[1641/8/323]¹

Act regarding the disuniting of the kirk of Denny from Falkirk

Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, having read and considered the supplication given in to the parliament by the commissioners of the general assembly and by Master Alexander Callander, minister at Denny, and the elders at the said kirk, making mention that the kirk of Denny, being some forty years since or thereby dismembered from the parsonage of Falkirk, with consent of patron and parson, in regard the parishioners thereof being many and enclosed within the waters of Carron and Bonny and lying four miles from Falkirk could not possibly have the benefit of divine service there, but very commodiously might and have been the space foresaid [served]² by their own pastors upon means within themselves; likewise this being represented to the general assembly, the general assembly, by their act of 27 August 1639 found the supplication given in to them reasonable and referred the same to the parliament; and therefore desiring his majesty and estates of parliament to establish the said kirk of Denny as a kirk separate and dismembered from the parsonage of Falkirk, to enjoy all privileges, liberties, emoluments and endowments whatsoever competent to a parish kirk in time coming, as the said supplication in the self purports. Our said sovereign lord and estates of parliament foresaid have established, and hereby establish, the foresaid kirk of Denny as a kirk separate and dismembered from the foresaid parsonage of Falkirk, and ordain and appoint the same kirk and parish of Denny to enjoy all privileges, liberties, emoluments and endowments whatsoever competent to a parish kirk in all time coming.