a Scotch clergyman, who "came out from Linlithcowe," officiated in Anstruther in January 1585; in June confessed he had not entered the Reformed Kirk in proper order; in August accepted a call to commence a new kirk in Ersilton in March 1586; officiated at Anstruther in 1588; was a member of the assemblies of 1595 and 1602; presented to the living by the king in 1611; called before the Court of High Commission in 1620; resigned before January 4, 1633, and died before June 20, 1643. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:124, 523.