B.D. (Edinburgh 1867); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 14th May 1867; ord. to Boharm 4th Feb. 1869; trans. and adm. 31st July 1879. Marr. 1st July 1884, Helen, daugh. of James Ogilvie, Edinburgh, and has issue -Helen Isabella, born 27th May 1885.

LINLITHGOW AND BINNY.

[The church, previous to the Reformation, belonged to the Priory of St Andrews, and was dedicated to St Michael. Binny or Binning was united about 1564. Vide Ferguson's Ecclesia Antique for a complete account of the ecclesiastical annals of the parish.]

1559 PATRICK FRENCH, had been vicar previous to the Reformation and continued in the charge.

1561  PATRICK KINLOQUHY, or KINLOCH, an Augustinian canon at St Andrews previous to the Reformation; app. 1563, chaplain of the Trinity Altar in St Michael's Church, for the purpose of handing over its endowments to the town. Pres. to the vicarage by James VI., 3rd and 11th June 1574, having charge in that year, with the help of readers, of " Kynneill, Carriddin, and Bynnie." He was a member of Assembly when the Second Book of Discipline was confirmed. He was requested by the citizens of Edinburgh, 16th Oct. 1584, "to teache ane certane space," and "besought to remane " as one of their ministers, a committee being appointed by the Council "to agrie with him to be a minister in the burgh." The matter went no further. He was one of the nine "best learnit and maist qualified ministers within the diocese of St Andrews besouth the Forth" charged to compear before the Privy Council, 7th Dec. 1584, for not subscribing obedience to the Archbishop. He read answers for himself and his brethren, but submitted before the month closed, He was engaged by His Majesty, 2nd Jan 1586, with two of the Court ministers, to address his brethren for their submis sion. He was nominated by the Secret Council, 6th March 1589, one of the commissioners

for the maintenance of  true  religion in the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow. At a visitation of the parish, 3rd July 1611, it is recorded, "Patrick Kinloquhy, auld minister, teaches none for his age and infirmities"; but the efficiency of his ministry is evidenced by the further entry: "Na excommunicates, na non-communicants, na papists except my Lady Linlithgow, na disobedients, na witches, na consultors." He died before 10th Dec. 1612. He marr. Helen Bell, and had issue-Patrick, who was on the exercise 12th March 1617; Andrew; Agnes (marr. Robert Hally, min. of Airth); Elspeth; Marian; David.-[Winzet's Tractatis (Maitland Club, 1835); Reg. Min.; Zurich Lett., ii.; Wodrow's Biog. and Hiscell., Burgh Rec., Edin. Council Reg., Reg. Great Seal, Privy Council, Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist.; Ferguson's Eccl. Ant., and authorities quoted there.]

159'7 ROBERT CORNWALL, son of Nicol C. of Bonhard, provost of Linlithgow; educated at the Grammar School, Linlithgow, and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1583); min. of Ecclesmachan in 1588; trans. and adm. (colleague and successor) 1597; pres. by James VI. 16th April 1599; member of the Assembly of 1602; took an active part, in 1604, in the prosecution of Patrick Abercromby of Bonnytoun, who, with his wife and mother, was accused of harbouring a Jesuit and of hearing Mass. He was nominated Constant Moderator of Presb. by the Assembly 1606; preached before the Linlithgow Assembly 1608; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 20th April 1610, and the same year was one of a committee appointed by the Assembly to examine George, Marquess of Huntly, with full power, if they found him willing constantly to confess the true religion, to absolve him from sentence of excommunication. In 1611 the vicarage tithes were still held, and the pre-Reformation manse occupied by the minister, but there was no glebe. A noteworthy feature of his ministry was the long but ineffectual prosecution, begun in 1612, of Helenor Hay, Countess of Linlithgow, for papistry. He died 5th June 1626, aged about 63. He