What order shall be taken with those persones that passes to ane popish priest to be married, their bands not beand proclaimed: shall they be esteimit as married; and if not, what discipline shall be usit against them?
Answer: The conjunctione is no marriage, and therefore ordayns the persones before their particular Assemblies to be callit to satisfie as fornicators; and upon new proclamation to be married according to the order of the reformed Kirk, and the papist priest to be punischit.
Ordaynes the commissioners of countries and their assessors to try within their bounds, sic of the ministrie as hes pluralitie of benefices and offices, and to inquyre the reasons thereof, to be reportit be them to the nixt Generall Assemblie, with their names that bruikes the saids benefices and offices, that the Kirk may take order for removeing thereof.
Anent the act made anent the apparell of the ministers and their wyfis; ordayns the same to be put to executione in all poynts, according to the tenor thereof.
The nixt Assemblie to be the secund Tuesday of July nixt to come, in Dundie. The haill brethren present warnit thereto.
[FORTY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY.]
The Generall Assemblie, conveint at Dundie, and begune the 12th of July 1580, where there was present the Laird of Lundie, Commissioner for his Majestie, Commissioners of Provinces, Townes, and Universities.
Sessio.
Exhortation made be Mr Thomas Smetone, minister of Pasley: Leitts, Mrs Robert Pont, James Lawsone, Andrew Hay, John Duncansone. The said Mr Thomas, be pluralitie of votes, was chosen Moderator, who desyrit certaine brether to be appoyntit wham he would nominat to conferr with him: Upon whais desyre, because that certaine brether were offendit with the order of Assessors as though some tyrrannie or usurpatione might creep in thereby, or liberty taken from the brether, Questione was movit to the haill Assemblie if the said order was worthie to be continued as it hes been before, or to be rejectit as prejudiciale to the libertie of the brether; and to the effect that all occasione of murmure may be taine away, all that wald reasone in this questione being requyrit publickly, in fine, the haill Assemblie concludit the said order to be good and necessar, and to be keepit as it was before, without any hurt or prejudice to the libertie of the brether.