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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>AT EDINBURGH, <DATE>The twelfth day of <HI>December,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty one.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much as by an Act of Privy Council, of the date the &s;ixth day of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Royal plea&s;ure to re&s;tore the Church of this Kingdom to its right Government by Bi&s;hops, as it was by Law before the late troubles, during the reigns of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Royal Father and Grand-father of ble&s;&s;ed memory, and as it now &s;tands &s;etled by Law, was made known to all the Subjects of this Kingdom by open Proclamation at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of all Bur|roughs Royal: And that it is Statute by the fir&s;t Act of the twenty one Parliament of King <HI>James</HI> the &s;ixth, that all Pre&s;entations to Benefices &s;hould be directed thereafter to the Archbi&s;hop, or Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, within the bounds whereof any vacant Church lyeth. So that &s;ince their re&s;titution to their former Dignities, Priviledges and Powers &s;etled upon them by Law, and Acts of Parliament, No Mini&s;ter within this Kingdom &s;hould be ad|mitted to any Benefice but upon Pre&s;entations directed as &s;aid is. And yet, notwith&s;tand|ing thereof it is informed, that upon Pre&s;entations directed to Presbyteries, they do daily pro|ceed to admit Mini&s;ters to Kirks and Benefices, albeit the Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops are re|&s;tored to their Dignities; &s;ome of them already con&s;ecrated, and all of them within a very &s;hort time will be inve&s;ted in their Rights and Benefices, and impowered to receive Pre&s;entations and grant Admi&s;&s;ions thereupon: Therefore the Lords of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Privy Council prohi|bits, and by the&s;e pre&s;ents di&s;charges all Patrons to direct any Pre&s;entations to any Pre&s;|byteries; as al&s;o, di&s;charges all and &s;undry the Presbyteries within this Kingdom to pro|ceed to the Admi&s;&s;ion of any Mini&s;ter to any Benefice or Kirk within their re&s;pective bounds, upon any &s;uch Pre&s;entations, as they will be an&s;werable; with certification that if they do other wayes, the &s;aids Pre&s;entation and Admi&s;&s;ion &s;hall be void and null, as if they never had been granted. And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh</HI> and other places needfull, that none may pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne, <HI>Cl. S^t^i^. Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1661.</P>
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