1694 EGBERT COLVILL, M.A.; ord. 16th March 1694; trans. to Glenluce 14th March 1699.

1699 ARCHIBALD MUIR, ord. 15th Aug. 1699 removed to Garvald on the union of the parishes in 1702.

GLADSMUIR.

[Proposed to be erected 13th July 1642. A Decreet to that effect was given by the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 28th Feb. 1650, on the recommendation of the Presb. 16th Jan. previous.  It was not, however, carried out through the troubles that supervened, but a church was built and ready for regular supply, 9th Feb. 1660. The united Presb., 18th Nov. 1690, recommended that the Decreet should be made effectual, and the parish was accord­ingly disjoined from those of Haddington, Aberlady, and Tranent, 10th Aug. 1691, and erected by the Commissioners of Teinds 29th July 1692. The manse and glebe were not formally designed till 1723.]

1687 MUNGO WATSON", M.A. (Edinburgh,  27th July 1663); was a min- at the chapel of Thrieplaw 6th July 1687, when the first meeting of Presbyterian min. took place after the Toleration; called before 6th Oct. following; a member of Assemblies 1690, 1692, and again called unanimously 26th April of the latter year. In 1695 he got a new church built and the site changed. He had calls from Tranent, Liberton, and Linlithgow, but "the people being attached to him, petitioned against his removal, and the Presb. refused to loose him."  He died 14th July 1700, in his 57th year. He marr. Helen Young, who survived him with issue, and marr. 17th Feb. 1706, John Henderson, writer, Edin­burgh.—[.Reg. Gen. Ass., Monteith's Mort.}

1701 JOHN BELL, born 2nd Feb. 1676, son of William B., merchant, Glasgow; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; bursar in 1694; M.A.; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 13th May 1697; ord. to Broughton 24th Sept. 1697; called 12th June, trans. and adm. 27th Aug. 1701; died 30th  Oct. 1707. 

He marr. Janet Learmont, who survived him, and had issue—William [became an Episcopalian min. in Edinburgh, and marr. Morrice, granddaughter of Bishop Robert White of Dunblane.   Of the children of this marriage, four distinguished themselves —namely, Robert, advocate; John, anato­mist and surgeon; George Joseph, Professor of Scots Law, Univ. of Edinburgh; Sir Charles, F.R.S., discoverer of the distinct functions of the nerves]; Elizabeth (marr. 17th Dec. 1718, William Walker, writer, Edinburgh). Publications— A n Ingenious and Scientific Discourse of Witchcraft (anon.) (1705); Abridgement and Alphabetical Index of the Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland (anon.) (Edinburgh, l706).—[Wodrow MSS.]

1711 JOHN SETHRUM, licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 21st Feb. 1700; ord. to Newburgh 29th April 1702; called 5th Oct. 1710; trans. and adm. 25th Jan. 1711; died at Perth 9th June 1727. He was a correspondent and friend of Ralph Erskine.  He marr. Mary Dickson, who survived him.—[Eraser's Life of R. Erskine, Brown's Gosp. Truth.}

1728 ANDREW ROBERTSON, son of David R. of  Brunton; licen. by Presb. Of Dalkeith 3rd Jan. 1727; pres. by Charles, Earl of Hopetoun, and by William Baillie of Lamington and his tutors, and ord. 28th March 1728, in face of a protest by three elders and others, on account of his having taken the Oath of Abjuration; died April 1743. He had a son, Andrew (G. R. Sas., clxxvii., 38).

1744 WILLIAM ROBERTSON, nephew of preceding; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and by George II. 20th Sept. (Privy Seal Eng. Reg., viii., 320); ord. 17th April 1744; trans. to Lady Tester's, Edinburgh, 15th June 1758.— [Stewart's Life; Erskine's Disc., i.; Carlyle's Autob., Kay's Portraits.]

[DAVID DUNCAN, M.A., min. of Stow, was pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and a day fixed for his admission, but he was