
 gracious promise — " Leave thy fatherless children^ 
 I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows 
 trust in me." 
 
 Mr Row died, as above stated, on the 16th of 
 October, 1580. 
 
 Mr Patrick Galloway was called to be 
 minister of Perth, in the room of Mr John Eow^ 
 on the 14th November, 1580, and " transportit'*' 
 thither by the General Assembly, which met in 
 Glasgow in the month of April following (B.U.K.) 
 He was a man of much ability, and soon rose to» 
 great influence in the management of ecclesiastical 
 affairs. In 1582, he took an active part in the 
 
PERTH. 169 
 
 proceedipgs against the notorious Montgomerj, 
 in consequence of which he incurred the Royal 
 displeasure ; and the King coming to Perth soon 
 after, Caldervvood says, " The Duke of Lennox 
 procured that Mr Patrik Galloway, minister at 
 Perth, should be discharged the pulpit and town of 
 Perth so long as the King was in the toun. But 
 he said he wold not remove till his flock removed 
 him, and wold present himself to the pulpit till 
 they discharged him. He removed to Kinnowle." 
 In 1583, he was married to Miss Martha Guthry, 
 as appears from the following curious extract from 
 the Session Register of l^erth : — 
 
 "April 21, I583~Whilk day, Mr William 
 Rynd, minister at Kinnoull, and the eiders being 
 present, compeared Mr Patrick Galloway, minister 
 at Perth, and Matty Guthry, and desyre their 
 banns to be proclaimed. Cautioner for him, John 
 Peebles ; for her, Oliver Peebles. Term of mar- 
 riage, Midsummer." 
 
 In the year following, by his attachment to the 
 unfortunate William, first Earl of Gowrie (who was 
 executed at Stirling, for the part which he took in 
 the famous Raid of Ruthven), Mr Galloway again 
 gave great offence to the Court party, and had. in 
 consequence, to flee into England. Mr John 
 Tlowyson, minister at Cambuslang, was appointed 
 minister at Perth, pro tempore, in November, 1584: 
 but Mr Galloway havingregained the Royal favour, 
 returned and resumed his duties in November, 
 1585. In 1589, by appointment of the General 
 Assembly, Mr Galloway left his charge in Perth, 
 to be chaplain to his Majesty^ then on the eve of 
 
170 PERTH. 
 
 his marriage with the Princess Anne of Denmark. 
 Calderwood briefly says, " The King wold needis 
 have Mr Patrik Galloway to be his minister." 
 He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 
 1590, and again in 1602. (See B.U.K.), And 
 having been completely gained over by the Court 
 party (Calderwood calls him " a man of many 
 pensions"), he used all his influence in forwarding 
 the views of the King for the introduction of 
 Episcopacy. 
 
 Mr John Malcolm, Principal of St Leonard's 
 College, St Andrews, succeeded Mr Galloway as 
 minister of Perth. He was inducted on the 4th of 
 November, 1591, and seems then to have been a 
 man considerably advanced in life. He soon rose 
 to an influential position in the councils of the 
 Church, and, in ±^-92, was appointed one of a de- 
 putation to wait upon the King, to represent unto 
 his Majesty " the daily decay of religion, the dis- 
 order and laike of justice within this realm, and to 
 crave his duty, as he should answer to God, what 
 could be done for remeid thereof." (B. IT. K.) 
 He took an active part in getting up " the Protes- 
 tation given in to the Parliament, holdin at Perth 
 in the beginning of July, 160G. Calderwood says, 
 "The Brethrien Commissioners from Presbyterie 
 furth of all parts of the i-ealme, convened orderlie 
 in Mr John Malcolme's, who was one of the minis- 
 ters of Perth, an upright-hearted man, who inter- 
 teaned agieat number of them, when the tomi wa» 
 throng, upon his owne expences." He was selected 
 by his brethren t<) act as their leader in opposing 
 Prelatical innovations,, at a meeting of the Synod 
 
PERTH. 171 
 
 of Fife in IGIO. Row says, "The brethren befor- 
 hand met, and cholsed Mr John Malcolm, minister 
 at Perth (being the agedest of those that was 
 known to love the cause of GodJ, to speak in their 
 name agains any Prelatical usurpations that suld 
 that day appear ; and if the Bishop wold not suffer 
 them, according to the good old form of the Kirk 
 of Scotland, to choice their Moderator, his order 
 was to rise and remove, and all the mmisters 
 obliged themselves to follow him. But Mr John 
 Malcolm (who had not a brow for that bargain), 
 was dissuaded by his colleague, Mr William Cow- 
 per. Mr Cowper seems to have obtained con- 
 siderable influence over his aged colleague, and to 
 have induced him greatly to modify his opposition 
 to the Episcopal party in the Church. Thus he 
 consented to be nominated by the Archbishop on 
 the Privy Conference at the memorable Perth 
 Assembly in 1618, and seems to have concurred in 
 the obnoxious Five Articles. The following ex- 
 tract on this subject is from the Records of the 
 Kirk-session of Perth : — 
 
 "Die jovis vicesimo quinto Martii, 1619 — Pre- 
 sent, ^Ir John Malcolm and Mr John Guthry, 
 ministers ; the elders and other members of the 
 Session present. Proposition being made if they 
 will agree and consent that the Lord's Supper be 
 celebrated at this burgh, conform to the prescrip- 
 tion of the Act of the General Assembly made 
 thereanent, last holden at Perth, or not — viz., that 
 the ministers give the bread and wine with their 
 own hands to the communicants ; and that they be 
 humbled on their knees, and reverently receive it. 
 
172 PERTH. 
 
 And, being voted, all agree tliat the celebration 
 thereof be made according to the said Act." 
 ~ It appears, however, from the same Record, that 
 Mr Malcolm, in March 13, 1615, stood alone in 
 opposing a resolution of " Mr Cowper, and the hail 
 elders present," to celebrate the communion on the 
 9th of i\pril, "alleging that a celebration thereof 
 on the said 9th of April, which is Pasch Sunday, 
 is contrary to the Acts of Assembly made there- 
 anent." From the Eecords of Presbytery, vre 
 iind that, in October 18, 1626, Mr Malcolm mis 
 appointed permanent Moderator of the Presbytery 
 of Perth ; and from that date mitil a short time 
 before his death, he continued, when the Bishop of 
 l^unkeld was not present, to preside at the meet- 
 ings of that reverend Court. The following is the 
 minute referred to :— - 
 
 "' Whllk day, the brethrein present at the As- 
 semblie in St Andrews last reports, that Mr John 
 Malcolme, minister at Perth, was nominant and 
 appoynted Moderator of the Presbytery of Perth 
 be the Archbishop. To which appoyntment all the 
 brethrein of the Presby terie present most willingly 
 consented, and urged him to accept." 
 
 Mr Malcolm was a scholar and theologian, and 
 has left a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, 
 in Latin, which was published at Magdeburg in 
 1615, and was held in great estimation by his 
 learned contemporaries. Calderwood has the fol- 
 lowing reference to it in his history : — 
 
 "Upon Tuysday, the 8th of August, 1615, Mr 
 Spottiswood, Archbishop of St Andrews, held a 
 Court of High Commission. Mr John Malcolm, 
 
PERTH. 175 
 
 miaister at Perth, a grave, godlie, and learned man, 
 was cited to compear before them for his Epistle 
 Dedicatorie prefixed to his Commentarie of the 
 Acts of the Apostles ; wherewith not onlie they 
 themselves, but also the King — howbeit the buke 
 was dedicatit to the King — was offendit, as thev 
 alledgit." 
 
 Mr Malcolm having explained, no farther steps 
 were taken in the matter. From the Records of 
 the Kirk-session, many curious extracts might be 
 quoted to show how zealously and minutely the 
 discipline of the Church was exercised at that 
 period. Let the following suffice : — 
 
 " October 16, 1615. — For as meikle as Mr John 
 Malcolm, minister, declared before the Session 
 that, upon the last Sabbath, immediately after 
 eight hours, he perceived Gilbert Henderson and 
 John Lamb, skinners, convoying a stranger with a 
 horsepack of skins to the Inch Port, and that they 
 got passage thereat. Therefore, the Session ordeen 
 the said Gilbert Henderson and John Lamb, as 
 also William Craig, porter at the said Port, to be 
 cited to appear before them the morrow, immedi- 
 ately after the sermon, to be censured for their 
 profaning of the said Sabbath." 
 
 Again, there is a resolution of Session of date 
 January 24, 1593, to the following effect : — 
 
 " Forasmeikle as sundry, baith men and women, 
 in the forenoon, rise up at the clap of eleven hours, 
 and depart away without the blessing, or giving 
 thanks unto God ; therefore, for staying and re- 
 pressing of this great enormity in all time coming, 
 which is very slanderous, the minister and elders 
 
174 PERTff. 
 
 ordeen the visitors, both bailies and elders, to keep 
 baith the kirk doors, and suffer none to depart out 
 of the kirk before the blessing, except they be sick 
 or evil at ease." 
 
 Another minute shows that the Kirk-session in 
 those days, as now, had a laudable desire that the 
 psalmody of the church should be efficiently and 
 properly conducted. It is as follows : — " Ordeens 
 Johnne Swinton, firsts to keep the tenor in the 
 psalm, and, secondly, to help and susteen his bairn, 
 under pain of deprivation of his office." 
 
 Mr Malcolm died at Perth on the 3d Oct., 1634, 
 in the forty-third year of his ministry. His age is 
 not known, but he must have been very old ; for, 
 in speaking of him at the Synod of Fife in 1610 — 
 that is, twenty-four years before his death — Calder- 
 wood calls him '' ane aged father;" and Row, " the 
 agedest of those who was knowen to love the cause 
 of God." 
 
 Mr William Cowpar, or Coupar, formerly 
 minister at Bothkennar, in the Presbytery of Stir- 
 ling, was admitted colleague to Mr John Malcolm, 
 on the 23d day of June, 1595. From the Refor- 
 mation down to the date of his admission, being a 
 period of thirty-five years, Perth had only one 
 minister; but the Commission of the General 
 Assembly having recommended the transportation 
 of Mr Cowpar, he was received and admitted 
 accordingly, as appears from the following minute 
 of Kirk-session : — 
 
 " June 23d, 1595 — Whilk day the Session being 
 convened, all in one voice, after sundrie and divers 
 tymes hearing of Mr WilLara Cowpar, nominate 
 
PERTH. 175 
 
 by the Commissioners of the General Assembly, 
 Synod, and Presb^^tery of Perth, has allowed of 
 his doctrine, and, at his retm'ning, shall accept of 
 him as their minister, and a fellow-labourer with 
 Mr John Malcolm, their present minister." 
 
 Mr Cowpar being a man of an aspiring temper, 
 and great eloquence and ability, soon distinguished 
 himself in the discussions which agitated the 
 Church at that unhappy period. In 1597 — that 
 is only two years after his induction — we find him 
 named one of the Commissioners appointed to 
 consider certain articles proponed to the General 
 Assembly by the King, and to report thereon to 
 the next Assembly (B.U.K.) The same year he 
 was appointed a member of the first General Com- 
 mission, nominated to confer with the King on 
 ecclesiastical matters — his Majesty finding it more 
 easy to deal with a select few than to get the mea- 
 sures on which he had set his heart openly carried 
 in the General Assembly. Calderwood says — 
 This Commission was appointed ^ under colour to 
 keep concord betwixt the Church and the King ;' 
 *but in effect to put in execution the articles 
 already yielded to, to the grief of the graver sort.' 
 ^ They would rule all, both in and out of the 
 General Assemblies, as the King pleased. So the 
 Commissioners were as a wedge takin out of the 
 Kirk to rent her with her awne forces, and the 
 very needle which drew in the thread of Bishops.' " 
 Their frequent residence at Court, and free access 
 at all times to the King, seemed to have had a 
 considerable influence on their opinions regarding 
 the mutters then in dispute between the Assembly 
 
176 PERTH. 
 
 and his Majesty ; so that, as the same historian 
 says — " They begaune soone to change their man- 
 ners " This change was very marked in the case 
 of Mr Cowpar. Up till this period he was a zeal- 
 ous Presbyterian, but thenceforward we find him 
 giving all his influence to the Court party. He 
 was sent by the King to deal with the famous 
 Andrew Melville, when a prisoner in the Tower, 
 with a view to prevail on that resolute reformer to 
 acknowledge his oifence, and cast himself on the 
 royal clemency. But the historian says — " He 
 effectuated little." He was present at the Assem- 
 bly at Linlithgow, and at the Golden Assembly 
 at Glasgow in 1610. The year following, at a 
 meeting of the Diocesan Synod, he gave in a bill 
 craving transportation, on the ground that " the 
 town of Perth was not beneficial to him ;" but his 
 opponents alleged that he was aiming to be made 
 a Bishop, and wished to be translated from Perth 
 to St Andrews, that his ministry there might be a 
 step to the Bishopric. If this was his design, be 
 was not long in succeeding, for the year following 
 he was made Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the 
 Chapel-royal at Holyrood, and solemnly conse- 
 crated to the former office in the Cathedral Church 
 of Glasgow on the 4th October, 1612. He did uot 
 resio-n his charge at Perth, however, before the 
 23d October, 1615, as appears from the following 
 minute of Session of that date : — 
 
 "Compeared Alexander, Bishop of Dunkeld, 
 and George, Bishop of Orkney, declaring that they 
 had commission of the Archbishop of St Andrews 
 to intimate to the Council and Session of Pertii, 
 
PERTH. 177 
 
 that William, Bishop of Galloway, by occasion of 
 the affairs of the office of his Bishopric, might not 
 serve the cure of minister any longer at this burgh, 
 desiring them, therefore, to give some persons iii 
 leet to make choice of to supply his room — w^ierc- 
 unto the Session answered that they were grieved 
 at their hearts for his transportation, and that 
 they hoped he should return again to occupy his 
 own place, and in expectations thereof, they would 
 not give any persons in leet." 
 
 His elevation to the Episcopal dignity gave 
 great offence to his Presbyterian contemporaries, 
 who did not allow him to forget the speeches and 
 letters of his earlier years. The celebrated Hume 
 of Godscroft addressed to him " Ane Admontorie 
 Letter " on the inconsistency of his conduct. The 
 Bishop replied by a treatise published at London 
 in 1614, in which he gave as a reason for his 
 <3hange of views, that he had got more light upon 
 the subject, which led one of his opponents to re- 
 mark — " Well, that is true — for row he has upon 
 his table two great candles, whereas before he had 
 only one small candle. Other more licht he has 
 got, I ken none." As might be expected, his 
 character is very differently estimated by the histo- 
 rians of the period. Episcopal writers speak of 
 him as eminently pious, learned, and eloquent. 
 Keith says — "He was certainly a man of great 
 worth." On the other hand, Eow says — " He was 
 a proud ambitious man, glorieing in his gifts whilk 
 he had received, for he was an eloquent man, and 
 had some dexterous conceptions ;" and Calderwood 
 describes him as " a man filled with self-conceit, 
 
178 PERTH. 
 
 and Impatient of any contradiction — more vehe- 
 ment in the wrong course than ever he was in the 
 richt, wherein he once seemed to be fervent 
 eneuch." He charges him with a great many 
 delinquencies and offences in the exercise of his 
 Episcopal functions, and sums up the catalogue thus 
 — " And he had died sleeping, if, by the advice of 
 some phisicians, he had not been wakenned." Row 
 has the following anecdote concerning him — " He 
 dreamed that he was a lame jug (pitcher), and that 
 a golden hammer lighted on him, and brok him all 
 to pieces. This was when he was standing for the 
 truth. Having communicated his dream to a brother, 
 he expounds to him his dream, saying — ' Brother, 
 beware that the golden hammer of a Bishoprick 
 break not you and your profession Into shivers, 
 for, if it fall out so, it will be said — Malleus en 
 fragilem confregerat aureus urnam." That Is — 
 
 ** The golden hammer broke the brittle kaii — 
 The Bishopric in pieces dasht the man. " 
 
 Mr John Guthry succeeded Bishop Cowpar 
 as colleague to Mr John Malcolm. His name ap- 
 pears on the roll of members present at the Glas- 
 gow Assembly in 1610, as one of the Commis- 
 sioners from the Presbytery of Arbroath. There 
 seems to have been some difficulty in obtaining the 
 concurrence of the Town Council in his settlement; 
 who, as appears from the minute of Session 
 formerly quoted, continued to cherish the hope 
 that their favourite minister, Mr Cowpar, might 
 be induced to return to them. This Is still further 
 evident, from another minute, of date October 1, 
 161G— 
 
PERTH. 179 
 
 "Forasmeikle as Mr John Malcolm, minister, 
 d43clared that Tuesday instant, immediately after 
 the preaching, was appointed by the Council to 
 convene in the Council House with the Session, 
 and to intercommune anent the accepting or refus- 
 ing of Mr John Guthry to be minister at Perth, in 
 place of the Bishop of Galloway, and in respect that 
 the Council convened not, the minister protests as 
 effeirs." 
 
 And again, October 3—" The ministers and 
 elders being convened this day, declared that they 
 are ready to give answer, for their part, to the 
 Bishop of St Andrews, anent Mr John Guthry, re- 
 commended to be minister here, in place of the 
 Bishop of Galloway, and that the Council were not 
 convened for that effect, and protested as effeirs." 
 
 Whether the Council afterwards concurred or 
 not does not appear ; but Mr Guthry was inducted 
 on the 20th day of February, 1617. He gave all 
 his influence to forward the innovations introduced 
 by the King in regard to Church Government and 
 the form of worship. He was one of the ministers 
 known to be '' already resolved to yield," who were 
 appointed members of the Privy Conference at the 
 Perth Assembly in 1618; and the year following, 
 he was made a member of the Court of High Com- 
 mission on ecclesiastical affairs. His zeal and 
 talents soon brought him under the notice of the 
 party in power, and steps were immediately taken 
 to secure his promotion. Mr Guthry, however, 
 seems to have been quite contented with his posi- 
 tion as minister of Perth, and desirous of coptyjuiBg 
 there. In the end of 1619, he was orderfe^;,,!^^ 
 
180 PERTH. 
 
 royal missivej to preach before the King in Edin- 
 burgh, and having excused himself, he was sum- 
 moned to appear before the High Commission to 
 answer for his disobedience. The Town Council 
 appointed a deputation to accompany him, and " to 
 show to the Commission that he may not be trans- 
 ported from this kirk of Perth, without the great 
 hurt and decay thereof." The Presbytery also 
 " ordeened a letter to be directed, in their name, 
 to the Lords of the High Commission, showing 
 how necessar it is that the said Mr John continue 
 in his present ministry, and how prejudicial the 
 transportation (which God forbid) might be to the 
 Weill of the kirk in these bounds, and, in all 
 humility, to beseech their Lordships to desist from 
 that course." Further, they wrote to the General 
 Assembly, " desiring most earnestlie that Mr John 
 Guthry be not transported from Perth to Edin- 
 burgh." Their opposition, however, was ineffectual, 
 and Mr Guthry, soon after, much, it would seem, 
 against his own wish, was translated. At a meet- 
 ing of Session, on the 12th of June, 1621, he re- 
 presented — 
 
 " That by the space of a year and a~half bypast, 
 he has been urged with letters directed by his 
 Majesty, and other letters from the Archbishop of 
 St Andrews, and Commissioners of Edinburgh, and 
 with letters of horning, to transport himself to 
 Edinburgh to be actual minister there ; so that, 
 now if he defers any longer to obey his Highness' 
 letters, he dreads that it shall turn to ill, both to 
 him and to the town, and asked their advice how it 
 might be prevented. Whereunto they gave no 
 
PEKTH. 1^1 
 
 •otlier answer, but utterly dissented to his trans- 
 portation; yet lie showed them that he meant to 
 ride again ward to Edinburgh immediately." 
 
 He had bean but a short time in his new charge 
 when he "^vas promoted to a higher office. Row 
 says — " In the month of November, 1 623, Mr John 
 Guthrie, who had been but two years minister of 
 Edinburgh, after his transportation from Perth, 
 was made Bishop of Moray, and instantlic removed 
 from Edinburgh, and went and maid his residence 
 in Moray." He seems to have resided in his Dio- 
 cese, and to have discharged its duties with 
 prudence and moderation until the re-establishment 
 of Presbytery in 1638, w^hen he was " deposed of 
 ail functions, whether of pretended Episcopal or 
 ministerial calling," but not excommunicated, as 
 most of the other bishops w^ere. Keith says — 
 " He was a venerable, worthy, and hospitable Pre- 
 late." After his deprivation he returned to his own 
 estate of Guthry, in Angus, where he died. 
 
 Mr John Robertson succeeded Mr Guthry 
 as second minister of Perth, and colleague to Mr 
 John Malcolm. A minute of Kirk-session, of date 
 January 29th, 1622, bears that " Mr John Mal- 
 colm having asked if they be contented to have 
 Mr John Robertson to be second minister, they all 
 answered in one voice that they are well pleased 
 with him." And the steps afterwards taken to- 
 wards his settlement may be quoted as an example 
 of the form of procedure then followed in the ad- 
 mission of ministers. The Council having made 
 choice of Mr Robertson, their next step was to ask 
 the Presbytery to recommend him to tlie Arch- 
 
282 PERTH. 
 
 bishop of St Andrews, as prescribed by an Act of 
 Glasgow Assembly, in 1610, which required that 
 the ministers of the bounds where the person to be 
 admitted was to serve, " should certifie by their 
 testificate unto the Bishop, of the party suitor, of 
 Ills conversation past, and abilitie and qualification 
 for the functione ; and upon the return of their 
 testificat, the Bishop is to make further tryall, and 
 finding him qualified, and being assisted by some 
 such of the ministrle of the bounds wherein he is 
 to serve, as he will assume to himself, he is then 
 to perfyte the whole act of ordination." Accord- 
 ingly, a minute of Presbytery, of date the 6th 
 February, 1622, is as follows: — 
 
 " Whilk day compearit Andro Gray, Dane of 
 Guild, Henrie Elder, clerk, and divers others of 
 the Council, Deacons of Crafts, and honest men of 
 the Burgh of Perth, and declarit that the Sessione 
 of the Kirk, and the haille town, with ane uniform 
 consent, desyred Mr John Robertsone to be their 
 second minister; and therefore they request the 
 Presbytery to send ane letter of recommendation, 
 in favour of the said Mr John Robertson, to my 
 Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, that the said Mr 
 John may be admitted their minister. Whilk re- 
 quest as reasonable is granted." 
 
 At a subsequent meeting, a letter was received 
 from the Archbishop intimating his consent, and 
 authorising the Bishop of Dunkeld, as his Commis- 
 sioner (who was minister of St Madoes, and con- 
 stant Moderator of the Presbytery of Perth), to 
 admit Mr Robertson. And on the 6th of March 
 following ; — 
 
PERTH. 183 
 
 *' My Lord Bishop of Dunkeld reported that 
 Mr John Robertson was ordeynit minister at Perth 
 <m Sunday last, the 3d day of Marche instant ; 
 ^nd was solemnlie receivit with ane uniform con- 
 ■sent of the haile commimitie." 
 • Mr R, took an active part in the business of the 
 Presbytery, and his name very frequently appears 
 on the minutes. By the death of Mr John Mal- 
 <)olm on the 3d of October, 1634, he became senior 
 minister, and on the 25th of April, 1635, he was 
 appointed, by my Lord Archbishop of St Andrews, 
 permanent Moderator in room of Mr Ninian 
 Drummond, of Kinnoull. Though apparently a 
 man of temperate views, he united cordially with 
 the rest of his brethren in tlie Presbytery in resist- 
 ing the arbitrary proceedings of the Prelatical 
 party then in power, and the attempted introduc- 
 tion of Laud's Liturgy. On the i3th Septemb^ir, 
 1637, the Record of Presbytery says: — 
 
 *^ It is appointed that the brethren shall give in 
 a supplication unto the Lords of Secret Council, 
 the next Council day, against the service book. 
 Mr John Robertson and Mr Robert Murray to be 
 penners of the supplication.^ 
 
 Along with other members of Presbyteiy, hi', 
 ■subscribed the Solemn Leao;ue and Covenant in 
 March, 1638 ; and on the 29th of August follow- 
 ing, he was the first to bind himself by a solemn 
 oath, " that he had not been, and suld not be cor- 
 rupted to do anything prejudicial to the freedom 
 of the General Asscmblie, or to the Covenant." 
 On the 26th September, 1638, the Presbytery met 
 for the purpose of choosing their Commissioners to 
 
184 PEETH. 
 
 the memorable Assembly appointed to meet m 
 Glasgow, on the 2Ist November following. That 
 meeting of Presbytery was remarkable as the first 
 for many years at which representative ruling 
 ciders, from Kirk-sessions, had been permitted t(>' 
 take part in the proceedings. The minute maybe 
 ?|uoted for the purpose of shovnng the influential 
 character of the representatives sent from the 
 several parishes on that occasion — 
 
 " Whilk day compearit the ger/tlemen ruling 
 elders of everie Session within the Presbytery^ 
 being advertised that same day to compear for 
 choosing of Commissioners for the General As- 
 semblie, to be holden at Glasguhay the 21st of 
 November of this instant. Ther names foUowi?^ 
 according to the catalog of the buk of the Presby- 
 terie : — Perth — Thomas Blair of Tai^appie ; Kin- 
 noull — Sir Thomas Bkir of Balthayock ; Scone — 
 Henrie Mitchell of Kincarathie , St Martins — 
 Patrick Inglis of Byers ; Collace — George Brown, 
 .m Collace ; Kibpindie — Robert Hunter (?), in 
 i)ver Fingask ; Errol — Patrick Hay of I^eys ; 
 Kinfauns — Thomas Moncur, in Seggieden ; Eynd 
 — The Erie of Weemys > Abernethie — Davi^ 
 Carmichael of Balmeddie; Arnegoske — Andrew 
 Morray, in Fosterseat ; Drone — George Duncan^, 
 ill Pitnamoon ; Dunbarnie — Sir John Moncrieffe 
 of that Ilk ; Forgandennie —Sir Thomas Ruthvert 
 of Freeland ; Forteviot — David Drummond of In- 
 vermay ; Aberdagie — William Keir, iu Wood^ 
 head; Tibbermuir — George Bruce of Colpmalun- 
 die ; Methven — Henry Moncrieff of Tibbermalloch; 
 Kedgorton — John Graham of Balgown. Thk 
 
PERTH. 185 
 
 tuling elders above wrytten (with the exception of 
 the Erie of Weemys and Colpmalundie not pre- 
 sent), concurring with the brethrein of the Pres- 
 foyterie, by free election^ made choice of Mr John 
 Kobertson, Mr Robert Murray (of Methven), and 
 Mr Alexander Petrie (of Rhynd, the historian), in 
 name of the ministers ; and of the Erie of Weemys 
 in name of the ruling elders, to be -Commissioners 
 for the General Assemblies" 
 
 Mr Robertson accordingly attended the Glasgow 
 Assembly as one of the Commissioners from the 
 Presbytery of Perth, and took part iu the pro- 
 ceedings of that memorable meeting. But tempo- 
 rizing or middle measm-es did not suit the spirit of 
 •those trying times ; and by endeavouring to hold 
 correspondence with both parties, probably with a 
 view to conciliate them, Mr Robertson soon after- 
 wards Sfot himself into serious trouble. The 
 celebrated Marquis of Montrose, having, by one of 
 his dashing attacks, routed the Covenanters under 
 Lord Elcho, at Tibbermore, on the 1st of Sep- 
 tember, 1644 — where it was said the burghers of 
 Perth " had neither the courage to fight nor the 
 sense to run away " — took possssion of the city ; 
 and Mr Robertson having had an interview with 
 the gallant Maiv^uis, was brought befsre the Church 
 Courts for " conversing with a traitor then lying 
 ?mder sentence of excommunication." His defence 
 is not recorded ; but there is a letter extant from 
 the ministers of the town (of which he was pro- 
 bably the writer), explaining why the gates of the 
 oity were thrown open to the victorious rebels. 
 Some of these reasons are rather curious. For 
 
186 PEETH. 
 
 example, it is stated that, of Lord Elcho's army, 
 only twelve Fife men offered themselves for the 
 defence of the town, most of whom were drunk. 
 Secondly, that the citizens had hid themselves in 
 cellars and vaults ; and when urged by the Provost 
 to come out, they declared, " that their hearts were 
 away, and that they could iight no more though 
 they should be killed." Thirdly, " that they had 
 no means of defence, as the citizens had all flung 
 away their arms in their flight from Tippermuir." 
 Fourthly, " that the Highlanders and wild Irish, 
 like so many hell-hounds were drawn up before the 
 gates, reeking from the recent battle, and demand- 
 ing, with hideous cries, to be led to further 
 slaughter." In these circumstances, the magis- 
 trates and ministers were perhaps not greatly to 
 blame for agreeing to a capitulation, in order to 
 save the town from the horrors of a storm. But 
 those in power thought otherwise. Mr Robertson 
 and his colleague, Mr George Hallyburton, were 
 summoned to appear before the Assembly, which 
 met in Edinburgh, on 23d January, 1645, who, 
 after hearing evidence, deposed Mr Hallybuton 
 (of whom hereafter), and suspended Mr Robert- 
 son from the exercise of his ministerial functions, 
 referring his case to the Commission for further 
 trial and censure. (Records of the Kirk, p. 433.) 
 It would appear that Mr Robertson was deposed 
 by the Commission, for he was restored to his 
 ministerial status by the Synod of Perth and 
 Stirling, on the 11th of October, 1654, But the 
 General Assembly, in 1645, having passed an 
 Act " that no minister deposed shoidd be restored 
 
PERTH. 187 
 
 again into that place where formerly he served," 
 although Mr Robertson continued to reside in 
 Perth as a private individual, he never again exer- 
 cised his ministry there. The date of his death is 
 not known. The following minutes of Presbytery 
 may be quoted as illustrative of the confusion and 
 alarm which prevailed in the district at the time 
 when Mr Robertson was guilty of his alleged 
 offence. It will be remembered that the battle of 
 Tibbermore was fought on the 1st September : — 
 
 "At Perth, 28th August, 1644.— No exercise ; 
 be reason that, quhan they were about to have 
 exercise, present report was brought of the inva- 
 sion of the Irish rebells." 
 
 "At Perth, the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th Sep- 
 tember, 1644. — No exercise nor meeting of the 
 brethrein, because of the present trouble, and 
 gathering and passing through of armies in pursuit 
 of the Irish rebells to the north." 
 
 Mr Joseph Lawrie was translated from Stir- 
 ling, and admitted second minister of Perth in 
 February, 1635 — Mr John Robertson having, by 
 the death of Mr John Malcolm, become senior 
 minister. At the time of his admission, the Bishops 
 had gradually come to exercise their Episcopal 
 jurisdiction in a very summary manner — ordaining 
 and admitting ministers, on their own authority — 
 with small regard either to the judgment of the 
 Presbyteries, or the wishes of the congregations of 
 the Church. This seems to have been the case, in 
 an especial manner, at the admission of Mr Lawrie, 
 for the following curt allusion contains all that is 
 recorded anent the process of his tranelation : — 
 
IBS PERTH* 
 
 "At Perth, the fourth of May, 1635— Mr 
 Ninian Drummoncl, Moderator. (The former days, 
 there was no exercise or meeting because of the 
 great storm of snow, the lyke not seen m any 
 man's remembrance living at this present.) Whilk 
 day ther was no exercise nor addition, because 
 those who were appointed were not present. Not- 
 withstanding, the brethren who were present, did 
 convene within the revestrie of the ParochKirk — to 
 witt, Messrs John Robertson, Joseph Lawrie, 
 minister of Perth, the said Mr Joseph being 
 accepted before, be commission of the Archbishop 
 of St Andrews, Mr David Weemys," &c. 
 
 But though thus summarily admitted, Mr Lawrie 
 concurred with the rest of his brethren in aiding 
 the movement which soon after resulted in the 
 subversion of Prelacy, and the re-establishment of 
 Presbytery as the national form of Church Govern- 
 ment. On the 29th April, 1638, he took the oath 
 against " Budds and Bryberie " — declaring that he 
 neither was, nor would be, corrupted to do anything 
 prejudicial to the freedom of the General Assembly 
 about to be held, nor to the Solemn League and 
 Covenant. On the 7th November, 1638, he had 
 the honour to be the first who was chosen Moderator 
 by the votes of his brethren under the new system ; 
 up till which time his colleague, Mr Robertson, had 
 sat as permanent Moderator, by appointment of 
 the Archbishop. A minute of that date bears- — 
 
 " This day also the Moderator was chosen, The 
 names of those that wer in leet wer Mr John 
 Robertson, Mr Joseph Lawrie, and Mr David 
 Weemys. Mr Joseph Lawrie chosen." 
 
PERTH. 18? 
 
 He continued to act as Moderator until the 26th 
 June, 1639, when Mr John Eobertson was elected. 
 His name appears for the last time on the Record 
 at a meeting for Privy censure, on the 8th April, 
 1640. A minute, of which date, bears that Mr 
 John Robertson, being removed, there was made 
 some scruple of the inequalitie of the ministers of 
 Perth. Mr John Robertson recalled, made de- 
 claration that there was no inequalitie betwixt 
 them ; and when mention was made of a band^ 
 subscribed by Mr Joseph Lawrie, in presence of 
 the Bishop of St Andrews, before his admission to 
 the Kirk, Mr John answered, that by virtue of the 
 Act of the Assembly at Glasgow, he acknowledged 
 all such tyes to be disanuUed — and now in all 
 points they were Pares in libertie of exercising 
 their ministrie, both in Doctrine and Discipline. 
 Mr Lawrie died in July, 1640. 
 
 Mr Robert Laurie, son of the forgoing, suc- 
 ceeded his father as colleague to Mr John Robert- 
 son. He was ordained and admitted one of the 
 ministers of Perth on the 4th day of August, 1641. 
 The first notice we find of him in the Record is, 
 that he passed through several steps of his trials 
 before the Presbytery in the latter part of the year 
 1638, and on the 7th November of that year, was 
 appointed Clerk of Presbytery, in the room of Mr 
 Patrick Rhynd, minister of Dron, which office he 
 held until the 3d February, 1641, as appears from 
 tha following minute of that date : — 
 
 " Compeared Thomas Durham, bailie, and David 
 Grant, with commission from the Council of Perth, 
 declaring that they had made choice of ]\Ir Robert 
 
190 PERTH. 
 
 Lawry to be their minister, and desyring the 
 Presbyterie to try him. The brethrein agreed to 
 their desyre, and appointed Mr Robert to add to 
 the exercise the next day The Pres- 
 byterie, after making a leet of two, made choice of 
 Mr Alexander Balneavis (minister of Tibbermore) 
 to be clerk to the Presbyterie henceforth." 
 
 Soon after his induction, an inquiry was insti- 
 tuted before the Presbytery as to the right of the 
 ministers of Perth to manses and glebes ; and after 
 narrating the various proceeding taken thereanent 
 from the year 1592 downwards, a minute of date 
 2d March, 1642, concludes as follows : — 
 
 " In regard of the premises, both on account of 
 the difficulties mentioned, and that the said Mr 
 John (Robertson) his proceedings are grounded 
 upon all these Acts of the Provincial Assemblie, 
 whereupon the foresaid ordinance of the last Pree- 
 byterial visitation is lykwise grounded, the whole 
 Presbyterie unanimously refer the same to the 
 consideration of the nixt Provincial Assemblie, to 
 
 be holden at Stirling day of April nixt, to 
 
 decide whether the said Mr Johne shall desist or 
 insist in the said suit ; and earnestly desyrs the 
 Assemblie to consider seriouslie thereof, that anc 
 peaceable and comfortable ministrie be continued 
 there, so far as possible can be without prejudice 
 to the Kirk of her richt." 
 
 The To\sTi Council having issued an order pre- 
 scribing certain changes to be made in the mode 
 of conducting public worship, Mr Laurie asked the 
 advice of the Presbytery on a point affecting their 
 jurisdiction, as appears from the following minute: — 
 
PERTH. 191 
 
 " Perth, 30th March, J 642— Mr Robert Laurie 
 declared that the Town-Council has made ane Act. 
 ordeeining that Mr John Robertson, and he sail 
 preach on Sunday, before and afternoon, per vices, 
 and that the Council did send unto him and require 
 him to preach on Sunday before noon ; therefore 
 he craved the Presbyterie's judgment as to what 
 answer he sail give them. After consideration, 
 the brethren ordeeined him to answer. The 
 matter is ecclesiastical, and he micht delay untill 
 the Counsil shall propound the matter unto the 
 Presbyterie, and that the Presbyterie consider 
 thereof." 
 
 He was translated to Edinburgh in March, 1644, 
 and on the 3d of April foUo^ving, Commissioners 
 were sent from the Town Council, "requesting 
 that, seeing Mr Robert Laurie, one of their 
 ministers, had gone from them to Edinburgh to 
 serve there, the Presbytery would supply the 
 Tuesday's and Sunday afternoon's sermon until 
 they provyd ane minister for themselves. The 
 brethren granted their request, on condition that 
 they delay no tyme in provyding themselves with 
 ane minister again." Mr Laurie continued to 
 officiate as one of the ministers of Edinburgh till 
 the Restoration, soon after which, having become 
 a convert to Episcopacy, he was appointed Dean 
 of Edinburgh, and subsequently Bishop of Brechin. 
 He died at Edinburgh in the year 1677. 
 
 Mr George Halyburton, formerly minister 
 at Menmuir, in the Presbytery of Brechin, was, on 
 the let August, 1644, admitted successor to Mr 
 Robert Lawrie, and was colleague successively to 
 
192 PERTH. 
 
 Mr John Robertson, Mr Alexander Eollok, Mr 
 William Colville, and Mr Henry Auchenleck. He 
 is called senior, to distinguish him from his cousin 
 of the same name, who was ejected from Aber- 
 <lalgie in 1662 for Nonconformity, and whose son, 
 the pious and learned Thomas Halyburton, 
 after the Revolution, was minister at Ceres, and 
 Professor of Divinity at St Andrews. He Avas 
 a licentiate of the Presbytery of Meigle, and 
 previous to his translation to Perth, had accom- 
 panied the Scots army in their expedition into 
 England as one of their chaplains; for among 
 many documents laid by him before the Presby- 
 tery of Perth, was " also ane testificate, certifying 
 the discharge of his ministrie and behaviour at the 
 army in Newcastle last expeditione, subscribed 
 under the hands of Durie, General Commissioner 
 there, and James Somerville, Lieutenant-Colonel." 
 He was also required to produce " diverse other 
 testificates from the first entrie of his studies of 
 theology, and his progress therein till the present 
 tyme." All which having been read and sus- 
 tained, before proceeding to his induction, " The 
 brethren of the Presbytcrie required and tuk ane 
 oath of the said Mr George, that he nather hath 
 given nor sail give any bond or bonds, by word or 
 Avreat, to the toune and burgh of Perth, nor to his 
 colleague, which may be prejudicial to the privi- 
 leges of the kirk and his ministrie, without the 
 knowledge and consent of the Presbyterie." 
 
 At a meeting of Presbytery on the IGth of 
 October following, Mr Halyburton was severely 
 censured for holdino; intercourse with the Earl of 
 
PERTH. 193 
 
 Montrose, " for conversing with him during his 
 stay in Perth, also for eating and drinking with 
 him, and saying the grace to his dinner, he being 
 ane excommunicate person, and receiving of passes 
 from him. Quhilk Mr George ingenuously con- 
 fessed, and declared that he was surprised upon 
 ane sudden, and that he was urged thereto ; for 
 the quhilk he was heartilie sorry that he had 
 given so great offence, and that he was willing to 
 give ane declaration what the occasion of his going 
 into him, and manner of conversing with him were." 
 The Commission of Assembly which met in No- 
 vember following summoned Mr Halyburton to 
 appear before them, and answer for his conduct. 
 He appeared accordingly, and a sentence of deposi- 
 tion was pronounced against him. The Presbytery 
 of Perth having petitioned in his favour, the 
 Assembly which met in January, 1 645, remitted to 
 the Presbytery to " try his repentance," and report 
 to the Assembly. At a meeting of Presbytery on 
 the 2d April, Mr Halyburton, " in face of the 
 Presbytery, declared that he was most , willing to 
 undero-oe whatsomever censure the brethren sail 
 be pleased to enjoin unto him. Thereupon Mr 
 George being removed, after voting, it was con- 
 cludit that Mr George suld humble himself upon 
 his knees, and declare such signs of repentance 
 quherby the brethren may be persuaded in their 
 minds of his unfeigned sorrow for his great 
 offence in despising the censures of the Kirk, and 
 80 lightlie esteeming the censure of excommunica- 
 tion. Mr George being again called in, com- 
 peared, and humblie upon his knees did acknt vv- 
 
194 PERTH. 
 
 ledge the great offence and scandal given by him 
 to the ministrie, and to the whole people of God^ 
 in conversing with, and saying grace to meat to 
 one who was ane excommunicated person, thereby 
 despising and disesteeming the great censure of the 
 Kirk of excommunication, for the quhilk he was 
 unfeignedly grieved, and pronounced by God's 
 grace, if it sail please the Lord ever to open his 
 mouth again, so that he be reponed to his minis- 
 trie, to walk more circumspectlie in all tyme com- 
 ing, for the good example of others to whom he has 
 given so great scandal and offence." 
 
 The Presbytery having reported the case favour- 
 ably to the Assembly, were ordered to repone Mr 
 Halyburton, which they accordingly did on the 
 15th of June, 1645. 
 
 After the Restoration, it having been deter- 
 mined to subvert Presbytery, and take measures 
 (as the Act bears) " for the restitution and re- 
 establishment of the ancient government of the 
 Church by archbishops and bishops," Mr Hali- 
 burton was one of the agents fixed upon by the 
 King and his misguided councillors for the ac- 
 complishment of this object. He was created 
 Bishop of Dunkeld on the 18th day of January, 
 1662, but did not resign his charge at Perth for 
 more than two years afterwards, as appears from 
 the following minute : — 
 
 "Perth, October 19, 1664— Compeared Patrick 
 Chaplain, Provost of Perth, and John Wilson and 
 Patrick M'Quhat Bailies ; and in regard, the 
 Bishop of Dunkeld had demitted his charge as 
 minister of Perth, desyred that the vacand charge, 
 
PERTH, 195 
 
 might be supplied until the Archbishop of St 
 Andrews' home-coming ; at whilk tyme they would 
 use means for planting of the vacand charge." 
 
 Woodrow says, that at the time of his prefer- 
 ment, " his character was, that he was a man who 
 had made many changes, and was sincere in none 
 of them." He was selected to preach at the open- 
 ing of the Parliament which sat down on the 8th 
 May, 1662 ; and the same historian says of his 
 sermon on that occasion, "What his subject was I 
 do not know, but find he was prolix enough, and 
 exceeded two hours considerably." He did not 
 live long to enjoy his Episcopal dignity, having 
 died in February, 1665. 
 
 Mr Alexander Kollock was, on the 25th Sep- 
 tember, 1 645, admitted one of the ministers of Perth, 
 as colleague to Mr Halyburton. He had previously 
 been minister of Dunkeld, as appears from a minute 
 of Presbytery of date 17th September, 1645:— 
 
 " Whilk day compeared Andrew , bailie of 
 
 Perth, and John Anderson, elder, in their own 
 name, and in name and behalf of the Counsell, 
 Session, Crafts, and the hail body of the Burgh 
 and parochmers, as weill Burgh as Landward, and 
 presented ane act of transportation from the Pres- 
 bytery of Dunkeld, in favour of Mr Alexander 
 Eollock, minister there, deated at Perth, 16 Sep- 
 tember instant — their humble desyre to the 
 brethren of the Presbytery of Perth is, that they 
 would consent to the admissione and receiviner of 
 the said Mr Alexander, according to the order of 
 the kirk, whom they had made choice of to be ODe 
 of their ministers." 
 M 
 
196 PERTH, 
 
 The Presbytery having given their consent, ap- 
 pointed his edict to be served in common form, and 
 ordained ^' Mr Robert Moray (Methven), to teach 
 upon Thursday, and receive the said Mr Alexander 
 to the functione and care of the kirk of Perth, 
 dely vering him also to them as ane of their minis- 
 ters." Mr Rollock seems to have been very regular 
 in his attendance upon the meetings of Presbytery, 
 At one of the last meetings at which he v^as pre- 
 sent, he recorded his dissent from a resolution come 
 to by the Presbytery as to the most convenient 
 place of meeting for the Provincial Sj'nod. The 
 Synod, it would appear, had appointed a com- 
 mittee to consider the question, who met at Black- 
 ford, on the 17th March, 1652, and drew up the 
 following report ; — 
 
 " Whilk day, the brethrein commissionars from 
 the several Presbyteries within the Province being 
 convenit, and their commissions for condescending 
 upon a convenient place to keep the Provincial 
 being read and approved, did condescend upon Don- 
 ing as the place most convenient for the Provincial 
 to sit at the ordinarietyme, being the second Tuesday 
 of April ; and for this effect, the meeting appoints 
 ane lettre to be written in their name, by Mr Wil- 
 liam Barclay, to advertise the Clerk to be present 
 the foresaid day and place, and to bring the Register 
 with him." 
 
 This report having been laid before the Presby- 
 tery of Perth, they approved of it, ''but Mr Alex- 
 ander Rollock did dissent from the approbation in 
 Ms owne name, and in name of all who wold adhere 
 thereto." He was present, and took part iii the- 
 
PERTH. 197 
 
 proceedings of the meeting of Presbytery, held on 
 the 21st September, 1652, and before that day 
 month, had been called to his account. On the 
 20th October, " compeared Andrew Butter, Pro- 
 vost of Perth, and William Reoch, Bailie ; and in 
 regard that it had pleased the Lord to remove their 
 pastor, Mr Alexander EoUock, by death, did desyre 
 the Presbyterie to supplie the vacand charge." 
 
 Mr William Colvill was admitted colleague 
 to Mr George Halyburton, 1st February, 1655. 
 The protracted vacancy seems to have been caused 
 by a division in the Kirk-session, which, like the 
 whole Church of Scotland, at that distracted period, 
 had split into the two factions of Resolutioners and 
 Protesters. Even before Mr Bollock's death, there 
 seems to have been a want of harmony, insomuch 
 that Mr Hallyburton had accepted a Call to Erroll, 
 and insisted upon being transported thither, stating 
 as one of the reasons for his translation — ^^ The 
 differences there has been, and yet continues in 
 this collegiate, in regard of public resolutions, 
 quhilk hinders the progress of godlie work, and 
 quliilk he conceived would be remeaded by his 
 transportation to another place." On the 6th 
 April, 1653, the Town Council gave in a supplica- 
 tion to the Presbytery, " shewing that there is 
 great necessitie that the Session of the town 
 should be unanimous," and craving a Presbyterlal 
 visitation for " settling the said Session." The 
 Presbytery referred the matter to the Synod, 
 which met at Dunblane, June IGth, 1653. The 
 Synod seeing that the differences complained of 
 ■^^ were very obstructive to the planting of the 
 
198 PERTH, 
 
 kirk/' appointed an influential committee to co- 
 operate with the Presbytery, " in endeavouring to 
 the uttermost ane amicable composition of these 
 differences." It was found expedient to have an 
 infusion of new members, and the Presbytery 
 ordered additional elders to be ordained, so as to 
 raise the number in the Session to twenty-four. 
 And as Mr Halyburton, who was then sole minis- 
 ter, and the Tovv^n Council, seem to have been 
 opposed to the Protesters, their influence would be 
 sufficient to secure the appointment of elders of 
 their own way of thinking. The result was a Call 
 to Mr Colvill, as appears from the following minute : 
 
 ^^At Perth, January 10, 1655, compeared 
 Thomas Nairne and Alexander Jackson, elders, 
 and gave in ane supplicatione from the Session of 
 Perth, together with ane extract of said Session, 
 shewing the nomination of Mr William Colvill to 
 be minister in the vacand charge at the said burgh, 
 with ane dissent, protestation, and appeal to the 
 Presbytery therein contained, with the reasons 
 thereof in write, date 2d January, 1655, whilk 
 Commissioners did desyre the said Presbytery to 
 go alongst with them in calling the said Mr 
 William to the vacand charge aforesaid. Com- 
 peared likewise Andrew Butter, Provost, and John 
 Patersone, Dean of Guild, with ane Act of Coun- 
 sell, of the date January 9, 1655, bearing ane 
 unanimous nomination of the said Mr William 
 Colvill to be minister of the vacand charge at thia 
 kirk." 
 
 Accordingly the Presbytery, at their next 
 meeting, appointed a letter to be written to Mr 
 
PERTH. 199 
 
 "Colvill, " inviting him to be at the pains to come 
 over and preach to the congregation of Perth, that 
 they micht not only hear him, but also that he 
 micht understand the mind of God about his Call 
 to that place." Mr Colvill accordingly came, and 
 having preached with much acceptance, he ap- 
 peared before the Presbytery, a,nd declared that, 
 " seeing it hath pleased God, in his Providence, to 
 clear his way, he did heartilie accept of the Call." 
 And after the usual preliminaries, he was admitted 
 on the 1st of February following. Mr Colvill 
 probably owed his appointment to the influence of 
 his colleague, Mr Halyburton. They were old 
 Mends, having become acquainted when acting 
 together as chaplains to the Scots army in the 
 expedition into England fifteen years before ; and 
 among the testificats which Mr Halyburton laid 
 before the Presbytery at his own admission in 
 1644, was ^^ ane missive lettre^ subscrybed under 
 the hand of Mr William Colvill, who was present 
 with him at the army in Newcastle." Mr Colvill 
 was then one of the ministers of Edinburgh ; but 
 soon after got into trouble, in consequence of 
 having become a Resoluthner, and favoured what 
 was called the " >unlawfid eno;ao[ement " — that is, 
 the treaty the Scottish Commissioners had made 
 with -Charles, then a prisoner in the Isle of Wight, 
 by which they engaged to levy an a,rmy and fight 
 ibr his liberty and lawful prerogatives. This 
 enterprise was warmly approved of by the more 
 moderiite Presbytei'ians, and among others by Mr 
 Colvill.^ but it was still more heartily condemned 
 by the -majority, who denounced it as a union with 
 
200 PERTH. 
 
 Cavaliers and Malignants. For the part taken hf 
 liim, Mr Colvill was cited to appear before the- 
 Assembly, whicli met in Edinbugh, in August, 
 1 648 ; and after repeated conferences and discus- 
 sions, was suspended from the exercise of hi& 
 ministerial functions for refusing to preach against 
 the engagement, and to read "the causes of a 
 Fast," which had been appointed by the Protesters 
 for the purpose of defeating that enterprise. He 
 was restored to his status as a minister by the 
 Synod of Lothian, on the 8th November, 1654, 
 only a few weeks before he received the Call to 
 Perth. Early in 1657, a pamphlet was published^ 
 entitled, " Evidence of the Growth of Defection 
 in the Province for Synod) of Stirling and Perth -J" 
 and one of the proofs adduced was, that many 
 ministers, among others Mr William Colvill, who 
 had been deposed for " scandalous and malignant 
 carriage," had '^ got their mouths opened, and 
 access to the mlnistrie, without giving evidence of 
 their repentance." In replying to this charge, the 
 Presbytery of Perth, after a lengthened vindi- 
 cation , conclude as follows ; — 
 
 " We sail say no more of this, onlie let this be 
 considered, that the Lord has manifestly blessed 
 the labours of Mr William Colvill, for all so short 
 a tyme as it is since his entrie, which is a seal of 
 his ministrie, and a ratifying of his admission in 
 Heaven. Hence, not only the two brethren who 
 protested against him at his entrie, has given him 
 a public testimonie in the Presbytery for his dili- 
 gence and painfulness, . . . but even the 
 elders and others that joyned in the Protestation 
 
PERTH. 201 
 
 against him, has blest God for his cominor amonffst 
 them. Yea, it is natour that those who most 
 opposed at first, do now countenance and com- 
 mend his ministrie.'' 
 
 And Bisliop Guthrie says of him, in his Memoirs 
 — " For his eminence in learning, diligence in his 
 calling, and strictness in his conversation, Mr 
 Oolvill was an ornament to the Church of Scot- 
 land." He died at Pertli, in September 1662. 
 
 Mr Harrie • AucHiNLECK was admitted on 
 the 23d day of December, 1662, and was colleague 
 successively to ]\Ir George Halyburton and Mr 
 Mungo Law. He was translated from the parish 
 of Mains, in the Presbytery of Dundee. In 1658, 
 he had received a unanimous call from the parish 
 of Forgandenny ; but the Presbytery of Dundee 
 " moved the said Mr Harrie not to transport from 
 his charge at Mains." Having conformed to the 
 Episcopal form of Church Government at the Res- 
 toration, he was appointed by the "Magistrates 
 and Council of Perth to the charge made vacand 
 through the removal of their late reverend pastor, 
 Mr William Colvill," and by authority of Sharp, 
 Archbishop of St Andrews, received and admitted 
 to said charge — as appears from the following 
 minute : — 
 
 " At Perth, January 14th, 1663.— Mr William 
 Bell, minister at Errol, reported that, upon the 
 23d day of December, 1662, be virtue of ane ordour 
 from the Archbishop of St Andrews, he preached 
 at the vacand church at Perth, and did receive 
 Mr Harrie Auchinleck, late minister at Mains, to 
 foe minister at the said burgh, and deljvered him 
 
202 PERTH. 
 
 to the congregation, who was accepted by Council 
 and Session, in name of the said congregation ; 
 and the said Mr Harrie being present, was accepted 
 by the brethreine ane of their fraternitie and 
 number." 
 
 Mr Auchinleck did not long survive to enjoy 
 his preferment, having died at Perth, in the month 
 of March, 1667. 
 
 Mr MuNGO Law was, on the let June, 
 1665, admitted successor to George Hallyburton, 
 Bishop of Dunkeld, who resigned his charge at 
 Perth, in October, 1664. Under the new system, 
 the process of admission was much more short and 
 summary. A minute of date, April 26th, 1665, 
 merely states that " Mr Law entered upon his 
 tryalls in order to the ministrie at Perth, the 
 brethrein having received a desyre from the Arch- 
 bishop to that effect ;" and a minute of date the 
 ist of June following, says — (and it is the whole 
 minute) — " Whilk day the brethrein were present 
 at the admission of Mr Mungo Law to the 
 function of tlie holy ministrie at Perth, who wa& 
 unanimouslie accepted by the Counsele and Ses- 
 sion." Mr Law had for his colleagues, in succes- 
 sion, Mr HarrJe Auchinleck, and Mr William 
 Lindsay. He died at Perth, in the month of July^ 
 1671. 
 
 Mr William Lindsay, formerly minister at 
 Auchterderran, was admitted minister at Perth, 
 as coUeague to Mr Mungo Law, on the 9th April,. 
 1668. The drfferent steps taken towards his 
 admission are recorded in the following minutes : — 
 
 " Feb. 25, 1668. — In obedience to a letter direct 
 
PEETH. 203 
 
 from the Lord Archbishop, with an edict to be 
 served in order to the admission of Mr William 
 Lindsay, minister at Achterderran, to the function 
 of the ministrie at the church of Perth, the Pres- 
 bytery appoints the edict to be served the next 
 Lord's Day, and Mr Andrew Hardie to preach the 
 same day." 
 
 " 18th March, 1668.— Eeceived back the edict 
 of Mr William Lindsay, endorsed at St Andrews, 
 the 12th of March, be Mr Alexander Young, 
 Archdean. The Presbytery appoints their rev. 
 brother, Mr William Barclay, to preach at the 
 admission of Mr William Lindsay to the functione 
 of the ministrie at the church of Perth, upon the 
 9th of xApril, which is to be the next day of the 
 meeting of Presbytery." 
 
 "9th April, 1G68. — The brethren being con- 
 vened, Mr William Lindsay was admitted to the 
 function of the holy ministrie at the church of 
 Perth, and Mr William Barclay preached." 
 
 He was approved in life and doctrine at a meet- 
 ing for privy censure, held on the 10th March, 
 1673. At these meetings, the practice was to 
 remove the ministers in succession, while the 
 brethren who remained sat in judgment on their 
 character and conversation, and the manner in 
 which they discharged their ministerial duties. If 
 anything was considered worthy of censure (such 
 as non-residence, not attending Presbyteries, &c.,) 
 it was recorded in the minute, and the delinquent 
 was censured accordingly. If there was nothing 
 censurable, the minister was "approvyne in lyft 
 
204 PERTH. 
 
 and doctrine," and all having been approved, the 
 minute generally concluded thus : — 
 
 " The Moderator having inquired at the several 
 l)rethren if they preached twjce on the Lord's 
 day, and gaiv the sacrament once in the year; 
 catechized their people once in the week ; and if 
 doxologies were sung after the psalm on the Lord's 
 day ; and if parents, when they presented their 
 children to baptism, did gave ane j^ublic confes- 
 sion of their faith ? The brethren declared they 
 were observient of all these things." 
 
 Besides these meetings for privy censures, the 
 Presbyteries, from time to time, held meetings in 
 their several parishes within their bounds, when 
 particular inquiry was made as to the manner in 
 which the minister, the elders, the deacons, the 
 schoolmaster, and people generally, discharged 
 their respective duties. These meetings were 
 called " visitations." Such a meeting was held by 
 appointment of the Archbishop and Synod, during 
 the incumbency of Messrs Lindsay and Law, for 
 a visitation of the kirk of Perth ; the proceedings 
 of which, in so far as they relate to the ministers, 
 are recorded in the following minute : — 
 
 "At Perth, the 3rd of August, 1676.— Wliilk 
 day, after sermon preached be Mr John Liddle, 
 conveened for a visitation of the kirk of Perth, 
 according to the appointment of the Archbishop 
 and Synod, and by vertue of ane commission direct 
 from the Archbishop for that effect — Mr Hew 
 Ramsay, moderator, &c. After invocation upon 
 the name of God, they inquired of the ministers if 
 due intimation had been made of the diet of the 
 
PERTH. 20B 
 
 visitors to all concerned? It was answered it Lad 
 on the Lord's day was a fortnight. Whereupon 
 they were required to give in a list of their elders 
 and deacons, which being done they were removed. 
 First — The elders were called everie one of them, 
 man by man, all alone, and interrogate whether or 
 no their ministers were faithful and diligent in all 
 the palrts of their ministrie, particularlie whether 
 or no they did preach sound doctrine, and that 
 constantlie, at all the ordinarie accustomed dyets : 
 and whether or no they were careful in visiting 
 the sick, to keep home, to catechise the people, 
 and administer the sacrament of the Lord's supper 
 at least once in the year ; and also, whether or no 
 they did wallv exemplarie in their lyves and con- 
 versationes. To all which questions everie one of 
 them answered, giving their ministers an ample 
 testimonie that they were both faithful and dili- 
 gent in the above specified and all other pairts of 
 the ministerial functione; and that they were 
 exemplarie amongst them in the piety and blame- 
 lessness of their lyfFes and conversationes." 
 
 The above is rather a long extract, but we have 
 given it, because it ihrows some light on the prac- 
 tice of the Church at that period ; and also, because 
 It may be new to some of our readers, to find that 
 the discipline of the Church was so minutely exer- 
 cised under Archbishop Sharp, and that elders and 
 deacons (in the Presbyterian sense of the terms), 
 were distinctly recognised office-bearers in these 
 Prelatic times. Soon after Mr Lindsay received 
 the foregoing "ample testimonie" from his elders 
 and deacons, he was promoted to a higher office, 
 
206 PERTH. 
 
 having been appointed Bishop of Dunkeld, on the 
 7th of May, 1677. He continued, however, to 
 hold his appointment as one of the ministers of 
 Perth, for nearly a yeax and a-half after his pro- 
 motion to the Bishopric. A minute of date the 
 13th November, 1678, bears that — 
 
 "This day compeared John Glass, Dean of 
 Guild of Perth, John Watson and Patrick Gow, 
 who, in name of the Council of Perth, petitioned 
 the Presbytery for the supply of the vacancie upon 
 the removal of the Bishop of Dunkeld, till they 
 could think upon the plantation of the place, 
 which they promised to do with all convenient 
 diligence. The Presbyterie taking this to their 
 consideration, unanimouslie resolved to supplie 
 them once in the week, and once on Sabbath, till 
 it went through by order of the catalogue, and he 
 that is to preach on the Sabbath to preach on the 
 week day also." 
 
 Bishop Lindsay died in 1679. 
 
 Mr Alexander Boss, of the family of Kilra- 
 Yock, succeeded Mr Law on 14th November, 1672, 
 as appears from the following minute of that date: — 
 
 " This day received ane letter from my Lord 
 Archbishop of St Andrews, signifying Mr Alex- 
 ander Ross to be ordained, and desyring the Pres- 
 bytery to appoint ane of their number to preach at 
 his admission to the function of the holy ministrie 
 at the church of Perth. In obedience thereto, the 
 Presbytery appoints their rev. brother, Mr Hew 
 Ramsay, to preach at his admission the next Pres- 
 bytery day, which is appointed to be on Thursday, 
 the 14th of November; 1672." 
 
PERTH. 207 
 
 Having been appointed Professor of Divinity in 
 the University of Glasgow, he resigned his charge 
 at Perth, on the 7th of May, 1683, having been 
 colleague successively to Messrs Lindsay, Skeen, 
 and Anderson. In 1686, he was appointed Prin- 
 cipal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, and soon 
 after nominated Bishop of Moray. It is doubt- 
 ful, however, whether he ever entered upon the 
 duties of that office, as he was consecrated Bishop 
 of Edinburgh in 1687. He was deprived after the 
 Ee volution in 1689, and died in Edinburgh, on 
 the 20th of March, 1720, the last survivor of the 
 Ante-Revolution Bishops. Keith says — " He was 
 an hospitable, pious, and peaceable prelate, being 
 remarkably happy in reconciling differences." 
 
 Mr Alexander Skeen, succeeded Bishop 
 Lindsay as colleague to Mr Alexander Ross. A 
 minute of the 4th of June, 1679, bears that *Hhe 
 Presbytery received a letter from the Bishop of 
 Edinburgh in favour of Mr Alexander Skeen, 
 Professor of Philosophic in the University of St 
 Andrews, desiring them to appoint him to preach 
 before them a popular sermon, being the usual 
 trial given to persons of his merit and character, 
 and that in order to his admission to the function 
 of the ministrie at Perth." Mr Skeen was accord- 
 ingly admitted on the 26th of that month, but his 
 name never appears upon the Sederunt of Presby- 
 tery, and he resigned his charge at Perth, on the 
 31 at of May following. 
 
 Mr David Anderson, formerly Professor of 
 Humanity in St Leonard's College, St Andrews, 
 and ailer that, minister of Dunbarnie — to which 
 
208 PERTH. 
 
 parish he was ordained and admitted on the 4th 
 <»i* September, 1679 — was translated to Perth a^ 
 successor to Mr Skeen, and colleague to Mr 
 Koss, on the 27th October, 1680, where he conti- 
 nued minister till the Revolution, when he was 
 iieprived for disaffection to the new Government. 
 
 Mr William Hay, minister at Kilconqu- 
 har, was translated to Perth as successor to 
 Bishop Ross and colleague to Mr Anderson, in 
 March 1684. He was promoted to the See of 
 Moray a few^ months before the Revolution, when, 
 as Keith says, " he suffered the common fate of 
 his order." 
 
 Mr Adam Barclay, minister at Keig, in 
 Aberdeenshire, was translated to Perth as col- 
 league to Mr Anderson, in May, 1688. He enjoyed 
 his preferment, however, only a very short time, 
 as he, too, was deprived at the Revolution. 
 
 Mr John Anderson, though never , actually 
 inducted, nor recognised by the Town Council as 
 minister, was, after the deprivation of Mr David 
 Anderson and ^Ir Adam Barclay, by an Act of 
 the Synod of Perth and Stirling, appointed minister 
 at Perth pro tempore. He had formerly been 
 Episcopal minister at Auchtergaven, but having 
 conformed at the Revolution, he continued to 
 take the pastoral superintendence of Perth until 
 the admission of Mr Robert Anderson, when he 
 WHS translated to Edinburgh. 
 
 Mr Robert Anderson, formerly minister of 
 Leuchars, in the Presbytery of St. x^ndrews, was 
 translated and iidmitted to Perth on the 4th June, 
 1691, as appears from the following minute : — 
 
PERTH. 209 
 
 ^' The Presbyterie being again met, after calling 
 upon God, were present Air James Inglis, mode- 
 rator, &c. Mr James Inglis preached according 
 to appointment, his text being the 33d chapter of 
 Ezekiel, verse 8th. And after sermon, Mr Eobert 
 Anderson was admitted and received minister of 
 Perth after the usual manner." 
 
 He was last present at a meeting of Presbytery 
 on the 7th June, 1704; and a minute of date the 
 2d of August following, bears— '^ It is reported 
 this day that Mr Anderson is lately dead." He 
 died on the 26th of July, 1701. He was sole 
 minister of Perth from his admission in 1691 till 
 1698, when Mr Black was admitted as his colleague. 
 
 Mr Thomas Black, as has just been stated, 
 was admitted colleague to Mr Anderson, on the 
 oth day of April, 1698. He had previously 
 been minister, first of Strathmiglo, in the Presby- 
 tery of Cupar, and afterwards of AYeemys, in the 
 Presbytery of Kirkcaldy. The minute of his 
 admission to Perth is as follows : — 
 
 "At Perth, Tuesday the 5th April, 1698.— 
 Whilk day and place the Presbytery met for tho 
 admissione of Mr Black as appointed. After 
 prayer, Mr Robert Anderson preachit on the 1st 
 cliapter of the Acts of the Apostles, 24th verse 
 —'And they prayed and said, thou Lord who 
 knowest the hearts of all men shew whether,' &c., 
 and after sermon, admitted the said Mr Thomas 
 Black, minister of Perth, with solemn prayer and 
 the other solemnities used in the hke case; and 
 the Presbytery having caused produce the Coofee- 
 
210 PERTH. 
 
 sion of Faith, he subscribed the same, together with 
 the formula thereto subjoined, in their presence." 
 
 Before calling Mr Black, the Town Council and 
 parishioners had given a unanimous call to his co- 
 Presbyter, Mr John Schaw, minister at Leslie, 
 but the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy refused to trans- 
 late him. In 1707, Mr Black was appointed Pro- 
 fessor of Divinity in the New College of St 
 Andrews ; but the congregation and Town Council 
 of Perth so unanimously and earnestly opposed his 
 translation, that the Presbytery refused to loose 
 him — which resolution was on appeal confirmed 
 by the Commission of the General Assembly. 
 Mr Black was accordingly continued in his charge 
 at Perth, where he died on the 25th of October, 
 1 739, having had for his colleagues successively, 
 Mr Robert Anderson, Mr George Blair, Mr John 
 Fleming, Mr William Wilson, Mr William Stewart, 
 and his own son, Mr David Black. He was 
 Moderator of the General Assembly in 1721. 
 
 Mr George Blair, formerly minister at St 
 Madoes, was translated to Perth on the 23d of 
 October, 1705, as colleague to Mr Thomas Black. 
 Mr Nairn, of Errol, presided at his admission, 
 taking: for his text 1st Cor. iii. 9 — " For we are 
 labourers together with God." He died at Perth, 
 im the 14th of May, 1712. 
 
 Mr John Fleming, formerly chaplain in 
 the Castle of Edinburgh, was, on the 24th 
 February, 1713, admitted successor to Mr. Blair, 
 as colleague to Mr Black. Although the Act 
 aiient Patronage had been passed two years before, 
 it may be noticed that Mr Fleming was not settled 
 
PERTH. 211 
 
 on a presentation, but on a Call and concurrence 
 according to the usual practice. He died, after a 
 short incumbency, on the 12th of April, 1719. 
 
 Mr William Wilson. The Magistrates and 
 Council being satisfied that the pastoral super- 
 intendence of such a large parish and congregation 
 as that of Perth was too laborious a duty for two 
 mniisters efficiently to perform, unanimously re- 
 solved to appoint a third minister to take part of 
 that duty. Accordingly, a Call at large was 
 moderated in on the 21st of August, 1716, when 
 "Mr Wilson, probationer in the Presbytery of 
 Dunblane ; Mr Francis Archibald, probationer in 
 the Presbytery of Aberbrothick ; and Mr John 
 Hay, probationer in the Presbytery of Perth, 
 being put upon the leet, the rolls were called, and 
 votes marked, and, by an unanimous voice, the said 
 Mr William Wilson was unanimously chosen to be 
 third minister of the said burgh and parish." He 
 was ordained and admitted on the 1st day of 
 November following, as appears from the following 
 minute of that date : — 
 
 " Then the Clerk was ordered to mark that, the 
 congregation being punctually convened, the Rev. 
 Thomas Black, minister of the Gospel at Perth, 
 preached at the ordination. His text was in the 
 Epistle of Paul the Aj^ostle to the Galatians, 
 chap, i., verse 15. The sermon being ended, 
 Mr William Wilson was solemnly ordained, and 
 admitted third minister of the burgh and parish 
 of Perth, with imposition of the hands of tlie 
 Presbytery," &c. 
 
 As Mr Wilson afterwards became flmious for 
 
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212 PERTH, 
 
 the part he took in what is called the First Seces- 
 sion, it may not be out of place to give a very 
 brief sketch of the origin of that memorable schism. 
 The General Assembly, in 1732, passed " an Act 
 anent the planting of vacant churches," by which 
 it was ordained, that whenever the right of supply- 
 ing a vacancy fell into the hands of the Presby- 
 tery, either jure devoluto, or by the patron's 
 waiving his right to present (which patrons very 
 generally did, allowing the Presbytery to mode- 
 rate in a call at large), the election of a minister 
 should be by the heritors and elders in a conjunct 
 meeting — ^in presence of the congregation — the 
 person elected to be proposed to the congregation, 
 to be either approved or disapproved by them — 
 the disapprovers to offer their reasons to the Pres- 
 bytery, at whose judgment, and by whose deter- 
 mination, the calling and entry of the minister to 
 be ordered and concluded. This Act, it will be 
 seen, was much the same as the Act W. and M., 
 1693; but it gave great offence to Mr Wilson and 
 others, who maintained that the people had a 
 divine right to choose their own ministers ; and, at 
 the meeting of the Synod of Perth and Stirling, 
 in October, 1732, Mr Ebenezer Ersklne, in his 
 opening sermon, testified against it, and what he 
 called the other defections of the Church. The 
 Synod, on a motion, supported by Mr Mercer, of 
 Aberdalgie, and Mr Mackie, of Forteviot, ordered 
 Mr Erskine to be rebuked at their bar. From this 
 sentence Mr Erskine appealed ; but the Assembly 
 of 1733, after hearing parties, affirmed it, and 
 ordered Mr Erskine to be rebuked at their own 
 
PERTH. . 213 
 
 bar. Against this eentence of the Assembly Mr 
 Erskine took a Protest, which was adhered to by 
 Messrs Wilson, of Perth ; Alexander Moncrieffe, 
 Abernethy ; and James Fisher, Kinclaven ; who, 
 thereafter all left the Assembly. Whereupon the 
 Assembly ordered them to appear before the Com- 
 mission in August, and express sorrow for their con- 
 tempt. The Protesters appeared, but adhering to 
 their protest, were suspended. This sentence they 
 disregarded, and v/ere, by the Commission which 
 met in November folloAving, " declared no longer 
 ministers of this Church." The Assembly, in 
 1734, empowered the Synod to restore the deposed 
 ministers, which they did, taking oiF the sentences 
 pronounced against them by the Commission in 
 1733; but they refused to return to the Church; 
 and having been joined by Messrs Ralph Erskine, 
 •Dunfermline; Thomas Mair, Orwell; Thomas Nairn, 
 Abbotshall; and James Thomson, Burntisland, 
 associated themselves into a Presbytery, and 
 assumed independent powers. The Assembly of 
 
 1738, after recommending the use of gentle means 
 to reclaim them, authorised the Commission, 
 should they continue refractory, to cite them to 
 the bar of next Assembly. The Commission cited 
 them accordingly, and drew up a libel against 
 them, which w^as laid before the Assembly of 
 
 1739. The Seceders being called, the whole of 
 them compeared ; and the Moderator of the Assem- 
 bly having told them that the Assembly was ready 
 to receive them with open arms, Mr Mair, in name 
 of the Associate Presbytery, declared that " the 
 present Judicatures of the National Church are 
 
214 PEETH. 
 
 not lawful nor right constituted Courts of Christ/' 
 and declined their jurisdiction. Whereupon the 
 Assembly found that the Seceders " did justly 
 merit the highest censures of the Church, but for- 
 bore the same yet another year, to give them a 
 further time to return to their duty, but earnestly 
 recommended the next Assembly to inflict the 
 penalty of deposition, in event of their persisting 
 in their unjustifiable separation." At the Assem- 
 bly of 1740, the eight seceding ministers being 
 called, and none of them compearing, they were 
 solemnly deposed from the office of the ministry 
 in the Church of Scotland, and their parishes 
 declared vaciint. Mr Wilson was accordingly 
 deposed from being one of the ministers of Perth, 
 and declared to be no longer a minister of the 
 Church of Scotland, on the 15th day of May, 
 1740. He died in the following year. ' 
 
 Mr William Stewart, formerly minister at 
 Blairgowrie, was on the 4th day of July, 1721:, 
 admitted colleague to Messrs Black and Wilson, 
 as successor to Mr Fleming. He died in January 
 1733. 
 
 Mr David Black, son of Mr Thomas Black 
 aforesaid, was on the 14th of June, 1737, ordained 
 and admitted one of the three mhiisters of Perth, 
 as colleao^ue to his father and Mr William Wilson. 
 At the time of his admission, there was much agi- 
 tation in the Church regarding the settlement of 
 ministers, the affair of the Secession being then 
 under discussion in the Church Courts ; and the 
 agitation was particularly keen in Perth, where Mr 
 Wilson, one of the seceding brethren, seems to 
 
PERTH. 215 
 
 iiave had considerable influence. Mr Black was 
 settled on a Call from the Town Council, heritors, 
 and elders; not, however, without much opposi- 
 tion, a number of the electors being in favour of 
 ]Mr Henry Lindsay, minister at. Bothkennar. At 
 that period, the feeling against Patronage was very 
 strong ; and as a proof of the unwillingness of the 
 Church to homologate the Act restoring Patron- 
 age, and of the many years that elapsed before 
 that Act came into operation, it may be noticed 
 that, while Mr Black was under trials, a letter was 
 received from the Presbytery of Auchterarder, 
 informing the Presbytery of Perth, that Mr George 
 Blackie, one of their licentiates, had accepted a 
 presentation from Lord Dupplin, to the Parish of 
 Madderty, without the consent and concurrence of 
 -the parish previously notified — "a proceeding,'' 
 they said, " which, for what we know, wants a 
 precedent, and looks like a designed insult upon 
 the constitution and authority of this Church." 
 How the case ended does not appear from the 
 Kecord, as the Presbytery referred the matter 
 dmplicitcr to the Synod. This took place in 1737, 
 more than a quarter of a century a,fter the passing 
 of the Act of Queen Anne, 
 
 Mr Black was colleague successively to his 
 father, Messrs Wilson, Lindsay, Warden, Bonar, 
 -and Scott. He wa,s father of Mr David Black, 
 sometime minister of St Madoes, and afterwards 
 of Lady Tester's, Edinburgh. He was connected 
 by marriage with the Faichneys of St ^lartins, and 
 the Bonars of Coekpen and Perth ; and in this 
 way, from him are descended several eminent men, 
 
21 G PEETH. 
 
 well knowu in the Church. He died at Perth or 
 the 22d day of May, 1771. 
 
 Mr Henry Lindsay, who, as we have said, was. 
 brought forward as a rival candidate in 1737, was^ 
 on the death of Mr Black^s father, appointed hi& 
 colleague, and admitted minister at Perth on the 
 15th of October, 1741, having been translated from 
 the Parish of Bothkennar, in the Presbytery of 
 Stirling. At the moderation of a Call, the follow- 
 ing were put upon the leet : — Messrs John Ballin- 
 gall, minister at Cupar-Fife ; Ferrier, minister at 
 Largo ; Thomas Dow, probationer in the Presby- 
 tery of Fordun ; John Douglas, probationer, Perth; 
 and Mr Lindsay. Mr Ballingall carried unani- 
 mously ; but declining to accept, Mr Lindsay 
 was afterwards called. He did not long survive 
 his translation, having died at Perth on the 2d of 
 May, 1745. 
 
 Mr John Waeden. After the death of Mr 
 Lindsay, the right of appointment having fallen 
 jure devoluto into the hands of the Presbytery, they 
 " unanimously translated Mr David Black to be 
 first minister of the Burgh and Parish of Perth, 
 and to the whole stipends and emoluments thereof,'' 
 which is the first notice in the record of a first and 
 second charge. After the deposition of Mr Wilson, 
 no third minister was appointed. 
 
 Mr Warden, formerly minister at Campsey, in 
 the Presbytery of Glasgow, was unanimously 
 called by the " Town Council, heritors, and elders," 
 the Moderator of the Presbytery having desired 
 the callei^ to add to the leet, if they thought 
 proper, but no person was added to the leet. He 
 
PERTH, 217 
 
 was admitted March 19, 1747, and translated to 
 the Canoiigate of Edinburgh on the 6th of No- 
 vember, 1755. 
 
 Mr John Bonar, formerly minister of Ct)ckpen, 
 in the Presbytery of Dalkeith, was admitted 
 minister of the second charge at Perth on the 29tli 
 July, 1756. His father and grandfather were re- 
 spectively ministers of Fetlar in Sheti-and, and 
 Torphichen in West Lothian, and their ancestors 
 for several generations had been lairds of Kilgras- 
 ton and other estates in Strathearn. He was bom 
 in 1722, in Clackmanntmshire, of which county his 
 mother, Jean Smith, was also a native. He re- 
 "ceived licence 3d June, 1745, and was ordained 
 minister at Cockpen 22 d August, 1746. He 
 married soon after his ordination Christian Corrie 
 of Edinburgh, by whom he had eight sons and two 
 daughters, some of whom, and not a few of their 
 descendants, became influential ministers and 
 •office-bearers in the Church. His eldest son, John, 
 became fiolicitor of excise, and died at Worcester 
 in 1807. When at College in Edinburgh, he was 
 one of the six original members of the Speculative 
 Society. His second son, Andrew, became an in- 
 fluential partner in the bank of Ramsay, Bonar, & 
 Co. His third son, Andrew, was also a suecessful 
 banker in Edinburgh, and proprietor of Patho. 
 His fourth son, AYilliam, was an M.D., and died 
 in America. His fifth ^on, Archibald^ was the 
 pious and popular minister of Ratho, who, marry- 
 ing Bridget, daughter of ^Ir David Black of Perth, 
 w^as the father of ^f r John Bonar, sometime minis- 
 ter at Larbet. His sixth sou, Thomas^ was a 
 
218 PEETH, 
 
 merchant in Edinburgli, and proprietor of tlie 
 Grove. Through his wife he acquired the copy- 
 right of the Encyclopedia Britannicaj from which he 
 reahzed a large fortune. His seventh son, James, 
 succeeded his brother as chief solicitor of excise, 
 and was father of three ministers of the Church — 
 viz., John, sometime minister of St Andrew's 
 Church, Greenock ; Horace, of North Parish,. 
 Kelso ; Andrew^ of CoUace. His eighth son^^ 
 Ebenezer, died in infancy. His daughter, Chris- 
 tian, married Charles Taw&e, writer in Edinburgh^ 
 and had a numerous family, one of whom, Andrew, 
 married his cou&in Margaret, daughter of Alex- 
 ander Bonar of Katho, and was father of John 
 Tawse, Esq.,W.S-, the present zealous and efficient 
 secretary of the Jewish Mission Scheme of the 
 Church of Scotland. 
 
 Mr JameS' Scott was translated from Kinfauns 
 to the second charge at Perth as colleague to Mr 
 Black on the 4th November, 1762, and continued 
 for nearly half a century in the zealous and most 
 exemplary discharge of all the duties of the pastoral 
 office* tie w^as particularly attentive to the young 
 }>eople of the congregation having classes regularly 
 for their benefit ; a practice then not so common 
 as happily it is now. His sermons are &aid to have 
 been composed with great care, and his manner in 
 the pulpit most earnest and impressive. Hi-s voice^ 
 however, was soft and low, so that he could with 
 difficulty be heard in the distant corners of the 
 churches, in which it vf as then the practice for the 
 ministers to preach in rotation. About the close 
 of the century, he was prevailed on to accept the 
 
PERTH. 219 
 
 assistance of a helper, towards whose salary the 
 Town Council paid £50 a year. He had in succes- 
 sion for his assistants Messrs Murray ; Thomas, 
 afterwards minister at Newburgh ; Miller, after- 
 wards minister at Abdie; Dempster, afterwards 
 minister at Denny; and Mr George Burns, after- 
 wards minister at Paisley. About the beginning 
 of the present century, Mr Scott, thinking he could 
 be heard in the West Church, resumed preaching, 
 and continued to officiate there for several years. 
 He was translated to the first charge on the death 
 of Mr Black in 1771, and resigned on the 18th of 
 November, 1807, upon the disjunction and erection 
 of the Town and Parish of Perth into four separate 
 parishes. 
 
 Mr Ja^ies Moodie, formerly minister of Mouse- 
 wald, in the Presbytery of Lochmaben, was ad- 
 mitted to the second charge, as colleague to Mr 
 Scott, on the 11th June, 1772. Sometime after 
 Mr Moodie's induction, Mr John Duff was ordained 
 assistant to him and Mr Scott, the three ministers 
 preaching in the three churches in rotation. Messrs 
 Moodie and Duff resigned their charges in 1807, 
 along with Mr Scott, in consequence of an arrange- 
 ment made with the Town Council to that effect. 
 
 Up till the year 1806, the city of Perth con- 
 sisted of only one parish, and the ministers were 
 not confined to a particular church, but preached 
 in the three churches in rotation. That year St 
 Paul's Church was built, and the Magistrates and 
 Council, by a minute of date June 2d, 1806, con- 
 sidering that " the city and landward Parish of 
 Perth, containing 14,000 examinable persoiis, has 
 
220 PERTH. 
 
 now become too populous for one or two persons 
 to exercise the ministerial functions to the inhabi- 
 tants thereof, resolved to settle another additional 
 minister in said burgh to preach in St Paul's, and 
 perform other ministerial duties." And by another 
 minute of Council, of date the 1st day of December 
 following, they resolved " not only to carry into 
 effect the above Act, so far as it went, but also to 
 place a fourth minister in the burgh upon the 
 Establishment, whereby, instead of two Established 
 ministers as formerly, there would be four Estab- 
 lished ministers in the burgh." On the 3d day of 
 December, 1806, the Presbytery gave their sanc- 
 tion to the proposed arrangement, and application 
 having been made to the Court of Teinds, the 
 Lords Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks, 
 granted a decreet of disjunction and erection, 
 dividing the Parish of Perth into four separate 
 parishes, having the following divisions or districts 
 allocated to them, viz., " The East Church Parish 
 to comprehend the whole landward part of the 
 present parish, and also those parts of the burgh 
 and royalty lands not included in the three parishes 
 after described ; the Middle Church Parish to 
 comprehend that part of the burgh bounded by 
 the Tay on the east, by the south side of the High 
 Street on the north, by the east side of Methven 
 Street on the west, and by the north side of the 
 South Street on the south — the south side of the 
 High Street, the east side of Methven Street, and 
 the north side of South Street being included in 
 this parish ; the West Church Parish to be bounded 
 by the River Tay on the east, by the south side of 
 
PEETH. 221 
 
 South Street up to Methven Street, and from 
 thence to the south end of the Newrow on the north, 
 and from the south end of the Newrow, along the 
 Leonards Causeway to the bridge over Craigie 
 Burn, and down the course of Craigie Bum to the 
 Tay, on the west and south — the south side of the 
 South Street, the south side of the street opposite 
 King James VI. Hospital, and east side of the 
 Leonard Causeway being included in this parish ; 
 and St Paul's Church Parish to be bounded by the 
 River Tay on the east, by the north side of the 
 High Street, up to Methven Street on the south,* 
 by the east side of Methven Street to the boundary 
 of the royalty near the bridge over the lade, and 
 from thence along the said boundary of the royalty, 
 down to the River Tay on the north and west — 
 the north side of the High Street, the east side of 
 Methven Street, and all the houses within the 
 royalty boundary above described to belong to this 
 parish." 
 
 Mr Scott, and Mr Duff, ordained assistant, 
 having agreed to retu'e on stated allowances ; and 
 Mr Moodie having resigned his charge, a co- 
 temporary annalist relates that " The Council, with 
 Provost John Caw at their head, having resolved 
 to lay aside private interest and party spirit, and 
 to exert themselves with the sole view of obtaining 
 clergymen of piety and talent, sent deputations 
 through the country to hear certain gentlemen, of 
 whom a good report had been received. When 
 the election came on the Rev. Andrew Thomson 
 was appointed minister of the East Church — the 
 Rev. William Aird Thomson to the Middle 
 
222 PERTH. 
 
 Church — the Eev. John Findlay to St Paul's 
 Church — and the Rev. Donald Mackenzie to the 
 West Church. These gentlemen met with a most 
 cordial reception, and were inducted into their 
 respective charges." 
 
 The following is a list of the ministers of the 
 several Parishes of Perth down to the present 
 time : — 
 
 THE EAST CHURCH. 
 
 Mr Andrew Thomson (afterwards D.D.) was 
 translated from the parish of Sprouston, in the 
 Presbytery of Kelso, and admitted minister of the 
 East Church parish of Perth, on the 31st day of 
 March, 1808. He vfas not long, however, per- 
 mitted to remain in his new charo^e. Havinj? 
 received a unanimous Call to be minister of the 
 Parish of New Greyfriare, Edinburgh, then re- 
 cently erected, he was translated to that important 
 charge on the 21st of March, 1810. It would be 
 out of place, as it is unnecessary to say anything 
 here of the rare gifts and qualifications of Dr 
 Andrew Thomson, of his great eloquence and 
 popularity as a preacher — of his unrivalled power 
 as a speaker in the Church Courts — of his ardent 
 zeal for civil and religious liberty — and his uncom- 
 promising boldness in contending for the truth. 
 The fruits of his labours still survive. His influence 
 is stiU felt. His memory is still fresh. His "praise 
 is in all the churches." 
 
 Mr James Esdaile was translated from Mon- 
 trose, and admitted successor to Mr Andrew 
 
PERTH. 223 
 
 Thomson in the East Church, on the 29th day of 
 November, 1810. He continued for many years 
 most efficiently to discharge the pastoral duties as 
 minister of the church and parish, until growing 
 infirmity rendered it desirable for him to be released 
 therefrom. He accordingly resigned his charge to 
 the Presbytery on the 24th of April, 1844; and 
 his attached and grateful people having purchased 
 an annuity for him, he spent the peaceful evening 
 of his days at the Manse of Eescobie, the house of 
 his son, the respected minister of that parish, 
 where he died in January, 1854. 
 
 The following tribute to his memoiy will best 
 show the respect in which he was held by his 
 brethren and co-presbyters : — 
 
 ^'At Perth, the 22d February, 1854. — The 
 following tribute to the memory of the late Dr 
 Esdaile was given in by Mr Liston, approved and 
 ordered to be engrossed in his minutes, and the 
 Clerk was instructed to transmit a copy thereof to 
 the relations of the deceased. The Presbytery 
 having received information of the death of the 
 Rev. Dr James Esdaile, resolve to record their 
 sympathy with his family, and the high sense they 
 entertain of his character and attainments. Dr 
 Esdaile having been translated from the parochial 
 charge of Montrose in 1810, to the charge of the 
 East Kirk Parish of Perth, continued to discharge 
 the pastoral duties of that parish for 34 years, with 
 great ability, and a high degree of acceptance and 
 usefulness. Besides his parochial labours, Dr 
 Esdaile found leisure to gi^e to the world several 
 important literaiy works, one of which, " The Evi- 
 
224 PERTH. 
 
 dences of Christalii Theology," is well calculated to 
 confirm the student in the faith of our holy religion; 
 and another of which, " Lectures on the Shorter 
 Catechism," is equally fitted to give the youthful 
 mind a clearer understanding of that inestimable 
 summary of Christian doctrine. Whilst his contri- 
 butions to some of our standard Encyclopedias 
 afford evidence both of his literary taste and 
 attainments, and of his high philosophical powers ; 
 and his able defence of Church Establishments 
 contained in a pamphlet published by him some 
 years ago, when the public was agitated by the Vo- 
 luntary Controversy, entitled him to the gratitude 
 of the Church. From bodily infirmity, Dr Esdaile, 
 at a comparatively early age, w^as constrained to 
 retire from public life, and he carried with him 
 into his retirement, the sincere sympathy and 
 regret of his co-Presbyters, and a substantial testi- 
 mony of the regard and affection of his parishioners. 
 His death is lamented by both with affectionate 
 reminiscence." 
 
 Mr John Anderson, son of Dr Anderson, of 
 Newburgh, was translated from the Cross Church 
 of Dundee, and admitted minister of the East 
 Church on the 27th February, 1845 ; and, after 
 discharging the pastoral duties with much accept- 
 ance for upwards of seven years, he was translated 
 to the neighbouring parish of Kinnoull on the 18th 
 November, 1852. 
 
 Mr James Elder Cumming, was licensed by 
 the Presbytery of Dunoon, on the 28th November, 
 1852, and thereafter officiated for some time at 
 the Mission Station at Ardentinny, in the parish of 
 
PERTH. 225 
 
 Kilmun. Having been elected by the congregation, 
 he was ordained mmister of the East Kirk on the 
 12th of May, 1853. After labouring there for six 
 years with exemplary efficiency and much success, 
 amonoj an attached and increasins; conscreo-atlon, 
 he was translated to the Church and Parish of 
 Newington, Edinburgh, on the 6th October, 1859. 
 ^Ir Archibald Scott, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Glasgow, having been unanimously 
 elected by the congregation, and presented by the 
 Magistrates and Town Council, was ordained and 
 admitted minister of the East Kirk on the 15th 
 day of March, 1860. 
 
 MIDDLE KIRK. 
 
 Ish William Aird Thomson was the first 
 minister of the newly-erected Parish of the Middle 
 Kirk. By a remarkable coincidence, his presenta- 
 tion was laid on the table of the Presbytery on the 
 same day as that of his brother Andrew, to the 
 East Kirk. He was translated from the parish of 
 Dalziel, in the Presbytery of Hamilton, and ad- 
 mitted at Perth on the 22d April, 1808. Having 
 seceded with the Free Church, he ceased to be a 
 minister of the Church of Scotland on the 16th 
 June, 1843. 
 
 Mr JoHX Murdoch was translated from the 
 quoad sacra parish of Clarkston, in the Presbytery 
 of Hamilton, and admitted minister of the Middle 
 Kirk on the 19th day of October, 1843. 
 
226 PERTH. 
 
 WEST KIRK. 
 
 The Rev. Daniel Mackenzie was the first 
 minister of the West Kirk. Previous to the 
 disjunction and erection, he had been employed as 
 assistant to Mr Moodie, having formerly acted in 
 the same capacity to Mr Kemp, minister of Gask. 
 He was ordained and admitted on the 5th Novem- 
 ber, 1807, and on the 27th August, 1811, appointed 
 Clerk to the Presbytery, in room of Dr Anthony 
 Dow, of Kilspindie. His sun set under a cloud on 
 the 6th June, 1813 — being universally esteemed, 
 his melancholy end created a deep feeling of sorrow 
 among all classes of the community. 
 
 Mr Robert Keay, formerly minister of a 
 Chapel of Ease in the Canongate, Edinburgh, was 
 admitted minister of the West Kirk on the 2d 
 December, 1813. He was, it is said, " a man 
 eminently distinguished as a zealous and eloquent 
 preacher," but being of a delicate constitution, he 
 was taken away in the midst of his usefulness, and 
 died on the 15th October, 1819. 
 
 Mr Samuel Kennedy, son of Mr Kennedy, 
 minister of St Madoes, at the unanimous desire of 
 the congregation, was ordained minister of the 
 West Kirk'on the 18th of June, 1820. For fifteen 
 years he laboured most efficiently in the discharge 
 of all his duties, and continued to endear himself 
 more and more to the aifections of his people. 
 While visiting a family of his congregation 
 afflicted with fever, Mr Kennedy caught the infec- 
 tion, and after a few days' illness, died on the 30th 
 December, 1835. 
 
PERTH. 227 
 
 Mr Andrew Gray, formerly minister of "Wood- 
 side Chapel, Aberdeen, was admitted to the West 
 Kirk, on the 14th of July, 1836. He seceded 
 with the Free Church, and ceased to be minister 
 June 16, 1843. 
 
 Rev. Edward Eobertson, A.M., ordained to 
 the West Church of Perth, as successor to the 
 Eev. Andrew Gray, 11th November, 1843 ; trans- 
 lated to the Parish of Tibbermore, 10th July, 
 1845. 
 
 Mr David Smith, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Selkirk, was ordained on the 12th of 
 March, 1846, and translated to the United Parishes 
 of Wlston and Roberton, in the Presbytery of 
 Lanark, June 27, 1856. 
 
 Mr Robert Milne — the present talented and 
 devoted minister — was ordained on the 5th day of 
 March, 1857. 
 
 ST Paul's church. 
 
 Mr John Findlay, afterwards D.D., was 
 translated from Norrieston Chapel, in the Presby- 
 tery of Dunblane, and admitted minister of St 
 Paul's on the 19th of November, 1807. For 
 nearly forty years he discharged the duties of that 
 laborious charge with much acceptance, being one 
 of the most popular preachers of his day. He died 
 on the 4th of April, 1846. 
 
 Mr William Henry Gray a licentiate of the 
 
 Presbytery of Perth, was, on the unanimous Call 
 
 of the congregation, ordained minister of St Paul's 
 
 on the 26th of November, 1846. He was trans- 
 
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228 PERTH. 
 
 lated to Lady Tester's Churchy Edinburgh, April 
 23, 1850. 
 
 [Mr Alexander Falconer, from Inverness, 
 was ordained minister of St Paul's on the 26th 
 September, 1850, and translated to the church and 
 Parish of Denny, in the Presbytery of Stirling, on 
 the 24th April, 1856. 
 
 Mr Archibald Fleming, the present respected 
 and efficient minister, was translated from the 
 chapel at Fullartown, in the Presbytery of Ayr, 
 and admitted to St Paul's on the 18th of Decem- 
 ber, 1856. 
 
EEDGORTON. 
 
 KOGORTEWYN— ROTHGORTHIN— 
 
 KOTHGORTAN — KOCHGORTENE — 
 
 EOGORTOUN, 
 
 The parish includes the three ancient Parishes of 
 Redgorton, St SerfFs, and Liincarty, of which 
 the first belonged to the Abbey of Scone, the 
 second to Dunkeld, and the third was a parsonage 
 unattached. St Serifs was formerly the place of 
 worship ot the noble family of Ruthven, when they 
 resided at Huntingtower or Castle Ruthven ; but a 
 son of the family having been carried to St Serifs for 
 baptism, was droAvned in the Almond on the way 
 home, and ever after that tragical event the church 
 of St Mary's at Tibbermore became the Parish 
 church of the whole lands on that side of the river. 
 
 By a charter given at Kinross in the fifteenth 
 year of his reign, Alexander IT., confirms a former 
 grant to the Abbey of Scone of the church of Red- 
 gorton — "De Ecclesia de Rochgortene. . . . 
 cum decimis terris et obventionibus et omnibus 
 aliis adeam juste pertinentibus in puram et per- 
 petuam elemosinam." 
 
 The population of the parish in 1755 was 
 1,074; in 1795, 2,123; in 1821, 1,589; in 1851, 
 2,047. 
 
230 PARISH OF EEDGORTOK. 
 
 Session Eecoeds. — The earliest Register com- 
 mences with a minute of date 18th November^ 
 1706, and the Records have been kept pretty re- 
 gularly since that time, with the exception of an 
 interval from 1709 to 1715, 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Andrew Colt, ia the first of whom we 
 find any record. In the " Register of Ministers 
 and Readers in the Kirk of Scotland, from the 
 Book of the Assignation of Stipends, 1574," the 
 following entry occurs relative to this parish : — 
 
 " Ragortoun, Loncardie, Auchtergawen. 
 Andrew Colt, minister, stipend £62 2s 2fd 
 
 Scots, and kirklands. 
 
 Alexander Moncur, Reidare, at Loncardie, salary 
 
 £16 Scots, and kirklands." 
 
 IVIr William Young was minister in 1589; 
 and as he is said to have been " ane eao^it man" 
 in 1618, it is probable that he was the imme- 
 diate successor of Mr Colt. There are several 
 minutes in the Presbytery Record which give 
 a S£id account of the state of morals during hi& 
 incumbency, and show (in the words of the very 
 able New Statistical Account of the parish) that 
 " the corruption of manners which the depravity 
 of the Popish clergy had introduced and counte- 
 nanced, was not so speedily reformed as the errors 
 of their faith," We quote two minutes as illus- 
 trative of the cormption of manners, the defective 
 administration of the law, and the ancient powet 
 of the Church Courts, in civil matters :— 
 
PARISH OF REDGOETON. 231 
 
 "The Presbyterie of Perth, hauldin in the 
 revestrie of the paroch kirk thereof, the 1st day of 
 December, 1619 — Alexander Bishop of Dunkeld, 
 Moderator. The quhilk day Mr Young, minister 
 at Regorton, informs the Presbytery that Colvine 
 Pitscottie, appeirant of Luncardie, recentlie in the 
 month of November last bypast, the 23d day 
 thereof, cruellie murtherit umquhill Alexander 
 Lambe in Benchill, under silence and cloud of 
 night, committed by him in the dwelling-house of 
 Walter Quhytock, smith, within the parochin of 
 Kegorton, diocese of Dunkeld, SherifFdome of 
 Perth. The Presbyterie ordeins the said Colvine 
 Pitscottie to be summoned literatorie to compear 
 before the Presbyterie the 8th day of December 
 instant, at the tyme of melting, to hear and see him 
 ordeint to satisfy the discipline of the kirk, for the 
 removing of the sclander arising of the said mur- 
 ther, with certification quhidder he compear or 
 not, the Presbyterie will proceed against him with 
 the censure of the kirk." On the 1st of Novem- 
 ber, 1620 — " Compeirit Colvine Pitscottie, appeir- 
 and of Luncardie, and confessit his offence, in 
 committing of the murther of the umquhille Alex- 
 ander Lambe, and promises for removing of the 
 eclander to mak his publick repentance as sail be 
 ordeinit to him. The Presbyterie ordeins him to 
 mak his publick repentance, ane day in the kirk of 
 Hagortoun, on ane Sunday afoirnune, oonforme to 
 the ordinance set down in the Bulk of Discipline 
 anent murthers — quhilk he promises to do." And 
 this seems to have been all his punishment. 
 
 The other minute referred to^ is of date the 12tli 
 
232 PARISH OF REDGOETOK. 
 
 September of the same year, and shows the law- 
 lessness of these rude times, and the dangers 
 which ministers then incurred by the faithful dis- 
 charge of their duty : — 
 
 " Quhilk day, William Young, minister of Re- 
 gortoun, complains to the brethrein upon Harrie 
 Schaw, of Pitmurthlie, of the quhilk complaint 
 the tenor follows : — ^Bearend in effect that the said 
 William, upon Thursday, the 7th of September 
 instant, he being amang the stooks upon hia own 
 gleibe, in ane solitar and quhyet place callit the 
 Howe of the Park, at his meditations, m quhyet 
 and sober manner, thinking of nae evil to have 
 been said or done to him of personne or personnes 
 but to have lived under God's peace and our Sove- 
 reign Lord's. In the meantyme, the said Harrie 
 Schaw of Murthlie, having conceavit ane deadlie 
 hatred against the said William Young, for cyting 
 him before the Presbytery of Perth upone ane 
 sclander of adultery committed by him with Janet 
 Mar, the spouse of John Paton, sometyme in Pit- 
 murthlie, of sett purpois, provision and forethought, 
 fellonlie with crueltie, invadit and pursuit him 
 of his lyfe, haveing in his hands ane rung, with ane 
 long durk, or else ane dalger ; and the said Wil- 
 liam seeing him in ane rage and threatening him 
 of his lyfe, ran away, the said Harrie followed him 
 ane great space, and cried, '■ Thief, thy feit sail not 
 beir thee from_ me.' The said William Young 
 bein ane eagit man, and fearin that he suld hae 
 fellit him with the rung, cryit manie tymes God's 
 niercie ; and the said Harrie, overtaking him that 
 was fleein, callit him traitor, and askit what he- 
 
PARISH OF EEDGORTON. 233 
 
 said to the Presbyterie ; and when he the said 
 William answerit, 'He micht speir at his gude 
 freend Mr John Straquhan," the said Harrie com- 
 mandit him to sweir that he would never speak 
 againe of him to the Presbyterie, or be the bluid 
 of Jesus he would presentlie die ; and with great 
 difficultie was staid from furder troubling him be 
 some poor men that cam frae the sheirin of the 
 corns ; and immediately thereafter, the said Henrie 
 made vaunt of his so doing to his ain sheirers, and 
 expresslie declared that he had causit the minister 
 sweir and cry manie times God's mercie. The 
 Presbyterie ordains information hereof to be sent 
 to my Lord Bishop of St Andrews, to rais ane 
 summon ds to summond the said Harrie Schaw 
 before the hie commission for the said violent and 
 barbarous fact. At a subsequent meeting, 'the 
 said Harrie having with great humilitie con- 
 fessit the samyne, and every part thereof,' the 
 Presbyterie ordains him to mak his publick repent- 
 ance in the kirk of Ragortoun, ane day in lyning 
 clothes, and thair exprimely confess he did the 
 minister wrang in manner aforesaid." 
 
 Mr Young's death was reported to the Presby- 
 terie in November, 1625, 
 
 Mr John Cuickshanks was ordained and 
 admitted minister of Redgorton, on the 1st of 
 March, 1626. He was one of nearly 400 ministers 
 of the Church of Scotland who were ejected from 
 their parishes on the restoration of Episcopacy in 
 1662, and of whom a list is given by Woodrow, in 
 the second volume of his history. After his ejec- 
 tion, Mr Cruickshanks went to Ireland, like many 
 
234 PARISH OF KEDC^OETON. 
 
 others of his outed brethren. He had returned;, 
 however, before 1666, for he was then in Gallo- 
 way, and, provoked by the cruelties inflicted on 
 the Covenanters of that district by Sir James 
 Turner, took an active part in stirring up the 
 people to that rash and ill-advised rising which 
 was so completely broken and put down at the 
 Battle of Pentland. Mr Cruickshanks marched 
 with the insurgents from Dumfries towards Edin- 
 burgh, preached to them at Lanark, where they 
 solemnly renewed the Covenant, and was among 
 the first slain bj Dalziell's troopers in the defeat 
 
 at Rullion Green, on the day of November, 
 
 1666. 
 
 Mr James Carnegie, ordained 29th March, 
 1665, and died in the month of April, 1681. 
 
 Mr Patrick Auchterlony passed his trials 
 before the Presbytery, with a view to his settle- 
 ment in Redgorton,on 23d day of June, 1681, and 
 was probably admitted soon after that date, but no 
 record has been preserved of the proceedings of 
 Presbytery from the 21st September, 1681, to the 
 30th July, 1690. He continued in the charge 
 until after the Revolution, as appears from the 
 following minute, of date the 26th November, 
 1690:— 
 
 " This day there was a petition presented by 
 several of the Perth elders, representing sundrie 
 complaints against Mr Alexander Balneas, incum- 
 bent in Tippermore ; Mr John Omey, incumbent 
 at Methven ; Mr William Smythe, incumbent at 
 Moneydie ; Mr Patrick Auchterloney, incumbent 
 at Kogertoune; Mr John Blair, incumbent at Kil- 
 
PARISH OP REDGORTON. 235 
 
 splndie; and Mr John Gall, incumbent at Kin- 
 fauns — craving that they might be considered for 
 the faults contained in the petition — which the 
 Presbyterie taking into their consideration, they 
 find it incovenient to processe so many of them at 
 ane time, and therefore has appointed four of them 
 only, viz., Mr Alexander Balneal vs, Mr Patrick 
 Auchterlony, Mr John Blair, and Mr John Gall, 
 to be cited against next Presbyterie day, and 
 appoints the Moderator to give warrant to John 
 Cruickshanks, Presbytery officer, to that effect." 
 
 After process, Mr Aucterlony was deposed from 
 the ministry for disaffection to the Government of 
 William and Mary, and for "not keeping Fasts 
 nor Thanksgivings, nor making intimation, nor 
 reading Proclamation thereanent." The church of 
 Kedgorton was declared vacant on the 18th 
 January, 1691. 
 
 Mr George Blackie was ordained on the 25th 
 April, 1700, as appears from the following minute: — 
 
 " The Presbytery delivered a Presbyterial Call 
 to Mr George Blackie, together with the popular 
 Call which he had got before from the people of 
 Kogortoun to be their minister. His edict was 
 called at the most patent door of the church, and 
 none appearing to object to his ordination and ad- 
 mission, the Presbytery appoints the same to 
 go on." 
 
 In 1702 Mr Blackie received a Call from the 
 Parish of Caputh, but the Synod, on appeal, re- 
 fused to transport him. 
 
 On the 31st May, 1710, it was reported to the 
 Presbytery that " Mr George Blackie is gone out 
 
236 PARISH OF EEDGORTON. 
 
 of our Presbytery to be admitted minister of Incli- 
 ture and Rossie, within the bounds of the Presby- 
 tery of Dundee." 
 
 On the 16th November following, the parish- 
 ioners gave a call to Mr Thomas Mitchell, minister 
 at Abernyte, but the Church Courts refused to 
 translate him. 
 
 Mr GrEORaE Metk, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Meigle, having received a Call, was ordained 
 and admitted on the 25th March, 1713, and died 
 in 1755. His son, Patrick, was successively 
 minister of Moneydie and Kinnoull. 
 
 Mr George Frazer was ordained minister of 
 Eedgorton on the 26th August, 1756, and translated 
 to Moneydie on the 27th May, 1662. 
 
 Mr David Moxcrieffe was ordained on the 
 12th May, 1763, and died on the 7th October, 
 1811. 
 
 Mr William Liston, licensed by the Presby- 
 tery of Dunfermline in 1805, was ordained and 
 admitted on the 27th September, 1812. Previous 
 to his admission he had acted as assistant, first to 
 the Rev. Dr Moodie of St Andrew's Church, Edin- 
 burgh, and thereafter to Dr Carfrae, minister of 
 Dunbar. For many years Mr Liston has taken a 
 prominent part in the Courts of the Church, from 
 the lowest to the highest ; and in 1852 was ap- 
 pointed successor to Mr Touch, of Kinnoull, as 
 Clerk of the Synod of Perth and Stirling. In his 
 earlier years Mr Liston was a diligent and success- 
 ful student ; ardently devoted to natural history in 
 all its branches, he attended the medical classes 
 when at College as an amateur^ and is a learned 
 
PAKISH OF REDGORTON. 237 
 
 and accomplislied botanist. The report relative to 
 Redgorton drawn up by him is one of the fullest 
 and best in the new Statistical Account of Scot- 
 land. Mr Liston is highly esteemed by his 
 parishioners, and two years ago received a valuable 
 testimonial of their grateful appreciation of the 
 kind interest which he has taken in their spiritual 
 and temporal well-bemg during the whole of his 
 long incumbency. It may be added that Mr Lis- 
 ton is bound to the Church by many tender ties, 
 having more ecclesiastical connections and relation- 
 ships than perhaps any minister now living. He is 
 the son of a minister — The Rev. Robert Liston 
 of Aberdour, who was Moderator of the General 
 Assembly in 1787. 
 
 Grandson of two ministers — Mr John Liston of 
 Aberdour ; Mr John Hardy of Culross. 
 
 Brother of a minister — Mr Henry Liston of 
 Ecclesmachen. 
 
 Father-in-law of a minister — Mr Thomas Hardy, 
 of Fowlis- Wester. 
 
 Brother-in-law of three ministers — Dr Meikle- 
 john, of Abercorn, and Professor of Church His- 
 tory, Edinburgh ; Dr Paul of TuUynessle ; Dr 
 Robertson, Professor of Church History, Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Uncle of two ministers and a professor — Dr 
 William Meiklejohn, Calcutta; Mr Robert Meikle- 
 john, Strathdon ; Mr David Liston, Professor of 
 Hebrew, Edinburgh. 
 
 Nephew of a minister — Dr Hardy, one of the 
 ministers of Edinburgh, and Professor of Church 
 History. 
 
238 PARISH OF REDGORTON. 
 
 Cousin of a minister — Mr Charles Hardy, of 
 Dunning. 
 
 Cousin, once removed, of a minister — Mr Thomas 
 Hardy, Fowlis- Wester ; and 
 
 Father of a promising young divinity student. 
 
RHYND. 
 BYND— EIND-^RHIND— EHYND. 
 
 Note.— The earliest notice wliicli we find of 
 tliis parish is in 1231 ; when an agreement was 
 entered into between the Canons of Scone and the 
 Prior of the Isle of May anent the tithes of the 
 fishings of the Tay, set forth in the deed in the 
 Chartulary of the Priory of St Andrews. 
 
 In 1561, a Mr John Logic attested the value of 
 the vicarage, and is thought to have been the 
 vicar. He says " the vicarage is worth in ye hail 
 20 lib." 
 
 In 1567, Ehynd, as well as Poty, Moncrieffe. 
 Drone, Abernethie, Eglismagirdill, and Arngask, 
 was under the pastoral superintendence of Mr 
 *^ Patrick Wemys, minister at Dunbarney ;" and 
 " reidars" were stationed at all the places except 
 Poty and Ehynd. 
 
 In 1574, Mr Patrick Wemys had a stipend of 
 £148 17s 9Jd Scots ; and under him were—" An- 
 drew Dysart, reidar at Dumbarney, salary, £20 ; 
 Johnn Wemys, do., at Abernethie, salary, 
 £36 13s 4d ; Johnne Pitcairne, do. at Eynd, £16 
 •and kJ. i Johnne Severax, do. at Eglismagii'dle, 
 
240 PARISH OF RHYND. 
 
 £20 and k.l. ; Alexander Wardlaw, do. at Arngask, 
 £14 and k.l. ; Poty, MoncriefFe, and Drone neidis 
 na reidaris." 
 
 In 1587, 8tli August, as appears from a notice 
 in the Register of Perth, Rhynd was vacant, pro- 
 bably in consequence of the death or translation of 
 Mr John Pitcairn. 
 
 The Population of the parish in 1755, was 
 498 ; in 1795, 495 ; in 1837, 400; and in 1851, 338. 
 
 Mr John Wood was minister of Rhynd in 1618, 
 when the first volume of the Presbytery Record 
 (now extant) commences ; and it is probable that 
 he was the first minister, having been ordained 
 about the year 1587, on the death or removal of 
 Mr John Pitcairn, reidare aforesaid. He was 
 minister in 1591. 
 
 Mr John Wood, junior, was admitted helper 
 and colleague to his father, as minister of Rhynd 
 (as reported to the Presbytery by the Bishop of 
 Dunkeld on the last day of April, 1628), in conse- 
 quence of the following petition, of date 8th No- 
 vember, 1626 : — 
 
 " Wliilk day compeared the Barron Fingaske 
 Dundas, with some others of the gentlemen and 
 parishioners of Rynd, and desyred of the Presby- 
 terie — That, in respect of Mr Johnne Wood, 
 elder, his age and infirmities, so that he is not able 
 sufficiently to attend the cuir and service of said 
 kirk, they would give their testificat to the Arch- 
 bishop of St Andrews, witnessing the qualifications 
 and conversation of Mr Johnne Woode, younger, 
 his sone, in so far as he is heard, that so the rest of 
 his tryells may go forward, and the said Mr Johnne 
 
PARISH OF RHYND. 241 
 
 Woode, younger, may be recommendlt as an helper 
 with his father in the said ministrie. — Whilk 
 petition granted."' 
 
 Mr Wood, junior, was deposed by the Provincial 
 Assembly of St Andrews, for immorality, in April, 
 1630, and ordered to make his public repentance 
 in the parish kirk of Perth ; which he accordingly 
 did, with every sign of deep and sincere penitence, 
 as appears from the following minute : — . 
 
 " At Perth, the 2d day of June, 1630— Whilk 
 day reported by the ministers of Perth, that Mr 
 Johnne Wood, younger, had compeared upon the 
 public plase of repentance in the parish kirk of 
 Perth, and there, with many tears, gave great 
 evidence of his unfained repentance, to the great 
 comfort, edification, and gud will of all the people : 
 and mourning greatly for his fault, with many 
 tears, moved the people to weep abundantly in 
 lyk manner." 
 
 At a subsequent meeting of Presbytery, "a peti- 
 tion was given in, subscryvit be John Lord 
 Weemys, Sir John Moncrieffe of that Ilk, Knight 
 Baronet, and John Dundas of Fingask, for them- 
 selves, and in name of their tenants, parochiners,'' 
 praying that, " in respect of the weakness of Mr 
 Johnne Wood, elder, their minister, Mr James 
 Carmichael, might be appointed to help him in the 
 ministration of word and sacraments." But Mr 
 Wood's consent not bavins: been obtained to this 
 arrangement, it was not carried out ; and the old 
 man continued himself to discharge the duties of 
 the ministry, with occasional help from his co- 
 Presbyters. On the 4th of May following,. Sir 
 
242 PARISH OF rhy:^d. 
 
 John Moncrleffe and Fingask again appeared 
 before the Presbytery, and petitioned that Mr 
 John Wood, younger, should be reponed to the 
 ministry as helper to his father. This, however, 
 was opposed by Lord Weemys. Mr John Wood, 
 elder, died in December, 1631, and the Presbytery 
 petitioned the Archbishop of St Andrews to repone 
 his son. The Archbishop replied that he had 
 brought a blank presentation from Court, and 
 would willingly have granted their petition and 
 given it to Mr John Wood ; but " as he found 
 my Lord Weemys would not consent, he must 
 give it to another." 
 
 Mr Alexander Petrie, after repeated delays 
 on the part of the Presbytery to take him on 
 probationary trials, was ordained by the Arch- 
 bishop of St Andrews, in the month of July, 1632; 
 but he not being previously examined by the 
 Presbytery, according to the law and practice of 
 the Church, they considered their jurisdiction and 
 privileges infringed by the proceeding, as appears 
 from the following minute : — 
 
 " Perth, the 18th of July, 1632— Whilk day the 
 brethrein, understanding that Mr Alexander Petrie 
 had gotten ordination to the Rynd Kirke without 
 the ordinarie tryells of the Presbyterie — notwith- 
 standing, for keeping of gud order, the Presbyterie 
 desires him that he would give some tryells. 
 Whereupon, he consented, by voluntarie submis- 
 sion, to add the next day to the exercise, and 
 thereafter to exercise, to give the brethrein con- 
 tentment, so that they will not call it a tryell." 
 
 In 1638, Mr Petrie was one of the Commis- 
 
PAKISH OF EHYND. 243 
 
 aioners, along with Lord Wemyss, from the 
 Presbytery of Perth, to the famous Glasgow 
 Assembly, and as a member of committees, took a 
 prominent part in the proceedings of that memor- 
 able Assembly. In 1643, he was translated, on 
 the recommendation of the General Assembly, to 
 the Scotch Church in Holland, wdiere he wrote his 
 " History of the Catholick Church," and continued 
 in active usefulness till his death. 
 
 Mr James Gillespie, a relative probably of 
 Mr George Gillespie, Lord Wemyss' minister 
 and friend at Wemyss, better known as a member 
 of the Westminster Assembly, and one of the 
 ministers of Edinburgh, v/as ordained and admitted 
 on the 11th of June, 1645. At a meeting for privy 
 censures, held on the 2Gth September, 1665, he 
 was " approvin in lyif and doctrine," but seems to 
 have been ejected soon thereafter, for some cause 
 which does not appear on the Record, probably for 
 his opposition to Prelacy. Of date the 18th July, 
 1666, there is the following minute : — 
 
 " Received a letter from the Earl of Wemyss,. 
 shewing that by my Lord Primat, his order, he was 
 to settle Mr John Smyth at the church of the 
 parish of Rhynd, and desired the Presbyterie to 
 give their concurrence for procuring the keys of 
 the manse thereof from Mr James Gillespie, la»t 
 minister there." 
 
 Mr John Smyth was accordingly admitted in 
 July or August, 1666, but his name does not 
 appear on the sederunt at any meeting of Presby- 
 tery, and he seems to have died after a very short 
 
 incumbency. That he was inducted is evident, 
 p 
 
244 PARISH OP RHYNDo 
 
 from the fact, that at a visitatiofi of the parish by 
 the Presbytery, on the 11th of July, 1677, one of 
 the elders " being interrogate anent the patrimonie 
 of the poore," stated that " Mr John Symth, late 
 minister there, left for the use of the poore, one 
 hundredth merks, whereof there was fourtie pounds 
 in their box, and fourtie merks as yet resting on 
 the lands of Fingask and Langlan." 
 
 Mr Gabriel Semple " was admitted to the 
 functione of the holy ministrie at the church of 
 Rind," on the 5th day of September, 1668. This 
 is not Mr Gabriel Semple, the zealous Covenanter, 
 mentioned by Woodrow, who was ejected ftom the 
 Parish of Kirkpatrick-Durham, and who, after 
 being present at the Battle of Pentland, and fre- 
 quently fined and imprisoned, fled into England,, 
 and after the Revolution was settled in Jedburgh, 
 " where he continued very useful in the ministry 
 till the year 1706, when he got to the joy of his 
 Lord." 
 
 On the 11th of July, 1677, a libel was given in 
 to the Presbytery, at the instance of several 
 of the heritors, charging Mr Semple with "gross 
 and scandalous miscarriages in his office and 
 conversation." The matter having been referred 
 to the Archbishop, he appointed a commission "for 
 the full examination and cognizance of that affair.'* 
 Mr Semple, however, seems either to have fled, or 
 resigned his charge, for, at next meeting of Presby- 
 tery, a letter was laid on the table from the Arch- 
 bishop, "desiring them to take Mr William Popley, 
 student of Divinitie, upon his try alls, in order to 
 
PARISH OF RHYND. MS 
 
 his admissione to the functlone of the ministrie at 
 the church of Eincl." 
 
 Mr William Popley was accordingly admitted 
 on the 16th of May, 1678, and maintained in pos- 
 session for several years after the Revolution, 
 mainly through the influence of the Countess of 
 Wemyss, In 1694, the Presbytery instituted a 
 process against him and several other non-con- 
 forming ministers, as appears from the following 
 minute : — 
 
 " At Perth, the 24th October, 1692— The Pres- 
 bytrie, conforme to the appointment of the last 
 Synod, appoints the non- conform Incumbents 
 within their bounds, viz., Mr William Poplie, 
 Incumbent at Rhind ; Mr Thomas Hall, Incum- 
 bent at Symido's ; Mr John Gall, Incumbent at 
 Kinfauns ; and Mr James Roy, Incumbent at 
 Trinitie Gaske — to be cited against the next Pres- 
 byterie day." 
 
 In consequence of this citation, Messrs Popley, 
 Hall, and Gall compeared, " and declining the 
 authoritie of the Presbyterie, they appealed there- 
 frae to the next lawful General Assemblic, and in 
 the meantime to the King's protection, and pro- 
 tested against any further procedure against them." 
 Here the matter seems to have rested until 1696, 
 when, on a new complaint, Mr Poplie was sum- 
 moned before the Privy Council, when he sub- 
 scribed a resignation of the parish, and gave it to 
 the King's Advocate, that he might deliver it to 
 the Presbytery or their delegate. Notwithstanding 
 this resignation, however, he continued in the 
 parish, preaching in fields and private houses until 
 
246 PARISH OF RHYND. 
 
 1700, when, by a special act of Privy Council, h& 
 was compelled to leave the district. 
 
 Mr Thomas Fisher was translated from the 
 Parish of Auchtergaven, and admitted to Rhynd 
 on the 6th October, 1699. He was the father of 
 the author of Fisher s Catechism^ and died on the 
 24th March, 1721. 
 
 Mr Francis Ferguson was ordained and. 
 admitted minister of Rhynd on the 5th April, 1722; 
 and died there on the ]4th September, 1729. 
 
 Mr John Moncrieffe was ordained and ad- 
 mitted on the 8th April, 1731, and died on the 
 26th April, 1761. He was proprietor of Tipper- 
 malloch, in the Parish of Methven, and, as an 
 heritor of that parish, took an active part in 
 opposing the settlement of Dr Oswald, in 1749-50. 
 He married Margaret, daughter of Archibald 
 Moncrieffe, minister of Blackford, ancestor of 
 Sir Henry Wellwood Moncrieffe and the present 
 Lord Advocate for Scotland. 
 
 Mr William Taylor was ordained 16th March, 
 1762, and died 10th June, 1814. He married 
 Katherine, daughter of John Hay of Paris. 
 
 Mr James Traquhair was ordained assistant 
 and successor to Mr Taylor, on the 24tli April, 
 1811. In consequence of a complaint by the 
 parishioners, and libel submitted to the Presbytery, 
 Mr Traquhair was, on the 27th January, 1841, 
 suspended si7ie die from the exercise of his ministry, 
 and died in Edinburgh on the 11th May, 1849. 
 
 Mr John Struthers, afterwards F.S.A. Scot., 
 a native of Lesmahago, and licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Kirkcudbright, upon a presentation from, 
 
PARISH OF RHTND. 247 
 
 the Earl of Wemyss, granted in compliance with a 
 numerously-signed petition from the parishioners, 
 wa^, on the 12th August, 1841, ordained assistant 
 and successor to Mr Traquhair, and translated to 
 the Parish of Prestonpans, in the Presbytery of 
 Haddington, on the 4th January, 1844. 
 
 Mr liiCHARD Ramsay, translated from the 
 quoad sacra church of Thornton, in the Presbytery 
 of Kirkcaldy, and admitted 7th January, }847« 
 
SCONE, 
 
 SCONA— SCON— SCOAN— SCHON™ 
 SKUrN—SCOWNE—SCOONE— SCONE. 
 
 It is said to have been called " The Royal Cit j 
 of Scone" so long ago as 906. Another tradition 
 says that " The Stone of Destiny" was brouglit from 
 DunstafFnage to Scone in 838. The Pictish 
 Chronicle states that " Constantine, the son of Ed^ 
 and Kellach the Bishop^ together with the Scots,, 
 solemnly vowed to observe the laws and discipline 
 of faith, the rights of the Churches and the Gospel 
 on the Hill of Credulity, near the Eoyal City of 
 Scoan." There was a foundation of Culdees here 
 before the time of Alexander!., in whose reign the 
 church of Scone was dedicated to '^ the Holy 
 Trinity, St Marie, St Michael, St John, St Law- 
 rence, and St Augustine." The Chronicle of 
 Melrose states that in 1115 the church of Scon was 
 delivered up to Canons Regular of St Augustine 
 irom the Church of St Oswald at Nastlay, near 
 Pontefract, who deprived the Culdees of almost 
 all their possessions, and founded the Abbey. 
 From that time down to the era of the Reforma- 
 tion, the Abbey and Church of Scone are famous 
 in the annals of the country. On the 11th May, 
 15V59,. John Knox preached liis memorable sermoEt 
 
PAEISH OF SCONE. 249 
 
 against the adoration of saints and images in the 
 church of St John's, Perth, when the work of 
 demolition began. On the 27th of that month, 
 the furious mob proceeded to Scone, and burned 
 the Abbey and other religious houses to the 
 ground. It is said that the rabble acted under the 
 direction of Knox, who told them " that the best 
 way to keep the rooks fmm returning was to pull 
 down their nests.'' But his own words in his his- 
 tory indicate that he disappr-oved of their proceed- 
 ings. After describing the circumstance, he says 
 — " So was that Abbay and place appointed to 
 sackage, in doing whereof they took noe lang de- 
 liberation, but committed the hoUe to the merci- 
 ment of fyre, whereat no small number of us wer 
 offendit." 
 
 The patrimony of the Abbey was erected into a 
 temporal Lordship by James VI., in 1608, in favour 
 of Sir David Murray of Gospertie, who was created 
 Lord Scoon. 
 
 The Population of the parish in 1755 was 
 S89 ; 1795, 1,442 ; 1851, 2,381, 
 
 Session Eecords. — The earliest €ntry is on 
 17th Feb., 1622, and the Record goes on to 7th 
 November, 1647. There is no Register of any 
 kind for th« next twenty-seven years. From 1673 
 to 1688, thsare are some memoranda of births. 
 From 1688 to 1716, nothing whatever. From 
 1716 to 174-0, some brief notices. Another gap 
 from 1 740 to 1762. There are Registers of Births 
 from 1762 to 1772, and Minutes of Session from 
 1773 to 1787. From 1787 to 1832, there are only 
 a few registrations of births and marriages. From 
 
250 PARISH OF SCONE. 
 
 1832y regular Session Kecords have been kept til! 
 the present time. 
 
 MINISTEES, 
 
 ]Mr Thomas Morison was minister in 1574, agt 
 appears from the '^ Register of Ministers and 
 Reidars." His salary was £100 Scots, and he had 
 under his superintendence Readers at Scone, Cam- 
 busmichaely and St Martins, The Reader at Scone 
 waa " James Pitcarne," with a salary o»f £16 Scotsy 
 and kirk landa, 
 
 Mr John Abercrombie was ordained in 1584, 
 and died in 1623, as mentioned belo-w, 
 
 Mr George Grahame or Graeme, son of 
 George Graeme of Inchbrako, was minister in 
 1601, but had been appointed Bishop of Dun- 
 blane sometime before 1604. He had, at first, 
 been a zealous Presbyterian, but was afterwards 
 gained over by the Court party. And Calder- 
 wood says — ^^Ple entered upon his Bisboprick 
 without acknowledging the kirk, against many 
 his promises made in the contrair in open as- 
 sembhe," having on one occasion said — "I would 
 he were hanged aboon all thieves that presseth not 
 to the uttermost to see the cautions keepit to keep 
 out of the kirk the corruptions, pride, and tyrannie 
 of the Bishops." In 1615, he succeeded Mr James 
 Law, as Bi&hop of Orkney, on the promotion of 
 Mr Law to the City of Glasgow. Mr Graeme^ 
 when at Scone^ was appointed tutor or guardian 
 to the sons of ]\Ir Smythe of Braco. He carried 
 his pupils with him to Orkney^ where they botk 
 
PARISH OF SCONE. 251 
 
 aettled and acquired large estates — their guardian 
 managing their affairs with great fidehty and 
 economy. Patrick, the eldest, married Catherine 
 Graeme, the daughter of his benefactor, and from 
 her are descended that worthy family, the Smythes 
 of Methven — her son, Patrick, having sold hie 
 estates in Orkney, and purchased Methven, about 
 the middle of the seventeenth century. 
 
 Keith, in his Catalogue of Bishops, gives the 
 following account of Bishop Graeme : — 
 
 '''■ George Graeme, son of George Graeme of Inch- 
 braco, by Mary, daughter of Rollo of Duncrub, 
 was minister at Scone, and then Bishop of Dun- 
 blane, and from that translated to the See of Ork- 
 ney in 1615, where he continued till the year 1638. 
 He was very rich, and, being threatened by the 
 Assembly at Glasgow, he renounced his Episcopal 
 function ; and, in a letter to that extravagant 
 Assembly, acknowledged the unlawfulness of his 
 office, and declared his unfeigned sorrow and grief 
 for his having exercised such a sinful office in the 
 Church. By this submission, being only deposed 
 from his Episcopal functions, he was not excom- 
 municated by the Assembly, as the far greater part 
 of his brethren the Bishops ; and thereby he saved 
 his estate of Gorthie, and the money he had upon 
 bond, which otherwise would all have fallen in 
 escheat." 
 
 Mr David Weemys is the next minister of 
 whom we have any certain accounts ; but there 
 seems to have been one at least between him 
 and Bishop Grahame. Mr Weemys is supposed 
 io have been the son of Mr Patrick Weemys, who 
 
t5t PARISH OF SCONE. 
 
 was minister at Dunblane from the Reformation 
 until after 1611. He was ordained and admitted 
 to Scone on the 24th day of March, 1620, as ap- 
 pears from the following minute : — 
 
 "Perth, 29th March, 1620.— Whilk day my 
 Lord Bishop of Dunkeld reported that, on the 24th 
 of this instant, Mr David Weemys was ordained 
 minister to the kirke and parochin of Scone, by 
 himself and remanent brethren that were appointed 
 thereto, and that Mr William Drummond teichit, 
 and after sermon, the said Mr David was ordained 
 and solemnly received by my Lord Scone, with 
 one uniforme consent of the elders, deacons, and 
 hail communicants of the said parochine." 
 
 It does not appear from the Record that he was 
 ordained conjunct minister or helper, which was 
 common enough at that period ; but that there 
 was a minister alive at the date of his induction, 
 who either was then, or had previously been, 
 minister of Scone, appears from the following 
 minute : — 
 
 " Perth, Decimo-quinto, January, 1623. — Na 
 exercise. The hail brethren passed to Scone, 
 to the buriale of umquhyle Mr John Abercrombie, 
 minister of Scone." 
 
 A ^Ir John Abercrombie, probably the same, 
 was a minister either at Scone or somewhere in 
 the neighbourhood of Perth in 1586, and, along 
 with the ministers of Perth, Kinnoul, and Dun- 
 barnie, was appointed a Commission to try the 
 Bishop of Dunkeld, if, at any time, they found 
 occasion of slander to arise by him in life, doctrine, 
 or conversation. 
 
PARISH OF SCONE. 253 
 
 Mr David Wemyss had four sons, viz., John, 
 ordained minister of Dunbarney in 1665; Mungo, 
 first minister at Glendevon, and afterwards at 
 Aberdalgie ; George, ordained assistant and suc- 
 cessor at Scone in 1656 ; and a fourth, who was 
 minister at Lecropt. He died in 1664. 
 
 Mr George Weemys, as above stated, was or- 
 dained helper and conjunct minister with his father 
 on the 27th August, 1656. Woodrow — vol. 1., p. 
 66 — speaks of a " Mr Alexander Moncrieffe, minis- 
 ter at Scone" (probably Scoonie in Fife), as having 
 been present on the 23d August, 1660, along with 
 Mr Guthrie, of Stirling, Mr Murray, of Methven, 
 and several others, at the drawing up of " an address 
 and supplication to the King, congratulating his 
 Majesty on his return, humbly putting him in mind 
 of his own and the nation's covenanting with the 
 Lord, and praying that his reign might be like that 
 of David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, and Hezekiah." 
 In consequence of which supplication, all who were 
 present were committed to close prison in the 
 Castle of Edinburgh. "Mr James Guthrie was 
 never liberated till a glorious martyrdom made him 
 free, and the rest underwent very great hardships." 
 So says the historian ; but he must be under some 
 mistake about Mr Moncrieffe, as the two Weemys 
 — father and son — were both ministers at Scone at 
 the date he specifies. There is a hiatus in the Re- 
 cord of Presbytery from March 27, 1661, till 
 October 29, 1662 ; but at meetings held on these 
 days, both of their names appear on the sederunt, 
 and at the former of these meetings, they were 
 both " appro vyn in lyfF and doctrine." Mr George 
 
554 PARISH OP SCONE. 
 
 Weemye either died or was translated before the 
 18th day of July, 1666, at which date the church 
 was vacant, as appears from the following minute: — 
 
 " Compeared Mr Patrick Ballingall in name of 
 the Heritors and Paroch of Scone, desyring the 
 Presbyterie to appoint some of their number to 
 supplie the kirk in the vacancie." 
 
 Mr John Liddail or Liddel was translated 
 from the Parish of Forgandenny to the Parish of 
 Scone. In his presentation to Forgandenny, Mr 
 Liddel is styled " Chaplain to the Bishop of Dun- 
 keld." He is mentioned in the minute of the last 
 meeting of Presbytery before the Revolution, and 
 is said, in the New Statistical Account, to have died 
 m June, 1686. 
 
 Mr John Murray. There is no record of 
 Presbytery extant from 1681 till after the Revolu- 
 tion; but the statistical account says that Mr 
 Murray was minister in 1687. 
 
 Mr William Chrystie was the next minister, 
 but after a long vacancy. In consequence of many 
 of the heritors and parishioners being disaffected 
 to the new order of things, both in Church and 
 State, it was several years before the churches 
 '^ benorth the Tay" were fully " plan tit" with 
 Presbyterian ministers. The Presbytery of Perth, 
 with which there was associated the Presbytery of 
 Dunkeld, including Weera, and half the Presby- 
 tery of Auchterarder, had no small difficulty in 
 getting ministers settled in many of the parishei 
 within their bounds. Thus six years after the Re- 
 volution, we find the following minute : — ■ 
 
 "Perth, 19th September, 1694.— There being a 
 
PARISH OF SCONE. 255 
 
 lait act of Councile in favour of Presbyteries, ap- 
 poynting the keys of all vacant churches to be 
 given to the respective church Judicatories ; and 
 the Presbytery, considering that there are many 
 great irregularities contrair to authoritie and laws, 
 committed by the havers of the keys of those 
 vacant churches, viz., their inviting and making 
 patent doors for depryved persons, and others not 
 allowed by them to preach, that occasions great con- 
 fluences of disaffected persons to meet together, 
 which is a business of dangerous consequence. 
 Therefore the Presbytery resolves something shall 
 be done, for putting the Act of Councele in execu- 
 tion ; and therefore they appoint the Moderator to 
 demand and require the keys of the vacant kirk of 
 Kilspindie, from the Laird of Kilspindie, patron, or 
 other parties havers thereof, and give account of 
 his diligence the next Presbytery day." 
 
 Accordingly, next day, the Moderator reported 
 that he had applied to the Laird of Kilspindie^ 
 and to the late incumbent, for the keys of said 
 church, and been refused, whereupon " the Pres- 
 bytery finding it their duty to proceed further in 
 that matter conform to law ; therefore they ap- 
 poynt Mr David Shaw shall go to the Viscount of 
 Stormonth and require the keys of the kirk of 
 Scone, and Mr David Meldrum to go to the Lord 
 Nairn to require they keys of the kirks of Red- 
 gorton and Auchtergaven, and to report their 
 diligence next Presbytery day." The Presbytery, 
 after " having used all civilitie, and done all they 
 could, but to no purpose," resolved, on the 6th 
 February, 1695, to proceed by letters against the 
 
256 PARISH OP SCONE. 
 
 parties presumed to have the keys of Ine respective 
 
 vacant churches, viz., (inter alios), " against 
 
 Murray, Earl of Stormonth, and the Beddell 
 
 of Scone, as havers of the keys of the vacant kirk 
 of Scone." The kirk was still vacant in October^ 
 1696, when, in a report to the Synod of the 
 vacant kirks within their bounds under the King's 
 patronage, the Presbytery " condescends upon the 
 parishes of Scone and Klnfauns, in the Presbyterie 
 of Perth." And It was not until repeated applica- 
 tions to Lord Stormonth, and long delays, that on 
 the 31st of August, 1698, "the Presbytery or- 
 dained the said Mr Chrystie, minister of the Gospel 
 at Scone parish, with solemn prayer and imposition 
 of hands, and other solemnities in the like cases. 
 Thereafter getting insiitutlon by the Moderator's 
 deliverance to him of ane byble and bellstring." 
 Mr Chrystie's death was reported to the Presby- 
 tery on the 8th October, 1701. He bequeathed a 
 sum of money for behoof of the poor of the parish, 
 to be managed by the Kirk-session, under the 
 superintendence of the Presbytery. 
 
 Mr James Stewakt was, after a long vacancy, 
 ordained on the 2d January, 1707. There were 
 difficulties in the way of his settlement, he having 
 the Gaelic language, and Gaelic preachers being 
 very scarce at the time. He seems to have bound 
 himself to leave Scone for a Gaelic parish so soon 
 as it was offered to him. Accordingly, on the 10th 
 day of September, he was translated from Scone 
 to Moulin. 
 
 Mr Thomas Schaav was ordained on the 20th 
 July, 1709. The exact time of hi3 death has not 
 
PARISH OF SCONE. 257 
 
 been ascertained. But as he is marked as absent 
 from a great many meetings of Presbytery (pro- 
 bably from indisposition), previous to the 27th 
 November, 1745, when his name appears for the 
 last time ; and as the parish v/as vacant, and 
 supplies appointed when the Presbytery again met 
 on the 2Gth February, 1746, after the suppression 
 of the Rebellion, it is likely that he died during 
 the interval. 
 
 Mr David Ckaigie was ordained on the 25th 
 February, 1748, after long litigation. The Pres- 
 bytery, in the exercise of the jus devolutumy mo- 
 derated in a Call at lar2;e. There were two 
 candidates, Mr William Currie and Mr Lachlan 
 Taylor. For the former there voted 15 heritors, 
 and for the latter 15 heritors, 7 elders, and 150 
 heads of families. The Presbytery sustained the 
 Call in favour of Mr Taylor. Lord Stormont and 
 other heritors carried the case by appeal to the 
 General Assembly, who reversed the sentence of 
 the Presbytery, and appointed to moderate in a 
 new Call, setting aside both Mr Currie and Mr 
 Taylor. 
 
 Mr Craigie was translated to be one of the 
 ministers of St Andrews, on the 31st of January, 
 1754. 
 
 Mr James Knox was ordained and admitted 
 minister of Scone on the 14th August, 1754. His 
 admission is remarkable, as having been on a pre- 
 sentation by Lord Stormont's Commissioner, 
 whereas his predecessor was admitted on a Call. 
 This may be referred to as one instance among 
 many which show that it was many years after 
 
258 PARISH OF SCONE. 
 
 the passing of the Act of 1711 before it came into 
 full operation. Mr Kixox was lineally descended 
 from Mr William Knox, minister of Cockpen, 
 brother of John Knox, the Reformer, His grand- 
 daughter was married to the late Rev. John John- 
 ston, first of the Relief, and afterwards of Roxburgh 
 Place Church, Edinburgh. Mr Knox died on the 
 1 7th December, 1776. 
 
 Mr Charles Wilson was translated from 
 Auchtermuchty, and admitted to Scone on the 29th 
 October, 1777, on a presentation by the Viscount 
 of Stormont ; and translated to be Professor of 
 Hebrew in the University of St Andrews on the 
 26th December, 1781. He is well known to 
 students of Oriental literature as the author of the 
 Elements of Hebrew Grammar, 
 
 Mr James Hunter was translated from Auch- 
 tergaven to Scone on the 15th August, 1782; and 
 died 14th March, 1793. 
 
 Mr John AVright was translated from Trinity- 
 Gask on the 26th September, 1793 ; and died 6th 
 December, 1794. 
 
 Mr William i^iTKEN, translated from Abdie 
 on the 19tli November, 1795; died 2 2d February, 
 1832. 
 
 Mr James Craik (afterwards D.D.) was or- 
 dained and admitted on the 20th September, 1832 
 — having been presented by the Crown. He was 
 translated to St George's Church, Glasgow, 24th 
 March, 1844 ; and since 1855 has been the efficient 
 Convener of the General Assembly's Committee 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
 especially in India. 
 
PARISH OF SCONE. 259 
 
 Dr John Crombie was admitted to tlie church 
 -and parish of Scone on the 21st March, 1844. Dr 
 Crombie first entered the ministry in January, 
 1819, when he was ordained to the congregation 
 of St Andrew's National Scotch Church, London, 
 For tAvelve years he acted as honorary clerk to the 
 Scottish Presbytery in London, and for ten years 
 as honorary chaplain to the Royal Corporation of 
 the Scottish Hospital. For several years he was 
 honorary secretary, and afterwards honorary chap- 
 lain to the Highland School Society in London ; 
 and for upwards of twenty years one of the ex- 
 aminers of the pupils of the Caledonian Asylum — 
 all of which institutions were greatly benefitted by 
 his zealous and prudent co-operation. He left 
 London in September, 1841, having been pre- 
 sented to the United Parishes of Aberlemno and 
 Auldbar, by the late Robert Symthe, Esq. of 
 Methven. He had the des^ree of A.M. conferred 
 upon him in 1822, by the University of St 
 Andrews, and that of D.D. in 1832, by the same 
 University, at the instance of the late Principal 
 Haldane. In 1856, he was unanimously elected 
 Moderator of the General Assembly — the highest 
 honour which our church has to bestow — and dis- 
 charged the duties of the chair in a manner which 
 secured for him universal approbation. He has 
 also more than once acted as chaplain to his Grace 
 the Lord High Commissioner, when the Earl of 
 Mansfield held that office. 
 
ST MADOES, 
 
 ST MADOSE^ST MADOSS— ST MADOIS 
 
 --SAMADOIS— SYMIEDORES— 
 
 SEMMIEDORS. 
 
 Prior to the Reformation St Madoes was in the 
 Diocese of Dunblane. (Keith.) The name is 
 supposed to have been derived from St Madoch 
 ov Modoch, who, in the " Kalendar of Scots 
 Saints," is said to have been a Bishop in Scotland 
 in the fourth century. In the churchyard is a 
 beautiful specimen of the class of monuments 
 called Runic. It is about 7 feet in height and 3 
 feet wide, and contains many sculptui'ed figures in 
 good preservation. 
 
 The Population of the parish in 1755 was 
 189; in 1795, 300; in 1821, ; in 1851, 288. 
 
 Session Records. — The first of these, which 
 commences with a minute of date 7th September, 
 1591, is entitled " The Book of the Assembly of 
 St Madoss." It closes with a minute of date 30th 
 April, 1615. The next existing volume begins 
 October 2d, 1659, and from that date the Records 
 have been kept with great regularity till the present 
 time. 
 
PARISH OF ST MADGES. 261 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 A manuscript Register in the Advocates' Li- 
 brary, which comes down to the year 1570, has 
 the following entry in regard to this parish : — 
 
 " Samadois — Rychart Deffers, Reidare, XX 
 libs." 
 
 Mr David Balvaird seems to have been the 
 first Protestant minister, as appears from the fol- 
 lowing entry in " the Register of Ministers and 
 Reidars in the year 1574." 
 
 " St Madoes per se. — Maister David Balvaird, 
 minister, the haill thu'd of his awin personage, 
 £19 lis lid." 
 
 Mr Alexander Lindsay, who was ordained 
 and admitted in 1591. He was of the family of 
 Evelock, one of considerable influence and impor- 
 tance in those times. From his aristocratic con- 
 nexion, he had easy access to Court ; and entering 
 into the King's scheme for the restoration of 
 Episcopacy, he soon became a favourite. At the 
 General Assembly, which met at Linlithgow, 
 December 20, 1606, he was one of four nominated 
 in leit by his Majesty for the Moderatorship, and 
 in the following year appointed permanent Mo- 
 derator of the Presbytery of Perth ; and down 
 to the year 1632, was a very regular attender on 
 the meetings of Presbytery, which were then of 
 polmost weekly occurrence. In 1607, he was ap- 
 pointed Bishop of Dunkeld. In a report of the 
 proceedings of a meeting of Commissioners, held at 
 Falkland, in October of that year, he is designated 
 <*Mr Alexander Lindsay, persoun of Sanctmadoe«;, 
 
262 PARISH OF ST MADOES. 
 
 appearand of Dimkelden." He was present at tbe 
 General Assembly, held in Glasgow in 1610 ; and 
 was one of the Pligh Commissioners appointed by 
 the King in 1619. He was one of the Lords of 
 the Articles appointed by the Parliament in 1621 ; 
 and as a member of tliat Parliament, voted in 
 favour of the famous Five Articles of Perth. For 
 upwards of thirty years, he discharged the duties 
 of his Bishoprick with singular fidelity and modera- 
 tion in those troublous times. Row says of him 
 in his History, " The trueth wes, that Bishop was 
 not verie proud." No small praise, coming from 
 such a quarter. But his humility and moderation 
 did not protect him kom sharing the fate of the 
 other less deserving Bishops, when Presbyterianism 
 again obtained the ascendant. A complaint wa& 
 lodged against him for his " prelatic conduct," by 
 " the Laird of Moncrieif, and Mr William Row^ 
 minister of Forgandenny, in name of the Gentrie 
 and Burgesses of the Presbyterie ;" and the Bishop 
 was called upon to answer the charge before the 
 celebrated Glasgow Assembly of 1638. The 
 Record of that Assembly bears that — 
 
 " After prayer to God, there was a letter read 
 from Mr Alexander Lindsay, Bishop of Dunkell, 
 wherein he had declaired that he had subscryved 
 their Covenant — that the Assemblie was lawful — 
 that he submitted himself to it, and supplicat the 
 Assemblie ' that he micht die a minister at Symie- 
 dors.^ Then it was questioned whether the 
 foresaid Bishop should be deposed from the 
 Bishoprick and all the functions of the ministrie, or 
 whether he should be deposed from his Prelacy 
 
PARISH OF ST MADOES. 263 
 
 only, and according to his desyre, continued 
 minister at Symiedors ? Then all the roUes were 
 called, and all the Assemblie, except twenty, 
 resolves upon this, that he sail be deposed from 
 his Episcopasie, yea, and from the exercise of ail 
 ministerial functions, till sic tyme as he satisfie by 
 his paines, those who are sent unto him by the 
 Assemblie," 
 
 The Bishop seems to have satisfied the brethren 
 appointed to wait upon him ; and on the 30th 
 January, 1639, that is, in the following month, 
 sent in his submission to the Presbytery of Perth, 
 as appears from the following minute, which has, 
 at least, the merit of being very concise ; the 
 whole minute of that meeting being as follows : — 
 
 " At Perth, 30th January, 1639.— Mr Joseph 
 Laurie, Moderator. Mr John Robertson exercised, 
 and Mr Joseph Laurie addit — both approved. 
 Mr Joseph Laurie appointed to mak the next day, 
 and Mr Thomas Halyburton to add. Mr John 
 Robertson gave in the declaration of the Bishop of 
 Dunkell's repentance." 
 
 Thus, the good old man's desire was granted. 
 He became again the humble minister of St 
 Madoes. The Session Records of the parish, the 
 first volume of which was begun by Mr Lindsay 
 at his induction, in 1591, and is partly in his own 
 handwriting, bears abundant evidence of a strict 
 and faithful administration of the discipline of the 
 Church during the period of his incumbency. He 
 died, " minister at Symiedors," in the year 1639. 
 
 Mr James Campbell was appointed to sue- 
 
264 PAEISH OF ST MADOES. 
 
 ceed Mr Lindsay. The Record of date 4th 
 October, 1640, bears — 
 
 " Compeared the Laird of Pitfoor, who pre- 
 sented Mr James Campbell to the personage and 
 vicarage of St Madoes, requiring the Presbyterie 
 to try the said Mr James Campbell, and upon his 
 sufficiencie to receive and admit him to the said 
 kirk. Mr Campbell brought a testimonial from 
 the Presbyterie of Dundee, with a particular 
 missive, recommending him to the Presbyterie." 
 
 Air Campbell was admitted on the 29th Decem- 
 ber, 1640 ; and died in 1667. 
 
 Mr John Omay, probably son of Mr Alexander 
 Oraa}'", who was translated from Moneydie to 
 Errol in 1626, was the next minister. On the 
 15th of January, 1668, 
 
 " The Presbyterie received a letter from the 
 Bishop of Dumblain, desyring them to proceed 
 to the tryalls of Mr John Omay, in order to his 
 his admission to the function of the ministrie at 
 the church of St Madoes. The Presbytery having 
 received a testimonial from the Presbytery of 
 Dunkell, showing that the said Mr John had 
 passed the exercise and addition before them, in 
 order to his admission to ane other church in their 
 bounds, and was approven in that part of his- 
 tryalls ; they appoynt him for his commonn Head 
 ' De perseverantia sanctorum,' and to give in his- 
 Thesis betwixt and the next meeting." 
 
 Having passed the usual trials satisfactorily ^ 
 '^ Mr Omay was admitted to the functions of the 
 ministrie at the church of St Madoes," on the 6th 
 of May, 1668. He was translated to the Parish of 
 
PARISH OF ST MADOES. 265 
 
 Dunbarnie on the 12th January, 1676 ; and thence 
 to Methven, on the 13th July, 1679, where he died 
 in 1693. 
 
 Mr George Drummond's letter of presentation 
 by the Archbishop of St Andrews was laid before the 
 Presbytery on the 12th January, 1676, and, " in 
 regard of the great distance he lives at from Perth, 
 and for the haistning of his tryalls, the Presbyterie 
 appoints him to have the exercise and addition the 
 next day of meeting." Mr Drummond was ad- 
 mitted in the month of April following, and died 
 in the year 1687. 
 
 Mr Thomas Hall was admitted in 1688, and 
 deposed for irregular practices and contumacy, as 
 appears from a minute formerly quoted in the 
 notes on the Parish of Kinfauns, of date the 28th 
 July, 1697. 
 
 Mr John Drummond was ordained and ad- 
 mitted on the 11th May, 1699 ; and, after the 
 usual solemnities, " the Moderator giving him 
 institution by delyvring to him ane bible, the keys 
 of the kirk, and the bellstring, whereupon Mr 
 Drummond took instruments in the Clerk's hands 
 before famous witnesses." The parish was again 
 vacant before the 13th of September, 1699, on 
 which day, " Air IngUs, minister of Kilspindie, the 
 brother nixt adjacent," was appointed to call for 
 the Session Books of St Madoes, which had been 
 left in the hands of the Laird of Pitfoor, by Mr 
 Hall, the last incumbent. At a meeting on the 
 6th December following, Mr Inglis reported that 
 the Laird of Pitfoor acknowledged that he had the 
 books, but would not give them up, yet condescend 
 
266 PARISH OF ST MADOES» 
 
 the Presbytery should have any such extracts of 
 them they pleased. The Presbytery considering 
 the report, thought fit to delay any further pro- 
 cedure till the parish get a minister. 
 
 Mr George Blair was ordained and admitted 
 on the 10th September, 1701 ; and translated ta 
 Perth, October 23d, 1705. 
 
 Mr John Dempster, admitted 27th March,. 
 1706; died 1721. 
 
 Mr Robert Watson, ordained 5th September^ 
 1722; died 1727. 
 
 Mr Andrew Shaw, ordained 27th October^ 
 1729; translated to be Professor at St Andrews^ 
 October 1st, 1740. 
 
 Mr Patrick Bannermann, ordained 8th Oct.^ 
 1741 ; translated to KinnouU, 13th November, 
 1746. 
 
 Mr Archibalb Stetenson, admitted 20th 
 June, 1747. Mr Stevenson was one of the most 
 distinguished and influential ministers of his day. 
 He was a man of great talents and learning, and 
 took a very prominent part in the proceedings of 
 the Church Courts. The late Dr Inglis, of Edin- 
 burgh, who remembered his appearances in the 
 General Assembly, always spoke of him as second 
 to none of his contemporaries in his knowledge of 
 the constitution and laws of the Church. The only 
 specimen of his oratory which he is known to have 
 left, is a speech delivered in the General Assembly 
 of 1779,. on the subject of Catholic Emancipation, 
 which is said to be " distinguished by extraordinary- 
 sagacity, and great power of diction and argu- 
 ment." Mr Stevenson died on 15thDecember, 1784. 
 
PARISH OF ST MADOES. 267 
 
 Mr David Black, son of David and grandson 
 of Thomas Black, ministers of Perth, was licensed 
 by the Presbytery of Perth on the 25th of August, 
 
 1784, and ordained successor to Mr Stevenson, as 
 minister of St Madoes, on the 15th of September, 
 
 1785. Mr Black was one of the most eloquent 
 and popular preachers of his day; and was trans- 
 lated to Lady Tester's Church, Edmburgh, on the 
 20th November, 1794. 
 
 Mr Thomas Kennedy was ordained and ad- 
 mitted on the 2d of April, 1795, and died on the 
 16th March, 1828. His son, Samuel, was the 
 acceptable and efficient minister of the West Kirk, 
 Perth, from 1820 to 1835. 
 
 Mr James Noble was ordained on the 30th 
 December, 1828, and died on the 4th December, 
 1848. Mr Noble was a diligent student, an accom- 
 plished scholar, an acceptable preacher, and a 
 zealous and fiithful parish minister. 
 
 Mr John Koss Macduff was licensed by the 
 Presbytery of Perth on the 29th of June, 1841 ; 
 ordained minister of Kettins, in the Presbytery of 
 Meigle, in 1842. Translated to St Madoes on the 
 21st of June, 1849, and again translated to the 
 newly-erected Sandyford Church, Glasgow, on the 
 11th of October, 1855. Mr Macduff is well 
 known to the Christian public as the author of 
 many interesting and instructive religious works. 
 '• The Faithful Promiser ;" " The Morning and 
 Night Watches ;" "The Footsteps of St Paul;" 
 " Memories of Bethany ;" and numerous other 
 writings, have been the means of spiritual edificii- 
 
268 PARISH OF ST MADOES. 
 
 tion and comfort to thousands in this and in other 
 lands. 
 
 Mr Walter Tait, son of Mr Adam Duncan 
 Tait, minister of Kirkliston, was ordained and ad- 
 mitted to St Madoes on the 6th day of March, 
 1856. 
 
ST MAETINS AND CAMBUS- 
 MICHAEL. 
 
 ST MARTINS— CAMYSMYCHELL— 
 CAMBUSMICHAEL. 
 
 These parishes, which have been united ever 
 since the Reformation, were in the Diocese of 
 Punkeld. St Martins was a mensal church of the 
 Abbey of Holyrood, and Cambusmichael one of the 
 churches of the Abbey of Scone. So early as 
 1164, Malcolm the Maiden granted a charter of 
 confirmation to the Abbey of Scone of " Cambes- 
 michel cum Hominibus {sic) terris et aquis pratis 
 pascuis bosco et piano. . . cum omnibus suis 
 pertinentiis." And another charter by the Bishop 
 of St Andrews, in the reign of William the Lion, 
 confirms a former grant to the said Abbey, among 
 others, of the church of Cambusmichael, " Eccle- 
 siam de Cambusmichel." The ruins of the church 
 still remain on the banks of the Tay, surrounded 
 by a peaceful churchyard, where many of the 
 parishioners still bury their dead. 
 
 The population of the united parishes in 1755 
 was 1083 ; in 1785, 1090 ; in 1821, 1004 ; in 1851, 
 983. 
 
 Session Records. — The Records of the Kirk- 
 session commence in 1712, and have been con- 
 tinued regularly since that time. 
 
270 PARISH OF ST MARTINS. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Thomas Straquhan, Struachan, or 
 Strachan, is the first Protestant minister of 
 whom we have any account. Like many of the 
 ministers of the Kirk of that period, he was of 
 aristocratic connection, being the brother of Sir 
 Alexander Straquhan of Thornton, the Chief of 
 the name, a gentleman of considerable political 
 influence durinor that and the followins^ reio'n. 
 Mr Strachan is said to have been originally 
 a monk of Scone; but having early embraced 
 the principles of the reformers, he was settled 
 as minister in this parish, and preached alter- 
 nately in the church of St Martins and Cam- 
 busmichael. The date of his incumbency has 
 not been ascertained ; but it seems either not to 
 have begun or to have ended before 1574, as his 
 name does not appear in " the Register of Mini- 
 sters and Reidars" for that year — St Martins and 
 Cambusmichael being both under the superinten- 
 dence of Mr Thomas Morison, minister at Scone, 
 who had under him — James Pitcairn, reidar at 
 Scone, £16 and k.l. ; Walter Murdoch, reidar at 
 Cambusmichael, £16 and k.l. ; Alexander Gray 
 (and Johnne Johnston), reidars at St Martins' 
 kirk, £20. 
 
 Mr John Straquhan, son of the above, whose 
 name first appears in the Book of Assignation in 
 1601, was minister in 1618, when the Record of Pres- 
 bytery begins. At that time, and for many years after, 
 the office of the ministry seems, in a great measure, 
 to have been confined to particular families, and it 
 
PARISH OF ST MAETINS. 271 
 
 was DO unusual thlno; for the son to succeed the 
 father in the same parish for several generations. 
 Thus, in our own Presbytery, we had the Mon- 
 criefFes at Abernethy — the Halyburtons at Collace 
 - — the Wemyses at Scone — the Murrays at Meth- 
 ven — three or four Rows in succession at Forgan- 
 denny — and four Balneavis in succession at 
 Tibberinore. So, in St Martins, with one short 
 interruption, the ministerial office was held by the 
 family of Straquhan, from the Reformation to the 
 Revolution — being handed down from father to 
 son for four generations. 
 
 Mr Thomas Straquhait, son of the above, was 
 transported from the parish of Dollar, in the Pres- 
 bytery of Stirling, and admitted helper and 
 successor to his father on the 21st day of May, 
 1643, as appears from the following minute : — 
 
 " At Perth, 24th May, 1643, irder alia—Mr 
 David Weemys, minister at Scone, reported that 
 upon the 21st May he passed to the Kirke of St 
 Martins, and preached conforme to the ordinance 
 of the Presbyterie, and the order of the kirke, and 
 admitted Mr Thomas Straquhan conjunct minister 
 with his father in the functions and care of the 
 kirks of St Martins and Cambusmichael, whom the 
 heritors and people received respectfully." 
 
 Mr Thomas Straquhan's death was reported to 
 the Presbytery on the 30th day of August, 1671 — 
 when " compeired George Hay of Kirkland, and 
 Drummond of Gairdrum, and desyred to supplie 
 the kirk of St Martins in tyme of the vacancie." 
 His son, Thomas, was appointed to a bursary June 
 22d, 1675. 
 
272 PARISH OF ST MARTINS. 
 
 Mr Patrick Straquhan was admitted liJs 
 successor in the month of November, 1672. A 
 minute of Presbytery of date the 16th October 
 preceding, bears that — 
 
 " This day a letter was received from my Lord 
 Bishop of Dunkeld, desyring the Presbytery to 
 enter Mr Patrick Straquhan upon his tryals, in 
 order to his admissione to the functions of the 
 holie ministrie at the kirke of St Martins — and 
 withal desyring, in regard the said Mr Patrick had 
 been a Professor of Philosophic for some years, he 
 micht have both exercise and addition in ane day, 
 and be put to no furder tryals — whereupon the 
 Presbytery appoints him to have the exercise and 
 addition the nixt day of meeting, which is ap- 
 pointed to be on the 30th October, 1672." 
 
 Mr Straquhan died, after a short incumbency, in 
 1676. 
 
 Mr James Inglish or Inglis was the next 
 minister. The first notice of him is in a minute of 
 date the 20th December, 1676— 
 
 " Received an edict from the Archbishop of St 
 Andrews, in favor of Mr James Inglish, late 
 minister of the Abbey of Holyruidhouse, in order 
 to his admissione to the function of the ministrie 
 of the church of St Martins." 
 
 Mr Inglish was admitted accordingly, on the 1st 
 February, 1677. It would appear from the Record, 
 that he did not live on the best of terms with 
 his co-presbyters. On the 6th March, 1678, Mr 
 James Hay, Laird of Pitfour, gave in to the 
 Presbytery a bill of complaint against him for 
 falsely accusing him " of some horrible sins and 
 
PARISH OF ST MARTINS. 273 
 
 grievous crymes— -to wltt, that I have ryotouslie 
 dispossessed him of his richt and possessione — - 
 that I am manifestlie guilty of theft, or at least 
 robbery — that I maliciouslie caused throw some 
 peats in the water, and violentlie took to my own 
 use another considerable portion of said peats- 
 together with much more he said." What became 
 of this process does not appear ; but on the 8th 
 Ma_> of the same year, Mr Inglish had another 
 ^' affau'e" with Mr Alexander Balneavis, minister 
 of Tibbermore, when, in obedience to an act of the 
 Lord Bishop of Dunkeld, and Synod thereof, he 
 gave in the following submission : — 
 
 "I, Mr James Inglish, does humblie declare and 
 acknowledge that I have been verie rash and in- 
 considerate in my expressions before the Presby- 
 tery of Perth, against my reverend brother, Alex- 
 ander Balneavis, minister at Tibbermore; and have 
 laid to his charge things, which I am now fullie 
 convinced, I had no right to do ; therefore, craves 
 him humblie pardon for that my misdemeanour 
 and wrong that I have done him ; and also, I crave 
 the Presbyterie humblie pardon for the offence I 
 have given them by carriage in that particular." 
 
 Mr Inglish was minister in 1681, when the Re- 
 cord closes, there being no minutes extant of any 
 meetings of Presbytery from September 21, 1681, 
 until after the Revolution. But in a manuscript 
 account of the parish, he is said to have been 
 ^' deposed by the Bishop of Dunkeld for erroneous 
 doctrine and immorality of life, but more probably 
 for a predeliction to Presbyterianism." 
 
 Mr Thomas Strachan, son of Mr Thomas 
 
274 PARISH OF ST MARTINS. 
 
 Straclian, the third minister, on the deposition of 
 Mr Inglis, (the same MS. says), succeeded to the 
 vacant charo-e, and continued therein till after the 
 Revolution, when he was deprived by the Privy 
 Council in 1689, " for not reading the Proclama- 
 tion, and for refusing to pray for the King, and 
 observe the Thanksgiving." 
 
 Mr James Inglish aforesaid was one of three 
 ministers of the Presbytery of Perth, who, on the 
 30th day of July, 1690, reconstituted the Presby- 
 tery " by virtue of ane Act of the Conventione of 
 Estates of the Kingdom, ordaining ministers that 
 were outed of their ministry in anno 1662 (when our 
 Presbyterian Government was overthrown, and 
 Prelacie introduced), that are yet alive, to return now 
 to their former charges." And on the 10th day 
 of September, 1693, the parish was declared 
 vacant, in consequence of the translation of Mr 
 Inglish to the church and Parish of Burntisland. 
 
 IMr George Jamieson was next minister, 
 having been ordained and admitted on the 29th 
 September, 1695. Kis incumbency was short and 
 unfortunate, as he was deposed for immorality on 
 the 25th October, 1710. 
 
 Mr James Faichney was ordained 21st Oct., 
 1712. lie seems to have been a native of Perth, 
 as an entry in the [Session Eecord says that " on 
 Sabbath, the 3d April, 1737, there was no sermon, 
 the minister being at Perth at the death of his 
 mother. In 1717, he married Elizabeth Richard- 
 son ; and seven children, born to them, are regis- 
 tered in the Parochial Record. His descendants 
 rose to the hio^hest honours in Perth — two of them 
 
PARISH OF ST MAETINS. 275 
 
 feavmcp attained to the Provost's chair. Mrs 
 Faichney of Ardargie, in the Parish of Forgan- 
 denny, was a lineal descendant; also Mr David 
 Black, late minister of Kilspindie, and several 
 others still alive. After a long, faithful, and most 
 efficient ministry, Mr Faichney entered into his 
 rest on the 12th November, 1747 — as a tablet to 
 his memory bears — '^ in the 65th year of his age, 
 ^tnd 36th of his ministry." His last text was 23d 
 Ps^m, last verse — ^^ I will dwell in the house of 
 the Loi'd for ever." 
 
 Mr Alexander Badenoch, or Badenough, 
 was ordained 12th December, 1748. Hi« name 
 had come before the General Assembly, in 1746, 
 in connection with the curious Cortachy case. Mr 
 Badenoch received a popular Call to that parish ; 
 but the Presbytery, on the ground " that the bulk 
 of the parishioners were notoriously disaffected, 
 and concerned in the late unnatural rebellion," set 
 uside that Call, and, in the exercise of the jus 
 devolutuniy appointed Mr William Brown, father of 
 the late Principal Brown, of Aberdeen. Mr 
 Badenoch soon after was settled in St Martins. 
 He died on 1st March, 1757. 
 
 Mr David Bannerman, son of Mr James 
 Bannerman, minister of Forglen, was translated 
 from the Parish of Forglen on the 29th June, 
 1758; and died June 2d, 1810. His son, Mr James 
 P. Bannerman, became minister of the neighbour- 
 ing Parish of Cargill ; and his grandson, Dr Jamea 
 Bannermann, is now Professor of Divinity, in the 
 New College, Edinburgh, 
 
 Mr WiLiJAM Constable was ordaineti aaeistant 
 B 
 
276 PARISH OF ST MARTINS. 
 
 and successor on the 18tli February, 1802; and 
 died 6tli October, 1836. 
 
 Mr Peter Curror was ordained 23d June, 
 1836; and, after a short but promising career, 
 died on the 1st of June, 1837. His last sermon 
 was on the appropriate text — " Wliat is your life ? 
 it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little while, 
 and then vanisheth away." 
 
 Mr William Eitchie (now D.D.) was or- 
 dained 22d February, 1838 ; and translated to the 
 Parish of Longforgan, 18th October, 1843. 
 
 Mr John Park, formerly minister of the Scots 
 Church, Carlisle, was inducted on the 22d Feb.^ 
 1844. 
 
 P.S. — ^While preparing the foregoing list, we 
 have been favoured with the perusal of a manu- 
 script, entitled " Notices of the Ancient Ecclesias- 
 tical History of St Martins," which contains many 
 interesting particulai's regarding the parish — its 
 antiquities, ministers, session records, church dis- 
 cipline, &c. The MS. displays great research, 
 and an intimate acquaintance with the history of 
 the parish. We have been indebted to it for 
 several facts in our list. 
 
TIBBEEMORE. 
 
 TUBERMURE— TUBERMORE— TIBER- 
 MURE— TIBBERMORIA — TIBBERMORE. 
 
 This church was anciently in the Diocese of 
 Dunkeld. William the Lion confirmed a Charter 
 granted by Suanus, the son of Thor, in favom* of 
 the Abbey of Scone, of the lands of Ahenepobbel, 
 " et unum Toftum in Tubermure et pratum quod 
 est super Lochethin," which grant was confirmed 
 by Alexander II., along with " quadam piscaria de 
 Carnes." Tibbermore was the residence of several 
 Bishops of Dunkeld, particularly of Bishop Geof- 
 frey and Bishop Sinclair, both of whom died here, 
 the one in 1249, and the other in 1337. 
 
 The population of the parish in 1755 was 
 988 ; in 1795, 1,280 ; in 1821, 1,223 ; in 1851, 
 1,495. 
 
 Session Records. — These do not extend farther 
 back than 1724, and have not been kept very re- 
 gularly for a considerable time after that period. 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 Mr Alexander Young was minister in 1574, 
 with a stipend of £133 6s 8d Scots, and kirk lands 
 — having under his superintendence, as Readers , 
 Mr William Gibsoun, at Tibbermore, £20 ; Robert 
 
278 PARISH OF TIBBERMORE, 
 
 Slmsoim, alias Glook, at Dippllne, £26 13s 4d $ 
 Johnne Moir, at Abirdagie, £16 and k.l." 
 
 Mr Patrice Murray was minister in 1581, 
 His name appears in the list of the Commissioners 
 to the General Assembly when the Second Book, 
 of Discipline was under consideration. 
 
 Mr John Murray had been minister some time 
 previous to 15th December, 1619, as appears from 
 the following minute : — 
 
 " Whilk day, Mr Robert Murray, sonne of Mr 
 John Murray, of Tibbermore, producit ane testi- 
 monial from the New College of St Andrews, 
 testifying to his qualifications and good literature. 
 , . . , . In respect whereof, the Presbytery 
 ordained the said Mr Robert to add publicly the 
 next exercise day." 
 
 Mr Robert Murray is supposed to have been the 
 same who was minister at Methven from 1618 to 
 1648. 
 
 Mr Alexander Balneavis was minister when 
 the Record now extant begins, in 1618. Like 
 many of the ministers of that period, Mr Balneavis 
 had previously held the subordinate office of Reader, 
 In 1607, he was Reader in Perth; and Calderwood 
 tells us that, at the opening of the memorable 
 Synod at Perth, which met on the 1st of April of 
 that year, " Mr John Balneavis was sent, from the 
 common clerk of the town, to wairn Mr William 
 Row, ^loderator, that the Laird of Balvaird had 
 come to him, and desyred him to adverteese Mr 
 William, that the comptroller. Sir David Murray, 
 had a commissione from his Majestic, that in case 
 he spak anything in his doctrine that tuiched the 
 
PARISH OP TIBBERMOEE. 279 
 
 King's matters, or disallowed anie Acts of the 
 preceding Assemblies, speciallie of that Assemblie 
 at Linlithgow, to tak him out of the pulpit." 
 With most of his brethren, Mr Balneavis joined in 
 the movement which resulted in the restoration of 
 Presbytery in 1638 ; and pledged himself thereto 
 ^' by the extension of his right hand." He died m 
 1640, 
 
 Mr Alexander Balneavis, son of the above, 
 was ordained successor to his father, 23d Septem- 
 ber, 1640, as appears from the following brief 
 notice interlined in the Eecord, apparently in the 
 writing of the Clerk of Synod : — " Report maid 
 of the admissione of Mr Alexander Balneavis, 
 younger, to the kirk of Tibbermore." He was 
 most regular in his attendance on the meetings of 
 Presbytery, his name being seldom absent from 
 the sederunt. At the last meeting, previous to 
 the change which took place in the form of Church 
 Government after the Restoration, he " was ap- 
 provin in lyfF and doctrine." He was present at; 
 the first meeting after the re-establishment of 
 Episcopacy in 1662 ; and at the last meeting re- 
 corded before the Revolution, he was again " ap- 
 provin in lyfF and doctrine." He survived the 
 Revolution, and was deposed, by sentence of the 
 Presbytery, on the 7th September, 1692, it being 
 clearly proven, as the minute bears — 
 
 " 1. That the said Mr Alexander was guilty of 
 extraordinarie nonresidence. 2. Scandalous breach 
 of the Sabbath, by unnecessarie travelling and 
 crossing the River Tay in boats. 3. Disaffection 
 to the settled Government, and contempt of ^th^ 
 
280 PARISH OF TIBBERMOEE. 
 
 various orders anent Fasts. 4. Invading the kirks 
 and pulpits of other ministers^ and baptizing with- 
 out their allowance," &c. 
 
 In a Bond dated January, 1696, he is desig-^ 
 nated " minister at Tibbermore," and in another of 
 a later date, " minister at Linloch." He was pro- 
 prietor of Caimbeddie, in the Parish of St Mar- 
 tins ; and married, second, Katherine Reid, widow 
 of William Oliphant of Carpow. 
 
 Mr John Balneavis was admitted "helper 
 and conjunct minister with his father," on the 24th 
 August, 1673, and translated to Dunbamie on the 
 5th January, 1681. He was deposed for disaffec- 
 tion to the new Government soon after the 
 Revolution. 
 
 Mr David Meldrum was admitted minister 
 on the 22d August, 1694. The following minute, 
 of date the 27th June preceding, throws some 
 light on his previous history : — 
 
 " Mr Robert Anderson, Moderator, produced a 
 letter from the Lord Moray to him, desyring the 
 Presbytery might be pleased to invite one Mr 
 David ^leldrum, minister of the Gospel, that he 
 may preach at the vacant kirk of Tibbermore. 
 The Presbytery considering the said letter, and 
 finding the said request reasonable ; and the said 
 Mr Meldrum being present, compeared, who, being 
 desired to give ane account of himself, produced a 
 Testiflcatte from the Presbytery of Irvine, of the 
 date of 2d September, 1691, bearing him to have 
 given them full satisfaction anent his serving under 
 Prelacie, by disallowing and renouncing that course 
 of Government, and acknowledging and subscrib- 
 
PARISH OF TIBBEEMORE. 281 
 
 ing himself unto Presbyterial government of the 
 Church of Scotland as it is presently professed, 
 and by his subscribing the ' Confession of Faith' 
 as his own faith, and disallowing all errors contrary 
 thereto; as also, ample testificatts from other 
 Presbyteries and ministers, of his ministerial and 
 Christian behaviour since that time. The Presby- 
 tery being satisfied with these productions, they 
 appoint the said ^Ir Meldrum to preach at the 
 vacant kirk of Tibbermore on Sabbath next, and 
 longer, if his convenience can allow." 
 
 The date of Mr Meldrum's death is not recorded, 
 but he lived to a great age. 
 
 j\Ir Patrick Duncan was ordained assistant 
 and successor to Mr Meldrum, on the 20th Aus"., 
 1741 ; and died on the 25th June, 1761. 
 
 ]\Ir Alexander Duff was ordained on the 
 iSth March, 1762 ; and died 4th October, 1785. 
 
 Mr John Inglis, son of Mr Harry Inglis, 
 minister of Forteviot, was ordained on the 20th 
 July, 1786. He was translated to Greyfriars 
 Church, Edinburgh, on the 17th October, 1799. 
 His subsequent history, and high position in the 
 Church, as the celebrated Dr Inglis, who for so 
 many years led the General Assembly, are too 
 well known to admit of any comment. 
 
 Mr Thomas Taylor, afterwards D.D., was 
 ordained and admitted on the 13th Februar}^, 
 1800. Dr Taylor was a man of no ordinary abiU- 
 ties ; and, from his business habits and great 
 knowledge of the laws and practice of the Church 
 Courts, he acquired great influence, not only in his 
 own Presbytery, but also in the superior judica- 
 
282 PARISH OP TIBBERMORE. 
 
 tories. He acted as Clerk to the Presbytery oi 
 Perth from June 30th, 1813, until November 24th, 
 1830, when he resigned the office. He had also 
 the high honour of being unanimously chosen 
 Moderator of the General Assembly, 1826. Dr 
 Taylor died on the 7th December, 1831. His son, 
 ^Ir John Taylor, is minister of the Parish of 
 Drumelzier, in the Presbytery of Peebles. 
 
 Mr Weir Tulloch was ordained aad admitted 
 on the 24th January, 1833. The church was 
 declared vacant on the 9th March, 1845. 
 
 Mr Edward Robertson, M.A., the present 
 minister, was translated from the West Church, 
 Perth, on the 10th July, 1845. Mr Robertson 
 obtained the first prize in the Moral Philosophy 
 Class, in the University of Edinburgh, for a poem 
 on Idolatry, which has since been published^ 
 
2S3 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 We have now gone over the Roll of the Freshy- 
 tejy of Perth from its first erection until now. 
 We have completed the list of those who have been 
 members of Presbytery, and ministers of the several 
 parishes within the bounds, from the Reformation 
 to the present time. Many of these were able raini«- 
 ters of the New Testament — men distinguished in 
 their day and generation for their exemplary lives, 
 their evangelical principles, and their zeal anduseiul- 
 nees in the service of their Great Master. If the 
 biographical and historical notices, necessarily brief, 
 should prove interesting to those connected with 
 the Presbytery by residence or relationship, or 
 throw any light on its proceedings during the 
 different stages of its history which have passed 
 under review, the time spent in the compilation 
 will not have been altogether lost. It has been to 
 the Compiler a labour ot love, and he feels a 
 pleasing satisfaction in having done his endeavour 
 to keep up the remembrance of those who have 
 gone before us, and deepen their " footprints on the 
 sands of time." 
 
 " Vita enim mortuonim in memoha riroram est posita." 
 
 Ctoero. 
 
 ¥Tin&, 
 
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF MINISTERS, 
 
 WITH THEIE PARISH, AJSTD DATE OF INCUMBENCY. 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 Incumbency. Page. 
 
 Abercrombie, John, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1584 
 
 250 
 
 Aitken, William, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1795-1832 
 
 258 
 
 Anderson, Jame-, 
 
 CoUace, 
 
 1567-89 
 
 30 
 
 Anderson, David, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1679-80 
 
 61 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1680-90 
 
 207 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1690-91 
 
 208 
 
 Do. Eobert, 
 
 do., 
 
 1691-1704 
 
 208 
 
 Do. John, D.D., 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1821-33 
 
 63 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Perth, E. K. 
 
 1845-52 
 
 224 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1852 
 
 140 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1857 
 
 111 
 
 Auchinleck, Harrie, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1662-67 
 
 201 
 
 Auchterlony, Patrick, 
 
 Bedgorton, 
 
 1681-90 
 
 234 
 
 Auld, Robert T., 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1843-58 
 
 161 
 
 /Edie, John, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1692-97 
 
 48 
 
 Badenoch, Alexander, 
 
 St INIartins, 
 
 1748-57 
 
 275 
 
 Baird, John, 
 
 Col lace. 
 
 1778-83 
 
 57 
 
 Baineavis, Alexander, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1618-40 
 
 278 
 
 Do. Alex., junior, 
 
 do., 
 
 1640-92 
 
 279 
 
 Do. John, A. and S. 
 
 do., 
 
 1673-81 
 
 280 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1681-90 
 
 61 
 
 Balvaird, David, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1574 
 
 261 
 
 Bannerman, Patrick, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1741-46 
 
 266 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1746-60 
 
 140 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1750-1810 
 
 275 
 
 Barclay, Adam, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1688-90 
 
 208 
 
 Beatson, David, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1759-95 
 
 63 
 
 Beatson, James, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1795-1820 
 
 63 
 
 Bell, William, 
 
 ,Dron, 
 
 1641-1652 
 
 41 
 
 Do., do., 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1652-65 
 
 70 
 
 Blackie, George, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 
 1700-10 
 
 235 
 
 Black, William, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1618-23 
 
 58 
 
 Do. Thomas, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1698-1739 
 
 209 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 do., 
 
 1737-71 
 
 214 
 
 Do. David, jnnior, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1785-94 
 
 267 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1818-50 
 
 122 
 
286 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Mmisters. 
 
 Parish. Incwnibency. Page. 
 
 Blair, John, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1667-90 
 
 118 
 
 Do. George, 
 
 1701-5 
 
 266 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1705-12 
 
 210 
 
 Bonar, John, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1756-61 
 
 217 
 
 Do. Andrew, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1838-43 
 
 38 
 
 Brown, Thomas, 
 
 do., 
 
 1855 
 
 39 
 
 Bruce, Alexander, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1618 
 
 124 
 
 Bryce, Robert, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1741-57 
 
 52 
 
 Buchanan, Thomas, D.D. 
 
 , Methven, 
 
 1841-59 
 
 152 
 
 Burt, Alexander, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1819 
 
 29 
 
 Caird, Jfthu, M.A., 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1849-57 
 
 74 
 
 Campbell, James, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1692-1709 
 
 35 
 
 Campbell, James, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1640-1667 
 
 264 
 
 Carnegie, James, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 
 1665-81 
 
 234 
 
 Chalmers, Alexander, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1696-98 
 
 107 
 
 Chapman, Alexander, 
 
 Money die. 
 
 1702-16 
 
 159 
 
 Chapman, George, 
 
 Kinfaune, 
 
 1765-95 
 
 129 
 
 Ghrystie, William, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1698-1701 
 
 254 
 
 Clark, Thomas, D.D., 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1824-41 
 
 152 
 
 ColviUe, William, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1655-62 
 
 197 
 
 Colquhoun, James, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1698-1726 
 
 48 
 
 Constable, William, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1802-36 
 
 275 
 
 Cow par, W^illiam, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1595-1615 
 
 174 
 
 Coupar, Mathew, 
 
 Kinfauna, 
 
 1700-14 
 
 127 
 
 Coventry, Robert, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1727-61 
 
 121 
 
 Craigie, David, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1748-54 
 
 257 
 
 Craik, James, D.D., 
 
 do., 
 
 1832-43 
 
 258 
 
 Crombie, John, D.D., 
 
 do.. 
 
 1844 
 
 259 
 
 Cruickshanks, John, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1626-39 
 
 233 
 
 Gumming, Alex., 
 
 1834-43 
 
 63 
 
 Gumming, James Elder, 
 
 Perth, E. K., 
 
 1853-59 
 
 224 
 
 Gurroi, Peter, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1836-37 
 
 276 
 
 Darling, Andrew, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1698-1732 
 
 139 
 
 Davidson, George S., 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1853 
 
 130 
 
 Dempster, John, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1695-1706 
 
 26 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1706-1721 
 
 266 
 
 Dick, William, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1695-1702 
 
 95 
 
 Dunning, Alexander, 
 
 Abernethy, 
 
 1691-1719 
 
 19 
 
 Dow, David, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1758-1809 
 
 62 
 
 Dow, Anthony, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1789-1818 
 
 121 
 
 Dow, David, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1795-1818 
 
 73 
 
 Dowe, John, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1784-1823 
 
 152 
 
 Drummoud, Ninian, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1618-1635 
 
 133 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1655-79 
 
 156 
 
 Do. George, 
 
 St Maaoes, 
 
 1676-87 
 
 265 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 do., 
 
 1699 
 
 266 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1828-43 
 
 98 
 
 Duff, Alexander, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1762-85 
 
 281 
 
 Duff, John, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1797-1816 
 
 12« 
 
INDEX. 
 
 287 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Parish. Incumbency. Page. 
 
 Dunbar, Lewis, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1782-1829 
 
 140 
 
 Duncan, Patrick, 
 
 Tibbermorc, 
 
 1741-61 
 
 281 
 
 Duncan, William, 
 
 Abernethv, 
 
 1780-1809 
 
 21 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 do., 
 
 1809 
 
 22 
 
 Dunmure, Alexander, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1574 
 
 66 
 
 Edraonstone, William, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1618 
 
 124 
 
 English or Inglis, James, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1677-93 
 
 274 
 
 Do. William, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 Perth, E. K., 
 
 1698-1716 
 
 119 
 
 Eisdale, James, D.D., 
 
 1810-1844 
 
 222 
 
 Faichney, James, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 [1712-48 
 
 274 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1740-73 
 
 36 
 
 Falconer, Alexander, 
 
 Perth, St Paul's 
 
 :, 1850-56 
 
 228 
 
 Ferguson, Francis, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1722-30 
 
 246 
 
 Fisher, Thomas, 
 
 do., 
 
 1699-1721 
 
 246 
 
 Finlavson, Thomas, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1717-44 
 
 62 
 
 Findlay, John, D.D., 
 
 Perth, St Paul's 
 
 , 1807-46 
 
 227 
 
 Fleming, James, 
 
 ]VJonevdie, 
 
 1701-2 
 
 159 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1713-19 
 
 210 
 
 Do. Archibald, 
 
 Perth, St Paul's 
 
 i, 1856 
 
 228 
 
 Forrester, Andrew, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1620-31 
 
 32 
 
 Foular, James, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1623-67 
 
 125 
 
 Foular, Thomas, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1665-98 
 
 138 
 
 Frazer, George, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 
 1756-62 
 
 236 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1762-1807 
 
 161 
 
 Gall, John, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1682-97 
 
 126 
 
 Galloway, Patrick, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1581-89 
 
 168 
 
 Gait, Patrick, 
 
 Abeniethy, 
 
 1570 
 
 14 
 
 Gardner, John, 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1717-54 
 
 159 
 
 Garvie, William, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1782-1831 
 
 11 
 
 Geddies, Robert, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1665-90 
 
 26 
 
 Gillespie, James, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1645-66 
 
 243 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1707-29 
 
 27 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1761-57 
 
 62 
 
 Glen, John, 
 
 Forgandcnny, 
 
 1741-92 
 
 96 
 
 Goodall, Charles, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1844 
 
 54 
 
 Gordon, Robert, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1816-1821 
 
 129 
 
 Graham, Robert, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1858 
 
 74 
 
 Graeme, George, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1601-1604 
 
 250 
 
 Gray, Andrew, 
 
 Abernethy, 
 
 1747-79 
 
 21 
 
 Do. Andrew, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 1836-43 
 
 227 
 
 Do. Wm. Henry, 
 
 do., St Paul's 
 
 , 1846-50 
 
 227 
 
 Grierson, James, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1819-43 
 
 73 
 
 Guthrie, John, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1617-21 
 
 181 
 
 Guthrie, Henry, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1588-96 
 
 31 
 
 Guthrie, Henry, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1656-65 
 
 IIG 
 
 Hall, John, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1623-47 
 
 5S 
 
 Do. Joho, 
 
 Kilppixidie, 
 
 1^7-55 
 
 »a 
 
288 
 
 INBEX. 
 
 Ministers, 
 
 Parish. Incumbency. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Hall, Thomas, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1688-97 
 
 265 
 
 Hallyburton, William, 
 
 CoUace, 
 
 163264 
 
 33 
 
 bo. Wm., junior. do., 
 
 1665-70 
 
 34 
 
 Do. Thomas, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1635-40 
 
 135 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1640-52 
 
 70 
 
 Do. George, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1644-64 
 
 191 
 
 Hallybiirton, George, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1657-62 
 
 5 
 
 Hardie, Andrew, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1667-90 
 
 95 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1679-90 
 
 8 
 
 Harlaw, Andrew, 
 
 Forte viot, 
 
 1699-1708 
 
 107 
 
 Hay, William, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1684-88 
 
 208 
 
 Henderson, William, 
 
 Forte viot, 
 
 1800-22 
 
 111 
 
 Hering or Heron, James, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1574 
 
 144 
 
 Hunter, James, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1782-93 
 
 258 
 
 Inglis, Harry, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1752-99 
 
 111 
 
 Inglis, John, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1786-99 
 
 281 
 
 Isdale, Alexander, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1807-34 
 
 53 
 
 Jameson, George, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1695-1710 
 
 274 
 
 Jardine, xVlexander, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1563 
 
 114 
 
 Jenkin, Robert, 
 
 Abernethy, 
 
 1672-89 
 
 18 
 
 Johnstone, John, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1731-46 
 
 27 
 
 Jobson, James, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1759-94 
 
 73 
 
 Keay, Robert, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 1813-19 
 
 226 
 
 Kennedy, Thomas, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1795-1828 
 
 267 
 
 Do. Samuel, 
 
 Perth, W. K, 
 
 1820-35 
 
 226 
 
 Kilgour, Hamilton, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1774-77 
 
 37 
 
 Kirkwood, Thomas D., 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1843 
 
 64 
 
 Knox, James, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1774-76 
 
 257 
 
 Laing, James, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1844-51 
 
 38 
 
 Lang, William, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1783-1827 
 
 28 
 
 Lauder, David, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1668-1676 
 
 8 
 
 Lawrie, Joseph, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1635-40 
 
 187 
 
 Lauder, William, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1567 
 
 78 
 
 Do. Robert, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1641-44 
 
 189 
 
 Law, Mungo, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1665-71 
 
 202 
 
 Leishman, Thomas, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1852-55 
 
 38 
 
 Liddel, John, 
 
 Forsandenny, 
 
 1663-67 
 
 95 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1667-86 
 
 254 
 
 Lindsay, William, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1668-78 
 
 202 
 
 Do. Alexander, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1591-1638 
 
 261 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1746-50 
 
 62 
 
 Do. Henry, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1741-45 
 
 216 
 
 Lyon, Robert, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1714-31 
 
 128 
 
 Liston, William, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 
 1812 
 
 236 
 
 Mair, Alexander, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1736-42 
 
 109 
 
 Malcolm, John, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1591-1634 
 
 170 
 
INDEX. 
 
 289 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 Tncumbency. Page. 
 
 Marshall, WiUiam, 
 
 Mnckersie, 
 
 1G35 
 
 102 
 
 Meik, George, 
 
 Redgortou, 
 
 1713-56 
 
 236 
 
 Do. Patrick, 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1754-61 
 
 160 
 
 Do. do, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1761-82 
 
 140 
 
 Meld rum, David, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1694-1741 
 
 280 
 
 Melville, Gilbert, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1690-94 
 
 26 
 
 Mercer, James, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1711-18 
 
 108 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1718-45 
 
 9 
 
 MUne, Kobert, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 , 1857 
 
 227 
 
 Moncriefte, Archibald, 
 
 Abeniethv, 
 
 1579-1630 
 
 15 
 
 Do. Arch., junior, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1630-62 
 
 16 
 
 Do. George, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1635-64 
 
 25 
 
 Milroy, Adain, 
 
 Logiealmond, 
 
 1854-58 
 
 142 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1858 
 
 161 
 
 Mail, Gilbert, 
 
 do'.. 
 
 1739-53 
 
 159 
 
 Moncrieffe, David, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1677 
 
 8 
 
 Do, William, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1694-1748 
 
 150 
 
 Do. Alexander, 
 
 Abernethy, 
 
 1720-1740 
 
 19 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1731-61 
 
 246 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 Redgortou, 
 
 1763-1811 
 
 236 
 
 Moodie, James, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1772-1807 
 
 219 
 
 Morrison, Thomas, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1574-84 
 
 250 
 
 Murdoch, John, 
 
 Perth, M. K., 
 
 1843 
 
 225 
 
 Murray, Robert, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1618-48 
 
 144 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 do., 
 
 1648-62 
 
 146 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1619 
 
 278 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1687-90 
 
 254 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1667-81 
 
 126 
 
 M*Duff, John R, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1849 55 
 
 267 
 
 M'Farlaue, Pat., 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1836-44 
 
 54 
 
 M'Gruther, George, 
 
 Collace, 
 
 1670-89 
 
 U 
 
 M'Intosh, Lachlan, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1725-44 
 
 72 
 
 M'Kie, James, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1720-23 
 
 108 
 
 M'Kenzie, Daniel, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 , 1807-13 
 
 226 
 
 M'Laggan, James, D.D., 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1821-43 
 
 129 
 
 M'Lean, Lachlan, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1843-52 
 
 129 
 
 Macgregor, Patrick, 
 
 Logiealmond, 
 
 1859 
 
 142 
 
 Naime, Samuel, 
 
 F.rrol, 
 
 1692-1720 
 
 71 
 
 Noble, James, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1828-1848 
 
 267 
 
 Nimmo, John, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1763-64 
 
 129 
 
 Nicolson, John, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1666 
 
 70 
 
 Oliphant, James, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1640-65 
 
 137 
 
 Omay, Alexander, 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1608-26 
 
 155 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1626-52 
 
 69 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1668-76 
 
 264 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1776-79 
 
 61 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1679-93 
 
 149 
 
 Ornie, David, 
 
 Forgaudenny, 
 
 1660-62 
 
 91 
 
 Oswald, James, D.D,, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1750-83 
 
 150 
 
2vH) 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Parish. 
 
 [ncmnbency. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Park, John, 
 
 St Martin-s, 
 
 1844 
 
 276 
 
 Petrie, Alexander, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1632-44 
 
 242 
 
 Phut, Charles, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1732-58 
 
 128 
 
 Pilniar, Peter, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1703-40 
 
 95 
 
 Pitbladdo, John, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1569 
 
 25 
 
 Pitcairne, Alexander, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1656-62 
 
 44 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 do., 
 
 1690-91 
 
 46 
 
 Piayfair, Andrew, 
 
 Abcrdalgie, 
 
 1613-58 
 
 3 
 
 Poplay, William, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1678-90 
 
 245 
 
 Ramsay, Hew, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1662-79 
 
 14S 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 CoUace, 
 
 1713-39 
 
 36 
 
 Do. Richard, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1847 
 
 247 
 
 Do. Robert, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1596 
 
 124 
 
 iCankine, Thomas, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1733-45 
 
 139 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1745-81 
 
 10 
 
 Rhyud, William, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1561-1610 
 
 130 
 
 Do. Patrick, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1618-41 
 
 41 
 
 Do. Colvin, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1593 
 
 112 
 
 Kichardson, Edward, 
 
 do., 
 
 1635-49 
 
 105 
 
 Ritchie, William, D.D., 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 1838-43 
 
 276 
 
 Robertson, Robt. John, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1822-56 
 
 111 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1622-45 
 
 181 
 
 Robertson, Edward, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 1843-45 
 
 227 
 
 Do. do.. 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1845 
 
 282 
 
 Rogers, John, 
 
 CoUace, 
 
 1800-51 
 
 37 
 
 Rollock, Alexander, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1645-52 
 
 195 
 
 Ross, James, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1618-34 
 
 101 
 
 Ross, Alexander, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1672-83 
 
 206 
 
 Row, John, 
 
 Perth. 
 
 1560-80 
 
 164 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1572-89 
 
 80 
 
 Do. William, 
 
 do., 
 
 1590-1634 
 
 80 
 
 Do. William, 
 
 do., 
 
 1624-58 
 
 86 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1587-1614 
 
 115 
 
 Scott, James, 
 
 Kinfauns, 
 
 1759-62 
 
 129 
 
 Do. do., 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1762-1807 
 
 218 
 
 Do. Archibald, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1860 
 
 225 
 
 8chaw, David, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1691-1718 
 
 8 
 
 Do, Thomas, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1709-47 
 
 256 
 
 Shaw, Andrew, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1729-40 
 
 266 
 
 Sharp, John, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1846 
 
 12 
 
 Skeen, Alexander, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1679-80 
 
 207 
 
 Semple, Gabriell, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 CoUace, 
 
 1668-77 
 
 246 
 
 Smith, John, 
 
 1709-13 
 
 35 
 
 Smith, James, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1560 
 
 66 
 
 Smith, David, 
 
 Perth, W. K., 
 
 1846-56 
 
 227 
 
 Smythe, John, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1666-67 
 
 243 
 
 Smythe, Patrick, 
 
 CoUace, 
 
 1619 
 
 31 
 
 Smythe, Willianu 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1679-90 
 
 156 
 
 SomerviUe, James, 
 
 do., 
 
 1807-27 
 
 161 
 
INDEX. 
 
 291 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Pm-ish. 
 
 Inciimheticy. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Stevenson, Archibald, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1747-84 
 
 266 
 
 Stewart, James, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1707-8 
 
 256 
 
 Do. William, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1721-33 
 
 214 
 
 Do. Allan, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1762-87 
 
 121 
 
 Do. Charles S., 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1852-43 
 
 12 
 
 Strachan, Thomas, 
 
 St Martins, 
 
 before 1617 
 
 270 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 do., 
 
 1618-43 
 
 270 
 
 Do. Thomas, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1643-71 
 
 271 
 
 Do. Patrick, 
 
 do.. 
 
 1672-76 
 
 272 
 
 Strang, John, D.D., 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1614-26 
 
 66 
 
 Struthers, Walter, 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1560 
 
 155 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1841-44 
 
 246 
 
 Symer, George, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1615-22 
 
 115 
 
 Tait, Walter, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1856 
 
 268 
 
 Taylor, John, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1682-90 
 
 46 
 
 Do. WilUam, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1762-1814 
 
 246 
 
 Do. Thomas, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1800-31 
 
 281 
 
 Thomson, Andrew, D.D., 
 
 Perth, E. K, 
 
 1807-10 
 
 222 
 
 Do. William, D.D,, 
 
 Perth, M. K, 
 
 1807-43 
 
 225 
 
 Do. John \V., 
 
 Moneydie, 
 
 1828-43 
 
 161 
 
 Do. Maitland, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1843-46 
 
 12 
 
 Touch, John Edward, 
 
 Kinnoull, 
 
 1829-52 
 
 140 
 
 Traquhair, James, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1811-49 
 
 246 
 
 TulUdelph, John, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1691-1714 
 
 61 
 
 Do. Thomas, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1727-40 
 
 49 
 
 TuUoch, Weir, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1833-45 
 
 282 
 
 Turnbull, William, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1843-49 
 
 74 
 
 Walker, James, 
 
 Forteviot, 
 
 1707-9 
 
 108 
 
 Warden, John, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1747-55 
 
 216 
 
 Watson, Robert, 
 
 St Madoes, 
 
 1722-27 
 
 266 
 
 Weemys, Patrick, 
 
 Dnnbarnie, 
 
 1567 
 
 57 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1620-64 
 
 251 
 
 Do. George, 
 
 do.,' 
 
 1656-66 
 
 253 
 
 Do. Mungo, 
 
 Aberdalgie, 
 
 1653-67 
 
 7 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1665-75 
 
 60 
 
 Do. James, 
 
 Errol, 
 
 1744-58 
 
 73 
 
 Do. William, 
 
 Dron, 
 
 1653 
 
 44 
 
 Williamson, Andrew, 
 
 Arngask, 
 
 1747-82 
 
 27 
 
 Do. David, 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1622-44 
 
 115 
 
 Willison, John, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1793-1828 
 
 97 
 
 Wilson, William, 
 
 Perth, 
 
 1716-40 
 
 211 
 
 Do. Charles, 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1777-81 
 
 258 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Forgandenny, 
 
 1843 
 
 98 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1859 
 
 153 
 
 Wood, John, 
 
 Rhynd, 
 
 1618-31 
 
 240 
 
 Do. John, 
 
 Do. 
 
 1628 
 
 240 
 
 Wotherspoou, Wm. L., 
 Wright, John, ^ 
 
 Kilspindie, 
 
 1850 
 
 122 
 
 Scone, 
 
 1793-94 
 
 258 
 
292 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 Ministers. 
 
 Parish. j 
 
 Tncumhency. Page, 
 
 oum 
 
 I, Alexander, 
 
 Methven, 
 
 1567-70 144 
 
 Do. 
 
 John, 
 
 do., 
 
 1593 144 
 
 Do. 
 
 Robert, 
 
 Dunbarnie, 
 
 1647-60 58 
 
 Do. 
 
 Alexander, 
 
 Tibbermore, 
 
 1674 277 
 
 Do. 
 
 Wniiam, 
 
 Redgorton, 
 
 1589-1625 230 
 
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SUBJECTS, 
 
 A Paqe^ 
 
 ABERDALGIE and DUPPLIN— 
 
 Antiquities, . . . , , 
 
 Population and Session Records of, . 
 
 Adam, parson of in 1296, . . . 2 
 The churches of closed against Protestant ministers, 2 
 
 ABERNETHY— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 13 
 Congratulatory Address to Mr Duncan of, on his 
 
 Jubilee, ..... 22 
 
 Admission of ministers, mode of, 1632, . . 34 
 
 „ „ 1666, . . 70 
 
 1672, . . 18 
 ,, ,, See Induction. 
 
 Argyle, the ducal house of, descended from the brother 
 
 of a minister of Methven, . . . 144. 
 
 ARNGASK— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 23 
 
 Long in being planted, ... 25 
 
 Disjoined from Presbytery of Perth, . . 29 
 
 Augmentation of Stipends, Scheme for, . . 62 
 
 Auldbar, chapel of, annexed to church of Methven, 143 
 
 B 
 
 Bellscroft Bursary, Deed of Mortification, . 42 
 Bellstring, Bible, and keys of the church, delivered to 
 
 ministers at their induction, . . . 127 
 
 Benediction, none to leave the church before the, 173 
 Bereans, Mr Barclay, founder of the sect of, some time 
 
 assistant at Erroll, .... 73 
 
 Bishop, sat as Moderator, ^jm?ii<5 m^cr^arc6% . 104 
 
 ,, the Presbytery protest against, . . 16 
 
 Bishops, remonstrance to Parliament against, . 81 
 
 ,, protestation against, . . , 115 
 
 ,, anecdote illustrative of opposition to, . 84 
 
 Book of Common Order, .... 85 
 
 Book of Scone, ..... vi. 
 
 Book of the Universal Kirk, ... vi. 
 
 Book, the Service, attempt to introduce, . . 86 
 
 ,, minutes auent, . . 145 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Bursary, tlie Bellscroft or Dron, founded, 
 Bursaries, the Garvie, founded, . 
 
 Page. 
 42 
 11 
 
 Calls competing, ..... 
 
 Calls at large moderated in long after the restoration of 
 Patronage, ..... 
 
 Catechism, Shorter, Exposition -of, h.y Mr Mair, . 
 
 Certificate, Presbyterial, Form of, in 1656, 
 
 1634, . 
 
 ,, presentee rejected for want of, 
 
 Chaplains appointed to Covenanters' Army, 
 
 Churches shut against Presbyterians after the Revo- 
 lution, ...... 
 
 Clerks of Presbytery, List of, . . 
 
 ,, Fees of, fixed in 1694, 
 
 COLLACE— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 
 
 Colteuchar, Conventicle at, ... 
 
 Commission, a Riding, settle minister at Methven, 
 
 Commission, on ecclesiastical matters, 
 
 Commissioners to Glasgow Assembly, 
 
 Communion, Kneeling at, . 
 
 Confession of Faith, Compilers of, 
 
 Conforming ministers at Restoration, 
 
 Conformity, Act of, in 1662, 
 
 Condie, Path of, Erection of School, 1660, 
 „ Mortification in favour of, 
 
 Conventicles, Fines for attending, 
 ,, at Colteuchar, 
 
 ,, at Dron, 
 
 Covenant, the Solemn League and, subscribed, 
 ,, minute of Presbytery anent. 
 
 Country, troubled state of, in 1639, 
 
 Credulity, the Hill of, at Scone, . 
 
 Culdees, College of, at Abernethy, , 
 
 Currie, Mr Mercer presented to, . , 
 
 D 
 
 Deacons and Elders under Episcopacy, 
 Dedication, ..... 
 Discipline, the First Book of, 
 
 ,, anent Readers, 
 
 Doctor of Divinity, the Degree of, first conferred, 
 DRON— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records of, 
 
 Intrusion of Incumbent at, , 
 
 Disputed settlement at, in 1835, . « 
 
 Competing Calls at, 1733, . . 
 
 DUNBARNEY— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 
 
 35 
 50 
 
 129 
 
 110 
 
 6 
 
 42 
 
 32 
 
 87 
 
 256 
 
 X. 
 
 xii. 
 
 30 
 
 94 
 
 151 
 
 175 
 
 185 
 
 171 
 
 166 
 
 IIT 
 
 44 
 
 91 
 
 98 
 
 93 
 
 94 
 
 45 
 
 16 
 
 136 
 
 125 
 
 248 
 
 IS 
 
 10 
 
 205 
 iii. 
 
 166 
 
 3 
 
 66 
 
 40 
 
 46 
 54 
 50 
 
 56 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Paffe, 
 
 Dunning recommended as place of meeting for Synod, 196 
 
 Dunse Case, reference to, . . . . 62 
 
 Dupplin, Battle of, in 1332, ... 99 
 
 Dysart, the Earl of, , . \ . 145 
 
 E 
 Ecclesiamagirdle, chapel at, . , . 4t) 
 Education, State of, in 1649, ... 92 
 Elcho, the Monastery of, . . . , 15 
 Elders and Deacons under Episcopacy, . . 205 
 ,, under Episcopacy, not sent to Pres- 
 byteries, ... 83 
 „ summoned to attend Presbytery, in 
 
 1638, . . . 184 
 „ Presbyteries instructed to send, to 
 
 Glasgow Assembly, . 4 
 
 Episcopacy, List of Ministers who Conformed to, in 1662, 117 
 
 Episcopalian Incumbent, intrusion of, at Dron, . 46 
 ,, ,, many continued to officiate in 
 their parishes long after 
 
 the Revolution, . 159 
 
 ,, „ deposed for Nonconformity, 119 
 ERROL- 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records of, 65 
 
 F 
 
 Fordun, quotation from relative to Abernethy, . 13 
 
 FORGANDENNY— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 75 
 
 Trees planted on the Glebe of, 1658, . . 90 
 Perambulation of, and proposed new territorial 
 
 arrangement of it and the neighbouring parishes, 91 
 
 Parish School instituted between 1627 and 1690, ,92 
 
 FORTE VIOT— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 99 
 
 No Parish School in 1716, ... 93 
 
 Freeland, Chapel built at, for outed minister, . 94 
 
 G 
 
 Oarvie Bursaries founded, . . . 11 
 
 Glasgow Assembly, Commissioners to, appointed, 185 
 
 ,, Proceedings at, . . S6 
 
 Gowrie, Tlie Earl of, ... . 80 
 
 ,, The Conspiracy, .... 81 
 
 Greek and Hebrew studied by the Reformers, , SO 
 
 H 
 Hebrew and Greek studied by the Reformers, . 80 
 ,, first taught in Scotland by John Row, . 165 
 Helpers, or conjunct ministers, and successors, the 
 practice of appointing adopted soon after the Re- 
 formation, . , . , » 5 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page, 
 I. 
 
 Incumbents, Processes against, , . . 234 
 
 ,, See Einscopalian. 
 
 Induction of ministers, Different steps in the process of, 
 
 in 1624, 101 
 
 1632, 84 
 
 „ 1634, 102 
 
 1635, 103 
 
 „ 1651, 106 
 
 1650, 116 
 
 1666, 70 
 
 1692, 35 
 
 1698, 119 
 
 1700, 127 
 
 Induction, the keys of the church, the Bible, and the 
 
 bellstring delivered to the minister at his, . 127 
 Intemperate language, and slanderous accusations, a 
 
 minister prosecuted for, . . . 1^ 
 
 Intolerance of Presbyterians after the Eevolution, Ke- 
 
 marks on the alleged, . . . 156 
 
 J 
 
 Jus Devolntum, Mode of exercising, in 1727, . 49 
 
 in 1736, . 109 
 
 K 
 
 Keys of the church delivered to ministers at Induction, 127 
 KILSPINDIE and RAIT— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Kecords, 113 
 KINFAUNS— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 123 
 KINNOULL— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 131 
 
 Highland Host quartered in church, 1644, , 137 
 
 Kirkton of Mailer, a chapel at, . . » 100 
 
 Kirks, Scheme for planting 600, in 1581, » 132 
 
 LOGIEALMOND— 
 
 Erected into a parish, , , . 141 
 
 Antiquities of, . , , . , 141 
 
 M 
 
 Martyr's grave at Forgandenny, » , 94 
 
 „ at Exmagirdle, . . 40 
 METHVEN— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 14S 
 
 The Provostrie of, . . . . 14S 
 The Laird requested to make patent the kirk door, 149 
 
 Disputed settlement at, . . . 150 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 Minute of Presbytery anent List of Ministers, . v. 
 Letters from the Tables at Edinburgh, 4 
 Presbyterial Certificate in 1656, . 6 
 Visitation of kirk of Abernethy, . 17 
 Reponing a suspended minister, , 18 
 Patronage of Abernethy, . . 19 
 Mr Puncan's Jubilee, . . 22 
 Mode of exercising Patronage in 1747, 28 
 Vacancy at Collace, ... 32 
 Vacancy at Dron, ... 44 
 ,, at Errol, ... 69 
 Heritors and heads of families, , 52 
 Presbytery closed by Cromwell, . 60 
 Chaplains to the army of the Covenant, 87 
 Erection of school at Path of Condie, 91 
 State of Kducation in 1649, . . 92 
 Relative to institution of Parish Schools, 93 
 Induction of ministers in 1624, 1634, and 1635, 101 
 Translation of Mr Guthrie to Kilspindie, 116 
 State of the country in 1639, . . 125 
 Solemn League and Covenant, , 136 
 . „ . 145 
 Supplication against the Service Book, 145 
 Imprisonment of Mr Murray of Methven, 147 
 The Provost of Methven, . . 148 
 Recovery of Presbytery Records, . ix. 
 Presbytery Clerk's fees, . , xii. 
 Privy censures, . . , 204 
 Five Articles of Perth, . . 171 
 Minister translated without his consent reponed by As- 
 sembly, . . . . , 9 
 Ministers ejected for Nonconformity in 1662, , 44 
 
 58 
 
 118 
 
 „ of landward parishes used to live in Perth, 58 
 
 ,, scarcity of, after the Reformation, . 78 
 
 Moncrieffe, Chapel at, ... , 56 
 
 Moderator, Permanent, appointed, , , 70 
 
 172 
 
 ,, ,5 183 
 
 117 
 
 ,, of Assembly, Assessors to, , , 133 
 MONEYDIE— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 154 
 DLsjoined from Presbytery of Dunkeld and annexed to 
 
 Pertli, ..... 160 
 Muckarsie, formerly a separate parish, annexed to 
 
 Forte viot, . . . . . 100 
 
 N 
 Nonconformity, Ministers ejected for, in 1662, . 6 
 
 118 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Nonconformity, Ministers ejected for, in 1692, 
 
 Non-residence, minister censured for. 
 
 
 Page. 
 
 in 1692, 
 
 44 
 
 >' 
 
 91 
 
 in 1689, 
 
 19 
 
 in 1691, 
 
 118 
 
 j> 
 
 34 
 
 j> 
 
 61 
 
 in 1697, 
 
 126 
 
 , 
 
 41 
 
 Patronage, The Act restoring, long in coming into opera- 
 tion, .... 10 
 ,, An example of the manner in which patrons 
 
 waived their right of, . . 27 
 
 „ „ in 1720, . 72 
 
 „ „ in 1727, . 49 
 
 „ „ in 1741, . 96 
 
 in 1744, . 73 
 ,, of Abemethy disputed, . . 19 
 ,, the Presbytery unanimous against, . 51 
 ,, commission, memorialize against, . 73 
 „ direct exercise of, at Methven opposed, 150 
 Presbytery of Perth, account of the Eecords of, vii. 
 ,, list of the Clerks of, . . . x. 
 „ protest against proceediiags of Bishop, 16 
 ,, closed by order of Cromwell, . 60 
 ,, re-opened after the Revolution, . 46 
 ,, first meeting alter Restoration^, . 117 
 ,, the name of, abolished, . . 83 
 ,, form of minutes under Episeopac^.^ . 83 
 ,, unanimously Overture against Patronage, 51 
 ,, a quorum not found to Induct an unaccept- 
 able Presentee, ... 52 
 „ disobey an order of the General Assembly 
 
 anent Induction at Methven, . Ill 
 
 ,, the Records of, lost and recovered, . vii. 
 
 ,, list of Volumes now extant, . . ix. 
 
 Probationers, Mode of admitting, in 1656, . 6 
 
 ,, Prohibited from accepting Presentations, 51 
 
 R 
 
 Rabbling at Errol, .... 71 
 
 Reader, The duties of, ... 78 
 
 ,, the office of, suppressed, . . 79 
 
 ,, anent the employment of, .^ » 2 
 
 Rebellion in 171.5, . . . . .S6 
 
 Register of Ministers and their Stipen<is, . vi. 
 
 Revolution,, Re-op§ning of Presbytery afier, . 46 
 Resignation of Dr Oswald of Methven, , 152 
 Ruthven, The Raid of, . . , , 169 
 Records — S^e Presbytery. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 REDGORTON— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, Session Records, . 229 
 RHYND— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, Session Records, . 239 
 
 S 
 
 Sabbath observance in Perth in 1615, . . 178 
 
 Schools, Anent the erection of Parish, . . 92 
 SCONE— 
 
 ,, The Book of, . . . . vi. 
 
 „ Charles II. crowned at, . . 89 
 
 „ The Church shut after the Revolution, 2o6 
 ,, Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 248 
 
 Seceders in 1733, ..... 20 
 
 „ „ 213 
 
 Secession in 1733, Brief account of, . . 212 
 
 Service-Book, attempt to introduce, . . 86 
 
 . . 145 
 
 Sessions, Kirk, existed under Episcopacy, . 83 
 
 ,, Records of — See under the several Parishes. 
 
 Settlement disputed at Methven, . . 150 
 
 Statistical Accounts of Scotland, notice of, . vi. 
 
 Stipends, amount of, in 1627, ... 85 
 ST MApOES— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 260 
 ST MARTINS— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 269 
 
 Supplies, mode of appointing, in 1626, . . 68 
 
 iul653, . . 44 
 
 Synod of Perth and Stirling oppose the King, . 81 
 
 ,, Resolute conduct of the Moderator, 82 
 
 T 
 
 Tables at Edinburgh send down instructions, . 4 
 Tay, Probationers born north of, not to be settled in 
 
 parishes to the south of the, . . 49 
 Testimonials — See Certificates. 
 TIBBERMORE— 
 
 Antiquities, Population, and Session Records, 277 
 Tibbermore, Battle of, 
 
 Toleration of Presbyterians after Revolution, 157 
 
 Translation, process of, in 1626, . . , 69 
 
 „ in face of a protest by the minister, 9 
 
 V 
 
 Veto Law, mode of Induction under, . . 54 
 
 Visitation of Kirks enjoined, . . 17 
 
INDEX OF PERSONS NOT MEMBERS OF 
 PRESBYTERY. 
 
 A Page, 
 
 Adam, parson of Dupplin and vicar of Perth, . 1 
 
 Adams, Francis, probationer, ... 21 
 
 Adamson, Henry, Clerk of Presbytery, . . x. 
 
 AUerdas, Alexander, Errol,. ... 65 
 Anderson, John, of Auchtergaven, called to Forgandenny, 90 
 
 Athole, The Earl of, Methven Church founded by, 14:^ 
 
 Athole, The Marquis of, . . . . 45 
 
 Auchinleck, Sir George of Balmanno, . . 15 
 
 „ Henry, called to Forgandenny, . 90 
 
 Austin, James, Clerk of Presbytery, . . x. 
 
 B 
 
 Baliol, Edward, 
 
 Blaikie, George, probationer, 
 
 Blair, George, ,, 
 
 ,, Thomas, of Tarsappie, 
 
 ., Sir Thomas, of Balthayock 
 BeatsonBell, John, Esq., W.S, 
 Bonar, family, short account of. 
 Brown, George, of Collace, . 
 Breddie or Brodie, Andrew, martyr, Forgandenny 
 Bruce, Sir George, of Colpmalundie, 
 Bulerwell, John, curate, Arngask, . 
 
 128 
 128 
 
 184 
 184 
 
 63 
 217 
 184 
 
 94 
 184 
 
 24 
 
 Caw, John, Provost of Perth, ... 221 
 
 Carmichael, of Carmeddie, .... 184 
 
 Condie, Lawrence Oliphant, Esq. of, . . 78 
 
 Corrie, William, probationer, ... 21 
 
 Charles II., coronation of, at Scone, . . 89 
 
 Craigie, John, younger, of Dunbarnie, . . 28 
 
 Creichton, Gabriel, Header, Forgandenny, . 78 
 Cruickshanks, John, killed at battle of Bullion Green, 234 
 
 Douglas, , Rector of Moneydie, , , 154 
 
 Daa, Lawrence, Reader, Aberdalgie, . . 4 
 
 Dryisdale, Robert, Reader, Bendochy . . 31 
 
Page. 
 134 
 156 
 184 
 184 
 219 
 21 
 xi. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Brummond family, distinguished members of, 
 
 ,, David, of Invermay, 
 Duncan, George, iu Pitnamoon, 
 Duff, John, ordained assistant, Perth, 
 Duncan, Alexander, of Coylton, . 
 Dundie, Alexander, Clerk of Presbytery, 
 
 E 
 
 Eilston, Patrick, Reader, Forteviot, . . 78 
 
 Erskine, John, of Dun, .... 31 
 
 Erskiue, Ebenezer, his famous Synod sermon, . 212 
 
 G 
 
 Garioche, J., Clerk of Presbytery and Synod, . xi. 
 
 Gibson, William, Reader, Tibbermore, . . 3 
 
 Glook or Simson, ,, Dupplin, . . 3 
 
 Glammis, Lord, proprietor of Forgandenny, . 76 
 
 Gibson, Lawrence, Forgandenny, Covenanter, . 94 
 
 Graham, of Balgowan, .... 184 
 
 Graeme, of Inchbrakie, .... 250 
 
 Guthry, James, minister of Stirling, executed, . 146 
 
 H 
 
 Hay, Patrick, of Leys, .... 184 
 
 Hungus, King of the Picts, .... 99 
 
 Hunter, Robert, of Over Fingask, . . ! 184 
 
 I 
 
 Inglis, Patrick, of Byers, .... 184 
 
 J. 
 
 Johastone, John, of Roxburgh Place Church, . 258 
 
 K 
 
 Kenneth II. died at Forteviot, ... 99 
 
 Keir, William, of Woodhead, . . ] 184 
 
 Knox, John, preached at Perth, ... 248 
 
 Livmgstone, Mr Henry, .... 82 
 
 Logic, John, vicar of Rhynd, . .* .' 239 
 
 Low, Adam, of Fordel, " . . . . 28 
 
 Lyons, James, Expectant, . . . \ 32 
 
 1\I 
 
 Malcolm Canmore, Forteviot, his favourite residence. 99 
 Mar, The Earl of, . . , . .25 
 
 Mair, , Presentee to Dron, . . . 51 
 
 „ John, author of "The Introduction," '. Ill 
 
 Meggmch, The Laird of, . . 72 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Miles, Presentee to Dron, .... 51 
 
 Millar, Walter, Presbytery Clerk, . . . xiii. 
 
 IMitchell, Henry, of Kincarathie, . . . 184 
 
 Moir, .John, Keader at Aberdalgie, . . 3 
 
 MoncriefFe, The Laird of, . , . . 86 
 
 „ Sir John, of that Ilk, ... 184 
 
 ,, Henry, of Tibbermallo, . . . 184 
 
 Moncur, Thomas, Seggieden, . . , 184 
 
 Morray, Andrew, of Fosterseat, . . . 184 
 
 Myln, Canon of Dunkeld, .... 154 
 Myrton, Sir John, Canon of Dunkeld, Prebendary of 
 
 Forgandenny, and Rector of Dupplin,. . 2 
 
 O 
 
 Oliphant, Lawrence, of Condie, 1660, . . 92 
 
 „ William, of Forgan, 1662, . . 93 
 
 ,, Lawrence, of Condie, 1860, . . 78 
 
 ,, John, called to Kinnoull, . . 139 
 
 Pitscottie, Colvine, of Luncardie, under process for 
 
 murder, ...... 231 
 
 Pitcairne, John, Reader at Rhynd, . . . 239 
 
 R 
 
 Ramsay, Neil, Reader at Rait, . ^ 
 
 66 
 
 Russell, James, D.D., Dunning, 
 
 11 
 
 Ruthven, William, Lord, 1563, 
 
 80 
 
 „ 1662, 
 
 93 
 
 ,, Sir Thomas, of Freeland, 
 
 184 
 
 Row, John, Carnock, . . 
 
 86 
 
 ,, Archibald, Stobo, 
 
 1G6 
 
 „ John, Aberdeen, 
 
 166 
 
 ,, Colins St Quivox, 
 
 166 
 
 Rynd, James, Longf organ, . 
 
 133 
 
 ,, William, Tutor to Earl of Gowrie, . 
 
 133 
 
 Scone, Lord, Royal Commissioner, . . 81 
 Schaw, Harrie, of Pitmurthlie, under process for assault- 
 ing his minister, .... 232 
 Simson, Robert, Reader, Dupplin, . . 3 
 Small, Thomas, martyr, Ecclesiaraagirdle, . 40 
 Smythe, William, Esq. of Methven, . . vi. 
 ,, Ancestors of, connected -with the Church, 251 
 ,, Patrick, of Braco, . . . 156 
 ,, William, minister of Moneydie, descendants of, 156 
 Stewart, Andrew, Reader, Kilspindie, . . 66 
 Stormont, Lord, .... 19 
 
 Tawse, John, Esq., W.S. 
 
 218 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Thomson, John, Eeader, Dron, 
 
 ,, George, Reader, Muckersie, 
 Thrift, James, Keader, Collace, 
 
 W 
 
 Weemys, Patrick, Reader, Aberdalgie, 
 
 ,, John, ,, ^^ 
 
 Weemys, The Earl of, 
 
 Wellwood, Jolm, Field Preacher, 
 Wynton, His Chronicle quoted, 
 
 ra()€. 
 41 
 
 78 
 
 3 
 
 184 
 
 243 
 
 40 
 
 99 
 
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