48 Communion Tokens. 



vance, and thus made ready to receive the molten lead. CRAIL 

 and SALTOUN pari.sh tokens are from stone moulds that have 

 been preserved, and an old token mould is said to be in the 

 Museum at Thornhill (Burns, p. 452). In later times the token 

 moulds were made of brass or iron. ' Dumfriesshire instances are 

 mentioned in the notes under DUMFRIES ST. MICHAEL'S 



1829, LOCHMABEN ASSOCIATE, and ST. MUNGO PARISH 



1830. Some Churches still possess their token stamps and 

 moulds. Others have allowed them to wander from their 

 rightful guardianship into public museums or private posses- 

 sion. A still greater lack of veneration has permitted more to get 

 destroyed and to disappear. Witness the treatment suffered by 

 the calme of the token of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at 

 HIGHTAE. The reverse of this token 



{vide illus. 67) is illustrated here. In his 

 endeavour to corroborate his attribution the 

 writer came across an old villager who when 

 a lad in his father's home had the iron 

 mould to play with. What came of it he 

 could not tell, but fancied it would get 

 thrown out when the paternal home was 



X. 1 .. , , Hl&HTAE 



broken up many } ears ago. Other such 



moulds would find their way to the place of scrap-iron, and 

 change their form to serve some other no doubt useful if more 

 secular end. The rude workmanship of many 17th and 18th 

 century tokens is sufficient evidence that the duty of making new 

 tokens was frequently laid upon the town or village blacksmith, 

 whose chisel and hammer were his stamp and mould. Kirk- 

 Session Records attest the fact. Time and again recurs the 

 charge "to the smith for tickets" (RATTRAY, 1666); "paid 

 to the Smith who made the tokens at the Sacrament ffour Pound " 

 (KEMBACK, 1709). In EDINBURGH (1579) it was John 

 Mosman, goldsmith, who executed the work. Patrick Gutherie, 

 who did a like duty for ST. ANDREWS (1590), was also a gold- 

 smith. But pewterer, plumber, and even the wright, were com- 

 missioned for the work. Thus, " John Ross peuterer for tokens 

 12s. Lead for tokens 2s 6d " (TAIN, 1748). In the notes 

 under HOLY WOOD will be seen that the maker of the tokens 

 there, and possibly for many of the places around Dumfries, was 

 James Simson or Simpson, glazier in Dumfries. While many of 



