He marr. July 1666Jean Clelaine (or Cleland), Haddington. His nieces, Maria and Jean, were served heirs. - [Test. and Spott Sess. Reg.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7215; Fountainhall's Dec., i.]

l688 LAURENCE CHARTERIS, born 1625,  son of Henry C., Principal and Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh University, and sometime min. of North Leith; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (20th July 1646); ord. and inst. min. of St Bathans 9th Feb. 1654; conforming to Episcopacy, he was coll. 17th Oct. 1662. He disapproved of the methods used to enforce Episcopacy, and refused a bishopric. He was a friend of Archbishop Leighton, and in 1670 was one of the six preachers sent by him to advocate the “accommodation." Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 1675. Resigned on account of the Test Act 1681; inst. to this charge 27th Sept. 1688. In 1690 he read, as ordered by the Privy Council, the proclamation enjoining a fast for national sins, but he dissociated himself from the General Assembly's mention of the introduction of Prelacy as the great national defection. "The defection has not been from the truth or from the fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, but from the life of God and the power of religion, and from the temper and correction which the Gospel requires in us." He retired to Edinburgh in 1697, and died in Dec. 1700. He was unmarr. Burnet describes him as one who "had great tenderness in his temper, and was a very perfect friend and a most sublime Christian." Publications-The Difference between, True and False Christianity (Edinburgh, 1703); Spiritual Discourses (Edinburgh, 1704); The Corruption, of this Age and the Remedy thereof (Edinburgh, 1704; republished 1761); A Catalogue of Scottish Writers (Edinburgh, 1833).-[Burnet, i.; Wodrow's Hist.; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]

1697 JAMES CLARK, M.A.; trans. from Innerwick; called 5th April, and adm. 14th Dec. 1697; trans, to Tron Parish, Glasgow, 11th March 1702.[Acts of Ass., 1702.]

1703 JAMES ALSTON, born 1679, son of, James A. merchant, Edinburgh; M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1697); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th July 1702; app. by the Town Council of Edinburgh Morning Lecturer in the Tron Church, 12th May 1703; called 1st July, and ord. 22nd Sept. 1703; Moderator of Assembly 6th May 1725, and 1st May 1729; one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland 1726; died 19th April 1733, and was buried in St Giles Churchyard, Edinburgh. He took a leading part in the management of church affairs, was mentioned for the Principalship of the University of Glasgow in 1727, and had the offer of the Professorship of Divinity in that of Edinburgh in 1730. He marr. 15th June 1705, Janet (died 19th March 1769), daugh. of Matthew Reid, min. of Hoddam, and had issue-James, of Redsyde, born 1707, died 19th Dec. 1761; William, W.S., died 5th July 1775; Margaret, only daugh. (marr. 1735, James Hamilton, surgeon to the Forces).-[T. Berwick Sess. Reg., Wodrow's Corresp. and Anal., Boston's Memoirs, Warrick's Moderators.]

1733 JAMES GLEN, licen. by Presb. of  Kelso 1st May 1716; ord. to Whittingehame 17th July 1717; pres. by William Nisbet of Dirleton; trans. and adm. 13th Nov. 1733; died 16th Jan. 1749. He marr. Elizabeth Elliot, who died April 1743, and had issue-William; Alexander, his successor.-[Test. Reg., Carlyle's Autob.]

1749 HUGH [or HEW] BANNATINE, eldest son of James B., min. of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 21st Sept. 1743; enlisted as a volunteer 1745; travelled abroad as tutor to Johnston of Hilton; ord. to Ormiston 26th May 1747; trans. and adm. 26th Oct. 1749; died unmarr. 26th Feb. 1769.-[Mackenzie's Life of Home, Carlyle's Autob., Test. Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 8th March 1769.]

1769 ALEXANDER GLEN, born 1726, son of James G., min. in 1733; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 10th Oct. 1749; ord. to