Buriall of the Lady Jane Maitland, with Verses, etc. (Edinburgh, 1633).-[Canongate Reg. (Marr.); Inq. Ret. Gen., 3144.]

1637 ANDREW BANNATYNE, M.A.; pres. by David, Bishop of Edinburgh; coll. and inst. 13th Sept. 1637; dep. 4th Oct. 1649, "for profanation of the name of God, negligence in discipline, suspicion of fornication, and silence in the late Engagement." He intruded again in May 1652, and at Drumoak in Oct. following; was reponed to the ministry 2nd Aug. 1654, under condition that he should not accept a charge without special consent of the Presb.; [min. of Edrom in 1662].

1653 JOSEPH PROVAN, M.A., ord. 12th Sept. 1653; trans. to Morham 19th Feb. 1657.

1665 ROBERT FOORD [FORD], M.A.  (Edinburgh, 1st Aug. 1651); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th Nov. 1658, and also by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 17th Feb. 1665; pres. by John, Earl of Tweeddale, 7th June 1667 (P. C. Decreta, 24th July 1673); ord. and coll. 9th June, and inst. between 6th July and 7th Aug., same year; died unmarr. between 29th Jan. and 26th Feb. 1680, aged about 49.[Reg. Collat.]

1680 ROBERT MELDRUM, M.A.; adm. 25th Nov. 1680; deprived for not taking the Test in 1681, but was min. of Yester in the following year.

1685 WALTER GRAY, M.A. (Glasgow, 15th  July 1673); recommended for license 2nd April 1685; pres. by John, Earl of Tweeddale; adm. before 3rd Dec. 1685; on the union of the parish to Bara in 1702 he retired, having 150 merks assigned him from the stipend; died at Gifford Hall, 19th Dec. 1719, aged about 67. He marr. Jean (died 26th Feb. 1725), daugh. and heiress of Robert Adair, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (Edin. Com. Deeds, 17th Dec. 1686), and had issue-Walter, M.A., chaplain to John, Lord Gray.-[MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1702 ARCHIBALD MUIR, son of John M. of Auchindraine; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by

Presb.  of Peebles;  ord. to Bara 15th Aug. 1699; app. by Presb. 16th Aug. 1702; dep. by the Synod 5th Nov. 1719, for drunkenness and disaffection to the Government, “saying the King had no more right to the crown than the moorcock." He was censured by Presb. of Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1726, for irregularly marrying, 4th April 1726, his daughter Anne to Walter Nisbet of Craigentinny, son of William Nisbet of Dirleton. He was in such poverty and distress that a collection was ordered to be made for him by the Synod in 1736; alive in Edinburgh 27th June 1739. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of David Liddell, Professor of Divinity in Univ. of Glasgow, and had issue-Anne (marr. Walter Nisbet); James; Robert; Margaret.-[Wodrow's Anal. and Corresp.]

1721  ANDREW DUNLOP, pres. by John, Marquess of Tweeddale, and ord.15th Aug. 1721; he complained, 21st Aug. 1722, of want of a manse, and of having to rent an uncomfortable lodging, nearly four miles off, whereby his health suffered; trans. to Ormiston 3rd Aug. 1731.

1732 ARCHIBALD BLAIR, born 1704, son of  David B., min. of St Giles, Edinburgh, and brother of Robert B., min. of Athelstaneford; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Aug. 1729; pres. by George II. 4th April, and ord. 3rd Aug. 1732; died 24th Sept. 1774. He marr. 24th Aug. 1739, Janet (died 13th Dec. 1785), daugh. of John Barclay, min. of Morham, and had issue-Elizabeth, born 8th Jan. 1745 (marr. William Begbie of Skedsbush); David, born 22nd Jan. 1746; Euphan, born 28th Oct. 1747 (marr. 29th Feb. 1776, William Dudgeon, farmer, Dryburnford); John, born 14th July 1749; Archibald, born 7th June 1751; Robert, M.D., Professor of Astronomy in the Univ. of Edinburgh, inventor of the "aplanatic" telescope, born 15th Nov. 1752, died 22nd Dec. 1828; Janet, born 25th March 1758, died 18th Oct. 1827; Isobel, born 8th Sept. 1760. -[Hill's Life of Blair, Carlyle's Autob.]

1775 ANDREW NISBET, bapt. 9th Sept.  1733, third son of William  N., schoolmaster at Long-Yester; pres. by George, Marquess of Tweeddale, 7th Feb.,