NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION Following an Overture to the General Assembly, a Committee was appointed to deal with the Continuation of the Fasti Ecclesice Scoticance. A Revision of the whole work was afterwards agreed upon. The present edition, therefore, is the result. Synods and Presbyteries are arranged in the order of the Roll of the General Assembly, and Parishes alphabetically under Presbyteries. A condensed notice of each minister's career is now given under his last incumbency, except in the case of professors and bishops, who are placed under a separate heading. The genealogical and bibliographical details have been much extended, proper names modernised, and some irrelevant matter omitted. A selection of the authorities quoted by Dr Hew Scott has been retained, and some newer ones added. For the Continuation, authorities are only occasionally mentioned, the information having been derived from the ecclesiastical records and the ministers themselves, or their descendants and acquaint- ances. Session and Presbytery Records have been again consulted, and considerable additions made from the Separate Register. Parish and family histories, biographies, and books of reminiscence have yielded an abundant crop of fresh information. To each volume a Bibliography of local literature is appended, also an Index of Parishes and Ministers mentioned therein, and in the last volume a cumulative Index of the whole work will appear. So many persons have kindly given assistance in the preparation of this work it is impossible to thank them in detail, but mention must be made of the Clerks of Presbyteries, whose help has proved in- valuable, and of John Maitland Thomson, LL.D., to whose learned researches the Committee is much indebted. w. s. c. 3lst December 1914. m