Chisholm (or Chesholme), John, Am

Chisholm (or Chesholme), John, A.M.

a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1663; was licensed to preach in 1667; was cited before the privy council in 168, 'for dissuading the magistrates of Peebles from taking the test; deprived in 1689 for not praying for the king-and queen, and other acts of disloyalty;

and died in Edinburgh, February 12, 1701, aged about fifty-eight years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:554.