In 1654 he was named by the Council of England on a committee for authorising admissions to the ministry in the province of Glasgow and Ayr.
On 23 December 1662 he was banished by the Privy Council from His Majesty's dominions and went to Holland, where he died in 1672, aged about 66.
He married Ann Sharp, widow of Robert Halyburton, merchant, Edinburgh; she survived him, and had issue — a son.
In 1654 he was named by the English Council of State one of those for authorising admissions to the ministry in the province of Glasgow and Ayr.
[2] After the Restoration of 1660, Nevay was on 11 December 1661 banished by the privy council from Charles II's dominions, and went to Holland.
On 20 July a demand by the English government for his expulsion, along with Robert Macuard and Robert Traill, was laid before the states of Holland, and on 23 September placards were issued, stating that they were sentenced to leave the Dutch territory within fifteen days under pain of being prosecuted as "stubborn rebels".
[2] Nevay was the author of:[2] He is also said to have written a Latin version of the Song of Solomon and Christ's Temptation (Robert Wodrow, Analecta, i.