His sister Isobel marr. John Smith, portioner, of Biggar, and her daughs. were his heirs (G. R. Homings, 1st Jan. 1686).— [Test. Reg., Wodrow's Hist., Steven's High School.]

1663 GEORGE KINTORE, M.A. (Edinburgh, 15th July 1650); chaplain to Sir Charles Erskine of Alva; licen. by Presb. of Stirling 27th Feb. 1656; ord. to Second Charge, South Leith, 16th June 1657; trans. and coll. 25th March 1663; died in Dec. 1678, aged about 49.  He marr. (cont. 7th June 1661) Marion, daugh. of John Brotherstains, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (G. R. Inhib., 1664). William Kintore of Mountlothian, advocate, his brother-german, became executor.—[Reg. Collat., Test. Keg.]

1679 JAMES BLAIR, born probably in Edin-  burgh in 1656; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (21st July 1673); pros. by Robert, Viscount Oxfuird, ord. after 19th June, and adm. and inst. 11th July 1679 ; deprived in 1681 for not taking the Test. He removed to England, and was sent in 1685 by Henry, Bishop of London, as a missionary to Virginia; became Rector of Williamsburgh, and held the office of Commissary, the highest ecclesiastical position in the province; was President of the Council in the Colony, and President of William and Mary College which he founded in 1692; died 1st Aug. 1743, Publication—Our Saviour's Divine Sermon on the Mount Explained, 4 vols. (London, 1722-3); 2nd ed., with Preface by the Rev. Dr Waterland, 4 vols. (London, 1732; 3rd ed., 1740).—[Waterland's Preface; Scots Mag., v.; Burnet's and Wodrow's Hists.; Chalmers's Hist., v.; History of Virginia, Dr Totten's MS., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1682 ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1663); min. of Monigaff 1681; of Colmonell same year; trans. to Crichton 1682; pres. by Robert, Viscount Oxfuird; adm. and inst. 22nd Nov. 1682; deprived by the Privy Council 4th Sept. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and not pray-

ing for their Majesties William and Mary; sentenced to imprisonment for resetting in his house John Hay, after he had been in the rebels' army. He marr. Margaret Kennedy, who died at Edinburgh, March 1707, and had issue—George; Janet; and a “great family of other children” (P. C. Dec., v., 1, 1692). — [Test. Reg.; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; S. Presb. Eloquence.]

1694 JOHN WILLIAMSON, pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto 3rd May, and ord. 28th Aug. 1694; dem. 23rd Oct. 1712; died 16th May 1720, in 65th year. He marr. Elizabeth Gairner [Gardner], and had a daugh., Mary.—[St Cuthbert's Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]

1714 ROBERT MUTTER, licen. by Presb. of   Haddington 26th April 1709; pres. by the heritors 16th April 1713; ord. 23rd March 1714; died unmarr. 7th Feb. 1733.

1733 WILLIAM SMITH, born 1697, son of Robert S., min. of Longformacus; tutor in the family of Dalrymple of Cousland; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd Dec. 1728; pres. by Robert, Viscount Oxfuird, and ord. 31st Oct. 1733; died 21st Jan. 1783. He marr. (1) 3rd July 1735, Grace, daugh. of Robert M'Aulay, min. of Stirling, and had issue—Beatrix, born 1736 (marr. 31st March 1769, John Robertson, min. of Kilmarnock); John, born 1737, died young: (2) 26th Feb. 1742, Jean (died 21st May 1798), daugh. of James Baird of Chesterhall, and had issue—James, born 21st April 1743, died 20th May 1773; John, merchant, Port-Glasgow, born 22nd May 1744; Lewis, born and died 1745; William, born 19th Sept. 1747; George, min. of Galston, born 2nd March 1749; Margaret, born 2nd Sept. 1750 (marr. R. Cochrane). — [Carlyle's Autob.]

1783 WALTER FISHER, born 1749, son of a tailor in Portsburgh; tutor in the family of Johnstonburn; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 2nd Dec. 1777; pres. by Dame Elizabeth Dalrymple Hamilton