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Aug., and inst. 18th Sept.; died between 23d April and 14th Aug. 1683, aged about 40, in 15th min. His insicht and plenishing were estimat to j^c li. He marr. in April 1673 Elizabeth Cranstoun, and had a son William who was served heir 26th March 1695.-[Reg. See. Sigill., Presb., and Test. Reg. (Peebles), Inq. Ret. Gen. 7572.]

1684. CHARLES Ross, pres. by Charles II. in March, and inst. 16th April; deprived by the Privy Council in Oct. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation issued by the Estates, not praying for their majesties William and Mary, and not observing the Fast. He died 6th Aug. 1711 in his 51st year. He was probably of the family of Inch, as he was witness to the bapt. of a child of Mr Alexander R., Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Glasgow, with Arthur, the Archbishop 4th Dec. 1683.-[Presb., Glasgow (Bapt.), and Edin. Reg. (Bur.), MS. Acc. of Min. 1689, Peterkin's Constitut. of the Church.]

1692. JOHN CRANSTOUNE, A.M., was laureated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 22d May 1685, ord. 20th Jan. 1692; trans. to Ancrum 2d Feb. 1704.-[Edin. Grad., Presb., and Kelso Presb. Reg.]

1708. WILLIAM GUSTHART, A.M., obtained his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 16th July 1698, proposed by Professor Meldrum to be entered on trials for licence 14th April 1703, but 12th March he could not do so, being obliged to go for some time to England, that he might visit his relations: having received licence and ordination, he was called 13th May, and adm. 10th June 1708. Together with about one-third of the ministers in the Synod, he refused to take the Oath of Abjuration in 1712; he was deputed by his brethren holding similar sentiments to proceed to the Court, and congratulate George I. on his accession to the throne, and again in 1717 to request an alteration of the oath, when he succeeded in getting it so changed as to make it palatable to the majority of those refusing it. He was trans. to Edinburgh (Tolbooth Ch.) 4th Jan. 1721.-[Presb., and Edin. Presb. Reg., Edin. Grad., Boston's Mem., Wodrow's Corresp., Morren's Ann. i.]

1721. ROBERT BELL, A. M., trans. from Cavers, called by the Presb. jure devoluto 1st Sept., and adm. 30th Nov.; he was appointed one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland in Jan. 1735, but deprived by a political change in 1744. He died FATHER of the Church 9th May 1755, in his 85th year, and 62d min. He marr. Mrs Kennedy and had a son John, min. of Gordon, to whose son he bequeathed a property on condition that he became a clergyman, which he did, taking orders in the Sister Church, and becoming a Chaplain in the Royal Navy. It is singular that Mr B. and the two preceding incumbents survived to great ages, two of them ascending to the seniority in the Church.-[Presb., and Test. Reg., Steven's Scott. Ch. Rotterd., &c.]

1756. ROBERT DEANS, licen. by the Presb. of Irvine 11th Sept. 1750, pres. by George II. in Nov. 1755, and ord. 18th March following; died 13th Dec. 1788, in 33d min. He marr. 15th April 1765 Elizabeth Smith, who died 23d Nov. 1801.-[Presb. Reg., Tombst., &c.]

1789. DAVID BROWN, son of David B. in the par. of Auchtertool, born 1st June 1757, licen. by the Presb. of Kirkcaldy 15th June 1785, pres. by George III. 6th April, and ord. 24th Sept. 1789; died 11th Oct. 1828, in 72d age, and 40th min. He marr. 3d Feb. 1795, Janet, daugh. of William Dawson, Esq. of Graden, the distinguished agriculturist, she died at Edinburgh 4th June 1846, aged 78, and had David, writer to the signet; Peter, printer,