HADDINGTON] TRANENT AND SETON 397 WILLIAM MELDRUM, M.A. ; trans. 7 from Aucliterless ; adm. 8tli Aug. 1672 ; trans, to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1675. JAMES CRAIG, M.A.; trans, from 1676 Selkirk; adm. 6th Oct. 1676; deprived in 1681, having refused the Test ; afterwards min. of Canongate and Duddingston. — [Edin. Counc. JReg., xxviii.] JAMES GARTSHORE, M.A. (Glasgow 1651) ; min. of Penninghame 1661 ; trans, to Kilsyth 1666 ; trans, to Canlross 1673 ; D.D. (Glasgwv) ; trans, and adm. about July 1683; clem. 1689; died (date unknown). He marr. (1) 6th Aug. 1691, Jean Lockhart, widow of Gavin Hamilton of Raploch : (2) 3rd July 1696, Janet Cheyne, widow of Walter Macgill, min. of Kilsyth. On 4th Dec. 1694, when a member of Presb. went to preach at Tranent, he found " great disturbance and a rabble throwing stones at those assembled to hear him." The pulpit was occupied by Bernard M'Kenzie, and he had to conduct both diets of worship in the kirkyard. — [Edin. Reg. (Marr.); MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.] JOHN MUTTER, M.A. (Edinburgh, l7ol 13th March 1695); licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 17th Aug. 1698 ; app. by the Presb. jure devoluto, 24th Oct. 1700, after a twelve years' vacancy ; ord. 17th April 1701 ; died 19th Jan. 1739, aged about 64. He marr. Nov. 1701, Elizabeth, daugh. of George Whyte, plumber, Edinburgh, who died 25th May 1772, and had issue —Thomas, min. of Dumfries ; Robina. — [Edin. Keg. (Marr.), Wodrow MSS.] CHARLES CUNINGHAM, licen. by 1740 Presb. of Dunbar 6th Aug. 1729; pres. by George II. 24th April 1739, but not ord. till 25th Sept. 1740 ; died 4th April 1793, in his 92nd year. He marr. 26th Dec. 1744, Jean Sherriff, Ormiston, who died 6th April 1753, and had issue—Alex- ander, W.S., born 8th Nov. 1745, died 23rd Feb. 1827 ; Charles, born 10th May 1747. It was in Cuningham's manse that Colonel Gardiner died. — [Acts of Ass., 1740; Mor- ren's Ann., i.] HUGH CUNINGHAM, nephew of pre- l"784 ceding ; licen. by Presb. of Hadding- ton 2nd Oct. 1781 ; pres. by George III., and ord. (assistant and successor) 15th April 1784 ; died 20th July 1801. He marr. 17th Nov. 1786, Janet Brown, of Preston- kirk, who died 19th Aug. 1797, and had issue—John Macpherson, min. of Kinglassie, born 6th Sept. 1787 ; Robert Brown, born 25th Jan. 1790. Publications—A Short Explanation of the Ten Commandments ; Sermon on the Death of his Mother; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, x.). ANDREW BROWN, tutor in the family 1802 °^ J°nn Caclell of Cockenzie ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 6th July 1773; ord. 1st April 1777 chaplain to the 21st Foot; trans, to Falkland 10th June 1784 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 27th Nov. 1794); pres. by George III. 22nd Dec. 1801 ; trans, and adm. 29th April 1802; died 26th April 1805. He marr. 13th Dec. 1788, Anne (died, without issue, at Old Aberdeen, 11th July 1810), youngest daugh. of Professor Thomas Gordon, King's College, Aberdeen. Publi- cation— Account of Falkland (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, iv.). — [Tombst.] JOHN HENDERSON, born 1771, third 1806 son °^ Andrew H., schoolmaster, Methven ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1793) ; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 27th March 1798 ; tutor in the family of the Hon. Francis Charteris ; pres. by George III. 30th July 1805 ; ord. 6th March 1806 ; died 4th Jan. 1850. He marr. 27th Aug. 1807, Grace (died at Leith, 14th Oct. 1855), daugh. of Thomas Bell, Fen- wick, Northumberland, and had issue — Francis Charteris, surgeon H.EI.C.S.. bom 24th July 1808; Elizabeth Frances, born 6th April 1810; Charles Murray, surgeon H.E.I.C.S., born 26th April 1812 • Christina, born 2nd April 1815 ; Mary Margaret, born 9th Sept. 1817, died 25th