1783 MacGill, with consent of Sir John Dalrymple Hamilton MacGill, her husband, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1783; died 14th Nov. 1828. He marr. 25th Aug. 1787, Helena Brodie (died 7th May 1824), daugh. of the tenant of Humbie. Publication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., ix.).

1820 ALEXANDER WELSH, son of John W., skinner, Edinburgh; educated at Heriot's Hospital and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 1st Oct. 1811; tutor in the family of Earl Spencer; ord. to Heriot 19th Sept. 1817; pres. by John, eighth Earl of Stair, and adm. 26th June 1829; died 21st May 1859. He marr. Margaret (died 27th June 1853), youngest daugh. of John Lindsay, min. of the Burgher congregation at Johnstone.

1859 THOMAS BROWN WILLIAM NIVEN, M.A.; ord. 7th Oct. 1859; trans. to Tron, Glasgow, 3rd Sept. 1868.

1868 GEORGE SIMMIE SMITH, born Rothiemay, 9th June 1822, son of Robert S., stonemason, and Mary Leslie; educated at Aberdeen Univ.; M.A. (King's College 1840); licen. by Presb. of Haddington; teacher in Haddington, tutor at Prestongrange; assistant at Largo; ord. to Heriot 23rd July 1846; pres. by John, tenth Earl of Stair, and adm. 18th Dec. 1868; D.D. (Aberdeen 1897); for more than thirty years clerk to the Presb.; died unmarr. 3rd July 1899. Publications — The Church's Creed (Edinburgh, 1881); The Well being of Nations (Edinburgh, 1885); Victory over Sin and Death (Edinburgh, 1898).

1899 HUGH SUTHERLAND, M.A.; trans. from Cumbernauld, and adm. 15th Dec. 1899; trans. to Merrylea, Glasgow, 1st Nov. 1911.

1912 SAMUEL STEPHEN WALKER, born Macduff, 5th July 1867, son of Alexander W. and Isabella Shiach; educated at Macduff School, Fochabers (Milne's Institution), Aberdeen Univ., and

Theological Hall of the Free Church, Aberdeen; M.A. (1891); licen. by Free  Presb. of Turriff April 1895; ord. to St Andrew's, Singapore, 1896; min. of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Bristol, 1907; adm. by the General Assembly of 1911 as an ord. min. of the Church of Scotland; assistant at Keir; adm. 14th March 1912. Marr. 14th May 1898, Anna, daugh. of James Sharp and Christina Cadenhead, and has issue—Frank Warrack, born 17th Feb. 1899; James Cadenhead, born 9th Jan. 1903.

CRICHTON.

[The kirk is stated, 2nd Nov. 1648, to have been ruinous these fifty-six years, but divine service was held in the collegiate church, dedicated to St Mungo, founded by Lord Chancellor Crichton, 26th Dec. 1449, which was declared by Parliament, 17th Nov. 1641, the parish kirk in all time coming.]

1569 ADAM JOHNSTON, entered min. and provost in Nov. 1569. In 1572 he signed the articles penned by the Synod, and presented by the Superintendent; Soutra and Fala were added to the charge 1574.  He was conjoined with John Spottiswood as Commissioner over the province of Lothian by the Assembly 1579.  At the Assembly 1581 he was named one of a commission for trying accusations against the ministry. In 1582 he was one of three nominated by the Assembly to wait on the Duke of Lennox, to remonstrate with him for associating with Montgomery, who had been excommunicated for simony. In 1584 he was imprisoned for not subscribing to Episcopacy, and still opposed subscription in the year following.   In 1586 he was appointed one of eight for preparing cases of slander for judgment in the succeeding Assembly, and was pres. to the Provostry by Francis, Earl of Bothwell, and collated by David Lindsay, Visitor of Lothian. In 1588 he was on a commission for procuring better provision for the ministry. In 1590 he was one of three appointed by the Privy Council for the maintenance of true religion in the bounds of the Presb.,