222 MUIRAVONSIDE [PRESB. OF PATRICK MONIPENNY, M.A. j adm. 1598 after 26th Sept. 1598; in 1607-8 Livingston was also in the charge ; removed to Livingston in 1610. — [Act. Red. Univ. StAndrews, Edin. and Stirling Presb. Regs., Reg. Assig., Calderwood's Hist.] ROBERT THOMSON,adm. 1612; trans, to Torryburn Oct. 1615, "but he knawis not quhat ordour he will tak, be reason of the great opposition that he hears will be made." ROBERT HALLEY, adm. 1616; trans. 1616 to Airth 1626. ALEXANDER CORNWALL, son of ie27 Bobert O, min. of Linlithgow ; licen. 4th Dec. 1622; ord. 8th April 1627; pres. by Charles I. in 1633; on 10th Feb. 1637 he received from Linlithgow Town Council a payment of £10 for "reading the prayers " in his brother's kirk ; he was in necessitous circumstances 14th March 1639 ; was accused of "invading James Muir, within the burgh of Linlithgow, with ane drawn quhinger, who had used insulting and provoking language to him, and of intromitting with the Session funds," and suspended by Presb. 2nd Dec. 1640 till next Synod ; demitted 1641, and deposed. He was to leave the country, 27th Sept. 1643, to " seik employment in the pastoral function." Being in distressed circum- stances, he received pecuniary aid from several kirk-sessions between 1646 and 1649 ; schoolmaster and precentor at Kettins 1st Sept. 1650. He represented to that Session that he had not whereon to live, and desired the loan of £8 from the box, which he promised to pay out of his first salary. In May 1652 he was under a sentence of excommunication for marry- ing and baptizing irregularly ; and was alive May 1659. He marr. Marion Hamil- ton, and had issue—Elizabeth; Janet; Alexander ; Jean.— [Linlithg., Kettins, Falkirk, Dunferml., and Carnock Sess. Regs. ; Nicoll's Diary.] JOHN BRUCE, born 1608 ; M.A. (Edin- 1642 burgh, 27th July 1628); pres. by James, Lord Livingston of Almond, 21st June 1641 ; adm. 31st Aug. 1642. His decreet of locality having been destroyed by the burning of his house, and the registers lost, he obtained another, 7th Dec. 1664. Although some of the heritors " were ready to propone that their proportion was above the worth of their teinds," the Commissioners repelled their objections, as " they had been in constant use these eighteen years of paying that proportion ; and they and their pre- decessors had bought the land with the burden of that locality, and so they had no prejudice thereby." He died before 20th March 1672. Isobel Ker, his widow, claimed the ann, which was resisted, as she had not been confirmed executrix. The Lords, however, 16th July 1673, "found no neces- sity of confirmation of the Ann." He interdicted himself at the instance of Isobel Ker, his wife, and Andrew Ker of Littledean, 27th Feb. 1665 (Reg. of Deeds, Mack.). A son, James, died in 1648.—[Connel on Tithes, iii. ; Morrison's Digest and Diet., Tombst. ; Baillie's Lett., ii.] HEW BLAIR, M.A.; ord. and adm. (helper) 31st Oct. 1655 ; trans, to Rutherglen 1661.— [Glasg. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Baillie's Lett., iii., and Mem.] 1655 [There is no trace of a settlement between 1661 and 1667.] ANDREWUR1E,licen.byGeorge,Bishop 1667 of Edinburgh, 7th Feb. 1667; pres. by Alexander Livingstone of Almond {Decreets, Durie, 12th Nov. 1672) ; ord. 30th July 1667. The Communion cups (1676) bear his name. In April 1685 Peter Gillies, waulker (bleacher of cloth), of Skirling, a Covenanter, was apprehended at his instiga- tion and executed at Mauchline a month afterwards. Urie was outed by the rabble and deserted his cure 1689 ; died in Edin- burgh, 14th Oct. 1707, in his 71st year. He marr. Katherine Kinnear (Stirling Sas., 15th June 1688), and had issue —Margaret (marr. April 1706, Charles Bell, W.S.) ; Anna (marr. John Bethune, younger, of Craigfoodie) ; Elizabeth ; Mary. — [Reg. Collat., Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and