PRESBYTERY OF PENPONT p. 672

DALGARNO.

Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Holywood. The parish was supplied by JAMES WILLIAMSON, reader, from Beltyn 1568 to 1585; and united to Closeburn by the General Assembly 1606, which union was afterwards ratified by Parliament.

1593. RICHARD BROWN, continued in 1596, and was trans. to Kirkconnel in that or the following year.-[Reg. Assig., Edin. Presb. Reg.]

1601. DAVID ROGERS, A.M., was laureated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 28th July 1599, though he had Dot attained his twenty-fifth year, be was adm. (by the Presb. of Edinburgh, there being no Presb. in Nithsdale) after 27th May. He was on the Exercise at Lanark 13th Nov. 1602, continued in 1608, and was subsequently at Caerlaverock and St. Mungo.-[Reg. Laur. Univ. Edin., Edin. Presb. Reg., Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, New St. Acc. iv.]

1612. ALEXANDER FLEMYNG, probably trans. from Glenholm before this, pres. to the parsonage and vicarage of D., and also to the vicarage of Closeburn by James VI. 21st Sept. 1612. He was on the assize and chancellor of the jury in a trial for Hamesucken 8th March 1620; trans. to Morton 22d Dee. 1634.-[Edin. (Bapt.), and Test. Reg., Reg. Pres., Pitcairn’s Cr. Trials iii., New St. Acc. iv.]

DURRISDEER.

Previous to the Reformation was a Prebend, and Sub-Chantor of Glasgow. The parish was supplied by LYON BROWN, exhorter, in 1567.

1570. PETER YOUNG, pres. to the Sub-Chantorie by James VI. in Aug.; demitted in 1575.[Reg. Pres.]

1575. JAMES LINDSAY, pres. by James VI. 18th Dec. (Nothing more appears of him.) -[Reg. Pres.]

1576. ALEXANDER BRYSOUN, pres. by James VI. 15th Jan. (No farther notice of him.)[Reg. Pres]

1578. HERCULES STEWART, Reader at Glencairn in 1576, he had Mortoun, Penpont, and Tynron also in charge in 1578; and continued in 1579.-[Reg. Assig. and Mina.]

1579. JAMES BRYSOUN, pres. by James VI. 14th and 26th Nov.; was appointed by the Privy Council, 6th March 1589, as one of the Commissioners for the preservation of true religion in Sanquhar or the overpart of Nithsdale, and was a member of the General Assembly May 1586, June 1587, Aug. 1590, and Feb. 1596; demitted before 20th May 1601, and went to Wigton.-[Reg. Pres., and Assig., Edin. Presb., and Test. Reg., Excheq. Buik, Pitcairn’s Cr. Trials ii., Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.]

1594. ANDREW JOHNNESTOUN. (Of him no farther notice has been found.)-Test. Reg.]

1601. THOMAS ABERNETHIE, A.M., brother of Mr John A., min. of Jedburgh, attained his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 28th July 1596, adm. on the Exercise (licen.) of the Presb.