The quhilk day the Quenis Majestie and Lordis of Secreit Counsall, being weill myndit that the Ministerie within this haill realme be interteneit alsweill to burgh and land as hir Majestie fand the samyn at hir arryvall in Scotland, and becaus the haill Lordis of Secreit Counsall may nocht weill vaik at all tymes for the ordouring thairof, being occupiit with utheris wechtie materis; Thairfoir her hienes, with avyise of her Counsall foirsaid, hes constitute and namyt her lovittis underwrittin, my Lordis Huntly, Chancellar, Ergyle, Murray, Bothwell, Atholl, Cassillis, Craufurde, and Mar, my Lordis Bischopis of Galloway, Roise, and Orknay, my Lord Secretare, Maister Johnne Spens of Condy, advocat, Sir Johnne Bellenden, Justice Clerk, Sir James Balfour, Clerk of Register, and David Fores, generall of the Cunziehous, to quhome, be thir presentis, the Quenis grace and hir Counsale foirsaid, gevis thair full power and commissioun, or to ony fyve or sex of thame, to call before thame the haill burghis of this realme, generallie or particularlie, as thai, or ony fyve or sex of thame, sall think expedient. And to consider the habiliteis of the saidis burghis particularlie, and according thairto to appoint and imputt particular taxatioun or impositioun upoun everie burgh yeirlie, to be gadderit and upliftit for sustentatioun of the said ministerie, be thameselffis, thair collectouris or chalmerlanis, as the saidis Commissionaris, or ony fyve or sex of thame, sall think expedient, as thai will ansuer to God and the Quenis Majestie thairupoun. And quhatsumevir the saidis Commissionaris, or ony fyve or sex of thame, sall do in thir premises, the samyn to haif the lyke force and effect as gif the samyn wer done in plane counsall: And letteris to be direct thairupoun as effeires, as the said ministerie and thair collectouris will requeir. And alswa for relief of the saidis burghis, the Quenis grace, with advyise of her Counsall foirsaid, be thir presentis, gevis and grantis to the saidis burghis, and everie ane of thame, the annuellis of alteragis chapellanereis and obittis within the samyn, quhairevir the samyn salhappin to vaik, be the deceise of the possessouris thairof, or utherweyis hes happynnit to vaik, sen the Quenis grace arryvall in Scotland, quhilkis as yit remanis ungevin or distributit to ony persoun; and that to relief the taxatioun and contributioun foirsaid. And the superplus of the saidis annuellis and obittis, gif ony beis, to be distributit to the pouer and hospitallis of everie burgh within thameselffis, be avyise of the minister and eldaris thairof, as thai will ansuer to the maist heast thairupoun. And letteris to be directit be the Lordis of Secreit Counsall and Sessioun, as thai salbe requirit, for publicatioun of thir premissis. X. _Small Benefices for Ministers._ Apud Edinburgh tertio die mensis Octobris Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo lxvj^o