burgh Univs.; B.A. (Glasgow 1853); licen. by Presb. of Dumfries 1856; assistant at Middlebie and Traquair; pres. by Queen Victoria 16th Feb. 1859; called 23rd March, and ord. (assistant and successor) 28th April 1859; died 27th Nov. 1910; Father of the Presbytery. He marr. 15th Aug. 1861, Agnes Mary (daugh. of his predecessor), who died 11th Nov. 1881, and had issue-Robert Wilfred, min. of St Leonard's, St Andrews, born 24th Nov. 1862; Jardine, merchant, New York, born 20th June 1865; Mary Elizabeth, born 8th Feb. 1867 (marr. William Stobie, solicitor, Innerleithen); Ida Stuart, born 10th Nov. 1868 (marr. John Muir, farmer); James Campbell, farmer, Argentine Republic, born 4th Aug. 1871; Charles Stuart, min. of Kirkmabreck, born 2nd April 1875. Publications -Christendom: Its Unity and Diversity, a Synod sermon, 1870 (2nd edition, 1907); ed. Poetical Works of Thomas Aird, with a Biography (Edinburgh, 1878); Farewell Address to the Parishioners of Traquair (1908).

1908 JOHN MAIN, born Nairn, 25th Sept. 1876, son of James Howie M. and Catherine M'Intosh; educated at Nairn Academy and Glasgow Univ.; M.A.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1st May 1907; assistant at Traquair; ord. (assistant and successor) 19th Nov. 1908. Marr. 28th July 1910, Elizabeth Kidd, daugh. of James Campbell and Mary Grier, Prestonpans.

TWEEDSMUIR.

[Originally Upper Drumelzier. Disjoined in 1643; the first church built 1648, and the present edifice 1874. A chapel dedicated to St Cuthbert existed here before the Reformation.]

1644 ALEXANDER TROTTER, ord. to Bara, Haddington, 1628; entered on his duties here 7th Jan. 1644; pres. by John, Earl of Wigtown, in Dec. 1647; adm. 10th Aug. 1648; died 24th June 1661, in his 63rd year. He "was very careful and diligent to establish good order and church discipline." He marr. a daugh. of David Ogill,

min. of Bara, and had issue-Thomas.-[Haddinqt. Presb., Peterkin's Records.]

1662 ROBERT SCOTT, M.A. (St Andrews 1632); adm. to Eddleston 24th Sept. 1640; dep. 5th May 1659; reponed 4th Dec. 1660; pres. by John, Earl of Wigtown, 30th Sept. 1661; his admission was appointed for 3rd Jan. 1662, but a change having taken place in Church government, it was delayed; he was again pres. 2nd May, coll. 22nd June (Reg. of Deeds, Durie, 21st Nov. 1672), and adm. and inst. 17th July 1662; died Oct. 1674, aged about 62. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue-Francis, his successor.-[Reg. Old Dec., ii.; Connell on Tithes.]

1675 FRANCIS SCOTT, son of preceding;  studied at the Univ. of Glasgow, where he held a bursary from the Presb. in 1663; pres. by William, Earl of Wigtown, 16th Feb. (Reg. of Deeds, Durie, 27th July 1676), ord. and coll. (at Edinburgh) by Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, 29th July; adm. and inst. 15th Aug. 1675. There was no sermon, 3rd Oct. 1680, "the min. hardlie daring stay sermon for murderers, or robbers, falling upon him, as of other min. in the Presb."; "outed" after 9th May 1688. He marr. (1) Feb. 1677, Barbara Dalmahoy, of the Canongate, Edinburgh, who died in childbirth, 19th Sept. 1680: (2) 14th March 1683, Mary Balfour, Edinburgh, and had issue Catherine (marr. 5th June 1742, James Chalmers, Professor of Chemistry, Marischal College, Aberdeen); Rachel (marr. 13th April 1718, John Jack, slater, Edinburgh); Margaret (G. R. Inhib., 21st July 1709).-[Canong. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Wodrow's Hist.]

1688 JAMES THOMSON, called in 1687; ord. (at the Crook, the meeting-place of the Presbyterians) 5th Sept. 1688; trans. to Peebles 25th Nov. 1696.

1698 WILLIAM HIGGINS [HEGAN, HEGANS], merchant, and one of the bailies of Linlithgow; sat for six sessions (1689-1700) as Member of Parlia