Hi Rapunzel
The ones I have just given you are from the following
THE REGISTERS OF BAPTISMS OF THE EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, Muthill, Perthshire. A.D. 1697-1847.
and not the established Church of Scotland.
The following appears in the introduction to the book:
The Muthill Church Registers hold, however,
a position distinct from the ordinary parish books : they
belonged to the Episcopalian congregation which has existed
in Muthill ever since the Revolution of 1688 and the consequent
disestablishment of the Episcopal Church. For many years
after their commencement they appear, however, to have been
the most used if not the only register in the parish,* this
may be accounted for by the fact that most of the people
seem to have continued faithful to the Church favoured by the
Stuarts, just as they remained loyal to that family in its exile.
They were the better able to retain their own opinions as the
Drummonds, the feudal lords of the district, were noted for
their devotion to James II. and his descendants. The narrative
of the ordination of the Rev. William Haly shows that
a most remarkable state of affairs existed in the parish. The
parish minister at the Revolution was the Rev. James Irvine.'f
In 1689 James Inglis was presented by the patron the Earl of
Perth, and was deprived in 1693 for not praying for the reigning
sovereigns William and Mary. He remained in the parish
as minister of the Episcopalian congregation till his death,
October 24, 1732. Though deprived in 1693, his successor Mr
Wm. Chalmers was not appointed till 1702. He was translated
from Monzie, whither he returned the following year, finding,
we may venture to suppose, that Muthill was not a bed of
roses. Concerning his successor we will quote Fasti Ecclcsice
Scoticaii(Z\:—"William Haly A.M. acquired his degree at the
University of Edinburgh 28 June 1697 Licenced in 1703,
called by the Presbytery, jure devolnto 23 May the parishioners
having refused to do so and was ordained (in the churchyard,
the church being retained by the intruder [the Rev. J. Inglis])
3rd Aug 1704 So great was the opposition to the Presbytery ' at
his settlement that the populace armed with swords and staves
occupied the churchyard, guarded the doors of the church, and
refused admission either to him, or his co-presbyters, who were
assailed with stones, even in that sacred place.' He got admission
to the church however, 20 March 1705, and ingratiated
himself so much afterwards in the affections of his hearers that
an awakening, or revival, took place among them in 1742 when
not a few were brought to the knowledge of the truth. He died
16 July 1754, aged about 77 in the 5oth year of his ministry."
