1672  WILLIAM MELDRUM, M.A.; trans. from Auchterless; adm. 8th Aug. 1672; trans. to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1675.

1676 JAMES CRAIG, M.A.; trans. From Selkirk; adm. 6th Oct. 1676; deprived in 1681, having refused the Test; afterwards min. of Canongate and Duddingston.-[Edin. Coune. Reg., xxviii.]

1683 JAMES GARTSHORE, M.A. (Glasgow 1651); min. of Penninghame 1661; trans. to Kilsyth 1666; trans. to Cardross 1673; D.D. (Glasgow); trans. and adm. about July 1683; dem. 1689; died (date unknown). He marr. (1) 6th Aug. 1691, Jean Lockhart, widow of Gavin Hamilton of Raploch: (2) 3rd July 1696, Janet Cheyne, widow of Walter Macgill, min. of Kilsyth. On 4th Dec. 1694, when a member of Presb. went to preach at Tranent, he found "great disturbance and a rabble throwing stones at those assembled to hear him." The pulpit was occupied by Bernard M'Kenzie, and he had to conduct both diets of worship in the kirkyard. [Edin. Reg. (Marr.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689.]

1701 JOHN MUTTER, M.A. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1695); licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 17th Aug. 1698; app. by the Presb. jure devoluto, 24th Oct. 1700, after a twelve years' vacancy; ord. 17th April 1701; died 19th Jan. 1739, aged about 64. He marr. Nov. 1701, Elizabeth, daugh. of George Whyte, plumber, Edinburgh, who died 25th May 1772, and had issue-Thomas, min. of Dumfries; Robina.- [Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Wodrow MSS.]

1740 CHARLES CUNINGHAM, licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 6th Aug. 1729 ; pres. by George II. 24th April 1739, but not ord. till 25th Sept. 1740; died 4th April 1793, in his 92nd year. He marr. 26th Dec. 1744, Jean Sherriff, Ormiston, who died 6th April 1753, and had issue-Alexander, W.S., born 8th Nov. 1745, died 23rd Feb. 1827; Charles, born 10th May 1747.

It was in Cuningham's manse that Colonel Gardiner died.-[Acts of Ass., 1740; Morren's Ann., i.]

1784 HUGH CUNINGHAM, nephew of preceding ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 2nd Oct. 1781; pres. by George III., and ord. (assistant and successor) 15th April 1784; died 20th July 1801. He marr. 17th Nov. 1786, Janet Brown, of Prestonkirk, who died 19th Aug. 1797, and had issue-John Macpherson, min. of Kinglassie, born 6th Sept. 1787; Robert Brown, born 25th Jan. 1790. Publications - A Short Explanation of the Ten Commandments; Sermon on the Death of his .Mother; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., x).

1802 ANDREW BROWN, tutor in the family  of John Cadell of Cockenzie; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 6th July 1773; ord. 1st April 1777 chaplain to the 21st Foot; trans. to Falkland 10th June 1784; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 27th Nov. 1794); pres. by George III. 22nd Dec. 1801; trans. and adm. 29th April 1802; died 26th April 1805. He marr. 13th Dec. 1788, Anne (died, without issue, at Old Aberdeen, 11th July 1810), youngest daugh. of Professor Thomas Gordon, King's College, Aberdeen. Publication - Account of Falkland (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., iv.).-[Tombst]

1806 JOHN HENDERSON, born 1771, third  son of Andrew H., schoolmaster, Methven; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1793) ; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 27th March 1798; tutor in the family of the Hon. Francis Charteris; pres. by George III. 30th July 1805; ord. 6th March 1806; died 4th Jan. 1850. He marr. 27th Aug. 1807, Grace (died at Leith, 14th Oct. 1855), daugh. of Thomas Bell, Fenwick, Northumberland, and had issue Francis Charteris, surgeon H.EI.C.S., born 24th July 1808; Elizabeth Frances, born 6th April 1810; Charles Murray, surgeon H.E.I.C.S., born 26th April 1812; Christina, born 2nd April 1815; Mary Margaret, born 9th Sept. 1817, died 25th