Treacherous and Double Dealing, with an Answer to Mr Anderson, Dumbarton (Edinburgh, 1714).-[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Reg. Sec. Sig., Kirkliston Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Bur.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1694 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, ord. 29th Aug. 1694; trans. to Airth in 1700.

1701 JOHN BAILLIE, son of Thomas B. of Polkemmet; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 7th Aug. 1700; called 9th June, and ord. 25th Sept. 1701; died 25th Feb. 1733. He marr. Bethia Baillie, who died 28th July 1761.

1734 CHARLES WILKIE, son of John W., min. of Uphill; studied at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd July 1733; pres. by Charles, Earl of Hopetoun, same month; ord. 18th April 1734; died 5th Nov. 1786, in 76th year, leaving the property of Charlesfield, West Calder, to Thomas Hardy, D.D., min. of the New North Parish, Edinburgh, for whom he entertained a warm affection. He marr. 4th Aug. 1756, Eupham Flint, who died 10th Jan. 1790, without issue.

1787 WILLIAM PETERKIN, educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1755-9; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 8th Aug. 1764; assistant at Old Deer; ord. min. of the Chapel-of-Ease at Down, or Macduff, 30th Nov. 1768; trans. to Leadhills 2nd Nov. 1785; pres. by James, Earl of Hopetoun, and adm. 11th July 1787; died 22nd Nov. 1792. He marr. 5th Dec. 1768, Isobel Irvine, who died at Peterhead, 27th March 1810, and had issue-James, born 9th Sept. 1769; George, born 11th May 1773; Margaret, born 25th Sept. 1775; Elizabeth, born 2nd Sept. 1777, died 22nd Jan. 1790; Alexander, Sheriff-sub. of Orkney, ecclesiastical lawyer, editor of the Booke of the Universalle Kirk of Scotland, etc., born 23rd March 1780, died 9th Nov. 1846; Hope, born 2nd May 1787; William, born 17th Feb. 1789, died 3rd May 1790; John, born 13th Dec. 1791. Publications -A Dialogue on Public Worship (Aberdeen, 2nd ed., 1780) [not by W. P. of

Elgin]; Account of Ecclesmachan and of Leadhills (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., ii., xxi.).

1793 HENRY LISTON, born 30th June 1771, son of Robert L., min. of Aberdour; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dunfermline 5th Sept. 1792; pres. by James, Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 8th Aug. 1793; Presb. clerk, and also, 2nd May 1820, conjunct clerk of Synod; died at Merchistonhall, Falkirk, 24th Feb. 1836. He had a strong natural bias for mechanics and music, and became widely known as the inventor of the “Eucharmonic” organ; his attainments in the classics and sciences were of no mean order, and in many other respects he was a man of genius. He marr. 21st Oct. 1793, Margaret (died 24th May 1802), daugh. of David Ireland, town-clerk of Culross, and had issue-Robert, F.R.C.S., Edinburgh, distinguished London surgeon, born 28th Oct. 1794, died 7th Dec. 1847; Janet, born 28th June 1796, died 21st Sept. 1888; Anne, born 20th March 1798, died 14th July 1802; David, Professor of Oriental Languages in Univ. of Edinburgh, born 10th Oct. 1799, died 1881; Margaret, born 23rd April 1801, died 3rd June 1866. Publications-An Essay on Perfect Intonation (London, 1812); Articles in Edinburgh Encyclopaedia; edited Horatii Flacci Opera Selecta (1819), and the sixth book of Caesar, for use in schools.-[Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1836 JOHN SMITH, born 2nd April 1801, son of James S., gardener at Hopetoun House; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 29th Dec. 1830; rector of Bathgate Academy; pres. by the Commissioner of John, Earl of Hopetoun; ord. 19th Aug. 1836; Presb. clerk 1854; D.D. (St Andrews, Jan. 1866); died 30th May 1869. He marr. 1st June 1847, Agnes (died 12th Aug. 1910, aged 86), second daugh. of James Wallace of Belmont. Publication-Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1869 ALEXANDER SHEPHERD, born 19th April 184 2, son of George S., of Shethin, Aberdeenshire; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Ellon 26th April 1865;