The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
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The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
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6. To suit that the tryall and admissione of all masters of schools
be now joynit to the Presbytries.
7. Seeing we of the Synodall of Lawthiane, hes agreit that
disputationes sall be every day of the exercise in every Presbytrie,
and speciallie upon such articles as are in contraversie betwixt us
and the Papists, for avoyding of negligence of ministers, and to
the end we may the better withstand the adversar, that the Generall
Assemblie will appoynt the forme thereof.
8. What order shall be used with Ministers and Readers that setts
their gleibs and manses, as ye oversie the same.
9. That ane article be suitit be the Generall Assemblie at the
Parliament, that all marriages without consent of parents,
proclamations of bands, or utherwayes without the awne solemnities
according to the order of the Kirk, be decernit null.
10. To crave that ane act of Parliament be made against them that
pass in pilgrimage, and uses superstitione at wells, crosses,
images, or uther Papisticall idolatrie, or observes feasts and dayes
dedicated to Saincts, or setts out beanefyris for superstitione.
11. Seeing the act of Parliament appoynts them that are convict of
notorious adulterie, and throw the ambiguous expositione of this word
notorious, no execution is used thereupon; therefore, for avoyding
the plagues of God hingand above this haill countrie for this cryme,
That the Generall Assemblie wald crave that ane act be made in
Parliament for punishment of all persones to the death, whosoever are
lawfully convict of adulterie.
12. Seeing ane act of Parliament is made anent discharging of mercats
upon the Sonday, and no executione hes followit thereupon, qwherthrow
the people absenting themselves from the Kirk, and waiting upon
the mercat, continews in ignorance, and be these means, Atheisme
increases, desyre that sum order may be taken in this Parliament--The
execution of the said act, that sum punischment may be appoyntit
againes the magistrates that puts not the same in executione,
notwithstanding any private dispensation in the contrarie.
13. That ane act of Parliament be made for provisione of gleibs and
manses to such ministers as teaches at Abbay Kirks, lyke as they are
provydit for others.
14. Because there is ane act of Parliament that all Presbytries and
prebendaries shall be gine to scholers to hald them at the schools,
and it is of veritie that there is verie many of these sorte that
is of cure of saules and paroche kirks, nottheless, be reasone of
the act of Parliament, they are gine to courteors; therefore we
desyre that there be ane act of Parliament, that all presbytries and
prebendaries that hes cure of saules, may be gine to nane but to
ministers, and that if any be gine, to be null in all tyme cuming.
Sicklyke, Prebendaries foundit to schools and masters teaching the
same be gine, conforme to their foundatione, to schoolmasters for
instructing the youth; and if the same be disponit wtherwayes, the
dispositioune to be null.
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