TENOR OF THE ARTICLES.
The haill Assembly requires humbly their Honors to signifie to the Queen’s Majestie, that the transgressors of the proclamations past against the hearers and sayers of Masse, together with the abusers of the Sacraments, are now so common, that it may be greatly feared that judgements shall suddenlie follow, except remeid be provided in tyme.
2. To require payment to Ministers of their stipends for the tyme bypast, according to the promise made, and to let the Assembly know how the Ministers shall be sustained in tyme to come.
3. To require Superintendants to be placed where none are within this realme, viz. in the Merss, Teviotdale, Forrest, Tweddall, and the rest of the Dealls in the South not provided, with Aberdeen and the uther parts in the North, likewise destitute.
4. To require punishment of sic as hes steiked the doors of the paroche kirk, and will not open the same to parochiners that presented themselves to have heard the word of God preached, sic as Pasley, Aberdeen, Corrie, Dopline, and Aberdagy.
5. Humbly to require the Q. Maj. what the Kirk shall look for, touching provision of benefices vaikand and to vaik.
6. To crave ane resolution and declaration of the Manses and Gleibs, whether they be set in feu or not, and be what means the Ministers shall come to the use and possession thereof.
7. The acts touching the reparation of the kirks to be put in execution.
The answer of every ane of the particulars the General Assembly humbly requires.
Session Second, holden December 26, 1564.