In what case competent for a second Minister to pursue for an augmentation.
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Though the stipend of the second Minister of Dunfermline appeared to have been originally 1,000 merks, raised by contribution by the Earl of Dunfermline, the Town, and other parishioners; yet, as by a decree in 1650, the commission had so far interposed, as to convert so much of the money into victual, and to determine by whom the same should be paid as the constant stipend in all time coming. “The commission now found Mr. Fairnie, the second Minister of Dunfermline, entitled to an augmentation on the teinds.”
