Series 6 > Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590

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THE PERTH KIRK SESSION BOOKS: 1578
6 Octobris 1578
The assembly ordanis James Sim uptaker of the cassualties that intervenis73
unto the kirk to by ane tow to the litill skellit74 bell, the quhilk bell salbe
only rung to the affairs of the kirk as to the exercies or to the assemblyes.
The election of the elderis. 1578.75
The north syd of the Hiegait
Dioneis Conqueror
Andro Donaldson
Walter Elder, skynner76
The Wattergait
Oliver Kar
Richart Ross
Andro Moncreif77
The southsyd of the Hiegait
Alexander Oliphant
Patrick Grant
David Forbes
The Southgait
Alexander Anderson elder
Robert Chapman
David Makky
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The election of the deaconis. 1578.
The northsyd of the Hiegait
James Sim
Jhon Robertson, maltman78
William Ratray
The Wattergait.
Jhon Ranoldson
William Ross, tailyor
Jhon Hendry
The southsyd of the Hiegait
George Stobby
James Henderson, baxter
William Anderson
The Soutgait
Andro Blyithman
Walter Saidlair
William Inglis
The quhilk day Patrik Murray of Tibbermuir and Andro Donaldson was
chosin masters of the hospitaHty.
The assembly ordains the adulteraris to be warnit to compeir befoir the
minister and elderis upon Fryday nixt after prayeris, and failyein of their
74 A rope for the skellit bell - a bell small enough to be used as a handbell, but occasionally
hung in a bell tower. On St John’s kirk bells, see R.W.M. Clouston, ‘The bells of Perth¬
shire: St John’s Kirk, Perth’, PSAS, 124 (1994), 525-42; and M. Todd,‘What’s in a name?
Language, image and urban identity in early modern Perth’ in W.Janse and B. Pitkin (eds),
Dutch Review of Church History 85: The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early
Modern Europe (Leiden, 2005), 379—96.
75 For biographical information on the elders elected, see Appendix I.
76 A skinner worked with animal hides and was part of the Glovers Guild.
77 Adam Donning is crossed out.
78 ‘Jhon Ranoldson’ is crossed out.
79 This entry suggests that Perth may have had a functioning presbytery before presbyteries