In this poser, from the minutes of the Synod of Fife in October 1627 (National Records of Scotland, CH2/154/1, page 317), we asked you who was in need of help, what had happened to him and which presbyteries were to help him.

Image of extract from the minutes of the Synod of Fife, October 1627 (National Records of Scotland, CH2/154/1 page 317).

Answers: William Broun had been robbed by a French pirate and required subsidising by the presbyteries of Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Perth.

Transcription

William Broun, quha was robbit be ane French pirat is re-
commendit to be helpit be the subsidie of the p[res]b[it]ries of Kir-
kaldie, dunfermling, and Perth.

This poser was devised by Bosco, an archivist from Fife.

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