Auld Biggins of Stirling: Its Closes, Wynds, And Neebour Villages

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Auld Biggins of Stirling: Its Closes, Wynds, And Neebour Villages
William Drysdale
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Morris, Esq., Town Clkrk, Stirling.
Chiek-Constable Thomas Ferguson, Stirling.
COUNTY OFFICIALS n ^^K ^k J^ ^^Hj^ ■ j^ » .v ^^^^^r^^^r 'r^lL ^ T V ?" ^Ht ^" .* ^^ ^j'W'j p ' ^sR^' Sheriff-Principal J. M. Lees, A.M., LL.B.
Shkrikf-Substitute J. R. Buntine, A.M., Stirling.
Chibf-Constablb John D. Sempill, Stirlingshirb.
Market Cross.
AULD BIGGINS OF STIRLING.
-f^tS+2>-f- THE MERCATE CROSS.
44 T was long, '* says a writer on the subject, ** be- M^ fore the cross became the formal and official sign
... of Christianity ; but when crucifixion as a criminal punishment was abolished by Constantine, this gradually took place, and as such the three forms of its use which have existed for many centuries, and exist now, are (1) the public or private marking of the cross with a manual gesture, or the impressing of it on dedicated objects, known as the Sign of the Cross ; (2) the material cross of marble, stone, metal, or wood, used for devotional purposes, from the large church- yard cross or viUage or market cross, through the smaller ones of church altars and chancel screens, to the little ' pectoral crosses,' originally the mark of an ecclesiastic, but now worn indiscriminately ; (3) the crucifix, being the same cross bearing the Divine Figure.

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