1738 JAMES GLASGOW, M.A. (Glasgow 10th March 1718); commissioned by George Il. 7th July 1737; ord. 14tl Feb. 1738; died 9th Feb. 1746, aged about 48.-[J1un. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Reg. (Bur.), Trustees Rep., 1745.]

1746 WILLIAM SMITH, licen. by Presb. of Haddington 12th Jan. 1727; ord. in the Castle 4th Sept. 1746; died 6th Feb. 1751.-[Test. and Edin. Reg.]

1751 JOHN JOHNSTON, M.A.; ord. 10th May 1751; trans. to Biggar 15th Aug. 1754, having exchanged charge with William Haig. - [Carlyle's Autob., Morren's Ann.]

1754 WILLIAM HAIG, son of James H., Orchardfarm, Alloa; adm.13th Sept. 1754; died 19th Oct. 1761.

LEITH WYND CHAPEL.

[Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 18th Nov. 1792; declared a parish quoad sacra, 31st May 1834. Closed in 1843.]

1792 JOSEPH ROBERTSON, licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1788; assistant at Stewarton 1790; ord. 13th Dec. 1792; dem. 21st April, and dep. 2nd May 1818, having been convicted by the High Court of Justiciary of celebrating unlawful marriages, and uttering fabricated certificates of proclamations, and banished for life 18th April preceding. He marr., and had issue-Hamilton, died 12th Nov. 1861, aged 21; Joseph, W.S. apprentice 1805. Publications-Letters and Dialogues on the Lord's Supper (Edinburgh, 1794); translated Lampe's Theological  Dissertations concerning the Endless Duration of Punishment (Edinburgh, 1796); Outlines of a Course of Theological Lectures (1799); The Traveller's Guide through Scotland (Edinburgh, 1799); The Traveller's Guide through Ireland; Theological Lectures (Edinburgh, 1806); Sacred Biography; Sacred Contemplations; The Ecclesiastical Biography of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1810); A Sermon on the Doctrine of the Trinity,

and the Dignity of the Redeemed (Edinburgh, 1814).-[Scots Mag., lxxi.]

1818 SAMUEL GEORGE KENNEDY, ord.  10th Dec. 1818; resigned 26th April 1820, on appointment to West Parish, Perth.

1820 JOHN THOMSON, ord. 16th Nov. 1820; dem. 28th Jan. 1824, on appointment to Dysart, Second Charge.

1824 WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A., born Dundee, 1787; licen. by Presb. of Cupar 8th Dec. 1807; ord. assistant at Arbroath 11th Dec. 1813; afterwards assistant at Dairsie; adm. 21st Oct. 1824. Joined the Free Church; min. of John Knox's Free Church, Edinburgh, 1843; died unmarr. 4th Jan. 1858. Publication-Remembrance Remembered (Edinburgh, 1839).

MARINERS' CHURCH, LEITH.

[Constituted by the General Assembly, 27th May 1839. Became, in 1843, St Ninian's Free Church, Leith.]

1840 JOHN THOMSON, born Edinburgh, 1808, son of James T. and Katherine Oakley; educated at High School and Univ.; M.A. (1830); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; ord. 1840, to the "Bethel" or Floating Chapel in Leith Harbour, previous to the erection of permanent building. Joined Free Church; min. of St Ninian's Free Church, Leith, 1843; clerk to the Free Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale; died 18th Nov. 1881. He marr. 3rd April 1848, Elizabeth Gavin, daugh. of John Brown, D.D., min. of Langton, and had issue -John Brown, I.C.S.; Katherine Oakley (marr. A. A. Gillies); James Douglas; Georgina Elizabeth (marr. 1883, David Ross, M.A., min. of the Free Church, Crathie, afterwards of St Kilda, Melbourne), died 1901. Publications- Translation of Hengstenberg's Commentary on the Psalms; Stier's Words of Jesus; contributed to Kitto's Journal, etc.