1664 [WILLIAM OGSTON, D.D. (Aberdeen), formerly of Colinton; coll. 19th March 1664. Probably he was infirm, as the Register is unsigned, and he does not appear to have taken charge. After the former min. "gave over to preach, the church lay vacant till 1665, so that the children were baptized in other churches for the most part." He died Dec. 1667. He marr. Isabel Ewen, and had issue-Rachel. Publication Oratio funebris inobitum Georgii, Marischalli Comitis (Aberdeen, 1623). - [Reg. Collat., Test. Reg.; Wodrow's MSS., lxiii.]

1665 THOMAS MOWBRAY, M.A. (Edinburgh, 15th April 1645); teacher in the parish school of Dalkeith; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith, 30th May 1650; chaplain to Lord Cranstoun's Regiment in Prussia; assistant at Campvere; adm. min. there 26th Sept. 1660; resigned 1664; adm. to this charge 13th March 1665; died May 1666, aged about 41. He marr. Sarah Cranstoun, and had issue--.Margaret, and a posthumous son, Thomas, bapt. 1st July 1666. Publication-The Honour of kings Vindicated and Asserted,, a sermon (Middleburgh, 1663).-[Reg. Collat., Test. Reg., Davidson's The Scottish Staple at Veere.]

1666  ARCHIBALD CHISHOLM, born 1633, son of Walter C., bailie of Dunblane; M.A. (St Andrews, 13th May 1653); ord. to Newbattle 20th Nov. 1663; pres. by James, Lord Forrester of Corstorphine; trans. and coll. 21st Nov., adm. 7th Dec. 1666; died in 1670. He marr. Margaret (died 23rd April 1680), daugh. of Oliver Colt, min. of Inveresk, and had issue Jean, bapt. 8th March 1668.-[Reg. Collat., Test. Reg., Malcolm's House of Drummond.]

1670 JOHN PRINGLE, M.A. (Edinburgh,  6th March 1669); pres. by James, Lord Forrester of Corstorphine; ord. and coll. 23rd, and adm. 24th July 1670; disappears from the Record of 1671.-[Reg. Collat.]

1672  GEORGE HENRY, M.A. (Glasgow, 1656); ord. to Dalry 1663; trans. to Stoneykirk 1665; pres. by James, Lord Forrester of Corstorphine ; trans. and

adm. 9th May 1672. Deprived by the Committee of Estates l0th May 1689, for not reading the Proclamation, nor praying for King William and Queen Mary. He died in Edinburgh, 17th April 1723, in his 92nd year. He marr. Nov. 1649, Margaret, elder daugh. of Geo. Lundie, town-clerk of Dysart, and had issue James; John; William; Margaret; Edward, bapt. 19th Sept. 1680; Mary; Janet; Hugh.-[Test. (St And.), Edin. Guild, and Reg. (Bur.); Fountainhall's Diary; M8. Acc. of Min., 1689; Acts Parl., ix.; Monro's Apology, Peterkin's Constitution of the Church.]

1689 ROBERT LAW, M.A.; mentioned as minister 16th March 1689; (probably only officiating for a time, and perhaps the late min. of Kilpatrick).-[S. Leith Reg. (Bapt.).]

1692 ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, son of  Arch. H., min. of Wigtown ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th Aug. 1683); ord. to the Presbyterian Congregation at Wycombe, Buckinghamshire., in 1688; adm. 1692; died 30th April 1709, aged about 46. He marr. Sarah Winne (Edin. Sas., lx., 368). He was, presumably in right of his wife, proprietor of lands in Montgomeryshire (Edin. Com. Deeds, 6th March 1710). His only daugh. Sarah (marr. John Kenrick, Nonconformist min. at Wrexham, Denbighsh.), died 22nd Oct. 1775, aged 80.-[Hart's Journal.]

1709 GEORGE FORDYCE, born 1683, son of Alex. F., min. of Rafford (Reg. of Deeds, Mack. 22nd Dec. 1709); studied at King's College, Aberdeen, 1696 - 1700; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 22nd April 1708; called 29th July, and ord. 18th Oct. 1709; died 30th Aug. 1767. He marr. 9th July 1713, Jean, daugh. of Henry Douglas of Friarshaw, and had issue Anne (marr. John Dickie, W.S.); Sarah (marr. David Moubray, min. of Liberton).

1768 JOHN CHEISLIE [CHIESLEY], licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 12th June 1754; ord. to Abercrombie 1757; pres. by Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, Bart., trans. and adm. 23rd Nov. 1768; died 12th June 1788. He marr. 26th