In Scotland, for the publication of banns an application was made to the session clerk of the parish. Every application, which had to be verified by the certificate of two householders, or one elder of the parish, had to state that the parties, or one of them,had or has resided in the parish for six weeks, were personally known to the certifying householders or elder, that they were unmarried, and not related to each other within the prohibited degrees.
Although, in Scotland, the banns were required to be published for three successive Sundays, in general practice they were published three times on the same Sunday on payment of fees considerably larger than those payable normally. The fees varied very much, and in some places were very large such as Glasgow and other large towns, amounting to 15s, 20s, and a guinea. The publication of the banns took place by the session clerk immediately before commencement of Divine service.
From the 1868 "Royal Commission on the Laws of Marriage".
Of course this only a small part of the section on marriage in Scotland, which is not straightforward.
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