1567 THOMAS DUDGEON, reader.

1576 PATRICK GALBRAITH, reader.

1585 JAMES REID, had Garvald also in charge; continued in 1586, but returned to Garvald 1588. — [Reg. Assig.]

1509 GEORGE BYRES, M.A.; ord. 10th Sept. 1589; trans. to Legerwood 4th Oct. 1592. — [Act. Sect. Univ. St And., Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell.]

1592 DANIEL CHALMER [CHALMERS], son of Andrew C., burgess of Edin- burgh; M.A. (St Andrews 1582);

pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 7th March 1586; called to be a min. or reader in the King's House in 1589; adm. after 4th Oct. 1592; dem. 1593. — [Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Calderwood's Hist.}

1593 GEORGE CHALMER [CHALMERS], M.A.; the parishioners would not acknowledge him as min., "yet he had done mair nor was done thir vii. yeiris bypast." On 8th Aug. 1594 William Hay of Linplum ''followit and pursewit the said Mr George, and presentit ane bendit pistollet at him, quhilk misgave, cheissit him three quarteris of ane myle, and had not faillit to haue slane him were nocht he gat entres within the portis of Haddington and was releuit by the inhabi­tants thairof"; trans. to Crimond 1596. — [P. C. Reg., v., 162.]

1594 DAVID OGIL [OGILL, OGLE], M.A. (Glasgow 1583); officiated for a time at Garvald; adm. to Humbie 25th July 1590; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. before 6th Aug. 1594; trans. and inst. soon after. William Hay of Linplum was denounced rebel, he having on 8th Aug. 1594, "shot and dischargeit his pistollett at Mr David [while still min. of Humbie], of sett purpois and prouvision to have slane him thairwith; and he happynning with the same shoitt to fall, the said William belevit he wes slane, and left him for deid." Becoming school­master of Haddington, Ogil was, on 4th May 1597, ordered to demit that office

under pain of deprivation. He was pro­posed by the King for the Second Charge, Leith, and ten years later, 28th April 1608, was pres. to the vicarage of Innerwick in succession to his brother Richard.  He dem. in 1629; died between 10th April and 8th May 1639, aged about 76. His widow was alive 24th Aug. 1642, and a daugh. marr. Alexander Trotter, his assistant.—[Beg. Assig., Calderwood's Hist.; P. C. Reg., v., 162.

1628 [ALEXANDER TROTTER, ord. (assist­ant) by John, Archbishop of St Andrews; pres. by Charles I. 29th Sept. 1629, on the demission of preceding, but as no institution followed, and Ogil was constantly opposed to it, the Synod, 28th April 1641, found the charge vacant from Ogil's death, and ordered Trotter to desist from his ministry here. He became min. of Tweedsmuir in 1643.]

1643 ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, M.A.; app. by Presb. jure devoluto, 11th May 1642; adm. 5th, coll. 19th April, and

inst. 8th May 1643; trans. to Saltoun 23nd Sept. 1646.

1647 JOHN STIRLING, M.A.; app. by Presb.  jure devoluto, 30th Sept. 1646; ord. 10th March 1647; called to North Berwick, but the Presb. refused to translate, 9th Aug. 1649; trans. to Tron Parish, Edinburgh, 1650. — [Act Rect. Univ. St And., Acts of Ass., Peterkin's Records.]

1651 JOHN DICKSON, born 1628, son of William D., min. of Kailzie; M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th July 1648); servitor in the family of John, Earl of Lauderdale; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 26th Sept. 1649; ord. 18th Dec. 1651; died Aug. 1658. He marr. 25th Jan. 1653, Alison Kinnear, who survived him, and received in 1660 the vacant stipend of 1659, by gift from the heritors.—[Edin. Reg. {Marr. and Bur.).}

1663 JOHN BROUNE, was probably M.A. of Glasgow 1649; adm. 3rd Dec. 1663; died in 1688, aged about 59.

James, a brother's son, was his executor. — [MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]