james_feithie – The Reformation

JAMES FEITHIE 

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, H Scott (1915) vol 1, p 287 Peebles, 1687

JAMES FEITHIE [FITHIE,FORTHIE], M.A. (Edinburgh, 6^th July 1656); was a prisoner for holding conventicles, and ordered to be liberated from the Edinburgh Tolbooth 4th July 1679; became chaplain to the Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh; was again arrested and sent to the Bass, but allowed liberty to walk on the rock, with an allowance of eightpence a day, on account of his poverty, 19th Sept. 1685; released in March 1686;

adm. to this charge 17^th Nov. 1687; died 25th Dec. 1689, aged

about 53. He marr. Elizabeth Reid, who survived him, and had

issue—Elizabeth, served heir 3^rd Nov. 1691 (marr., pro. 20^th

Nov. 1691, John Elliot, writer, Edinburgh.