1 Barbarously and most sacrilegiously murdered by Presbyterian fanatics; and whose murder, is still approved of and applauded by that sect to this day. 2 Commendator of Glasgow, 28th October, 1671; resigned August, 1674; died 1684. 3 Translated to Orkney 14th February, 1678; died February, 1688. 4 Translated to Glasgow 1664; deprived December, 1669; restored September, 1674; translated to St. Andrews 1679; died 24th August, 1684. 5 Leighton resigned in August, 1674. 6 Law's Memorials, p. 77, cited by Mr. Lawson, vol. ii. 30. It was only since the above was printed that I have been able to refer to these Memorials. Law says that the Archbishop of Glasgow was the consecrator, assisted by the Bishop He also says, "For a long of Edinburgh, and another bishop in Edinburgh. time did this bishop [Leighton] still offer this [his resignation], though he did not mean it, as it seemed by his after dealings; therefore, what he did in jest was taken in earnest by the king and Lauderdale, his secretary; and he got a bill of ease, and is set off. . . . . . Mr. Alexander Burnet, who before was archbishop of Glasgow. is reponed again (. . . . . ) comes to Glasgow, takes possession of his place, and keeps a synod the second Tuesday of October, 1674 Therefore as Dr. Leighton resigned in August, 1674, he could not have been the consecrator; for in 1675 Archbishop Burnet was in the full possession of his episcopal authority. The latter of these prelates was translated to Galloway 5th September, 1679; to Glasgow 15th October, 1679; and to St. Andrews 31st October, 1684; he died 13th June, 1704. The former prelate was translated to Edinburgh 29th March, 1679; to Glasgow 21st January, 1687; and died 8th December, 1708. p. 70.-T.S. 7 Translated to Galloway 6th February, 1680; died 28th October, 1687. 8 Translated to Aberdeen 1682; died 29th September, 1715. Translated to Glasgow the same year. 10 Translated to Edinburgh, September, same year; vicar-general, 1704; died 20th March, 1720. 1 This prelate was lineally descended from an illegitimate son of Archbishop Hamilton, the last Romish primate. He survived the Revolution, and died one of the ministers of Edinburgh, and sub-dean of his majesty's chapel royal. 2 This denotes that they were consecrated" bishops at large," without sees. Vicar-general and metropolitan. Although afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh, yet at the time of this consecration he had no diocese. Elected to Edinburgh, and primus. |