. Bygone church life in Scotland . 5 as much as ^4, 4s. 6d. was spent inone for Lesmahago, and in 1693 Kirkmichael,Ayrshire, ordered one of a special fashion, likeunto that which they have in Straitoun, to bemade. The repentance-stool has maintained itsplace in scattered instances down to moderntimes, one of the latest instances of its usebeing in 1884, when a man stood on the stoolto be publicly rebuked in the Free Kirk atLochcarron. The Museum of the Society ofAntiquaries at Edinburgh contains the old re-pentance-stool, formerly used in the Old Grey-friars Church of that city; the repentance
. Bygone church life in Scotland . 5 as much as ^4, 4s. 6d. was spent inone for Lesmahago, and in 1693 Kirkmichael,Ayrshire, ordered one of a special fashion, likeunto that which they have in Straitoun, to bemade. The repentance-stool has maintained itsplace in scattered instances down to moderntimes, one of the latest instances of its usebeing in 1884, when a man stood on the stoolto be publicly rebuked in the Free Kirk atLochcarron. The Museum of the Society ofAntiquaries at Edinburgh contains the old re-pentance-stool, formerly used in the Old Grey-friars Church of that city; the repentance-gownof Kinross parish is also preserved in the same DISCIPLINE IN THE KIRK. 113 museum. It does not always follow that penanceimplies repentance, and the strong arm of theScottish Kirk sometimes compelled a man tosubmit to the former without his experiencingthe latter; such was evidently the case withthree reprobates who were excommunicated in1675 by the Kirk Session of Mauchline, Ayr-shire, because of their breaking the stool of. JOUGS FROM THE OLD CHURCH OF CLOVA,FORFARSHIRE. repentance on which they had been sentenced to stand in presence of the congregation. The jagg or jougs consisted of an iron collar fastened by a padlock, which hung from a chain secured in the church wall near the principal entrance. An offender sentenced to the jagg H 114 BYGONE CHURCH LIFE. was compelled to stand locked within this collarfor an hour or more before the morning serviceon one or more Sundays. About the time ofthe Revolution this dropt out of use, chieflyfrom the fact that the State no longer suffered
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