HADDINGTON] PENCAITLAND—PRESTONPANS 387 born 17th Feb. 1801 (marr. 3rd Jan. 1826, David Dickson of Kilbucho, advocate) ; Caroline, born 3rd Aug. 1802 ; Harriet, born 22nd July 1804 ; John, born 31st May 1807; William, born 27th Sept. 1808; Mary, born 22nd Oct. 1809. Publication— Sermon preached at the Opening of the Synod (Edinburgh, 1813).—[Sime's West Kirk, Tate's Hist, of Alnwick.] ANGUS MAKELLAR, born Kilmichael 1814 ^lassaiT> 22nd June 1780, son of Duncan M., farmer; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 27th June 1810 ; ord. to Car- munnock 30th April 1812 ; pres. by Mr and Mrs Campbell of Shawfiekl, and aclm. 29th June 1814; D.D. (Glasgow, 27th Feb. 1835) ; Moderator of the General Assembly 21st May 1840. Joined the Free Church 1843, but held no charge ; Moderator of the Free Church Assembly 20th May 1852 ; died at Edinburgh, 10th May 1859. He marr. 31st Aug. 1814, Helen, born 14th Feb. 1783, eldest daugh. of William Stirling of Keir. She died about a month after her husband, and had issue—William, min. of the Free Church, Pencaitland, 1843-5, sub- sequently a min. and elder of the Church of Scotland, without any charge, born 29th Aug. 1816, died at Biarritz 5th Nov. 1896; John Archibald, born 26th Sept. 1817 ; Jane Ann, born 2nd Sept. 1820. Publications — -Three Occasional Ser- mons (Edinburgh, 1817-38). — [StirlingPap.] MAXWELL NICHOLSON, pres. by Mary,Lady Ruthven, 11th July 1843 ; ord. 29th Aug. 1843 ; trans, to Tron Parish, Edinburgh, 24th Aug. 1854. WILLIAM LYON RIACH, pres. by Mary, Lady Ruthven ; trans, from Balmaghie, and adm. 1st Feb. 1855 ; trans, to Robertson Memorial, Edinburgh, 14th March 1872. JAMES COULLIE, born Dundee, 30th „ March 1844, son of Alexander C. and Mary Wighton ; educated at Mon- trose Academy, Univ. of Edinburgh (M.A. 1868, B.D. 1871), and at Tubingen; licen. by Presb. of Brechin 31st Oct. 1871 ; assist- ant at The Park, Glasgow \ ord. 15th Aug. 1872. Marr. 19th April 1877, Margaret Alice (died 31st Dec. 1895), daugh. of Kenneth Sutherland Brodie, of Blair Lodge, Stirlingshire, and Isabella Waters Smith, and had issue—Isabella Brodie, born 5th April 1878, died 7th Oct, 1904 ; Mary Alice, born 9th Sept. 1879 (marr. Major Stodart, I.M.S.) ; Alexander Glover, born 27th May 1881 ; Kenneth Ruthven, born 9th Feb. 1883; James Arthur, M.A., min. of St Columba's, Oban, born 6th Dec. 1884 ; William Leckie, born 12th Jan. 1887; Norman Dundas, born 12th Jan. 1887, died 15th May 1896 ; Evelyn Margaret, born 17th Aug. 1892. PRESTONPANS, formerly PRESTON or SALT PRESTON [Once a vicarage belonging to the Abbey of Holyrood ; the church was burnt down during Hertford's invasion of 1544. The lands and barony of Preston, and the Pans which had been annexed to the vicarage of Tranent, were dissolved therefrom, and erected into a distinct vicarage' by James VI., 27th Dec. 1597, " to be callit the Vicar- age of Preston." Erected again into a parish by Parliament, 11th July 1606.] JOHN DAVIDSON was born about the 1595 year 154^> a^ Dunfermline, where his parents owned property in houses and lands. He entered St Leonard's College, St Andrews, in 1567, and after graduating, became a regent of the College, pursuing the study of theo- logy. Being introduced to John Knox, he set himself to advance the cause of the Reformation, and one of his earliest ser- vices was the production of a play intended to expose the errors of Romanism, which was acted in Knox's presence. In 1573 there appeared from his pen Ane Breif Commendation of Uprightness, a poem in praise of Knox, with accompanying verses on the Reformer's death. Soon after, another poetical tract was issued anony- mously, under the title of Ane Dialog, or Mutitait Talking (>< twixt a Clerk and a/ru Courteour, concerningfoure Parische Kirks till ane Minister. This was a reflec- tion on the Regent Morton, who had been uniting parishes under one minister to