1889. He marr. 18th Sept. 1845, Elizabeth Cunningham, who died 2nd Dec. 1896, and had issue-James, born 13th Jan. 1848. Publication-Accounts of Prestonkirk and of Spott (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1843 JAMES PORTEOUS, born Edinburgh, 1802, son of .John P. and Elizabeth Robertson; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th July 1828; assistant at St Giles, Edinburgh, and Prestonpans; ord. to Riccarton, Ayr, 17th Aug. 1837; trans. and adm. 27th Sept. 1843; died 16th Jan. 1876. He marr. 26th April 1838, Jemima, daugh. of Thomas Baxter, clergyman of the Church of England, in Essex, widow of Captain Thomas Donald, and had issue-Anne Margaret Lindsay, born 29th Aug. 1839 (marr. James Tweedie, of Liverpool and Bombay); James Lindsay Howieson Herbert, M.D., born 4th Aug. 1842. Publication-Account of the Parish of Ricarton (New Stat. Acc, vol. v.).

1876THOMAS STIRLING MARJORIBANKS, born Lochmaben, -15th April 1848, third son of Thomas M., min. of Lochmaben, afterwards of Stenton; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1867), B.D. (1871); licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 15th Nov. 1871; ord. to Garvald 9th July 1872; trans. and adm. 7th June 1876. Publications-Introduction to Study of St Paul (Edinburgh, 1876); Travel Sketches (Egypt-Greece-Italy-America) (Haddington, 1887).

SPOTT.

[Previous to the Reformation the church was a prebend of the collegiate church of Dunbar.]

1559 JOHN HAMILTON, natural son of James, first Earl of Arran; Abbot of Paisley 1525; Bishop of Dunkeld 1546; Archbishop of St Andrews 1549. He was taken prisoner at the capture of Dumbarton Castle in 1571, and hanged at Stirling for complicity in the assassination of the Regent Moray.

l567 JOHN KELLO, probably son of Bartholomew K., M.A., clerk of St  Andrews diocese, "by apostolical authority notary public," Linlithgow; was one of those "thought apt and able to minister," by the General Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560. On the morning of Sunday, 24th Sept. 1570, he strangled his wife (Margaret, daugh. of Henry Thomson, a Linlithgow tanner), going into the church immediately after and conducting service as usual. No suspicion attached to him till Simson of Dunbar reminded him of a dream which Kello had narrated to the latter some weeks before : "Ye are, I fear, the author yourself of this cruel murder," said he. After a time Kello made confession, " persuaidit that God spak " through Simson. No account of the trial has been preserved, but the following is the official record of the sentence, under date 4th Oct. 1570: " For the quhilk he was adjugeit and dome pronuncit, to be hanged to the deid, and thaireftir his body to be cassin in ane fyre, and brint in assis; and his gudis and gear to be confiscat, etc.," which was carried into effect the same day. He left four children: Bartholomew, parson of Willingale Spayne, Essex (marr. Esther Inglis, and had issue-Esther (marr., cont. 15th May 1618, James Crichton of Halkerstone Crofts: G. R. Inhib., 14th Aug. 1622) [A Treatise on " Preparation to the Holy Supper, with a Catechism for intending Communicants," translated from the French [by B. K.], neatly written by Esther Inglis, who states that the translator was her husband, is in the Laing Collection, Edinburgh University]; Elizabeth, died between 1627 and 1629 ; Mary (Reg. of Deeds, ccccxxxviii., 368); Barbara. Publication The Confessioun of Mr Johnne Kello, Min. of Spott, to gidder with his Erneist Repentance maid upon the Scaffold befoir his Suffering (Edinburgh: R. Lekpreuik, 1570).-[Keith's and Calderwood's Hists., Booke of the Kirk, Bannatyne's Journal, Pitcairn's Cr. Trials, Lamont's Diary, Miller's Hist. of Dunbar, Roughead's