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

346 RECORDS OF ELGIN. [l765-
May i6th (Thursday). — Fast by Act of Synod on account of the bad
weather.
October 15th. — Baillie Robert Allan, treasurer, has bought at the
market this day 14 yards linnen for a communion table cloath at i6s. Sc.
per yard, ;£^i i 4s.
November 24th. — Collected for the widdows at Lossymouth
£S4 6s. 8d.
1767.
June 7th. — Collected for the Infirmary in Aberdeen £78 lis. 6d.,
including what was collected and given by the Grammar School boys
and by the English School boys, as also what was collected at the
meeting house in Pluskarden.
June i6th. — Paid ;£'i4 for nursing and burying the foundling.
No accounts of John Rhind but that he is fled.
1768.
February 28th. — The Session has two silver cups with stalks 2 lb. 2 oz.
new weight, two ditto wanting stalks i lb. 5 oz. 9 drop ditto, one pewter
flaggon, one leather bagg, and one box with communion tokens, one iron
stamp for ditto, one large and one lesser table cloth, four napkins with
knops and two plain ditto for the communion bred, eight napkins fringed
for the collection stools, four pewther basins for collections, one ditto and
two napkins for baptisms, six stools for collections, one chest three foot
long, twelve inch deep with lock and key, two cloth coverings for the
pulpit, one green one black, one small bell for the session house, four
large tables and six forms for the communion.
June 2 1 St. — Mr. James Cruden, schoolmaster in Elgin, chosen
Session Clerk.
[March 22nd, 1770, is the last entry in this volume of Minutes. A
scroll book with Session minutes and note of collections was recovered
in Edinburgh a few years ago and restored to the Session. It contains
entries from 7th August, 1767, to 24th November, 1779. Part of the
minutes in the scroll book appear also duly entered in the foregoing
volume.]