The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 20 April 2024

[1587/7/15]1

Relief of the ministry of the first fruits and fifth penny of all benefices of cure under prelacies

2Item, it is declared, statute and ordained that all benefices of cure under prelacies to which ministers or readers are admitted (that actually serve and do their duties at their kirks), shall in all time coming be free of the first year's fruits and fifth penny of their benefices, and shall from this [time] forth have their signatures of presentation passed at the privy seal upon his majesty's own subscription only and his secretaries without any payment or caution to his treasurer for the said first fruits or fifth penny.

  1. NAS, PA2/13, f.81r.
  2. 'V.' written in margin.