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[The following draft articles have notes in the margins. Much of it was probably added by the lords of the articles, but other bodies or individuals may also have been involved in the draft process. These notes should be read alongside the articles and have been placed at the end of each draft article.]
[1567/12/13]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Follows other articles concerning the kirk:
6. That order may be taken for all abbacies, as well for the present as for times to come; as also for benefices and kirks annexed; and dissolution to be made thereof and an act to be made thereupon.
†Finds separation to be made, to wit: the teinds to pertain to the kirk and the temporal lands to be conveyed by advice of the three estates in parliament.
[1567/12/14]* [print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
7. That order may be taken for such as professe[...] and have the patrimony of the kirk in their hands and [...] their duty to their flocks.
†It is thought expedient that such as are found qualified by the judgement of the kirk shall exercise their own office in their own kirk, and others not qualified shall pay the third of their benefice for sustenance of the ministry during their times.
[1567/12/15]* [print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
8. That order may be taken with such as have plurality of benefices.
†A person beneficed being qualified shall preach himself at one of his kirks and shall sustain the ministers of the remainder at the sight of the general kirk; and the unqualified to pay his third of the total, admitting no plurality in time coming.
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9. That provision may be made for instruction of the youth, for sustenance of the poor and for some relief to the labourers of the ground, especially for the relief in bringing in of their teinds.
†Answers to the first part of this article that the lands of prebendars of college kirks in landward be erected for sustenance of bursars, and refers the other two heads to the estates in parliament.
[1567/12/17]* [print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
10. That order may be taken that none enter in the function of ministry, nor be retained within the same, except such as shall be found qualified and of honest conversation.
†Leave this. Refers this to the general assembly of the kirk.
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11. That superintendents be appointed where need requires, and that order be provided how they shall be obeyed in their office and how they shall be able to serve in the same.
†Refers the number of the superintendents to the roll made thereupon, and the office and jurisdiction of the superintendent to be authorised by the estates in parliament.
[1567/12/19]* [print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
12. †That order may be taken how the poor ministers who have long been defrauded of their just stipends may not only be provided hereafter for a sufficient living, but also that they may understand how they may lift up the same by order of law and what redress they shall have for the past and how they shall be provided in the present. And because all these heads require deliberation, we offer ourselves to communicate with your l[ordships] as God shall communicate with us.
†It is thought needful that until the kirk be put in full possession of the whole patrimony, the whole thirds be assigned to the ministry and they to take up the same by themselves and their collectors, and all others to be discharged therefrom; [...] and council [...] find some mean [...] debts else[...].
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[13.] That the act of parliament concerning the manses and glebes may be made so widely known that the unjust possessors find no cavillations to defraud the poor ministers of their right and of the peaceable possession of that which justly appertains thereto.
†It is found that the best manse shall pertain to the minister with the whole glebe, providing the said glebe exceeds not six acres of land; and if the same be more, the minister shall be content only with six acres thereof adjacent to the manse; and if the same be within six acres, he shall likewise content him therewith.
[1567/12/21]* [print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
14. That the act for punishment of adultery may be made so clear that the offenders do not evade the law by the ambiguity thereof.
†Desires this act to be cleared by the three estates in parliament.
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14.†That no man bear public office of judgement within this realm except such as professes the purity of religion with us; that none be permitted to procure to be admitted in notary or created a member of court unless he likewise profess the evangel with us.
†Agreed with.
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15. It is thought good for staunching of disturbance and trouble within burghs in time coming that none of the inhabitants thereof from this time forth make convocation within the same or put themselves in arms without express command either of the authority, provost or bailies thereof, under such pains as the three estates in parliament shall think good.
†Approved and refers the pain to be modified by the estates in parliament.
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16. Item, that all schools, as well as to burgh as land, and colleges be reformed, and that none be permitted nor admitted to have charge thereof, or to instruct the youth privately or publicly, except such as are, or shall be, tried by the superintendents and visitors of the kirk and admitted by them to their charges.
†Approved.
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17. Item, that the ordinances made for keeping of the Sabbath day, the punishment of fornication, adultery, incest, swearing and banning be ratified in this present parliament, and judges appointed for execution thereof, where there are none.
†Approved.
[1567/12/26]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
18. Item, that the act of parliament made in King James the [...] time toward the ordering of the poor within their own parish be of new ratified and thereafter be ordained to be put into execution.
†Approved.
[1567/12/27]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
19. Item, it is found expedient that the act made touching the reparation of kirks be ratified and ordained to be put into execution [...] is.
†Approved.