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Deans and Butler, who had gone down to the church to meet the kirk-session and the clergymen of the Presbytery, and arrange matters for the duty of the day.
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David Deans, as our readers must be aware, was sufficiently opinionative and intractable, and having prevailed on himself to become a member of a kirk-session under the Established Church, he felt doubly obliged to evince that, in so doing, he had not compromised any whit of his former professions, either in practice or principle.
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“The woman,” said Butler, “is, I believe, no witch, but a cheat: and it is only on that head that she is summoned to the kirk-session, to cause her to desist in future from practising her impostures upon ignorant persons.”
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Moreover, he was not pleased, as a man and a scholar, to be always dictated to by his unlettered father-inlaw; and as a clergyman, he did not think it fit to seem for ever under the thumb of an elder of his own kirk-session.
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The books of the kirk-session might have thrown some light on this matter; but unfortunately they were destroyed in the year 1746, by one Donacha Dhu na Dunaigh, at the instance, it was said, or at least by the connivance, of the gracious Duncan of Knock, who had a desire to obliterate the recorded foibles of a certain Kate Finlayson.
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Gordon, touched in his tone a little by the austerity of his speeches as we heard them at the kirk-session.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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"On 16th April 1582 the kirk-session (which for some time was designated the 'Assembly') ordained their box-master to give the witch in the Tolbooth eight doits (eight twelfths of a penny sterling) in the day."
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Mr. Logan was well supported by a zealous kirk-session.
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A tombstone was erected to his memory in the parochial burying-ground, by the members of the kirk-session.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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English brethren, to the detriment of minister and kirk-session, and they made the use of a new prayer-book compulsory, and forbade any objection to it.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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