on both occasions the honour was purely titular until the restoration of regular episcopal succession in 1610. He received consecration as bishop on 24 February 1611 in his home church of South Leith. As bishop of Ross Lindsay sat and voted in parliament, but in the assembly of the kirk the new bishoprics were not recognised till November 1602. At that date commissions were appointed for general visitation; Lindsay and the other bishops were sent as commissioners to the districts of which they were bishops, and thus, laments James Melville, "thair was thrie bishops put in possession of thair bishoprics". Lindsay was one of those who accompanied King James to England, when he set out to take possession of the English throne. On 1 April 1604, he obtained a pension of 200 pounds per annum for life. At the parliament held at Perth in July of this year he was appointed a commissioner for the union with England. He died on 14 August 1613, "having", according to his son-in-law, Archbishop Spotiswood, "attained to fourscore and two or three years". "He was", says the same authority, "of a placable nature, and greatly favoured of the king, to whom he performed diverse good services, especially in the troubles he had with the church: a man universally beloved and well-esteemed of by all wise men". His corpse was interred at Leith churchyard by his own direction, as desiring to rest along with that people on whom he had taken great pains in his life. Family He married firstly Joneta Ramsay, a daughter of George Ramsay of Clattie, and secondly, Helen Harresoun By his first marriage, he had two sons: Sir Jerome Lindsay of Annatland, who married Margaret, daughter of John Colville, and was knighted as Sir Jerome Lindsay of Annatland, and appointed Lyon King of Arms, and who is now represented by a family in Virginia, and Rev. David Lindsay (1566 - 1627), Minister of South Leith 1613-1627. ... and a daughter, Rachel, who married John Spotiswood, afterwards Archbishop of St. Andrews. Notes References Attribution The entry cites the following sources: Histories of Calderwood, Spotiswood, and Row; Knox's Works; Hist. of James the Sext (Bannatyne Club); David Moysie's Memoirs (Bannatyne Club); James Melville's Diary; Reg. P. C. Scotl. vol. vi.; Lord Lindsay's Lives of the Lindsays; Lindsay Pedigree, by W. A. Lindsay, in the College of Arms; Keith's Scottish Bishops; Scott's Fasti, i.