Just browsing the mid 18th century #Melrose parish #kirkSession minutes online (#Roxburghshire, #Scotland). And when I got to a sentence in 1747 of #excommunication for #incest I have to say I expected a closer relationship than "She being his Grand Uncle's Wife"! #ScottishBorders #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Morality #Immorality #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland

Photocopying a small number of pages from a borrowed library book using a rather old now DSLR camera #DSLR #Lumix #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession #Books #Libraries

And on the subject of #witchcraft, again from #SouthLeith, now 2 May 1644 “Ordains to mak intimaone that none use any kind of torturing aganst any of yose who are suspect of witchcraft and for ye present in prisone.” #ScottishHistory #Edinburgh #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession

More from South #Leith, among accusations of #witchcraft and arguing over #schools: “28 December 1643 - Isobell Robertsone being called (for haveing four men playing at cards in hir house in tyme of divin service) compeared and was ordained to pay 12s and was admonishit no to doe the like.” #Edinburgh #ScottishHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession #CardGames #GamingHistory

From South #Leith #kirkSession records 16 September 1630 “Compeared ye fruite sellers & wes admonished not sell any #fruit publicklie agane on ye Sabbath under ye paine of making yer publicke repentance.” #ScottishHistory #Edinburgh #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury

Browsing the #Hawick parish #kirkSession minutes online. Serious yikes at this handwriting from 1821. Not happy making. #Palaeography #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NineteenthCentury #19thCentury