1716 WILLIAM HASTIE, M.A. (Edinburgh 16th June 1703); called 13th Dee 1715; ord. 19th Sept. 1716. Had sentence passed against him early in 1720 for refusing to take the Oath, of Abjuration; died 11th Nov. 1755, in 84th year He marr. Janet Shaw, who died 1411 Sept. 1770.-[Tombst.; Edin. Chr. Inst. xxx.]

1756 JOHN GRAY, pres. by George II. 27th Jan. 1756; called 21st April, and ord. 28th July 1756; trans. to Cambusnethan 4th April 1764.

1764 JOHN KNOX, born 17th May 1727, son of William K., of Ladyland, St Ninians, and Mary Liddell; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1752); preacher at Norristown - Chapel-of-Ease 1758-64; pres. by George III. 23rd May, and ord. 27th Sept. 1764; died 12th June 1787.[Morrison's Dec., xvii.]

1788 JAMES MACNAIR, born 1759, fourth son of James M., merchant, Glasgow; educated at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1st Oct. 1783; preacher at Shettleston Chapel - of -Ease same year; pres. by George III. 6th Oct. 1787; ord. 10th April 1788; died 15th April 1798. He marr. 24th April 1789, Agnes (died 28th Nov. 1807), eldest daugh. of Robert M'Nair, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue-Robert, D.D., min. of Paisley Abbey; Mary, born 4th June 1792; James, born 1st April 1794, died at Mobile, U.S.A., 3rd Oct. 1823 ; Agnes, born 6th March 1797. Publications-Set Thine House in Order, a sermon (Glasgow, 1808); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xiv.).[Cleland's Ann., i.]

1799 JAMES ROBERTSON, son of James R.; educated at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 22nd Oct. 1788; assistant at St Ninians; ord. to Dunfermline Chapel-of-Ease 6th June 1792; pres. by George III. Oct. 1798; trans. and adm. 18th Jan. 1799; died 15th March 1826, in his 60th year. He marr. 20th April 1820, Janet (died 25th Oct. 1867), daugh. of Matt. Murray, min. of

North Berwick, and had issue-James, born 4th Sept. 1823, died 21st Feb. 1882.

1826 ALEXANDER DAVIDSON, son of Thomas D., Falkirk; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 7th Sept. 1802; ord. to Gargunnock 10th May 1810; pres. by George IV., trans. and adm. 5th Sept. 1826; died 29th Oct. 1855. He marr. 25th Dec. 1812, Christian Simson, who died 19th Feb. 1878, and had issue-Anne, born 19th Oct. 1813; Thomas, min. of Abbey St Bathans; Maria, born 12th May 1817 (marr. 13th March 1849, William Stevenson, min. of Bothkennar); David, M.D., R.N., born 5th June 1819; Alexander, born 5th March 1825, died 10th June 1842; Margaret, born 17th Aug. 1827. Publication-Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., viii.).

1856 ROBERT STEVENSON HORNE, born Auchenkiln, Cumbernauld, 27th May 1830, son of George H. and Margaret Stevenson; educated at Forfar Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1851; assistant at Innellan; ord. to St David's, Dundee, 11th May 1853; pres. by the Crown 10th April, and adm. 10th July 1856; died 30th April 1887. Marr. 1st Sept. 1857, Mary Archibald, daugh. of Thomas Lochhead, Toward, Innellan, and had issue-George, born 11th Nov. 1858, died 16th Dee. 1906; Elizabeth Scott, born 29th April 1860 (marr. Andrew Lamberton of Blair, Cumnock); Thomas Lochhead, born Nth July 1862; Margaret Stevenson, born 21st March 1864 (marr. J. A. B. Bayly, M.B., C.M.), died 19th Jan. 1894; Mary Ann Burn, born 8th Nov. 1868 (marr. Joshua Ferguson, M.B., C.M.); Robert Stevenson, advocate, M.A., LL.B., K.C., born 28th Feb. 1871; Emily, born 14th Jan. 1873.

1887 WILLIAM HENRY RANKINE, M.A., B.D.; ord. 9th Nov. 1887; trans. to St Boswells 16th July 1891.

1892  ALLAN REID, born Capetown, South Africa, 26th March 1860, son of Henry Wilson R. and Elizabeth Sharpe; educated privately, and at Glasgow