assistant at Linlithgow; refused (owing to severe illness) a presentation to Whitburn 1st Aug. 1867; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, 23rd June 1869; ord. 7th Oct. 1869; died 28th March 1905. Marr. 17th Jan. 1871, Jane Douglas, daugh. of John Dawson, Linlithgow, and had issue Euphemia  Gillon, born 15th May 1872, died 16th Oct. 1872; George Douglas, M.A., licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 10th May 1899, assistant at Bothwell, born 24th July 1873, died 29th Sept. 1899; Sophie Hay; Jane Gillon; Effie Frances; Margaret Gillon; Annie Alexandra Macleod, born 15th Dec. 1880, died 4th May 1894; Mary Stuart Baillie; Fanny; John; Alexia Ligertwood; Ada Evelyn Dawson; Constance Hunter, born 28th July 1888, died 1st May 1889.

1905 ALEXANDER BROWN GRANT, M.A., B.D.; trans. from Garelochhead, and adm. 26th Oct. 1905; trans. to Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 10th May 1910.

1910 ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY TULLOCH, born 16th March 1879, son of William Weir T., D.D., min. of Maxwell, Glasgow; educated at High School and Univ., Glasgow; M.A. (1900), B.D. (1903); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow April 1903; ord. by same Presb. to Darjeeling, India, 11th Oct. 1903; served under Foreign Mission Committee from 1903-8; invalided home; adm. to this charge 20th Sept. 1910. Marr. 3rd Nov. 1903, Catherine, daugh. of Alexander Buist M'Donald, city engineer, Glasgow, and has issue-Arthur Alexander, born 12th Aug. 1905; George Hill, born 17th May 1907; Margaret Jean, born 17th Feb. 1912.

FALKIRK.

[The church, dedicated to St Modan, previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse. It was included in the Presb. of Stirling till 1608, though in Linlithgow, 17th May 1614.

1560 ANDREW HOGGE, vicar, dem. soon after.

1567 JAMES ERSKINE, reader in 1567.

1574 ANDREW FORRESTER, trans. from Dysart, with Airth and Bothkennar in charge. He was one of the Commissioners appointed for the maintenance and defence of the true religion, 6th March 1589, in the Sherifldom of Stirling; trans. 8th Dec. 1590 to Kippen, but not adm. till 1595.-[Req. Assig., Wodrow Miscell., Stirling Presb. Reg., Booke of the Kirk.]

1593  ADAM BELLENDEN, of Kilconquhar, M.A.; pres. by James Bellenden of Broughton, 15th and 21st May, and ord. 19th July 1593; a member of the General Assemblies 1602 and 1608; one of those who met at Linlithgow, 10th Jan. 1606, in conference with "the imprisoned ministers," previous to their trial for declining the authority of the Sovereign in "causes spiritual"; and at a convention in the same place, 10th Dec. thereafter, protested that it should not be held as a General Assembly. He attended the Convention at Falkland in 1609, and was suspended 16th Nov. 1614, the sentence being taken off 18th Jan. following; enjoined 22nd Feb. to wait more diligently on his flock in preparing them for the Communion. In March 1611 he had craved the Synod for a helper to be granted on his own charges, because of the disturbance "betwixt his kirk and the lands of Kilconquhar, which fell to him by the death of the laird,"' but was ordained either to transport himself, or else to demit, or else to serve in person, under pain of deposition; dem. July 1616; promoted to the Bishopric of Dunblane (q.v.) same year, after having been violently opposed to Episcopacy, and one of forty-two ministers who signed a protest to Parliament against its introduction, 1st July 1606.-[Keith's Catal. and MS". Notes, Orig. Lett. of Adm..; Douglas's Peer., ii.; Melvill's Autob., Stirling Presb. and Syn. Reg., Booke of the Kirk; Row's and Calderwood's Hists., i.; Select Biog., i.]

1616 JAMES CALDWELL, M.A. (Glasgow 1600); ord. to Bothkennar 31st May 1603; trans. and adm. 14th Aug. 1616; died before 16th Oct. same year,