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HONEYMAN.
General Remarks and Genealogy.
HONEYMAN, GRAHAM, LIDDELL and TRAILL.
T3ISHOP ANDEEW HONEYMAN" was born at St.
•*-* Andrews, Fifeshire, in 1619, he was the son of David
Honeyman, of Pitlairchney, was educated at the University
of his native town, was at one time Minister of Ferry-port -
on-Craig, to which he was presented by Charles I. in 1641,
afterwards, was one of the Clergymen of St. Andrews, where
he was born ; he had not only the privilege, but also the
honour, of being one of those who received Charles II., he
also held the office of Archdeacon of the Metropolitan
Diocese. In April 1664, he was consecrated Bishop at St.
Andrews, having been nominated to the See of Orkney in
January of the same year.
After he had been in Orkney some years, having gone
there in 1665, he went to Edinburgh on church business.
While there, in July 1688, he was wounded by a poisoned
bullet, intended for Archbishop Sharp, from a pistol fired by
a fanatical assassin, who thought that to murder a Bishop
was a meritorious act ; the effects of the poison caused the
Bishop's death at a comparatively early age. Some of those
murder-loving fanatics, under the guise of religion, were
much like the anarchists of the present day, who fire, &c, at
crowned heads and others who hold prominent positions ;
many of the Scotch had strong views as regards Bishops and
those holding religious opinions differing from themselves.
About thirty years since, the writer heard a member of the
Free Church of Scotland say that it was to be hoped that
Roman Catholics would not be met in Heaven. Such views
die hard ; however, the then not over-tolerant individual,
before leaving this world, got reconciled to Bishops and the
Episcopal Church, which was a nasty corner for one to turn,
and walked in the ways of a Church which, at one time, was