. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. 176 BIGGAR AND THE HOUSE OF FLEMING. of Edinburgh, and is now in the possession of Mr Sim atCoulter Mains. In the course of time the Kirk has undergone many altera-tions and repairs. We may refer to some repairs which wereproposed to be made on it about the middle of last century. On the 17th October 1750, James Brown the Laird ofEdmonston appeared before the Presbytery of Biggar, and ap-plied for a visitation of the Kirk Quire, and kirkyard appears to have been done
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. 176 BIGGAR AND THE HOUSE OF FLEMING. of Edinburgh, and is now in the possession of Mr Sim atCoulter Mains. In the course of time the Kirk has undergone many altera-tions and repairs. We may refer to some repairs which wereproposed to be made on it about the middle of last century. On the 17th October 1750, James Brown the Laird ofEdmonston appeared before the Presbytery of Biggar, and ap-plied for a visitation of the Kirk Quire, and kirkyard appears to have been done, till 1758, when JohnIreland, wright in Biggar, John Gardner, mason there, andGeorge Veitch, mason in Sunnyside, were appointed by thePresbytery to lay before it a report of the repairs required onthe Kirk and kirkyard dyke. Those tradesmen reported thatthe main body of the church and the north and south aisles re-quired to be pinned and harled both within and without, andthe wall heads levelled;—that the windows of the north andsouth aisles should be glazed to the window soles, and the ironin these and oth
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