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the Presb. 15th July 1642, presented by Charles I., 13th Jan. andadm. and 

 inst. 23rd April 1645. He -was a member of the Commission of Assembly 

 1649, joined the Protesting Party in 1651, was one of those named by the 

 Council of England 8th Aug.1654, for authorising admissions to the Ministry, 

 visited Ireland summer 1656, and was one of ten ministers who con- 

 gratulated his Majesty on his return Aug. 1660, putting him in mind at the 

 same time of the National Covenant ; on the evening of same day a warrant 

 was issued by the Privy Council for his imprisonment in Edinburgh Castle, 

 and his stipend sequestrated 25th Sept. by the Committee of Estates for 

 subscribing the Remonstrance, " ane dangerous paper, tending to the peace 

 of the kingdome." He was released in the year following, but refusing fco 

 conform to Episcopacy he was deprived in 1662. In 1664 he was brought 

 before the Court of High Commission for being at a Communion. The 

 neighbours requested concurrence of the Kirk Session of South Leith to 

 their calling him to be second Minister, to which the Session replied " that 

 so soon as the four Incorporations are unanimous among thomselves in 

 that call, and that Mr John give obedience to the Kingdom, satisfying thy 



Bishop of Edinburgh, and restrickting himself to keep within — r 



betwixt our Min. and him, then they will willingly concur." He was 

 indulged by the Privy Council 3rd Aug. 1669 ; he was fined by the Privy 

 Council 31st July 1673, for not observing the anniversary of his Majesty's 

 Restoration, and died 22nd Nov. 1681, in his 66th year and 40th min; 

 The insicht, plenishing and books, wore estimat to iiij o li. He married 

 Elizabeth Rae who suivived him and had Joan, Margaret, and Elizabeth, 

 who were served heirs' portioners 31st March 1698. [Presb. Test. Reg. 

 (Peebles), Reg. Sec. Sigill.,. Wodrow's Hist., Inq. Ret. Gen. 7962, Reg. 

 Laur. Univ. Edin., Presb. and S. Leith Sess. Reg., and Pres. Nicoll and 

 Lamont's Diaries, Livingstone's Life, Reid's Ireland, Rutherford's Letters, 

 Mun. Univ. Glasg. ii.] 



Alexander Colden, A.M., took his degree at the University of Edinr. 

 1675, became minister to the Presbyterian Congregation at Enniscorthy, 

 Ireland, called to Buncle and Preston parish, and admitted 7th Aug. 1690; 

 was a member of the Assembly 16th October following, as well as that of 

 1C92, and was called to Dunse, Sept., and admitted 5th Dec. 1693 ; called 

 to Oxnam in Sept. 1699, and admitted 8th May succeeding; he scrupled to 

 take the Oath of Abjuration, but at length did so in 1799, and died 29th 

 June 1738, in the 84th year of his age and 55th of his ministry. "As a 

 divine, a Christian and a min. of the Gospel for true piety, learning, wisdom, 

 diligence and success in gaining souls he had few equals." Notwithstanding 

 their difference of opinion regarding the Doctrine contained in the Marrow 

 of Modern Divinity, he continued a steady friend of Thomas Boston. He 

 married in 1687 Janet Hughes, who died in June 1731, aged 69, and had 

 Ebenezer: Cadwallader, author of the " History of the Five Indian Nations " 

 &c ; Mr James Colden, minister of Whitsome, ordained there 10th Sept. 

 1722, and died 20th Sept. 1754 in his 5 ( Jth year and 22 min. Mr Colden had 

 also a daughter who married Mr James Hume of Billie. [Publications : 

 Preface to Boston's Crook in the Lot, jointly with Mr Gabriel Wilson, 



