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It appears from the Presbytery records that a register of discipline was regularly kept in the parish in 1598, but it was lost before 1692, for the records are fully enumerated in the parish register of that year. The first entry in the existing register of discipline is dated 4th January 1646. This record is regularly continued from that date to May 1689, with the exception of the period when the English army were in the parish, from 1st September 1650 to the beginning of 1652, and from 1658 to 1665, the time of the troubles for non-conformity. From May 1689, there are no entries till 5th May, 1692, after which date it is regularly kept until 1768, from which period it contains few entries until 1794. The register of baptisms commences on 5th January 1634, and the register of marriages in June 1665. There is also a register of collections and distributions, which commences in January 1646. The only account of this parish of which we are aware is a manuscript by Mr. Wood, author of the History of the Parish of Cramond, containing 70 folio pages, compiled towards the end of the last century, and consisting chiefly of genealogical notices of the principal families who have resided in the parish. It is in possession of the author's family.*
* Mr. Wood has also left MS. notices of the adjoining parishes of Kirkliston and Dalmeny.
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