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memory," he was allowed to resign his charge, and retire, 

 to spend the evening of life, "with his friends in the west 

 country." 



With regard to the two Episcopal incumbents who were 

 ministers of Linton in the interval before the Revolution 

 almost nothing is known. JOHN BEOWN, M.A. (1664-1683), 

 was a graduate of Glasgow, and had beon formerly minister 

 of Tinwald. Settled at Tinwald in 1655, during the Common- 

 wealth period, Mr Brown must, originally, have been ordained 

 under Presbytery. It is interesting to recall that he was 

 present at Roxburgh Church that March morning in 1672, 

 when Bishop Leighton came riding down from Glasgow to 

 institute Mr John Dalgleish, ordination not in the Cathedral, 

 but in the Parish Church which the candidate was to serve, 

 being one of the articles, in that celebrated treaty of accom- 

 modation, whereby Leighton sought to heal the breach betwixt 

 Prelacy and Presbytery. After a ministry of nineteen years 

 in Linton, he was translated to Westerkirk. 



JOHN WILKIE (1683-1689), Student in Divinity, was taken 

 on trials under an order from the Archbishop. His incumbency 

 here was brief. Refusing to pray for William and Mary, 

 he was deprived of his living at the Revolution. He after- 

 wards settled in Kelso, where he ministered to a congregation 

 of Nonjurors. 



WALTER DOUGLAS (1698-1727), of the house of 

 Bonjedward, was born in 1673. From a bond* for £700, 

 granted to him by his Jacobite neighbour, Henry Ker of 

 Graden, we learn that he had three daughters — Elizabeth, 

 Isobel, who afterwards married Rev. Charles Douglas, minister 

 of Cavers, and Wilhelmina, spouse to Dr John Tait, a 

 physician at Dalkeith. In his day the manse, having been 

 found " hazardable for the minister and his family," was 

 rebuilt. This edifice, comprising the rear portion of the 

 present manse, was demolished only last year, and hand- 

 somely restored. Two of the old walls, however, were left 

 standing, one that which faces the manse garden. They 



* Forfeited Estate Paper. 



