his father"; proposed 21st Jan. 1591 ; adm, (colleague and successor) 16th Dec. 1591, In 1594 there was a complaint to the Presb. that William Wardlaw of Curriehill "brak up his rooms, cuist out his guds and geir, tramping his books under feitt," and "misused himself  by catchand him by ye neck and pulling him under his feet." He dem. Jan. 1631; died 12th Oct. 1634, aged about 66. He marr. (1) before 1596, Isobel Matheson: (2) after 1606, Janet Aird, who survived him, and had issue-Henry; Adam; James; William, apprenticed 18th June 1628 to James Wright, hatmaker, Edinburgh; Ronald; Helen (marr., cont. 26th Sept. 1621, George Straiton, hatmaker, burgess of Edinburgh: Reg. of Deeds, cccxxxvi., 105); Martha (marr. Alex. Hay of Ravelrig).-[Reg. Assig.; Test., Edin. Counc, and Reg. Sas. and Bapt.; Stat. Rep., 1627; Inq. Ret. Edin., 772, 890, 1386 -et Gen. 2093.]

1631 JOHN CHARTERIS, son of .Henry C., Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (25th July 1624); pres. by the Town Council of Edinburgh 19th Jan., and adm. before 17th June 1631; died 14th Feb. 1668, aged about 64. He marr. 26th Sept. 1633, Rebecca, died 23rd March 1676 (she is called Sara in the register of her interment in Greyfriars), second daugh. of Laurence Henderson, merchant, Edinburgh (A. Guthrie, Prot. Bk., iv., 225), and had issue-Rebecca; Isobel; Laurence, advocate, 1668, died 19th Aug. 1676; John (A. Peters, Prot. Bk., 10th Oct. 1664); Barbara.-[Craufurd's Univ.; Edin. Counc, xiv.; Edin. Test. and Regs10.8 pt.; Wodrow's Hist., i.; Sed. Book of Teinds; Inq. Ret. Ayr, 346; Gen. 2492---de Tut. 635, 636.]

1668 JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, son of John S. of Kirkton, Dundee, and Jean, daugh. of James M'Gill of Rankeillor; educated at St Leonard's College, St Andrews; M.A. (25th July 1663); ord. and coll. 22nd Oct. 1668; became Presb. clerk; deprived by the Committee of Estates, May 1689, for taking away the key of the kirk door, not preaching, not reading the Proclamation, and not praying for King William and Queen Mary.

He died in 1699, aged about 56. He marr. 17th Dec. 1668, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter Chisholm, bailie of Dunblane, and had issue-James, died in 1680; Henry, W.S., of West Lochgelly, held a bursary on Robert Johnston's foundation, 7th Aug. 1685, died 9th Oct. 1731; John, student at the Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar of the Presb. in 1686 and 1687; and two daughters alive in June 1772 (The Scottish Antiquary, Sept. 1880).-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And.; Corstorphine and Ratho Sess., Edin. Counc. Reg., xxxiii.; Reg. Collat.; Acts Parl., ix.; Peterkin's Constitution of the Church, Malcolm's House of Drummond; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Douglas's Peerage.]

1691 HENRY HAMILTON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 11h Feb. 1681); ord. to Falkland 1690; trans. and adm. 1691; trans. to Donaghadee 6th Nov. 1700. He marr. Esther, daugh. of Andrew Stewart, min. of Donaghadee.-[Corstorphine Sess. Reg.]

1701 ROBERT TAYLOR, ord. to Houston 1695; trans. and adm. 13th Nov. 1701; died 10th Aug. 1713. He marr. March 1699, Margaret, daugh. of Hew Verner, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue-Margaret (marr. 13th July 1727, Andrew M'Farquhar, Excise officer in South Leith).-[Edin. Test. and Regs.]

1714 MUNGO CLARKSON, a native of Selkirkshire, brother to John C., baker, Edinburgh (Services, 1729); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th April 1711; called 29th Dec. 1713; having previously been presented to Galashiels, his ordination was delayed till 23rd Dec. 1714; died 28th Oct. 1717.

1719 JOHN SPARK, tutor in the family of Erskine of Grange; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 6th July 1718; called 22nd April; ord. 11th Aug. 1719, in opposition to the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh. When returning from a meeting of the Presb. at Edinburgh, he was drowned in crossing the Water of Leith on horseback, at the "Sclait fuird,''