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Old Photograph Tron Church Edinburgh Scotland
Old photograph of Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish church was " dedicated to Christ " by the citizens of Edinburgh in 1641, and known as " Christ's Kirk at the Tron ". It was built for the North West parish, one of the four parishes of Edinburgh after the Scottish Reformation of 1560. Prior to the erection of this new church, parishioners of the North West parish worshipped in St. Giles' Cathedral. There were special grants of pews made by the Edinburgh Town Council to noblemen, Senators of the College of Justice, citizens of Edinburgh Old Town, Principals and Professors of the University. A full list of seat holders has been preserved for 1650, the year of the battle of Dunbar, and for 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie was in Edinburgh. In 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, an 18 year old student, became the last person in Scotland to be executed for the crime of blasphemy after a fellow student reported that he had blasphemed against God outside the Tron Kirk.
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