January 1574, on appointment to the Sub-Deanery. He was elected Moderator of General Assembly on 7 August 1574, also Commissioner of Galloway, and appointed with others to draw up the Second Book of Discipline in 1576 and 1578. He died on 4 October 1601, aged about 100. Publications He wrote a Reply to Tyrie, the Jesuit's Refutation of Knox's Answer to a former work, which was appointed to be revised by the General Assembly March 1673. Family He married: (1) Janet Watson (2) Margaret Kenzow, who survived him. He had issue – James, minister of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, who married Helen Livingston; William, apprenticed to Harry Smith, cutter, Edinburgh, 31st Jan. 1593 ; Walter, apprenticed to Robert Middleton, tailor, Edinburgh, 4 March 1594-5 ; Marion (married Alexander Hume, minister of Logie). Bibliography Calderwood's Hist., iii. 187, 330, 344 passim, iv. 191 passim Records of Royal Burgh of Stirling, 1519–1666, 75, 76 Reg. of Deeds, xxiii., 232 Acts and Dec, lv., 49 Rogers's The Chapel Royal of Stirling, 56 et seq. References 1530s births 1601 deaths Year of birth uncertain 16th-century Scottish educators 16th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Scottish chaplains Christian chaplains Converts to Calvinism from Roman Catholicism Converts to Presbyterianism Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Scottish educators Scottish Roman Catholic priests Deans of the Chapel Royal in Scotland Court of James VI and I 17th-century Scottish educators