Leith.] THE KANTORE. 22s
Session must have been determined to make it
a sort of pattern parish for the whole kingdom.
Not content with the by no means inconsiderable
amount of zeal they displayed, they also had the
assistance of a dignitary styled the Bailie of St.
Anthony, whose special duty it was to ferret out
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the last of whom was abolished by the Reform
Bill.
In those clays we are told that to cut a cabbage,
to boil a kett!e, or to wander in the streets during
the hoursof sermon,rendered a person liable to arrest
by a military patro1,and incarceration in the Kantore.
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transgressors against ecclesiastical authority, and
have them brought before him for trial.?
That the Session considered him their own
special official is made evident from the circumstance
that when the sheriff of the county, in the
year 1688, ventured to dispute his authority aiid
question his decisions, the Session passed a vote
commanding their ?treasurer to disburse what money
was necessary to defend the rights of this official,
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In the centre of the edifice was an archway, and
above it was a chamber, which, by order of the
Session in 1632, was repaired for the use of ?? the
doctor (teacher) of the Grammar School.? In 1692
the same chamber was used as a Session House,
during a dispute about the incumbency of the
parish. In later times the lower chambers were
used as a receptacle for the gravedigger?s tools and
the dkbris of the churchyard, in which latter, in the
