Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 40 (Classic Reprint)

Mylne 1657. He was admitted a burgess of Perth, gratis, on 24 March 1627, and of Kirkcaldy on 23 March 1643, having probably taken part in the design of Gladney House in that burgh. He married I sobel Wilson of Perth early in 1610, and died in 1657. His daughter Barbara, born in Edinburgh, is frequently mentioned in the Canongate and Burgh Records as being accused of witchcratt, There is a portrait of John Mylne in Myine s1 Master Masons (p. 104). FD ict. of A rchitecture; Mylne s Master Masons pp. 65-128; Lyon s Hist, of the Lodge of Edinburgh, p. 92; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. vii 198-9 ;C hronicle of Perth (M aitland Uub), p22 Cant s Notes to A damsons Muses Threnodiei 1774, pp. i. 81-2, 96; Kennedy s Annals of A berdeen, i. 403; Gateshead Observer 20 Oct. 1860, p. 6. MYLNE, JOHN (1611-1667), mason, son of John Mylne (d. 1657) see under MYLNE, JOHN, d. 1621, was born in 1ertn in 1611. On 9O ct. 1633 he was admitted a burgess of Edinburgh, by right of descent, and on the same day was made fellow ot craft in the Edinburgh masonic lodge. He succeeded his father as principal mastermason on 1F eb. 1636, and in the same year, as deacon of the masons of Edinburgh, was elected a member of the town council. In 1637-8 he was appointed master-mason to the town of Edinburgh. He designed the Tron Church in Edinburgh, begun in 1637 and opened in 1647. The spire was not completed till 1663. A portion of it was burnt about 1826, when it was rebuilt in its present form. In August 1637 he repaired portions of St. Giles s Church. In 1642 he was employed in surveying and reporting on the condition of the abbey church at Jedburgh, and was appointed a burgess of Jedburgh; in 1643 he was appointed master-mason to Heriot s Hospital, and continued the works there till their completion in 1659 ;in 1646-7 he made additions to the college of Edinburgh, probably including the librar
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