1689 WILLIAM BAILLIE, above mentioned, returned 1689; parish vacant in 1690. He marr. Grizel, daugh. of William Denholm of Westshields.

1693 ROBERT BAILLIE, called 11th Aug., ord. 27th Sept. 1693; trans. to Inverness 28th Feb. 1701.

1708 DAVID BLINSHALL, son of James B., Aberdeen; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1693) chaplain to Sir Robert Dickson of Inveresk; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 5th March 1707; ord. 10th Nov. 1708; died Father of the Synod 28th Sept. 1765, in his 97th year, leaving James, D.D., one of the mins. of Dundee; Ann (marr. Edward Roberts).

1766 JAMES REID, pres. by Mrs Elizabeth Baillie of Lamington and Capt. John Ross of Balnagown 23rd Dec. 1765; ord. 21st Aug. 1766; trans. to Kinglassie 27th Aug. 1773, "as he neither relished the situation himself, nor was acceptable to the parishioners."

1774 THOMAS MITCHELL, licen. by Presb.  of Edinburgh 25th Nov. 1761; pres. to Kinglassie by John, Earl of Rothes, 7th Aug. 1770, but on the parishioners declaring they would receive any other but him, an exchange was effected. He was a candidate for the Chair of Greek in the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1772; and was pres. by Mrs Elizabeth Baillie of Lamington and Capt. John Ross of Balnagown 23rd Oct. 1773, and by the Hon. Archibald Douglas of Douglas same day; ord. 23rd Aug. 1774; died 12th March 1816, in his 78th year. He is said to have been the minister characterised by Burns as being "as cauld a minister's ever spak." He marr. 17th April 1776, Agnes (died 3rd Feb. 1836), daugh. of John Hope, farmer, Glenochar, and Margaret Hope, and had issue-John, senior physician to the Royal Infirmary, Manchester; Walter, M.D., Swansea; and an only daugh., who marr. Thomas M'Caughie, writer, Kirkcudbright. Publications-Sermon preached at Lamington (Edinburgh, 1782); A Letter to the Rev. William M'Gill, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1791);

Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., vi.).-[Scots Hag., xxxiii., xxxiv.; Tombst.; Burns's (Wallace's ed.) Works, iv.; New Stat. Acc., vi.; Chalmers's Caled., iii.; Morrison's Dec., xvii.]

1821 CHARLES HOPE, born 1781, son of James H., farmer, Glenlee, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Jean Proudfoot; educated at Kells Parish School and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 10th Nov. 1808; pres. by Archibald, Lord Douglas, 20th June 1816. Another presentation by Lady Elizabeth Ross Baillie of Lamington, 20th March 1816, in favour of James Moffat, probationer, caused delay till judgment was pronounced by the Court of Session, 22nd Dec. 1820, in his behalf; ord. 3rd May 1821; he was suspended, by the General Assembly 30th May 1842, from his judicial function as a member of Presb. and other superior judicatories, till after the first Wednesday of March 1843, for holding communion with the ministers of Strathbogie; died loth April 1862. He marr. 23rd July 1839, Barbara Thomson (died 24th March 1855), eldest daugh. of John Aflleck of Palmerstone, Chief Magistrate of Maxwelltown, and Janet Fraser, and had issue-a daugh., died in infancy, 1841; James Johnstone Hyslop, M.D., born 11th April 1842, died 14th Jan. 1888; John Aflleck, engineer, born 20th Oct. 1843, died 3rd Dec. 1896; Janet Sarah, born 22nd April 1845 (marr. 1886, William Chisholm, M.D., Darlington); Jane Proudfoot Isabella, born 19th July 1848, died 28th April 1849. Publication-Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., vi.).-[Acts of Ass.; Chalmers's Caled., iii.; Tombst.]

1862 THOMAS MILLER, ord. 11th Aug. 1862; trans. to St Stephen's, Glasgow, 28th April 1866.

1866 WILLIAM KELLY, ord. 24th August 1866; trans. to Newlands 17th July 1870.

1870  ROBERT RANKIN, born Spital, Causewayhead, Stirling, 2nd Sept. 1838, son of Andrew R. and Helen Paterson; educated at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh