lifted for the French and Irish Protestants. He died Jan. 1692, aged about 67. He marr. Helen Spittal, who had sasine with him of an annual rent of the lands of Dowerburn, Oct. 1665, and had issue James, min. of Tweedsmuir and of Peebles; and others whose names have not been traced.-[Skirling Sess. and New Gen. Reg. Sasines, xiii.; Chambers's Peebleshire.]

1683 ROBERT SMITH, M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1618); schoolmaster of Peebles; licen. 1656; ord. to Crawford, 1666; trans., adm., and inst. June 1683; res. 7th Oct, 1690; died 31st May 1696, in his 73rd year. He marr. Janet Buchanan, who died 31st May 1697, and had issue-Agnes (marr. George Smyth, min. of Dawyck); Isobel, died 8th July 1728, aged 52.-[MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1690 WILLIAM VEITCH, Peebles, had charge of Manor in 1690.

1695 ANDREW MITCHELL, M.A.; called 27th Feb., and ord. 21st Aug. 1695; called to Newlands 28th Jan. 1708, but on a unanimous .petition against his leaving, trans. was refused 25th Feb. following. He was trans. to Newbattle 29th Nov. 1721. - [Boston's Mem.; Reg. Old Dec., ii.; Pennecuik's Works.]

1722 ARCHIBALD BRUCE, licen. by Presb.  of Peebles 2nd June 1720; pres. by William, Earl of March, 18th April; called 30th May, and ord. 21st Sept. 1722; died 13th Sept. 1739. He marr. Christian Young, who died 13th Nov. 1750, and left four children, who in 1746 are reported to be "in very straitened circumstances."[Tombst.]

1743 WILLIAM ANDERSON, licen. by Presb. of Lanark, 28th Dec. 1740; pres. by William, Earl of March, and his curators 24th Nov. 1742; called 6th Jan., and ord. 14th April 1743; died 20th June 1774. He marr. 23rd Dec. 1756, Marion Laidlaw, who died 5th July 1800,.

and had issue-Margaret, born 28th Sept 1757; Marion, born 19th Oct. 1758; David, min. of Kirkurd; Walter, born 15th Aug. 1764; Janet, born 18th June 1769.[Tombst]

1775 WILLIAM WELSH, pres. by William, Earl of March, 28th Oct. 1774; called 19th Jan., and ord. 16th March 1775; trans. to Drumelzier 29th Nov. 1787.

1788 WILLIAM MARSHALL, born Peebles,  2nd An,. 1754, son of Bailie James M. of Peebles, and Janet Tait, Traquair,; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 16th April 1783; pres. by William, Duke of Queensberry, 6th Feb. 1788; called 27th March, and ord. 1st May 1788; died 28th April 1830. He marr. (1) 30th April 1790, Christian (died 19th Sept. 1791), daugh. of William Vair, Edinburgh: (2) 16th Nov. 1803, Christian (died at Edinburgh, 9th March 1861, aged 84), only child of Archibald Smith, Peebles, and Elizabeth Govan (the last of the Govans of Cardrona), and had issue-Elizabeth, born 1st Oct. 1804 (marr. (1) 1824, John Anderson, Castlehill, Manor, and (2) 13th, Aug. 1833, Thomas Thorburn, Edinburgh), died 13th Jan. 1887; James, born 20th May 1806, died 25th May 1812; William Forbes, born 11th Jan. 1808, died in London, 2nd Dec. 1866; Janet, born 20th May 1809, died 30th flay 1826; Christian, born 25th Oct, 1810, died 5th Dec. 1811; Archibald, born 22nd Nov. 1812, died 15th Dec. 1889; Isabella, born 21st An.-. 1814 (mar. 28th March 1837, John Thorburn, New York), died 14th Jan. 1840; Agnes, born 24th July 1816, died 23rd July 1836; Jane, born 2nd April 1815 (marr. 21st Nov. 1848, John Anderson, Edinburgh), died 10th Oct. 1880; Margaret Christian, born 6th June 1824 (mar. 14th March 1843, John Hewat, Edinburgh, originator of the Edinburgh Time Gun, died 30th Jan. 1886, and had issue, among others, Archibald Hewat, F.F.A., Edinburgh, one of the originators of the Ministers' Pension Fund, and its first treasurer, 1912). Publication -Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., iii.).-[Tombst., Family Papers.]