Anna Hamilton, and had issue-Mary: (2) 25th Sept. 1649, Janet Scroggie.-[Test., S. Leith, Sess., and Edin. Beg. (Bapt.); New, Stat. Acc.]

1657 THOMAS PATERSON, educated at 1657 Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar in divinity; M.A. (May 1653); called 13th Sept., ord. 24th Dec. 1657; died 13th May 1683, aged about 50. Wodrow ranks him as a Nonconformist, and he may have been indulged by favour. He marr. Helen, daugh. of Robert Trail, min. of Greyfriars, Edinburgh, and had issue-Thomas, his successor; Elizabeth (marr. (1) 13th Nov. 1696, George Turnbull of Currie; (2) James Thomson, min. of Elgin); Robert, apprentice to Patrick Halyburton, merchant, Edinburgh.-[Old Dec., i.; Edin. Guild and Reg. (Rapt.), Tombst., Murray's Biog. Ann., New Stat. Acc.]

1683 THOMAS PATERSON, M.A.; pres.  by Alexander, Archbishop of St Andrews, and inst. 22nd May 1683; deprived by the Privy Council 4th Sept. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and praying for James VII. -[Reg. Sasines (Fife); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Murray's Biog. Ann., New Stat. Acc.; Morrison's Dec., xxviii.]

1687 JOHN CAMPBELL, called 23rd Aug., and ord. by a committee of Synod 15th Nov. 1687; died 24th Jan. 1690, in his 35th year. He marr. Christian Porter, who survived him (P.C. Acta, 11th Nov. 1690).-[Tombst. New Stat. Acc.]

1690 WILLIAM TRAIL, bapt. 28th Sept. 1640, eldest son of Robert T., min. of Greyfriars, Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (30th June 1658); chaplain to the Laird of Scotstarvet; licen. in London 1671; ord. to the Presbyterian congregation at Lifford, Ireland, in 1671. Joining with four other ministers in the appointment of a Fast, he was examined by justices of the peace at Raphoe, summoned to the Privy Council

at Dublin, remitted to the Assizes at Lifford, imprisoned from 11th Aug. 1681 to 20th April 1682, and fined. He afterwards went to Potomac, Maryland, but returned at the Revolution; was called to this parish 26th July, and adm. 17th Sept. 1690; was a member of Assembly same year; and died 3rd May 1714. There is a tradition that " every morning about three, when he had public work on hand, he heard three knocks at his chamber door, and if, through weariness or heaviness he disobeyed these, there were generally three others at his bed-head, which he durst not refuse, but arose to his duty. This at first frightened him; at length he became accustomed to them: they never failed on Sabbaths, and at communions. When he grew old and infirm, the knocks entirely ceased." He marr. (1) 15th Sept. 1671, Euphan (died 1677), second daugh. of Provost Sword of St Andrews, and had issue-Mary: (2) 25th March 1679, his cousin, Eleanor (died 4th Jan. 1695), sixth daugh. of Lieut.-Col James Trail of Tullochin, and had issue - Sarah, died unmarr. 1685; James, min. of Montrose; William, min. of Benholme; Robert, min. of Panbride; Jean, died unmarr.; Margaret (marr. 4th Nov. 1719, Robert Alison, writer, Edinburgh); Eleanor (twin); Elizabeth (marr., pro. 23rd Aug. 1731, James Stevenson: (3) 8th June 1701, Jean Murray, relict of David Moncrieff of Boghall. Publication-A Necessary/ and Excellent Advice about Some Duties (Edinburgh, 1762).[Test., Sess., and Elie Sess. Regs.; Reid's Ireland, ii.; Wodrow's Hist. and Anal., Reg. Gen. Ass.; Chr. Inst., xxiii.; New Stat. Acc., Lord Guthrie's Chalmers and Trail Ancestry.]

1714  WILLIAM ROBERTSON, adm. 23rd Sept. 1714; trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 22nd Nov. 1733.- [Douglas's Bar., Stewart's Life of Robertson, New Stat. Acc.]

1734 THOMAS TURNBULL, born 27th Sept. 1701, son of George T., min. of Tynninghame; licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 25th March 1724; ord. to Greenlaw