Translations

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Compeired = Appeared
Defunct = Deceased
Deponed = Testified
Diet = Meetings or examinations
Dittay = Statement of the charges
Fencibles = A soldier called up for home defence.
Liferentrix = A female life renter
Merk = a certain weight of gold and silver estimated in monetary terms and used as a money of account from early times with the value of two thirds of Scottish pound, or 13 shillings and 4 pence Scots. A silver coin of this denomination was coined at intervals from the reign of James VI in 1578 to that of Charles II
Mertimes = The Feast of St Martin, Nov. 11th
Pannells = Accused on trial
Presbytery = An ecclesiastical court made up of the minister and one ruling elder from each parish or congregation within a designated area
Presbyterian = This form of government, instituted by Calvin in Geneva in 1541, was introduced into Scotland by John Knox in the First Book of Discipline (1560) and reaffirmed by Andrew Melville in the Second Book of Discipline (1578), and after various vicissitudes was established as the official policy of the Church of Scotland in 1690 and confirmed by the Act of Union in 1707
Relict = Widow
Sederunt = The word used in minutes to introduce the list of names of those present at a meeting
Synod = One of the courts of the Presbyterian Church, consisting of the body of ministers and elders who are members of the Presbyteries in the province, and two representative members from each of the neighbouring synods. In the smaller bodies, the Free Presbyterian and Reformed Presbyterian Churches, which have no General Assembly, the Synod is the supreme court
Tack = A lease, tenancy
Whilk = Whole or Which
The Presytery Book of Strathbogie 1631-1654 PDF Print E-mail

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Extracts from The Presytery Book of Strathbogie
A.D. M.DC.XXXI. - M.DC.LIV. (1631 - 1654)
Aberdeen, 1843



Att Botarie, Maij 21, 1651

CRUKSHANKS, adulteresse, ordained

Compeired Elspett CRUKSHANKE, parochiner of Botarie, and being accused of adulterie with Lodovicke Lindsay, some tyme Earl of Crawford, both in the parioch of Botarie and Rothemay, she confessed the same in both parochines, and after that the filthines of her offence was laid forthe unto hir by the moderatour, and she mightly rebuked for her contumacious and lewd life, quhich (as was reported be the minister of Botarie), she had for ane long tyme spended in the service of Sathan, by whorring and perjurie, she was remitted to the sessions of both the kirkes of Rothemay and Botarie, to satisfie per vices, as ane adulteresse in sackcloathe, barefootted, till the discipline should be satisfied according to the order of this kirke; and if she should desist at any tyme from guieing obediencem that then incontinent she should be excommunicated, her processe being alreadie neir the closure in the parochin of Botarie, quher she had most resided, and the miniteris to report.


At Botarie, 24th Septembris, 1651

CRUKSHANKS reported to preach at Huntly

It was reportit this day, by some, that one Mr. John CRUKSHANKE, quho had bein this long tyme bygon a scandelous person, and ane associate of James Grahame, in his rebellion, had fallen in of late within the parisch of Dumbennan, in the house of Huntly, and ther had preached publickly in the familie, the last Lord's day, in the audience of my Lord Marquis himselfe and his Lady, and that, the sermon being ended, he went out into the Raves, and filled himselfe beastly full, as his maner is, so gieuing great scandell by his badde conversatioune in these places of the countrie. The minister being enquired of the treuthe thereoff, answered, he had never heard of the said Mr. John that he had bein a residenter with them till that same morneing, at quhich tyme also he heard a surmise amongst them that he was about to give my Lord a sermon that day. The minister was ordained to try the mater, and to report against the nixt meetting.

 

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