William Annand

son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland, was born in the said Burgh, an. 1633, and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England, in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny, an. 1638, they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom. He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon, but now their estate there is out of their hands. In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll, and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline, yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in, and near, Oxon. In 1656, he being then Bach. of Arts, he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland, in the beginning of Aug, and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire, where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town. After he had proceeded in Arts, he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire, where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662, he then went, in the quality of a Chaplain, with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland, when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom. In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg, where continuing several years, was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City, which is also a Prebendship. In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty, under his royal hand, with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto, made Dean of Edinburgh, and on Oct. 1. an. 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew. His works as to learning are these.

Fides Catholica: Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church, in eighteen grand ordinances, referring to the Word, Sacraments and Prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts. Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu.

Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance, &c.—Print. with Fides Catholica, &c.

Panem quotidianum: or, a short discourse tending to prove the legality, decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ, with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England. Lond. 1661. qu.

Pater noster. Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained, the sense thereof, and duties therein, from Scripture, History, and Fathers methodically cleared, and succinctly opened. Lond. 1670. oct.

Mysterium Pietatis; or, the mystery of godliness, &c. Lond. 1671. oct.

Doxologia: or glory to the Father, the Churches Hymn, reduced to glorifying the Trinity. Lond. 1672. oct.

Dualitas: or, a twofold subject displayed and opened, conduceable to godliness and peace in order: first Lex loquens, the honor and dignity of Magistracy, with the duties thereupon, &c. secondly Duorum unitas, or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh, and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev. Clergy there. Edinburg. 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn. of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine:1689. whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day, to the vestry of that part of S. Giles’s Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh, (in which Church, as Dean, he did ordinarily preach) at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention. On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr’d in the Grey Friers Church, but without a funeral Sermon, because not permitted by the Presbyterians, in whose hands the Magistracy then was. As his life was pious and devout, so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him. He received his Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James’s Coll. at Edinburgh; and his colleague in S. Giles’s Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Div. at Edinb. did assist after the manner of the Church of England. They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him, he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church, saying, he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland, yet hoped others should live to see it restored, &c. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned, lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England: But at length obtaining the Vicaridge of Throwley in Kent, 1649, and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County, the Usurper then ruling, he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition.