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her daughter dryVe a new calfit cow thorow the same, and 

 thereafter the daughter turned it round about withershinnes, 

 and soe let it goe to the iieldes." 



Sep. 14, 1641. " No exercise, because of the wholl people 

 of Kelso for the most pairt being at Jedburgh fair." [The 

 Rood Day fair, still kept on the 25th September, N.S.] 



March 22, 1642. " The brethren, finding the abuse of the 

 Lord's Day by playeing at football, catch, nynehoUs, new 

 boulls, and other gameing, after sermones, whereby God is 

 offended, and the tyme misspent," resolve that offenders shall 

 pay for each offence twenty shillings to the poor, and make 

 public repentance. 



May 24, 1642. " No exercise to-day, because there was 

 no auditors, in respect both the inhabitants and strangers 

 were causit beitt, and also did beitt drumes, about the cross, 

 fro aught of cloak in the morning till after eleven houres, in 

 honour of their race of Bernintoun." 



July 13, 1642. "Mr. Somervell [Ednam] compleans of 

 his parochiners for abuseing of the kirk at footeball on Fas- 

 tern's Even. It is ordained that they shall not trouble the 

 kirk with their footeball at that tyme or any tyme." 



June 25, 1642. " It was regrated by divers of the breth- 

 ren, that they could not get bonfyers upon Midsummer Eve 

 restrained, which being a relict ot Papistrie in memorie of St. 

 Johne, was against our sworne covenant, and the reformation 

 now so laudably established." 



August 27, 1644. " Reported certain of the brethren, that 

 upon the day they call our Lady Day in August [the Assump- 

 tion of the Virgin, August 15th] being the Lord's Day in 

 Bridghim in the Mers there was such pyping, dancing, and 

 drinking, as wes very scandalous." 



Dec. 2, 1645. " For restraining the disorders of penny 

 bridalls and laikwaikes, the brethren exprest their judgment 

 that it was expedient that the number of persones at a penny 

 bridall should not exceid four or five meises of people, and 

 that they who caused transgressing therein should, for each 

 meiss more than due, pay two sh: sterlin, and that the pro- 

 fane custom of the barbarous pipeing and danceing hitherto 

 used was necessary to be restrained. And the number to be 

 permitted at lakewakes, besyd the friends of the defunct mo&t 

 specially concerned, should not exceed six persones, and who- 

 soever should invitt more than these, or whosoever should 

 repair to and keip lakewakes not being specially invited, 

 should pay ten merks penalty." 



