138 KirkK-SESSION REcORDs OF IRONGRAY, 1691-1700. 
designed to excess; but because some were offended at him he 
was resolved in all time coming to be more watchful of himself.”’ 
The session was not only careful of the morals of its members, 
but it defended the honour of its order. In May, 1699, Adam 
Anderson and his daughter were rebuked for scolding and 
abusing David Anderson, “ one of our number.’’ 
Tue Lorp’s SUPPER. 
In our modern session records many entries are concerned 
with the dispensation of the Lord’s Supper, but in these records 
I can find no trace that it was dispensed at all during Mr Sinclair’s 
ministry, and in Mr Guthrie’s six years only twice. In the summer 
of 1697, new elders having been ordained, a search was ordered 
“for the cup, tablecloths, and other utensils belonging to the 
church, because of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper which 
shortly is to be administrat.’? The elders reported that after 
searching for them nothing can be heard of them, only that they 
were carried away with Mr John Welsh, his plenishing. They 
had probably been used by him in some of his hillside com- 
munions, and perhaps lost in a hasty flight when Claverhouse and 
his dragoons came upon them. The communion cups in Iron- 
gray at present in use were a gift of Mr Guthrie. They are 
beautiful beaten silver cups, round whose rim is this inscription :— 
“Thir cups were gifted for the use of the Paroch of Irengray 
by Mr James Guthrie, who was ordained September 13, 1694, 
Minr. yr.”’ 
COLLECTIONS. 
Before I close my paper a word must be said about what is 
now-a-days called Christian liberality. Judged by our standard, 
the church collections were very small, but we must remember 
that money, always a scarce commodity, was very scarce in Scot- 
land in those days. I believe I have read somewhere (I am 
sorry I cannot verify my statement) that before the Union there 
was not half-a-million sterling of money in circulation in Scotland. 
The largest collection recorded in our book was taken on the 
sacrament of August, 1697 ; it amounted to £48 3s Scots (£4 0s 3d 
sterling), and the lowest was 3s Scots (3d sterling). The ordinary 
Sabbath collection averaged about £1 10s Scots. The favourite 
coins appear to have been Irish halfpennies and doits. A rix- 
dollar was once paid as a fine to the poor. The primary use of 
