1640 NINIAN DOUGLAS, adm. (at Peebles) 17th Dec. 1640; dep. 6th Nov. 1644, for falsifying and vitiating a bond, etc.; reponed 4th Nov, 1647. He marr. Margaret Reid, who died 31st Oct. 1663. [Canongate Reg. (Bur.).]

1646 WILLIAM THOMSON, MA. (St Andrews, 1631); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 11th Nov. 1641; called July 1645; ord. 22nd Jan. 1646; commanded to preach before the King at Edinburgh, 28th March 1646; died between 20th June and nth July 1661, aged about 50. He marr. Geills Miller, and had issue -Thomas, who died in 1710.-[Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]

1662 JOHN CARMICHAEL, born 1632, son  of Frederick C., min. of Markinch; M.A. (St Andrews, 20th July 1650); bursar of the Presb. of Kirkcaldy 4th Dec. 1650; ord. 24th May 1661 min. of Thursbie, Cumberland; pres, by Charles II. 13th July 1661; inst. and adm. 7th Aug. 1662; deprived 18th Oct. 1665, for declining Episcopacy, when he joined the Presbyterians, had his share of suffering, and died at Pitteadie, in Fife, about 1668. He marr. Eupham Carmichael, who survived him, and had issue - Frederick; Eupham.[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Kirkton's and Wodrow's Hists.; Jedburgh Presb., Kirkcaldy Sess., and Test. Regs.; Lamont's Diary.]

1666 JOHN CLELAND, licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 2nd Jan. 1662; min. of Middlebie in 1663; pres. by Alexander, Archbishop of Glasgow; trans. and coll. 8th March, and inst. 9th April 1666; died between 14th Feb. and 8th May 1672, leaving a widow, Margaret Bell (alive in 1689), for whom a collection was recommended, 2nd March 1681; [his widow is called Magdalen Livingston in Charity Rolls, 1682].-[Stirling Presb. and Penicuik and Torphichen Sess. Regs.]

1672 JAMES FINDLAY, M.A.; trans. from Glasford; pres. by Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, and inst. 3rd Oct.; trans. to Eddleston 28th May 1674.

1674 GEORGE FORBES, son of John F. of Pitnascadel; M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1660); min. of Portpatrick in 1664; of Innerleithen 1666; trans. and inst. 15th June 1674; dep. 7th Oct. 1690, for drunkenness, negligence, etc., which was ratified by the General Assembly 17th April 1694.-[Selkirk Presb. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Lumsden's House of Forbes; Reg. Old Dec., ii.; Acts of Ass.]

1694 ROBERT TAIT, M.A.; declared legal min. by the General Assembly 17th April 1694; one of forty-four mins. appointed to go North by the Assembly 3rd Jan. 1696, when he received a call from Cullen 29th July 1696, and was trans. 7th April 1697.-[Acts of Ass.]

1699 ALEXANDER COOPER, M.A. (Edinburgh, 18th July 1692); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1st April 1697; called 13th Sept. 1698; ord. 10th May 699; died 11th Aug. 1754. He marr. 4th Nov. 1708, Margaret Mitchellhill. Publication-An Essay upon the Chronology of the World (Edinburgh, 1722).

1711 WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, licen. by Presb. of Biggar 17th July 1707; called 31st Aug. 1710; ord. (assistant and successor) 20th Feb. 1711. Getting into debt, he was called before the Presbytery 9th Sept. 1729, and stated "That he had lost by a brother 2500 merks; from his simplicity and easiness of temper by another, £560; by furniture for his house, loss of horses, law plea, and necessary charges for his first wife, £1000; by courting during his widowhood near eight years, considering the different persons I was in quest of, and the distance of place, £1000; frequent going back and forward to Edinburgh and Dalkeith, of old and of late, in quest of money to borrow for satisfaction of those threatening diligence, 500 merks; all which being considered, my debt will not amount to 1000 merks." He dem. 31st May 1738; died in Edinburgh 15th April 1753. He marr. (1) (name unknown): (2) (cont. 24th