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from 1642 to 1671, and of his wife, Margaret Paterson. 

 She survived him, and was living in 1702. Dr Hardy, 

 apparently following Nesbit, believes the lady to have 

 belonged to the family of Paterson of Bannoekburn, but it 

 is to be observed that Nesbit states that the chief on the 

 shield of that family was embattled, whereas here it is 

 quite plain. 



Extracts Jrom " Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanoi." Pages 376-77. 



ALDHAMSTOCKS, OR OLDIIAMSTOCKS. 



1562. — Thomas Hepburn was one of those thought apt 

 and able to minister by the first General Assembly, 20th 

 December 1560. He was appointed by the Assembly, 4th 

 July 1562, to preach in the unplanted Kirks of the Merse, 

 month about with two others. In 1567, he waited on Mr 

 John Craig, formerly of Holyrood House, and requested his 

 services in proclaiming Queen Mary in marriage with the 

 notorious Earl of Bothwell ; was admitted Master of Requests 

 17th May same year, and in Aug. following had been 

 forfeited "for certane crymes of tresson and lese majestie," 

 which was rescinded however by the Parliament, 25th July 

 1578. But previous to this he was discharged from the 

 ministry by the Assembly 1576, for teaching "that no soul 

 entereth Heaven until the latter judgment." (Booke of the 

 Kirk, Keith, Eow, Calderwood, and Laing's History, Wodrow's 

 M.S, Biog. 11. Acts Pari. 3. Chalmers' Caled. 2 ) 



1569. — David Hume, trans, fr. Poulden, entered at Beltyn ; 

 he signed the Articles drawn by the Synod and presented 

 by the Superintendent to the Assembly in 1572. In 1574, 

 Colbranispeth and Aldcammos were also under his care, with 

 a stipend of jc. Ixxxvj. li. xiijs. iiijd., of which he paid 

 XX. li. to a reader. He was a member of the Assemblies 

 1573,- 1576. In that of 24th April 1578, the min. of Perth 

 complained against Adamson, the Visitor, that he had, 

 without his advice and consent, collated Hume to a benefice; 

 continued in 1580, and removed to Auldcamus same year. — 



