Series 3 > Minutes of the Synod of Argyll, 1639-1651 (1652-1661) > 1639-1651

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SYNOD OF ARGYLL
Mr James Campbell, minister at Kilfinan, is ordained to
be treasurer of the Irish contribution, and that he give a
ticket of receitt to every minister of what he receives.
Mr Archibald me Callum and Mr Donald Campbell is
ordained to collect the foirsaid contribution in Knapdaill.
Because that Mr Neill Campbell gave satisfaction in all
poynts unto the assembly and that My Lord Marquesse
of Argyll did present him unto the church of Kinloch in
Kintyre, he is recommended to the presbyterie of Kintyre
to admitt him the first Wednesday of November nixt.
By unanimous consent it is ordained that the next
assembly shall hold at Kinloch in Kintyre the 20th of May
1643.
After recommendation of the brethren and their labors
to the blesseing of God the assembly dissolved.
Mr Dug: Darroch, Clerk.
THE PRO VINCI ALL ASSEMBLY OF ARGYLL HOLD1NE
AT LOCH-HEAD 1 THE 25TH OF MAY 1643.
After ane sermon had by the moderator of the former
assembly, and incalling upon God for a blessing to the
meeting, they proceeded in chooseing of a new moderator,
and haveing litted Mr Ewin Camerone, Mr Archibald me
consecrated, and resented the presence of monuments and inscriptions
within the walls as irreverent intrusions of human vanity. As an indica¬
tion of the reality of the sanitary objection it may be noted that in 1709
the Presbytery of Dunoon, on a petition by the minister, the session and
majority of the heritors, in which reference is made to the stench occa¬
sioned by the burials in the church of Kilmun, found it necessary to order
the whole floor of the church ‘ to be overlaid at least two feet deep with
new earth for levelling the said floor and removeing the offensive, unwhole¬
some smell.’
1 The Dunoon Presbytery Records contain the following reference to
the arrangements for attending this Synod under date 3rd May 1643 :—
* It is aggreed that Mr Ewin fie ane boat at Dunoone for to carie the
ministerie of this presbyterie to Locheid, and that Mr Colein and Ewin
me Claine come there upon Monday the twenty two of this moneth be
ten houres that Mr James and Mr Donald may meet them at four houres
afternoone in Rothsay, and sighting their Presbyterie bookes that they
tak journey joyntlie to Locheid.’