1598 PATRICK MONIPENNY, M.A.; adm.  after 26th Sept. 1598; in 1607-8 Livingston was also in the charge; removed to Livingston in 1610.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St Andrews, Edin. and Stirling Presb. ,Begs., Reg. Assig., Calderwood's Hist.]

1612 ROBERT THOMSON, adm.1612; traps. to Torryburn Oct. 1615, "but he knawis not quhat ordour he will tak, be reason of the great opposition that he hears will be made."

1616 ROBERT HALLEY, adm. 1616; traps.  to Airth 1626.

1627 ALEXANDER CORNWALL, son of Robert C., min. of Linlithgow; licen. 4th Dec. 1622; ord. 8th April 1627; pres. by Charles I. in 1633; on 10th Feb. 1637 he received from Linlithgow Town Council a payment of £10 for "reading the prayers" in his brother's kirk; he was in necessitous circumstances 14th March 1639; was accused of " invading James Muir, within the burgh of Linlithgow, with ape drawn quhinger, who had used insulting and provoking language to him, and of intromitting with the Session funds," and suspended by Presb. 2nd Dec. 1640 till next Synod; demitted 1641, and deposed. He was to leave the country, 27th Sept. 1643, to "seik employment in the pastoral function." Being in distressed circumstances, he received pecuniary aid from several kirk-sessions between 1646 and 1649; schoolmaster and preceptor at Kettins 1st Sept. 1650. He represented to that Session that he had not whereon to live, and desired the loan of £8 from the box, which he promised to pay out of his first salary. In May 1652 he was under a sentence of excommunication for marrying and baptizing irregularly; and was alive May 1659. He marr. Marion Hamilton, and had issue-Elizabeth; Janet; Alexander; Jean. - [Linlithg., Kettins, Falkirk, Dunferml., and Carnock Sess. Regs.; Nicoll's Diary.]

1642 JOHN BRUCE, born 1608; M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1628); pres. by James, Lord Livingston of Almond, 21st June 1641; adm. 31st Aug. 1642.

His decreet of locality having been destroyed by the burning of his house, and the registers lost, he obtained another, 7th Dec. 1664. Although some of the heritors "were ready to propone that their proportion was above the worth of their teinds," the Commissioners repelled their objections, as "they had been in constant use these eighteen years of paying that proportion; and they and their predecessors had bought the land with the burden of that locality, and so they had no prejudice thereby." He died before 20th March 1672. Isobel Ker, his widow, claimed the ann, which was resisted, as she had not been confirmed executrix. The Lords, however, 16th July 1673, "found no necessity of confirmation of the Ann." He interdicted himself at the instance of Isobel Ker, his wife, and Andrew Ker of Littledean, 27th Feb. 1665 (Reg. of Deeds, Mack.). A son, James, died in 1648.-[Connel on Tithes, iii.; Morrison's Digest and Diet., Tombst.; Baillie's Lett., ii.]

1655 HEW BLAIR, M.A.; ord. and adm. (helper) 31st Oct. 1655; traps. to Rutherglen 1661. - [Glasg. Reg. (Bapt.); Baillie's Lett., iii., and Mem.]

[There is no trace of a settlement between 1661 and 1667.]

1667 ANDREW URIE, licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 7th Feb. 1667; pres. by Alexander Livingstone of Almond (Deereets, Durie, 12th Nov. 1672); ord. 30th July 1667. The Communion cups (1676) bear his name. In April 1685 Peter Gillies, waulker (bleacher of cloth), of Skirling, a Covenanter, was apprehended at his instigation and executed at Mauchline a month afterwards. Urie was outad by the rabble and deserted his cure 1689; died in Edinburgh, 14th Oct. 1707, in his 71st year. He marr. Katherine Kinnear (Stirling Sas., 15th June 1688), and had issue -Margaret (marr. April 1706, Charles Bell, W.S.); Anna (marr. John Bethune, younger, of Craigfoodie); Elizabeth; Mary.-[Reg. Collat., Test. and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and