274 INNERLEITHEN [PllESB. OF
INNERLEITHEN.
[The church, dedicated to St Callistus,
formerly belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.]
1563 PATRICKSANDERSON, extorter.
WILLIAM SANDERSON, probably
1585 son of preceding ; Hope-Kailzie and
Traquair were also under his care
;
pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 24th
May 1599; died before 5th Feb. 1607.
—[Beg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Edin.
Bresb. and Test. Beg.]
PATRICK SANDERSON, son of pre-
1607 ceding, "exhorter at Henderlethane
at Beltyn 1571," and reader at Inner-
leithen and Hope-Kailzie 1574, and at the
former only 1576-80; pres. to the vicar-
age by James VI. 5th Feb. 1607; con-
tinuing (though old and weak) 14th July
1641, but died before 17th April 1645. He
left a widow, Isobel Tait.
—
[Beg. Mm. and
Assig., Wodrow Miscell.]
JAMES SMYTH, M.A. ; ord. (colleague)
1641 14t*x ^u*y 1641 ' Pres> ky J°nn ) Earl
of Traquair, 20th March, and inst.
21st June 1644 ; a member of Commission
of Assembly 1645 ; trans, to Eddleston in
1665.—[Jedburgh Bresb. Beg.; Beg. Old
Dee., iii. ; Acts of Ass.]
GEORGE FORBES, trans, from Port-
1666 patrick ; pres. by John, Earl of Tra-
quair; coll. 16th Feb., and inst. 1st
March 1666 ; trans, to Traquair 15th June
1674.—[Morrison's Bee., xviii.]
HEW GRAY, M.A. (Glasgow 1634) ; ord.
1674 to Kailzie 3rd June 1647; sum-
moned before the Privy Council 12th
Dec. 1661, for countenancing the admission
of John Hay to Manor; trans, and inst.
9th Sept. 1674 ; alive at 8th June 1681, but
probably died soon after.— [Morrison's
Dec., xviii.]
ALEXANDER GRAY, son of preceding,
1682 inst. 17th Aug. 1682 ; dem. Oct. 1695.
He marr. 11th Nov. 1692, Elizabeth
Porteous of Hawkshaw, in the parish of
Tweedsmuir, and had issue—Hew.
—
[Beg.
Old Dec., ii. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
THOMAS LOWIS, probably a "Lowis
16 7 of Menar " [Manor], then a leading
county family (now represented
(1914) by Charles von Lowis of Menar,
Riga, Livonia, Russia) ; M.A. (Edinburgh
1643) ; min. of Galashiels 1657 ; dep. 1662.
In 1688 he was living at Traquair, when
Donald Ker of Kersland "went to the
House of Traquair, in frost and snow, and
found a great deal of Romish wares there,
but wanted the cradle, Mary and the Babe,
and the priest. He sent (messengers) to
the house of Mr Thomas Lowis, who had
the name of a Presbyterian min. He
ordered them to search his house narrowly.
Mr Lowis and his wife mocked them, with-
out offering them either meat or drink,
though they had much need of it. At last
they found two trunks locked, which they
desired to have opened. Mr Lowis then
left them. They broke up the coffers,
wherein they found a golden cradle, with
Mary, and the Babe in her bosom ; in the
other trunk, the priest's robes (the Earl and
the priest were fled), which they brought
all to the Cross of Peebles, with a great
deal of Popish books, and many other
things of great value, all Romish wares,
and burnt them there" (Patrick Walker's
Vindication ofMr Bichard Cameron, 1727).
He was called to this charge 29th Oct.
1696 ; adm. 3rd March 1697 ; died between
3rd and 24th Nov. 1703, aged about 82.
He had a son, William Lowis of Plora.
—
[Chambers's Beeblesshire.]
JAMES GRAY, licen. by Presb. of
2
Earlston 23rd Nov. 1699 ; called 28th
Nov. 1705 ; ord. 3rd May 1706 ; died
17th June 1726, in his 50th year. He marr.
Helen Burnett, who died 6th Feb. 1751,
and had issue— James.— [Pennecuik's
Works, Tombst,]
GILBERT HUTCHESON, educated at
i"727 Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1708-
12 ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 1st
Nov. 1720 ; ord. to Lyne and Megget 1723 ;
trans, and adm. 24th May 1727 ; died 4th
Sept. 1754, in 63rd year. He marr. 28th