C.E., born 27th July 1877; Mary Jessie Macrae, born 27th Feb. 1879; Ernest, Indian Civil Service, born 27th Jan. 1881; Eliza Mary, born 1st May 1884.

1905 ROBERT HAMILTON PRYDE, born Kininmonth, Aberdeenshire, 23rd Aug. 1873, son of Robert P., min. of Townhead Church, Glasgow; educated at Glasgow and St Andrews Univs.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1896; assistant at St John's, Edinburgh; ord. to Stromness 24th April 1901 ; trans. and adm. 14th Sept. 1905. Marr. (1) 29th Oct. 1901, Isabella (died 1st May 1909), daugh. of William Drysdale, C.E., East India Railways, and had issue-Jean Carfrae, born 8th July 190.1; Hamilton Crichton Johnstone, born 2nd -Nov. 1906; Helen Pryde, born 5th April 1909: (2) 28th Dec. 1911, Sarah Eleanor, daugh. of James Braithwaite, Whitehaven.

LOANHEAD (Q.S).

[Disjoined from Lasswade and Pentland and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 1884.]

1884 ALEXANDER STEWART, born Huntly, 22nd Aug. 1853, son of George S. and Jessie Bremner; educated at Huntly School and Univ. of Aberdeen; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 29th April 1884; assistant at Cambusnethan; ord. 26th Aug. 1884. Marr. 12th June 1888, Isabella Glover, daugh. of Thomas Morton Johnston, Eskhill, Roslin, and has issueAnnie Merricks Johnston, born 24th Oct. 1889; Thomas Morton Johnston, born 11th April 1892; George Alexander, born 28th Feb. 1895 ; Jessie Bremner, born 6th Feb. 1897; Isobel Glover, born 9th June 1898.

MELVILE

[Previous to the Reformation the church of Melville, dedicated to St Andrew, belonged to the Abbey of Dunfermline. The edifice, within a stone-cast of Lasswade,was ruinous 28th Dec. 1615, and 9th

March 1631. The parish was united to Newbattle by the General Assembly about the end of 1583, but on 28th June 1633 annexed by Parliament, the larger portion to Lasswade, and the lesser to Dalkeith. ANDREW MILLAR was min. at Melville in 1583 ; pres. by James VI. 9th Jan.; dem. in 1586.-[Reg. Assig.)

NEWBATTLE, Formerly MASTERTOUN

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

1570 ADAM FOULIS, mentioned as min. in Nov.1570, leaving also Heriot in charge; trans. to Cambuslang in 1572.-[Reg. Min.)

1573 ROBERT WILSON, app. by the Assembly of 1562 to minister in such kirk as should be thought good; min. of Dalkeith 1566; pres. by James VI. 14th Feb. 1573; adm. soon after; in 1574 Melville also was in the charge. He died 29th Dec. 1583. His sister Katherine, a widow in Edinburgh, was executrix. Lucas Sonsie was reader under Wilson. - [Reg. Assig., Min. and Assig. Test. Reg., Wodrow Miscell.]

1583 JOHN HER.RIES, min. of Ormiston in  1576; trans. and adm. about March 1583; pres. to the parsonage and vicarage of Melville by James VI. 11th March 1586; continued in 1608, and died before 8th Aug. 1620. His Majesty made a gift, 6th Sept. 1610, to John H., probably his son, student, servitor to John, Lord Yester, for life, of the prebend of Melville and kirk thereof, called St Andrew's Kirk, vacant by demission in his favour by John H., in Newbattle; other sons were Thomas, coal grieve, Newbattle (Reg. of Deeds, ccccxiv., 156) ; Robert, apprenticed to James Lamb, tailor, Edinburgh, 15th Jan. 1600; and a daugh., Elspeth, received charity from Lasswade Session, 19th .July 1635.-[Reg. Sec. Sig.; Mem. of Eqlinton, ii.]