Sessio 4ta. Junii 28, 1565.
Anent the Complaint given in be Mr Donald Munro against Mr John Robisone, Thesaurer of Rosse, Minister of Urquhart, and John Watsone, Minister of Awes, That where they both accepted the Ministrie on them, and received their Stipends therefore, and now has left their vocationes; requyred the Kirk to take order herein: The haill Assemblie ordained the saids persones to repair towards their charges in the Ministrie, and enter againe thereto incontinent, after they be charged, under the paine of disobedience of the Kirk, and dischargeing of their allowance and Stipends.
The haill Assemblie, with ane voyce and minde, choose John Knox, Minister of Edinburgh, to receave the answers of the Articles sent from the Assemblie be the Commissioners thereof to the Queen’s Majestie, and to advertise the Superintendants of the same, and also that he advertise the faithful of things necessar that shall happen betwixt this and the next Assemblie. Thanks being given to God be John Willock, Superintendant of the West, and the twenty fyve day of December next to come appointed for the next Assemblie to conveen in Edinburgh, this Assembly was dissolved.
[TENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.]
The General Assembly of the Kirk, holden in Edinburgh, in the Ouer Tolbooth thereof, the 25th of December 1565, in the whilk were present the Superintendants, Ministers, Exhorters, and Commissioners of Towns and Kirks. The invocatione of the name of God was made be John Knox, Minister of Edinburgh.
Sessio 1ma.
First, for eschewing of confusion in reasoning, and that every brother speak in his roome with modestie, as becomes the ministers of God’s word to doe, with the haill consent of the brethren present, was chosen John Eskine of Dunne, Knight, Superintendant of Mearns and Angus, to be Moderator at this tyme, who accepted the office on him.
The Superintendant of Lothian complained upon Mr John Furd, Minister of Dummaine, that where, in the last Generall Assemblie of the Kirk, it was decerned that Robert Patersone and Jonet Little should have satisfied the Kirk of Edinburgh for the offence committed be them in contracting marriage without parents’ consent, yet nevertheless the said Mr John had persuaded them to solemnize the said marriage, ther bands not being proclaimed, and no satisfaction made to the Kirk of Edinburgh, and also had caused Mr Patrick Craig, Minister at Ratho, to solemnize the said band of marriage betwixt the saids persons, in the Kirk of Dummaine, in great contemption of the decreet foresaid, and all good order heretofore observed in the reformed Kirk, desyring the Kirk presently assembled to take order herein, alsweill anent the saids paroches as the saids two ministers. The Kirk ordained to call both the saids parties and ministers to answer to the said complaint betwixt this and the end of the Assembly.