[Proposed to be erected by the General Assembly, April 1581. The record commences 12th Dec. 1610, and extends to twenty-five volumes, including that of the Protesters from 6th Aug. 1651 to 7th July 1658, with blanks from 31st Oct. 1632 to 16th Oct. 1639.]

ABERCORN.

[The church, dedicated to St Serf, in all probability occupies the site of St Wilfrid's monastery of Aebercurnig, founded about 675.]

1567 JOHN MACKAY, reader.

1584 WILLIAM POWRIE, of the Fothringham family; pres. to the vicarage of Errol by James VI. 31st Jan. 1573; was reader there 1578; schoolmaster of Linlithgow; adm. 1584; died Sept. 1631. He marr. Agnes Forrest, and had issue -Alexander, min. of Dryfesdale. - [Reg. Assig., Test. Reg., Tombst, Calderwood's Hist., Linlithgow Burgh Records.]

1622 JOHN CRICHTON, M.A.; ord. (colleague) 1622; trans. to Campsie 1623.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And.]

1624 JOHN LAING, M.A.; ord. (colleague) 7th March 1624; trans. to Kirk newton 1625.-[Inq. Ret. Gen., 2472.]

1626 ANDREW YOUNG, M.A. (St Andrews, 1614); min. of Bothkennar 1619-22; dep. 1622; adm. (colleague) 29th Oct. 1626; died 19th Nov. 1639, aged about 46. He marr. Margaret Darroch, who died June 1629, and had issue-Robert, min. of Dunbarney.-[Test. Reg. (Stirl.); Reg. Old Dec., iv.]

1640 JAMES FORBES, son of John F., min. of Delft,

formerly of Alford, and Moderator of Assembly 1605; M.A. (Aberdeen 1627); pres. by Presb. jure: devoluto, and adm. 12th June 1640; died 19th July 1642. He marr. 30th Oct. 1640, Janet (died April 1671), daugh. of James Fleming, min. of Yester (St Bathans), and had issue-Janet; Catherine, who was served heir 25th July 1643.-[Yester Sess. and Test. Req. (Edin. and Dunbl.), Livingston's Charac., Lumsden's House of Forbes; Inq. Ret. Gen., 2888, 5530-de Tut, 663.]

1642 ROBERT ROW, born 1610, son of John R., min. of Carnock; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (24th July 1630); licen. by Presb. of Perth 2nd Oct. 1639; ord. 28th Dec. 1642; a member of the Commission of Assembly 1648; sided with the Protesting brethren, and formed one of the Protesting Presb.; was confined to his chamber in Edinburgh by the Committee of Estates, 15th Sept. 1660, and ten days afterwards had his stipend sequestrated for subscribing the Remonstrance, "ane dangerous and seditious paper tending to disturb the peace of the kingdom"; died 14th March 1661. He marr. 20th Feb. 1645, Elisabeth Hardie [or Hamilton] (see Edin. Sas., ix., 143, 1660), and had issue- Alexander, died young, Mary; Grisell (marr. Gaspar Chambon, a French surgeon); Robert, died young; John; George, a skipper, drowned at sea; William, schoolmaster of Crail; Isobel (marr. William Stevenson); Robert, died in infancy; Thomas; Robert, a soldier, fought at Blenheim.-[Baillie's Lett., iii.; Row's and Wodrow's Hists., Fergusson's Tracts, Acts of Ass.]