. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. nting stool like thejougs and the shirt of sackcloth, has, for many years, been dis-continued, and modes of church discipline have gradually creptinto practice that our forefathers would have denounced as laxand unscriptural. Another relic preserved in the Kirk is a jug. It is ap-parently composed of pewter, and very muchresembles a small claret-jug. It is usuallydenominated a holy water fatt or jug, as, ac-cording to tradition, it was used by theRoman Catholic priests in holding
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. nting stool like thejougs and the shirt of sackcloth, has, for many years, been dis-continued, and modes of church discipline have gradually creptinto practice that our forefathers would have denounced as laxand unscriptural. Another relic preserved in the Kirk is a jug. It is ap-parently composed of pewter, and very muchresembles a small claret-jug. It is usuallydenominated a holy water fatt or jug, as, ac-cording to tradition, it was used by theRoman Catholic priests in holding holy the establishment of the rites of Pres-byterianisni, the jug was used in conveying tothe Church the water used in baptism. Asan old relic connected with the Kirk, we give the annexed en-graving of it. We give a woodcut of another relic connectedwith the Kirk, viz., a church token, the die for which was cutin 1759, and which has onone of its sides a representa-tion of the Kirk. The dieafter being long amissing,was very singularly discoveredsome time ago among a massof old stores in the Cowgate.
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