Ordained, That supplication be made to the Q. Majestie and Secret Councill for Union of Kirks, that where two or three are within two or three myles distant, the same to unite, and cause the inhabitants to resort to ane of the saids Kirks to hear the word and receave the sacraments. Because the scarceness of Ministers permitts not every Kirk to have a severall Minister, and also the small number of sick parochins requires not the same. Ordained, That the Instruction of Youth be committed to none within this Realme, nather Universities nor without the same, bot to them that professe Christ’s trew Religion, now publiclie preached; and that sick as now occupie the places not professing as said is, be removed frae the samen, and to remember that some ordour be made for the sustentatioun of poore Scholars. Sess. 3, 27th Junii 1563. It is statute and ordained, That no work be sett forth in print, nather yet published in writt, tuiching Religion or Doctrine, untill sick tyme as it be presented to the Superintendent of the Diocie, advised and approved be him, and be sick as he sall call of the most learned within his bounds; and if they, or anie of them, doubt in anie point, so that they cannot resolve clearlie in the same, they sall produce the said worke to the Generall Assemblie of the Kirk, whill order salbe taken touching the resolution of the said doubt. Sess. 4, 27th of Julij 1563. Ordains, That everie Superintendent within his awne jurisdiction cause warne the shires, towns, and paroch kirks, to send their Commissioners to the Assemblie in times cuming, declaring unto them the day and place, and also that every Superintendent conveen the forsaid day, appointed for the Assemblie, under the paine of fourtie shillings, to be distribute to the poore, without remission thereof. [SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.] The Generall Assembly, convened at Edinburgh the 25th day of December 1563, in the New Tolbooth; the prayer and exhortation made be John Willock: In the whilk were present James Duke of Chalterault, Archibald Earle of Argyle, James Earle of Murray, James Earle of Mortoune, Earle of Marshall, Alexander Earle of Glencairne, William Maitland of Lethingtoune, Secratar, Sir John Wishart of Pitarrow, Comptroller, Sir John Ballantine of Auchnool, Justice-Clerk, Lords of Secret Counsall, Superintendants, Ministers, and Commissioners of Kirks and Provinces. Session First, 25th of December 1563. Anent the Question moveit be Johne Knox, Minister of Edinburgh, to the haill Assemblie, whether he receivit charge of the haill Kirk, convenit in Edinburgh, after the beginning of the Reformation, to advertise the brethren to conveine at what tyme any member of the Kirk sould chance to be troublit, and that for thair counsell to be had?