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CARRUTHERS.

United to Middlebie by Parliament 24th June 1609.

PENERSAX OR PENERSAUGHS.

United to Middlebie by Parliament 24th June 1609.

RUTHWELL.

The parish was supplied by JOHN IRELAND, reader and parson, from 1567 till he was deposed in 1572, by JAMES MURRAY, reader at Beltyn (May) 1572. HARBERT RANING, 1578 to 1585, and ROBERT HENDERSON in 1586. It was disjoined from the Presb. of Lochmaben, and included in that of Annan on its erection by the General Assembly 21st May 1743.

1605. THOMAS MORTOUN, pres. to the parsonages and vicarages of Rivel, Mowsell, and Cumertrees, by James VI 5th Dec.-[Reg. Pres.]

1608. ROBERT M'ILDOWIE, or M'ILDOUIE, A.M., had his degree at the Univ. of Glasgow in 1603; trans. to Cummertrees prior to 1615.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Reg. Assig.]

1615. JAMES POLLOCK, A.M., attained his degree at the Univ. of Glasgow in 1610; was present at the Presb. of Glasgow 31st July 1616.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Reg. Assig., Glasgow Presb. Reg.]

1617. GAVIN YOUNG, A.M., took his degree at the Univ. of St. Andrews July 1612, adm. in 1617, was a member of Assembly in 1649; died 1671 in 85th age and 54th min. Being asked how he reconciled himself to live under the different forms of Church government ? he quaintly observed, " Wha wad quarrel wi' their brose for a mote in them." By his wife, Jean Stewart, who died at the age of 48, he had children, and grand-children, as expressed in the

following stanza on his tombstone :-

" Far from our own, Amid our

                                                                         own we lie, Of our dear

                                                                         bairns, Thirty and one us

                                                                         by."

[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Dumfries Presb., Mouswald Sess., and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Wodrow's Hist., Kirk Pap., Tombst., Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Acts of Ass., Baillie's Lett.]

1672. WILLIAM WISHART, probably adm. about 1672, apostatized to Popery. In April 1681 he was resident in the family of the Hon. Sir John Seton of Garleton, and went abroad with his son in the following month.-[Fountainhall's Diary, Haddington Presb. Reg.]