Enumeration of the inhabitants of Scotland, taken from the government abstracts of 1801, 1811, 1821 ; containing a particular account of every parish in Scotland, and many useful details respecting England, Wales and Ireland / [James Cleland].

  • Cleland, James, 1770-1840.
Date:
1823
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    1S1 16565' Edinburgh, Collection for.-May 1. A collection made for Edinburgh for a late fire there; gotten 900 lib. and some odds. 1656 Galleries in Churches.-Aug. 7. The session request the magistrates to make more room in the Hie and Laigh kirk, in regard they do not contain tbem that come to hear Sabbath and week days. Reported, 4th Sept. that the magistrates and counci had made an act that the kirks should be enlarged by lofting and otherwise, as shall be convenient. . 1656 Fines of scandalous Persons.—Sept. 4. The session spoke to the magistrates anent converting the fines of scandalous persons for the use of the poor. Reported after- wards that the magistrates slighted it. 1657 St. Andrews Bridge.—May. 7. The session reported that 101 o lib. had been ga- thered for St. Andrew's bridge and the distressed people of that town. 1658 Poor's Money.—June 10. The elders report, that when they had gathered the col- lection for Kirkaldie, &c. at the kirk doors, the bailies of the town, Walter Neilson, James Barns and John Walkingshaw, came and took away the collection from them by force and disposed of it as they pleased. This was represented to the presbytery. 1658 Oliver Cromwell.—The protector Cromwell, in a letter to the lord provost, dated 50th Sept. desired that the election of the magistrates should be delayed till he had time to make up his mind on the subject. 1658 College.—Dec. 2. Mr. John Young and Mr. Burnet, from the college, desire in name of the masters of the college, that the session may think on a way how the regents and scholars may be the principal's ordinary hearers. 1658 Dumbarton Harbour.—-The magistrates of Glasgow being desirous to make a har- bour for their trade at Dumbarton, were opposed by the magistrates of that burgh, on the ground that the great influx of marines and others, would raise the price of pro- visions to the inhabitants. 1.659 Blaclfriars Church.—Jan. 27. The session directs that the magistrates be spoken to about repairing the Blackfriars kirk, which is like to be ruinous. 1659 Outer Church.—Oct. 7. The magistrates are spoken to for making a partition wall in the Outer kirk, or lofting it above, in respect of the great prejudice comes to the minister and hearers, by cold in that kirk. 1659 College Church accommodation.—Nov. 7. The session allow the college the wester loft in the Outer kirk, as far as they have interest in the matter. A committee sent to desire the principal to preach in the Outer kirk, to which congregation he hath still a tye, and offering any other seat, even the session loft, to the college. The principal answered, he thanked the session for their respect to him, and said it was the coldness that moved him to come down to the college to preach, and that he would think on their desire in due time. Thereafter, Mr. Gillespie the principal, represents, that in regard the magistrates had refused his scholars and the students a seat in the Inner kirk, and had set town officers to keep the seats and door, he thought good to acquaint the session, for his own exoneration and vindication, that for eschewing contention, he intended to preach to the scholars in the college hall, on the afternoons on the Sabbaths following, till the Lord should please to give him liberty, with peace, to preach to them and to the people elsewhere. The session cannot admit this expe- dient, in regard he continues fixed minister of the easter quarter congregation, as to preaching to them once on the Lord's day when his health permits, and was rtever yet altogether loosed from that charge; and a committee appointed to speak to him and to the magistrates about giving back the beddal the keys of the kirk, and suffer- ing him to go about his calling. Soon after this, the principal declared his willing- ness to preach in the Outer kirk, as his health would permit him, and he would have the college to hear him in any of the kirks. At this time the magistrates appointed a kirk officer, and took the bason, &c. from the former officer in the Outer kirk; on this the session appointed that no baptisms be in the Outer High kirk till the plate and cloth, &c. be restored. 1660 Restoration of Charles II.—June 16. The session taking to their consideration the Lord's merciful providence in returning the king's majesty to his throne and government, do judge it their duty to set apart some time for public thanksgiving to God for the same. The restoration took place on 1st May, and on 14th Sept. in that year the privy council sent an order to the magistrates of Glasgow, to desire prin- cipal Gillespie to appear before them, which he did on the 17th August, when he was sent to Edinburgh jail, and was afterwards imprisoned in the Bass island along with a number of ministers. After a period of confinement, the principal was brought before parliament and liberated. 1660 Candles in Churches.—Dec. 6. The session enacted that the magistrates be spoken to about candles to the morning sermons in the winter time.