Translations

This will be an ongoing list that will be added to as it becomes necessary.

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