DALKEITH] COCKPEN—CRANSTOUN 309
assistant at Selkirk; ord. 16th July 1875;
died on the golf-course at Leven, 5th Aug.
1902. He was unmarried.
ROBERT MONTGOMERIE HARDIE,
born Glasgow, 15th July 1853, son of
William H. ; educated at Gorbals
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1893),
B.D. (1900); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow,May
1897 ; a teacher of elocution forsome years ;
ord. to Ladyburn, Greenock, 22nd Sept.
1897; trans, and adm. 17th Feb. 1903.
Marr. 26th Nov. 1875, Mary Steel, daugh.
of William Smith, and has issue—Frances,
born 28th April 1877; William, born 11th
June 1878 ; Agnes Montgomerie, born 6th
Oct. 1881 ; Thomas, born 7th June 1886
;
Robina, born 5th Jan. 1891 ; David Gardiner,
born 28th Sept. 1896.
CRANSTOUN.
[Previous to the Reformation the church
known as Little Preston {Reg. of Deeds, 6th
June 1676) belonged to the Archbishop of
St Andrews.]
ANDREW BLACKHALL, probably
^ removed from Ormiston ; pres. to
the vicarage by James VI. 20th
March 1570; trans, to Inveresk 1574,
though mentioned as here 16th March
1585, when the parish was probably held
with Inveresk and Ormiston.— [Calder-
wood's MS. Hist.]
JAMES MURRAY, reader, 1574-80, is
styled minister 19th March 1583-4,
but only reader again 1585-9.—[Wod-
row Miscell., Reg. Assig.]
JOHN NYMBILL [NIMMO], M.A.
;
trans, from Corstorphine ; adm. 23rd
April 1590 ; trans, toNewton 1596-7 ;
inin. again in 1610.
—
[Reg. Assig.]
1590
JAMES WATSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
10th Aug. 1595) ; adm. 1597 ; died
1597 10th Feb. 1608. He marr. Jean,
daugh. of Henry Kinnear, commendator
of Balraerino (Fife Inhib., 2nd Sept. 1603).
She survived him, and marr. (2) 1610, Hew
Scott (Reg. of Deeds, clxxx., 89).—[Reg.
Assig., Test. Reg.; Wodrow's Biog., ii.]
JOHN NYMBILL [NIMMILL,
1610 NIMMO], eldest son of William N.
in Dalkeith (Actsand Decreets, 1588),
and grandson of William N. (Reg. Mag.
Sig., 785) ; M.A. (St Andrews 1583) ; min.
at Keith-Marischal 1589 ; trans, to Cor-
storphine 1589 ; trans, and adm. here 1590
;
trans, to Newton 1596-7 ; retrans. 1610.
He died 20th Oct. 1616, "it having pleased
the Lord to call him, even the very tyme of
the celebration of the Lord's Supper," aged
about 54. He marr. before 6th Aug. 1607
(Edin. Sec. Reg., ix., 45), Margaret, daugh. of
Andrew Hutcheson, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh, through whose right he entered
burgess and guild-brother of that city 7th
June 1615 ; she survived him, and marr.
John Learmonth, W.S. (Reg. of Deeds,
cccclxvi., 309), and had issue—James
;
Mary.
—
[Test., Dalkeith Sess., and Edin.
Guild Regs.; Inq. Ret., Edin., 813; Pit-
cairn's Crim. Trials, iii.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, adm. to Lang-
1617 newton 19th April 1609; pres. byDavid MacGill of Cranstoun-Riddel
;
trans. 27th Jan. 1617 ; a member of As-
sembly 1638, and of the Commissions
1642, 1645; died Oct. 1659. He marr.
Elizabeth Simpson, who was buried in
Greyfriars, 14th Jan. 1672, and had
issue—David, min. of Polwarth ; Patrick,
min. of Penicuik ; James, apprenticed to
David Kennedy, surgeon, Edinburgh, 17th
Nov. 1649; Robert, to William Burnett,
surgeon, 9th June 1652; Thomas, to
Patrick Borthwick, goldsmith, 26th May
1647.—[Test. Reg.; Stat. Reports, 1627;
Acts of Ass. ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.
;
Baillie's Lett., iii. ; Edin. Reg. of Appren-
tices^]
ALEXANDER HERIOT, son of James
1660 H. ; educated at Univ. of Edin-
burgh; M.A. (8th July 1644); called
1st April, and ord. 5th July 1660 ; deprived
by Act of Parliament 11th June, and of
Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He became
rector of the High School of Edinburgh
17th May 1672, but was deprived 1st March
1679, for not conforming to Episcopacy
;
died between 24th Nov. 1682 and 29th Jan.
1687. He left a widow, Agnes Nisbet.