assistant at Selkirk; ord. 16th July 1875; died on the golf-course at Leven, 5th Aug. 1902. He was unmarried.

1903 EGBERT MONTGOMERIE HARDIE, born Glasgow 15tn July 1853, son of William H.; educated at Gorbals School and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1893), B.D. (1900); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow, May 1897; a teacher of elocution for some years; ord. to Ladyburn, Greenock, 22nd Sept. 1897; trans. and adm. 17th Feb. 1903. Marr. 26th Nov. 1875, Mary Steel, daugh. of William Smith, and has issue—Frances, born 28th April 1877; William, born 11th June 1878; Agnes Montgomerie, born 6th Oct. 1881; Thomas, born 7th June 1886; Robina, born 5th Jan. 1891; David Gardiner, born 28th Sept. 1896.

CRANSTOUN.

[Previous to the Reformation the church known as Little Preston (Beg. of Deeds, 6th June 1676) belonged to the Archbishop of St Andrews.]

1570 ANDREW BLACKBALL, probably removed from Ormiston; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 20th March 1570; trans. to Inveresk 1574, though mentioned as here 16th March 1585, when the parish was probably held with Inveresk and Ormiston. — [Calderwood's MS. Hist.}

1583J AMES MURRAY, reader, 1574-80, is styled minister 19th March 1583-4, but only reader again 1585-9.—[Wodrow Miscell., Reg. Assig.}

1590 JOHN NYMBILL [NIMMO], M.A.; trans. from Corstorphine; adm. 23rd April 1590; trans. to Newton 1596-7; min. again in 1610.—[Reg. Assig.}

1597 JAMES WATSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 10th Aug. 1595); adm. 1597; died 10th Feb. 1608.  He marr. Jean, daugh. of Henry Kinnear, commendator of Balmerino (Fife Inhib., 2nd Sept. 1603).  She survived him, and marr. (2) 1610, Hew Scott (Reg. of Deeds, clxxx., 89).—[Reg. Assig; Test. Reg.; Wodrow's Biog., ii.]

1610 JOHN NYMBILL [NIMMILL, NIMMO], eldest son of William N. in Dalkeith (Acts and Decreets, 1588), and grandson of William N. (Reg. Mag. Sig; 785); M.A. (St Andrews 1583); min. at Keith-Marischal 1589; trans. to Corstorphine 1589; trans. and adm. here 1590; trans. to Newton 1596-7; retrans. 1610. He died 20th Oct. 1616, "it having pleased the Lord to call him, even the very tyme of the celebration of the Lord's Supper," aged about 54. He marr. before 6th Aug. 1607 (Edin. Sec. Reg., ix., 45), Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Hutcheson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, through whose right he entered burgess and guild-brother of that city 7th June 1615; she survived him, and marr. John Leal-month, W.S. (Reg. of Deeds, cccclxvi., 309), and had issue — James; Mary.—[Test., Dalkeith Sess., and Edin. Guild Regs.; Inq. Ret., Edin., 813; Pitcairn's Crim. Trials, iii.]

1617 JAMES ROBERTSON, adm. to Lang- newton 19tn April 1609; pres. by David MacGill of Cranstoun-Riddel; trans. 27th Jan. 1617; a member of Assembly 1638, and of the Commissions 1642, 1645; died Oct. 1659. He marr. Elizabeth Simpson, who was buried in Greyfriars, 14th Jan. 1672, and had issue—David, min. of Polwarth; Patrick, min. of Penicuik; James, apprenticed to David Kennedy, surgeon, Edinburgh, 17th Nov. 1649; Robert, to William Burnett, surgeon, 9th June 1652; Thomas, to Patrick Borthwick, goldsmith, 26th May 1647. — [Test. Reg.; Stat. Reports, 1627; Acts of Ass.; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.; Baillie's Lett., iii.; Edin. Reg. of Apprentices.}

1660 ALEXANDER HERIOT, son of James H.; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (8th July 1644); called 1st April, and ord. 5th July 1660; deprived by Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He became rector of the High School of Edinburgh 17th May 1672, but was deprived 1st March 1679, for not conforming to Episcopacy; died between 24th Nov. 1682 and 29th Jan. 1687.  He left a widow, Agnes Nisbet.