The foregoing Acts of Parliament constitute the main statutory enactments of the State by which the Church Government in Scotland was transformed from Presbytery to Episcopacy. There were other acts passed, bearing reference to Church affairs, in the first Parliament of King Charles I., 28th June 1633, such as that anent His Majestie’s Royal Prerogative and Apparel of Kirkmen—anent His Majestie’s annuity of Tiends—the Submissions and Decrees-arbitral anent the valuation of Tiends, &c.; but these being easily accessible to all, and not immediately necessary for illustrating the revolution which took place in the Church during the period with which we are at present concerned, it is not necessary here to include them.
EDINBURGH PRINTING COMPANY.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] These MS. copies are sometimes referred to as Abstracts or Abridgments. Neither of these characters, however, strictly speaking, is attributable to them; and Excerpts or Abbreviates are the more appropriate designation: for although in some instances there are chasms occasioned by mutilation of the original Record whence they were copied, and although they do not contain all the proceedings at every sederunt, there is the strongest presumption, arising both from internal and from authentic collateral evidence, that so far as these excerpts extend, they are substantially and truly fair transcripts from the original Record. This, however, is not the place to discuss this point.
[2] Vide pages [203], [207], [314], [315].
[3] See printed Acts of Assembly, 1638, 1639, and “Records of Kirk of Scotland,” pp. 22, 23, and 205.
[4] Vide Acts of Assembly, 1638, and “Records of the Kirk of Scotland,” Acts, Sessio 7, Nov. 28, p. 22; Sessio 16, Dec. 8, p. 28; Sessio 23, 24, Dec. 17, 18, p. 34, &c.
[5] Pp. 500, 507, 513, 523, 534, 558, 560, 562, 567, 572, 574, 589, 598, 668.
[6] Report of Committee on Church Patronage—Scotland, pp. 355-375, 450, 451.
[7] Acts of Parl. vol. ii. p. 526.