1708 WILLIAM MITCHELL, trans. from Canongate; called 17th May, app. by the Presb. 23rd, and adm. 2 7th June 1708; trans. to High Kirk Parish 5th Feb. 1721.

1721 JAMES CRAIG, bapt. 5th Sept. 1669, second son of John C., Thorntonloch; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (9th July 1694); ord. to Yester 15th April 1701; trans. to Dunbar 26th Nov. 1718; called 17th Nov. 1720; trans. and adm. 16th March 1721; died 31st Jan. 1731. He marr. Margaret Oswald, who survived him, by whom he had fifteen or sixteen children, of whom Margaret, who marr. 10th Dec. 1729, Thomas Hay, baker, Edinburgh (Edin. Marr. Reg.), and another only survived him. Publications-Spiritual Life, or Poems on Divine Subjects (Edinburgh, 1727); Sermons (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1733-8, of which two in the first vol. were published singly, Edinburgh, 1732).-[Wodrow's And., Brown's Gospel Truth.]

1732 PATRICK CUMIN [CUMING], burn 1695, eldest son of Robert C. of Relugas; -M.A. (Edinburgh, 4th -flay 1716); chaplain to Lord Justice-Clerk Grange; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 5th Jan., and ord. to Kirkmahoe 18th Aug. 1720; trans. to Lochmaben 30th March 1725; called 18th Nov. 1731; trans. and adm. 20th Jan. 1732; Professor of Church History, Edinburgh Univ., 1737-62; Moderator of Assembly 11th May 1749; D.D. (Edinburgh 1752); a second time Moderator 14th May 1752; a third time, 20th May 1756; died 1st April 1776. He marr. 7th Dec. 1732, Jean (died 23rd Nov. 1769), eldest daugh. of David Lauder of Huntlywood, advocate, youngest son of Lord Fountainhall and Margaret Maxwell of Pollok, and had issue-Robert, Professor of Church History, Edinburgh Univ., 1762-88; John, born 30th Nov. 1738; Patrick, Professor of Oriental Languages, Glasgow Univ., 17611814, born 11th Oct. 1741, died 27th Oct. 1820; George, of Relugas, W.S., born 31st March 1746, died 2nd Oct. 1804; Thomas, surgeon, born 20th Nov. 1749, died in India

1776; Jean, born 3rd March 1753, died 1775. He was much consulted in regard to Patronage by Archibald, Duke of Argyll. For some years before Principal Robertson rose to eminence in the General Assembly he was leader of the Moderate party. Publications - Three single Sermons (1726-60); The Flight of the Timorous Clergyman. - [Wodrow's Anal., Moncreiff's Life of Erskine, Morren's Ann., Mackenzie's Life of Nome, Carlyle's Autob., Douglas's Bar.; Erskine's Disc., i.; Grant's Univ. of Edin., ii.; Somerville's Autobiography.]

1776 ROBERT HENRY, born 1st March 1718, son of James H., farmer, Muirton, St Ninians; educated at the Parish School, Stirling Grammar School, and Univ. of Edinburgh; master of the Grammar School of Annan; licen. by Presb. of Annan 27th March 1746; ord. min. of the Presbyterian congregation at Carlisle 4th Nov. 1748; trans. to the High Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 13th Aug. 1760; trans. to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 24th May 1768; D.D. (Edinburgh, 24th July 1770); Moderator of Assembly 1774 (his first appearance as a member); trans. and adm. 19th Dec. 1776. He had a pension of £100 yearly, 28th May 1781, "in consideration of his distinguished talents and great literary merit"; died 24th Nov. 1790, and was buried in Polmont Churchyard. The great achievement of his life was the History of Great Britain, a work now forgotten, but of which David Hume remarked that there “could hardly be found in our language any performance that unites together so perfectly the two great points of entertainment and instruction." He devised and carried into effect in 1762 a scheme for the widows and orphans of Nonconformist ministers in the North of England. A few days before his death he bequeathed his library to the Town Council and Presbytery of Linlithgow, as a foundation for one which might be used by the public. He marr. 26th June 1763, Ann Balderston, who died 15th Feb. 1800, without issue. Publications- The History of Great Britain, 6 vols.-the last vol. being posthumous, was edited by Sir H. Moncreiff Wellwood, with additions