In the seventeenth century, the pursuit of witchcraft was largely taken over by the kirk sessions and was often used to attach superstitious and Catholic practices in Scottish society.
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The Scottish Crown adopted the conventional offices of western European courts, and developed a courts baron and the introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds.
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In the seventeenth century the pursuit of witchcraft was largely taken over by the kirk sessions, and was often used to attack superstitious and Catholic practices in Scottish society.
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Behaviour could be regulated through kirk sessions, composed of local church elders, which replaced the church courts of the Middle Ages, and which dealt with moral and religious conduct.
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In Dunblane the minister of the Parish Church, Rev . William MacKenzie, and eight of the nine elders on the Kirk Session came out to set up such a congregation.
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In 2008, due to low congregation levels at both parishes, Lasswade and Rosewell parish churches formally united, with a single Kirk Session, but retained both places of worship.
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Each Kirk Session appoints one of its members to attend Presbytery, and on average once every four years, one of its members might be commissioned by Presbytery to the General Assembly.
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On 23 December 1735 the Garvald Kirk Session elected Francis Hepburn of Nunraw as an Elder, and as Deacon, for the united parishes of Garvald & Bara, ( NAS ).
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This action represents the creation of the present day constitution of Abbeygreen, Church of Scotland, being led through elected members of the Congregational Board and ordained elders forming the Kirk Session.
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In the minutes of the Kirk Session of St Machar's Cathedral Church, for 11 February 1644, a "'Johone Gordone "'was given 6 shillings.
