EDINBURGH] KIRKNEWTON 151 and there being a question also as to the glebe, the Lords found that the nearest of kin had right thereto, they proving that the defunct had sown the same before his decease." — [Act. Beet. Univ. St And., Dal- keith Presb. and Test. Beg.; Wodrow's Hist., i. ; Morison's Digest and Dec, i. ; New Stat. Ace, i.] WILLIAM ALISON, M.A. ; ord. and coll. 12th July 1663; trans, to Kil- bucho in 1666.—[Reg. Collat.] CHARLES LUMSDEN, son of Charles L., min. of Duddingston ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (30th June 1658) ; originally a merchant in Edinburgh, and so styled, 27th Oct. 1662 (G. R. Inhib.) ; licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 16th Sept. 1665 ; ord. and coll. 30th Aug. 1666. He is styled "late min. of K.," 21st Oct. 1673 and 11th Aug. 1674. He marr. Elizabeth Allan, and had issue — John, bapt. 13th Oct. 1667.—[Reg. Collat., Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; New Stat. Ace, i.] JOHN W1LKIE, coll. 18th May 1669; 1669 trans- to Ratho in Feb. 1672.—[Reg. Collat. ; Neiv Stat. Ace, i.] JAMES OLIPHANT, pres. by John, Lord Balmerino, before 6th March (Moray Inventory) ; adm. 30th July 1672 ; died 4th Aug. 1673. 1672 JAMES WAUGH, M.A. ; ord. and coll. 21st Oct. 1673; trans, to South Leith in 1682.—[Reg. Collat.] JOHN ALEXANDER, ord. 5th July 1683 1683 ; trans, to Durisdeer same year. WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.A.; trans, from Irvine 1689, when he obeyed the proclamation, and prayed for their Majesties William and Mary, but was prevented from preaching by certain persons unconnected with the parish, who carried off the keys of the church, on which he petitioned the Committee of Estates, who ordered him to be restored and secured in the peaceable exercise of his ministry, and possession of his house and goods. He was received into Communion 1692. —[Acts Pari., ix. ; Rule's Sec. Vindication.] JOHN BANNERMAN, deprived by the 1689 Privy Council, 4th Sept. 1689, for not praying for King William and Queen Mary.—[MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; New Stat. Ace, i. ; Rule's Sec. Vindica- tion.] JAMES ANDERSON, ord. 1691; trans, to West Linton 2nd July 1696.— [Peebles Presb. Reg.; New Stat.Ace, i.] JOHN THORBURN, born 1675, son and heir of John T., portioner, of Smailholm and Elizabeth Wilson M.A. (Edinburgh, 3rd July 1693); licen. by Presb. of Earlston 8th April 1697 ; ord. in 1699; dem. 25th July 1744; died 4th Oct. 1758. Marr. (1) Mary Skene (Rox. Sas., vii., 307) : (2) 30th Jan. 1732, Isobel, daugh. of James Stevenson of Carrickmure, and had issue—James of Smailholm, only son, died 7th May 1798, aged 50 (Edin. Reg.). ALEXANDER BRYCE, born Boarland, Kincardine-on-Forth, 1713 ; educated at Kilmadock School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (15th May 1735); a tutor in Caithness for some years ; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 12th June 1744 ; called 11th April, and ord. 22nd Aug. 1745 ; pres. to East Calder by Francis, Duke of Buccleuch, March 1750 ; one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary 1770; died 1st Jan. 1786. He was the means of discovering the Stirling Jug, a pint measure, considered as the ancient standard of Scotland for grain, which had been lost sight of ; the measurement of which he accurately ascertained to contain 103TViT(j cubic inches. He adjusted the weights and measures of Edinburgh, and " for his good services to the city " was made a burgess and guild-brother in Jan. 1754. He assisted in revising the calcula- tions for the Ministers' AVidow.-i' Fund ; and was a poet of no mean rank, having written a version of the song, "The Birks of Invermay." He marr. 23rd Oct. 1750, Janet (died 23rd March 1807), daugh. of Provost Gillespie of Stirling, and had issue —Mary, born 6th Aug. 1751 ; Katherine, I born 23rd March 1753 (marr. Theodore j Alexander of Wellnehl); John, born 26th