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12, 1655 where lie laboured 

 in the work of the Gospel till 

 he was turned out for 

 not conforming to Prelacy 

 an. 1662 and then he frequ 

 ently tho' privately visited 

 that Parioch till the 

 Episcopal minister was turned 

 out that he returned to his 

 work Septr. 8, 1689 and con 

 tinned therein tUl his death 

 which was June 19, 1709 being 

 the 81 year of his age and 

 the 54 of his ministry 



This monument was put up 



by his Eelict Jean Trotter 



Eepaired by some of the Parishioners 



1838." 



Copied from the stone in Legerwood Churchyard, August 6th, 1880, by 



Archd. Brown, minister. 



There is an inaccuracy in the epitaph. He had completed the 

 54th year of his ministry, and had advanced one week into the 

 55th. Hew Scott, therefore, is minutely correct in this remark. 

 His list has 55th year. 



The following is a list of the ministers of Legerwood from the 

 Reformation to the present period, partly from Di Hew Scott's 

 "Fasti," &c. ; and partly collated with a list which Mr Brown 

 compiled from the Presbytery Records, which contains particu- 

 lars not given in the " Fasti." Previous to the Eeformation the 

 church belonged to the Abbey of Paisley : — 

 Robert Paterson, reader from 1574 to 1591. 

 David Forsyth, from Polwarth, 1592. 

 George Byris, A.M., from Barra, 1593—1640. 

 Thomas Byris, A.M., 1634-1653. 

 William Calderwood, A.M., 1655-1662 (deprived). 

 Thomas Byris, noticed above, 1666 (died 1682). 

 Gideon Brown, A.M., 1666-1676. 

 William Layng, A.M., 1677-1689 (deprived). 



WiUiam Calderwood, A.M., restored 1689. "He died 19 June, 1709, 

 in his 81st year, and 55th min., having earned a high reputa- 

 tion for sanctity of life and ministerial usefulness." 

 James CampbeU, A.M., fromBranton,Northd., 1711 ; deposed 1 Aug., 



1718. 

 Thomas Old, A.M., 1717, died 1 Sept., 1737. 

 Walter Douglas, A.M., 1738-1752. 



