merchant, 1634 (Reg. of Deeds, cccclxxx., 215).-[Calderwood's and Stevenson's Hists., Tombst.; Bannatyne Miscell., ii.]

1640 WILLIAM FORBES, brother of Henry  F., min. of Auldearn (Reg. of Deeds, Durie, ix.); educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1626-30; ord. to Tough 1634; pres. by the Commissioner for James Maxwell of Innerwick, trans. and adm. 1st Oct. 1640; was taken ill at a meeting of Presb.; returned home "verie sick," and died 1st May 1646. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue-Margaret (Reg. of Deeds, Durie, ix., 178).-[Tombst., Reg. Old Dec.]

1646 ARTHUR FORBES, M.A.; trans. from Pitsligo, and adm. 19th July 1646; trans. to Fraserburgh in 1652.

1654 JOHN BAIRD [BAIRDIE], called to Kemback 20th March 1653, and to this parish in May, and adm. 26th Jan. 1654; deprived by the Acts of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. [Afterwards min. at Paisley.] [Wodrow's Hist.]

1662 JAMES WOOD, M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1657); pres. by Charles, Viscount Cranburn, and inst. 31st Dec. 1662; seems to have removed after 11th March 1666.-[Reg. Collat.]

1666  ALEXANDER FOULIS, M.A. (Edinburgh, 19th July 1660); min. of Carmichael in 1665; trans. and adm. 5th July 1666; deprived by the Privy Council 19th Sept. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, nor praying for William and Mary, nor observing the Fast. He died in Ireland in Nov. 1698, aged about 57. He marr. 13th Feb. 1677, Elizabeth, daugh. of George Muschet, portioner of Auchtertyre, and had issue-Henry, bapt. 22nd March 1679, Episcopal min. at Dalkeith 1713-44, buried 31st Jan. 1748; Alexander, bapt. 22nd March 1681.-[MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; The Scots Episcopal Innocence.]

1691 JAMES CLARK, M.A.; ord. 1691;

trans. to Dirleton 3rd Nov. 1697.- [Reg. Gen. Ass., Tombst.]

1700 HEW DARLING, a native of Galashiels, M.A. (Edinburgh, 13th July 1696); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith

29th Aug. 1699; called 2nd April, and ord. 7th Aug. 1700; died unmarr. at Edinburgh, 29th Sept. 1701, aged about 25. He had two brothers in the ministry, Robert of Ewes, and Andrew of Kinnoul.-[Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]

1703 JAMES NISBET, M.A.; ord. 15th April 1703; trans. to Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh, 19th Aug. 1713.

1715  WILLIAM OGILVIE, M.A. (Edinburgh, 30th Dec. 1706); ord. chaplain to the 7th Dragoons in London 1712;

pres. by William Nisbet of Dirleton, and adm. 26th Jan. 1715; died in Jan. 1729, aged 40. He marr. Agnes Muirhead (sister uterine of John Somerville of Barnhowrie Privy Seal E. R., ix., 97), and had issue Henrietta; Anna (marr. Dougal Maclaurin, painter, Canongate); Agnes (marr. Alexander Hogg). Publication-A Wonderful and True Account of the Laird [Maxwell] of Cool's Ghost (Edinburgh, 1808; Paisley, 1811; and frequently reprinted). The MS. was found in Ogilvie's desk after his death, and the story was long a subject of superstitious belief.-[Tombst., Wodrow's Anal., Law's Memorials.]

1729 DAVID SMITH, licen. by Presb. 24th Oct. 1727; pres. by William Nisbet of Dirleton, and ord. 1st Oct. 1729; died 16th Dec. 1780, in his 82nd year. He marr. 12th March 1731, Janet (died 7th Jan. 1773), daugh. of William Hamilton, D.D., Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and had issue-William, born 21st July 1732, died 1st Feb. 1751; Mary, born 25th Sept. 1734, died 22nd Dec. 1805; Ann, born 14th Dec. 1741; Jean, born 25th Jan. 1744, died 18th June 1770; Gavin, born 27th Oct. 1745; Janet, born 19th Aug. 1747, died 25th Jan. 1798; David, born 2nd July 1750, died in the East Indies, 1776.- [Tombst.]