1592 JOHN SYMONTON, probably son of William S. of that ilk; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. before 5th Feb. 1592; in 1593 Thankerton was also under his charge; was still min. in 1597.- [Req. Assig.]

1601 JOHN LINDSAY, min. of Carstairs; pres. to the vicarage by James VI.; resigned previous to 9th Sept. 1607, and returned to Carstairs.-[Req. Assiq.]

1607 ROBERT LINDSAY, pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 9th Sept. 1607.

1623 ANDREW GUDLAD, son of David G., infeft as heir of his brother John in two acres near St Andrews (Fife Sas., xii., 198); M.A. (St Andrews 1599); pres. in 1623; dep. 31st Aug. 1648, "being found altogether unprofitable, and a contemner of the acts and constitutions of the Kirk tending to the Reformation and settling of the true religion."-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Test. Reg. (Lan.).]

1649 GEORGE PHIN, schoolmaster of South Leith 13th Feb. 1645; pres. by Sir William Baillie of Lamington 23rd May 1649; adm. 17th July 1649; continued 5th May 1657; but the charge was vacant 4th May 1658; ejected by Presb. after three years process (P. C. Decreta, 1662). [At Slamannan in 1661.]-- [S. Leith Sess., Presb., Dalkeith.]

1658 JOHN RAE, son of William R., merchant,  burgess of Edinburgh, to whom he was served heir 7th Feb. 1666; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1651); adm. between 4th May and 2nd Nov. 1658; deprived by the Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He became one of the most zealous of the Covenanting preachers; and for eight years peregrinated the country, conducting public worship on the hillsides and in private houses. In 1670 he was committed to the Canongate Tolbooth. Thence he was taken to Stirling Castle, and afterwards to that of Dumbarton. Liberated in 1672 under the "Indulgence Act," he was permitted to discharge all his ministerial duties

provided he would limit his sphere of effort to the Cumbraes. This he refused to do, and along with John Welsh and others, went about from place to place "holding conventicles, marrying, baptizing, and dispensing the Lord's Supper." For nine years he assiduously carried on these earnest labours. In 1681 he was captured and sent to the Edinburgh Tolbooth, and three years later to the Bass, where he died, and was buried at North Berwick-[Inq. Ret. Gen., 4962; Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists., Crichton's Mem. of Blackadder.]

1665 JOHN LAW, M.A. (Edinburgh, 14th July 1659); died in 1675, aged about 36. He marr. Helen, daugh. of John Law of Ryesland, and had issue-John; William; Helen (marr. John Law, portioner of Ryesland: G. R. Sas., xxviii., 35).-[Test. Reg. (Lan.).]

1676  ROBERT LAWSON, pres. by James, Bishop of Dunblane, and inst. 10th April 1676; trans. to Libberton and Quothquan 26th July 1681.-[Stow Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.]

1682 ANGUS MACKINTOSH, M.A.; inst. and adm. 24th April 1682; trans. to Stonehouse after 1st April 1685. [Test. Reg. (Lan.).]

1686 JOHN LOGAN, inst. 2nd May 1686; continued 2nd May 1688, but outed by the rabble 1689.-[MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1692 WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, son of Thomas C. of Eastend and Janet Baillie; M.A. (Edinburgh, 9th July 1688, and held a bursary of philosophy at Glasgow in 1690); ord. 20th Sept. 1692; died unmarr. before 11th May 1699, aged about 31.-[Test. Reg. (Lan.); Inq. Ret. Gen., 1784.]

1700 PATRICK MITCHELL, licen. by Presb. of Peebles 17th Aug. 1699; called 3rd Jan., and ord. 25th April 1700; died 18th Dec. 1711, in his 50th year. He marr. Oct. 1702, Elizabeth Plenderleath, who survived him.-[Test. Reg. (Lan.), Tombst.]