14 Anniversary Address. 



(1440-66) an appeal by James of Lumisden, vicar of the Church 

 of Stichel, was taken to the Pope against his Bishop for 

 refusing to institute him into his cure.^^ Raine states that the 

 Bishop's reply is also preserved in the Archives of Durham. 



Dominus James Hume was Vicar of Stichill in the reign of 

 James V. (1513-42) as appears in the narrative of an Instrument 

 of Appeal from the perpetual vicar of the parochial Church of 

 Stichill to the Pope.™ Another somewhat similar appeal was 

 made to Pope Paul III. (1543-49) shortly after this by a 

 disappointed expectant of the cure, Dominus Matthew Brown of 

 St. Andrews." He prayed for letters of Inhibition against the 

 intrusion of Edward Bruss, William Schaw, and Thomas Kinlot, 

 the present and prospective vicars of the parish. 



In 1567 (not 1574 as the Fasti has it) William Hude, reidare 

 at Stitchell, receives for stipend xvi^., with the Kirklands, etc." 

 He was deprivit 1 May 1577. 



John Fairbairn succeeded him in the oflGice from 1578-91.''' 



Mr Eobert Franche, who was translated from Ecclea to be 

 Minister of Hume in 1574, had charge also of Stichill, Eccles, 

 Gordon, and Greenlaw. 



Dominus James Young was vicar in 1587. Mr James 

 Frenche had charge of Stichill and Ednem in 1596. He 

 was presented to the vicarage by James VI. (6th March 

 1605) and to the parsonage and vicarage of Hume 1st 

 August 1611. The end of his ministry was a scandalous 

 one. The Archbishop of St. Andrews, at the Lothiau Synod, 

 to which the Presbytery of Kelso had referred the case, 

 found him guilty of immorality, and the result evidently 

 was his dismissal. For, on 2nd July 1613, Mr David Courtie 

 presents a presentation in his own favour, from the King, to 

 the Kirks of Stichill and Hoome, together with a letter from 

 the Bishop, ordering the Presbytery to cite before them Mr 

 Frenche, and command him to cease from ministering at Hume 

 under pain of simple deposition. Perhaps the best way to 

 account for this is to suppose that he had been dismissed 

 ah beneficio but not ah officio, and that not daring to show his 



®' Eaine's N. Durham, p. 92, App. ovi. 



^0 Lib. de Melros, pp. 601, 635. 



'1 Do. p. 635. 



'''^ Register of Ministers, p. 11 (Maitland Club,) 



'3 Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Part u., p. 474, 



