New Spalding Club > Records of Elgin > No. 36, 1908

THE CHURCH : KIRK SESSION. 327
1706.
February 19th. — Act for reading in the cluirch. — The Session
considering the great loss the commons people were at for want of the
publick reading in the church doe appoint their clerk to begin next
Sabbath day to read before sermon betwixt the second and third bell
both before and afternoon and so to continue each Sabbath thereafter
for which he was to have what sallarie or casualties any of his
predecessors hade befor.
Preist. — Isabella Preist, spous to Robert White, accused of calling
Agnes Falconer, spous to John Bell, merchant, a witch and that through
her witchcraft she should occasion the death of John Smith, merchant,
and of his cow. She is ordered to beg God pardon and to beg pardon
of Agnes Falconer.
July 1 6th. — Baxter. — Marjorie Baxter, spous to John Davidson, to
appear before the congregation and be rebuked for calling Isobel
Thomsone a witch.
Taylor. — The Session apply to the magistrates to set Isobel Taylor
upon the cockstool and banish her from the town for scandalous
behaviour with John Donaldsone, late bailie.
I 707.
December 23rd. — The magistrats have banished Agnes Mcintosh for
fornication with David Fairer, chapman.
1708.
June 8th. — Parish banished. — Jean Parish being recommended to the
Magistrates and Justices of Peace to be banished as a most disingenious
and notoriously scandalous persone she was upon the 21st day of May
last set upon the cockstool betwixt the hours of eleven and twelve in the
forenoon as a publick spectacle, and bannished the town by tuck of
drum.