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Note: this congregation is mentioned in Small, ii/279, in a paragraph on the Rev. George Paxton, whose aversion to the swearing of the Burgess Oath led to his refusal to go into the union with the burgher synod in 1820. He then began to preach in the old gaelic chapel in Castle Wynd, to a number of dissenters from congregations of Nicolson Street and Potterrow, who were constituted into a protestor congregation under his care. In 1822 they removed to a new church in Infirmary Street. In 1834, the Rev. James Wright was inducted as his colleague, and at this the congregation divided, breaking finally over the suggested union with the burghers in 1842. |