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

386 RECORDS OF ELGIN. [1746.
The Lord's Supper is administered yearly. List of Mortifications :
[(i) to (6) as at January 6, 1730]; (7) ;£'300 Sc. of the Session money ;
(8) 500 merks mortified by Bailie Cramond ; (9) ;^ioo Sc. by John
Sanders; (10) 500 merks by James McEan (not yet recovered). There
are 2 communion cups of silver, 4 basons, i bason for baptism, a
communion table with cloath and seats conform.
1763.
February ist. — A petition to the presbytery from the ministers of
Elgin, representing that there is no manse, and asking steps to be taken.
March 1st. — Visitation relating to a manse at Elgin. Francis Stuart,
for the Earl of Fife, protests against proceeding to design a manse in a
burgh. Other heritors adhere. They have never had a manse. The
presbytery resolve to apply to the Court of Session to have a manse
built.
July 5th. — The glebe of Elgin is now in possession of Mr. David
Rintoul, one of the ministers. The glebe is a triangular plot of land
marched at the west corner by a road close by the garden walls of the
town, at the north by the top of the brae or bank next to what is called
the Little Glebe belonging to Dunkinty, at south by a footpath or road
on the edge of the corn land at some distance from the garden walls of
the town and college, and at the east by a dyke or wall of dry stones
built upon a merine between the glebe and Dunkinty's land of Harvey's
haugh.
1764.
May 27th. — The presbytery finding there is to the north of the High
Church of Elgin ground on which the minister's manse formerly stood
and likewise a garden, did agree on the following dimensions for a
manse, 47 ft. by i8i and 23 ft. high, and an office house for one horse
and two cows and barn, said office houses to be thatched only with
divot. The estimates of workmen amount to .1^336 Stg. The presbytery
sive decreet for this.