19th June 1809; Lily, born 2nd April 1811; Hectorina Foord, born 28th Dec. 1812; Helen Hay, born 12th Aug. 1814; Alexander, F.R.C.S.E., born loth Aug. 1816. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xvi.). -[Lawder Presb. Reg., Small's Hist. of U.P. Congregations.]

1817 ALEXANDER WELSH, pres. by Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, and ord. 19th Sept. 1817; trans. to Cranstoun 26th June 1829.

1829 EDWARD HUME, pres. by Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, and ord. 25th Sept. 1829; trans. to Pitsligo 25th Sept. 1834.

1834 ROBERT COURT, born Muthil, 18th April 1790, son of James C.; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 1st Aug. 1815; assistant at Yester and Cranstoun; ord. 7th April 1831, min. of the Presbyterian congregation at Maryport; pres. by Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, and adm. 18th Nov. 1834. Joined the Free Church; min. of the Free Church, Pathhead, 1843; res. 1866; died unmarr. 27th flay 1870.

1843 ROBERT WRIGHT, ord.22nd Sept. 1843; trans. to Luss 31st March 1846.

1846 GEORGE SIMALIIE SMITH, ord. 23rd July 1846; trans. to Cranstoun 18th Dec. 1868.

1689 DANIEL CAMERON, born Glasgow, 18th Oct. 1839, son of Daniel C., min. of Ayton; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1863); licen. by Presb. of Chirnside 20th June 1865; chaplain to the Marquess of Bute at Mountstuart; ord. 23rd April 1869; died 3rd June 1871. He marr. 11th Dec. 1867, Elizabeth Waller Dowling, eldest daugh. of Forbes Scott Brown of Longformacus, and had issue Elizabeth Waller, born 26th Dec. 1869; Amelia Nisbett, born 21st Oct . 1871 (posthumous). (His widow married again 28th June 1875.)

1871 JOHN FRANCIS BROWN, born Edin burgh, 14th March 1845,

son of John Crawford B., A.R.S.A.; educated at, High School, Edinburgh, and Glasgow  Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1868; assistant at Glasgow (Trop) and Dalkeith; ord. 20th Oct. 1871. He marr. (1) 6th July 1886, Jane Hay Edie, who died 5th Sept. 1902, and had issue--Margaret Hay Bruce, born 27th June 1887; John Crawford, born 17th March 1889; Charles Edie, born loth Dec. 1891; Francis George Leslie, born 4th Jan. 1897; died 26th July 1898: (2) 5th March 1907, Winifred, third daujb. of Clifford N. S. Elliot, London.

INVERESK, or

MUSSELBURGH.

[The church was dedicated to St Michael, and previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Dunfermline. Disjoined from the Presb. of Edinburgh by the General Assembly in July 1591, and annexed to that of Dalkeith, 28th Oct. same year.]

1567 JOHN BURNS, min. in 1567. In 1569 a glebe of four acres was designed for him by John Spottiswood, Superintendent of Lothian.-[Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's M,S. Hist., Reg. Min., Excheq. Buik; Zurich Lett., ii.]

1570 EDWARD LAYIS [LEES], reader.

1574  ANDREW BLACKHALL, at one time a canon of the Abbey of Holyrood; became min. of Liberton 1567, of Ormiston 1568, of Cranstoun 1570; adm. in 1574, having also charge of Newton and Cranstoun. As Commissioner of a Province he was accused at the Assembly, 1580, of admitting an unqualified person to be exhorter, "an office which the Assembly acknowledgeth not." By the Assembly 1586 he was named one of the commissioners for trying the offences of the ministry in Lothian. He died 31st Jan. 1609, in his 73rd year. He marr. Janet Wright, and had issue-Andrew (only child), min. of Aberlady.-[Reg. Assig. et Min., Haddington Presb, and Test. Reg., Excheq. Buik, Calderwood's Hist.; Acts Parl., iv.; Tombst., Wodrow Miscell. and Biog., Pitcarirn's Cr. Trials, Sinclair's Stat. Acc, New Stat. Acc.]