Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Mr William Stewart v. James Maclane, Treasurer of the Hospital of Inverness, and The Laird of Strachen, Patron
Date: 21 February 1694
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The Lords found Mr William Stewart had right to the stipend, having served for it by order of the commission of the General Assembly, though he was not an actual ordained minister, and so could not administer the sacraments; seeing he had a testificate of several of the presbyterian ministers of Edinburgh, bearing, it was their custom to give the stipends to such as had preached at these churches till they were otherwise provided.