Act discharging lykewakes†

The estates of parliament, considering the great abuse of lykewakes, do therefore inhibit and discharge all persons of whatsoever quality to have lykewakes hereafter and that under the pain of £20 [Scots]† to be paid by the contraveners on every occasion to the kirk session for pious uses, and ordain the fines to be uplifted according to the act of parliament made at Perth [anent the uplifting of pecuniary pains]†.

  1. NAS. PA2/23, f.347r. Back
  2. Defined in DSL as 'the often large and riotous gathering ... at the watch kept at night over the body of a newly deceased person'. Back
  3. Not in manuscript, but from the printed collection of the acts, The acts done and past in the second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the first Triennall Parliament of our Soveraigne Lord Charles, p.85. Back
  4. Not in manuscript, but from the printed collection of the acts, The acts done and past in the second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the first Triennall Parliament of our Soveraigne Lord Charles, p.85 Back