106 Communion Tokens. 



seven years he was their only ordained minister. In 

 1743 he was joined by the Rev. Thomas Nairn, who 

 was parish minister of Abbotshall (1710-1736), and 

 thereafter Secession minister (1737-1743). He and 

 Mr M'Millau, along with one or two elders, on 1st 

 August, 1743, constituted the first Presbytery of the 

 Reformed Presbyterians at Braehead, in the parish of 

 Dalserf. The first Synod was held at Glasgow in the 

 year 1811, and in 1876 that body was united with the 

 Free Church, now the United Free Church of Scot- 

 land. In August, 1712, the Renovation of the 

 Covenants took place at Auchinsaugh, in the parish 

 of Crawfordjohn. On the following Sabbath the 

 Lord's Supper was celebraced — the first time since the 

 Cameronians had become a separate community. A 

 second renewal of the Covenants took place at Craw- 

 fordjohn in 1745, and again the Sacrament of the 

 Lord's Supi^er was observed. The tokens used on this 

 occasion were those with GM / 1745 on the obverse for 

 General Meeting, and LS on reverse for Lord's 

 Supper. These are of the two types indicated above. 

 According to Dr Burns (p. 452) " the two halves of a 

 stone mould for casting tokens of Quarrelwood Re- 

 formed Presbyterian Church (undated) are in the 

 Museum at Thornhill." If this observation is cor- 

 rect then the mould is not for the token of Quarrel- 

 wood, which is dated 1745, but some other. On the 

 other hand, if the mould is for the token described 

 above, its being in the neighbourhood of Penpont 

 would seem to bear out the writer's idea that at some 

 period subsequent to 1796 the mould was loaned to 

 the Penpont congregation for a fresh issue. Cer- 

 tainly the Scaurbridge hoard are all of a newer type, 

 that is to say not worn, as though they had been very 

 little used. Those in possession of the Martyrs 

 Church, Dumfries, which absorbed the Quarrelwood 

 Cameronian remnant and inherited the old cups, 

 flagons, and plates, inscribed. " Belonging to the old 

 Covenanted Presbeterian Dissenters in Scotland," are 

 much worn and defaced almost beyond deciphering. 

 The Rev. John Courtass was ordained at Quarrelwood 

 in 1755, and died in 1795. 



Rigg. 



231. A.C. No. 135. UNITED / ASSO CON. / OF RIGG. 

 Reverse, REV. M. M^G. / ORD / 25 MAY 1832. 

 Lidit borders, ov., 15x12. Dick 756. Rev. 



