| Custodial History | Three of the items listed in this bundle were extracted and transferred to the National Records of Scotland, by the Diocese in 1983. |
| Description | File of clerical correspondence and papers mainly to Bishop Robert Kilgour, concerning his election, and to Archbishop John Tillotson, 1767-1884 and 1798-1825 [?]. Also includes sermons for Sundays, festivals, fasts and other occasions contributed by other clerics (printed), undated. The following items are among those in the file:-
Copy of a minute of a Synod of the Episcopal Church held in 1768;
Letters to Bishop Fullerton, 1722
Letters of John Edinburgon, 1718 - 1725
Items extracted and sent to National Records of Scotland:
Letter from John Brown, Montrose, to Mr Alexander Jolly, Turriff, recommending the bearer of the letter as worthy of admission to Jolly's congregation, undated;
Letter from John Glegg [to Bishop Jolly] concerning the melancholy destitution of the faithful few in London. "Deplores Bishop Skinners' attempts to coax some of the clergy to adopt his eccentric, inconsistent notions- " he pretends to discountenance the English missionaries here, and yet officiates in their chapels ....I am afraid he is entreating the college of Scots bishops to send over a bishop to America, which 'tis thought some of them are more inclined to than to send a clergyman to London". Montrose, 21st November, 1783;
Letter to Bishop Jolly from Robert Kilgour, reporting that, since Mr Deans had now left his charge, he had found it necessary to appoint the Reverend John Cruickshank to it, which had obliged him to lay on Jolly the "burden of the congregation of Mackterrie" from which Cruickshank had departed. Peterhead, 10th September 1783. |