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is the earliest name of a French Protestant in Scotland, probably an exile. He was Master in the Greek school of Montrose, founded by John Erskine of Dun, and had Andrew Melville as his scholar in 1557 and 1558.

No account of the reception of refugees from the St. Bartholomew massacre can be found. There is a blank in the extant Minutes of the Town Council of Edinburgh from 4th June 1571 to 13th November 1573, and in the City Treasurer’s Accounts from 1567 to 1579. The Town Council had an interview on 13th November 1579 with John de la Mothe, Frenchman. The Minute indicates that some Huguenots in “the Rochelle” had been in Scotland as refugees, and that while there, a Scotch-man had borrowed money from them and had not yet paid them; there was a lawsuit on this matter in the Scotch Courts against Paytrik Tournett, the debtor, and Peter Tournett, burgess of Edinburgh, his father, as the son’s surety. De la Mothe, as the creditors’ procurator, asked and obtained the needful arrestments.

The baptismal register of Aberdeen begins in 1563, and when we come to the year 1572, we find evidence of the interest taken by Scottish Protestants in the Huguenots of France. In that year Mr John Craig was minister, and Mr Walter Cullen was reader, in the kirk of Aberdeen. The latter acted as registrar, and on hearing the news of the massacre on St. Bartholomew’s Day, he wrote the following entry, with the rubric, “cullen admerall of france” in the register-book:—

“The twenty-fourth of Awgvvst, the zeir of God 1572 zeiris, Jaispart of Culleyne, gryt admerall of france, was crwelly murdrest in paris ond$r$ colluir of frendschip at the kyng of