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

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SYNOD OF ARGYLL
word preached in there language, The assembly appoynts
their minister, Mr Dod me Cloy, to have the lecture in
English and the sermon in Irish the one day, and the
lecture in Irish and the sermon in English the other, and
so to continue by course.
Ordaines intimation to be made at the severall parish
kirks within this province that there is ane visitation
appoynted be the generall assembly to sit at Inneraray
the last Wednesday of May nixt for visiting thir bounds.
Sess. 4.
Ane call being presented by my Lord Marquesse of
Argyle for himselfe and in name of the remanent paroach-
iners of the paroach of Lochhead in Kintyre,1 requyreing
Mr Dug. Darroch to be their minister, The assembly
approves the said call, and ordaines Mr Dug. Campbell,
Mr Ard me Alister and Marteen me Lachlane to receive
him to the said kirk of Lochhead on the 2d Sabbath of
November next, and Mr Dug. Campbell to preach, As lyke-
wayes my Lord Marquesse declared in face of this assembly
that his Lordship does allocat for a locall stipend to the
minister serveing the cure at the said kirk of Lochhead
ane thowsand mark yeerly.
of the extent of the settlements at that date. The sheriff-clerk writes :
‘ Inveraray and Campbeltown are Lowland parishes. There are other
parishes that are partly of Highlanders and partly of Lowlanders, what
numbers may be in them of either I know not, but the ministers of such
parishes ordinarily preach in the forenoon in the Gaelic language, and in
the afternoon in the English and do therefore reckon them a mixed
people. ’ The ‘ mixed ’ parishes are as undernoted :—
Cowal—Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich, Strachur, Strathlachlan, Dunoon
and Kilmun, Inverchaolain, Kilmodan, Kilfinan.
Mid Argyll—Glenaray, Kilmartin, Glassary, North Knapdale, Kil-
calmonell and Kilberry.
Kintyre—Killean and Kilchenzie, Saddell.
Southend in Kintyre is noted as a Lowland parish with some High¬
landers and Kilarrow and Kilchoman in Islay as Highland parishes
with some Lowlanders.
1 The difference in procedure between the election of Mr Neill Campbell
(p. 62) and that of Mr Dugald Darroch is accounted for by the abolition
of patronage in March 1649.—See Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland,
vi. (2), 261.