by the Act of Parliament, 25th April 1690, restoring the Presbyterian ministers. He was willing to acknowledge the new Government, but was ejected. See his own account in The Case of the Afflicted Clergy of Scotland, 1690, p. 68. He marr. Mary, daugh. of William Livingston, min. of Burntisland, and widow of William Pear-son, min. of Dunfermline.—[MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Rule’s Sec. Vindication.]

1689 ROBERT MOWAT, M.A., above mentioned; returned to a meeting­house at Nicolson (now Rosebery) in 1687, and was restored by the Act 25th April 1690; dem., "being old and infirm died at Edinburgh, 3rd Feb. 1692, aged about 66.—[Edin. Reg. (Bur.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Rule's Sec. Vindication.]

1690 DAVID WALKER, eldest son of Archibald W’. cordiner, Leslie, Fife; a probationer at the first meeting of Presbyterian min. in the Synod after the Toleration, 6th July 1687; ord. (colleague, in the meeting-house at Nicolson) 14th Nov. 1688; had possession of the church in June 1690; died 14th Aug. 1737. He marr. Margaret Pearson, and had issue—Josias, min. of Abdie; Thomas, min. of Dundonald; Archibald, his successor; David; Margaret; Anne (marr. James Witherspoon, min. of Yester); Christian. —[Wodrow's Anal. and MSS; Reg. Gen. Ass., Rule's Sec. Vindication, Fraser on Sanctification; Lindsay's Lives, ii.]

1738 ARCHIBALD WALKER, born 1702, son of Preceding; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 26th April 1732; pres. by Robert Dundas of Arniston; ord. 28th Sept. 1738; died, 29th Jan. 1760. He marr. 13th Oct. 1741, Elizabeth (died 23rd Feb. 1756), daugh. of William Carlyle, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue—Ann (only child), born 5th Aug. l742.—[Carlyle's Autob.}

1760 JOSEPH M'CORMICK, M.A.; trans. from Kilmany; pres. by Robert 1760 Hepburn of Baads, and adm. 21st Nov. 1760; D.D. (St Andrews, 10th May 1766); trans. to Prestonpans 10th Jan. 1771.

1771 JOHN GOLDIE, bom 1727, son of the tenant at Firth; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.; one of the teachers of George Heriot's Hospital 16th April 1750; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Nov. 1752; ord. min. of the High-Meeting, Berwick-on-Tweed, 30th Aug. 1754; trans. to Penicuik 15th July 1760; pres. by Robert Hepburn of Clerkington 28th June; trans. and adm. 18th Oct. 1771; died 18th Aug. 1788. He marr. 19th Feb. 1759, Elizabeth (died 4th March 1792), daugh. of Capt. Neilson, Berwick-on-Tweed, and had issue—Hannah, born 4th Dec. 1759; George, born 13th Dec. 1761, died 2nd June 1763; James, his successor; Mary, born 14th July 1764; Elizabeth, born 16th Feb. 1766, died 29th Dec. 1813; John, born 10th Dec. 1768, died 12th Dec. 1769 ; Ursula, born 2nd Dec. 1769, died 6th Oct. 1770; Isabella, born 29th Sept. 1774; all of whom died unmarr.—[Tombst.}

 1789 JAMES GOLDIE, born 28th March    1763, son of preceding; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 4th Sept. 1787; pres. by Robert Dundas of Arniston, Solicitor-General; ord. 11th Sept. 1897.  During the war with France, when invasion was feared, he enrolled as a private in the Midlothian Regt. of Volunteers; died 24th Dec. 1847. Dying without any known relative, the ann fell to the Crown, and was bestowed by gift on Theophilus Smith (assistant and successor).   The remainder of his property, which included a salmon fishing on the Tweed, he disponed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.  Publications— Accounts of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc; xvi.; and New Stat. Acc., i.).

1889 WILLIAM MUIR, ord. (assistant and successor) 19th Nov. 1839; trans. to Second Charge, Dysart, Sept. 1843.

1843 THEOPHILUS SMITH, born Newtyle, 12th March 1822, son of Robert S., D.D., min. of Montrose; ord. (assistant and successor) 22nd Dec. 1843;