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Burns and the Abbey’s Black Stool

by Robin Thompson | 19 Jan 2016 | Articles, Did You Know?

by Dr Jean Barclay    DID YOU KNOW…. that Robert Burns once rebuked his friend on the Abbey`s Black Stool? The Ministers and Elders of the various Kirk Sessions of The Church of Scotland were hot on immorality and their answer to fornication outside...
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