Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Lyon v. William Houstoun and John Hepburn
Date: 23 February 1694
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Mersington reported the competition for the stipend of Orr, near Kircudbright, between Mr Lyon, the late episcopal incumbent, and Mr William Houstoun, suspected to be a papist, who preached sometimes there, and Mr John Hepburn, the field Cameronian preacher, who claimed it by a call of the people, and an act of the presbytery of Dumfries, and his serving there.
The Lords preferred him, notwithstanding that the presbyterian church was threatening to excommunicate him as a schismatic, it being instructed that he was one of the presbyterian communion.
