HAY, George Minister at Rathven, Bishop of Moray and Ross (unconsecrated), Reverend Mr ¹

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  General Notes:

The Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000 states that this George Hay was the son of John Hay of Muldavit, and emphasise he was not the son of John Hay, minister at Rathven. Howeve, it also states that George Hay kept a meeting house about 1700, and was ordained in 1705. Since John Hay of Muldavit and his wife Katherine Hay did not marry until 1697, it seems likely he was the brother of John and the son of William Hay of Muldavit.

He came under a sentence of deposition from Aberlour Presbytery in 1706, and was banished from Scotland in 1710 for baptising a child, though later received a pardon from Queen Anne. The text goes on to say that George Hay was the incumbent at Rathven between 1713 and 1726, though this is not mentioned in volume 6 of Fasti Ecclesiae. It is mentioned in volume 8 of that collection, among additions and corrections. Hay was driven from Rathven parish church in May 1715. he was incumbent at Daviot, 1726-37, and conducted some services in Nairn 1729-1737. He was elected Bishop of Moray and Ross on 7 July 1737, but disputes among the bishops delayed consecration. George Hay died towards the end on 1737.

from Scottish Episcopal Clergy




"(1710 at Rathven)
JOHN HAY, brother-germane of George Hay, intruder 1713. [Justiciary Records, 1712-17, 15th March 1715.]"

"(1713 at Rathven)
GEORGE HAY, in 1713 he intruded in the Church and Manse of Rathven, and continued so for two years, 'so that the Presbytery have had no access either to supply or plant the Church by any qualified conform to law'; on 28th Dec. 1714 a petition presented by the congregation to the Presb. for his continuation as min. was refused, and when Mr Alexander Irvine, min. of Cullen, went to supply Rathven by order of the Presb., he was attacked by the people and stoned to the effusion of blood. [Justiciary Records, 1712-17, 15th March 1715.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol. 8) ^{1 2}