. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . Spes lucis eternse;the crest, A sun with waved rays, like a star, encircledby clouds. Alexander Pitcairne, minister of Tannadyce, Forfarshire,was son of David Pitcairne, sixteenth laird of Forthar, Fife,and is the same Alexander Pitcairne who later became Deanof Orkney in 1665, born 1600 or before. The family wassubjected to much loss and suffering during the civil wars,and Alexanders petition for redress lay before the ScottishParliament from 1641 to 1661, when it was recommenditto the Privy This Alexander Pi
. The history of the Fife Pitcairns : with transcripts from old charters . Spes lucis eternse;the crest, A sun with waved rays, like a star, encircledby clouds. Alexander Pitcairne, minister of Tannadyce, Forfarshire,was son of David Pitcairne, sixteenth laird of Forthar, Fife,and is the same Alexander Pitcairne who later became Deanof Orkney in 1665, born 1600 or before. The family wassubjected to much loss and suffering during the civil wars,and Alexanders petition for redress lay before the ScottishParliament from 1641 to 1661, when it was recommenditto the Privy This Alexander Pitcairne had a son Alexander, who wasa celebrated divine. He was born in 1622,4 and enteredSt Salvators College, St Andrews, in November 1639,matriculated in February 1640 (University MatriculationBooks), in 1643, became Regent in February 1648, andso continued until December 1656, when he was ordained 1 Shankies History of Colinton. 2 Nisbets Heraldry. 3 Acts of Pari., vol. vii. 4 Wodrows History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, vol. iii.;Scotts I ? Q THE DREGHORN PITCAIRNS. 465 minister of Dron, Perthshire,—a little village in Glenfarg,near the Bridge of Earn. Although he was deprived byActs of Parliament and of the Privy Council in 1662,Robert Leighton, Bishop of Dunblane, within whosediocese Dron was included, so highly respected his char-acter, learning, and scruples, that Pitcairne was permittedto continue to discharge his ministerial duties (Register ofthe Diocesan Synod of Dunblane). But after Ramsay hadsucceeded Leighton as bishop, Pitcairne was charged at aSynodical meeting, held at Dunblane on 8th October 1678,with having begun of late to doe things verie disorderlie,in admitting people of other parishes to church case was referred to the moderator of his Presbytery,who, on 8th April 1679, reported that Mr Pitcairne hadverie thankfully entertained the connivance and kindnesshe had met with, the matter of offence being donemost
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