Anent homicids, incestuous persones, and adulterers not fugitive from the lawes, but continuallie suteing to be receavit be the Kirk to publick repentance; after long reasoning, with mature deliberatione, the haill brethren presently assembleit, concludit, that all sic persones, humbly suiting, shall be receavit, to give the signes of their repentance in their awne kirks, according to the order appoyntit before, at qwhilk tyme the minister shall publickly notifie their crymes, that thereby the civill magistrates may know the crymes, and pretend no ignorance thereof. Give they be excommunicat for their offences, they shall stand bareheaded at the kirk doore, every preaching day, betwixt the Assemblies, secluded from prayers before and after sermone, and then enter in the kirk, and sit in the publick place bareheaded, all the tyme of the sermons, and depart before the latter prayer. The uthers that are not excommunicat shall be placeit in the publick place where they may be knawne from the rest of the people, bareheaded the tyme of the sermones, the minister remembering them in his prayer in the tyme after preaching; all the saids persons to bring their ministers’ testimonialls to the next Assembly of their behaviour in the meantyme, according to the act made thereupon be the Kirk in the 2d Sessione, halden July 7, 1569. Anent the complaynt of the parochiners of the kirk of Kilmenie for wanting of ane minister to preach God’s word and minister the sacraments, the haill Kirk concludes, that in respect of the number of qualified and learnit men of the auld Colledge able to preach, and also the nearness of the said Colledge to the said kirk, That some of them shall either preache and minister the sacraments to the people, or else injoyne uthers to doe the same qwhill farder order be taine. Sess. 7^a. March 3, 1569(70). Anent Robert Lickprivick his supplicatioune for support of the Kirk in his office of printing: The Kirk haveing respect to his povertie, the great expenses he hes made in bying printing irones, and the great zeal and love he beirs to serve the Kirk at all tymes, hes assigned to him, ffyftie punds yearly, to be payeit to him out of the thrids of the Kirk, be the Collectors underwritten, viz. the Collector of Lowthiane 20 łb., the Collector of Fyfe 20 łb., the Collector of Angus 10 łb.; Quhilk soume the auditors of the compts for the Kirk shall thankfully allow to every ane of them. Sessio 8^a. March 9, 1569(70). It is statute and ordanit that no minister, provydit or heirafter that shall be provydit to benefices, sett in tack any manner of way, their gleib or manse, neither yet any part of the fruits or emoluments thereof, in diminutione of their rentalls, under the paine of depryving from the benefice for ever; decernyng also the tacks sett in manner forsaid, to be null and of none effect as done be him that hes no power. Sessio 9^a. March 11, 1569(70).