Part 20
There is a slight discrepancy in the above record; for whereas the Royal letter is dated the 25th day of September, 1512, it is stated to have been produced by the vicar before the Court of Master David Abercrummy on the 5th day of March, 1511. The explanation may be that it was found difficult to grit the augmentation out of the clutches of the Stirling Canons, even after the Bishop of Candida Casa (Whithorn) had decreed in the vicar's favour, and that the Royal authority had again to be invoked to give effect to it. However this may be, it is certain that Master John Broune gained his point, as will appear from the following document, also in "braid Scots":--
"Schyr official, forsamekyll as the vicarage of the Kyrk of Creyf, is nocht contenyt, in the erectioun of our Souerane lordis Chapell Rial as the layf of the vicarages that are incorporat tharto, this is, tharfor, that ze assygne and mak ouyr vicar of Creyf als meikle zeyrly to his pensioun of the fructis o' the sayd vicarage to sustene him and serve the cuyr as ony of the vicarages of Balmaclellene, Suchwych, or Kellis has, with ane manse, zard, and gleyb and twa akaris of the kyrk-land callyt 'For,' next adjacent to the sayd kyrk, wyth certain gress soums for gudying of the sayd gleyb, according to the extent of the sayd kyrk-land, he payand of the samyn procurage and synnage aucht and wount and makand the deyne rurale expense quhen he vesiis the sayd kyrk.
"Alanerlye, for that our Souerane lordis, patroun of the sayd Kyrk of Creyf, has consentyt heirto, and commendit us to hys writtings to do the samyn, keip this our mandment for your warand, and cause the samyn to be fulfyllyt, sa that we heir na complant tharof in tymys cuming. Subscrivit wyth our hand at Edinbrugh, the v. day of March, the zer of God im. vc. xi. zeris. _Et sequitur subscripcio manualis dicti Episcopi D. Candide Case et Cappelle Regie Striuelingensis Episcopus_."
Then follows a narrative of proceedings in monk Latin, which I have been at some pains to translate thus:--
"Certain relevant documents having been publicly examined and shown in open Court, the said vicar immediately demanded from the judge that he should proceed with the augmentation of his annual pension of the said perpetual vicarage according to the tenor of the said two documents, especially because no reasonable bar had been alleged in Court why the augmentation in this kind should not be granted. And Master Abercrummy, the foresaid judge, having carefully examined the two documents and the foundation of the foresaid Chapel Royal, Stirling,
## particularly in that point where it treats of the erection of perpetual
vicarages and of their annual pensions, as in the case of the Parish Churches of Suchwych (Southwick), Kellis (Kells), and Balmaclellan, belonging to the said Chapel Royal, augmented the annual pension of the perpetual vicarage of Crieff in the manner which follows, and ordained--viz., that the perpetual vicar of the Church of Crieff, in Strathearn, who has had, _pro tempore_, shall have in perpetuity of the fruits of that Church of Crieff for his own sustenance and for those dependent on him, wherewith he may be able to live in comfort, twenty-four merks of the usual money of Scotland and two acres of arable land adjacent to the said church of the town, which is called 'For,' pertaining to the same church and (origin?) the house built upon it, along with pasture for his own animals according to the congruency (convenience?) of the same said acres, and with 'hearth-rights in the muirs and marshes of the said town' (focalibus competentinus in moris et marresiis ejusdem villae.) [The Latin is barbarous, and may mean anything; but it does seem to have some connection with the right of digging peats.] And besides, that the forenamed vicar, who has been bound, _pro tempore_, so, hereafter is, in perpetuity, bound to pay annually to the bishop in ordinary of the place the procurations aucht and wount on behalf of the said church, the synodal moneys and expense in ordinary for the Dean of Christianity who has annually visited the said Church of Crieff, in Strathearn, and the parish thereof; and that the payment of the pension, as regards the said 24 merks, shall be made to the said vicar of Crieff for the time being, at the four usual annual terms, in equal portions, to be lifted annually out of the fruits of the said Church of Crieff--viz., at the Festivals of the Finding of the Holy Cross; of St. Peter of the Chain; of All Saints; and of the Purification of our Lady.
"Upon which premises--all and single--the foresaid John Broune, perpetual pensionary vicar of the said parochial Church of Crieff, in Strathearn, asked the present public instruments to be executed for him by me, notary public undersigned. These deeds were lodged in the Chapel Royal, near the town of Edinburgh, in the consistory of the same, at the twelfth hour before mid-day, or thereby, in the year, day, month, indiction, and pontificate as above, there being present discreet men, Masters Ninian Spottiswoode, Archdeacon of the furesaid Chapel Royal, Stirling; John Tod, Alexander Painter, William Atkyn, Nicholas Buchan, all of the Chapel; James Aikman, burgess of Edinburgh; John Abercrummy, and Alexander Ramsay, with divers others, witnesses to the premises.
(Signed) "J. PRYMROIS."
It would appear from all this that there was a deal of trouble in connection with the erection of the Church of Crieff. One is apt to get confused among the Popes, Bishops, principal officials, and notaries public who were all concerned in the erection. We seem to reach the close of the long process on the first day of September, 1537, the year of the marriage of James V. to Madeleine of France, the year which lies almost exactly midway between the Battle of Flodden and the outbreak of the Reformation in 1560. Upon the second day of December, 1537, "the reverend father in Christ, Henry, by the Divine compassion, Bishop of the forenamed Chapel and of Candida Casa, from the tribunal with the consent of his brother canons, or at all events of the greater part of them, being assembled in Chapter, and as a memorial of a perpetual thing, ordered, ordained, and decreed that the erection of the Vicar Church of Crieff should be registered by Master John Lambert, Prebendary of the sacred Chapel and scribe of the foresaid Chapter, and to be inscribed and placed upon the books of the Registrars of the oft-mentioned Chapel."
I am greatly indebted to A. G. Reid, Esq., Auchterarder, for kindly furnishing me with the above valuable extracts, and I bring the paper to a close with a word or two about the Crieff of a later time. The annals of Crieff as a kirk-town are a dreary waste in the judgment of one who assures us that he has waded through the records of services from 1549 to 1700. One incident, however, took place between these dates which may be mentioned as being the last expiring flicker of the old jurisdiction exercised by the Stewards of Strathearn. The Earl of Perth discharged the duties of the office--what remained of them--down to the abolition of heritable jurisdictions in 1748. In the year 1682, the minister of Trinity-Gask, by name Richard Duncan, was condemned to death for the murder of a child which was found concealed under his own hearth-stone. Lord Fountainhall reports that he was convicted on very insufficient evidence, and the country people took the same view of the case. He was hanged on the "kind gallows of Crieff," on the knoll near the Cemetery, still marked by a solitary tree. The story goes that a messenger was seen and heard approaching, bearing a reprieve, but he came too late. Local sympathy asserted that the hour of execution was anticipated to gratify the spite of some one in authority. However this may be, the hanging of the Episcopal minister of Trinity-Gask was the last exercise of criminal jurisdiction on the part of the Steward of Strathearn. This was the last time the "kind gallows of Crieff" bore its ghastly fruit. The Highlanders' salutation to it is familiar to everybody.
A pleasanter sight by far than a string of dangling caterans was the great annual tryst, or Michaelmas Market. It was largely frequented, as being the only market of any consequence between Stirling and Inverness. We have it on the authority of Macky, a Government secret agent, who visited Scotland in 1723, that no fewer than thirty thousand cattle were sold to English dealers for thirty thousand guineas. He came from Stirling expressly to see the market, and here is his graphic description of what he saw:--
"The Highland gentlemen were mighty civil, dressed in their slash'd short waistcoats, a trousing (which is breechen and stockings of one piece of striped stuff), with a plaid for a cloak and a blue bonnet. They have a ponyard knife and a fork in one sheath, hanging at one side of their belt, their pistol at the other, and their snuff-mull before, with a great broadsword by their side. Their attendance was very numerous, all in belted plaids, girt like women's petticoats down to the knee, their thighs and half of the leg all bare. They had each also their broadsword and poynard, and spake all Irish, an unintelligible language to the English. However, these poor creatures hired themselves out for a shilling a day to drive cattle to England, and to return home at their own charge. There was no leaving anything loose here but it would have been stolen."
The Michaelmas Market was shorn of its glory and its picturesque aspect by the transference of the cattle tryst to Falkirk in 1770. There was occasional bloodshed at these gatherings, the peace being with difficulty preserved by the authority of the Lord of Drummond, who collected the customs of the fairs of Crieff and Foulis. These customs amounted, in 1734, to nearly £600 Scots. The Lochaber axes carried by the guardians of the peace may still be seen in the armoury at Drummond Castle. This last shred of baronial supervision--the ghost of the ancient Stewardship--disappeared in 1831. But perhaps the most interesting memorial of the Crieff Michaelmas Tryst is a poem written by one of the Highland drovers, whose appearance moved the compassion of Macky, the tourist of 1723. His name is Robert Doun or Donn. He had left his heart behind him in his native glen, as people will do, drovers as well as others. There is a ring of genuine poetry in the verses in which he expresses his love-sickness--his desire to go upon the wings of the wind as it whistles northward, northward:--
"Easy is my bed--it is easy, But it is not to sleep that I incline. The wind whistles northwards, northwards, And my thoughts move with it. More pleasant were it to be with thee In the little glen of calves Than to be counting of droves In the enclosures of Crieff."
Mention of the name of Robert Doun brings up recollections of another literary name--that of David Mallet, or Malloch, who is said to have been born in Crieff. He has the honour of being mentioned several times in Boswell's _Life of Johnson_. The latter had no great respect for him, though, perhaps, he did not mean all he said in his famous criticism of Lord Bolingbroke's philosophy, which Mallet published after the author's death. "Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward--a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to fire it off after his death." It has been disputed whether Mallet, or Thomson of the "Seasons," wrote "Rule Britannia." I do not care to enter into it. After all, David Mallet was a lesser light in the literary firmament. It more concerns the literary honour of Crieff that John Cunningham, the historian of the Church of Scotland, did his life-work here; and that in the year 1793, Rachel Barlas, daughter of the Secession minister of Crieff, went to Comrie as wife of Samuel Gilfillan and became the mother of George Gilfillan, late of Dundee, a man of fine gifts and of glowing imagination--somewhat loosely controlled, who wrote much--too much; but unfortunately left nothing worthy of the reputation he had among his intimates.
[1] Vicars of Crieff at an earlier date were Bricius, who was a witness to the reconciliation of Earl Robert and Innocent, Abbot of Inchaffray, in the Church of Strogeth. The entry is--"_Bricio persona de Creffe, et Malisio filio ejus_," showing that celibacy was not the universal clerical custom; and Nicholas, who in one charter, of date 1258, is called "_Camerario Comitis_" (Malise); and in another, "_Meo filio_," by "_Malisius filius Gilberti quondam Comitis de Stratherne_." Hence he was a cousin of the Malise to whom he was "camerarius."
APPENDIX
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ROLL OF MINISTERS WITHIN THE PRESBYTERY OF AUCHTERARDER FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME
By Rev. GEORGE D. MACNAUGHTAN, B.D., Ardoch
ARDOCH
(_Chapel opened for Worship, 25th March, 1781._)
1781-1788--DAVID SIMPSON, tr. to Tulliallan.
1788-1792--GEORGE ERSKINE, tr. to Monzie.
1793-1802--GBORGE LOGAN, tr. to Eastwood.
1803-1812--LAURENCE MILLER, tr. to Abdie.
1813-1822--THOMAS YOUNG, tr. to Gask.
1823-1833--JOHN MACFARLANE, tr. to Collessie. Mr Macfarlane afterwards joined the Free Church; received degree of D.D., and died Free Church minister at Dalkeith in 1875.
1833-1839--ALEX. OSWALD LAIRD, tr. to Abbotshall. Afterwards joined Free Church; became minister of St. John's, Dundee; died in Crieff, 1891.
1840-1843--SAMUEL GRANT. Seceded in 1843, afterwards tr. to Aberdeen.
1843-1844--Chapel vacant.
1844-1858--DAVID BONALLO, tr. to Blackford.
Ardoch erected into parish _quoad omnia_, 21st February, 1855.
1858-1864--JOHN ROBERT CAMPBELL, tr. to Monzievaird.
1865-1869--WILLIAM MAIR, A.M., tr. to Earlston; now D.D., and author of "Digest of Church Laws."
1869-1874--CHARLES M'GREGOR, tr. to Dornoch. Since minister of East Church, Aberdeen; now of Lady Yester's, Edinburgh; also D.D.
1874-????--GEO. D. MACNAUGHTAN, B.D.
AUCHTERARDER
(_Before Reformation belonged to Abbey of Arbroath._)
1568-1585--JOHN HAMMYL, returned to Dunning.
1591-1593--PATRICK DAVIDSON, A.M.
1594-1599--JOHN CLERK, A.M.
1601-1607--ROBERT SINCLAIR, A.M., returned to Madderty.
1607-1617--JOHN MONTEATH, A.M., tr. to Monzie.
1617-1623--HENRY ROLLOCK, tr. to Kilconquhar. Nephew of Principal Pollock, Edinburgh.
163?-1649--JOHN GRAHAME, deposed as a Royalist.
16??-1658--JAMES DRUMMOND, A.M., tr. to Muthill.
1655-1680--ARCHD. DRUMMOND, A.M., died.
1680-1686--DAVID FREEBAIRN, A.M., tr. to Dunning.
1686-1688--JOHN RATTRAY, A.M. Ousted for not praying for William and Mary; died 1712.
1700-1705--JAMES MITCHELL, A.M., died July.
1709-1718--JOHN STEDMAN, A.M., died January. Took part in drawing up "Auchterarder Creed," and prepared Presbytery's defence before Commission.
1718-1729--DAVID SHAW, A.M., died 28th September.
1730-1770--ROBERT DRUMMOND, died 15th September; son of John Drummond, of Crieff.
1770-1781--JAMES CAMPBELL, A.M., died 1st January.
1781-1803--ANDREW DUNCAN, tr. to Ratho.
1803-1834--CHARLES STEWART, died 31st August.
1834-1843--Parish vacant pending settlement of "Auchterarder Case," Presbytery refusing, in obedience to Veto Act, to take Robert Young on trials.
1843-1865--ROBERT YOUNG, died 14th September. "His congregation greatly increased in numbers, and many who had once been his bitter opponents became his warmest supporters and best friends. When the day of his death came all mourned him with unfeigned grief."--_Presbytery tribute to his memory_.
1865-????--WILLIAM GIBSON. In 1871 Mr Gibson was judicially declared to be insane, and the parish has since been served, in terms of the Belhaven Act, by a series of ordained assistants.
1871-1878--WM. SIMPSON. Appointed to Bonhill.
1878-1888--CHARLES SHORT, died 2nd June.
1888-????--ARCHIBALD JAMIESON, M.A.
ABERUTHVEN
(_Supplied with Readers from 1567-1591, but united to Auchterarder before 1618._)
BLACKFORD
(_Formerly Strageyth._)
1574-1576--ALEX. GALL, tr. to Trinity-Gask.
1576-1589--WM. DRUMMOND.
1590-1591--WM. STRIUILING.
1592-1606--JAMES BRANDON, tr. to Muthill. Protested against introduction of Episcopacy.
1607-1613--ANDREW ALLAN, A.M.
1613-1651--JAMES GOVANE, A.M., died in August.
1660-1683--DAVID LITTLEJOHN, A.M., died in May.
1683-1689--DAVID MORAY, A.M. Ousted at Revolution.
1697-1739--ARCHIBALD MONCRIEFF, A.M., died in August.
1738-1767--WILLIAM MONCRIEFF, A.M., died 9th December. Succeeded in 1744 to the Baronetcy of Tullibole. Parish vacant till 1771, appointment of minister being delayed till his son was licensed.
1771-1775--Sir HENRY MONCRIEFF WELLWOOD, tr. to West Kirk (St. Cuthbert's), Edinburgh. Afterwards well-known Church leader.
1777-1815--JOHN STEVENSON, died 5th April.
1815-1861--JOHN CLARK, died 31st December. A Moderate of the old school, and a man of great shrewdness and humour, many of whose sayings have lived.
1858-1889--DAVID BONALLO, died 27th August. Translated from Ardoch as assistant and successor to Mr Clark.
1890-????--JAMES MACGIBBON, B.D.
BLAIRINGONE
(_Chapel erected in 1838._)
1841-1843--ANDREW NOBLE. Seceded.
1843-1848--Chapel vacant.
1849-1854--WM. FERGUSON, tr. to Fossoway.
1855-????--ALEX. M'WHANNEL.
Disjoined in 1856 to form part of new Presbytery of Kinross.
COMRIE
(_Conjoined with Comrie is old Parish of Tullichettle._)
1585-????--ALEX. CHISHOLME, tr. to Lecropt.
1588-????--JOHN DAVIDSON, A.M., rem. to Muthill.
1598-1607--JOHN MONTEATH, A.M., tr. to Auchterarder.
1607-1614--GEORGE CALLUM or M'CALLUM, rem. to Balquhidder.
1618-1619--ANDREW YOUNG, died.
1635-1660--JAMES GRAHAME, A.M. Suspended 1649-1651 for adhering to the Engagement.
1656-1665--HUGH GORDON, A.M., tr. to Row.
1668-1689--JOHN PHILP, A.M. Ousted at Revolution.
1693-1698--JOHN M'KERCHER, A.M., tr. to Dull.
1702-1709--JOHN M'CALLUM, tr. to Callander.
1711-1719--DUGALD CAMPBELL, tr. to Lismore and Appin.
1721-1722--PATRICK M'ADAM, A.M., died in March.
1723-1731--ANDREW MUSCHET, died.
1733-1742--AENEAS SHAW, tr. to Pettie.
1743-1780--ROBERT MENZIES, A.M., died 12th Nov.
1781-1801--HUGH M'DIARMID, died 4th November.
1802-1829--PATRICK M'ISAAC, died 25th January.
1829-1841--WM. MACKENZIE, tr. to Dunblane. Took active part in Non-Intrusion Controversy. Seceded in 1843. Became minister of North Leith Free Church. Died on voyage home from Australia, and was buried in the Red Sea.
1841-1843--JAMES GARMENT, A.M. Seceded.
1843-1875--JOHN M'DONALD, D.D., died 17th January. "Left Church at Comrie strong and flourishing, and his memory deeply stamped on hearts of people. Possessed of a clear and vigorous intellect, a ready eloquence, and a good knowledge of ecclesiastical law and forms of procedure, he always took an interest in Presbytery business, and was recognised as one of the leaders of the Court."--_Pres. tribute_.
1875-????--JOHN MACPHERSON. Formerly minister of Gaelic Church, Greenock.
CRIEFF
1563-????--THOMAS DRUMMOND.
1592-1636--DAVID DRUMMOND, A.M. Demitted.
1635-????--DAVID DRUMMOND, junr., A.M.; probably deposed. Died in 1676, aged 64.
1658-1682--GILBERT MURRAY, A.M. Demitted.
1682-1689--WILLIAM MURRAY, A.M. Succeeded his father at Revolution; read thanksgiving after Battle of Killiecrankie; was ousted.
1699-1754--JOHN DRUMMOND, died 26th July. A good man, but no scholar. No Dissent in his time except Episcopacy.
1755-1767--THOMAS STEWART, A.M. Deposed for drunkenness.
1771-1813--ROBERT STIRLING, died 16th December.
1815-????--ALEX. M'INTYRE, died 15th November. A disputed settlement, which so affected the minister's health that he died the same year.
1816-1845--WILLIAM LAING, died 16th March. A brother of Dr. David Laing, the well-known antiquarian.
1840-1843--R. HORNE STEVENSON, tr. to St. George's, Edinburgh; afterwards D.D. and Moderator of General Assembly of 1871. Mr Stevenson was assistant and successor to Mr Laing, and after his translation, Mr Laing resumed the full duties of his office until his death.
1845-1887--JOHN CUNNINGHAM, D.D., LL.D., resigned 16th May. Author of "Church History of Scotland" and other works. Moderator of General Assembly of 1886. Resigned on his appointment as Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. Died September, 1893.
1887-1894--WILLIAM P. PATERSON, B.D., resigned 2nd November on appointment as Professor of Systematic Theology in Aberdeen University.
1895-????--ANDREW CAMPBELL.
CRIEFF WEST
(_West Church, Crieff, opened for Worship in 1838._)
1839-1843--FINLAY MACALISTER. Seceded.
1843-1848--Chapel closed.
For some years afterwards served by licentiates.
1856-1862--MATTHEW RODGER, tr. to St. Leonard's, St. Andrews. Now D.D.
1862-1878--ARCHIBALD HART, A.M., resigned 6th June.
Crieff West was erected into parish _quoad sacra_ on 20th July, 1864.
1878-????--JOHN HUNTER, M.A.
DUNDURN
(_St. Fillans Chapel, opened for Worship, 1879._)
1879-1881--JAMES W. BLAKE, tr. to Temple.
1881-????--THOMAS ARMSTRONG.
Erected into parish _quoad sacra_, called Dundurn, on 15th March, 1895.
DUNNING
(_Church dedicated to S. Servanus._)
1562-1564--ANDREW SYMSON, tr. to Dunbar. Became Protestant by reading Sir David Lindsay's Poems.
1568-1594--JOHN HAMYLL. Deposed for baptising an adulterous child.
1586-1607--JOHN EDMISTON.
1610-1651--GEORGE MUSCHIT, A.M., deposed. Member of Glasgow Assembly, 1638.
1652-1668--ANDREW ROLLO, A.M., died in May.
1669-1672--ROBERT HUNTER, A.M., tr. to Bo'ness.
1673-1682--JAMES HUNTER, A.M., tr. to Stirling.
1682-1686--THOMAS CHRYSTIE, A.M., died in January.
1686-1689--DAVID FREEISAIRN, A.M. Ousted at Revolution. Afterwards became Bishop of Scotch Episcopal Church, and latterly Primus. Died 24th December, 1739.
1691-1716--WILLIAM REID, A.M., died 28th January. Preached at Auchterarder on 18th September, 1715, with pistol hanging at his breast, while rebels in possession of town. They afterwards burned Dunning, the minister being just dead. Thorn-tree planted in commemoration.
1716-1725--LAUCHLAN M'INTOSH, A.M., tr. to Errol.
1728-1761--ANDREW SMYTH, died 20th February.
1761-1768--ALEXANDER SMYTH, died 20th February, Son of previous minister.
1769-1782--LEWIS DUNBAR, tr. to Kinnoull.
1783-1812--JOHN BAIRD, died 7th August.
1813-1814--CHARLES WILKIE HARDY, died 6th February. Son of Dr. Hardy, Edinburgh. Waylaid and hung by heels over a bridge, which hastened his death.
1814-1818--JOHN GRIERSON, A.M., tr. to Dunblane.
1818-1860--JAMES RUSSELL, D.D., died 8th October. A man of peculiar temperament.
1848-1860--PATON JAMES GLOAG, tr. to Blantyre. Assistant and successor to Dr. Russell; afterwards D.D., minister of Galashiels, Moderator of General Assembly of 1889. Author of "Commentary on Acts of Apostles," and other works.
1861-1878--JOHN WILSON, D.D., died 1st March. Author of "Index to Acts of Assembly," "Presbytery of Perth," "Register of the Diocese of Dunblane." "A man emi-nently fitted to win affection and respect."
1878-????--PETER THOMSON, B.D. Formerly minister of Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow. Author of "The Greek Tenses in New Testament."
FOSSOWAY AND TULLIBOLE
_Tullibole was supplied with Readers from 1567, and had as Ministers:--_
1576-1578--JOHN EDMONSTOUN, tr. to Crail.
1578-1580-3--THOMAS SWINTON, tr. to Muckhart. Was united to Fossoway about 1614, but had service every third Sabbath till 1729.
MINISTERS OF FOSSOWAY
1585-1588--ADAM MARSCHELL, removed to Glendevon.
1589-1590--RICHARD WRIGHT, tr. to Clackmannan.
1590-????-ALEX. WALLACE, A.M.
1607-1652--LAURENCE MERCER, A.M., died in October.
1647-1657--LAURENCE MERCER, jun., A.M. Son of previous minister.
1659-1689--ALEX. RELAND, A.M. Deposed for "gross immorality and oppression." In 1691 tried to intrude with malignants on kirk, but was driven back.
1691-1715--WM. SPENCE, A.M., died 19th March. Formerly minister of Glendevon.
1712-1716--ALEX. BARTON, A.M., died 12th June. Ordained assistant and successor to Mr Spence.
1717-1742--ANDREW URE, died 7th April. Got church built for united parish in 1729.
1743-1778--JOHN STORER, died 8th June.
1780-1803--WILLIAM GRAHAM, died 14th February.
1803-1824--GEORGE GRAHAM, A.M., died 4th July. Son of previous minister.
1825-1845--PETER BRYDIE, died 30th October. Seceded in 1843, but came back.
1846-1852--DUNCAN CAMPBELL, tr. to Luss. Latterly D.D. Died March 23, 1896.
1852-1854--ALEX. COSENS, tr. to Broughton.
1854-????--WM. FERGUSON.
Parish disjoined in 1856 to form part of new Presbytery of Kinross.
FOWLIS-WESTER
1567-????--THOMAS MAKGIBBUN.
1574-????--WILLIAM MELROSS.
1576-1578--ANDREW YOUNG.
1586-1592--JAMES BURDOUN, tr. to Strageyth.
1593-1603-7--WM. BUCHANAN, A.M., tr. to Methven.
1607-????--JOHN YOUNG, A.M.
1619-1634--JAMES DRUMMOND, A.M., died in February.
1635-1645--JOHN FYFF. Deposed 11th February. A Royalist.
1646-1675--GEORGE MURRAY, A.M., died 11th April. A Protester, all the other members of Presbytery being Resolutioners.
1674-1689--JOHN DRUMMOND. Ousted at Revolution for continuing to pray for King James and keeping converse with the rebels. Committed to prison. Died 6th February, 1695.
1697-1717--WILLIAM HEPBURNE, A.M., died 12th April. Retired to Stirling "with the ministers about" on the approach of Mar's army in 1715.
1718-1720--ALEX. TURCAN, A.M., died 18th April.
1721-1730--WILLIAM SIMSON, tr. to Dunblane.
1732-1767--ALEX. MURRAY, died 27th December.
1768-1816--JOHN MURRAY, died 10th August.
1817-1851--ALEX. MAXTONE, died 21st June.
1852-????--THOMAS HARDY.
GASK, OR FINDO-GASK
1572-1574--WILLIAM MELROSS, tr. to Fowlis.
1592-1633--ALEX. GALL or GAW.
1624-1635--JOHN FYFF, A.M., tr. to Fowlis.
1635-1649--WM. BANNATYNE, died.
1648-1688--ROBERT FREEBAIRN, A.M., died.
1676-1680--DAVID FREEBAIRN, A.M., tr. to Auchterarder. Son of previous minister. Assistant and successor to father.
1680-1693--LAURENCE MERCER. Deprived 10th February by Privy Council. His father and grandfather were ministers of Fossoway. Died 30th January, 1720.