Having now completed the Register of another epoch in the history of the Reformed Church of Scotland, which embraces the first thirty-two years of its existence,--exhibiting in its internal movements the equivocal and conflicting elements of a new establishment, and blending in its structure the incongruous peculiarities both of Episcopacy and Presbytery; we have now reached that period in its progress when it assumed a more precise and clearly defined position, as a purely Presbyterian Church. On the 5th of June 1592, immediately after the close of the General Assembly, of which the proceedings have just been given, the MAGNA CHARTA of the Church of Scotland was obtained in an act of Parliament “for abolisching of the actis contrair the trew Religion.” It is therefore deemed suitable to pause in the transcript of the Ecclesiastical proceedings, and to subjoin, in an Appendix, the several statutes of the Civil Legislature applicable to the period intervening betwixt 1567, when the Church was first fully established, and 1592, when the distinct character of Presbyterianism was stamped upon it by the Law of the Land. These statutes, accordingly, are now subjoined in chronological order--reserving for a future occasion any less important and authoritative documents connected with our subject. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. I. Ratification of the Freedome and Libertie of the trew Kirk of God.[27]--August 28, 1571. _Item_, Our Souerane Lord, with auiss and consent of his said Regent, thre Estaittis, and haill body of this present Parliament, hes ratifiit, and be this present act ratifiis and appreves all and quhatsumeuir actes and statutis maid of befoir be our Soueraine Lord or his predecessouris, anent the fredome and libertie of the trew Kirk of God, now publictlie professit within this realme. II. Anent the Constitution of the Policie of the Kirk.[28]--5th March 1574.