298 WALKERBURN—WEST LINTON [PRESB. OF the Presbytery of Peebles Magazine; con- vener of the General Assembly's Committee on Fasti Ecclesia? Scoticano3, and general editor of the present work (1914). WALKERBURN (Q.S.). [From 1868 services were conducted by probationers—John Crawford, George Christie, and James M'Intyre. In 1876 Walkerburn became a chapel-of-ease, and on 2nd July 1883 it was erected into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of the Court of Teinds. Disjoined from the parishes of Innerleithen and Traquair.] 1876 WILLIAM IRELAND GORDON, ord. 19th Oct. 1876; trans, to Tongland 24th March 1881. 1881 JAMES SMITH GOLDIE, born 17th Feb. 1854, son of William G., min. of Crawfordjohn ; educated at Skirling, Robertson's Academy, Preston Street, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh Univ. ; MA. (1873) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1876 ; assistant at Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dal- beattie, and West St Giles, Edinburgh ; ord. 22nd July 1881 ; clerk of Presb. 1897 ; died (on the roadway in the act of visiting his parishioners) 3rd Feb. 1908. 1908 DONALDMACGREGORGRANT,born Claggersnich, Cromdale, 17th Jan. 1879, son of William Stewart G. and Elsie Robertson ; educated at Grantown Grammar School, Gordon's College, Aber- deen, Aberdeen Univ. (M.A. 1901, B.D. 1904), Heidelberg, Berlin, Tubingen, and Oxford ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy 26th Sept. 1905 ; assistant at St Bernard's, Edin- burgh ; ord. 24th July 1908. WEST LINTON. [Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.] 1561 WALTER BALFOUR, styled vicar. 1563 ADAM COLQUHOUN, exhorter. ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, removed from Kirkurd, Kirkurd and New- 15*76 lands being also in the charge ; continued in 1578, but returned to Kirkurd in 1585. — {Reg. Assig.] DAVID NAIRNE, app. to be adm. after g 4th Nov. 1589 ; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 10th Nov. 1597. A glebe of small extent having been designed to him, a second and larger designation was made. This was challenged by a heritor, and brought before the Supreme Court. The Lords, 25th May 1605, " ordained the parties to agree upon a common metster to measure the glebe rightly, that the min. may possess conform thereto." N. further charged the said heritor for feal, fuel, and divot, conform to the quantity and pro- portion of his glebe, to the hail kirk-land. The Lords of same date "found that the min. may get pasturage and fuel in any commonty where the feuar has pasturage, but not within the feuar's pasturage." He died before 6th June 1622. — [Peg. Assig., Edin. Presb. and Test. Peg., Lochleven Pa]). ; Calderwood's Hist., v. ; Morrison's Digest and Pec, vi.] JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; pres. by James VI. 10th Dec. 1622 ; trans, to Westerkirk 1634, an exchange of benefices having been arranged. 1622 GEORGE JOHNSTONE, trans, from ,_„.. Westerkirk; pres. by Charles I.lbo-± ' " 15th Nov. 1634 ; trans, to Sanquhar 7th March 1639.—[Beg. Sec. Sig.] JOHN HOG, M.A. ; ord. 5th Feb. 1640 ; 1640 trans - to tne Canongate, Edinburgh, 19th May 1646.— [S. Leith Beg. (Bapt,).] 1647 ROBERT ELLIOT, M.A. (primus); trans, from Kilbucho ; adm. 11th March 1647. He was a member of the Commission of Assembly 1648, and was one of those summoned before the Privy Council for assisting in the admis- sion of the min. of Manor. Though refusing to conform he was allowed to