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he entered burges and guild brother of that city 4th April 1690, acquired his degree at the Univ. there 31st July 1662, passed trials before the Presb. of Dalkeith, and got a testimonial 3d April 1679 for licence; trans. to Carrington in 1682.-[Edin. Grad., and Dalkeith Presb. Reg., Reg. Laur. Univ. Edin.]

168-. PATRICK HASTIE, or HASTINGS, A.M., studied and took his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1669; outed by the rabble in 1689, went subsequently to Ireland and got a benefice.-[Reg. Laur. Univ. Edin., List of Disorderly, MS. Acc. of Min. 1689.]

1688. JOHN M'BRIDE, A.M., a native of Ireland, was laureated at the Univ. of Glasgow 15th July 1673, became min. of the Presbyterian congregation at Clare; called to Ayr in June 1691, but the Presb. refused to translate him; he was a member of the Assembly 1692, and removed to his native country, where he was adm. to a congregation at Belfast 3d Oct. 1694; he refused to take the oath of abjuration in 1703, and supplied for a time in Glasgow from 1705.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Reid's Ireland, Syn., and Ayr Presb. Reg., Reg. Gen. Ass. 1692, Wodrow's Corresp.]

1693. JAMES MONTEITH, studied and held a bursary of philosophy at the Univ. of Glasgow 11th March 1687, but went to Ireland and returned in April 1689, became schoolmaster at Kilmarnock, was licen. by the Presb. of Irvine 14th Sept. 1691, called unanimously 8th Nov. following, and ord. 18th Jan. 1693; died 24th March 1744, in 49th min. He was a man of remarkable piety and zeal; but he had his mind tinctured in a considerable degree with the superstitions of the times. It has been stated that he was an instigator to a lawless set of people termed "Levellers," who about 1724 destroyed considerable property in Galloway, foolishly declaring “that the government of the country was now in the hands of the tenantry." He left a son, Robert, min. of Longformacus.-Publications-A Testimony to the Free Grace of God, Advices to his children, parishioners, &c., edited, with a Preface, by the Rev. Samuel Smith (second), one of his successors, Kirkcud. 1842.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg., Syn., and. Presb. Reg., Wodrow's Anal., Mackenzie's Galloway ii., New St. Acc. iv., &c.]

1741. JAMES BROWN, a native of the parish, licen. by the Presb. 7th Sept. 1737, called 24th June, and ord. 24th Sept. 1741; died 28th March 1751, in 45th age and 10th min. He marr. 26th Nov. 1745 Mary, daugh. of Mr John Kirkpatrick, Provost of Kirkcudbright, she died 12th July 1756, and had three sons and a daughter.-[Presb., and Test. Reg., Tombst., &c.]

1752. DAVID FORSES, governor in the family of Murray of Broughton, licen. by the Presb. 6th June 1744, called 28th Nov. 1751, and ord. 4th March succeeding. The Presbytery designed a glebe for him, but it was opposed on the ground he had glebes in each of the united parishes B., Sanwick, and Kirkandrews, the Lords found 26th Nov. 1755, "that the charger being in possession of three glebes, extending to more than a legal glebe for arable land and grass, was not entitled to an additional designation." Mr F. died 22d Nov. 1791, in his 76th year, and 40th min. He marr. 23d Feb. 1758 Margaret Welsh, who died in Jan. 1802, and had three sons, of whom Ephraim, David, M.D., and four daughters, of whom Nicholas marr. David Welsh, Esq. of Collin.-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Tombst., Morrison's Digest, &c.]

1792. SAMUEL SMITH, trans. from Carsphairn, adm. 20th Sept.; died 6th March 1816, in 59th age and 33d min. He was not only an able and interesting preacher, who performed his official duties with great fidelity, but he associated familiarly with the various classes of his