1828 ADAM CAIRNS, pres. by Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March, 26th March, and ord. (assistant and successor) 21st Aug. 1828; trans. to Dunbog 3rd May 1833.

1833 JAMES CRUICKSHANK, fires. by  Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March, 5th June, called 15th Aug., and ord. 12th Sept. 1833; trans. to Stevenston 22nd Sept. 1843. Publication-Account of the Parish (New, Stat. Acc., iii.).

1843 JOHN LITTLE, born Dumfriesshire; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; headmaster of the Edinburgh Institution 1837-43; pres. by Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March, 23rd Sept. 1843; called 5th Oct., ord. 19th Oct. 1843; died 20th June 1861. He marr. Grace Grey Smith, who died at Peebles, 22nd Oct. 1876.

1861 PETER MACVICAR, born Monzievaird, 16th June 1822, son of John M. and Margaret Macainsh; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Auchterarder; assistant at Bonhill and Cambusnethan; ord. to Martintown, Montreal, 1856; afterwards min. of the Mission Church at Cockenzie; pres. by Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March, 18tb Sept. 1861; called 17th Oct., adm. 31st Oct. 1861; died 15th May 1901. He marr. (1) 27th Aug. 1855, Jeanie Fraser, who died 20th Jan. 1862, and had issue-Jeanie Dick, born 30th May 1856; John Ramsay, born 15th Nov. 1857 ; James Fraser, born 11th Jan. 1860; Elizabeth, missionary at Domasi, Africa, born 28th Aug. 1861, died 11th Nov. 1914 (2) 5th April 1864, Barbara Stewart, daugh. of George Bayne, Edinburgh, who died 12th Jan. 1903, and had issue-Mary Stuart, born 5th March 1865, died 7th March 1865; Neil, M.D., medical officer, Blantyre Mission, B.C.A., afterwards of Lovedale Mission, Cape Colony, born 1st Aug. 1871.

1901 JOHN WILLIAM MURRAY, born Peebles, 9th Feb. 1864, son of George  M. and Euphemia Baptie; educated at Peebles High School, Univ. of Edinburgh, and Oxford Univ.; B.A. (Oxon. 1889); assistant professor, and sometime

interim Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in the Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 12th Nov. 1890; ord. 30th Aug. 1901. Marr.19th April 1905, Ann Thompson, daugh. of Alexander Bell, Dalkeith, and Martha Light.

NEWLANDS.

[Previous to the Reformation a prebend of the collegiate church of Dalkeith]

1585 ROBERT ALLAN, trans. from Saltoun, where he was reader 1574-9; and min. in 1580, West Linton being also in his charge; was probably suspended in 1588; returned 1590, and continued in 1591.-[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk; Calderwood's Hist., iv.]

1589 ADAM DICKSON, reader at Eddleston 1574, and at Peebles 1576-86; appears as min. of the Second Charge there, 1586; adm. 1589; probably left same year; returned in 1592, it being agreed that better provision should be made for him; pres. by James VI. June 1593; died in 1595, when the stipend was assigned to his widow and bairns-[Reg. Assig., Edin. Presb. Reg.]

[JOHN COLDEN, formerly of Borthwick ; was pres. by William, Earl of Morton, but coll. was refused 9th May 1592; dem. 1593, and adm. to Kinross.-Lochleven Pap., Edin. Presb. Reg.]

1596 JOHN SYDE [FAWSYDE], mentioned as min. of Eddleston 1580; pres. by William, Earl of Morton, May 1592; coll. was refused by Presb. of Edinburgh 13th June following, when the patron threatened to retain the fruits of the benefice, according to the Act of Parliament; adm. in 1596; recognised as lawful minister, 6th July 1598; continued 29th Sept. 1631; date of death unknown. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue Archibald, his successor; Margaret (mare., cont. 2nd March 1614, John, son of Patrick Thomson, burgess of Haddington: G. R. Inhib., 11th Jan. 1619); Elizabeth (marr. Patrick Purdie, min. of Newlands).-[Reg. Assig., Lochleven Pap., Edin. and Melrose Presb. and Edin. Counc Regs.]