1689 RICHARD BROWN, M.A., above mentioned; returned 23rd Aug. 1689, and preached in the kirk four Sundays, 25th Aug. to 15th Sept. 1689, but as Simson was still in the manse, and the Act of Parliament for restoring the old ministers bad not been touched with the sceptre, and so no call given, he went back to Edinburgh, and returned 8th June 1690; was a member of the following Assembly, as well as that of 1692; died after 20th April 1698. He left 400 merks "for the encouragement of a schoolmaster."-[Reg. Gen. Ass.; Old Dec., ii.; Peterkin's Constitution.]

1700 PATRICK RUSSEL, M.A., born 1676, a native of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 1st Sept., and called 26th Oct. 1699; ord. 31st Jan. 1700; dep. 30th Oct. 1702; reponed 8th Nov. 1711. Founded the Scots Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden, London, 1710, and was min. till his death, 27th Nov. 1746. Interred in Bunhill Fields. Publication Sermon, The Deity of Jesus Christ (London, 1719).-[Tombst., Jones's Bunhill Memorials.]

1705 JOHN WALLACE, licen. by Presb. of  Kirkcaldy 7th March 1702; called 14th March, and ord. 10th May 1705; died 3rd June 1733, in his 59th year. He marr. 5th March 1706, Christian (died 21st Nov. 1755), daugh. of William Murray of Cardon, and had issue Christian, born 9th Feb. 1707 (marr. 7th April 1838, Alexander Stevenson, Stanhope); William, his successor; Helen, born 9th July 1710, died 1728; Archibald, born 13th March 1711, died 27th July 1712; Andrew, born 21st Aug. 1712; Agnes, born 27th Feb. 1715; John, founder of the family of Wallace of Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.A., born 7th Jan. 1718.[Tombst., Pennecuik's Works.]

1734 WILLIAM WALLACE, son of preceding, born 2nd May 1708; licen. by the Presb. of Haddington 13th March 1733; pres. by John, Earl of Wigtown, 7th Nov. 1733; ord. 20th March 1734;

died unmarr. 17th July 1786. -[Tombst.; Morrison's Dec., xvii]

1787 WILLIAM WELSH, licen. by Presb. of  Haddington 5th July 1768; ord. to Manor 16th March 1775; pres. by William, Duke of Queensberry, 27th Dec. 1786; trans. and adm. 29th Nov. 1787; died 28th Jan. 1806. He marr. (1) 21st June 1775, Marion Waugh, who died 28th Feb. 1780, and had issue-Janet, born 21st June 1776; Marion, born 6th June 1778: (2) 16th Feb. 1784, Sarah Ballantyne, who died 8th April 1795, and had issue-George, born 4th April 1785; Katherine, born 8th March 1787 (marr. James Tod, Raecleuch); John, born 26th Feb. 1789; William, born 1st Aug. 1792: (3) 15th Oct. 1798, Marion (died 28th Nov. 1837), daugh. of John Tweedie, Stanhope. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., vii.).[Sinclair's Stat. Acc., iii.]

1807 ROBERT HALDANE, pres. by John Graeme of Eskbank, W.S., Aug. 1806; ord.19th March 1807; app. Professor of Mathematics in the Univ. of St Andrews, and resigned 2nd Oct. 1809. He became min. of St Andrews and Principal of St Mary's College 1820 (q.v.).

1810 JAMES SOMERVILLE, born Carstairs,  9th Dec. 1764, son of James S. and Rachel Lindsay; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; assistant at St Ninians; ord. to Symington 13th March 1799; pres. by John Graeme, W.S.; called 23rd Nov. 1809; trans. and adm. 1st Feb. 1810; D.D. (Edinburgh, 4th Jan. 1838). Joined the Free Church; died at Edinburgh 6th May 1844. He marr. (1) 2nd July 1799, Margaret Moodie, who died 25th Sept. 1801, and had issue Charles, born 4th Jan. 1801: (2) 27th March 1807, Caroline (died 3rd Feb. 1840), daugh. of Alexander Welsh, Patervan, and Marion Tweedie of Quarter, and had issue-Alexander, born 7th June 1808; Marion, born 29th March 1809; James, student of divinity, born 26th Sept. 1810, died 16th Aug. 1832; Rachel, born 3rd March 1812; Robert, born 20th May 1814; David, probationer, assistant to his