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Sunday, 23 January 2011

blood feud and fornication...

Stool of repentance, St Andrews.
busy... busy... busy:
up to my oxters in bloodfeud and fornication.
Well, immersed in transcribing records from Burntisland Kirk Session records late 16th-early-17th c.  Finally the palaeography is beginning to pay off.
The laird of Orrok's son was a bit of a naughty boy, and Orrok senior wasn't that much better....
Normal blogging service will resume soon.
Aaaand back to it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

btw, did you come across anything in the Session records about the General Assembly meeting there which "conceived" the idea of a new Bible translation which King James "birthed" down in England a few years later ? ? ?

Nik said...

You'll find a record of that in the 'Acts of the General Assemblies' - vol 2 1583-1618, edited by Duncan Shaw, pub. in 2004 by the Scottish Record Society, p1276 [which replaces BUK - Booke of the Universall Kirk]