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courses, wherein he is obstinate and refuses to be reclaimed." He was reponed, however, 12th Aug. 1707, partly by reason of a protest from the heritors, elders, and inhabitants of the parish, and partly by his conciliatory declaration. He formed a presbytery with another disaffected brother about 1713, which lasted a very short while, and died 20th March 1723, aged about 74, in 45th min. Remarkable effects sometimes attended his ministry, especially in prayer, which sometimes continued for hours together, while he was equally fervent in preaching. He was strenuously opposed to the union of the kingdom in 1707, to the Act of Toleration, and to the ambiguous character of the oaths of Abjuration and Supremacy. So zealous was he against Popery that books on that subject which he could fend in the parish were collected and set fire to on the Corse-Hill; and when the Protestant succession to the throne was endangered in 1715, he raised a volunteer corps of three hundred,. and marched at their head, having on their standard an inscription " For the Lord of Hosts." He marr. in April 1701, Emila, daugh. of Alexander Nisbitt of Craigentinny, and had a son Mr John, who became one of the min. of Edinburgh.-Publications-True copy of a Letter sent to the Rev. Will. Vetch, min. of Dumfries, answering some gross calumnies in his pamphlet entitled " A short History of Rome's Designs, &c." (in Vetch's answer it is asserted the real authors were Riddock and Hunter, and other Popish emissaries.) Some additional Rules for Fellowship Meetings. (Smith's Directory, Edin. 1738, 12mo.)-[Wodrow's Hist., Anal., and Corresp., Presb., and Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Rae's Hist. of the Rebellion, Humble Pleadings, Tombst. Acts of Ass.]

1723. CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT, A.M., got his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 15th April 1696, licen. by the Presb. of Linlithgow 16th Sept. 1719, called 18th June, and ord. 24th Oct. 1723; died 12th Jan. 1735, in 58th age and 12th min. He marr. Sarah, daugh. of Mr Robert Patoun, one of the min. of Dumfries, and had five children.-[Edin. Grad., Presb., Syn., and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Tombst, Wodrow's and., New St. Acc. iv., &c.]

1736. THOMAS M'KINNEL, trans. from Dunscore, called 2d Oct. 1735, and adm. 20th May succeeding; he was Synod-clerk, which he demitted in 1738, and died 1st Jan. 1769, in his 7lst year and 46th min. He marr. 1st 11th March 1724 Euphane, daugh. of Andrew Brown of Boghead; she died 17th Sept. 1739, and had two sons and two daugh., Andrew, Robert, Margaret, and Janet; 2ndly, 9th June 1748, Janet Gordon, who died 14th Sept. 1784, and had a son Alexander.-[Presb., Syn., and Test. Reg. (Dumf:), Tombst., New .St. Acc. iv., &c.]

1770. JAMES MUIRHEAD of Logan, and chief of the name, born in 1742, licen. by the Presb. of Kirkcudbright 3d July 1765, pres. by George III. in Feb. 1769, ord. 28th June 1770, had D.D. from the Univ. of Edinburgh 24th Feb. 1796, and died 16th May 1808, in 68th age and 38th min. He was a mathematician, a naturalist, and a person of more than ordinary parts. Being a proprietor and freeholder in the county he was lampooned, in an election ballad, by the poet Burns-

"Muirhead wha's as gude as he's true."

    " Here's armorial bearings Frae

      the manse of Orr, The crest, an

        auld crab apple, Rotten at the

                                                                            core."