LINLITHGOW] KERSE—KINNEIL 211 WILLIAM ANDREW KNOWLES, 1906 ^-"A-> B.D. ; ord. to Kerse Mission 2nd Sept. 1897; trans, to West Coates Parish, Edinburgh, 1st Oct. 1909. WALTER ROLAND LACEY, M.A. ; 1910 orc^ ky John Herbert Edwards, bishop of the Moravian Church ; received into the Church of Scotland as an ord. min. by General Assembly 13th May 1907 ; adm. to this charge 2nd Feb. 1910 ; trans, to Hillhead, Glasgow, 12th Feb. 1914. WILLIAM ROBERTSON BROWN, 1914 k°rn Rathven, 9th Sept. 1884, son of William B. ; educated at Gram- mar School, Keith, and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1904) ; licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1908 ; as- sistant at Hamilton ; ord. 6th May 1914. KINNEIL. [Belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood ; united to Borrowstounness by Parliament, 23rd Dec. 1669. A mere fragment of the ancient church of St Katherine is extant.] 1567 JOHN JOHNSTON, exhorter, 1567. PETER HAMILTON, reader, 1571; 1571 trans, to Livingstone in 1585. — [Reg. Min. and Assign.] THOMAS PEEBLES, pres. to Bathgate, but ordered to remain 25th April 1592 ; a member of Assembly in 1602 and 1610; continued 22nd Oct. 1617. He had a son, John, boarded in the New College, St Andrews, 11th Dec. 1616, prob- ably min. of Kirkmichael ; also a daugh., Margaret, wife of John Gibson, min. at Dalmeny. — [Beg. Assig. ; Edin. Presb., Syn., and Test. Beg. ; Booke of the Kirk, Calder- wood's Hist.] JOHN PEEBLES, M.A. (Edinburgh, 22nd July 1615); adm. 1618; died March 1625, aged about 30. RICHARD DICKSON, M.A. (Edin- burgh, 28th July 1596; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th March 1599 ; adm. to St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, probably only as assistant, and ord. 2nd June 1603 ; pres. by Anne, Marchioness of Hamilton, and adm. 1625. He was a 1588 1618 1625 member of the General Assembly 1638 ; died 2nd May 1648, aged about 72. He marr. (1) Bessie Panton, and had issue — Marion ; John ; Margaret ; James ; Robert, apprenticed 24th Aug. 1631 to John Dick- son, merchant, Edinburgh ; Richard ; John : (2) (cont. 2nd Jan. 1606 : Beg. of Deeds, cxc, 408) Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert Hamilton, merchant, Edinburgh, who sur- vived him. — [St Cuthbert's Sess. and I'est. Beg., Livingstone's Life and Charac.] WILLIAMWISHART, son of Alexander 1649 ^"' °^ ^e Pittarrow family, Forfar- shire, born Dec. 1621 ; M.A. (Edin- burgh, 15th April 1645); adm. 22nd Aug. 1649. He joined the Protesters, and formed one of the Dissenting Presb. from 6th Aug. 1651 to 11th Feb. 1659 ; he was confined to his chamber at Edinburgh by the Com- mittee of Estates, 15th Sept. 1660, and five days afterwards was imprisoned in the Tolbooth, where he remained for thirteen months, until released on the petition of the Presb. His stipend was seques- trated for his refusal to disown the Remon- strance or sign the bond for keeping the peace. On his wife petitioning Parliament, showing his sad condition, " as now prisoner in the Castle of Stirling, throw want of meanes, while ane numerous familie were dependant," an Act was passed, 29th Jan. 1661, whereby "all arrears of stipend were ordered to be payed to her be the persones lyable in payment thereof." An- other half-year's stipend was paid to him- self. He was intercommuned by the Council, 6th Aug. 1675, for keeping con- venticles ; ordered 5th Feb. 1685 to be sent to His Majesty's plantations for declining the Test, but liberated from prison 24th Aug. 1685, "upon giving bond with caution under 5000 merks to compear when called." At the Toleration he began to preach, and took charge of the congregation in Leith where he had his residence, 10th July 1687, promising to continue until a min. was settled, though he stands en- rolled as a min. in Presb. of Linlithgow at 25th July 1688, and was appointed one of the Pres. Committee to General Meeting in Edinburgh, 1st May 1689 ; he died Feb.