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Appendix I: Extract of the Minutes of the Presbytery of Turriff, Licensing Mr. Milne as Preacher of the Gospel

‘ Turriff, 24th November 1830. — The Presbytery met, and having been constituted. Juder alia, —

‘Mr. John Milne, student of divinity, who lately came to reside within the bounds of this Presbytery, from the Presbytery of Aberdeen, produced a certificate from said Presbytery of Aberdeen, bearing that he had undergone preliminary trials, with approbation, on the 21st of July last, that circular letters had been addressed to the Presbyteries of the Synod, and that the Synod had allowed him to be taken on probationary trials. The Presbytery of Aberdeen having transferred his trials to be completed before this Presbytery, there are now prescribed to Mr. Milne the following pieces of trial: An exercise and addition on Romans v. 1-5; homily, Matthew vi. 33; lecture, r1oth Psalm; popular discourse, Matthew v. 8; and exegesis, Quae sunt criteria divinz revelation is?

‘ Turriff, 30th March 1831. — The Presbytery met, and was constituted. Jzter alia, —

‘Mr. John Milne delivered a homily, lecture, and popular discourse on the subjects prescribed him.

1 Mr. Geddie of Banff, in forwarding the above extract to Mr. Cowan, adds: ‘In his note, Mr. Abel says, I may state that the moderator who licensed Mr. Milne was Mr. G. R. Davidson, now of Edinburgh; and that of the members of Presbytery then present, two others are still living — viz. Mr. Finlay of King Edward, and Mr. Manson, now residing in Banff.’

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‘Fyvie, 4th May 1831. — The Presbytery met, and having been constituted. ter alia, —

‘Mr. John Milne delivered an exegesis, and exercise and addition on the subjects formerly prescribed. The Presbytery, considering that Mr. Milne had undergone the several pieces of trial required by the laws of the Church, now took a retrospective view of the whole, and having had much reason to be satisfied, Mr. Milne was called in, and having returned satisfactory answers to the questions to be put to all candidates for licence, by Act X., Assembly 1711; and having subscribed the formula coram, the Act against simony was read to him. Whereupon the Moderator, in name and by appointment of the Presbytery, licensed Mr. Milne to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and directed the clerk to grant him an extract to this effect when required.

‘Extracted from the records of the Presbytery of Turriff, on this and the preceding page, by ‘JOHN ABEL, Presby. Cl’

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