DALMENY.

[The church previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Jedburgh, and was dedicated to St Cuthbert. There is no finer example of Norman ecclesiastical architecture left in Scotland. Aldcathie was united to Dalmeny by Commission of Parliament, 21st Jan. 1618.

1562 GEORGE FUIRD, min. in 1562.-[Booke of the Kirk, Keith's Hist.]

1565 JOHN FRUDE (probably the same person), was complained upon at the General Assembly, 25th June 1566, "for not repairing to Linlithgow to the exercise of prophecying ''; and on 25th Dec. for persuading Effie, Lady Kilconquhar, and John Wemyss [St Andrew's K.S. Reg.] " to contract marriage in great contemption of the decreit (of the former Assembly), and all good order heirtofoir observit in the reformit kirk," for which he was "suspended fra all functioun in the ministrie in the meantime." - [Booke of the Kirk, Keith's Hist.]

1569 ROBERT HOGG, exhorter in 1569.

1574 GEORGE LUNDIE of Breriehill (Reg. of Deeds, xix., 320); trans. from Newburn 1574, when Aldcathie, Abercorn, and Cramond were also under his care. In the Assembly 1575, the Bishop of Dunkeld was complained upon for having written a letter to L. to serve equally four kirks, by course, upon the Lord's Day, under pain of deprivation. Richard Brown was appointed to help him as reader in 1576. L. was pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 11th April 1580, and trans. to Pentland 21st Nov. 1587, but continued to reside at Dalmeny 18th Sept. 1589.[Reg. Assig., Calderwood's Hist., Wodrow Miscell., Edin. Presb.]

1588 WALTER TULLIE [TULLIS], officiated as helper till the trans.

of preceding; pres. to the parsonage by Thomas Hamilton of Drum cairn,  7th April 1597; died 19th Aug. 1606. He bequeathed 100 merks to the poor in the burgh of Queensferry, and 50 merks to the poor in the rest of the parish. He marr. (1) Alison Oliphant (Edin. Com. Dec., 11th March 1607): (2) Katherine Dundas, and had issue - James; Walter; John; Margaret. Jean Arnot, wife of Robert Logie, is mentioned as his daughter-in-law (Edin. Com. Dec., 11th March 1607).[Edin. Presb. and Test. Reg.]

1607 JOHN GIBSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th July 1600); adm. to Slamannan 2nd Aug. 1602; trans. and adm. 1607; died 29th April 1648, aged about 68. In 1611 he obtained a gift of .the presentation of the parsonage and vicarage of Auldcathie, and craved the consent of the Presb. thereto. He marr. (1) Agnes Abercrombie (Reg. of Deeds, ccxvi., 104): (2) Margaret, daugh. of Thomas Peebles, min. of Kinneil, whom he infeft by him in his tenement in Linlithgow on 15th March 1615: (3) Marie Dundas, who died April 1632: (4) May 1637, Christian Craufurd, in the parish of Kinneil: (5) April 1644, Elspeth (died Dec. same year), daugh. of James Sandilands of Slamannanmure (Reg. of Deeds, dlvii., 115), and had issue-Robert, min. of Queensferry; Margaret; Anna (marr., cont. 26th Aug. 1639, Robert, youngest son of John Mowbray in Dalmeny: Reg. of Deeds, dxxviii., 138).-[Reg. Assig., Test. Reg.; Bannatyne's Miscell., ii.; Linlithgow Burgh Rec.]

1646  JOHN DURIE, son of Simeon D., min. of Arbroath; M.A. (St Andrews 1643); ord. (colleague) 20th Aug. 1646; pres. to Kilpatrick by Lord Cochrane of Dundonald in 1647; joined the Protesters in forming a Presb. in 1651; died in 1656, aged about 33, " of most rare invention, and lofty gift of preaching." He marr. 9th May 1648, Katherine, youngest daugh. of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, widow of Claude Hamilton of Mecklin