1691 JOHN FRASER, M.A.; ord. 23rd Dec. 1691. Knowing Gaelic, he was appointed by the Gen. Assembly to supply in Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, and was trans. to Alness 6th Nov. 1695.-[Fraser on Sanctification, Wodrow's Hist., New, Stat. Acc.]

1699 JOHN WILSON, born 1676; licen. by Presb. of Wigtown 6th Nov. 1696; called 10th July, and ord. 24th Oct. 1699; died 14th July 1757. He marr. 5th March 1707, Christian, youngest daugh. of William Douglas of Baads, West Calder, and had issue-William, writer, Edinburgh; Alexander, who died at New York.-[Test. Reg., Tombst., New Stat. Acc.]

1758 JOHN WALKER, pres. by William Tytler of Woodhouselee, and ord.13th Sept. 1758; trans. to Moffat 18th. July 1762.

1763 JAMES TAYLOR, licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 4th Dec. 1759; pres. by William Tytler of Woodhouselee, 4th Dec. 1762; ord. 29th April 1763; died 30th Aug.     1787. He marr. 16th Nov. 1763, Eupham Rymer, St Andrews, who survived him.

1788 WILLIAM TORRENCE, bapt. 23rd Nov. 1746, son of Alexander T., tenant in Borthwick Mains, and Janet Turnbull; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh,- licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 2nd Feb. 1773; pres. by William Tytler of Woodhouselee, and ord. 4th July 1788; died 14th Jan. 1836. He marr. 27th Dec. 1788, Margaret Torrence, who died 16th Nov. 1812, and had issue-Alexander, his successor; William, born 16th Aug. 1791; Margaret, born 17th Jan. 1795, died 28th June 1795. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xv.)

1818 ALEXANDER TORRENCE, son of preceding, born 22nd Oct. 1789; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith; ord. (assistant

and successor) 16th Oct. 1818; died unmarr. 15th July 1877. Aberdeen and Edinburgh Univs.; M. A. (1870), B.D. (1874); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 3rd June 1874; ord. 22nd Jan. 1878. Marr. 4th March 1891, Elizabeth Lockhart, daugh. of Andrew Galloway, Ayr, and has issue -Agnes Kirkland, born 20th Jan. 1892; Catherine Baillie, born 21st Sept. 1894; Helen Marjorie, born 4th April 1896; Elizabeth Galloway, born 17th Jan. 1898; Thomas Arthur, born 17th Dec. 1899; William Baillie, born 27th April 1906; Madeline Lila, born 4th Jan. 1909.

HERIOT.

[Previous to the Reformation the church, dedicated to St Mary, belonged to the Abbey of Newbattle.]

1570 ADAM FOULIS, Newbattle, had charge of Heriot this year.

1574 JOHN BENNETT, having also Borthwick and Stow in the charge; pres. to the vicarage pensionary of Stow by James VI. 1st Nov. 1578, and to the parsonage and vicarage of Duns 2nd May 1581, the latter of which he demitted before 26th Jan. 1582. He was a member of the General Assembly 1590; died 29th Oct. 1616. He marr. Susanna Fairlie (who succeeded as heir to her sister, Agnes, wife of Gavin Heriot, burgess of Edinburgh), and had issue - John, min. of Kirkurd; James; Elspeth; William, apprenticed to William Crawford, tailor, Edinburgh, 2nd June 1619; Jean; Marion (marr. James Currie).-[Reg. Assig., Reg. Min., Edin Presb. and Test. Reg.; Inq. Ret. Edin., 208-de Tut., 262; Edin. Apprentice Reg.]

1576 ROBERT PATERSON, reader.

1617 WILLIAM CALDERWOOD, -M.A. (St Andrews, 26th July 1613); adm. to the public exercise 26th May 1614; coll. and inst. 13th July 1617. In 1647,