1906 WILLIAM ANDREW KNOWLES, M.A., B.D.; ord. to Kerse Mission 2nd Sept. 1897; trans. to West Coates Parish, Edinburgh, 1st Oct. 1909.

1910 WALTER ROLAND LACEY, M.A.; ord. by John Herbert Edwards, bishop of the Moravian Church; received into the Church of Scotland as an ord. min. by General Assembly 13th May 1907; adm. to this charge 2nd Feb. 1910; trans. to Hillhead, Glasgow, 12th Feb. 1914.

1914 WILLIAM ROBERTSON BROWN, born Rathven, 9th Sept. 1884, son of William B.; educated at Grammar School, Keith, and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Univs.; M.A. (Aberdeen 1904); licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1908; assistant at Hamilton; ord. 6th May 1914.

KINNEIL.

[Belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood; united to Borrowstounness by Parliament, 23rd Dec. 1669. A mere fragment of the ancient church of St Katherine is extant.]

1567 JOHN JOHNSTON, exhorter, 1567.

1571 PETER HAMILTON, reader, 1571; trans. to Livingstone in 1585.-[Reg. Min. and Assign.]

1588 THOMAS PEEBLES, pres. to Bathgate, but ordered to remain 25th April 1592; a member of Assembly in 1602 and 1610; continued 22nd Oct. 1617. He had a son, John, boarded in the New College, St Andrews, 11th Dec. 1616, probably min. of Kirkmichael; also a daugh" Margaret, wife of John Gibson, min. at Dalmeny.-[Reg. Assig.; Edin. Presb., Syn., and Test. Reg.; Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.]

1618 JOHN PEEBLES, M.A. (Edinburgh, 22nd July 1615); adm. 1618; died March 1625, aged about 30.

1625 RICHARD DICKSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1596; licen. by Presb.

of Edinburgh 27th March 1599; adm. to St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, probably only as assistant,  and ord. 2nd June 1603; pres. by Anne, Marchioness of Hamilton, and adm. 1625. He was a member of the General Assembly 1638; died 2nd May 1648, aged about 72. He marr. (1) Bessie Panton, and had issue Marion; John; Margaret; James; Robert, apprenticed 24th Aug. 1631 to John Dickson, merchant, Edinburgh; Richard; John (2) (cont. 2nd Jan. 1606: Reg. of Deeds, cxc., 408) Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert Hamilton, merchant, Edinburgh, who survived him.-[St Cuthbert's Sess. and Test. Reg., Livingstone's Life and Charac.]

1649 WILLIAM WISHART, son of Alexander W., of the Pittarrow family, Forfarshire, born Dec. 1621; M.A. (Edinburgh, 15th April 1645); adm. 22nd Aug. 1649. He joined the Protesters, and formed one of the Dissenting Presb. from 6th Aug. 1651 to 11th Feb. 1659; he was confined to his chamber at Edinburgh by the Committee of Estates, 15th Sept. 1660, and five days afterwards was imprisoned in the Tolbooth, where he remained for thirteen months, until released on the petition of the Presb. His stipend was sequestrated for his refusal to disown the Remonstrance or sign the bond for keeping the peace. On his wife petitioning Parliament, showing his sad condition, "as now prisoner in the Castle of Stirling, throw want of meanes, while ane numerous familie were dependant," an Act was passed, 29th Jan. 1661, whereby "all arrears of stipend were ordered to be payed to her be the persones lyable in payment thereof." Another half-year's stipend was paid to himself. He was intercommuned by the Council, 6th Aug. 1675, for keeping conventicles; ordered 5th Feb. 1685 to be sent to His Majesty's plantations for declining the Test, but liberated from prison 24th Aug. 1685, "upon giving bond with caution under 5000 merks to compear when called." At the Toleration he began to preach, and took charge of the congregation in Leith where he had his residence, loth July 1687, promising to continue until a min. was settled, though he stands enrolled as a min. in Presb. of Linlithgow at 25th July 1688, and was appointed one of the Pres. Committee to General Meeting in Edinburgh, 1st May 1689; he died Feb.