66 DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY MINISTERS IN CUMBERLAND. 
the story of his changeful career. By the 108th Canon of the 
Church of England the parish clergy were directed annually to. 
“exhibit to their several ordinaries the presentments of such 
enormities as have happened in their parishes since the last 
presentments.’’ Originally the chief enormity had been Popery. 
After the passing of the Act of Uniformity it was Noncon- 
formity, and so by searching the Bishop’s Registry of 
Presentments at Carlisle, under date 1690, we find the 
following presentments by the Brampton Church wardens :— 
“Wee present Leonard Deane for keeping a meeting house 
unlysensed. Wee present Mr John Kincade for preaching there 
unlysensed.’’ Leonard Deane was a man of very considerable 
importance locally. He it was who provided the congregation 
harassed by the Test and Conventicle Acts with an upper room 
in the yard of the Scotch Arms Hotel, which was built by Deane 
in or about 1674. This upper room was the “ unlysensed ”’ 
meeting house, and here John Kincaid, the “ unlysensed ’’ mini- 
ster, officiated. The hotel, with its ancient hooded doorway, 
still exists, and it is probable that some preference for Scotland 
and Scotchman led Deane to call it the Scotch Arms. In this. 
connection it is interesting to remark that the Brampton Presby- 
terian Church is still locally known as the Scotch Chapel. 
But to return to Kincaid. Clearly he was a _ person 
of considerable local importance, else the church wardens 
would not have prefixed to his name the title of Mr, which, in 
those days, as we find from the parish register, was only accorded 
to important persons. The same inference as to John Kincaid’s. 
local importance is suggested by the presentments of the Castle 
Canock Church Wardens, who, in that same year 1690, say:— 
“We present Mr John Kingcade for baptizing children in our 
parish without ye consent of our minister.’’ 
The last entry in Brampton Parish Register regarding Kin- 
caid is :—“ John Kincaid buryed October the 25th, 1707.” 
Kincaid seems to have been possessed with an exceedingly 
obliging attitude of mind, for we have seen him as an Episco- 
palian in Presbyterian Scotland, and as a Presbyterian im 
Episcopalian England. Catholic and broad-minded to a degree, 
he was not above taking help from the Congregational Fund 
Board, London, for from 1696 to 1704 he appears as a recipient 
of an annual grant from a fund expressly established to assist 
