COMMCNtON TOKENS Ol? SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER 125 



SELKIRK PRESBYTERY. 



AsHKiBK. (I) Lead; oblong, 10x9; without a rim. ak 

 incised ; rude, Reverse, -plain. See /iff. 



(2) Lead ; square, 9 ; without a rim. a k finely scratched. 

 Reverse, plain. See fig. 



(3) Mixed metal; oblong, 13x9; without a rim. ash- 

 kirk in the field, and 1839 in the right hand corner. 

 Reverse, communion | token. Ministry of Mr John Edmons- 

 ton. See fig. 



BowDEN. (I) Lead; oblong, 8x9. b k, with toothed border; 

 old and rude. Reverse, plain. See fig. 



(2) Lead; oblong, 17x11; slight rim. the lord's] 

 TABLE I BOWDEN KIRK. Reverse, this do in | remembrance I 

 OF me. Some of them have a numeral deeply incised to 

 mark the number of the table. Not very old, but roughly 

 and clumsily made. 



(3) Mixed metal; oblong, 17x14, with a rim and cut 

 corners, parish church | of | bowden, in relief, with a 

 numeral incised. Reverse, this do in j remembrance | of 

 me. I but let a man 1 examine I himself. 



Caddonfoot. Mixed metal; oblong, 17x12; cut corners; rim 

 and ornamental border, caddonfoot | 1865. Reverse, this 



DO IN I remembrance | OF ME | I. COR. XI. 24. 



Ettrick. (1) Lead; square, 10; with a rim. ek. Reverse, 

 plain. See fig. 



{1) Mixed metal; oval, 17x12; with a rim. etterick. 

 Reverse, 1814. Ministry of Charles Paton, A.M. 



The Rev. John Falconer furnishes me with the following 

 extract from Ettrick Session Records, which evidently refers 

 to the older of these tokens : "August 12: 1694. Tushilaw 

 was ordained to pay out of ye penalty money for ye cups, 

 ye tokens and linine lllb: 13: 8<?." This was in the 

 ministry of James Macmichen, the predecessor of Mr Thos. 

 Boston, author of the " Fourfold State," who came to the 

 parish in 1711. 



Galashiels. ( 1 ) Lead ; square, 9 ; o k incised ; no rim ; old. 

 Reverse, plain. See fig. 



(2) Mixed metal ; round, 15 ; with a rim. qalashiels | 

 1814. Reverse, a figure of the church front and tower. 



