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questioned where he went, answered to Robert MacBrair’s, and 
drank but one choppin of ale. Being interrogate if he sent his 
son that Fast Day with two horses to plough in Terregles, ac- 
knowledged he did, adding because there was no Fast kept there, 
it being a vacant congregation. Upon which he was removed ; 
and the Sessiom, considering his affair, finds him guilty of great 
contempt in not observing a day set apart for solemn fasting and 
humiliation. Wherefore the Session appoints the said M‘Kie to 
be rebuked before the congregation on Sabbath next, and he 
being called in this was intimate to him ; and, further, it is left 
upon the minister to acquaint the minister of Dumfries of Nether- 
town and Dirleton’s offensive deportment. 
7th June, 1716.—The thanksgiving day for extinguishing the 
rebellion. 
Apostasy.—-The Session taking into consideration the libel 
against Janet Hood, in Cargen, do find that by her own confession 
she hath absented herself from the worship of God upon the 
Lord’s Day in her parish church or any other church for the space 
of one year and a half, and that her heart did not give her (as 
she speaks) to come to the worship of God for that space of time. 
And also that she was inclined and her heart did give her to the 
Popish or Roman Catholick religion, yea that she owned the 
Roman Catholick religion for her religion. Whereby it is 
apparent unto them that the said Janet is guilty of apostasy 
from the true Christian Reformed religion into the erroneous, 
idolatrous, and superstitious religion of the Romish Church, 
And this being a scandal of an atrocious nature, implying idolatry, 
heresie, errour, and schism, the Session understands that it is not 
proper for them to proceed any further in this process according 
to the form Assemb., 1707, number 11, chap. 6. Therefore they 
do refer the process unto the Reverend Presbytery of Dumfries 
that they may determine thereon as they shall find cause. 
There was in every parish church of Scotland a conspicuous 
seat or post, called the stool or pillar of repentance, where 
delinquents had to appear generally for three successive Sabbaths 
before the congregation to have their sin proclaimed, and to be 
rebuked by the minister. The following extracts show that there 
was one for long in Troqueer Church :— 
August 13, 1699.—Jean Waugh was this day rebuked before 
the congregation for profanation of the Sabbath by spinning. 
Dec. 31, 1699.—This day appeared on the pillar Agnes Robeson 
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