PEEBLES] KIRKURD—LYNE AND MEGGET 279 Perth Academy and St Andrews Univ. ; MA. (1872); licen. by Presb. of Perth 1872 ; assistant at St Paul's, Perth ; Royal Bounty missionary at Dalguise, Little Dun- keld, 1875 ; ord. to Glenshee 9th Feb. 1876 ; trans,and ind. 9th March 1881. Marr. 12th Dec. 1892, Margaret Julia, daugh. of Alex- ander Grant, of Firhill, Co. Cork, and has issue—Thomas Alexander Grant, lieut. K.O.S.B., born 16th Dec. 1893; Archibald William Buchanan, born 21st June 1896. Publications — The Beltane Queen (Peebles, 1909) ; Famous Scottish Links (Edinburgh, 1911). LYNE AND MEGGET. [Previous to the Reformation, Lyne was a chapel of Stobo. The parish of Megget was annexed in 1621. A Roman camp close to the church of Lyne may have been the cradle of Christianity both in the parish and in the county — vide Dr Gunn's The Book of Lyne and Megget.] PATRICK GRINTON, "ane reidare in 1571 Lyne " ; may be the Patrick Grinton who was vicar in 1553. GILBERT HAY of Bridgelands ; adm. 15?5 1575; died Feb. 1592. He marr. Janet Waugh, who survived him, and had issue—John, executor (Edin. Com. Deeds, 5th March 1607). — [Reg. Assig., Test. Reg., Excheq. Bulk.] JOHN KER, pres. by James VI. before 5 _ 1st May, and adm. 25th Oct. 1593 ; was a member of the Assembly 1602, and continued 6th Dec. 1627, when he was "agit, weak, and seiklie.'' He cared nothing for the world, lived most soberly, and was powerful in the ministry, giving almost all he had to the poor ; mendicants were regularly catechised when they visited his dwelling, while he gave liberally to their wants. He was apparently still alive in 1630 (Reg. of Deeds, ccccxxxi., 205). His son Hew succeeded to the benefice. [Among his direct descendants were John Ker, D.D., Professor in the United Presb. College, born at Tweedsmuir 1819; and William and Robert Chambers, publishers, born at Peebles 1800 and 1802.]—[Reg. Assig. and Sec. Sig., Edin. Presb. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Livingston's Charac. ; Calder- wood's Hist., v. ; Select Biog., i.] HEW KER, son of preceding; M.A. 1627 (Edinburgh, 14th July 1621); pres. (in conjunction with his father) by James VI. 3rd March 1627 ; was a member of the Assembly in 1638 ; died between 24th June and 29th July 1658, aged about 57. He marr. 12th April 1637, Janet (buried 10th July 1666 : Greyfriars Reg.), eldest daugh. of John Dickson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue — Hugh (or Hew), who was served heir to his father, and was apprenticed to George Hutcheson, merchant, Edinburgh, 25th March 1663; Janet, bapt. 21st July 1639 (marr. James Nasmyth : Privy Seal Eng. Reg., ii., 439). — [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.) ; Stevenson's Hist., ii. ; Peterkin's Records; Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Inq. Ret. Edin,, 824—et Gen,, 4522.] ROBERT BROWN, min. of Broughton 1644; called April 1659; trans, and adm. 1st Feb. 1660; one of those who assisted in the admission of the minister of Manor, under pain of rebellion, 1661. Deprived in 1682 ; returned in 1687. —[Wodrow's Hist,] JOHN HORSBURGH, MA. (Edin- burgh 1669) ; inst. and adm. June 1683 ; died before 14th March 1705, aged about 56.—[MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Reg. Old Dec, ii.] ROBERT BROWN, above noticed, is mentioned at the first meeting of mins. in the Province, 6th July 1687. He probably ministered in Lyne to the Presbyterians in the interval ; he was still min. in Aug. 1688, and there is no mention of his death. He had a son, Richard, and a daugh., Marion, alive in Peebles in 1704. SAMUEL MITCHELSON, son of John 1708 M. of Middleton; MA. (Edin- burgh, 28th June 1697) ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 2nd Oct. 1706; called 1687