1567 ANDREW BLACKHALL, min. in 1567, Ormiston and Cranstoun being in the charge.

1576 JOHN GRAY, reader.

1580 JAMES GIBSON, trans. from Saltoun, and adm. 1580; trans. to Tranent 1597.-[Reg. Assig.]

1598 ARCHIBALD OSWALD, M.A. (St Andrews, 21st March 1580); min. of Hutton 1586-94, of Smailholm 1595, of Tranent (assistant) 1595; trans. and adm. 11th May 1598; pres. to the vicarage of Saltoun by James VI. 23rd Jan., and coll. 16th May 1599, " with this provision, that lie sall demitt quhen it sall pleis God to offer the occasion to ane to be planted there." He visited Robert Bruce at Berwick in 1601, after he had fled from Edinburgh. In 1603 he waited on the King at Haddington when passing to London after the Union of the Crowns. He was a member of Assembly 1608, and was one of the Conference for maintaining unity among the brethren, which met at Falkland 4th May 1609; dem. before 4th, and died 16th Feb. 1631, aged about 71. He marr. in 1598, Katherine, daugh. of Adam Weddell, portioner in Preston, and had issue-John, his successor; Archibald; Robert; James, styled youngest in 1618 (Reg. of Deeds, ccclv., 315); Archibald.Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist., Melvill's Autob.; Stat. Reports, 1627; Inq. Ret. Gen., 3581.]

1629 JOHN OSWALD, M.A.; trans. from Second Charge, Montrose, and adm. (assistant) 7th July 1629; pres. by Charles I. 4th Feb., coll. and inst. 20th May 1631; a member of General Assembly 1638; trans. to Aberdeen 17th Nov. 1641.[Reg. Sec. Sig., Baillie's Lett., Stevenson's Hist.]

1641 DAVID CALDERWOOD, born probably at Dalkeith in 1575; studied at the Univ. of Edinburgh, and took his degree of M.A. 12th Aug. 1593. In 1605 he became min. of Crailing. A vigorous opponent of Prelacy, he stepped into the controversial

arena for the first time publicly when James Law, Bishop of  Orkney, attempted to set aside an election of members to the General Assembly by the Presb. of Jedburgh. Calderwood protested, and was deprived of his right to sit in Church Courts, being precluded also from going outside the bounds of his parish. In 1617 he resisted the royal intentions still further, and was summoned to Holyrood to give an account of his "mutinous and seditious" deed. He was deprived of his charge, confined first at St Andrews and afterwards at Edinburgh, and finally ordered to quit the country. He went to Holland, and did not return till the death of James in 1625. He had no charge, however, until 1641, when he was pres. To this parish by Charles I. 4th Nov., and adm. 15th Dec. 1641. He assisted in drawing up the Directory for Public Worship, but concentrated most of his time on his great work, the History of the Kirk of Scotland. In his 73rd year the General Assembly, to enable him to perfect the work, voted an annual subsidy of £800 Scots. The history, which he compiled, was thrown into three different forms. The first and largest extended to 3136 pages; less than half of this work is now among the manuscripts of the British Museum, presented by the historian's nephew, Sir William Calderwood of Polton (Lord Polton). The second, a digest of the first, was published by the Wodrow Society (this MS. is in the Advocates' Library). The third, an abbreviation, was first published in 1678. Though little attractive in a literary sense, the History is the main quarry for information on the ecclesiastical annals of Scotland from 1527 to 1625. Calderwood died unmarried, at Jedburgh, 29th Oct. 1650. Publications-Protestation, and Treatise from Scotland (1608); De Regimine Ecclesim Scoticanm brevis Relatio (London, 1618); A Solution of Doctor Resolutus [Bishop David Lindsay], his Resolutions for Kneelinq (1619); Perth Assemble (1619); Parasynagma Perthense (1620) [an abridgment in Latin of the preceding work]; Defence of our Arguimuts against Kneeling in the Act of Receiving the Sacramental Elements of Breads and line (1620); The Speech