March 1822. Publication-Character of the Rev. Dr Primrose of Prestonpans.

1850 ROBERT STEWART, licen. by Presb of Edinburgh; pres. by the Crown and ord. 26th Sept. 1850; died unmarr. 2nd June 1851.

1852 WILLIAM CAESAR, born Tinwald, 13th Dec. 1824, son of William C. and Agnes Cowan; educated at Tinwald and Torthorwald schools and Univ. of St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of Dumfries 1847; assistant at Annan and Alloa; ord to Stockbridge (now St Bernard's) 12th Sept. 1850; trans. and adm. 15th Jan. 1852; clerk to the Synod from 1875 to 1907; D.D. (St Andrews 1874); sometime secretary of the Scottish Bible Society; died at Riggonhead, Tranent, 8th March 1912. He marr. 20th July 1818, Eliza Ainslie (died 1st Oct. 1914), daugh. of James Burnet, Craigielaw, Longniddry, and had issue-William James, C.A., Paris, born 6th -lay 1859; Eliza Ainslie Burnet, born 24th Nov. 1860; Frances, born 28th Nov. 1864, died young; James Douglas, born 13th Nov. 1866, died young; John Alfred Charles, born 29th Sept. 1872; Agnes Cowan, born 15th Jan. 1862 (marr. 1889, Duncan Parlane, Edinburgh), died 1896; Charlotte Anderson, born 27th July 1863, died in infancy; Lily Walton, born 9th flay 1868 (marr. 1902, John Fernie, Riggonhead); Felicia Levoni Rose, born 31st March 1871. Publication-The Gospel of St John: its Authorship and Authenticity (Edinburgh, 1874; 2nd ed., 1877).

1904 ANDREW MIDDLEMAS HEWAT, born Perth, 17th Sept. 1872, son of James H. and Helen Duncan; educated at Perth Academy, Madras College, Univ. of St Andrews (M.A. 1893, B.D. 1896), and at Jena; licen. by Presb. of Perth May 1896; assistant at Muthill, Monifieth, Lady  Yester's and St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh; ord. (assistant and successor) 8th March 1904. Marr. 29th March 1906, Daisy Constance, daugh. of John Guthrie and Margaret Purves, and has issue Ronald, born 3rd June 1907; Doris, born 31st Oct. 1911.

YESTER, ANCIENTLY

ST BATHAN'S.

[The church, dedicated in 1241 to St Bathan, was made collegiate by Sir William de Haya of Locherworth and Yester, in 1420. It retained the name of St Bathan's till about 1675. A church was built at Gifford in 1708.]

1572 WILLIAM MAKCAUWELL, adm. 1st May, having also charge of Bara. [Reg. Min.]

1575 JOHN MORISON, adm. 1st May, having also charge of Garvald, Bara, and Morham; removed to Garvald 1576. -[Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell.]

1576 WALTER HAY, according to his own statement, a younger son of William, fifth Lord Hay of Yester; mentioned as min. in 1576. Judged by the Presb., 18th Aug. 1587, "unfit to be a min." ; he was deprived by the Commission of Assembly after 18th Oct. same year. To James Carmichael, min. of Haddington, he said that he was " myndit anis to haue past to France, and lykwayis schowis he mycht haue had ane presentation to ane great benefyce in Orkney. Yit becaus he had appeirance to succeed to his brother, and nane betuix him bot ane infirme and impotent barne be natour, thairfoir he thocht bettir with advyss of freindis to byd at hame in Bathens to await that occasioun." [This cannot have been the case. William, sixth Lord Hay died between 27th Feb. and 29th May 1591, and was succeeded by his brother James seventh Lord Hay, in terms of a charter of entail in which Walter Hay is not mentioned (Reg. Mag. Sig.), and James had two sons John, eighth Lord Hay, first Earl of Tweeddale, and Sir William Hay of Linplum.] He was reponed by the Presb. of Edinburgh, with certification that "gif afterward he sal be slanderous, or offend in any of the particular heids of accusation that wer given in against him, or any