[1633/6/56]¹

Commission regarding the disjoining of Meikle and Little Daltons etc.

Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament have remitted and recommended, and remit and recommend, the article given in to the parliament desiring the kirks of Meikle and Little Daltons, lying within the diocese of Glasgow, to be disjoined from the kirk of Mouswald, and ordaining Meikle and Little Daltons to be a separate cure and parish kirk per se from Mouswald, as the article in the self more fully purports. Item, the article given in to the said parliament for erecting and planting and edifying of a new kirk upon the most commodious part of the parish of Beith lying nearest to the middle of the said parish, which is one of the kirks of the presbytery of Irvine, lying within the bailiary of Cunninghame, and for taking down and transporting of the old kirk of the same parish of Beith and whole materials thereof to the place where the new kirk is to be built for the better help to the edifying thereof; and desiring that the manse, glebe and glebe lands of the parish of Beith, presently possessed by the minister thereof, shall be applied to the use and utility of the builders and providers of the new manse and glebe, which shall be provided to the minister serving the cure at the new kirk of Beith to be erected and built in manner contained in the said article, as the same in the self at more length bears; to the lords commissioners and clergy of the high commission of the kingdom of Scotland to be considered, advised and determined by them, to whom our said sovereign lord and estates of parliament foresaid gives and grants by this commission full power and commission to decide and determine regarding the foresaid two particular articles above-written and each one of them, accordingly as the said lords and other commissioners of the said high commission, after consideration, trial and cognition had and taken by them regarding the foresaid two articles above-mentioned, shall find good for the ease, well and benefit of the lieges having interest therein; and ordains the decreet, sentence and determination to be made, given and pronounced by the said high commission regarding the foresaid two particulars above-specified to have the strength, force and effect of a sentence and act of parliament in all time coming.