| 11. | The continued existence of courts baron and introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds.
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| 12. | Kirk sessions also had an administrative burden in the system of poor relief and a major role in education.
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| 13. | Time spent in the bridle was normally allocated by the kirk session, in Scotland, or a local magistrate.
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| 14. | By the 17th century, Bonaly appears to have been thriving and is mentioned frequently in the Kirk Session records.
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| 15. | The members of the congregation, including the ruling elders, are under the spiritual oversight of the Kirk Session.
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| 16. | Failing to receive adequate support, however, the school was ultimately sold to the kirk session of New Greyfriars.
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| 17. | One consequence was that the Kirk Session of Liff and Benvie was responsible for the poor of that populous industrial area.
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| 18. | In 1754 a Chapel of Ease was proposed for the South side of the parish, and approved by the Kirk Session.
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| 19. | The poor are partly supported by the interest of ?22 bequeathed by various individuals, in the hands of the Kirk Session.
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| 20. | The result was that although civil penalties no longer backed up its pronouncements, Kirk sessions and synods functioned much as before.
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