INNERLEITHEN.

[The church, dedicated to St Callistus, formerly belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.]

1563 PATRICK SANDERSON, exhorter.

1585 WILLIAM SANDERSON, probably son of preceding; Hope-Kailzie and Traquair were also under his care; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 24th May 1599; died before 5th Feb. 1607. -[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Edin. Presb. and Test. Reg.]

1607 PATRICK SANDERSON, son of preceding, "exhorter at Henderlethane at Beltyn 1571," and reader at Innerleithen and Hope-Kailzie 1574, and at the former only 1576-80; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 5th Feb. 1607; continuing (though old and weak) 14th July 1641, but died before 17th April 1645. He left a widow, Isobel Tait.-[Reg. Min. and

Assig., Wodrow Miscell]

1641 JAMES SMYTH, M.A.; ord. (colleague) 14th July 1641; pres. by John, Earl of Traquair, 20th March, and inst. 21st June 1644; a member of Commission of Assembly 1645; trans. to Eddleston in 1660.-[Jedburgh Presb. Reg.; Reg. Old Dec., iii.; Acts of Ass.]

1666  GEORGE FORBES, trans. from Port- Patrick; pres. by John, Earl of Traquair; coll. 16th Feb., and inst. 1st March 1666; trans. to Traquair 15th June 1674.-[Morrison's Dec., xviii.]

1674  HEW GRAY, M.A. (Glasgow 1634); ord. to Kailzie 3rd June 1647; summoned before the Privy Council 12th Dec. 1661, for countenancing the admission of John Hay to Manor; trans. and inst. 9th Sept. 1674; alive at 8th June 1681, but probably died soon after. -[Morrison's

Dec., xviiij

1682 ALEXANDER GRAY, son of preceding, inst. 17th Aug. 1682; dem. Oct. 1695. He marr. 11th Nov. 1692,

Elizabeth Porteous of Hawkshaw, in the parish of Tweedsmuir, and had issue-Hew.-[Reg. 0ld Dec., ii.; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1697 THOMAS LOWIS, probably a "Lowis of Menar" [Manor], then a leading county family (now represented (1914) by Charles von Lowis of Menar, Riga, Livonia, Russia); M.A. (Edinburgh 1643); min. of Galashiels 1657; dep. 1662. In 1688 he was living at Traquair, when Donald Ker of Kersland "went to the House of Traquair, in frost and snow, and found a great deal of Romish wares there, but wanted the cradle, Mary and the Babe, and the priest. He sent (messengers) to the house of Mr Thomas Lowis, who had the name of a Presbyterian min. He ordered them to search his house narrowly. Mr Lowis and his wife mocked them, without offering them either meat or drink, though they had much need of it. At last they found two trunks locked, which they desired to have opened. Mr Lowis then left them. They broke up the coffers, wherein they found a golden cradle, with Mary, and the Babe in her bosom; in the other trunk, the priest's robes (the Earl and the priest were fled), which they brought all to the Cross of Peebles, with a great deal of Popish books, and many other things of great value, all Romish wares, and burnt them there " (Patrick Walker's Vindication of Mr Richard Cameron, 1727). He was called to this charge 29th Oct. 1696; adm. 3rd March 1697; died between 3rd and 24th Nov. 1703, aged about 82. He had a son, William Lowis of Plora.[Chambers's Peeblesshire.]

1706 JAMES GRAY, licen. by Presb. of  Earlston 23rd Nov. 1699; called 28th Nov. 1705; ord. 3rd May 1706; died 17th June 1726, in his 50th year. He marr. Helen Burnett, who died 6th Feb. 1751, and had issue - James. - [Pennecuik's works, Tombst.]

1727 GILBERT HUTCHESON, educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1708-12; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 1st Nov. 1720; ord. to Lyne and Megget 1723; trans. and adm. 24th May 1727; died 4th Sept. 1754, in 63rd year. He marr. 28th