Queen Mary, and praying for King James, and that God would restore the banished; died 4th Nov. 1728. He marr. (1) 3rd Aug. 1667, Christian Hog, in the parish of Haddington: (2) before 1699, Christian Sleich, and had issue-John, writer, Edinburgh; Janet (marr. 9th Aug. 1724, Robert Meldrum, son of Robert Meldrum, min. of Yester); Agnes (marr. Alexander Duncan, writer, Edinburgh); Christian.-[Haddinton Sess., Test., and Edin. Reg. (Bur.); Peterkin's Constitution of the Church.]

1700 ANDREW BARCLAY, chaplain to the family of Livingston, and nephew of Geo. B., min. of Uphall; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 5th July 1699; called 5th June, and ord. 14th Aug. 1700; res. 6th Aug. 1718; died 27th Feb. 1721. He marr. (1) 25th Aug. 1700, Katherine Clayton, Kirkhill, Uphall, and had issue- Francisca; Janet: (2) 28th May 1705, Agnes, daugh. of John Brown, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue- George;  Margaret; Janet; William; Robert; Agnes; Alexander.-[Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bur.); Morrison's Digest and Dec., x.]

1720 ROBERT DALGLEISH, M.A.; called 18th Nov. 1719; ord. 4th Aug. 1720; trans. to First Charge 25th Jan. 1727.

1728 ROBERT SPEARS, M.A.; called 22nd Nov. 1727; ord. 3rd April 1728; trans. to Burntisland 15th Sept. 1743.

KINGSCAVIL (Chapel-of-Ease).

1887 CHARLES MAURICE SHORT, ord. 9th Aug. 1887; adm. to Juniper Green 28th March 1892.

[ROBERT GALBRAITH, afterwards of Fordoun, was in charge from 1893 as a probationer; and WILLIAM BURNETT, B.D., afterwards of Restalrig, in 1898.]

1899 THOMAS LUGTON, born Swinton, Berwickshire, 20th Jan. 1861, son of Andrew L. and Jane Lugton; educated at Swinton Parish School, Wellfield Academy, Duns, and Univ.

of Edinburgh; M.A. (1880); licen. by Presb. of Duns 1884; assistant at Eskdalemuir, Monigaff, etc; ord. 5th May 1895 for service in India; adm. to Kingscavil 9th Dec. 1899.

LIVINGSTON. 

[The church, previous to the Reformation, belonged to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse.]

1570 JOHN CLAPPERTON, a native of Berwickshire; exhorter, Nov. 1570; trans. to Hutton, in the Merse, Candlemas 1571. - [Booke of the Kirk, Reg. Min.]

1573 ROBERT HODGE had a glebe assigned him by the Superintendent on his visitation, 5th Nov. 1573 (Acts and Dec., Iii., 320); trans. to Bathgate.

1578 ALEXANDER BORTHWICK, reader in 1574; adm. in 1578. "Being of meane literature he humblie desyrit the Kirk, Oct. 1581, to grant him license to gang to some Universitie within this country, quher he may studie in theologie, and have some kirk neir adjacent ther, quher he may travell in the ministrie, in the meantyme; so meikle the rather as he hes obtainit leive of his flocke," to which request they consented.-[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Edin. Presb. Reg., Row's Hist.]

1585 PETERHAMILTON, trans. from Kinneil 1585; pres. by James VI. 12th Feb. 1595; still min. in 1601.-[Reg. Assig.]

1610 PATRICK MONIPENNY, M.A. (St Andrews 1592); app. same year master of the Grammar School at Linlithgow, and reader in the church there, with " the cure of keeping the knok and horologe of the said burgh in guid ordor and temper," at a salary of "ane hundreth merks " annually, and the school fees; min. of Muiravonside 1598; trans. and adm. 1610 ; died March 1616, aged about 44. He marr. Beatrix Muirhead, and had issue-Robert and Beatrix, to whom their uncle, Oliver Monipenny, was served nearest heir, 20th June 1616.