2. To require payment to Ministers of their stipends for the tyme bypast, according to the promise made, and to let the Assembly know how the Ministers shall be sustained in tyme to come. 3. To require Superintendants to be placed where none are within this realme, viz. in the Merss, Teviotdale, Forrest, Tweddall, and the rest of the Dealls in the South not provided, with Aberdeen and the uther parts in the North, likewise destitute. 4. To require punishment of sic as hes steiked the doors of the paroche kirk, and will not open the same to parochiners that presented themselves to have heard the word of God preached, sic as Pasley, Aberdeen, Corrie, Dopline, and Aberdagy. 5. Humbly to require the Q. Maj. what the Kirk shall look for, touching provision of benefices vaikand and to vaik. 6. To crave ane resolution and declaration of the Manses and Gleibs, whether they be set in feu or not, and be what means the Ministers shall come to the use and possession thereof. 7. The acts touching the reparation of the kirks to be put in execution. The answer of every ane of the particulars the General Assembly humbly requires. Session Second, holden December 26, 1564. Anent ane supplication presented be Beatrix Livingstoun, touching ane promise made to her be Patrick Hardie to have solemnized the band of matrimonie with her ane lang tyme since, his wife Katherine Rutherford being in lyfe, and now divorcement had betwixt them. Bearing alse and making mention of ane decreit and decisione of the said promise and nullitie thereof, given and pronounced be John Eskine of Dun, Alexander Guthrie of Halkertoune, Robert Campbell of Kinʒcomscleugh, and Mr Robert Hamiltone, for verification whereof the said Beatrix producit the said decreit, subscryved be the forsaids persons, in presense of John Willock, Superintendant of the West, Christopher Goodman, and Mr George Hay, of the date at Edinburgh the first of July 1563, bearing in effect, that the said promise made be the said Patrick to the said Beatrix on no wayes might be sustained be the law of the Evangell; and therefore the said Patrick to be quyte therefrae in all tyme comeing, In respect of the marriage standing betwixt him and his wife foresaid undissolved, and that the said promise was not only null in the selfe, but also unjust and unlawfull, and that the makers thereof had offended, and were worthy of punishment at the discretion of the Kirk: Quhilk supplication and decreit being read and considered, the haill Assembly in ane voyce authorised and allowed the said decreit, pronounced be the said brethren, and alse pronounced the said Patrick and Beatrix to be free frae the said pretended promise in tyme comeing, Requiring that punishment for making of the said promise hereafter to the Kirk’s discretion thereof. Session Third, December 27, 1564.