first min. of the parish 12th Jan. 1898; res. 12th Nov. 1902; died 21st Nov. 1902. He marr. 24th Jan. 1867, Margaret Glenny (died 13th Nov. 1897), daugh. of Arthur Thomson, banker, Aberdeen, and had issue-William Arthur, actor, born 7th March 1869.

1903 ALFRED WILLIAM ANDERSON, born 20th Sept. 1869, son of Alexander A., min. of Rhynie; educated at Aberdeen; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893); licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1893; assistant at Dunnottar; ord. to Leslie, Aberdeenshire, 28th Aug. 1895; trans. and adm. 18th May 1903. He marr. 8th April 1896, Elizabeth, daugh. of William Bain, Aberdeen.

CRAMOND.

[A mensal or patrimonial kirk, dedicated to St Columba. Previous to the Reformation it belonged to the Bishop of Dunkeld.]

1573 WILLIAM CORNWALL, reader and exhorter; bad a glebe assigned to him 6th April 1573. - [Act. and .Dec. 214.]

1575 GEORGE LUNDIE is mentioned by Calderwood (iii., 47) as min. 6th Aug, 1575. He was then at Dalmeny, with Aldcathie, Abercorn, and Cramond in his charge, till 1577.-[Reg. Assig.]

1580 JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, trans. from Lesmahagow; trans. to Mordington in 1581.-[Reg. Assig.]

1582 PATRICK SIMSON, M.A.; trans. from Spott ; trans. to Stirling 7th Aug. 1590.-[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk.]

1590 MICHAEL CRANSTOUN, son of  Thomas C., min. of Liberton; ord. to Selkirk 1580; trans. to Liberton 1585; trans. and adm. to the vicarage Feb. 1592, to which he was pres. by James VI. 20th March 1603; declined a call to Leith 1593; another to Lanark 1597. In 1596 he was styled “a verie forward minister," and on 20th Dec.

imprisoned for "stirring up a tumult and uproare” in Edinburgh. In 1603, on the Union of the Crowns, he was one of the ministers who met His Majesty "on their knees, and prayed for him," at Haddington, on his way to London; and also one of those who met at Linlithgow in 1606 to confer with " the imprisoned ministers " previous to their trial for declining the royal authority in "causes spiritual." He died in 1631. He marr. Agnes, sister of James Murehead, min. of North Leith, and had issue-John, min. of South Leith; Nathaniel, apprenticed to Walter Scott, merchant, Edinburgh, 1607; Caleb, apprenticed to Andrew Lauder, bookbinder, Edinburgh, 1603; Jean; William; Margaret (marr. David Balsillie, min. of Corstorphine).-[Reg. Assig., Test. Reg., Melvill's Autob; Calderwood' Hist., v.-vii.; Orig. Lett., i.; Wood's Hist. of Cramond.]

1631 WILLIAM KING, M.A. (Edinburgh, 25th July 1607); regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh; adm. 1631; died June 1632, in his 44th year, and was buried in the Canongate. He marr. (1) a daugh. of Alex. King, advocate: (2) 29th Aug. 1616, Margaret (died Nov. 1620), daugh. of Richard Casse of Fordel, and had issue-William; .Jean (marr. George Trotter, W.S.), died 20th Dec. 1644; Margaret: (3) Margaret (died 1645), daugh. of And. Couper, writer, and had issue William and Alexander (who both- died young); Margaret; Isobel; Marie (posthumous). Publication-Two Poems in The Muse's Welcome, 1617.-[Craufurd's Univ., Test. and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.); Inq. Ret. Gen., 1908, 3098-de Tut., 355, 356, 1338, 1339, 1340; Wood's Hist. of Cramond; Dempsterii Hist. Eccl., ii.]

1635 WILLIAM COLVILL, M.A.; ord. 1635; trans. to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 1639. - [Edin. Counc. Reg., xiv., xv.; Wood's Cramond; Wodrow MSS., 1xiii.; Baillie's Lett, i.; Guthrie's Mem.; Stevenson's Hist., ii.; Murray's Life .of Rutherford.]

1639 WILLIAM DALGLEISH, born 1599, son of James D., grandson of Robert D. of that ilk; M.A. (St Andrews 1615); ord. to Kirkmabreck 1634; dep. by