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offend either God or man. 2. That he punctually and conscien- 
tiously attend upon the ordinances of God, and that in an orderly 
manner. 3. That to the utmost of his power he endeavour not 
only his own reformation, but also the reformation of his whole 
family, and the bringing of them to attend on Gospel ordinances 
according to God His appointment, and particularly that he shall 
endeavour the sober and orderly walk of his wife. 4. That he 
shall neither bring in nor keep in any in his town or mealing 
who are extravagant in their principles or disorderly in their 
walk, neither shall he have any hand, secretly or openly, in bring- 
ing in any within the congregation who either despise or misregard 
God’s ordinances as here dispensed.”’ 
Perhaps the session managed to get his bond and subscription 
to these articles so easily because in this year 1696 the Assembly 
had suspended Hepburn from his ministry. | Next year, in spite 
of promises, in spite of his good money, “ the session is informed 
that James Richardson of Knockshinnoch hath suffered his wife 
to take a child of his to Edinburgh to Mr Hepburn (who is lying 
under suspension), to be baptised, as also that his wife, Nicolas 
Gibson, profanes the Sabbath by idleness and despiseth the public 
ordinances of God’s worship.’’ They were cited three times to 
appear before the session, but proving contumaceous, the matter 
was referred to the Presbytery. What was the upshot of it all I 
cannot tell. The Presbytery minutes may afford some light, but 
ours are silent. If he forfeited his bond, I am glad to be able to 
say he could afford it, for his Latin epitaph says he was a man of 
means. 
On that same tomb there is a quaint piece of sculpture—a 
man defending a woman from two dogs or wolves. A local legend 
says that it commemorates the killing of the last wolves in Iron- 
gray by an ancestor of Richardson’s. I am inclined to regard 
it as symbolical of Richardson’s defence of his wife against 
Kirk-session and Presbytery. Does not Dryden in “The Hind 
and the Panther ’’ represent Presbyterianism under the similitude 
of a wolf ? 
DRINKING ON THE SABBATH. 
Next year, 1698, another Hepburnian figures in our records. 
“August 28—This day was delated William Wallat in Casehead 
(who is an Hepburnian) for Sabbath-breaking, it being a ‘fama 
clamosa ’ of his sitting in a change house drinking all the last 
