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of old a rectory. A perpetual vicarage appears to have been established for the
cure of the church while the parsonage was enjoyed by the Archbishops of St.
Andrews as a mensal benefice. In 1593 the parliament passed an act for dissolving
the parsonage and vicarage of KirKliston. During the reign of James VI. KirKliston
as belonging to the Archbishop of St Andrews was attached to the presbytery of Dunfermline
with which it continued till Episcopacy was abolished in 1690. At that Epoch the
patronage of the church of KirKliston fell to the King. The church which is a very
ancient building stands at the KirKtown upon a rising ground on the northern bank
of the Amon river," Chalmers Caledonia vol [volume] II page 384-5