Michael Potter (minister)

[3] He returned from his second retreat to that country in 1680, and was apprehended about November 1681 in his own house at Borrowstounness, whence he was carried to Blackness Castle the first night, and the next day to the tolbooth of Edinburgh.

Potter was imprisoned in Edinburgh and on the Bass Rock and was only released on 17 March 1685 under Act of Banishment thereby leaving the kingdom.

However, after remaining quiet at home he gained the liberty granted by King James VII which relieved him from the necessity of obeying the sentence.

After the Glorious Revolution, he was first minister of Bo'ness from 7 December 1687, and then of Dunblane Cathedral 1692; he was also a member of the assembly that year.

[7] He had a son, Michael Potter (1670-1743), who was first minister at Kippen, and afterwards in 1740 filled the long empty chair vacated by Mr John Simson in 1729 as Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, but did not long fill that chair, having died in November 1743.