136 Ki1rK-SESSION RECORDS OF IRONGRAY, 1691-1700. 
Lord’s Day save one, notwithstanding he had no necessary affair 
that called him to be there.’’ After three citations—an Hep- 
burnian always took the full limit of the law—he appeared and 
“ acknowledged that he was in the change house that Lord’s Day 
that the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was administrat in this 
place, he being desired by the change keeper to wait in her house 
(she being at kirk), but denies drinking any; only three of his 
acquaintances as they went from the church called for a pint of 
ale, which he drank with them, and for anything he remembers 
he sold no more that day. The session having considered his con- 
fession, and finding that whatever was reported, there could be 
nothing proven but that he sold ale on that day, thought fit to call 
him in and rebuke him sessionally for his contumacy, as also his 
absenting himself from the ordinances, and to take him engaged 
to observe them in time coming.’’ 
He is the last Hepburnian in the minutes, though probably 
not the last in Irongray. 
A BRUTAL RUFFIAN. 
A new member of Parliament, I believe, is troubled with the 
question, “ What will happen if the Speaker names me?’’? A 
reader of these records may put a similar question, what happens 
if after a reference to Presbytery an accused person should still 
prove contumacious? Fortunately, I am in a position to throw 
some light on that matter, though the offender was not an Hep- 
burnian. There was in Cluden a retired soldier called William 
Walker, a brutal ruffian, who robbed a certain Helen Walker of 
her honour ; and who, after his offence had been remitted back by 
the Presbytery to the session to be dealt with, told them “ there 
was no session in Scotland nor minister either should ever make 
him appear publicly before a congregation, and he neither valued 
our session nor Presbytery.’’ The session recommended the 
minister to apply to the magistrate of the bounds to make him 
obey the sentence. Whereupon the magistrate ordered that 
William Walker should “be incarcorat untill he gave bond and 
caution to answer and obey the session’s sentence ;’’ which he did, 
and received “a public rebuke for his insolent carriage and 
appearance next Lord’s Day in the public place of repentance.’’ 
William Walker appears again in the records, and it is satisfactory 
