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<HEAD><HI>ACT of PRIVY COUNCIL</HI> In favours of the Clerks of Kirk-Se&s;&s;ions, and other Church-Officers of the Regular E&s;tabli&s;hed Clergie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh,<DATE>the fir&s;t day of 
<HI>December,</HI> 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much, As the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty hath &s;ignified, that it is His Royal Plea&s;ure, that the Clerks of Kirk Se&s;&s;ions, and other Church. Officers, &s;uch as, Readers, Precenters, Beddels, and others, who &s;erve the regular e&s;tabli&s;hed Clergie, &s;hould not be prejudged of their Rights and accu&s;tomed Fees and Ca&s;ualties, ari&s;ing to them by Bapti&s;ms, Mar|riages and Burials (the ordinar mean of their Sub&s;i&s;tence;) but that they &s;hould have the &s;ame for bygones, &s;ince the date of His Maje&s;ties late Gracious Proclamation of Indulgence, and in time coming, (His Maje&s;ty in His &s;aid late Gracious Proclamation, having declared that He will maintain the regular Clergie in all their Rights and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions:) Therefore, the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, in pur&s;uance of His Maje&s;ties Royal Plea&s;ure, Do hereby Declare, that the &s;aid Clerks of Kirk-Se&s;&s;ions, and other Officers of the regular Clergie are not to be prejudged of their re&s;pective ac|cu&s;tomed Dues, Ca&s;ualties and Benefits, ari&s;ing to them by Bapti&s;ms, Marriages and Burials; and Ordains the &s;ame to be payed to them for bygones, &s;ince the date fore&s;aid, and in time coming, by the per&s;ons con|cerned as formerly; And hereby Requires the &s;everal Magi&s;trats to Burgh and Land, to &s;ee the or|dinar Diligence put in Execution against the per&s;ons <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;</HI> lyable as afore&s;aid. And that the&s;e pre&s;ents may be made known and publick, Ordains Intimation thereof to be made at the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> by a Macer of Council, and at all the other Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom by Me&s;&s;engers at Arms; as al&s;o to be read in all the Paroch-Churches of this Kingdom upon a Lords day in the Forenoon, after Divine Service performed, that none pretend Ignorance.  Extracted forth of the Records of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council, by me Sir <HI>Wil|liam Pater&s;on</HI> Knight and Baronet, Clerk of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council. </P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. S^t^i^. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Majesty, Anno DOM.</HI> 1687.</P>
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