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3l8 RECORDS OF ELGIN. [1695.
July 15th. — Mr. Walter Wilson, minister in the presbytery of St.
Andrews, moderator.
July 28th. — Mr. John Buchanan, minister at Cowintovvn, moderator.
August 19th. — Mr. Andrew Thomson, minister at Orwell, moderator.
September 2nd. — Mr. Hugh Kemp, moderator.
November 12th. — Mr. David Fleckfeild, moderator.
December 2nd. — Mr. Gavin Hamiltone, minister of Robertowne in
the presbiterie of Lenrike, moderator.
1696.
January 13th. — Mr. Charles Borlum, moderator.
January 20th. — Mr. David Lindsay, moderator.
March 23rd. — Mr. John Gilchrist, minister at South Leith, moderator.
March 31st. — Aci anent delinquents. — It was enacted that the
delinquents upon the Lords day should enter the public place of
repentance immediately after the ringing of the third bell and continue
there untill the blesseing be said and the women to have no plaids
about them at the time the minister speaks to them and that day
which any of them shall contraveen this Act shall not be sustained as
one to them.
April 13th. — Mr. George Gordone, minister at Luchars, moderator.
June 2ist. — Mr. Robert Longlands and Mr. James Thomsone called
to be ministers of Elgin. — Mr. Robert Longlands, minister of the gospell
at the Barronrie Kirk in Glasgow, and Mr. James Thomsone, minister of
the gospell at CoUingtown, enter the work of the ministerie at Elgin
after ane unanimous call be the heritors, majestrats, councill, session,
gildrie, crafts and commons of Elgin and the parochin thereof eagerly
followed and regularly prosecute by their Commissioners and after it
carried by the Providence of God by most votes in the General
Assemblie.
August i8th. — Mr. Longlands minister of Elgin his death. — Mr.
Robert Longlands and Mr. James Thomsone by unanimous calls from
the burgh and pariochin of Elgin did come to the said burgh Thursday
the 18 Junij 1696 and entered their worke of the ministerie the next
Sabbath thereafter being the 21st day of the said month and it pleased
the only wise and Almightie Lord to try the congregation of Elgin with

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