michael about 1672; trans. to Kirkton 17th April 1684; trans. to Second Charge 13th Aug. 1685; trans. and adm. 28th June 1687; deprived by the Privy Council 23rd Aug. 1689, for refusing to read the Proclamation of the Estates, or pray for King William and Queen Mary. He marr. Elizabeth Kirk, who was buried in Grayfriars, 31st Jan. 1696.-[Peterkin's Constitution of the Church; JIS. Acc. of min., 1689; Hist. Rel. of the Gen. Ass., 1690.]

1689 THOMAS WILKIE, born 8th April 1645; nephew of Thomas W., min. of the Tolbooth Parish; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (31 st July 1662); was a member of the meeting of ministers in the province of Lothian and Tweeddale (after the Toleration) 6th July 1687; pres. by the Town Council of Edinburgh 6th May 1689, and adm. soon after; formed a kirk-session 14th Jan. 1690; continued his services in the meeting-house till 22nd Aug. 1691, when the keys of the church were delivered to him by order of the Privy Council; Moderator of Assembly 17th Feb. 1701, and a second time 16th March 1704; died 19th March 1711. He bequeathed about four hundred volumes to the Library then recently founded for the use of the Divinity Hall at Edinburgh. He marr. Rachel, daugh. of John Sinclair, min. of Ormiston (Reg. Sec. Sig., vi., 497), and widow of William Hog, W.S.-[Edin. Guild and Reg. (Bur.), Tombst.; Monteith's Mort, ii.; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Bower's Univ., i.; Wodrow MSS., lxxxii.; Bonar's Canongate.]

1712 JOHN WALKER, trans. from Second Charge and adm. 30th Jan. 1712; retrans. to Second Charge 9th April 1712, with an admonition from the Presb. " not to be so changeable in future."

1713 JAMES WALKER, M.A. (St Andrews, 12th July 1698); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 21st Nov. 1700; ord. to Auchtergaven 30th April 1701; trans. to Forteviot 29th Jan. 1707; trans. to Ferryport-on-Craig 14th June 1710; called 15th April 1712; trans. and adm. 23rd June 1713; died 3rd March 1752, in 73rd

year. He marr. Isobel Oliphant, who died 11th Jan. 1762, and had issue-Samuel,

1753 JAMES WATSON, formerly master of George Watson's Hospital, Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 5th June 1745; ord. to Newbattle 19th Aug. 1746; called 28th Nov. 1752; trans. and adm. 7th Aug. 1753; died at Peffermill, Liberton, 5th Nov. 1673. Three of his letters to James Pillans, the son of a cousin, who became Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, and Professor of Humanity in the University, have been preserved. They show shrewdness and great knowledge of the world, and teach sound lessons of morality. He marr. 14th Dec. 1750, Anne (died at Edinburgh, 15th Nov. 1824, aged 93), daugh. of Walter Foggo, principal clerk in G.P.O., Edinburgh.-[Scots Mag., xv., p. 423; Morren's Ann., ii.; Acts of Ass., 1753; Steven's High School.]

1764 WILLIAM LOTHIAN, born 5th Nov.  1740, son of George L., surgeon, Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh High School and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh - 1762; pres. by George III. 12th April (Reg. Sec. Sig., ix., 372), and ord. 16th Aug. 1764; D.D. (Edinburgh, 15th Oct. 1779); died 17th Dec. 1783. He marr. 1st Oct. 1776, Elizabeth (died 8th Aug. 1815), daugh. of Edward Lothian, jeweller in Edinburgh, and had issue Edward, W.S., afterwards advocate, born 20th Sept. 1769, died 12th April 1840; William, born 11th Nov. 1770; George, merchant, Leith, born 30th Jan. 1772; Helen, born 24th July 1773; John, born 7th May 1775, died 5th Aug. 1779; Thomas, surgeon, Edinburgh, born 13th Nov. 1776. Publications-I1istory of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (London, 1780); Sermon XXI. (Scotch Preacher, ii., Edinburgh, 1776).-[Steven's High School, Test. Reg., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1784 ROBERT WALKER, born 1776, son of William W., min. of the Scots Church, Rotterdam; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 24th April 1770; ord. to Cramond 27th Nov. 1776; pres. by George