Report of Meetings for 1879, by James Hardy. 29 



on the authority of Chahners and others, that this parish was the 

 Linton-rotheric which formed part of the patrimony of the Abbey 

 of Kelso. That is now known to have been West Linton, in the 

 county of Peebles." The church is small. It was restored in 

 good taste in 1858, The Norman font stands before the pulpit. 

 There is an engraving of a careful drawing of it preserved in 

 our " Proceedings" for 1850. The late Mr Elliot of Clifton, on 

 whose lawn it stood, allowed it to be replaced in the church, in 

 the year 1868, and ever since it has been used at the administra- 

 tion of Baptism. 



The list of ministers of the parish since the Eef ormation hangs 

 on the north wall, and reads as follows : — 



Walter Balfour, Eector, conformed . . 



—1560 



John BaKour, M.A., 



. 1610-1616 



Robert Ker, . . . . . . 



. 1619—1658 



Eobert Boyd, M.A., 



. 1658-1662 



Jolm Brown, M.A., 



. 1664—1683 



JohnWilkie, .. 



. 1683-1689 



Eobert Boyd, restored 



. 1690—1697 



Walter Douglas, 



. 1698—1727 



George Hogg, M. A., 



. 1728—1740 



James TurnbuU, 



. 1743—1780 



Andrew Ogilvie, 



. 1781—1805 



William Faichney, 



. 1805—1854 



The members of the Club were kindly invited by Dr Leishman 

 to the manse, which is agreeably situated. An Auracaria and a 

 pine tree had been killed in the garden during the winter ; but 

 everything else had escaped. On the borders, Mr William Boyd 

 noticed a small yellow flowered species of SemerocalUs, rarer than 

 the flava. The conveyances, having been sent round, were 

 entered opposite the neat commodious cottages at Linton, recently 

 erected by Mr E. H. Elliot of Clifton Park. 



During the journey we were surrounded with thunder showers, 

 but they scarcely reached the company till they were nearly dis- 

 persed. A heavy rain had fallen at Morebattle, but had almost 

 ceased before we got there. Before Linton was arrived at, two 

 successive thunder peals were heard, but the clouds drew back, 

 and attached themselves to the hills ; and a deep blue-black 

 overspread the eastern horizon, which deceptively appeared to 

 rest upon a dark blue sea ; the reflection from this inky sky on 

 the green hill-sides opposite imparted a lurid colour to the grass, 

 more deeply embrowned a moor above the village, while a patch 



