[53] This transcript of the minutes of the Assembly 1606 is taken from the more ancient copy of the two in the Advocates’ Library, and this is the last Assembly the proceedings of which are contained in that copy. The acts of this Assembly are omitted at the proper place in the more modern copy which we have used, but interjected at a subsequent part of the volume among various miscellaneous documents not referable to that period. The more ancient copy, however, is now preferred.

[54] The acts of this Assembly were ratified by act of the Parliament in 1612, a copy of which is inserted in the MS. of the Booke; but instead of including it here, it is annexed in the subjoined Appendix of contemporary documents.

[55] There must be some mistake here. The 2d Session of this Assembly was on the 14th of August,—and if the 15th Session was on the 15th, the Assembly must have had thirteen sederunts in the course of one night. But the number is given as we have it in the MS.

[56] None of the documents marked with an asterisk referred to in these minutes are to be found in either of the copies of the Booke to which we have had access. But the tenor will be supplied in the proper place, from the most authentic sources of information, if we can discover them.

[57] The Confession here alluded to is not inserted in the MS. copied; but it will be given among the documentary illustrations in the Notes.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

[Footnote [49] has nine references (anchors) marked with a *. [Footnote [56] has three references also marked with a *.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

[Pg iii]: ‘Acts of the Genera’ replaced by ‘Acts of the General’.
Pg 81 [Footnote [12]: ‘vol. ii. p. 54o’ replaced by ‘vol. ii. p. 548’.
[Pg 92]: ‘31. Anent’ probably meant to be ‘13. Anent’ but has not been changed.
[Pg 150]: ‘[15]73-74' replaced by ‘(15)73-74' to avoid confusion with Footnote numbering.
[Pg 170]: ‘was decern to be’ replaced by ‘was decerned to be’.
[Pg 340]: ‘Patrick Simpso’ replaced by ‘Patrick Simpsone.’.
[Pg 396]: ‘in he end’ replaced by ‘in the end’.