PEESBYTERY  OF  DALKEITH

[Proposed  to  be  erected  by  the  General  Assembly,  April  1581.  The  Eegister  consists
of  twenty-five  volumes,  commencing  15th  March  1581-2,  and  has  been  preserved,  with
blanks,  from  2nd  April  1584  to  10th  Oct.  1588,  March  to  Sept.  1589,  16th  July  1594  to  9th
Dec.  1611,  9th  Jan.  1662  to  1st  May  1673,  and  April  1688  to  May  1692.  The  last
portion  was  in  possession  of  the  Presb.  3rd  July  1750,  but  missing  in  Aug.  1817.]


BORTHWICK,    FORMERLY

LOCHERWORTH.
[Endowed  with  prebends  belonging  to
the  College  Kirk  of  Crichton,  at  the  in-
stance of  James  VI.,  4th  April  1596,  and
ratified  by  Parliament,  11th  July  1606.
The  church  was  dedicated  to  St  Mungo.]

THOMAS  CRANSTOUN,  adm.  1567;
trans,    to  Liberton   about  Lammas
1667     1569.— [Reg.  Min. ;  Archceol.  Scot.,  i. ;
New  Stat.  Ace]

JOHN  COLDEN,  min.  in  1586 ;  pres.  to
.  Newlands,  which  was  refused,  then

to  Kinross. — [Reg.  Assig.,  New  Stat.
Ace]

JAMES  HUNTER,  M.A.;  adm.  in
1593     1593 ;  trans,  to  Skirling  1594.—  [Reg.
1595


ADAM  COLT,  called  4th  Aug.  and
adm.  30th  Sept.  1595,  and  had  a
glebe  designed ;  pres.  by  James  VI.
11th  May  1596 ;  trans,  to  Inveresk  1597. —
[Edin.  and  Haddington  Presb.  Regs.,  Reg.
Assig.,  Crawford's  Univ.,  Colleg.  Ch.  of
Mid-Lothian;  Sinclair's  Stat.  Ace,  xiii.]

JOHN    MORAY,   M.A.  j    pres.    to  the

1598    Parsonage   and   vicarage,  15th  Dec.
