kirk session

noun

the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church

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The church's Kirk Session said members were "empathetic" and recognised it could be disturbing for some people.

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A spokesperson said: "The Kirk Session took Environmental Health's suggestion on board, embracing the bible teaching of love thy neighbour as thyself."

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Eight years later in 1860 Isabella was back before the Kirk session for a second illegitimate pregnancy.

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She had been brought before the Kirk session, a group of church elders who policed the moral wellbeing of the community in Braemar, to be admonished for having a child out of wedlock.

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At Dunfermline, the Kirk Session had this matter under consideration, and the bellman was directed “to tak notice of those who tak the sneising tobacco in tyme of Divine Service, and to inform concerning them.”