1617 JOHN TENNENT, pres. by James VI. 5th Oct. 1617; vide Mid-Calder.

1642 JOHN DUNLOP, born 1617, son of John D., min. of Ratho; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1636); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 24th Oct. 1639; adm. 13th Oct. 1642; died 29th May 1648. He marr. 14th Sept. 1643, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Barbour, writer, Edinburgh, and had issue-John; Alexander, apprenticed 17th Dec. 1662, to George Meyne, merchant, Edinburgh .[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Test. and Edin. Reg. (Rapt. and Marr.).]

1649 ANDREW KINNEAR, M.A.; pres. by Francis, Earl of Buccleuch, and adm. 13th June 1649; trans. to Second Charge, Stirling, in 1663. - [Test. Reg. Stirl.).]

1663 EDWARD KINNEAR, M.A.; pres. by Mary, Countess of Buccleuch; ord. and coll. 24th April 1663; trans. to Second Charge, Old Church, Edinburgh, same year.-[Reg. Collat.]

1665  JAMES BROWN, second son of Robert B- of Finmont; chaplain to David, Earl of Wemyss; pres. by Robert, Bishop of Dunblane, 10th March 1665; coll. 9th, and inst. 16th June 1665 (Re!;. of Deeds, Durie, 12th Dec. 1679). He was probably outed in 1689; died Feb. 1691. He marr. 17th June 1675, Helen Douglas, and had issue-George, served heir to his uncle, 14th Dec. 1705; John, min. of Abercorn; Jean (marr. 30th Sept. 1709, Charles Anderson, Kinglassie).-[Lamont's Diary, Lain. Reg. (Bapt., Marr. and Bur.), Reg. Collat., Wodrow's Hist., Spec. Ret. Fife; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1694 JOHN KINNAIRD [KINNEAR], licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 2nd May 1693; ord. 10th Jan. 1694; died loth Jan. 1725. He marr. (1) Marion, daugh. of Robert Wellwood of Touch, and had issue-Margaret (marr. John Moubray of Cockairny); Jean (marr. John Steedman of Baldridge, min. of the Tron Parish, Edinburgh): (2) Rachel Sandilands, who survived him.-[Test. Reg.]

1725 ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, licen. by Presb. of Biggar 14th June 1716; ord. to Skirling 29th April 1718; dep. 1719; reponed 1721; pres. by George I., and adin. 28th Oct. 1725; died 5th Sept. 1749. He marr. Isabella (died 4th June 1775), daugh. of Andrew Houston of Calder, and had issue-Sholto; Alexander, merchant in St Kitts; Jean (marr. Aretas B. Akers of St Kitts); Robert, planter in St Kitts; Isabella; Mary (marr. James Stoddart, min. of Kirkintilloch); John Leigh, lieut. R.N.-[Acts of Ass., Wodrow's Anal., Burke's Commoners.]

MID-CALDER,

FORMERLY

CALDER-COMITIS.

[Divided in 1646 into Mid-Calder and West Calder; the latter being the new parish. Disjoined from the Presb. of Linlithgow and annexed to the Presb. of Edinburgh by General Assembly, 1884.]

1560 JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (primus), born 1510, second son of William S. of Spottiswood, Berwickshire (killed at Flodden), and Elizabeth Pringle of Torsonce; entered Univ. of Glasgow 27th June 1534, and took his degree of M.A. in 1536; went to London soon after, where he imbibed the principles of the Reformation from Archbishop Cranmer. He returned to Scotland in 1543, and was pres. by Sir James Sandilands of Calder in 1518. He joined the Reformers in 1560, and was one of six elected for drawing up the First Book of Discipline, and Confession of Faith; became Superintendent of Lothian 9th March 1561. In 1562 the parishioners complained to the General Assembly that S.'s duties as Superintendent prevented him discharging all his duties of min. of the parish. The reply was that owing to the rarity of ministers it could not be otherwise, and that “the profit of many churches was to be preferred to the profit of one." He died 5th Dec. 1585. His son relates that he was "a man well esteemed for his piety and wisdom; loving and beloved of all persons, charitable to the poor, and careful above all things to give no