Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
CH1/2/82 |
Title |
General Assembly Papers, Main Series |
Dates |
1743 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
Off site |
Description |
Bound ff.1-163. Canongate settlement case. Papers relating to choice of various candidates to succeed the Rev. John Walker, Hugh Blair being eventually chosen. The other candidates were John Ferrier, Largo, and Robert Walker, Straiton. These papers all refer to the case as it came before the session only; the papers concerning it before presbytery, synod and Assembly are missing. Including:
List of voters for Robert Walker, 1743, (f.17).
List of voters for Hugh Blair, 1743, (f.30)
ff.164-213. Case of Andrew Henderson, preacher, suspended by synod of Moray, for profanation of the Lord's day, lying and prevarication, 1740-3.
ff.214-25. Case of David McMurtry, who appealed from presbytery of Ayr, to synod of Glasgow, and then to Assembly, accused by Margaret Logie, his servant, as father of her illegitimate child.
ff.226-32. Case of Quentin Dick of Lochspouts, accused of fornication, 1739-43.
ff.233-4. Papers relative to disjunction of parishes of Ruthwell and Cummertrees from presbytery of Lochmaben and annexatio to presbytery of Annan.
ff.235-6. Petition of Mr David Strang, late minister at Cabrach, prisoner in Tolbooth of Edinburgh, who was apprehended on his way to his settlement at Sunderland in South Britain, and is now `reduced to the greatest extremity, a stone floor for my bed, and suchlike walls for my food, which I beg leave to represent as a hardship unbecomeing Christianity, and exceeding Mahometan cruelty or pagan barbarism'.
f.237 Extract act of synod of Perth and Stirling anent places of meeting, 12 April 1743.
ff.238-9. Disjunction of parish of Castleton from presbytery of Jedburgh and annexation to presbytery of Langholm.
ff.240-88. Moffat settlement case. Including:
Petition signed by heads of families for settlement of Mr Irving, 3-4 Sept. 1742, (f.272).
Petition signed by heads of families for settlement of Mr John Nimmo, minister at Johnstone, (f.275).
ff.289-300. Irregular marriage of John Buchanan, barber in Glasgow, and Mary Robertson, widow of Peter Balinnie, fencing master there, 29 Sept. 1742.
ff.301-11. Case of Robert Thomson, minister at Kirkhill, and a dispute with his heritors. Including:
Petition by Robert Thomson, giving details of doings of a mob which beseiged the manse, 3 July 1743, when 3-400 people attacked the door and threw stones in at the windows; the minister and his family lurked to escape the fury of the assassins, `every moment looking for the fatall end and last minute of their lives, so that since the creation of the world there was not a more melancholly or dismall scene in any Christian country', (f.304).
ff.312-4. Strathmartine settlement case.
ff.315-72. Royal Bounty papers. Including:
Papers relating to John Yule, missionary at Portsoy, and his proposed transfer to Corgarff, (ff.315-21, 323-7).
Letter from Jos. Guest (?to Moderator), recommending that the salary granted to Mr William Blair, minister at Ruthven, may be continued, as Mr Blair also attends the garrison at the Barrack of Ruthven. Canongate, 26 May 1743, (f.329).
Letter from Archibald Campbell, minister at Lismore, to Robert MacInstosh, Clerk to C of S, relating to desire of Alexander MacDonald of Glenco for a school and catechist; many papists employed at lead mines at Cliftown in parish of Killin from the west popish highlands, to whom priests resort frequently and say mass. ff.342-3.
ff.373-87. Case of Gilbert McGie, falconer in Canongate, accused of bigamy.
ff.388-425. Robertson settlement case.
ff.426-9. Overtures and instructions. |
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