[The Symington Manse and Glebe Exemption from Assessment for Poor-Rates Case (1856) excited no little attention. The litigation was costly and protracted, as, raised against Mr Forbes, it was carried from the local Courts and the Courts of Session to the House of Lords. It resulted in the decision that manses and glebes of the Church of Scotland were exempt from the tax.]

1881 JOHN ALEXANDER, born at Sydney, New South Wales 1st Feb. 1853, son of John A. and Mary Auchie; educated at Corstorphine and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1875); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh April 1879; assistant at St Mungo and Milton, Glasgow; ord. 15th Jan. 1881; res. 15th June 1891 to become chaplain of H.M. Prison, Glasgow. He marr. 24th Feb. 1881, Isabella (died 11th Jan. 1914), laugh. of William Hurst, C.E., West Derby, Liverpool, and widow of A. D. Hewat, Edinburgh, and has issue-Mary Auchie, born 11th Jan. 1886. Publications Lectures on Philippians in The Christian Treasury (1882); A Talk about my Work in Prison, an address (Glasgow).

1891 GEORGE CALDWELL, born Kirkintilloch, 24th Jan. 1858, son of James C. and Mary Logan; educated at Lenzie Academy and Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1881; assistant at Bothwell; ord. 11th Nov. 1891. Marr. 30th June 1896, Margaret Anne, daugh. of Robert Macdonald, Frederictown, Canada, and has issue-James Robert Macdonald, born 23rd Dec. 1898; George Frederick Arthur, born 8th Sept. 1903.

WALSTON.

[From early times a lay rectory in the gift of the lord of the manor. A church has occupied the same site from the close of the thirteenth century.]

1560 DAVID DALGLEISH, reader, 1560.

1561 LAURENCE LEECHMAN [Book of Assumptions; Chalmers's Caled. iii.]

1567 WALTER TWEEDIE, pres. by James, Earl of Bothwell, 20th May 1567, and again by King James VI. 3rd Sept. 1567 (Reg. Sec. Sig., xxxvii., 5); exhorter at Broughton 1567.

1567 JOHN FOTHERINGHAM and THOMAS LINDSAY, exhorters, when Dolphinton, Dunsyre, and Skirling were also in the charge.

1570 ROBERT KINROSS, reader.

1580 THOMAS LINDSAY, colleague exhorter in 1567; pres. by James VI. 4th Jan. 1580; died 17th June 1609. He marr. Helen Smyth, who died 12th Jan. 1629, and had issue-Thomas, his successor; Annabel (marr., cont. 14th Aug. 1606, John, son and apparent heir of Stephen Bell of Fuillisland: Reg. of Deeds, cxxi., 457).-[Reg. Min., Tombst., Wodrow Miscell., Stirling Presb. and Test. Reg. (Lan.); New Stat. Acc., vi.]

1621 THOMAS LINDSAY, son of preceding, M.A. (Glasgow 1612); received on trials by Presb. of Stirling 8th June 1614; adm. 1621; died 26th Nov. 1654, aged about 62. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue-Thomas, min. of Dunblane, who was served heir 13th Jan. 1662; Charles, min. of Covington; Robert, apprenticed 12th Sept. 1655 to Robert Brown, bookseller, Edinburgh. - [Stirl. Presb. and Test. Reg. (Lan.), Tombst. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 4532 ; New Stat. Acc., vi.]

1655 PATRICK ANDERSON, M.A. (St Andrews 1648); adm. between 1st May and 1st Nov. 1655; deprived by Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662; indulged at Kilbirnie; resided in Edinburgh for some years; called before the Privy Council on a charge of having held conventicles at Boghall, Biggar, and in his house at Potterrow during the years 1674-8, and of corresponding with John Welsh, Gabriel Semple, and other intercommuned persons. He was pronounced guilty and sentenced to imprisonment on the Bass, unless he found caution to the amount of 2000 merks, and