48 TRANSACTIONS. 
Public exposure being a prevailing method of punishment, the 
church as a public place was fitted with the usual appliances 
for carrying into effect the sentences of the ecclesiastical courts, 
and also of the Civil Magistrate. ‘The seat of repentance ” stood 
within, and the jougs and gorgets hung at the principal door, 
attached to the wall by chains. The first of these occupied at one 
time a place on the Common Loft, afterwards it was placed in the 
body ot the kirk opposite the pulpit. That it was raised consider- 
ably above the church floor is evidenced by a minute of Session 
excusing a culprit going up to it on account of bodily infirmity. 
It is designated in the Session Records “ the place of repentance,” 
oftener perhaps “the pillar”—short for “ pillory,” which name 
occurs in full in a few instances. 
After the Reformation a north wing was built, and other 
extensions and alterations followed from time to time, until only 
the nave and chancel remained of the pre-Reformation building, 
and the foregoing details exhibit the altered church and its acces- 
sories as an incongruous jumble, inartistic, uncomfortable, and 
inconvenient. 
Its original form and character were different. The pre- 
Reformation Church comprised a nave, with aisles separated from 
it by arcades of three bays each and with the usual lean-to roof ; 
also north and south transepts; and a chancel. Mention is 
made in the records of “ the lean-to called the altar of St. John the 
Baptist.” Other documents show that the windows were filled in 
with stained glass to St. Mary, St. Andrew, St. Christopher, &c. 
Many altars and chapelries were founded within the church. 
Mention is made of altars of the B.V. Mary, St. John the Baptist, 
St. Ninian, St. Andrew, &c., and of an altar erected by the Tailor 
Trade in the year 1547 and dedicated to St. Anna, the patron of 
that trade. The chapels were designated after their founders, and 
the areas occupied by them continued to be so named after the 
Reformation. Thus we have the M‘Brair aisle, the Newall aisle, 
the Cunningham aisle, and the Maxwell aisle. In this connection 
the following extract from the Minute of Committee on the regula- 
tion of the Seats in the year 1695 is of interest. Referring to a 
claim by Martin Newall to the second seat in the Newall aisle, the 
minute proceeds: ‘And because it is by several old charters and 
papers evidenced that the Newalls had a special interest in that 
part of the church these hundreds of years, therefore they allow 
this dask to Martin Newall and his posterity.” 
