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trines, but had never found leisure to receive his eccle-
siastical teachers. At length the Synod of Fife
appointed four of their number " to wait on him
at his residence, every Tuesday and Wednesday, for
three months without intermission" on the condition
that " the said Lord behave himself, induring the space
above designed, dewtifullie in frequenting the kirk for
heiring of the Word, and keep the tyme assigned to his
lordship for conferens. And also that he bind and
obleis himself induring the space foirsaid, that he sail
nether heir masse, nor sett into his place, priest, Jesuit,
or excommunicate papist." Sir Walter Ogilvie, of
Findlater, and Sir Alexander Falconer, of Halkerston,
presented themselves before the Synod, and became
cautioners for his lordship's obedience. In April, 1613,
the Archbishop of St. Andrews reported to the Synod
that Lord Gray had submitted himself, and had taken
the communion " in the paroche kirk of St. Androis."'
The Synod triumphed thus far; but in 1649, thirty-
six years after his public acceptance of Protestantism,
Lord Gray was discovered to be a rank Papist, and
was excommunicated by the Commission of the General
Assembly.
The Synod of Fife having adopted various measures
to induce George Gordon, of Gicht,* to abjure Popish
errors without success, proceeded, in September, 1612, to
renew and publish against him sentence of excommunica-
tion. " He has heretofoir," proceeds the minute, " giffen
manifold declaratiounes of his wilfull and obstinate
continowans in papistrie, and tried to illude the kirk ;"
therefore it was ordained " that the excommunicatioune
* George Gordon, of Gicht, was a progenitor of the celebrated
George Gordon, Lord Byron.