Excerpt from The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities His intimate acquaintance with Church Law, gained and used in the manner already alluded to, enabled him to render important service in the ecclesiastical courts, as well as in various committees of the Church, more especially the Committee for the Conversion Of the Jews, to which for a considerable time he acted as secretary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.