1598 HENRY BLYTH, M.A.; app. by the Presb. 20th Oct. 1594, to officiate occasionally in room of John Brand; called 4th Feb., and adm. 6th April 1598; trans. to First Charge about 1601.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Test. Reg., Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell.]

1611 OLIVER COLT, M.A.; regent of Humanity in Univ. of Edinburgh; adm. 1611; trans. to Foulden 1614.

1630 MATTHEW WEMYSS, adm. 1630; trans. to First Charge 1635.

1636 JOHN WATSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 23rd July 1631); adm. about 1636; dep. 1st Jan. 1639, "for deserting his charge."- [Wodrow MSS., lxiii.; Acc. of Ass., Peterkin's Records, Stevenson's Hist.]

1639 GEORGE LESLIE, M.A.; adm. 22nd Nov. 1639; trans. to First Charge 1646.

1646 JOHN HOG, M.A.; trans. from West Linton; nominated by the Town Council of Edinburgh 25th Feb., and adm. 19th May 1646; trans. to South Leith in 1653.-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Lamont's Diary]

1656 JAMES NAIRNE, called 12th Nov. 1655, and adm. 17th April 1656; trans. to First Charge 1657.-[Edin. Counc. Reg.]

1658 ALEXANDER HUTCHISON, M.A. (Edinburgh, May 1653); called 8th Dec. 1657; adm. 14th April 1658. Deprived by the Act of Parliament 11th June, and of the Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. Having been summoned to appear before the Privy Council in 1673, and not obeying, he was ordered, 4th Sept., to be apprehended wherever found. He died 2nd April 1676, aged about 43. He marr. 14th Dec. 1658, Janet (died 20th Jan. 1709, aged 71), daugh. of Robert Hardie, burgess and guild-brother of Edinburgh, in right of whom he entered on both 22nd July 1668. They had issue-Mary (marr. 23rd Nov. 1702, Nicol Spence, writer, Edinburgh)

Jean (marr. Jan. 1698, Dugald Simpson, min. of Applegarth); John, bapt. 19th Aug. 1670; Elizabeth (posthumous), bapt. 6th April 1676.-[Edin. Reg., Wodrow's Hist., Canongate Reg.]

1663 PATRICK HEPBURN, M.A.; formerly of Bolton; elected by the Magistrates and Kirk-session 9th July, ord. and coll. 20th, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1663; trans. to St Cuthbert's in 1680.-[Reg. Collat.]

1680 ARCHIBALD CALDERWOOD, bapt.  19th June 1657, son of Thomas C., Dean of Guild in Edinburgh, and Elizabeth Mortimer; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (7th April 1675); adm. about end of 1680, and died unmarr. in Nov. 1681. - [Calderwood's Hist., viii.; Edin. Reg. (Bapt.); Inq. Ret. Edin., 1279.]

1682 JOHN LUMSDEN, trans. from Dalgety; adm. 1682; trans. to Lauder 1685.-[Fountainhall's Dec., i.]

1685 ALEXANDER BURNET, trans. from Kirkton; adm. 13th Aug. 1685; trans. to First Charge 1687.

1687 JAMES CRAIG, M.A.; formerly of Tranent; elected by the Kirk-session, Magistrates, Heritors, and Deacons of Crafts 29th Aug., and adm. 14th Sept. 1687; trans. to Duddingston about 1694.

1695 WILLIAM MITCHELL, called (after 12th April), and ord. in 1695; trans.  to the Old Kirk Parish 27th June 1708.

1709 JOHN WALKER, licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 9th Feb. 1709; called 19th July, and ord. 27th Sept. 1709; trans. to First Charge 30th Jan., but this was recalled 1st, and he was readm. 9th April 1712; died 13th Nov. 1741, aged 61. He was distinguished for his services to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge. He marr. (pro. 15th July 1710) Mary, daugh. of Adam Leslie, merchant, Dumfries (Canongate Reg.). His son Robert was min. of 'the High Kirk Parish, Edinburgh. - [Morren's Ann., i.; Kay's Portr., i.]