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questioned whero he went, answered to Robert MacBrair's, and 

 drank but one clioppin of ale. Being interrogate if he sent his 

 son that Fast Day with two horses to plough in Terregles, ac- 

 knowledged he did, adding because there was no Fast kept there, 

 it being a vacant congregation. Upon which be was removed ; 

 and the Session, considering his affair, finds him guilty of great 

 contempt in not observing a day set apart for solemn fasting and 

 liumiliation. Wherefore the Session appoints the said M'Kie to 

 be rebuked before the congregation on Sabbath next, and he 

 being called in this was intimate to him ; and, further, it is left 

 upon the minister to acquaint the minister of Dumfries of Nethei- 

 town and Dirleton's offensive deportment. 



7th June, 1716. — The thanksgiving day for extinguishing the 

 rebellion. 



Apostasy. — The Session taking into consideration the libel 

 against Janet Hood, in Cargen, do tind that by her own confession 

 she hath absented herself from the worship of God upon the 

 Lord's Day in her parisli church or any other church for the space 

 of one year and a half, and that her heart did not give her (as 

 she speaks) to come to the worship of God for that space of time. 

 And also that she was inclined and her heart did give her to the 

 Popish or Roman Catholick religion, yea that she owned the 

 Roman Catholick religion for her religion. Whereby it is 

 apparent unto them that the said Janet is guilty of apostasy 

 from the true Christian Reformed religion into the erroneous, 

 idolatrous, and superstitious religion of the Romish Church. 

 And this being a scandal of an atrocious nature, implying idolatry, 

 heresie, errour, and schism, the Session understands that it is not 

 proper for them to proceed any further in this process according 

 to the form Assemb., 1707, number 11, chap. 6. Therefore they 

 do refer the process unto the Rev-erend Presbytery of Dumfries 

 tliat they may determine thereon a.s they shall lind cause. 



There was in every parish church of Scotland a conspicuous 

 seat or post, called the stool or pillar of repentance, where 

 delinquents had to appear generally for three successive Sabbaths 

 before the congregation to liave their sin proclaimed, and to be 

 rebuked by the minister. The following extracts show that there 

 was one for long in Troqueer Church : — 



August 13, 1699. — Jean Waugh was this' day rebuked before 

 the congregation for profanation of the Sabbath by spinning. 



Dec. 31, 169y. — This day appeared on the pillar Agnes Robe.son 



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