...This chapter analyses the key features of the relief system whose establishment and extent was traced in the previous chapters. It focuses on the fundraising mechanisms used by kirk sessions as well as their approach to the distribution of resources. It also provides a detailed analysis...

...While kirk sessions hardly changed in their roles and responsibilities after the re-establishment of Presbyterianism. Presbyteries were no longer responsible to bishops, elected their own moderators and included elders. Attendance is shown to be patchy, with very few elders attending...

..., in which she revealed the 1690s to be a key decade in the formation of an enforced system of poor relief paid for by kirk sessions and local landowners. The extent to which parishes actually fulfilled their legal obligations and provided an adequate level of support to the poorest and most vulnerable...

... botany, astronomy, mineralogy, and chemistry, fields which his uncles had also pursued. It further reports that the Earl helped the Moderates in the Kirk not because it was expedient to do so but because he agreed with them. It notes that Bute followed his uncle's system in the management of Scotland...

...This chapter begins by comparing the social make-up of kirk sessions before and after the re-establishment of Presbyterianism. It finds that only a few kirk sessions retained some of the previous eldership. This led to a lack of experience among the new eldership. A particularly inappropriate...

... and the preservation of several buildings in the central city that were standing during Aikenhead's lifetime. The National Covenant had linked the security of the Presbyterian Kirk with the security of the monarchy, suggesting that the latter was just as threatened by ‘innovations’ in religion as the former...

...The kirk session was the fundamental building block of the governance structure of the Church of Scotland. It was always chaired by the minister as its moderator. The nature of the ministerial cadre is considered, with a focus on long service in the parish and educational backgrounds. Many of them...

... of the principals of the universities. It notes that the principals were important national figures who often sat in the General Assembly. It further notes that the Edinburgh principal ordinarily had a hand in the administration of Crown patronage in the Kirk, and might also be important in burgh politics...

... and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the role of the church and other groups during the debate. The focal point of the Kirk's response was the Commission of the General Assembly. Through the extensive use of church records and other primary...

... synods First Book of Discipline Scots Confession Scotland Church of Second Book of Discipline treasurer visitations Overtures 1696 Pardovan Walter Steuart of Overtures 1704 Clark Ivo Graham Henry Church of Scotland structure Kirk sessions Ecclesiology Guidance manuals Steuart of Pardovan...

... revealed underlying fears about changing social norms, loss of religion, and the shifting role of the Kirk in Scottish society. One important aspect of life on the British home front was the emphasis on solidarity and sacrifice. ‘We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have...

... historiography associated with 1706–1707. Building upon Whatley's seminal study, this chapter examines the demands of the Kirk and how these were addressed in the Scottish Parliament. It assesses the wider significance of the church act: whether this act was essentially political, designed to appease...

... investigates the timber roof structure of George Heriot Hospital’s Chapel in Edinburgh, a seventeenth-century common rafter roof with later alterations, and compares it with earlier and later examples, such as Parliament Hall and Tron Kirk by John Scott, in order to discuss the development of Scottish roof...

... Alexander Commission for Visiting Universities Colleges & Schools Home John Rule Gilbert Leiden Munro Alexander Glasgow Royal College of Physicians Rheims Medical Society Royal Society of Edinburgh Burgess Scots Trade The Kirk University Edinburgh’s tightly controlled burgess network...

... the bishop, James VI and the Jesuit missionaries who were resident in Scotland. In turn these contacts led Claudio Aquaviva, general of the Society of Jesus, to use Strachan for a similar purpose in 1602. On contacting his family, he was arrested by the Kirk authorities and arraigned before the Privy Council...

... that would provide fresh insights on this defining moment in Scotland's (and the United Kingdom's) history. The seven chapters range widely, in content and coverage, from a detailed study of how the Church of Scotland viewed the Union and how concerns about the Kirk influenced the voting behaviour...