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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...of South Leith, in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, you are Indicted and Accused, at the instance of the Rev. William Stevenson, Doctor of Divinity, one of the Ministers of said church and parish; Thomas Hardie, Merchant in Leith; James Duncan, Merchant in Leith; John Thomas Robertson, formerly Merchant in Leith, now residing at Summerfield, near Leith; William Anderson, Town-clerk of Leith; and Robert Whitson, Brewer in Leith, individual members, and constituting a majority of the Kirk-session of the said parish of South Leith: THAT ALBEIT, by the Word of God, and the laws and discipline of the Church of Scotland, LIBEL, or the Writing, Printing, and Publishing, or Causing to be Written, Printed, and Published, or Causing to be Published, any scurrilous or defamatory book, poem, or other composition, especially any book, poem, or other composition in which the name and Word of God, or one or other of them, is treated with irreverence, and more especially when committed by a Minister of the Gospel, for the purpose of hurting the feelings and injuring the character of an office-bearer, or office-bearers, in the Church: AS ALSO, DEFAMATION, especially when committed by a Minister of the Gospel, against the character of a person who is his Colleague in the office of the Ministry, or who is an Elder in the Church, and more especially when committed by means of scurrilous and profane writings or prints: AS ALSO, LYING: AS ALSO, PERSUADING, or INCITING, others to lie, more especially when aggravated by a false and perverse construction or misapplication of the words of Ballantyne And Company, Printers, Taul's Work. of Scripture: AS ALSO, Persuading or Inciting others to MAKE or to USE FALSE WRITS: AS ALSO, the WILFULLY COUNTERACTING and OBSTRUCTING, by a Minister of ...