and was a member of Assembly same year.  He was appointed one of two for visiting the ministers in the Merse; died Dec. 1596. He left a widow, Elizabeth Borthwick.—[Reg. Min. et Assig., Edin. Presb. and Test.— [Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Excheq, Bulk, Melvill's Autob., Wodrow Miscell., Calderwood's Hist.]

1588 DUNCAN WALKER, reader.

1599 WILLIAM PENMAN, son of William P., burgess of Musselburgh, educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1595); still min. in 1637. He marr. (cont. 20th Oct. 1600), Marion, eldest daugh. of Thomas Wilkie, portioner of Saughton Hall (G. R. Inhib., x., 175), and had issue—Adam, min. of Cockpen; William, min. of Morebattle; and Gideon, his successor.—[Act. Rect. Univ. St And.; Reg. Assig., and Old Dec., iv.; Kirk Pap., Calderwood's Hist.; Stat, Reports, 1627; Pitcairn'a Cr. Trials, iii.]

1639 GIDEON PENMAN of Hagbrae, son of preceding; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (23rd July 1636); licen. by the Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd May 1638; adm. (assistant) 2nd July 1639; pres. to the vicarage by Francis, second Earl of Buccleuch; coll. 18th, and inst. 30th March 1641. An Act of Parliament was passed in his favour, 15th March 1661, for payment of bygone stipend. Deposed for adultery, 4th March 1675. He was ordered to be apprehended for witchcraft, 4th Aug. 1678, and imprisoned for the same, 3rd Oct. 1678. He marr. (1) (cont. 19th Feb. 1642) Martha, eldest daugh. of James Scott of Hagbrae: (2) Sept. 1651, Jean, daugh. of William Livingston, min. of Lanark, and had issue—George of Hagbrae; James; William, merchant, Edinburgh; and a daughter (marr. David Ker, merchant, Edinburgh). — [Reg. Sec. Sig., Wodrow's and Kirkton's Hists.; Acts Parl., vii.; New Gen. Reg.  Sasines, v.; Nicoll's Wary.]

1671 PATRICK TRENT, M.A., trans. from Coulter, and adm. (colleague) after 4th May; trans. to Temple 1676.

1676 ROBERT SPOTTISWOOD, M.A. (Glasgow 1654); min. of Temple 1663; pres. by Adam Hepburn of Humbie; trans. and inst. 8th Sept. 1676; deprived for not taking the Test 1681. [Afterwards min. of Abbotrule.]— [Test. Reg. {Glasg.), Wodrow's Hist.]

1882 ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, pres. by Adam Hepburn of Humbie; trans. from Colmonell, and inst. before 30th March 1682; trans. to Cranstoun 1682.

1682 ANDREW DONN [DUNN], educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1662-6; inst. 30th Nov. 1682; deprived by the Privy Council 29th Aug. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and not praying for King William and Queen Mary. He died before 19th Nov. 1700. He left a widow (name unknown), and had two sons, Andrew and Alexander.—[Edin. Reg. (Bur.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Const. of the Church.]

1690 MATHEW SELKRIG [SELCRAIG, SELKIRK], M.A. (Glasgow 1662); bursar in philosophy; licentiate in 1678; was rudely assaulted for his supposed favour to the Indulgence; called by a number of the parishioners of Crichton, Cranstoun, Ormiston, and Humbie, after toleration was granted, and ord. at Steel's Mains, by mins. within the Synod, Nov. 1687; the call being homologated 10th Aug., he was adm. 18th Sept. 1690; died 30th Nov. 1728, aged about 86. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue—Mathew, died 1698; Robert, merchant, Edinburgh;

and a daugh. (marr. James Grierson, min. of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh).—[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Wodrow's Hist., Reg. Gen. Ass., S. Presb. Eloq., New Stat. Acc.]

1729 CHARLES PRIMROSE, educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1697); ord. to Bellie 25th Feb. 1702; trans. to Forres 28th Oct. 1707; trans. to Elgin 7th May 1717; trans. and adm. 24th June 1729; died 21st Jan. 1735, aged about 58. He marr. Agnes, sister and co-heir of John Moffat of Easter Morriston, innkeeper in Edinburgh, and had issue—James, his successor.—[Carlyle's Autob.]