sters._)

1584-1594--JOHN HAMMYL. Deposed.

1637-1639--JOHN MURRAY, A.M., removed to Trinity-Gask, with which the
parish has ever since been united.

MINISTERS OF TRINITY-GASK

1576-1593--ALEX. GALL. Formerly at Muthill and Strageyth.

1596-1608--WILLIAM OSWALD.

1639-1662--JOHN MURRAY, A.M., died in December.

1664-1673--JAMES BRUCE, A.M.

1674-1682--RICHARD DUNCAN, A.M. Hanged at Crieff on a charge of child
murder, a reprieve arriving twenty minutes too late. This is supposed
to be the historical fact underlying the well-known popular rhyme,
erroneously attributed to Little Dunkeld:--

"O what a parish, sic a terrible parish,
O what a parish is that o' Kinkell;
They hae hangit the minister, drooned the precentor;
Dang doon the steeple, an' drucken the bell."

The Churches of Trinity-Gask and Kinkell are on opposite sides of the
Earn, and the precentor is supposed to have been drowned in crossing
between them. The Church of Kinkell is now a ruin, and has no steeple.
Its bell was recently discovered in the possession of a church in East
Lothian.

1683-1698--JAMES ROY, A.M., died in that year. He and the minister of
Muckart were the only members of Presbytery who continued in their
charges after the Revolution.

1700-1718--JOHN MURRAY, A.M., died 22nd November.

1720-1755--PATRICK PROVAND, died 29th November. The parish is
popularly known as Tarnty. "Mr Provand, minister of Tarnty," was once
ushered into the presence of Lord Kinnoull by an English footman as "Mr
Providence, the minister of Eternity."

1756-1769--JAMES REID, A.M., died 24th August.

1770-1776--JOHN KEMP, tr. to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh. Afterwards
D.D.; colleague in Tolbooth Church with Dr. Webster, and Secretary to
the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, in which capacity he
visited most of the Hebrides, founding schools. A man of conciliatory
and engaging manners. (See pp. 114-115.)

1777-1793--JOHN WRIGHT, tr. to Scone.

1794-1834--JAMES BRUGH, D.D., died 23rd July. Changed spelling of his
name to Burgh.

1836-1866--ALEX. HILL GRAY, died 15th May. Had a narrow escape of
being vetoed, but, there being some irregularity in the making up of
the roll of heads of families, his appointment was sustained.

1866-????--GEORGE WRIGHT KEMP.

_Note_.--The Information in above lists is largely derived from Dr. Hew
Scott's _Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticana_. It has, however, been
supplemented and brought dow