Communion Tokens. ^^ 



ing couz^ge he defied the authorities and remained in his charge 

 for nearlv twenty years. In this defiant course he was encoura'r 

 b> Lcghton, then B.si.op of Dunblane. At last the Synod Is 

 cons rained to institute proceedings against hin. ^v■hich nece s" 

 ated h.s withdrawal from the parish. Thereupon the persecut on 

 Cried ;: 7^-^f -^.b--- -ch that in^eSl he'and o^: 



sZeZ %^nZ\ n" ?"''" '''''''' ^^^"™-J ^<^ Scotland 

 secretly, ^ot tdl the following year, however, a year momentous 



ou trr dM d? 7y '^"'/T"^'^ ''"''' ''-'' ^^^^"^-^ ^- '^^^ -^oll 



he p Vi h of DiS?;"'to ;r "'"v"' their beloved pastor reach 



pan,n ot JJion. To the pan.shioners of Dron the return of 



t on IS If. In 1690 he was reinstated in his old charge and mini- 

 stered .here for other five years, when he was promoted to the 



dates from most probably the year 1690 was struck to 



ZTZTtl '" "° 'Tr''' ^-"""^ ^^ ^^'--^^'- ^^^^ 



(A.f.) and the commg of the Revolution (1688). Of a simihr 

 interest, and no doubt of greater rarity, is the Old TONGL^N 

 Token which bears the initials of Samuel Arnot, the Covenant g 

 -n jstei- of that parish. An extended note on him will be found 

 :n the followmg chapter (pages 66, 67). The storv of this tok^i 



Mr Robert Shiel s m his " Story of the Tokeit " (p 61) To 



whe^o r' ''' 'rr'^'^" ^^^^ ^^^^ deepe.st7ascLtion 



hn tokens are procured which are connected in a direct way 

 "ith leading ac-tors in the great ecclesiastical movements in our 

 country, or with men of other historical, literary, or biogLphica 

 note. A few of these we shall proceed to mention. On the 



IS not without interest TKo i?^-,. n-i ^- • 



1 • , 'iiciesr. ine Rev. Ihomas ^alrn, who was 



ordamed at KIRKCALDY (ABBOTSHALL) in 1710 l^adl 



Kirkcaldy; 



(ABBOT5HALL) 



KIRKCALDX 



(ABBOTSHALL) 



