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NOTES TO ANE ADMONITION, ETC. (207-217). 2ig
dangers threatned to the profession of the trew relligion within this
realme, 1588, Jan.”
Patrick Sharpe, regent in the University of Glasgow, and Master of
the Grammar School, presented to the Principalship of the College,
and having the parish of Govan in charge in 1586, does not satisfy
Burne’s description.
John Sharp, minister of Kilmany, whom Sibbald identifies with the
Sharpe here mentioned, belongs to a later period, and is quite out of
the reckoning.
Leslie. George Leslie, settled in Strathmiglo in 1562, was com¬
plained against by the Superintendent of Fife in the following year.—
‘ Calderwood,’ vol. ii. p. 228. He was translated to Kilconquhar about
1566, and presented to the vicarage by James VI., 24th August 1568.—
Scott, ‘ Fast. Ec. Scot.,’ vol. ii. p. 509. In 1569 a complaint was again
made against him “ for not making residence at his kirk, but travelling
in diverse parts of the country at his pleasure,” for whicfef he was
admonished and threatened with suspension or deposition in case of
disobedience.—‘ Calderwood,’ vol. ii. p. 543 ; Scott, ‘ Fast. Ec. Scot.,’
vol. ii. pp. 434, 435. He was translated to Mortlach in 1573, and,
according to the Register for 1574, had Abirlour, Skeirdustane,
Pettruthny, and Dunmeith also in charge.—‘Wodrow Misc.,’vol. i.
p. 341. Leslie was still in Mortlach in 1594.—Scott, ‘Fast. Ec. Scot.,’
vol. iii. p. 209.
207. Skyrit—XaoY fright, sheered oft. Dut. scheren.
208. Baigis=knapsacks, portmanteaus.
211. Kilpont. Robert Pont, born at Culross about 1526, was en¬
tered under the name of Robertus Kilpont in St Leonard’s College,
St Andrews, in 1544. In 1562 he was minister of Dunkeld, and in
the following year Commissioner of Murray. In 1572 he was pre¬
sented to the provostry of Trinity College, Edinburgh, and made a
Lord of Session. Two years later he was appointed colleague to
William Harlaw, minister of St Cuthbert’s, after whose death in
1578 he enjoyed the vicarage. In 1584, in consequence of an Act
then passed, he was deprived of his judicial appointment, and in the
following year he resigned the provostship of Trinity College. Pont
died 8th May 1606, in his eighty-first year, and was buried in St
Cuthbert’s churchyard. He was the author of a translation of the
Helvetic Confession which the Assembly of December 1566 ordained
to be printed (‘Calderwood,’ vol. ii. p. 331); a Latin Catechism in
iambic verse, printed at St Andrews in 1573, and reprinted in the
‘Miscellany of the Wodrow Society,’ vol. i. pp. 301-318; and three
Sermons against Sacrilege : Edinb. 1599, i6mo.
217. Paterson. There were four of this name appointed to, or
holding, office in the Church during the period of which this poem
treats : (1) Robert Paterson, minister of Flisk, one of those in St
Andrews deemed at the first General Assembly best qualified for