Eassie, and had issue—James, born 21st Oct. 1725; Catherine, born 6th Aug. 1726; Andrew, born 27th April 1728.—[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.]

1755 WILLIAM MACKIE, licen. by Presb. Of Linlithgow 5th July 1748; pres. By John, Lord Dalmeny, 17th Oct. 1754; ord. 27th June 1755; died 17th June 1789. He marr. 8th Sept. 1757, Janet Duncan, who died 26th Jan. 1814, and had issue Archibald, born 4th Sept. 1758; William, born 29th Nov. 1759; John, born 4th July 1761; Christian, born l7th July 1762; Charles, born 11th July 1764.

1790 JOHN FLEMING, ord. 7th May 1790; trans. to Colinton 22nd Nov. 1804.

1805 THOMAS MUIR, born at Carnwath, 1751; for nearly thirty years tutor in the family of Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick, Bart.; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 10th April, pres. by Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 24th Sept. 1805; died unmarr. 1st Feb. 1835. John Muir, min. of St Vigean's, was his nephew.

1835 ROBERT MITCHELL, M.A., assistant  to Preceding; pres. by Archibald John, Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 30th June 1835; trans. to Craig 22nd Sept. 1843.

1843 JOHN LOCHTIE, born Aberdour 1799,   son of John L. and Isabella Mulligan Alexander; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews; schoolmaster of Inverkeithing; ord. 29th Dec. 1843; clerk to the Presb.; died 6th Sept. 1863. He marr. 4th April 1848, Elizabeth (died 24th June 1880), daugh. of William Macintosh and Chris­tina Henderson.

1864 WILLIAM GRANVILLE CORE. Born 20th Nov 1834) son of William C., schoolmaster, Wiston, and Agnes Hamilton; educated at Wiston School, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1862); licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th Aug. 1862; assistant at Covington; pres. by

Archibald John, Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 5th April 1864; clerk to the Presb. 1899; secretary of the Scottish Bible Society 1911. He marr. 27th Dec. 1865, Jessie, daugh. of Thomas Braid-wood, schoolmaster, Carmichael, and has issue—Mary Nicol, born 24th Sept. 1873; Agnes Hamilton, born 16th June 1875; William, born 24th Nov. 1877; Isabella, born 19th March 1879 (marr. 20th Aug. 1908, Thomas Webster); Jessie, born 22nd Feb. 1883 (marr. 26th Aug. 1911, William Daniel, London).

COCKPEN.

[Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Newbattle.]

1567 WILLIAM KNOX (primus), son of William K., merchant, Preston, and nephew of John Knox the Reformer, He had Carrington, Clerkington, and Temple also in charge. He signed the articles authorised by the Synod, and pre­sented by the Superintendent of Lothian to the Assembly in March 1572; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 15th Dec. 1580; died in April 1592, and left three sons in the ministry—John, at Melrose; William, his successor; James, at Kelso. — [Reg. Min. Assig; .Booke of the Kirk, Knox's Works, Wodrow Miscell., Knox Genealogy.]

1592 WILLIAM KNOX (secundus), born 1569, second son of preceding; entered St Leonard's College, St Andrews, 10th Dec. 1586; M.A. (1589); adm. 16th May 1592; signed the Protestation in support of the Liberties of the Kirk 14th June 1617; died July 1623. He left in MS., Common­places in Theology (in Latin), 2 vols. He marr. (1) (cont. 14th Dec. 1594) Catherine, daugh. of Duncan Forrester of Queenshaugh, and had issue—John, min. of Carrington; William, bookbinder in Edinburgh; Thomas, apprenticed to Archibald Eddington, cordiner, Edinburgh, l7th March 1619; Nicol, chamberlain to the Lords Cranstoun: (2) Elizabeth, daugh. of John Halyburton