[247] Provision for the wives of ministers after their decease to be remitted to the discretion of the Kirk. (Additio.)
[248] This paragraph was an additio of the Lords of the Congregation.
[249] A measure of about 90 bushels, roughly.
[250] Barley.
[251] We require the same for their daughters; to wit, that they be virtuously brought up, and honestly doted when they come to maturity of years, at the discretion of the Kirk. (Additio.)
[252] The Sections are numbered in this edition as in the edition of 1722. Originally the Book of Discipline had nine "heads" with sundry sub-headings, numbered in some cases and not in others. The numbering coincides up to this point.—Ed.
[253] The tract of country drained by the Gala Water and Caden Water. It comprised an ecclesiastical district in the unreformed Church, and subsequently a parish, of which the town of Stow formed the central point.—Ed.
[254] At a distance from the sea; in the country.
[255] Scholars; undergraduates.
[256] Tutor.