Sessio 23. Junii 7.
Anent the act made concernyng deposed ministers or persones in this last Parliament; It was thought meet at the next Parliament, or Conventione having the force or commissione of Parliament, to craue, that where it else has been inactit, that notwithstanding the pastor be deposit, the tacks and tithes sett be him shall nevertheless stand, it be now provydit and addit to the said act, that in caice the said tack or tithe be sett after the committing of the fact for the qwhilk the persone is deposed, that such tacks, factories, or tithes whatsomever, shall be null and of none availl, force, nor effect.
APPENDIX II.
Having now completed the Register of another epoch in the history of the Reformed Church of Scotland, which embraces the first thirty-two years of its existence,—exhibiting in its internal movements the equivocal and conflicting elements of a new establishment, and blending in its structure the incongruous peculiarities both of Episcopacy and Presbytery; we have now reached that period in its progress when it assumed a more precise and clearly defined position, as a purely Presbyterian Church. On the 5th of June 1592, immediately after the close of the General Assembly, of which the proceedings have just been given, the Magna Charta of the Church of Scotland was obtained in an act of Parliament “for abolisching of the actis contrair the trew Religion.” It is therefore deemed suitable to pause in the transcript of the Ecclesiastical proceedings, and to subjoin, in an Appendix, the several statutes of the Civil Legislature applicable to the period intervening betwixt 1567, when the Church was first fully established, and 1592, when the distinct character of Presbyterianism was stamped upon it by the Law of the Land. These statutes, accordingly, are now subjoined in chronological order—reserving for a future occasion any less important and authoritative documents connected with our subject.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
I.
Ratification of the Freedome and Libertie of the trew Kirk of God.[27]—August 28, 1571.