324 HERIOT—INVERESK, ok MUSSELBURGH [presb. of 19th June 1809 ; Lily,bom 2nd April 1811 ; Hectorina Foord, born 28th Dec. 1812 ; Helen Hay, born 12th Aug. 1814; Alex- ander, F.R.C.S.E., born 10th Aug. 1816. Publication—Account of the Parish (Sin- clair's Stat. Ace, xvi.).— [Lauder Presb. Reg., Small's Hist, of TJ.P. Congregations.] ALEXANDER WELSH, pres. by Sir 1817 J°nn Hamilton Dalrymple, and ord. 19th Sept. 1817 ; trans, to Cranstoun 26th June 1829. EDWARD HUME, pres. by Sir John 1829 Hamilton Dalrymple, and ord. 25th Sept. 1829; trans, to Pitsligo 25th Sept, 1834. ROBERT COURT, born Muthil, 18th 1834 April 1790, son of James C. ; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 1st Aug. 1815 ; assistant at Yester and Cranstoun ; ord. 7th April 1831, min. of the Presbyterian con- gregation at Maryport ; pres. by Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, and adm. 18th Nov. 1834. Joined the Free Church ; min. of theFree Church, Pathhead, 1843 ; res. 1866 ; died unmarr. 27th May 1870. ROBERTWRIGHT, ord.22nd Sept, 1843 ; 1843 trans, to Luss 31st March 1846. GEORGE SIMMIE SMITH, ord. 23rd 1846 ^U^ ^"^ > trans, to Cranstoun 18th Dec. 1868. DANIEL CAMERON, born Glasgow, 1869 18th Oct. 1839, son of Daniel O, min. of Ayton ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1863); licen. by Presb. of Chirnside 20th June 1865 ; chaplain to the Marquess of Bute at Mountstuart ; ord. 23rd April 1869; died 3rd June 1871. He marr. 11th Dec. 1867, Elizabeth Waller Dowling, eldest daugh. of Forbes Scott Brown of Longformacus, and had issue — Elizabeth Waller, born 26th Dec. 1869 ; Amelia Nisbett, born 21st Oct. 1871 (posthumous). (His widow married again 28th June 1875.) JOHN FRANCIS BROWN, born Edin- burgh, 14th March 1845, son of John Crawford B., A.R.S.A. ; educated at High School, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1868 ; assistant at Glasgow (Tron) and Dalkeith ; ord. 20th Oct. 1871. He marr. (1) 6th July 1886, Jane Hay Edie, who died 5th Sept. 1902, and had issue — Margaret Hay Bruce, born 27th June 1887 ; John Crawford, born 17th March 1889; Charles Edie, born 10th Dec. 1891 ; Francis George Leslie, born 4th Jan. 1897 ; died 26th July 1898 : (2) 5th March 1907, Winifred, third daugh. of Clifford N. S. Elliot, London. INVERESK, on MUSSELBURGH. [The church was dedicated to St Michael, and previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Dunfermline. Disjoined from the Presb. of Edinburghby the General Assembly in July 1591, and annexed to that of Dalkeith, 28th Oct. same year.] 1567 JOHN BURNE, min. in 1567. In 1569 a glebe of four acres was designed for him by John Spottiswood, Super- intendent of Lothian. — [Boohe of the Kirk, Calderwood's MS. Hist., Beg. Min., Excheq. Buih ; Zurich Lett., ii.] 1570 EDWARD LAYIS [LEES], reader. ANDREW BLACKHALL, at one time a 1574 canon of the Abbey of Holyrood ; became min. of Liberton 1567, of Ormiston 1568, of Cranstoun 1570 ; adm. in 1574, having also charge of Newton and Cranstoun. As Commissioner of a Province he was accused at the Assembly, 1580, of admitting an unqualified person to be exhorter, "an office which the Assembly acknowledgeth not." By theAssembly 1586 he was named one of the commissioners for trying the offences of the ministry in Lothian. He died 31st Jan. 1609, in his 73rd year. He marr. Janet Wright, and had issue—Andrew (only child), min. of Aberlady. — [Reg. Assig. et Min., Hadding- ton Presb. and Test. Reg., Excheq. Bicik, Calderwood's Hist. ; Acts Pari., iv. ; Tombst., Wodroiv Miscell. and Biog., Pit- cairn's Cr. Trials, Sinclair's Stat. Arc., New Stat. Arc]