He marr. 4th Sept. 1867, Madeline Charlotte, daugh. of John Macrae, min. of Glenelg, who died at Peebles, 27th Sept. 1909, aged 73.

1901 JAMES ALEXANDER MILNE, M.A., min. of the Scots Church, Paris; adm. 6th Dec. 1901; trans. to Cramond 26th Sept. 1907.

1908 MOSES TAGGART, born Holywood, Co.  Down, 18th March 1863, son of Henry Rawson T. and Mary Leslie Bell; educated at Park School, Glasgow, and Univ., and at Bremen, Germany; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 21st June 1888; assistant at Milton Church, Glasgow; ord. to St Thomas's, Glasgow, 16th Aug. 1892; trans. and adm. 28th Feb. 1908. He marr. 7th July 1897, Martha Hall, daugh. of William Allan, min. of Mochrum, and has issue-Henry Rawson, born 9th Sept. 1898; Christina Mary Hill, born 17th April 1901; William Allan, born 22nd Sept. 1903.

MANOR.

[The church was dedicated to St Gordian (the only such dedication in Britain), and previous to the Reformation was a chapel of Peebles. The bell (1408) is the oldest in use in Scotland.]

1565 THOMAS PURVIS, reader.

1571 THOMAS CRANSTOUN, mentioned in 1571.

1586 ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, attended the Synod 12th Oct. 1586. Being min. of Peebles, he had also charge Here; died 1610.-[Calderwood's Hist., iv.]

1596 GILBERT TAILZEOUR [TAYLOR],  brother of William T., min. of Penpont; reader at Cockpen 1576-9; min. at Penicuik 1580; trans. to Bathgate 1588; adm. 1596; manse and plebe designed 11th Oct. 1596; ordered to reside at his kirk 12th Jan. 1597; continued in 1615; there is no further reference to him after that date.-[Rep. Assig.]

1622 ALEXANDER SPITTAL, son of Alexander S., min. of Libberton (Reg. of Deeds, ccxc., 30); M.A. (Glasgow 1614); a member of the Commissions of Assembly 1645, 1647; died between 8th and 29th Dec. 1659, aged about 66. He marr. (cont. 12th Feb. 1617) Margaret, daugh. of Hugh Elder in Carnwath Mill (Gen. Red. Sas., xi., 221), and had issue-

Alexander.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Acts of Ass.]

1661 JOHN HAY, M.A.; pres. by John, Earl of Tweeddale, with consent of the parson of Peebles, 13th and 19th Aug. 1661. Episcopacy having been restored, his settlement was forbidden by the Privy Council, but his admission was completed 12th Dec. 1661; seven mins. were charged to compear and answer for this act, under pain of rebellion. He was again pres. and adm. in Oct. 1662; trans. to Govan Dec. same year.-[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Wodrow's Hist., i.; Morrison's Dec., xviii.]

1663 DAVID THOMSON, born Dysart; studied at St Andrews; M.A. (1645); licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 27th Nov. 1649; tutor in the family of Naesmyth of Posso; inst. at Dawyck, and ord. 4th Dec. 1656; trans. from Dawyck; adm. 11th Nov. 1663. On 9th Sept. 1680, he was attacked by a number of armed men, who plundered his house, and stole his horses. He was deprived for refusing the Test in 1681, but complying, was again pres. and adm. in Oct. 1682. Being disabled by deafness as a result of the above assault, he res. his charge, "leaving himself and seven children without maintenance." He is referred to in the Presb. Records as "necessitous," 27th June 1689: "A petition being presented by Mr D. T., late regular min. of TI., for supplying of his necessity, he being deprived because he would not take the Test, the Presb. appoint a day's collection for him from each min." He petitioned the Privy Council, 6th Sept. 1689, who recommended Sir Patrick Murray to allow him  a share of the collection up-