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ing the system of Church Patronage in Scotland. Edin. 1825. 8vo. Account of the Parish (New St. Acc. ii.)- [Presb. Reg., &c.]

HORNDEAN.

Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Kelso. The Parish was supplied by JAMES Ross, reader 1st May 1575, who continued in 1591. It was united to Ladykirk before 25th.luly 1636.

MORDINGTON.

Had Longformacus, distant from it seventeen miles, conjoined; they were disjoined, however, in 1666. The Patron proposed uniting it to Foulden 18th Dec. 1719, but the Presbytery successfully resisted his attempt.

1573. ROBERT DOUGLAS, was formerly exhorter at Fishwick and Horndean. Having, though only a simple reader, been adm. by John, Archbishop of St. Andrews to the parsonage, " the profite whereof consistetli in thrids," for this the Bishop was delated at the Assembly 6th March, and stated "that he understood the teinds of Mordington were so small in value that they scarce would sustain a reader." In 1574 the bail fruits of both parishes was only xxj li. £1. 15s. sterl. Mr D. was accused of being non-resident in the Assembly 1575, and died before 11th April 1581.-[Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist., Reg. Min., Wodrow Miscell.]

1581. JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, trans. from Cramond, pres. to Longformacus and Mordington by James VI. 11th April; continued in 1593.-[Reg. Pres., and Assig., Calderwood's Hist., lnd. to Reg of'Deeds.]

[JOHN DOUGLAS, and GEORGE RowLE, see Longformacus. In 1627 the number of communicants was "ane hundrethe or thairby," with "greit necessitie of ane skule, for not ane of  the paroche can reid nor wryt except the minister."-Stat. Reports 1627, &c.]

1648. THOMAS  RAMSAY, A.M., eldest son of Mr Thomas R., min. of Foulden, attained his degree at the Univ. of St Andrews in 1642, adm. in March 1648; he joined the Protesting or Remonstrant party, and, with Guthrie and others, was seized in a private meeting, and Committed to Edinburgh Castle 23d Aug. 1660, but in a few days he was liberated in a state of derangement, and had his stipend sequestrated by the Committee of Estates 25th Sept. following, for subscribing " ane dangerous and seditious paper tending to the disturbance of the peace of the kingdom." He refused to conform to Episcopacy in 1662, but was allowed to remain in his charge, it being in 1663 one of the smallest charges, "not sixty communicourts, not a hundred persons," and "one of the smallest stipends, yea, j^c li. less than mentioned by Parliament." Having permitted “several vagrant preachers, and other indulged ministers to occupy his pulpit," the Privy Council, 4th April 1679, ordered him to be processed, and turned out ; and having also refused to take the Test, he was deprived in 1682.-[Acts Parl. vii., ix., Nicoll, and Lamont's Diaries, Baillie's Lett., Wodrow's Hist., Inq. Ret. Berwick, 291,  Act. Rect. Univ. St. And..]

1682. GEORGE BARCLAY, pres. by the creditors of James, Lord Mordington -; deprived by the Committee of Estates 6th May 1689, for not reading the Proclamation enjoined by the