84 Communion Tokens. 



Dumfries— continued. 



gave as his reason for attending the ministrations of 

 Mr Tnglis, that he preached what he believed and 

 practised what he preached. The two varieties 

 common to all issues of this type, as e.g., Sanquhar 

 A.C. 1750, Lockerbie A.C. 1747, Elsricle A.C. 1760, 

 Urr A.C. 1752, Kinclaven A.C. 1749, etc., would seem 

 to indicate either that there were two distinct issues 

 separated by a lapse of time or that two separate 

 moulds or calmes were used. The writer has a 

 Lockerbie A.C. 1747 showing the obverse of Type I. 

 and the reverse of Type II, The seventh minister, 

 the Rev. D. R. W. Scott, from Darvel, was inducted 

 in 1905. 



112. R. No. 14. R D / 1790 for Relief Dumfries. Lombardic 



numerals. Serrated border. Reverse, plain with table 

 number incuse. S. 9. Brook 321 (error — K D for 

 RD). Dick 279. 



Rev. John Lawson, 1790-1808. A licentiate of the 

 Established Church of Scotland, Mr Lawson was 

 ordained in 1781 as minister of the Protestant Dis- 

 senting congregation at Spittal. In 1784 minister 

 and people were received into the Relief Church. 

 Inducted to Dumfries in 1790, he resigned in 1808, 

 and acted a; preacher for six months at Riccarton, 

 Kilmarnock. In 1811 he was settled at the New Inn 

 Entry Relief Church, Dundee, and died at Temple 

 in 1836, aged 83. The eleventh minister, the Rev. 

 H. A. Whitelaw, was translated from Haltwhistle, 

 Northumberland, in 1904. 



113. A.C. No. 15. ASSO. CON. / DUMFRIES / REV. 



W. D. / 1810. Reverse, LUKE xxii., 19 / THIS DQ 

 IN / REMEMBRANCE / OF ME. Walter Dunlop, 

 First Minister. Light borders, obi. c.c, 19x12. 

 Dick 277. 



Rev. Walter Dunlop, 1810-1846. The " AVattv 

 Dunlop " of " Scottish Life and Character," a cele- 

 brity whose piety, it should be remembered, was no 

 less deep than his humour was quaint, was ordained 

 to the ministry of the Associate congregation of 

 Liddesdale in 1804. In this year the name of the 

 church was altered to Newcastleton. The third 

 minister, the Rev. John Cairns, M.A., was ordained 

 in 1884. 



