The lib. referred to is pound as well from libra - the scales - and from which the pound sign originated. (The pound was at one stage the value of a pound weight of silver.) Reading through the Kirk session records recently I was struck by the thought that the size of the fines levied for various sexual indiscretions seemed to match the immediate alms requirements within parish. Perhaps it is the cynic in me however some of the fines were to be paid directly by the transgressors to the needy!!! Bill M.