1st Oct. of the same year. He was admitted as an "indulged minister" to this parish 2nd Sept. 1669, and died (buried 6th) Feb. 1674. " No man," it was said, " contributed more to the Restoration, and received less benefit from it." He marr. (1) Margaret Kirkaldy, and had issue -James, of Earnslaw (life Sas., xii., 289); Thomas, who died before 1667, when Alexander is called second son (G. R. Inhib., 12th March 1680); Janet; Alexander, min. of Logie; Patrick, bapt. 28th Jan. 1642 (marr. Margaret Lothian), died before 1673 (G. R. Inhib, 26th Jan. 1674); Elizabeth, bapt. 3rd Jan. 1643; Archibald, bapt. 8th Jan. 1644; Robert: (2) 20th Aug. 1646, Margaret Boyd, who survived him, and was buried 13th July 1692, and had issue-Robert; Margaret, bapt. 18th July 1658. Publications-The Diary of Mr. Robert Douglas when with the Scottish Army in England (1644); The Sermon preached at Scone, January the first, 1651, at the Coronation of Charles II. (1651) plaster Douglas, his Sermon preached at the Down Sitting of the last Parliament of Scotland (1661). [Kirkton's, Burnet's, and Wodrow's Hists.; Law's Memorials, Guthrey's Memoirs; Notes and Queries (1st series), iv., 299, (2nd series), vi., 50-1 ; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1674 JAMES COCKBURN, trans. from Abbey St Bathans; coll. after 21st May 1674; dem. after 21st Aug. 1684; died April 1687. -[Fountainhall's Diary, and Dec., i.]

1685 WILLIAM DENUNE, born 1656, second son of Norman D., representative of the family of Catbole; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1675); ord. to Second Charge, Haddington, 1683; pres. by Robert, Viscount Oxenfoord, and trans. and inst. 9th March 1685; died 27th Jan. 1704. He marr. Jan. 1688, Isabella, daugh. of Dr George Hepburn of Monkrigg, and had issue-George; John; Helen; William; Christian; Isobel; Marianne (marr. 1706, Sir John Bruce Hope, Bart.).[Tombst.; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Archaeol. Scot., i.; Douglas's Baronage, p. 453; Rule's .Sec Vindication]

1705 MATTHEW SIMSON, born 7th March 1673, third son of Patrick S., min. of Renfrew; studied at the Univ. of Glasgow; called 25th June, and ord. 10th Sept. 1705; died 20th May 1756. He marr. (1) 23rd Oct. 1707, Katherine, daugh. of Robert Wallwood, merchant: (2) 12th April 1710, Alison (died 24th Feb. 1736, aged 50), daugh. of Andrew Drummond of Megginch, and had issue-Alison, died aged 26; Katherine, died aged 20; Patrick, min. of Fala and Clunie; Adam; Helen (marr. David Plenderleath, min. of Dalkeith); Janet (who, in a year of great scarcity, 1740, superintended the spinning set on foot by the Kirk-session for employing the poor, and received " the cordial thanks of the Kirk-session for the great attention and trouble she had been at in her philanthropic exertions"); James; Colin, surgeon, perished in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756. [Tombst.,Wodrow's Anal., Carlyle's Autob., Edin. Mar.Reg.

1757 GEORGE ANDERSON, chaplain in the family of Inveraray; licen. by Presb.  of Perth 25th Dec. 1743; ord. to Tulliallan 7th April 1745; pres. by Alexander Hamilton of Pencaitland; trans. and adm. 7th June 1757; died 4th June 1793, in 73rd year. He marr. 26th Dec. 1746, Margaret Williamson, Torryburn, who died 1st April 1802. -[Tombst., Sinclair's Stat. Acc]

1793 DAVID PYPER, born Nairn, 6th April 1760, son of John P. and Marjory Bremner; master of the Charity Workhouse, St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 1786; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th April 1788; ord. by the Presbyterian Classis at Newcastle 23rd June 1790; min. of a congregation at Alnwick; pres. by 'Mrs Mary Hamilton of Belhaven, and adm. 12th Dec. 1793; died 23rd Dec. 1813. He marr. 9th Sept. 1790, Elizabeth (died 28th June 1812), daugh. of William Berry, and had issue-Elizabeth, born 20th Nov. 1794, died 1821; Hamilton, advocate, Edinburgh, born 9th Feb. 1796, died 8th March 1868; Agnes (marr. Robert Dryborough Menzies), died 30th April 1828; Christiana, born 24th May 1798, died 15th Sept. 1805; Jemima,