Series 6 > Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590

THE PERTH KIRK SESSION BOOKS: 1578
pay vi s viii d to the puir becaus thai are convict of flyting.22 And also every
ilk ane of tham to find caution to answer to the kirk concerning the irnis23
and the performans thereof, quhen thai salbe requirit. And also gif ony mair
flyting be fund amangis tham, that the panes be doublet.
(9) Ordanis James Sim to gif xiii s viii d to Allexander Jhonson, to Andro
Anderson xx s, and to William Ronaldson xx s.24
[13] Ordanis the maisters hospital to caus rais the copie of the gif[ts to the]
hospitalitie fra the privay seal to be producit aganis the la[ird of] Inch-
martein,25 and all utheris26 causes thai haif to do and the expenses] thairof
salbe allowit to tham in thair comptis.
13 Maii 1578
The quhilk day the readar is ordanit to desyre the bailyes to cu[m] the morn
to the prayars to confer with the elderis upon sum affaires.
The quhilk day Dioneis Conqueror balye is desyrit to speik [to] Andro
Trumpet and to travel27 with him. Falyeing28 of gud succes thereof, the
minister to proceid agains him.
The quhilk day Thomas Monypenny youngar is appointit to be admonissit
on Thursday nixt be the minister in pulpet29 to gif and depone his consciens
quhidder he hade carnal deal with Margaret Stevan or not, under the pane
22 ‘Flyting’ is a highly formulaic form of public railing. See CP, ch. 5.
22 The ‘irons’ could refer to jougs or branks. The jougs were iron collars often chained to
the kirk gate or the market cross; the branks (called in England a scold’s bridle) was an
iron cage locked over the head, with a projecting point into the mouth. They were used
for offences other than flyting, but the branks was most often assigned for offences of the
tongue, like railing or slander. Flyters generally had to stand in the branks in a public place
for two hours. See CP, 142 and Plates 15 and 16.
24 Sim, or Sym, elected deacon the previous Oct., doled out alms to poor individuals upon
order of the session.
25 The laird of Inchmartin was among those withholding rent payments to the hospital. Here
a copy of the document requiring ecclesiastical rentals and annuals to go to the hospital is
to be produced as evidence of the hospital’s legal claim. The laird would be included in a
list of those to be put to the horn for failure to pay arrears of rent to the hospital in 1589
(Milne, pp. xiii, 50). This entry is at the top of a page of the manuscript whose corner has
been torn off, hence the editorial interpolations. The numbering of cases on a page ends
at this point in the manuscript.
26 Other.
27 Travail; he is to attempt to convince him, presumably of some doctrinal error.
28 Failing.
29 That is, the admonition should be public.