RAMSAY, Andrew Minister in Arbuthnott, then in Auld Kirk Edinburgh, Reverend Mr 1
- Born: 1574 1
- Marriage (1): FRASER, Marie 18 December 1605(contract) 1
- Died: 30 December 1659, Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland 1
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General Notes:
(at Old Kirk, Edinburgh in 1641)
"Andrew Ramsay, born 1574, son of Sir David R. of Balmain, Fettercairn, and Catherine, daugh. of Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird ; M.A. (Marischal College and Univ. of Aberdeen) ; prosecuted his theological studies in France, and occupied a professorial chair in the Univ. of Saumur. In 1606 he became min. of Arbuthnott.
In 1613 the Town Council obtained authority from the Archbishop of St Andrews, directing him to proceed to Edinburgh to stand 'trials' as one of the city ministers ; and he was appointed on the 28th April of the following year to the pulpit of the South-West con gregation. He continued his ministrations there until Dec. 1620, when the new church at the Greyfriars was taken over by the South-West congregation.
He was a member of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1615 and 15th June 1619; signed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest ; was proposed for the Principalship of Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1620, but trans. was refused. From 1620 to 1625 he was Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh. At a division of the city into four parishes, 25th Nov. 1625, the South-West Quarter was once more relegated to the Greyfriars, with R. as minister. He seems to have been readm. there on 31st Jan. 1626 ; trans. and adm. to this charge 24th Dec. 1641 ; had a protection from the Marquess of Montrose, after the battle of Kilsyth in 1645 ; was Rector of the Univ. 1646 and 1647 ; dep. 27th July 1648, for favouring the Duke of Hamilton's Engagement with Charles I., a sentence which was recalled 8th Nov. 1655.
He retired to Abbotshall, where he died, 30th Dec. 1659. Bishop Guthrie describes him as 'a guid, modest, learned, godlie man, full of pietie and learning ; an ornament to the Church of Scotland' ....Publications Oratio (1600); Paraenesin et Orationes de Laudibus Academiae Salmuriensis ; Poemata Sacra et Miscellanea et Epigrammata Sacra (Edinburgh, 1633) [Del. Poet. Scot. II.]; A Warning to Come Out of Babell, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1638) ; A Treatise (1646). [Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, Counc. Reg., and Reg. (Bapt.); Reg. Sec. Sig.; Mem. of Montrose, ii. ; Peterkin's Rec. ; Nicoll's and Lament's Diaries, Row's and Stevenson's Hists. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., vii. ; Baillie's Lett. ; Acts Parl., vi. ; Guthrie's Mem. ; Grant's Univ., i. ; Wodrow's Anal., iii. ; Cameron's Hist, of Fettercairn.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
Andrew married Marie FRASER, daughter of Alexander FRASER of Durris and Helen ARBUTHNOTT, 18 December 1605(contract).1 (Marie FRASER was born about 1585.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Andrew Ramsay) marr. (cont. 18th Dec. 1605) Marie, daugh. of Sir Alexander Fraser of Durris (G. R. Sas., xviii., 337), and had issue Robert of Woodston, min of Ecclesgreig (G. R. Sas., li., 65); Sir Andrew of Abbotshall, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1654, and Senator of the College of Justice, 1671, died 27th Jan. 1688 ; Eleazer, bapt. 4th Dec. 1614 ; David, bapt. 20th July 1625, died July 1660; William, a preacher, who was presented to Pencaitland 16th Aug. 1641, but gave way to Calderwood, the ecclesiastical historian, and subsequently was proprietor of Woodston."
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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