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Item, to stop the private congregation and conventicles of heretics where their errors are spread, that any man who first reveals immediately or accused anyone who has kept the said conventions, if he has been one of them himself, for the first time he shall be free therefrom and absolved thereof, so that he be a good Christian man and have the right faith, permitting him never to intromit with the said errors in time coming; in case he be not of the said congregation, then he shall have one part of the confiscation of him that he accuses as the lords think expedient to statute and ordain, and this to be extended to all those that reveal or accuse any heretics to have one part of their confiscation; and so that no man pretend ignorance thereof, that it be commanded under pains to all sheriffs, provosts and bailies of burghs to publish by open proclamation these acts at the head places of their jurisdiction twice in the year.