Series 6 > Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590

THE PERTH KIRK SESSION BOOKS: 1579
135
Ordenis James Sym, uptakar of the casualeteis perteining to the pure to gif
Walter Macgill, puire scollar and student in Sanct Androis, xl s of the first
that be got in, to by hym the Logickes of Aristotil.120
The quhilk day the eldares hes hard James Symes comptes of his heal
intromission of the accidentes pertenying to the pure sen this tyme tuol[v]
month.121 And the minister and eldares fyndes hym only restand awand of
his haill intromission the sowm of xvi s viii d, and therefor discharges hym
[57] of his haill intromission foresayd simplidter for evir.122
Quinto Odobris 1579
The Names of the elderis presented in the assembly: Allexander Oliphant,
Walter Eldar, Robert Chapman, Oliver Kar, Richard Ross, David Macky,
David Forbeis, Patrik Grant, Allexander Anderson
The Election of the Eldares for this present yere of god 1579
The north syde of the Hiegait South syde of the Hie gait
Mr John Michell George Johnston
Andro Stoup John Lowrie
JohnWenton John Smyt eldar
From the croce down and Wattergait The Southgait
James Hepburn John Smyt
Adam Anderson Henrie Leis
Oliver Mackyson Oliver Cragy123
The Election of the Deacones
Northsyde of the Hiegait Southsyde of the Hiegait
Charfis Merser David Jakson
James Lamb David Wricht
Sir William Anderson
120 The student was presumably from Perth. Some parishes provided bursaries to pay the
expense of boys from their town grammar schools who went on to university training;
here the parish is just funding purchase of a standard textbook. See CP, 61, n. 151, and for a
general treatment, J. Durban,‘Education in the century of the reformation’ in McRoberts
(ed.). Essays on the Scottish Reformation, 145-68.
121 For the past year.
122 That is, they approve his accounts since he did not fall far short.
123 Cragy may have been the cooper of that name, a freeman of the wrights’ guild (PMAG
ms Wrights’ Book, 23 May 1552).