burgh, 1843) ; Sermon IV. (Church of Scotland Pulpit, ii.).

1880 DUNCAN STEWART, born Bruachear, Strathtummel, Blair Athole, 12th June 1828, son of Hugh S., farmer, Blairfettie, Struan, Perthshire, and Catherine Fraser; educated at St Andrews Univ.; B.A.; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 1858; missionary at Carronshore 1858; ord. to Inverness (Third Charge) 26th June 1860; trans. to Golspie 20th March 1862; trans. to Dornoch 19th June 1866; trans. to Elgin 1st Aug. 1873; trans. and adm. 19th Aug. 1880; D.D. (St Andrews 1883); died 21st Aug. 1888. He marr. 3rd June 1863, Mary Jane Watson, daugh. of George Michie, merchant, Glasgow and Trinidad, and had issue-Hugh George; James Allan; Mary Jane. Publications - The Child's Catechism; A Concise Hebrew Grammar (Edinburgh, 1872) ; Handbook of Deductive Logic.

1889 LOTHIAN GRAY, born Edinburgh, 28th Sept. 1859, son of William G. and Janet Lothian; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1885); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1885; assistant at St Bernard's, Edinburgh; ord. 31st Jan. 1889; clerk of Presb. 1908. Marr. 12th June 1895, Jane Houstoun, daugh. of David Scott, M.D., and Christina Macpherson, and has issue-Christian Isabel, born 3rd April 1896; Jane Houstoun, born 29th May 1898; Lothian, born 22nd March 1901.

STENTON, FORMERLY PITCOKS.

[Previous to the Reformation, Pitcoks or Hanus was a prebend of the collegiate church of Dunbar. The church was removed to its present position in the village of Stenton about 1561. The Rood Well is in the neighbourhood.]

1560 PATRICK COCKBURN, trans. to Haddington 1560.

1578 THOMAS DAILL [DALL], "callit fra Papistry to the true professioun of the Gospel"; adm. exhorter at Candlemas 1568 - reader, 1574-6 - died 19th Feb. 1586.-[Reg. Min. and Assig., Test. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Wodrow Miscell., Calderwood's Hist.]

1588 NICOL SUDDIE [SUTTIE], reader at  Abbey St Bathans in 1574, and at Cranshaws in 1576-80; reader here in 1588; trans. to Spott about 1593.-[Reg. Assig., Wodrow 3fiscell.]

1593 JAMES LAUDER, M.A. (Edinburgh,  12th Aug. 1591); adm. 30th Oct. 1594; continued in 1597.

1599 PATRICK CARKETTILL, M.A.; trans.  from Soutra, and adm. before 12thSept. 1599; trans. to Keith-Humbie in 1602.-[Reg. Assig.]

1606 WILLIAM CARKETTILL, probably  son of preceding, M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th July 1603), " to quhose entrie the Presb. had no eyelast [fault] saiff onlye thay thocht him over young in yeirs "; adm. after 22nd Feb. 1606; still min. in 1608. -[Randall's Tracts on Patronage.]

1612 JAMES DALRYMPLE, mentioned as  min. about 1612 (Reg. of Deeds, ccciii., 281); died leaving a widow and children, one of whom, James, entered the fourth class of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, session 1642-3; Presb. bursar in 1645, and graduated in 1646. He had a daugh. Mary (G. R. 23rd Dec. 1636). - [Mun: Univ. Inhib., Glasg]

1631 PATRICK CUIKE [COOK], M.A. (St Andrews 1627); got a testimonial of his sufficiency for the ministry from Presb. of Haddington 9th Nov. 1630, and was adm. in the following year ; died 31st Dec. 1635, aged about 39. He marr. 30th April 1626, Margaret Cockburn, and had issue-Patrick.-[Test. Reg.]

1641 ROBERT DAVIDSON, M.A. (Edin burgh, 27th July 1628); died in Nov. 1657, aged about 50. He marr. (1) 20th Oct- 1640, Elizabeth Lyle: (2)