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MISCELLANY
OF THE
M A IT L A N D C L U B
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ORIGINAL PAPERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE
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M.D CCCXXXIV.

THE MAITLAND CLUB.
DECEMBER, M.DCCC.XXXIV.
THE EARL OF GLASGOW,
PRESIDENT.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX,
ROBERT ADAM, ESQ.
JOHN BAIN, ESQ.
5 ROBERT BELL, ESQ.
SIR DAVID HUNTER BLAIR, BART.
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THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.
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10 ARCHIBALD CAMPBFLL, ESQ.
LORD JOHN CAMPBELL.
JOHN DONALD CARRICK, ESQ.
LORD COCKBURN.
JAMES DENNISTON, ESQ.
15 JAMES DOBIE, ESQ.
RICHARD DUNCAN, ESQ.
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20 KIRKMAN FINLAY, ESQ.
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30 ROBERT ALEXANDER KIDSTON, ESQ.
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JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, ESQ. LL.B.
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WILLIAM MACDOWALL, ESQ.
35 THE VERY REV. PRINCIPAL MACFARLAN, D.D.
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40 GEORGE MACINTOSH, ESQ.
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JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.
THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.
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45 WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.
WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, ESQ.
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55 PHILIP A. RAMSAY, ESQ.
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ANDREW SKENE, ESQ.
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60 JOHN SMITH, ESQ.
JOHN SMITH, YGST., ESQ.
WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ.
SIR MICHAEL SHAW STEWART, BART.
MOSES STEVEN, ESQ.
65 DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ.
SYLVESTER DOUGLAS STIRLING, ESQ.
JOHN STRANG, ESQ.
THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ.
PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, ESQ.
70 ADAM UROUHART, ESQ.
SIR PATRICK WALKER.
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ATA MEETING of THE CouncIL of THE MAITLAND CLUB,
HELD 29th March 1831,
“ REsolved, That a Collect ANEA shall immediately be prepared
and printed, at the expense of the Club, and that the Vice-PRESIDENT,
Joseph BAIN, Dr FLEMING, ALEXANDER MACDONALD, John W.
MacKENzie, and JoHN SMITH Youngest, be appointed a Committee
to superintend it, the Vice-PRESIDENT Convener.”
AT A MEETING of A CouncIL of THE MAITLAND CLUB,
HELD on THE 10th day of January 1883,
“ THE Council, resolved, That the Committee of the Club in
Edinburgh superintending the Printing of the MISCELLANY there, and
the Committee in Glasgow having charge of the Printing of WodRow's
BIOGRAPHIES, and of the CoI.LECTANEA, be requested to issue their
respective Works in parts of twenty to twenty-five sheets each, thereby
maintaining, by frequent publication, the interest in the objects of the
Club which such works are calculated to excite.”
JOHN SMITH YouNGEST,
Secretary.
C O N T E N T S.
PART FIRST.
The Library of Mary Queen of Scots, and of King James
the Sixth. P, 1.
The Archearis of our Soverane Ladyis Gaird, MDLXII.—
MDLXVII, 25.
Contraćt of Marriage betwixt Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne,
and Mary Bethune, daughter of Robert Bethune of Creich,
May 3. 1566. 37.
Extraćts from the Regiſters of the Preſbytery of Glaſgow,
from November 1592 to March 1601. 51.
Extraćts from the Buik of the General Kirk of Edinburgh,
in the years 1574 and 1575. 97.
Extraćts from the Regiſters of the Kirk Seſſion of the Burgh
of Stirling, from November 1597 to December 1600. 127.
VIII
Obligation by John Earl of Caffillis, to make certain payments
to his brother Hugh Kennedy of Brunſtoun, upon his taking
the Laird of Auchindrains life, Sept. 4. 1602. P. 137.
Letter from King James VI. to the Privy Council of Scotland,
and Proclamation by the Privy Council, anent the Robes of
Earls, Judges, Magiſtrates, Churchmen, Advocates, Clerks
of the Seſſion and Signet, in the years 1606 and 1610. 148.
The Houſehold Account of Ludovick Duke of Lennox,
when Commiſſioner to the Parliament of Scotland, in the
year 1607. 159.
Indenture of a Horſe Race betwixt the Earls of Morton and
Abercorn, and the Lord Boyd, dated at Hamilton, Aug. 15.
1621. * 198.
C O N TENTS.
PART SECOND.
LETTERs from Henry II. King of France to his Couſin Mary
Queen Dowager of Scotland, MDXLv.–MDLIv. P. 205.
Letters of Mary Queen of Scots during her reſidence in France
to her Mother Mary the Queen Dowager of Scotland. 239.
Act for ſequeſtrating the Quenis Majeſties perſon, and deten-
ing the ſame in the hous and place of Lochlevin, XVI Jun.
MDLXVII. - 247.
Royal Letters and other original Documents addreſſed to the
Lairds of Barnbarroch, MDLIX.—MDCXVIII. 253.
Cathologus Librorum quos vir eximius et beate memorie Ma-
giſter Clemens Litill Edinburgene Ecclesie et Miniſtris ejuſ.
dem obiens legavit et conſecravit. MDLXXX. 285.
Inventories of Buikis in the Colleges of Sanétandrois,
MDLXXXVIII. — MDCXII. - 303.
The Teſtament and Lettir Will of Mr John Johnſtoun ane of
the principall Maiſters of the New College of St Androis,
Anno MDCXI. 331.
De Jure Prelationis Nobilium Scotiae—A Memorial of the
Writes and Evidents produced be fundry Earles and Lords
before the Commiſſioners deput be the Kings Majeſty anent
the Precedency and Priority of Dignitie, Anno MDcvi. 847.
Extraćts from the Regiſters of the Preſbytery of Glaſgow,
from November 1608 to Auguſt 1626. 40l.
Extraćts from the Regiſter of the Kirk Seſſion of Cambuſne-
than, from April 1636 to September 1695. 428.
Extraćts from the Regiſter of the Kirk Seſſion of Humbie,
from Oétober 1644 to April 1655. 432.
Extraćts from the Regiſter of the Kirk Seſſion of Stirling,
from May 1601 to November 1649. 445.
Petition for a Toleration to the Stang, with the Proceedings
of the Regality Court of Huntly thereon, January 1734. 485.
THE LIBRARY
OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS,
AND
OF KING JAMES THE SIXTH.
THE LIBRARY OF
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, &c.
AMoNG the “Jowellis, Pleniffingis, Artaillierie and Muni-
tioun being within the caſtell of Edinburgh, pertening to our
Soverane Lord and his hienes derreſt Moder,” and delivered in
Inventory to the King at Stirling Caſtle in March 1578,
framed by Commiſſioners appointed by his Majeſty for receiving
the ſame, there is the following ſcanty but not incurious liſt of
Books ſaved from the general wreck of what had been the
Royal Library of Scotland in the reign of Queen Mary.
BUIKIS.
IN THE FIRST the ſaxt and laſt volume of the auld cronicles of
England in Frenche
The ſecound volume
The fyft volume
The fourt volume
Lucan Sueton and Saluſt in Frenche
1 Le sixiesme et dernier volume des anciennes croniques D'Angleterre auquel est
contemu lacheuement des aduentures merueilleuses dudit pays mises a fin par
le preux cheualier Gulifer yssu du sang du noble roy Perceforest,-mounellement
imprime a Paris, Mil Cinq Cent xxviii.
4. LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
The firſt volume of the catologe of Sanétis in Frenche
Giron Curtas”
The third volume of Titus Livius
The werkis of Allane Charter
Ane oratioun to the king of Franche of the Quenis awin
hand write
The ellevint buik of ſanét Auguſtine
The firſt buik of ſanét Auguſtine
The firſt buik of Rolland amoreuſe
The governament of Princes writtin in perchement
The firſt buik of Amades de Gaule
Ane parte of Plutarche in Frenche
Valerius Maximus in Frenche
The legend aurie
La mere des hiſtoreis
The firſt volume of vita Chriſti”
Foure volumes of la mere des hiſtoreis coverit with quhite
perchement"
• Cathalogue des Saincts et Sainctez, translaté nouvellement du Latin en Francoys
par Pierre des Natalles, Evesque de Venise. Paris, Galliot du Pre, 1523–4,
2 tom. folio.
• Romance de Gyron le Courtois.
* Les Oeuvres de Maistre Alain Chartier. Paris, 1529.
* A translation of the “Legenda Aurea” by Jac. de Voragine.
• La Mer des Histoires. Paris, 1536, fol.
“Vita Christi,” by Ludolphus de Saxonia. There were also early impres-
sions of the work in the French, Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese languages.
a La Mer des Histoires. Paris, 1536, fol.
AND OF KING JAMES VI. 5
Cronicle Martinan
The play of the chas"
The cronicles of Savoy"
The buik of hunting
The diſtrućtioun of Troy is
The explanatioun of the charter of Calice
Thre lyves of Alexander the greit and utheris nobles “
The decameron of Bocas “
The mirrour of human redemptioun *
Boece de conſolation
The gardin of pleſance “
Tua volumes of Lancilot de laik
• Chronique Martinienne ; the French edition of the “Cronica Summorum
Pontificum,” by Martinus Polonus.
to The Game and Playe of the Chesse, translated out of the French by William
Caxton, 1474.
* Croniqve de Savoye. Par Maistre Guillaume Paradin Chanoyne de Beauieu.
A Lyon Par Iean de Towrnes et Gvil. Gazeav, M.D.L.II. This volume is in the
possession of Thomas Thomson, Esquire, Deputy Clerk Register, and one of the
Members of this Club.
* There are several works under this title both in French and English.
* A translation of the “Historia Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonie de preliis,”
&c. of which there are various old editions.
* Le Décameron de Bocace, trad. d’Italien en Franç. par Ant. Maçon. Paris,
1548, 8vo.
* Speculum Humanae Salvationis. The French translation is entitled “La
Mirouer de la Redemption de humain lignaige.”
* “Le Jardin de Plaisance et fleur de Rhetorique, contenant plusieurs Traités
en rime Francoys. Lyon, Olivier Arnoulet.” No date. There are various
editions of this work.
6 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Ane greit volume of cronica cronicorum ”
Ane compend of the cronicles in Spanioll"
Ane buk of devilry "
Bocas of the geneologie of the goddis
Cronicle of the empriouris and kingis of Auſtrice
Diſcours of the miſereis of the tyme preſent
The gardin of pleſance *
Eſaias in Greik & Hebrew be Minſtar [Munſter]
Geneologie of the kingis of France *
Columell of hiſtoreis
The prothogall of the chancellarie of France
The regreit of duke of Guiſe deid
Supplement of devotioun
Aétis of parliament of king James the fyft.”
Hiſtorie of the tyme preſent be Sanét Fontene *
The offices of Cicero *
* The Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
* Probably “Los xl libros del compendio historial de les chronicas, y universal
historia de todos los regnos de Espana, compuestos por Estevan de Garibay.
Anvers, Plantin, 1571.
* Le livre de la Déablerie, par Eloy Damerval 2
* Jardin de Plaisance et fleur de Réthorique, Paris, 1527, 4to.
* Jaques Bouchet, Anciennes et Modernes Généalogies des Roys de France.
* Printed at Edinburgh by Thomas Davidson, 1541, folio.
* Histoire Catholique et Ecclesiastique de notre temps touchant l'etat de la
Religion Chretienne depuis l'an 1517 jusq'en 1548, enrichie de plusieurs choses
notables depuis 1546 jusq'en 1550, par Simon Fontaine, Docteur en Theologie,
de l'ordre de S. Francois. Paris, Tremes & Anvers, 1558, 8vo.
2. Probably one of the old editions of the translations by R. Whyttington, Poet
Laureate. Printed at London in 1533, 34–40, and 1553, 12mo.
AND OF KING JAMES VI.
7
The triumphe of faith
The triumphe of Pallas
The oratioun in the prayeris of the auld cardinall of Lorane *
The epiſtles of Ovid in Frenche meter “
The firſt buik of the novallis of Ronſard
Daines Ugieri in Italian *
The king of Frances maioritie
The nynte buk of the Amades de Gaule
Off penitence
Ane anſwer to the objećtioun of the proteſtantis be Regier
Brontanis
The aëtis of parliament of quene Marie of England
The morall triumphis of Petrark in Italiane
Chriſtiane inſtitutioun in Franche “
Ane biſchoppis epiſtle to the miniſteris
Frenche ſonattis in writt
Vulgar lettres of divers noblemen in Italian *
Saluſt in Italian *
The manuell of the ingrate man
Errores amoreuſes *
* Oraison and Prayers of, &c.
as Epistres d' Ovide, translatées de Latin en Franç. Par Octavien de Saint Gelais.
* The romance of “Ogier le Danois.” The Italian title is, “Ogiero il Danese.”
1513.
* Livre de l’Institution de la Femme Chrétienne, par J. L. de Vivis. Paris,
1543, 8vo.
* Lettere Volgari di diversimobilissimi Huomini, &c. Venetia, 1564, 3 tom. 8vo.
* Probably the Italian translation by Lelio Carani, printed at Florence in 1550.
* Ant. du Moulin Continuation des Erreurs Amoureuses, Lyon, 1551, 8vo.
8 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Elegi upoun the deid of Joachim de Belly ••
The armes of the marques Dalbuif
Diétionar in Frenche and Latine
Ane uther diétionar in Frenche and Latine
Ane Turk buik of paintrie
The fege of Troy in Italiane ryme
Vigetius de re militari -
The begyning of the Scottis cronicle in Frenche bie Dienye
Savage
The levint buik of the Amades de Gaule
The inftitutionis of aftronomie
The firft buik of Enguerant •
Thre buikis of mufik ••
s* A French poet, who died im the reign of Henry III.
as Chroniques de Enguerrant de Monstrellet.
s• Probably those referred to in the following letter from Bonaventura Cormelius
Bertramus, Professor of Hebrew at Gemeva, amd afterwards at Lausamme, to Sir Lewis
Bellenden of Auchmoul, Lord Justice Clerk, the original of which is preserved
in the General Register House :
“ Qui has tibi reddet, charissime vir, amicus mihi valde est, et hinc isthuc pro-
ficiscitur vel eo solo nomine vt serenissimo Scotiæ vestræ Regi libros quosdam
musicos offerat quos illius nomini inscripsit et dicauit. Libri illi continent pri-
mum librum Psalmorum qui de Dauidis nomine appellantur, ex D. Buchamani
poesi. Tu, si vel re vel consilio iuuare eum possis, ne illi desis rogo ; meque
omnium eorum quæ in eius gratiam præstiteris sponsorem, vadem, atque fideius-
sorem appellato. Ille, si te videre possit, tibi pluribus explicabit quam grata
sit omnibus nobis tuæ illius suauitatis recordatio, et quomodo omnes hie valea-
mus, et quid rerum agamus. Si ad nos per eum rescribas, mihi velim significes
quam rationem inire possim vt ad te sæpius scribere possim. Si quando ad Dom.
AND OF KING JAMES VI. ()
The magreit of the quene of Navarre “
Ane epiſtle to the quene writtin in Frenche be Diodet Sairell
Lyves of certane of the illuſtres be Emelius Probus
The matamorphoſis of Ovid in Italian “
The inſtitutioun of Lentren
The olive augmentit”
Marcus Aurelius in Italian
The complaint of the univerſitie of Pareis contra the Jeſuittes
Orlando furioſo . *
Off the beginning and progres of the realme of France *
Harang of the Frenche people aganis rebellioun
The expoſitioun upoun the epiſtles of Augſuſtine]
Supplement of devotioun
The cardinall of Loyranis oratioun at the aſſembly of Poiſy"
Matthaeum Suthlephium scribas, vel in eum incidas, eum meo nomine salutato.
Vxor et Corneliolus te plurimum salutant. Vale. 7 Cal. Sept.
D. Claudius Collado, quite ad nos deduxit, viuit apud Principem Condaeum,
illique a secretis, immo et a consiliis est. Tuus, tibique obsequentissimus,
Bon AUENTURA CoRNELIUS BERTRAMUs.
A Monsieur Monsieur Louys Belenden,
En Escosse.
* Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses tres illustre Royme de Navarre :
publiées par Jean de la Haye, son Valet de Chambre. Lyon, 1547, 8vo.
* The translation by Agostini, printed at Venice, 1538, 4to.
* In the privilege prefixed to J. de Bellays Defence, &c. there is a work entitled,
Cinquante Sonnet2 a la louange de l'Olive.
* De l' origine progres et excellence du Royaume de France. Par Charles du
Moulin. Paris, 1561, 8vo.
* Discours de(Charles) Cardinal de Lorraine, au Colloque de Poissy. Paris, 1561, 8vo.
B
10 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Portuus of Rome
Ane anſuer to Ronſard
The miſereis of the tyme preſent be Ronſard
Recueill de poefie
The ſpheir of the warld.”
The fingular combat of David and Golias “
Ane treatie of the premiecie of the peape
The hiſtorie of Jaſone”
Pantagruell in Frenche “
Contwnero de romanſes “
The ſacrifice evangelick
Reſolutioun of certane chriſtiane poyntis
The futhingis of Oliver Magne “
The hiſtoreis of the bible in figures”
The king of Frances declaratioun upon Danvillis ediétis
The firſt buke of Claud Butat in Frenche “
The ſe&tis of hereſeis in this tyme
The treaties of Starniſlawes biſchop of Warne
“Some old edition of J. de Sacrobosco “ de Sphaera.”
* La Monomachie de David et Goliath par I. de Bellay, Paris, 1561, 4to.
* Most probably a copy of one of Caxton's editions of this Romance.
* Part of the works of Rabelais.
“The “Cancionero de Romances.”
* Les Amours d’Olivier de Magny. Paris, 1553.3
* This is either “The true and lyvely Historyke Purtreating of the Woll Bible,”
Lyons, 1553, 8° or “The Images of the Old Testament expressed, set forth in
Inglishe and French,” &c. Lyons, 1549, 4to.
* Apparently, “Poesies de Marc Claude de Buttet,” 1559%
AND OF KING JAMES VI. | |
The manuel of morall vertewis
Ane gaddering of findry hiſtoreis in Frenche
The buik of human policie
Clement Marot *
The conſolationis of Bembo"
Abrigement of the art poetik in Frenche
The defence [and] illuſtratioun of the Frenche language *
A gaddering of fimpatheis
The epiſtle of Ignatius
The principallis of aſtronomie
The remonſtrant of the emprior [Fred.] maid to the paip
The ordinare of the money in France
The praiſe of foly in Frenche"
Four homolies anent the images in France
The intertenyment of helth
The treatie of the ſacrament be Petir Martir
The anſuer to Johnne Calvynis epiſtle
Off the fals propheittis
Hippocrites in Frenche
A litle buik of the chas
Gadderings of rymes and peces
Remonſtrans be the eſtaittis in Burgunye
* Perhaps the edition of his works printed at Lyons, 1543, 12mo.
* Probably “Les Asolains de P. Bembo, trad. de l’Italien en Franc.” Par J.
Martin, Paris, 1547, 8vo.
* La Defence et illustration de la Langue Francoyse. Par I.D.B.A. [Ioachim
de Bellay, Angevin.] Imprime a Paris, &c. 1549.
* A translation of the “ Moriae Encomium” of Erasmus.
12 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Sangis of the bible in Frenche be Lancelote de la Carle *
Ane exhortatioun to the kingis counſall aganis the trublis
Ane oratioun buik in write
The maner to tak away the contraverfie of religioun be Renat
Benedict “
Remonſtrance of the catholik nobilitie of the king
The kingis apologie aganis the ſtaittis of Burgunye
The writ of Nicolas Clamangiis."
Bertram upoun the ſacrament “
Epithalamium regis et regine “
Ane grit dyett buik of the Duk
Tuentie fyve countis and quaternis of the Q. and Q. regent
Certane pacquettis of Frenche lettres and comptis
A canves polk with perchment evidentis concerning the auld
erll of Murray erll of Craufurd and utheris
The livis of the paipis be Platine *
* Hoffman, Lex. v. Lancelotus, mentions this person as author of a French pa-
raphrase of Ecclesiastes, “ Cantica Bibliorum.”
* This work of Renatus Benedictus was translated by Ninian Winzet, and
published at Paris, 1565.
* Nicolaus de Clamangiis; perhaps his “Scriptum super materia Comcilii Generalis.”
* The booke of Bertram the Preeste of the Bloode of our Savioure.
* This may either have been a copy of some of the verses which were printed at
Paris, on occasion of the Queen's marriage with the Dauphin of France, or,
what is more probable, the Epithalamium “per Tho. Craigum,” on the Queen's
marriage with Darnley, which was printed at Edinburgh by Robert Lekprevik,
1565, 12mo.
* A translation of Platina's work, “De Vitis Pontificum.
AND OF KING JAMES VI. 13
THE KINGIS MAJESTEIS BUIKIS.
The following Books are contained in a liſt as having been
purchased “pour le Roy,” and to which is a precept for pay-
ment, ſubſcribed by James Earl of Morton, Regent, at Dal-
keith, 25th Jul. 1576.
Pour LE Roy.
1 Confeſſio Auguſtana cum apologia gº 9 ſy
1 De abuſu Linguae graecae Q 3 ſº
1 De veneficiis 80 g e 4, ſº
1 Syntaxis artis mirabilis 16° * e * 7 ſ. 6
1 Synonyma graeca º gº 13 ſ)
1 De Republica Heluetiorum º 9 ſ
1 Saluſtius engliſh e © 12 ſ,
1 Belgicae diuifio 8° & 6 ſ,
1 De impoſturis Judaeorum e ge 3 ſº
• The following curious letter of Mr Peter Young, the King's Preceptor, (of whom
some notices will be found below,) may possibly refer to this Catalogue of Books.
The original is also preserved in the General Register House, and is addressed to
the Lord Justice Clerk.
“My Lord, Eftir maist hartly commendatioun of seruice, I haue causit the Lib-
rare Hercules lay a syde a momber of Buikis for the Kingis Majestie, and sum for
my Lady Mar, and sum for Mr George and for myself seuerally. The catalogue
of the Buikis for the Kingis hienes, I send to your Lordship heirwith, to the end
it vald pleis your Lordship gett the samyn subscryuit be my Lord Regentis
Il faut que le Roy
dresse ainsi vne
Bibliotheque peu a
peu.
14 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
1 L. Florus per Vinetum 4° e 7 ſ.
1 Symphoſii Aenygmata © tº 1 ſº
1 Dialogi viuis francois lat. e 5 ſº
1 Eraſmi lingua o • 4 ſ
1 Rami praele&tiones in Ciceronem e 22 ſ;
1 Lexicon graecolatinum 4° o © 48 ſ
1 Sphaera Valerij 8° © 2 ſº
1 Chronicon Bohemiae o - 40 35 ſ
1 Carmina Selecta © © 1 ſº
1 Sigonius de iure prouinciarum . o 12 ſ;
1 Eiuſdem Italia folio © & 30 ſº
grace, or ellis a precept of the lyik Sowme to the Thesaurare, with a command
that the samyn be ansuerit with expeditioum, Seing it is our Soueranes erand.
The causis quhairfoir I haue tain the baldnes to trouble your L. heir with ar
sindry, bot cheifly the gret affectioun I am assurit ye beare unto our Maisteris
furtherance in lerning: And alsua in caise any persoun suld say as the fascioun of
the maist part is, quhat neidis his Majestie sa mony Buikis, hes he not anew
alreddy? that in that caise your L. valdschaw thame thair errour, and persuade
my Lordis grace alwayes to graunt. Seing I mycht not cum thither at this
present, I knew mane culd or vald do this mater sa fauorably as your L. In
respect quhairof. I hoip your L. sall appardone my baldness. As Ivryt the last
tyme, I wald wish to haue the Caesar of Uenise for a saison to conferr him with
utheris. I pray your L. for the panegyriques gif thay may be had. As for the
Caesar correctit be Hotomans, I haue reseruit ane in the Kingis catalogue. The
Librare will think lang for payment, and I for a sicht of the Buikis. Your L.
may put us baith out of payne. Sua after my seruice again recommendit to
your L. and my lady, I committ you baith with all your family to Goddis
protectioun. From Striuiling castell this fryday late.
Your L. seruitour at command,
To the rycht honorabill and very guid Lord, P. Yowng.
My Lord Justice Clerk.
AND OF KING JAMES VI. 15
1 Confeſſio Heidelbergenſis tº © 5 ſº
1 De origine Dei miſſatici tº 3 ſ
1 Calendarium Pauli Ebraei 40 Q © 12 ſ;
1 Loci communes Petri Martyris fol. & 3 lib.
1 Theodorus preſbíter contra haereſes G 2 ſ;
1 Libro di meſurar con la viſta e 12 ſ;
1 Art pour tyrer eaux tº tº 4 ſ,
1 Martyr in libros Regum ſº 3 lit.
1 Chronicon Melaméthonis fol. e © 3 lit;.
1 Orthographia Manutij o 35 ſ
2 Fabulae Aeſopi graecolat. 169 © e 12 ſ;
24, lit. 18 ſ 6d
In the Register of the Privy Seal, there appears “Ane letter maid, givand,
grantand and disponand to Maister Peter Young, Maister and instructer of Oure
Soverane Lord in a part of recompans and rewaird of his gret and lang service,
travellis and labouris tame upoun the instructing and techeing of his Majestie,
ane yeirlie pensioun of the sowme of twa hundreth markis, &c. during all the
dayis of his life, &c. out of the superplus of the thrid of the Bishoprick of Glas-
gow, &c. &c. At Halyrudhous, 22 Mar. 1573 [xlii. 20.]
In the same Register, there is “ Ane letter maid to Maister Peter Young, ame
of our Lordis Preceptouris, makand him, during his lyfetime, Maister Elemosi-
nare to his Majestie, and givand to him the office and administratioun thairof,
&c. Givand, grantand, and disponand to him in yelrlie feall the Sowme of twa
hundreth pundis money of this realme,” &c. &c. At Halerudhous, 25th Oct.
1577. And in September 1580, the Treasurer of Scotland discharges himself of
the following payment. “Item be the Kingis Majesteis precept to Maister Peter
Young, his hienes Preceptour and Eleemozinar to by sum pece of land, and to
plenishe the same to be a resting place to him his wyff and bairnis, and in consi–
deratioun of his lang trew and thankfull service done to his Majestie,” ijm li.
16
LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Theſaurar and gour deputtis ge ſall anſuer thir buikis to
the Kingis Maieſtie and the prices tharof ſalbe thank-
fullie allowit to gow in gour comptis kepand thir preſentis
for gour warrand Subſcriuit with our hand at Dalkeith
the xxv day of Julij 1576.

zº-
AND OF KING JAMES VI. 17
JOHNNE GIBSONIS BUIKBINDERS PRECEPT.
THE annexed account is that of John Gibſon, bookbinder, for
Books for the uſe of his Majeſty, under the eye of Mr Peter
Young, whoſe fignature it bears; and on the back of the
document is an order upon the Treaſurer for payment, ſub-
ſcribed by the King himſelf, and by the Abbots of Dunferm-
line and Cambuſkenneth, at Holyroodhouſe, 1ſt O&t. 1580,
along with Gibſon’s receipt for the money.
Zanthig [Zanchius] de tribus elohim fol. gylt, pryce xx ſy
Dićtionarium in latino graeco et gallico ſermone 4° gylt,
pryce * , © xx ſº
Sigonius de imperio occidentali 4° gylt, pryce x ſº
Harmonia Stanhurſti fo. in vellene, pryce © x f.
Freigii queſtiones phyſicae 8° gylt, pryce x ſ)
Loci communes Manlii 8° gylt, pryce ſº x ſº
Opera Clementis Alexandrini 8° gylt, pryce x ſ,
Enchiridion Zangeri 80 In vellene, pryce tº V ſ
Aulicus caſtellionis 8° gylt, pryce º x ſ)
Euclidis elementa 8° in vellene, pryce * V ſº
* In the following year he is appointed Bookbinder to the King, by gift under
the Privy Seal, dated at Dalkeith, 29th July 1581, of the following tenor:
“ Ane letter maid to Johne Gibsoum bukebinder, makand him Our Soverane
Lordis Buikbinder, and gevand to him the office thairof for all the dayis of his
lyfetyme, &c. &c. For using and exercing quhairof his hienes gevis grantis and
assignis to the said Johne yeirlie the Sowme of tuentie pundis usuall money of
this realme, to be payit to him yelrlie.”—[Reg. Sec. Sig. xlviii. 26.1
C
18 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Commentaria in Suetonium 8° gylt, pryce
Fides Jeſu et Jeſuitarum 8° In vellene, pryce
Confeſſio Valdenfium 8° gylt, pryce
Proteuangelion Jacobi minoris 8° in vellene, pryce
Hemmingius de ſuperſtitionibus magicis 80 in vellene
Conciones funebres 8° gylt, pryce
Freigij queſtiones logicae 8° in vellene
Conciones nuptiales 8° gylt, pryce tº
Methodus Pauli ſuenuenſis, 3 tomis 86 gylt, pryce
Lapis metaphyſicus 8° In parchement
Memorabilia Migaldi 80 In vellene
Traićte d'Egliſe 80 in vellene,
Dialeótica Caffiodori 40 pryce
Philoſophicae conſolationes 8° in parchment, pryce
Cardanus de genitura 8° In vellene
De conventu Bleſenfi 8° In parchement
Theſaurus pauperum 8° In vellene,
Arantius [Orontius] de foetu humano 89 in parchement
Petronius Arbiter 8° In parchement
Iſagoge ad libros propheticos 8° In parchement
Apologia pro Germanicis eccleſis 8° In parchement
Volphius de perſeverantia 8° In parchement
Humanae et diuinae conſolationes 8° In parchement
De bello contra Barbaros geſto 8° In vellene
Pulicis encomium 8° in parchement :
AEthica vitae ratio 8° In parchement
Budaeus de contemptu rerum fortuitarum 4° in velene viſ, viijd
Orationes clarorum virorum 16° gylt, pryce
x ſ,
V ſi
x ſ)
v ſ!
V ſº
x f.
V ſi
x ſk
xxx ſy
iijſ
V ſi
v ſy
xijd
iijſ
v ſ
ijſ,
v ſº
ijſ
iijſ
iijſ
ijſ
ijſ,
iijſ
iiijſ
ijſ)
iijſ)
x {}
AND OF KING JAMES VI.
19
Themis Dea ſeu de lege diuina, 80 in velene
Theatrum conuerſionis gentium 8° in parchement
Papirii Maſſonii annales 8° gylt, pryce
Liuius de vita Petri et Pauli 80 in parchement
Bezae de notis eccleſiae 8° In parchement
Predićtiones memorabiles 8° In parchement
Simonius in aethica 4° in velene
Commentarius de Paradyſo 8° in vellene
Iſagoge palladii 8° In parchement
Taddaeus de Itinere chriſtiani 80 in parchement
Contemplationes Idiota 160
Martyrologium Bedae 16°
Alberti Magni paradiſus diuine 16°
Jonas aurelianenſis de cultu Imaginum 16°
AEnigmata Lorichii 8° in parchement
Onoſander de optimo Imperatore 8°
Gildae epiſtola 8° In parchement
Modus legendi abbreuiaturas 8°
Aneuch is ane feiſt 40 ©
Caſſiodorus de diuinis leótionibus 89.
Luſtie Juuentus
P. YowNG.
V ſy
ijſ
x ſº
iijſ
iijſ
iijſ
vjſ, viijd
y ſº
iijſ)
ijſ
iſ,
ijſ
ii ſ'
iiſ,
ijſ
ijſ)
ijſ,
ijſ
xijd
ijſ
xijd
Summa of this compt is
xvijfi, iiijſ, iiijd.
2O LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
REX.
Theſauraire we greit gow weill IT is our will and we charge
gow that ge Incontinent efter the ſycht heirofanfuer our louit
Johnne gipſoun buikbindar of the ſowme of fevintene pundis
tº º ºs & sº tº e º 'º
in gour comptis keping this our precept together with the
ſaid Johnne his acquittance thairypoun for gour warrand Sub-
ſcryuit with our hand At Halyrudehous the firſt day of Oéto-
ber 1580

AND OF KING JAMES VI. 21
THE following entries, extracted from the accounts
of the High Treasurer of Scotland, are here in-
ſerted as referable to the ſame ſubjećt.
Maii 1580.
Item be the Kingis Majeſteis precept to Johnne Gibſoun buik-
binder, for certane buikis furniſt to his hienes, conforme to his
particular compt, as the ſamyn with the ſaid precept and his
acquittance ſchewin upoun compt beris, xljfiti. viš.
Item for twa kiſtis to carie the ſame in, and for careing therof
fra Edinburgh to Perth, we iijfi. x S.
Item for careing of the ſaidis buikis fra Perth to Striviling, xxijs.
Oćtober 1580.
Item be the Kingis Majeſteis precept to Johnne Gibſoune
buikbindar, for certane buikis maid be him to his hienes, con-
forme to the particular compt gevin in therupoun, as the
ſamin with the ſaid precept and his acquittance ſchewin upoun
compt beinis, º º xx fi.
November 1580.
Item be the Kingis Majeſteis precept for the Dićtionar of Eliott
in Latine and Englis, augmentit be Cooperus and Marloratus
upon the new teſtament coft fra Richart Wright, xx fi.
22 LIBRARY OF QUEEN MARY
Januare 1582.
Item be his Majeſties precept to Johnne Gibſoun buikbindare,
for findrie volumes bund to his hienes, as the precept with
his acquittance producit upoun compt beris, vii. xvis, viijd.
Marche 1582.
Item for binding of the New Teſtament to his Majeſtie be
Johne Gibſoun buikbindare, e xiiij Š.
Aprile 1586.
Item be his Majeſteis precept to Henrie Charteris burges of
Edinburgh, for certane buildis furneſfit to his hienes be the
ſaid Henrie, and deliverit be him to Mr Peter Young and
umquhile Hew Tod, according to his compt therof, quhairof
ther wes reſtand be the ſaid umquhile Hew onlie ſextein pundis,
as the ſaid precept producit beris, lxijfi. xv Š. x d.
Julii 1597.
Item to Robert Waldgraw Prentar to his Majeſtie according
to his hienes precept, tº ijº fi.
Maij 1601.
Item be his hienes precept to Mr Robert Charteris prainter,
for the imprainting of the treatiſe Intitulit De erecrabili et
nefanda fratrum Ruvenorum in Serenissim? Scotorum Regis
caput coniuratione Apud Perthum Augusti mense anno 1600
vera et dilucida narratio, as the ſaid precept with his acquit-
tance producit upoun compt beiris, gº xl ți.
AND OF KING JAMES VI. 23
September 1601.
Item be command of his Majeſteis precept to Mr Robert
Charteris Printer, to compleit the payment of certane buikis
printed be him, intitulat Ruvenorum Coniuratio,” &c.
xliij fi. viš. viijd.
- Aprile 1602.
Item payit to Andro Hart Buik binder, for certane buikis
quhilkis wer gevin to Mr Adam Newtoun for the Prince his
uſe, as the ſaid Mr Adamis reſfait thairof producit teſtifeis,
xxxj ti. ix. S.
Januar 1603.
Item for ane bybill to the Prince, xxvi s. viijd, ſtarling, ex-
tending to xijfi. vis, viijd.
Aprile 1603.
Item payit to Richart Lawſoun Buikſeller, for certain buikis
delyverit to Mr Adam Newtoun, for the uſe of the Princes
grace, xxjfi.
* The volume alluded to is a small 4to.—“ Edinburgi Excvdebat Robertvs
Charteris Typographus 1601. Cum Privilegio Regio.”
THE ARCHEARIS OF T
OUR SOVERANE LADYIS GAIRD.
M. D LXII—M D LXVII.
QUEEN MARY'S ARCHER GUARD.
THE following Roll of the Body-Guard of Archers of Mary
Queen of Scots, is printed from the original document pre-
ſerved in the General Regiſter Houſe ; and the accompanying
notices of payments on account of the Guard, taken from the
books of the Comptrollers and the Colle&tors of the Thirds of
Benefices, ſerve to mark the expenſe of this body from its
completion, 1ſt April 1562, or not quite a year after the
Queen's return from France, till 1567, the date of her im-
priſonment in Lochleven, from whence ſhe was liberated only -
to enter on a more enduring captivity.
THE ComPT of THE MONEY DEBURSIT BE MY LORD ComPT-
Roll ARE To THE ARCHEARIS OF ouR SovieFANE LADYIs
GAIRD To ILK MAN IN PARTICULARE As Followis IN HIS
CoMPT.
Item to the Captane of the gaird vc fib.
To Robert Stewart handfeingge je i fib.
To Andro Stewart lxxv fib.
To Allane Makcawlay je fib.
To Richert Maitland lxxv fib.
To Thomas Maitland lxxv fib.
28 THE ARCHEARIS OF OUR
To Robert Lauder lxxv fib.
To Richert Skowgall lxxv fib.
To Allane Stewart je fib.
To Maiſter Robert Stewart lxxv fib.
To Johnne Adameſoun - lxvi fi. xii; S. iiijd.
To Johne Carmichael jº ii.
To Williame Carmichael je fi.
To Johne Stewart in Walſtoun ſyid lxxv fi.
To Robert Stewart in Braidley lxxv fi.
To Johne Stewart in Halrig lxxx fi.
To Williame Dunbar lxxv fi.
To Dioneiſe Labroſe lxxx fi.
To Nichola Manſer lxxx fi.
To James Moffet of Grantoun sje fib.
To James Moffet ane uther archear lxxxijfi.
To Gawin Grahame jº ti.
To Johnne Stewart - lxxx fi.
To Malcome Stewart - lxxv fi.
To Johne Petcarnis lxxx fi.
To Allane Stewart • * jº fi.
To Niniane Stewart - je fi.
To Johnne Grahame lxxv fi.
To Williame Stewart - lxxv fi.
To Andro Reidpeth je tib.
To Harie Skirling - lxxx ti.
To Thomas Reidpeth lxxv fi.
To Patrik Bowmakare - jº ti.
To George Elphingſtoun - , , lxxvii.
SOWER ANE LADYIS GAIRD.
29
To Niniane Semple
To John Spreule
To Thomas Weir
To Alexander Boig
To Robert Dowglaſe
To Baſtiane Fulmeir
To Andro Congiltoun
To Johne Anſtruther
To William Reidpeth young Laird
To Symon Cokburne
To Mark Garvald
To Johne Bruce
To Johne Crawfurde
To Alex' Callendar
To James Stirling
To Charles La Broſe
To Captane Bello
To Johne Frances
To Johne Bowfing
To Johne Gibſoun
To Johne Barclay
To Corporall Jenat
To Dowgall Stewart
To Dauid Cochrane
To William Stratoun
To Williame Symmer
To Patrik Anſtruther
To Williame Lindeſay
jº ti.
lxxv fi.
lxxx fi.
fiftie fi.
lxxx fi.
lxxv fi.
lxxv fi.
lxxx fi.
je jib.
lxx fi.
lxxv fi.
lxxix fi.
je fi.
jº fi.
lxxx fi.
jº fi.
jº fib.
lxxx fi.
lxxx fi.
lviij ñ.
lxxx fi.
ly ti.
lxxxi.; fi.
jº fi.
lxxv fi.
lxxv fi.
lxxxx fi.
lxx fi.
THE ARCHEARIS OF OUR
Garde.
To Captane Hew Lauder
MDLXII.
To Johnne Reidpeth lxx fi.
To Williame Lauder je fib.
To Hew Ker jº fib.
To Robert Crawfurde lxxx fib.
To Alex Cowtis lxxx fi.
To Maiſter Robert Stewart lxxx fi.
To Maiſter Allane Stewart lxxv fi.
To Hew Crawfurde xliij fi.
To Johnne Seytoun xl ți.
To Johne Crawfurde lxxv fi.
To James Gray je fi.
To Thomas Moncur lxxx fi.
lxxv fi.
The Compt of Schir Johnne Wyiſhart of Pittarro Knycht
Comptrollare to oure Soverane Lady and univerſale Colle&tour
of the Thridis of the Benefices of this realme.
ExoMERATION.
ALsua of the foirſaid ſoume of git reſtand, the Comptare diſ.
charges him of the ſoume of ſex thowſand fevin hundereth
and fifty pundis, pait be the comptare to the Gaird for thre
quarteris pament, viz. frathe firſt day of Aprile the geir of God
In V. Brijgeiris, to the firſt day of Januare in the ſaid geir,
takand quarterlie twathowſand twa hundereth and fiftie pundis,
as thair acquittanceis, ſchawin and producit vpoun compt pro-
portis, by the ſoumes pait to the ſaid Gaird be the theſaurare
SOWER ANE LADYIS GAIRD. 31
of the quarter of Januar, Februare and Merche preceidand,
quhilk the Comptare hes pait owiragane to him, and is heir-
eftir diſchargit, vjºo vije lii.
AND of the ſoume of ane hundereth foureſcoir foure pundis,
xj S. pait and deburfit be the Comptare for paillyeiſis to the
Gaird, removing thairof euerie quarter, changeing and filling
of the ſame at euerie tyme of the Quenis Majeſties lifting fra
place to place, Extending in the haill the thre quarteris foir-
ſaidis to the ſoume abonewrittin, as the clerk of the wachis
particulare comptis and acquittanceis gevin thairupoun produ-
cit vpoun compt proportis, - j" lxxxiiijti. xj Š.
And of ane hundereth pundis pait be the Comptare at our
ſouerane Ladeis command to Hew Lawder corporale, Andro
Reidpeth, Symon Cokburne, Alexander Cowtis, Johnne Red-
peth, Hew Crawfurde, William Lawder, - and
William Lindſay, nyne archearis of the ſaid Gaird, for remain-
ing a certane ſpace with hir Hienes, attour thair quarter, in
the towne of Abirdene, at command of hir Majeſties writing and
precept direét thairupoun, as the ſame and thair acquittanceis
ſchawin vpoun compt proportis, jefi.
And of the ſoume of four hundreth fyfty pundis, pait be the
Comptare to my lord Theſaurare, quhilk he deburfit at the
Quenis Maiefties command, to certane archearis of the Garde
avatand vpon hir Hienes perſone befoir the full nomber of
negarde wes compleit and erected, quhilk wes the firſt day of
Aprile the geir of God Im We lxij geiris, as wes knawin to the
Auditouris vpon compt, - iiije 1 fi,
Pallyeiſis.
32 THE ARCHEARIS OF OUR
Garde.
Palliefſis.
MDLXIII.
And of the foirſaid ſoume git reſtand, their aucht to be defeaſed
and allowed to the Comptare the ſowme of nymethowſand pundis
payed be him to hir Maieſties garde, in compleit payment of
ane haill geir, comptand the begynnyng of the ſaid geir at the
firſt day of Januare, the geir of God Im We lxijgeiris, and end-
and the ſame at the firſt day of the ſamin moneth, in the geir
of God I* Velkij geiris, the payment thairof being devyded
geirlie in four quarteris, and takand ilk quarter twa thowſand
twa hundreth and ſyſtie pundis, Extending in the haill 3eir to
the foirſaid ſowme of nyne thowſand pundis, As the capitane
of the ſaid Gardis quarterlie acquittances of the geir compted
foirſaid maid and gevin thairvpoun and produceit vpoun compt
proportis, - ixCD ti.
And of the ſoume of thre hundreth three pundis threttene ſchil-
lingis aucht penneis, payed be the Comptare the geir compted
for Pallieſis to the ſaid garde, renewing of the ſame euerie
quarter, changeing and filling thairof at everie tyme of the
Quenis Majeſties lifting fra place to place, during the ſaid geir,
bygynnand the ſame at the firſt day of Januar the geir of God
Im ve Bij 3eiris, and endand at the firſt -- day of the ſame
moneth, in the lxiii geir, Extending during the ſaid haill geir
to the ſoume foirſaid, As the clerk of the watches comptis par-
ticularlie gevin thairvpoun, and the capitane of the gardis
acquittance ſchawin exemmit and produceit vpoun compt pro-
portis, iijsijfi. xiijś, viijd.
SOWER ANE LADYIS GAIR.D. 33.
MDLXIV.
In the firſt the Comptare aucht to be diſchargit of the ſoume
of foure thowſand five hundreth pundis pait be him to the
Capitane and Archearis of the Garde, for their wages of the
quarteris of Aprile Maij and JunijJulij Auguſt and September
in the geir of God a thowſand five hundreth thre ſcoir four
geiris.”
To Robert Dowglas archear be Patrik Dauidſone colle&tour
Alexander Arbuthnot and Thomas Alexander at command
of the Comptare in part of pament as ſaid is xxijfib.
To James Savoy trumpett be Thomas Alexander in parte of
pament as ſaid is - vjii. xiijS. iiijd.
To Patrik Anſtruder archear be James Arbuthnett colle&tour
in compleit pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris I fib.
To James Gray archear be Alexander Quhyetlaw colle&tour
in compleit pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris l fib.
To Maiſter Alane Stewart clerk and archear of the Garde
be the ſame colle&tour &c. be Johnne Browne and Thomas
Alexander ſeruandis to the Comptare in parte of pament of
the ſaidis tua quarteris - xv fib. v Š.
To Duvall Francheman archear be Mr Michaell
Cheſholme colle&tour in parte of pament of the ſaidis twa
quarteris xxv fib.
To William Stratoun archear be Alexander Wyiſhart and
* This account is mutilated in various of its items.
E
34 THE ARCHEARIS OF OUR
Alexander Arbuthnett in name of the Comptare in parte of
pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris tº e º 'º
To Patrik Bowmakare archear be the Comptare in parte of
payment of the ſaidis twa quarteris . iij fib.
To Alexander Cowtis archear be Alexander Arbuthnett and
Thomas Alexander in parte of pament of the ſaidis twa quar-
teris ix fib.
To Johnne Adameſone archear be the ſaid Alexander Ar-
buthnot in parte of pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris as
ſaid is - - - - v fib.
To Gibſone archear be Alexander Arbuthnett and Johnne
Wyiſharte in parte of pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris v fib.
To Dioniſs La Broche archear be the ſaidis Alexander and
Thomas in parte of pament as ſaid is x fib.
To Jhonne Sprewll archear be Alexander Arbuthnett in parte
of pament as ſaid is v fib.
To Capitane Hew Lawder in compleit pament of the ſaidis
twa quarteris - l fib.
To La Fram Francheman archear be the Comptare in part
of pament of the ſaidis twa quarteris xxv fib.
To the ſaid Hary Skraling be Robert Campbell colle&tour
mair nor the nyntene pundis befoir allowed in parte of pament
as ſaid is - xlv. fib.
Item the Comptare aucht to be diſchargit of the ſoume of ane
hundreth twenty nyne pundis twa ſchillingis payit be him to
SOVERANE LADYIS GAIRD. 35
Maiſter Allane Stewarte furriour of the Garde for the Pallieſ.
ſis therof of the quarteris of Januar Februare and Merche the
3eir of God Im We lxiij geiris, April May and Junij, Julij
Auguſt and September in the geir of God Im V* lxiiij geiris
makeand thre quarteris of ane geir Renewing of the ſame
everie quarter jº xxix fib.
MDLXVI.
The Compt of Schir Williame Murray of Tullybardin,
Knycht, Comptrollare and Collector Generall of the Thirdis
of the Benifices of this realme.
THE ExoMERATIOUN AND DISCHARGE of the haill Soumes
- befoir charged.
IN THE FIRST, the Comptare aucht to be diſchargit of the
foume of ſex thowſand pundis payed be him to the capitane
and archearis of the Garde in pairt of payment of thair wages
fra the firſt day of Oétober the geir of God Im We threſcoir
five geiris, vnto the firſt day of Oétober the geir of God Im Vº
threſcoir ſex geiris, as ane particulare Compt maid thairupon pro-
portis By and attoure the ſoume of twa thowſand pundis payed
to thane be the Quenis Majeſtie for the ſame geir vjo fib.
And of the ſowme of ane hundreth threſcoir foure pundis payed
be him to Awla M*Awla clerk of the watche of the ſaid garde
for the Pallieſfis thairof, renewing of the ſame everie quarter
of the geir foirſaid, changeing of the ſtray thairof everie five-
tene dayis and at everie tyme of the King and Quenis Ma-
36 THE QUENIS ARCHEARIS.
jeſties removing during the haill geir foirſaid, as the particulare
compt thairof maid be the ſaid clerk of the watche, ſubſcriwit
with his hand ſchawin and producit upoun compt proportis,
e º O tº
MDLXVII.
ALSUA thair wes payed and allowed for the Gaird in the
Compt of the threſcoir five geir ſex thowſand pundis pait be
the Comptare and twa thowſand pundis pait be the Quenis
grace in pairt of payment of thair wages fra the firſt day of
Oćtober the geir of God Im We lxv geiris vnto the firſt day of
Oétober the geir of God In Ve lxvi geiris mackand ane geir
compleit. Off the quhilk geiris compleit payment than thair
reſted awand to the ſaid Gaird the ſowme of ane thowſand
foure hundreth pundis, quhairof the Comptare hes payit the
ſowmes following ſenſyne to thir ten particular Archearis un-
derwrettin ilkane of them takand ane hundreth pundis, that
is to ſay, Johnne Cowtis, Alexander Cowtis, Andro Ferryar,
Dougall Stewarte, James Gray, Alexander Boig, Robert Crau-
furde, Hew Craufurde, Johnne Anſtruder and Gilbert Mont-
gomry, extending in the haill quhairof the Comptare aucht to
be diſcharged to jm fib.
CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE BETWIXT
ALEXANDER OGILVIE OF BOYNE
AND MARY BETHUNE.
M D LXVI.
CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE, &c.
THE following document, (of which the original is preſerved
in the General Regiſter Houſe at Edinburgh,) notwithſtanding
the intereſt which attaches to one of the principal parties to
the contraćt, will probably be thought to derive its chief value
from bringing together, as engaged in one friendly tranſačtion, a
number of perſons who played important and generally hoſtile
parts in the moſt intereſting period of Scotch hiſtory.
Of the contraćting parties, Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne was
the repreſentative of an old and reſpectable branch of the
powerful family of Finlater. The lady, one of the Queen's
four Maries whom Scotch tradition and ſong have ſo inti-
mately aſſociated with the hiſtory of their unfortunate miſtreſs,
was the eldeſt of eight daughters of Robert Bethune of
Creich, deſcended of a younger ſon of the family of Bethune
of Balfour in Fife. Her father, who did not ſucceed to the
family eſtate till after the death of an elder brother, was early
attached to the Royal houſehold, and is ſaid " to have attended
the young Queen to France as a page; and after her return
* Martine's Genealogical Collections, M. S. in Adv. Lib. Edin.
40 CONTRACT OF ALEX. oGILVIE
to Scotland, to have been appointed maſter of the houſehold,
heritable Steward of Fife, and keeper of Falkland palace.
Perhaps, however, there is here ſome confuſion between this
perſon and his father Sir John Bethune of Creich, who was
keeper of Falkland palace in the reign of James V.” The
mother of Mary Bethune was a French lady of honour to the
Queen, whoſe name is variouſly given (and probably in both
caſes corruptly) Joanna Renwall or Gryſoner.
The family of Balfour roſe into high confideration from fur-
miſhing two ſucceſſive Archbiſhops to St. Andrews, of whom
the Cardinal in particular exerciſed an influence that did not
fail to advance the fortunes of his relations. To this probably
are to be attributed the connexions, ſomewhat above their
rank, formed by two ſucceſſive and very numerous families of
daughters of the Bethunes of Creich.f
* Act Parl. v. ii. p. 296.
t One of these, Janet, the eldest daughter of Sir John Bethune of Creich, and
aunt to Mary Bethune, the party in the present contract, married for her third
husband Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, and is the Lady of Buccleuch, the tradi-
tional belief of whose character and mysterious endowments has been embodied
and immortalized in ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel. An original letter of her’s
to the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, which happens to be preserved in the Gene-
ral Register House, although of little intrinsic interest, has been thought worthy
of a place here, as affording a good specimen of the style of a Scotch lady of that
day, and preserving the autograph signature of that remarkable woman.
To THE QUENys GRACE.
MADAME, efter maist humyll commendatioun of seruice, empleise gour grace be
aduertisit, I haif tareit heir thir aucht days bipast, in houp of gour cumyng to
this towne, awaiting thairupome to haif spoking gour grace at lenth in all my
AND MARIE BETHUNE. 41
Little more has come to our knowledge of Mary Bethune.
The traditional fame of the beauty of thoſe attendants on the
unrivalled Queen, is in her caſe ſupported by no common teſti.
mony. Buchanan has celebrated her in the following verſes,
in his Palentiniana. -
AD MARIAM BEToNAM
pridie Regalium Reginam ſorte dućtam.
Regno animus tibi dignus erat, tibi regia virtus;
Et poterant formam ſceptra decere tuam.
Fortuna erubuit ſua munera ſola deefſe,
Quae tibi nunc plena dat cumulata manu.
Cumque tibi immunem dederit livoris honorem,
Non ſatis eſt tardam viſa luiſſe moram,
Ni Regina, orbis longe digniffima ſceptro,
Gauderet regno laeta ſubeſſe tuo.
necessar besinesse, for my suyr traist and esperance is onelie in gour grace abone
all utheris of this realme, and I, wyth all freindis pertening me salbe gour trew
seruitouris in all sic behalfis as ye pleise command ws. besekand your grace to
send me aduertisment gif ye intend to be heir schortlie or nocht for I will await
yit forder vpone your cumyng. I haif committit sum part of my mynd be toung
to my broder, the berar heiroſ, quhamto pleise your grace geif credit. And God Al-
michty preserve your grace eternalie. Off Edinburgh the xxviii of Januar 1553,
*
º
F
be your oratrix.

42.
CONTRACT OF ALEX. OGILVIE
AD EANDEM.
An querar, an potius fortunæ munera laudem,
Quæ me Betonæ mancipat imperio ?
Quo mihi forma decens hoc tempore, cum mihi nulla
Spes fupereft quod fit mutua cura mei?
Si fortuna mihi melior, melioribus annis
In me munifica fic foret ufa manu,
In cinerem fubito cecidiffem verfus, eratque,
Quod mihi vita brevis, poena futura levis.
Nunc face fors lenta torret, nec dat mihi vitæ
Gaudia, nec fubitam dat mihi mortis opem.
Sed feu vita manet vel mors, hoc gratulor unum,
Sub dominæ arbitrio eft vitaque morfque mea.
AD EANDEM.
Quæ melior meritis mihi fors, Betona, dedit te,
Hæc cito fed meritis det precor æqua tuis.
AD EANDEM. .
Horret hiems, nec prata nitent, neque floribus horti,
Unde queam dominæ ferta parare meæ.
Quique fuit cultu Mufarum fertilis hortus
Ingenii, ætatis frigore ftringit hiems.
Si tamen adfpiret zephyrus Betonidos auræ,
Hic etiam in vernas luxuriabit opes.
AND MARIE BETHUNE. 43
Alexander Ogilvie, and his wife, were ſtill alive in 1606.
An original portrait of Mary Bethune has been preſerved at
Balfour Houſe in Fife, the feat of Colonel Bethune. -
The contračt,” to which, as will be obſerved, the Queen and
Henry Darnley are parties, is ſubſcribed by them, by the Earls
of Huntly, Argyll, Bothwell, Murray and Atholl, as cautioners
for the bridegroom, by Alexander Ogilvie himſelf, ſubſcribing
his territorial ſtyle of “Boyne,” and by Mary Bethune. Her
father's ſignature, with that of Michael Balfour of Burleigh,
his cautioner for payment of his daughter's tocher, are wanting.
The date of this tranſačtion, which brings together on terms
of mutual confidence perſonages in general ſo irreconcileable,
fixes the period midway between the eſcape of Mary from the
murderers of Rizio and the birth of her ſon.
AT EDINBURGH the thrid day of Maj the geir of God
In V* threſcoir ſex geiris, IT is appoyntit, aggreit and finalie
contračtit betuix ane rycht excellent hie and michtie princes
Marie Quene of Scotland, takand the burdin upoun hir hienes
with conſent and aſſent of ane rycht excellent prince Henrie
King of Scotland hir Majeſties ſpous for his intres, with Robert
Betoun of Creche for Marie Betoune familiar ſervitrix to our
ſaid ſouerane lady and dochter to the ſaid Robert, and the ſaid
* The Contract is recorded in the Register of Deeds, on the 21st of May
1566, and advantage has been taken of this record in filling up some chasms in
the original.
44 CONTRACT OF ALEX. OGILVIE
Marie for hir ſelf on THAT ANE PART, and Alexander Ogilby
of Boyne with conſent of his freindis on THE UTHER PART, in
manner, forme and effect as efter followis, That is to ſay, the
ſaid Alexander ſall Goduilling marie and tak to his ſpouſit
wif the ſaid Marie Betoun and ſall ſolempnizat the band of ma-
trimonie with hir in face of haly kirk with ſolemnitiis requyrit
therto betuix the dait heirof and the day of
nixt heirefter following, or ſoner as ſalbe thocht expedient be
our ſaid ſouerane Lady. And befoir the completing of the
ſaid marriage, the ſaid Alexander Ogilby of Boyne ſall infeft
the ſaid Marie Betoun in hir wirginitie in lyfrent be aliena-
tioun and wenditioun titulo oneroso for ſowmis of mony with
clauſis of warandice as efferis, In all and haill his landis of
Auchguhannachiis gevand be geir vij chalderis vićtuall, the
lands of Colphynnis gevand geirlie fourtie merkis, to be haldin
of our ſoueranis Lord and Lady; and fiklik in his landis of
Ordingis gevand gerlie xl merkis, lyand within the ſorreſtrie
of Boyne, to be haldin of umquhile Johnne Lord Dernelies
aris; and fiklik in his landis of Glaſſouche lyand in the baronie
of Fordiſe gevand geirlie vij chalderis vićtuall and ten merkis
haldin of the biſchop of Aberdene; and his lands of Ragall,
with the pertinentis, payand gerlie xxx merkis haldin of the
abbacie of Abarbrothok; and in the tempill landis of Strathar-
dill, with the pertinentis lyand within the ſchirefdome of Banfe,
and in the tempill landis of Leſlie lyand within the ſchirefdome
of Aberdene haldin of the lordis of Sanét Johns payand gerlie
x merkis, and fiklik in the landis of Auchlevin gevand gerlie
xx merkis haldin of the lardis of Fynlattar lyand within the ſchi-
AND MARIE BETHUNE. 45
refdome of Aberdene, to be haldin be the ſaid Marie Betoun of
the ſuperiouris of the ſaidis landis reſpective foirſaidis outher
be allienatioun with confirmatioun therupoun, or be reſigna-
tioun as ſall beſt pleiſe the ſaid Marie Betoun, our ſaid ſoverane
and hir fader foirſaid. And efter the completing of the ſaid
marriage betuix the ſaid Marie Betoun and the ſaid Alexander,
he ſall infeft hir with him ſelf in conjunétfe in the landis foir-
ſaidis reſpectiue, to thame and the langar levand of thane twa
in conjunctfeſtment, and the aris maill lauchfullie tobe gottin
betuix thame, quhilkis failgeing to the ſaid Alexanderis aris maill
lauchfullie tobe gottin of his body, quhilkis failgeing to the ſaid
Alexanderis aris quhatſumever, to be haldin of the ſuperiouris
of the ſamin reſpective foirſaidis fiklik and in the ſamin
maner as the ſaid Alexander held the ſamin of befor, and that
be allienatioun with confirmatioun or be reſignatioun as the ſaid
Marie hir fader and freindis fall beſt pleiſe, And fiklik the
ſaid Alexander fall with all diligence obtene and get him ſelf
retourit and ſervit be brevis or utheruis, and ſefit in the haill
landis and thanedome of Boyne, with the tour, fortalice and
pertinentis of the ſamin quhatſumeuer lyand within the ſhiref-
dome of Banff be conſent of his moder conjunétfeir therof;
and failgeing that hir conſent cannot be had thairto, be diſpen-
fit of our ſoueranis Lord and Lady to the ſhiref of the ſchire
and perſonis quhatſumever quha ſalhappin tobe vpoun the
Inqueiſt of the ſaid ſeruice, reſeruand the lyfrent of the ſamin
landis and thanedome to his ſaid moder for hir lyſtyme. And
howſone he ſalbe ſefit and retourit therintill, he fall infeft in-
contenent thereftir the ſaid Marie Betoun with him ſelf in
46 CONTRACT OF ALEX. OGILVIE
conjunétfeſtment, and to the langar levar of thame twa and
the aris maill lauchfullie tobe gottin betuix thame, quhilkis
failgeing to the ſaid Alexanderis aris maill lauchfullie to be
gottin of his body, quhilkis failgeing to his aris quhatſumer in
the howſe and manis of Balchrogie, with the pertinentis
quhilkis is ane part of the ſaid thanedome gevand be geir xvj
chaldaris of vićtuall to be haldin of our ſoueranis Lord and
Lady and ther ſucceſſouris, Reſeruand alwayis the lyfrent of the
ſamin to Dame Criſtiane Keith moder to the ſaid Alexander,
for all the dayis of hir lyſtyme. And the ſaid Alexander ob-
liflis him and his aris to caus all and findrie the formamit landis
reſpective abonewrittin to gyfgerlie and be worth to the [ſaid]
Marie during hir lyftyme, and ſcho tobe payit be the tennentis
and occupyaris therof the vićtuallis and malis abomewritin par-
ticularlie ; and quhat euer inlakis of the ſaid geirlie maill and
dewitie rentallit as ſaid is, the ſaid Alexander and his aris
bindis and obliffis thame to mak payment of the ſamin gerlie
during hir lyftyme in maner foirſaid. And incais the ſaidis
landis of Glaſſache ſalhappin tobe redemit fra the ſaid Alex-
ander befoir the deceife of the ſaid Marie for payment of the
ſowmis quhairvpoun the ſamin lyis in wadſet, in that caife the
filuer quhairvpoun the ſamin ar wadſet, ſalbe conſignit in the
handis of the ſaid Robert Betoun of Crech, to the effect the
ſamyn filuer may be laid and wairit vpoun aſmikle land of als
greit auaill and profit be geir, and alsweill haldin as the ſaidis
landis of Glaſſach and the ſaid Marie to be infeft in lyfrent or
conjunétfe therintill in maner befoirreherfit. FOR THE
QUHILKIS CAUSSIS Our ſaid ſoueranis.Lord and Lady ſall
AND MARIE BETHUNE. - 47
cauſe George Erll of Huntlie, Lord Gordoun chancellar, &c.
Archibald erll of Argill, Lord Campbell and Lorne, &c. James
Erll Bothuell, Lord Crechtoun, Halis and Liddiſdaill, &c.
James Erll Murray, Lord Abernethy,. &c. Johne Erll of
Athoill, Lord Balwanye, &c. to becum cautioneris ſouertis and
full dettouris conjunétlie, and takand burdin vpoun thane,
thair aris and executouris and aſſignayis for the ſaid Alexander
Ogilby of Boyne, to freth releif and keip him his aris execu-
touris and aſſignayis harmleſs and ſkaithles of the rycht of his
marriage, ſingle and dowbill awaill thereof and proffetis that
may follow thervpoun, quhilk pertenis or ony wayis may per-
teine to William Lord Forbes, or ony his donatouris or aſſig-
mayis therto ; And quhatſumevir proffetis ſowmes of mony,
vther commoditiis or awaillis quhilkis may be obtenit be de-
creit of the ſaidis lordis of counſall or utheruis be the ſaid Lord
or his aſſignayis vpoun the ſaid Alexander, his aris and affig-
nayis or ſucceſſouris for the ſaidis marriage, ſingle or dowbill,
awaill therof, or quhat expenſis or inconuenientis that ſalhap-
pin or may follow therwpoun, the ſaidis perſonis, cautioneris
and full dettouris abonewrittin conjunctlie ſall releif the ſaid
Alexander therof, and ſall refund and pay to him and his aris,
all ſowmis, expenſis, and intereſs that ſalhappin to be recouerit
aganis the ſaid Alexander thairvpoun as ſalbe contenit in the
decretis to be recouerit theranent ; and ar content that letteris
of horning or poynding be gevin aganis thame at the inſtance
of the ſaid Alexander for payment of the ſamin ſowmis to him
for his relief without ony proces of calling liquidatioun or
utheruiſe fiklik as the ſaidis decretis war gevin aganis the ſaidis
48 CONTRACT OF ALEX. OGILVIE
cautioneris, and that thay war full dettouris for the ſamin.
Quhilkis cautioneris conjunétlie conſentis thairto be thir pre-
ſentis, and ſurrogatis thame in the ſaid Alexanderis place of
the ſaid marriage, releif and proffetis thairof. And attour the
ſaid Robert Betoun of Creich, fader to the ſaid Marie, bindis
and obliffis him and his aris to content and [pay] to the ſaid
Alexander and his aris, the ſoume of thre thowſand merkis,
in forther tocher guid with the ſaid Marie, at the termes fol-
lowing, viz. twa thowſand merkis at the completing of the ſaid
mariage, and the uther thowſand merkis, in compleit payment
of the ſaid ſoume of thre thowſand merkis, within ſex monethis
nixt efter the completing of the ſaid mariage. And for ſuir pay-
ment therof, Michell Balfour of Burlie is becumin and becumis
cautioner, ſouertie, full dettour to the ſaid Alexander, with the
ſaid Robert Betoun conjunétlie and ſeuerallie. And for ob-
ſerving, keping and fulfilling of the premiſſis, the ſaid Robert
Betoun, Marie his dochter and Alexander Ogilby, partiis
abone writtin, Our ſaidis ſoueranis Lord and Lady, and per-
ſonis becumin cautionaris, ar content and conſentis that the ſaid
contract be actit and [regiſtrat in the buikis of counſall, and
Chaif the ſtrenth force and effect of ane] decreit of the Lordis
thairof, with executoriallis of horning or poynding tobe direct
thairvpoun as efferis; And to that effect makis and conſtitutis
maiſteris Johne Spens, [Thomas M'Calgeane] Robert Crych-
toun,andilkane of thane, conjunétlie and ſeueralietherlauchfull
procuratouris, to compeir befoir the ſaidis [lordis, I and in thair
names to conſent to the regeſtring heirof, in maner foirſaid,
in communi forma Promittentes de Rato. IN WITNES of
AND MARIE BETHUNE. 49
the quhilk thing, [our ſaidis foueranis] Lord and Lady, partiis
forſaidis, ſouertiis and cautioneris abomewritin, hes ſubſcriuit
thir preſentis with thair handis, as followis, day geir and place
foirſaidis, [befor] thir witneſfis

EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTERS
OF THE PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW
AND OF THE KIRK SESSIONS OF
EDINBURGH AND STIRLING PRIOR
TO THE YEAR MDCI.
REGISTERS OF THE PRESBYTERY
OF GLASGOW.*
Wigesimo Primo Novembris 1592.
QUHILK daye Compeirit personalie Henrie Kincaid of Auchinreoche,
quha alledgit that he can nocht resort to the kirk of Dumbartane, seeing
he being adjudgit ane parochiner thairof will evict from him his landis of
Auchinreoche, and that actioune betuix him and the said toune of Dum-
bartame clamand fra him his said landis is presentlie depending befoir
the Lordis of Sessioune; bot being ane parochiner of Balul and nocht
resorting to the kirk thairof as it become him he being in the cuntrey,
in swa doing offeris him obedient to the voice of the kirk. Quha, during
the tyme of the pleye betuixt him and the said toune of Dumbartane
ordenis the said Henrie his wyfe and familie being in the cuntrey to re-
sort to the kirk of Kilpatrik, thair to heir Goddis word preichit and his
sacramentis administrated, and also that he and his foirsaidis swa lang
as thai ar to remane eist in Loutheane resort to the paroche kirk quhair
thai salhappin to remane on the sondaye as becummis, and that thai
report testimoniall heirintill agane thair first west cuming in this cuntrey.
JAN. 23.—Contrair Archibald Hegate burges of Glasgw intercommuner
with Papistis.—The presbiterie of Glasgw, according to the confessioune
of Archibald Hegate set doun injugement before thame wpone the xxiij
* A transcript of the early volumes of this interesting Record, which had suffered consider-
able damage at the burning of the Session House of Glasgow about the year 1793, has lately
been made under the care and superintendance of the very reverend Principal Macfarlan-
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daye of December last bypast, and according to his confessioun set doun
befoir thame this present daye, and according to thair decreit pronuncit
aganis him the said xxiij daye of December last bypast, and now by thair
decreit pronuncit aganis him this present daye, Seing that the said Archi-
bald is fund to have brokin his obligatioun insert in thair buikis of the
dait the sext daye of [Julij] the yeir of God I" vº fourescoirnyne yeiris,
decernis everie minister within the said presbíterie to proceid summarlie in
thair kirkis be the sentence of excommunicatioun thenixt sonday oppinlie
furth of pulpet aganis the said Archibald Hegat for violatioune of his obli-
gatioun, and thairby decernit ane perjured persone and ane renegate.
FEB. 6.—The presbíterie hes fund Williamme Craig at Walkmill of
Partik to have bein absent fra his kirk this lang tyme bygane, and
thairby to haif contravenit his obligatiounis quhairin he obligat him under
the pane of ten merkis to keip his kirk on sondaye to heir Goddis word;
is decernit to pay to the Thesaurer of his kirk the said ten merkis, and
to mak his repentance in his kirk for absence fra his kirk the tua Son-
dayes nixttocum, and that he be nocht absolvit quhill he schew evident
taknis of his repentance; and that he find Souertie winder the pane of
ten pundis to be present to heir Goddis word on the Sondaye in tymes
cuming: Incase he obey nocht as said is, Ordenis his minister to pro-
ceid aganis him be admonitionis. *
CoNNALD STRUTHERIs grantis that on Sondayes he ryidis to sek in his
dettis: Also grantis that for conscience saik he absteynis fra certaine
meates to plesure his God because of his sinis: Also grantis he said God
give ws grace to leif navthervise nor the waye King James the fyft deit
in : Grantis he prayed in the lache kirk and hiche kirk: Denyis he said
to my Lord Hammiltoun that he consaled him nocht to be sua frak in the
ministeris cause.
FoESAMEKILL as we Mr Thomas Archibald persone of Cardrus, Robert
Blair, notare and Williame Mure burges of Glasgw, having embraced
the treuth of the evangell professed within the reformed kirk of Scotland
I592. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 55
this daye, and nochtwithstanding thairof hes done besyde the dewteis of
trewe Christianis and professouris, in that we the saidis Mr Thomas and
Williame did refer and submitt actionis we had debatabill amangis ws
to the jugement and decreit arbitrall of Grahame of Fintrie,
ane excommunicat papist, to have bein decydit be him ; and that I the
said Robert Blair, as procuratour for the said Williamme Mure, past
with the said Williame Mure to the said Grahame of Fin-
trie excommunicat, for procuratioun at his handis, being excommunicat, in
the said Williame favouris; for the quhilkis we and everie ane of ws
grantis that the kirk mycht and may proceid aganis wa be the censures
of the kirk, yit finding in the kirk clemencie in that thai cast ws nocht
fra the societie of the godlie, Heirfore we and everie ane of ws bindis and
obleissis our selfis in all tymes heirefter, be the assistance of Goddis spi-
rit, to leive zealous and sincere professouris of the trew religioun pre-
sently professed within the reformed kirk of God, and without giving
ony occasioun sclander or offense or suspicioun of the contrair. And
incase (as God forbid) it salbe fund that at ony tyme heirefter we sall
ather privatlie or publictlie Schaw ourselfis favoraris of the vntreuth and
papistical kirk in exercise of religioun, in ressoning aganis the treuthe
quhilk now fra our hartis we embrace, in railing aganis the discipline of
the reformed kirk or the pastouris thairof, in observing ony superstitious
rites or dayes, in abstinence fra certane meates upone certane dayes to
the offense of the godlie, in hantting and assisting mair affectionatlie pa-
pistes and sik as are suspect of papistrie willinglie and wittinglie, and
specialie the said lard of Fintrie, and all witheris excommunicattis for pa-
pistrie, than the professouris of the treuthe ; That we bind and obleis w8
and everie ane of ws, eftir triel and consideration of the foirsaidis in
part or in haill, to be willing that without ony forder process we be
Sumarlie excommunicat, and for evir . . . . ed and renegates. In witnes
quhairoff we have subscribit with our handis as followis, At Glasgw the
xi daye of . . . . . the yeir of God Ane thowsand fyve hundreth foure-
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scoir tuelf yeiris, before thir witnessis, Mr Johnne Allansone clerk to
the kirk of Glasgw, Robert Ste . . . . ane of the beddellis thair, with
utheris diuerse. Sic subscribitur Mr Thomas Archibald, Robert Blair
notare, Williame Muir.
MAR. 13.—Quhilk daye the presbiterie of Glasgw injoynis to James
Pirrhie trilaps in adultery, first with . . . . . . secundlie with
º º º . and for the quhilkis doubill adulterie he wes ex-
communicate and not as yit absolvit, and thirdlie with Margaret Steyne
within the parochin of Campsie, to mak his repentance foure Sondayes
in the kirk of Kilbryde under the maneir of excommunicattis, to begin
thairto the nixt Sondaye, and consequentlie the Sondayes thaireftir fol-
lowing quhill the said foure Sondayes be compleitit; and at the ending
of the said foure Sondayes, that he ressave fra the minister of Kilbryde
testimoniall to be schawin to the minister of Cadder how he repentit the
said dayes: Than entring to his repentance in the kirk of Cadder wther
foure Sondayes, Ressaving fra the minister of Cadder foirsaid testimo-
niall of his repentance in the kirk of Cadder, to be Schawin to the minister
of Leinyae: And than entring to his repentance wther foure Sondayes
in the kirk of Leinyae, ressaving at the end thairof fra the minister of
Leinyae testimoniall of his repentance, to be schawin to the minister of
Campsie: And than entering to his repentance wther foure Sondayes in
the kirk of Campsie, and at the last of the said Sondayes ressaving testi-
moniall fra the minister of Campsie of his repentance ; quhilkis all foirsaid
testimoniallis beiring the said James to have bein fund penitent, and
producit befoir the presbíterie to that effect, than and in that case the
said James to be absolvit fra the sentence of excommunicatioun pronuncit
aganis him be the minister of Campsie wpone the Sonday mixt and im-
mediatlie following the completting of the said repentance in the foirsaid
foure seuerall kirkis in maneir as said is. And the barne gottin be him
with the said Margaret Steyne to be baptiseit.
1592. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 37
THE quhilk daye the presbíterie, considering the desyre of the Sessioun
of Glasgwanent thair Moderatour to be ane of thair Ministeris alternis
vicibus, and wnderstanding the staye of the said desyre to be that Mr
Johnne Couper occupyis the pulpet continualie wpone the Fryday eftir
the said Sessioun daye, being the Thurisdaye, Thairfore the presbíterie
ordenis that heireftir quarterlie everie ane of the said Ministeries sall wse
the office of the Moderatour per vices, and Mr Johne Couper sall begin
wpone the xv daye of Marche instant the first quarter, and continewe to
the xv daye of Junij nixt tocum ; and during the quhilk tyme the said
Mr Johne sall teiche wpone Wedinsdaye, and Mr David Wemes wbone
Frydaye ; and in the nixt quarter the said Mr David to be Moderatour
and to teiche on the Wedinsdaye, and Mr Johne Couper to teiche on
the said daye, and this to continewe quarterlie as said is; and wrone
the oulk dayes thai begin at viijhouris and end preciselie at ix houris, be-
caus quhen that thai extend . . . . hour, it makis ane greit infrequencie
of the auditouris.
MAR. 20.-Compeirit personalie Johnne Stodhyrd minister of Campsie,
and denyis that he subscryvit ane letter to James Levingstoun in Wester
Muccroft of aneyarde pertening to the clerkschip at the kirk of Campsie;
and as to the manse of Campsie, affirmis he hes the same in als gud
estait now as he ressavit the same.
The brethrene ordenis Johnne Stodhyrd minister of Campsie, reserv-
ing his awin lyfrent, to resigne in ane of the baillies handis of Glasgw
in favouris of Mr Johnne Couper ane of the ministeris of the said citie,
in name and behalf of the puir men within the said citie, according to
the said Johnne foundatioune, this present daye the tenement of Johnne
Glen wobster within the said citie, according to the said Johnne Stod-
hyrd infeftment thairof and contract, quhairupone the saming did proceid
in all thingis.
58 REGISTERS OF THE 1593.
THE brethrene ordenis Mr Niniane Drewe minister at Leimgae to teiche
this daye viij dayes at ix houris in the morning, in the first chaptour of
the epistle of Paull writtin to the Romanis, beginnand at the xviij verse.
MAR. 27.-Quhilk daye the brethrene ar nocht satisfeit with the
doctrine teichit be Mr Niniane Drewe minister at Leinyae this present
daye, and findis him to have bein als unprofitabille in handling the text
prescryvit to him as of befoir; And now the brethrene ordenis the said
Mr Niniane to teiche in the first epistle of Paull to the Corinthianis the
xi chaptour, beginnand at the 24 vers, WPone the thrid daye of Aprile
mixttocum before the Synodall Assemblie, or these to be appointit be the
said Assemblie to be his auditouris.
John NE HAMILToun steilbonnatmaker, burges of Glasgw, having
sclanderouslie spoken aganis the minister of the word of God in Glasgw,
as he hes confest this present daye befoir the said minister and presbíterie
of Glasgw, is ordenit be the said presbíterie to behave himself reverentlie
in speiking of God his word and ministeris thairof in tymes to cum, and
ordenis him to compeir befoir thame this daye xv dayes; he summoun-
dit apud acta to the said daye ; and for the present the said presbíterie
debarris him fra the communioune on Sondaye mixttocum and wrone
Sonday cuming aucht dayes.
THE quhilk daye the presbiterie debarris Connald Strutheris for his vn-
solid speichis confest be him the penult daye of Januar last, wes contrair
to the groundis of trewe religioun, fra the communioune at this present
seasoun; and seing he hes not compeirit this daye to have ansuerit for
himself as he that wes lauchfullie summoundit to the said daye, Ordenis
this ordinance to be intimat be Mr David Wemes to the said Connald,
that he pretend na ignorance heirof.
APR. 10—Quhilk daye the letteris send be the presbiterie of Edinburgh
anent the contributioune to the Kingis Majesteis garde, wes producit in
1593. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 59
Assemblie Synodall wrone the ferd daye of Aprile instant, and was red
in the first daye of the conventioune of the presbiterie of Glasgw eftir the
said Assemblie, being the tent daye of this instant. -
THE presbíterie ordenis that everie minister within this presbíterie de-
syre the gentilmen in thair parochinis to be present this daye viij dayes,
anent the contributioune to the Kingis Majesteis garde. And that all ex-
communicatis, Jesuites, mespreistis and heiraris of mess within the said
presbíterie be gevin Wp this daye viij dayes.
THE Presbíterie injoynis to Margrat Steyne in the parochin of Campsie,
adulteres with James Pirrhie excommunicat, to mak her repentance sex
severall Sondayes in her paroche kirk in Sekclayth, to begin thairto the
nixt Sondaye, and consequently the Sondaye thaireftir following, and
that scho absteyne fra the said James in carnale dale and suspect place
in all tymes tocum winder the pane of the censures of the kirk; and that
scho paye to the Thesaurer of hir kirk sik pecuniall sowmes as hir Mi-
nister and elderis sall prescryve the said nixt Sondaye ; quhilk Sowme
payit, and the said Margrat performing hir Injunctionis according to hir
repentance, is ordenit to be absolvit fra the sin of hir offense.
APR. 27—Quhilk daye the gentillmen within the presbiterie of Glasgw,
according to the roll within thair boundis be thair ordinar pastouris, to
have convenit for the voluntare contributioune appointfit for the Kingis
Majesteis garde, compeirit nocht, bot send thair ansueris with thair Minis-
teris in effect as followis, to wit, That the actioune wes meir civile, and
thairfoir thai thochtit nochtpertinent to the ministrie northair calling; and
nixt as for thair awin particular gudwill, thai wer willing to bestowe thair
lyfe and all that thai had, being chargit be his Majestie in that gud cause.
THE Presbíterie ordenis that anent the impietie of the witches and thair
lait conspiracie, the samin be proponit in the nixt Generall Assemblie to
be set furth in print, that the samin may be divulgat and maid notorious
to the haill inhabitantis in this cuntrey.
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MATI 8.—The Presbiterie ordenis Mr Johnne Couper to confer with
the Lard of Kilsyithe anent sum ordour to be tane with excommunicat
and inordinat persones within the said Lardis boundis; requeisting the
said lard to put to his helping hand for redressing of the misbehaviour of
the saidis persones, that the censures of the kirk striken aganis thane
may be feirit be thame, and thai brocht to the obedience of the kirk.
Quhilk daye the kirk and presbiterie of Glasgw injoynis to Helein Mil-
ler unmareit adulteres with Johnne Cuik mareit, bayth of the parochin
of Leingae, to mak hir repentance sex seuerall Sondayes in the piller
within hir paroche kirk in sekclayth bairfuttit and bairleggit, To begin
thairto the nixt Sondaye, and consequentlie the Sondayes thairefter fol-
lowing, and that scho abstein fra the said Johnne in carnale dale and
suspect place in all tymes tocum. And that scho paye to the Thesaurer
of hir kirk wbone Sondaye nixt tocum sik pecuniall sowmes of money as
hir minister and elderis sall prescryve. Quhilk Sowmes being payit, and
the said Helein fund penitent, according to her repentance scho is ordenit
to be ressavit.
MAIL 15–Quhilk daye convenit the Moderatour and brethrene of the
presbiterie of Glasgw judicialie, and according to the act and ordinance
set doune be thame the viij daye of Maij instant, hard Mr James Stir-
ling presentit be Schir Archibald Stirling of Keir knicht to the personage
and vicarage of Baldernok, teiche in the text appointtit to him. And
eftir the said Mr James had teichit, the brethreneweyand and consider-
and the doctrine teichit be him, hes fund as be thir presentis findis the
said Mr James nocht abill to entir in the functioun of the ministerie, lyk
as of before eftir diverse triellis he wes fund unabill to entir in the previe
exercise, and wes commandit be the moderatour and brethrene to desist
wnto the tyme God suld wirk forder with him. In respect quhairof the
brethrene ordenis and requiris the said Schir Archibald Stirling of Keir
knicht to present with all possibill diligence of new ane qualifeit persone
1593. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 61.
to thame to be tried and admittit to be pastour to the kirk of Badermok,
according to the commissioun, of the last Synodall Assemblie, that the
puir folk of the said kirk of Badernok be nocht ony langer destitut of
ane pastour, And ordenis the moderatour to writt to the said Sehir Archi-
bald Stirling of Keir knicht to present de novo ane qualifeit persone to
the said personage and vicarage of Badernok, and that with all diligence.
And the extract of this act to be send to the said Schir Archibald, with ane
letter to be writtin be the said Moderatour to him, and that with all dili-
gence, Craving the said Schir Archibaldis presentatioun de novo to ane
qualifeit persone to serve as persone and vicare in the ministerie at the
said kirk, with all diligence as said is.
QUHILK daye compeirit personalie Williame Flemyng merchand burges
of Glasgw, being cited to this daye, Quha being demandit be the Mo-
deratour of the presbíterie of Glasgw gif it be of treuthe that he intendis
to teill the kirkyardes of Sanct Roche and Sanct Tenes, or to convert
the said kirkyardes in buyldit houssis and landis, the said Williame
ansuerit that he mathir intendit nathir yit myndit to teill the said kirk-
yardes or to convert the same in buyldit houssis and landis : And forder
assurit the said Moderatour and brethrene, that he suld wse the said
kirkyardes to na wther wse nor the saming is wsit presentlie without the
consent and advise of the Moderatour and brethrene of the said presbi-
terie for the tyme first had and obtenit thairto.
Anent ressaving Egiptianis.-QUHILK daye compeirit personalie
James Wodrop burges of Rutherglen, and declared that the Egiptianis
enterit in his barne, it being hesped, and he him self filland fulyie the
tyme of thair entrie; and quhen he winderstud thame to be in his barne,
he wes offendit and gave ane of thame ane blowe, quhairat the lard of
Ferme wes crabit, and said to him gif he tuichit the said Egiptianis ony
mair he suld repent it.
QUHILK daye compeirit personalie Johnne Wilsoun burges of Ruglen,
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and declarit that he ressavit in his hous ane Egiptian woman and ane
Scottisman with hir quha had mareit hir, and James Farie officiar in
the said toun come to him and desyrit him to ludge the foirsaid personis
in his hous.
JUN. 5.—The presbíterie ordenis Marioune Andersone in Govane for
trubling the kirk, to mak hir repentance in lining cleithis in her paroche
kirk the nixt Sondaye, and according to the Act of Parliament to be
farther punischit, and to compeir before the Sessioun of Govane, and thair
to confess hir falt. Also the presbiterie ordenis the said Sessioun to tak
cognitioun and triel gif scho hes dung hir gudman.
Almous hous men.—THE Presbiterie ordenis the puir folk of the
Almous hous to be summoundit to this daye viij dayes, to compeir before
thame to give the confessioun of thair faithe.
Jun. 19.—The Presbíterie ordenis Robert Paull in Gartschoir to sepa-
rat Janet Craig furthe of his companie quhill he obtein licence to be
mareit on hir, and this to be done incontinent heireftir, or ellis to be
excommunicat the nixt Sondaye be the minister of Leingae.
JUL, 3–0uhilk daye compeirit personalie Robert lord Symple, and
denyit him to have had carnale dale with Helein Trommount sen scho
buir the barne to him. The Presbiterie of Glasgw and Paslay convenit
judicialie, intimeis the Act of the last Generall Assemblie haldin at
Dundie to the said Robert lord Symple, beiring that his lordschip is or-
danit to separat the said Helein furth of all boundis within the shiref-
dome of Renfrew, Bailliarie of Cuninghame, quhair his lordschip hes
power and dominioun, whder the pane contenit in the said Act. Sicklyk
the said presbiters ordenis Robert Mure of Caldwell and the said Helein
to be summoundit befoir the presbíterie of Paslaye the nixt Thurisdaye,
1593. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 63
the said Robert for resetting in his place of the said Helein; and the
said Helein to be decernit to remove hir furth and fra the said Robert
Muir of Cauldwellis place, and all wther place within the shirefilome of
Renfrew, Cuninghame, or ellisquhair quhair my lord Symple hes do-
minioune, and that wnder the pane of excommunicatioune.
AUG. 14.—Quhilk daye the Presbíterie ordenis Isabel Riddel, Jonet
Pincartoun and Geylis Cambroun, to mak thair publict repentance in
thair kirk the nixt Sondaye in the pillere in thir awin cleithis for thair
disobedience, and to present this ordinance to the Sessioun of Ruglen
the morne; and eftir thai have maid repentance, that thai ansuer to
obey the ordinance set doun aganis thame in thair particular Sessioun
of Ruglen.
OCT. 11.—At Glasgw the allevint day of October the yeir of God
Ane Thousand fyve hundreth fourescoir threttein yeiris. The quhilk
daye the nobillmen, baronis, gentilmen, ministeris and commissioneris of
the shirefdomes and burrowis Wnderwritten, viz. Lanerk, Renfrew and
Dumbartane, and of the presbíteries thairof, being convenit according to
the bande maid be our Souerane Lord and his estatis, for mantenance of
the trew religioune presentlie professit within this realme, and defense
of his hienes persone and estait; and being informit of the convening of
the nobillmen, barronis, gentilmen and ministerie of Fyfe, and witheris
partis of this realme, for prosecuting of the said bande, and that the
seventein daye of this instant is appointfit to the said convening, and that
certane commissioneris of everie province salbe direct to meit in the
burch of Edinburght, for consulting and advysing Wpone the following
furth and prosecuting of the said bande, Heirfore the saidis nobillmen,
barronis, gentilmen and ministerie of the shirefdome forsaidis, hes maid,
constitut and ordanit, and be thir presentis makis, constitutis and or-
danis the lard of Caldervod, the lard of Merchestoune, the gudman of
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Duchall, the lard of Greinok, Mr Robert Lindsay, Mr Johnne Hewe-
sone, Mr Johnne Haye, Mr Johnne Couper and Mr Patrik Scharp minis-
teris, or ony thre of the saidis ministeris, thair lawchfull and wndowtit
commissioneris, to convein and meit at Edinburgh the daye foirsaid, or
ony wther daye or place appointfit or to be appointtit, and thair to con-
curre with the commissioneris of the wther shirefdomes and provinces of
this realme thair to be assemblit, and to give thair advise and consale in
sik cawsses concerning the following furth of the saide bande, and wtheris
concerning the glorie of God, the preservatioune of his Maiestie persone
and estait and commonweill of the cuntrey as salbe treated, and as salbe
concludit, to promise in the names of the nobillmen, barounis and gentil-
men of the shirefdomes foirsaidis and borrowis within the samin, to
follow furth the determinatione of the commissioneris foirsaidis, quhilk
thai and everie ane of thame wpone thair conscience and honouris hes
faythfullie promeisit to do and performe. And the said nobillmen and
barronis, and gentilmen and ministerie foirsaid, hes gevin command and
power to the clerk of the kirk and presbíterie of Glasgw, to insert thir
presentis in the buikis of the said presbíterie, and to extracting the sam-
ing thairfurth, subscryvit be him for thame, as gif thai had subscryvit
the same thameselfis.
Nov. 20.—Quhilk daye the brethrene of the presbíterie of Glasgw
having hard Mr Williame Stirling teiche presentlie on the daye of
thair publict exercise, and that publictlie, lyikas weill of that quhilk
thai have hard presentlie, and praisis God for his grace Schawin to him,
and yit can nocht suddenlie admit him to the functioun in the ministerie,
bot grantis to him licence to teiche at the kirk of Baldernok on the Son-
daye, that eftir forder trial tane of the said Mr Williame in his doc-
trine at the said kirk, and as thai sall find him to profit in the word, the
brethrene may do anent the said Mr Williame as thai salbe ansuerabill
to God and his kirk.
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THE brethrene ordenis that thair be ane fast ilk Sondaye within the
boundis of this presbiterie during the tyme of this confusioune within this
cuntrey; and this to be intimat furth of pulpet the nixt Sondaye.
DEc. 4.—Quhilk daye the presbiterie of Glasgw, with the commis-
sioneris of Hammiltoun and Paslaye presbetereis, anent the supplica-
tioun gevin in befoir thame be Robert Lord Sempill, requiring to have
injunctionis gevin to him and Helein Droumound, the brethrene for
the present being credibillie informit that the said Helein is detenit in
Castell Symple and wtheris places forbiddin be the Actis of the Generall
and Synodall Assembleis, quhilk importis na takinis of repentance, and
thairfoir can nocht grant ony injunctionis quhill thai find sufficient takens
of repentance, and the Actis of the Generall and Synodall Assembleis
to be obeyit ; And thairfoir the said presbíterie and commissioneris or-
denis the presbíterie of Paslaye to proceid aganis the said Robert lord
Sempill be the censures of the kirk, and aganis all wtheris persones de.
tenaris and ressavers of the said Helein Droumound ay and quhill the
foirsaid Actis be obeyit.
JAN. 29.-Quhilk daye compeirit personalie Williame Bard, quha
grantis that eftir his mariage on Elspayth Gibsoun, thair wes the price
deirer nor xl d. maid at the brydellis; quhairby Johnne Jamesone and
Michael Mayne, thair souerteis, ar decernit ilk ane of thame to paye to
the thesaurer of the kirk of Govane the Sowme of ten merkis money.
Thairfore the kirk and presbíterie of Glasgw Decernis the said Wil-
liame to warrand releiff and skaythles keip the saidis Johnne and
Michaell cautioneris and souerteis for him and the said Elspayth, at the
handis of the said thesaurer anent the premissis.
APR. 13–Quhilk day Thomas Syde in Parkstoune, content to
mary Cristiane Huystoune within the parochin of Campsie; for per-
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forming thairof within ane monethe mixt tocum, abstinence fra hir quhill
he be mareit on hir, and making of na brydellis deirer nor xld. ilk per-
sone that Salhappin to be thairat; hes fund George Wilsoun merchand,
burges of Glasgw, cautioun and souertie for him, whder the pane of ten
merkis money, he bund to releiff his souertie anent the premissis.
QUHILK daye the kirk and presbiterie of Glasgw havinge ordenit Mr
Alexander Levingstoun minister at Monyaburcht to summound person-
alie dame Helein Hay ladie Levingstoun to this daye, to compeir befoir
thame in Glasgw, according to the Act and ordinance of the first Syno-
dall Assemblie haldin in Glasgw, as the said minister his executionis and
indorsationis in the self beiris; And the said Ladie not compeirand per-
somalie, but sendinge Williamme Callander fear of Banclocht beirair of
hir ladieschipis lettir to the said presbíterie; in the quhilk lettir the
said presbíterie finding na sufficient cause to stay thair process, ordanis
to summound hir ladieschip to this daye viij dayes, to compeir befoir
thame to the effect contenit in the said Act and ordinance of the said last
Synodall Assemblie, quhilk is to give the confessioun of hir faithe, vnder
the pane of disobedience; as also that the said Mr Alexander summound
hir ladieschip to the said daye, and be present himself the said daye, de-
lyvering the said dewlie execut and indorsit be him, winder the said pane
of disobedience. -
THE presbíterie ordanis the minister of Campsie to summound Williame
Moresoune to this daye vilj dayes, to heir decreit pronuncit be thame
aganis him for educatioune of the barnis gottin be him wrone Margrat
Pattoune, according to the souertieschip fund be the said Williame in
the toune of Striveling. * - -
APR. 22.-Quhilk daye Johnne Robesone at the yet of Kincaid, and
Issabell Pattoun in Burdistoun, content to marie; for performing thairof
within ane monethe mixt tocum, abstinence fra wtheris quhill thai be
mareit, and making of na brydellis deirer nor xi d. ilk persone that sal-
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happin to be thairat, hes fund James Steyne cordoner, burges of Glasgw,
cautioune and Souertie for thame under the pane of ten merkis money,
thai bund to releiff thair souerties anent the premissis.
APR. 23.−Quhilk daye the presbíterie ordenis Mr Alexander Leving-
stoune persone and minister at Monyaburcht, to summound dame Eline
Hay ladie Levingstoun to this daye xv dayes, to compeir befoir thame
vnder the pane of excommunicatioun. And that the said ladie may be
winn to God, the said presbiterie ordenis Mr Patrik Scharp principall of
the College of Glasgw and Mr Johnne Couper to pas to the said ladie
on Fryday this oulk, and confer with the said ladie anent the heidis of
relligioune; and quhat thai sall find in the said ladie tuiching the
groundis of relligioune, that thai report to the said presbíterie this daye
xv dayes, na wayes prejudgeing the summounding of the said ladye to
the said daye,
Twa Sondayes to serve for the ministratioune of the Sacrament of
the Supper of the Lord Jesus to the parochineris of Campsie—The
presbiterie thinkis that the minister of Campsie may ministrat the
Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord Jesus to his parochineris on twa
Sondayes allanerlie, and thairfore ordenis him to content him with the
said twa Sondayes, and his parochineris to convein on twa Sondayes, and
to lippin for na mae Sondayes togidder bot onlie the said twa.
APR. 30.—Quhilk daye the presbíterie of Glasgw ordenis Stevin Auld-
corne for wirking on the Sondaye, to paye to the thesaurer of his kirk of
Ruglen xx 5, on Sondaye nixt tocum, and to mak his repentance pub-
lictlie ane Sondaye,
MAII 7.—Aganis Pyperis and playeris on the Sondaye-Quhilk daye
the presbiterie of Glasgw statutis and ordenis, that gif Mungo Craig
sall playe on his pypes on the Sondaye fra the Sunnerysing quhill the
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sunn goinge to in ony place within the boundis of this presbíterie, that
he incontinent thaireftir salbe summarlie excommunicat. Lykwise statu-
tis that wbone the Sondaye in the said tyme, nane gif thame selfis to
pastymes and profane gaymes within the said boundis, Wnder the pane
of the censures of the kirk, and this to be intimat furth of pulpet the
nixt Sondaye be everie minister within this presbiterie, and specialie be
the minister of Ruglen.
MAII 28.—Quhilk daye the moderatour and brethrene in the presbiterie
of Glasgw statutis and ordenis, that thai quha are put on the privie
exercise be auditouris of the lessonis of theologie in the college teichit be
the principall in the said college; in case thai be not auditouris of the
said lessonis thair, thair previe exercise na wayis to be haid or allowit.
JUL. 2.—Quhilk daye the presbíterie ordenis James Mitchell in Balmoir
to do his dewtie to Marioun Layng his spous, leprous in all thingis;
and the minister of Campsie to see this put to executioun, and nychtbouris
to thame to concurre to that effect; and quhat the said minister and
nychtbouris sall think best to be done betwixt the saidis James and Ma-
rioune, to be reportit to the kirk this daye xv dayes.
THE presbíterie ordenis Johnne Kincaid of Auchinreoche, for byding
fra his parroche kirk and fra the communioune, remaning stubburne to
the citationis and admonitionis of the kirk, and not presenting his barne
to baptisme, to confes his offens the nixt Sondaye in his paroche kirk,
standing in sum part of the kirk, as he salbe callit wipone be his minister.
And siclyk ordenis the said Johnne winder the pane of tuentie lib. money
to find souertie that he sall cum to his paroche kirk heireſtir, salbe pre-
sent at the communione, sall nocht byd admonitionis and citationis of
the kirk, and sall present his barnis that God sall send to baptisme;
Johnne Clerk souertie for him winder the said pane, that the said
Johnne Kincaid sall obey the foirsaid ordinance of the kirk.
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Na corps to be laid in the lairis of uther folkis bot thair awin.—
THE presbíterie ordenis that na corps of persones within ane parochin be
brocht and laid in the kirk yairdes of wther folkis parochins in ony tymes
tocum, and that for eschewing of inconvenientis that hes arrysit wbone
the inbringing of the bodies of the deid of ane parochin into the lairis of
parochineris . . . .
JUL. 29.-Quhilk daye, becaus that George Wilsoune merchand, burges
of Glasgw, is becum cautioune and souertie for Andro Young in the pa-
rochin of Campsie, content to marie Cristein Miller in the said parochin,
that sall marie God willing the said Cristein within ane monethe nixt
tocum, abstein fra hir quhill he be mareit wgone hir, and makina bry-
dellis deirir nor xld, ilk persone that salhappin to be at the mariage,
under the pane of ten merkis money. The said Andro bund to releiff
his said souertie anent the premissis.
Nov. 5.—Office of the ringing of the bell of the Deid ecclesiasticall.
—Quhilk daye the presbíterie declairis the office of the ringing of the
bell to the buriall of the deid to be ecclesiasticall, and that the electioun
of the persone to the ringing of the said bell belongis to the kirk, accord-
ing to the auncient canonis and discipline in the reformit kirk.
THE presbíterie ordenis Mr David Wemes to pas to the lard of Mynto
the nixt Frydaye, and to desyre him to be present in the presbiterie
wpone the xij day of this instante, thair to give his avise for provyding
of a minister to the parochin of Glasgw; and to desyre him also to cause
warne sum speciall honest men to be present the said daye, to give thair
avise in the said mater.
JAN. 28.—The presbíterie, in respect that James Armour is in greit det,
thairfoir can nocht ordein Helein Bar to be mareit wbone him.
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The Presbiterie fund Juges to the cognitioun of ony sclandir
mowit aganis ony of thair Presbíterie.—THE quhilk daye the modera-
tour and brethrene of the presbíterie of Glasgw, findis thame juges
competent to the cognitioun of ony Sclandir mowit raisit aganis the per-
sone of ony minister within thair presbiterie.
MAR. 25.—Quhilk daye compeirit personalie Robert Matthow in Bar-
chagrie, quha is accusit to have followit Thomas M*Nair, and to have
teuliit him in the porche of Govane kirk immediatlie eftir sermoun, wbone
Sondaye the xvi daye of Marche instant, and thaireftir to have maid
ane braule to ane sword in the kirkyaird of Govane, with mony boasting
wordis that he suld banneis the said Thomas the kirk and kirkyaird of
Govane, quhairby the minister of Govane wes trublit in the ministra-
tioune of the sacrament of baptisme. The said Robert denyis the accu-
satioun foirsaid led aganis him, and is ordenit to compeir before the
presbiterie this day XV dayes; the said Robert summoundit apud acta to
the said daye, and a witnes ordenit to be summoundit to the said daye.
APR. 22.—Parochineris of Glasgw.—Quhilk daye the presbíterie hav-
ingressavit of the parochineris of Glasgwane hard ansuer to the articles
gevin in be the said presbiterie to thame, craving that the said paro-
chineris resort to ane kirk of thair awin, and that thai have ane pastour
of thair awin. In hope of better ansuer to be gevin be the said paro-
chineris to the said presbíterie, the said presbiterie contineuis thame
wnto the last daye of Aprile instant, summounding thame to the said
daye to compeir in the Blak Freir kirk of the said citie, at ten houris
before nwne. And in the meintyme, the said presbíterie requestis the
honorabill Walter Commendatour of Blantyre to be present the said daye,
and ordenis ane requeist to be writtine to schir Mathow Stewart of
Mynto knicht, baillie of the baronie and regalitie of Glasgw, to be pre-
sent the said daye, to give thair avises how the said parochineris may
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have ane pastour of thair awin and ane kirk of thair awin in tymes to
cum, to avoid the great confusioune that lyis wrone thame presentlie
be not having the same.
THE presbíterie of Glasgw ordenis the minister of Campsie to wse his
diligence for to have the sclander lyand WPone the lard of Kilsyth elder
and his ladie remowit, and his kirk repairit betuix and Witsondaye nixt
tocum, and that conforme to ane Act of the last Synodall Assemblie.
THE presbiterie of Glasgw ordenis Johnne Scott officiar to the kirk of
Campsie, sclanderous in his lyfe and conversatioun, to be tried be the
minister and elderis of Campsie anent ane complaint gevin in be his
minister aganis him; and as the said minister and elderis sall find the
said Johnne to deserve, that thai proceid with the said Johnne.
MAII 20.—Quhilk daye compeirit dame Christiane Grahame ladie Kil-
syth, and being accusit for diverting fra schir Williame Levingstoun of
Kilsyth knicht hir husband, ansuerit that it is nocht in hir default, for
as it sall pleas the said schir Williame hir husband to have hir as his
spous, scho promeisis to be obedient, as Goddis word dois prescryve.
In respect of the absence of hir said husband, the presbiterie contineuis
hir to ane new warning; and in the meintyme ordenis the said schir
Williame to be summoundit be the minister of Campsie, to compeir be-
foir the presbyterie foirsaid this daye xv dayes.
QUHILK daye compeirit personalie Johnne Stirling in Garnekirk, and
grantis he drew his quhinyeir and come in at the kirk dure of Cadder
wpone Sondaye, the tyme of the ministratioun of the Supper of the Lord
Jesus. The brethrene having the rycht honorabill schir Mathow Stew-
art of Mynto knicht baillie of the baronie and regalitie of Glasgw pre-
sent with thame, quha hes hard the said Johnne confessioun, as also
depositioun of certane famous witnes, sworne and examinat be thair greit
aithe quhat the said Johnne Stirling did in the kirk of Cadder wbone
Sondaye the ferd daye of Maii instant; Thairfoir the said brethrene re-
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commendis the said Johnne to the said schir Matthow, baillie foirsaid,
to be tane ordour with. The said Schir Matthow ordenis the said Johnne
to be put in Suir keiping within the castell of Glasgw incontinent
thaireftir, thairin to remaine quhill forder ordour be tane with the said
Johnne, and that he find souertie as accordis, afore his furth cuming or
furth latting of the said castell.
THE quhilk daye compeirit Robert Matthow in Barchagrie, and grantis
he did wrang in boasting of Thomas M*Nair in the kirkyard of Mekill
Govane, as hes bein provin aganis him. The presbiterie commendis
him to the Baillie of the baronie of Glasgw, that his lordschip wald
cause put him in the castell, thairin to remane quhill the kirk prescryve
injunctionis to the said Robert, to be obeyit for his offens done in the
porche of the kirk of Govane and kirkyard thairof, to the minister of
Govane and Thomas M*Nair, and offens to wtheris of the parochineris
thair, be the said Robert misbehaviour.
JUL. 29.-Visitatiown of Glasgw.—In the oulk dayes preiching in Glas-
gw, it is desyrit that the ministeris keip preciselie the hour, and that
all the pepill be commandit to humbill thameselfis on thair kneis in the
kirk in tyme of prayer. And twa preichingis in twa seuerall kirkis ar
cravit on the sondaye eftir nwne. And the catechisme on Sondaye effir
nwne to be teichit.
Aug. 5.-Ament the Kirkis within the Presbiterie.—The moderatour
and brethrene ordenis, that everie minister within this presbíterie
give in be writt wrone twysdaye nixt tocum the names of the kirkis
within thair boundis, and quhidder the benefices of the same be severall
or annexit, and quha ar patronis thairof, quha possessouris, and be
quhat rycht the samin ar bruikit, quhat wes the auld rent thairof, and
quhat is the present rent, and quhat the just availl thairof will extend
to gif thai wer frie without takkis, the amount and quantitie of the
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vicarages of the said benefices, with the glebbis and mansis, and quhat
kirkis may ather be vanted or devydit, and all benefices within thair
boundis, with the present estait of thair benefices, and quhidder thai be
delapidat or nocht, and quhidder the samin be done be the present
possessour or be his predecessouris.
Aug. 12.—The presbíterie ordenis Marioun Martein, ane ressavear of
huiris and harlottis in her hous, and ane disobedient persone, being on
the piller, to mak her repentance on the piller within the kirk of Govane
twa Sondayes; and to find souertie winder the pane of ten merkis betuix
and Sondaye nixttocum to obey this ordinance.
Designation of Gleib and Manse to the Minister of Govane.—
THE quhilk daye the presbíterie ordenis Mr Blaise Laurie thair modera-
tor, to mak designatioun to Mr Patrik Scharp principall of the college of
Glasgw, minister of Govane, and to his successouris ministeris thair, of
the gleib and manse at the kirk of Govane, wrone the xiij day of August
instant, conforme to the Act of Parliament maid thairanent, and con-
forme to the fundatioun of the said college.
Aug. 26.—Visitatioune of the kirkis of Campsie and Cadder.—
The presbíterie ordenis the ministeris of Campsie and Cadder to be
instant to see the puir helpit within thair paroches, be collectioune
be the dekinis on the Sondaye in thair kirkis to the said puir.
And anent absentis fra thair kirkis on the Sondaye and noncommucattis,
it is ordenit, that the said ministeris summound the samin before the
presbiterie with diligence; and that the fluiris within thair kirkis be laid,
and that the said ministeris bring with thame the buikis of discipline in thair
particular Sessionis to the presbíterie, wrone the last daye of September
thaireftir, thair to . .
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Aug. 29.—Quhilk daye Stevin Hill maltman, burges of Glasgw, is be-
cum cavtioun and souertie for Johne Scheillis in Deinfeild winder the
pane of twentie merkis, that the said Johne sall mak na banquettis den-
nar or ony kynd of sumptuous cheir at the baptisme of his barne during
the tyme of the present fast; the said Johne bund to releiff his said
souertie anent the premissis.
JUL. 1–Quhilk daye compeirit personalie schir Williame Levingstoun of
Kilsyth knicht, and is content and willing to resort and adheir to dame
Christiane Grahame his ladie, and to do the dewtie of ane husband to
hir according to the act and ordinance of the last Synodall Assemblie.
SEPT. 8–Quhilk daye, becaus that William Dunlop mason, burges of
Glasgw, renunceand his awin jurisdictioun and submittand him to the
jurisdictioun of the commissariat of Cadder and Monkland, is becum
cavtioun and souertie for Jonet Bell in the parochin of Leingae, fornica-
trix with Robert Fynnie and Robert Crawfurd as quadrulaps, that scho
sall obey the injunctionis of the kirk winder the pane of tuentie merkis
money: Thairfore the kirk injoynis the said Jonet to mak her repent-
ance sex seuerall Sondayes in linning cleithis, to begin therto the next
Sondaye, and consequentlie the Sondayis following; and that scho
abstein fra the said twa men in carnall dale and suspect places in all
tymes tocum, winder the said pane; and that scho paye to the thesaurar
of hir kirk sik pecuniall sowmes of money as hir minister and elderis
sall prescryve : Quhilk Sowmes being payit, and the said Jonet fund
penitent according to hir repentance, scho is ordenit to be absoluit.
SEPT, 10.-Quhilk daye, in respect that James Wodrop and Marioun
Cwmyingarhaldandhoustogiddervnmareit, thairforethekirkordenisthame
to separat.thame ane fra wtheris, and that thaj compeir befoir thame the
first daye of the presbíterie, quhilk is the last daye of September instant,
to ansuer to sik thingis as the kirk than hes to laye to thair charge.
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THE presbiterie decernis Johne Graye cordoner, ane of the puir in
the almoushous of Glasgw, for calling Bartilmo Simsone master therof,
begger, knaif, with mony wther injurious wordis, and persewing of him
be waye of deid, and not regarding to injure him in presens of the mi-
nisterie, to be depryvit of his wages, quhilkis thaj ordein the said sir
Bartilmo to give to the rest of the puir of the said almoushous, be the
avise of the said presbiterie. - -
THE presbíterie statutis and ordenis, that gif evir heireftir David
Moresone or Johnne Wilsoun sall injure be wordis sir Bartilmo Simsone,
thaj salbe deposed fra thair stallis in the almoushous of Glasgw.
Oct. 14.—The presbíterie ordenis ane or twa of thair brethrene to travell
with the lard of Keir betuix and this dayexx dayes, in favouris of Williame
Stirlinge, for peacebill injoying to him of the personage and vicarage of
the kirk of Badernok, as of him that is minister at the said kirk.
Oct. 28.—Quhilk daye Mr Johne Couper moderatour of the presbíterie
of Glasgw, in name of the ministeris within the said presbíterie, desyrit
Mr Johne Blackburne schulemaister in Glasgw, Mr Johne Gibsoun,
Mr Andrew Glen and Mr Williame Dunlope, regentis in the college of
Glasgw, to contribut with the said ministeris, anent xvi merkis to be
gevin to the commissioneris to the platt; quhilkis Mr Johne Blakburne
and regentis foirsaid ansuerit, thai culd not contribut, seing thajressavit
na stipend as ministeris. -
Ministeris in the presbíterie of Glasgw contributioun.-The presbi-
terie ordenis everie minister of ix [chalderis victuall] to paye in to the
cum, to be gevin to the commissioneris quha ar to pas to the plat.
THE presbíterie ordenis the universitie of Glasgw to try the Irische-
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men scolleris in the grammar scule of Glasgw tuiching the heidis of re-
ligioun, and that for obedience to the act of the last synodall assemblie
maid anent thair triel.
THE presbíterie ordenis the minister of Campsie to summound the lard
of Kilsyth elder and his ladie, and Alexander Stewart, to compeir be.
fore thane this daye xy dayes.
THE presbíterie ordenis the minister of Cader to signifie to the ladie
Kilsyth elder, the cause quherfore the presbíterie of Glasgw desyris hir
to compeir before thame this daye xv dayes, quhilk is anent the sclandir
betuixt hir and Alexander Stewart hir servitour. . •
Nov. 11.—Quhilk daye Mr Patrick Scharp producit diligence to the
contributioun to the plat; to wit, that the foure ministeris of Glasgw and
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commissioneris of the said plat.
Nov. 25.—The presbiterie fundis the minister of Campsie negligent in
summonding the lard of Kilsyth elder his ladie and Alexander Stewart
hir servitour, and therfoir ordenis the said minister wbone his obedience
to the kirk to summound the said lard, ladie and Alexander Stewart to
this daye xv dayes; as also ordenis him to summond Alexander Reid in
the parochin of Campsie to the said daye.
THE presbiterie ordenis Mr Alexander Rowat to give in in writt be-
foir thame this daye xx dayes, the estait of the erectioune of the abacie
of Paslaye, and stipend assignit furth therof to the kirk of Ruglen, and
also the estait and validitie of the vicarage of Ruglen, this dayexv dayes.
THE presbíterie ordenis the foure ministeris of Glasgw, with the
master of Work, James Craufurd, William Wilsoune and Petir Pater-
sone, to sicht the treis at the almoushous gif it be expedient for the
weale of the almoushous that the samin be cuttit, and gif swa be fund,
that the same be applyit to sum wee of the said almoushous. -
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THE presbíterie ordenis the inhabitantis of Badlaye and Molanis,
bydaris fra thair paroche kirk of Cader, be summondit agane this daye
xv dayes; siclyk that my ladie Boyde be desyrit be the minister of Ca-
der, to cause hir ladieschips tennentis cum to thair paroche kirk of Cader
on the Sondaye.
DEC. 9–0uhilk daye Andro Grenger grantis that he drewe his quhingeir
wilfullie in the queir the preiching place of Glasgw, aganis Arthure Al-
lane burges of Glasgw, for the quhilk he sayis he repentis; thairfore
the presbiterie ordenis him to mak his publict repentance in the piller, in
his awin cleithis, the mixt Sondaye in the hie kirk of Glasgw, and to
confer with the minister the nixt Saterdaye at ewin that is to preiche the
nixt Sondaye anent his repentance for his deid foirsaid.
DEc. 23.—The presbiterie ordenis Mr Alexander Rowat to gang and
preiche in Ruglene, and to aduerteis thame to absteyne fra keiping of ,
superstitious dayes.
JAN.6.—The quhilkdaye the presbíterie findisbe declaratioun of Mr Alex-
ander Rowat, that the parochineris of Ruglen hes keipit superstitiouslie
gule dayes; thairfore the presbiterie ordenis the said parochineris quha
keipit superstitiouslie the said gule dayes, to be summondit before thame
agane this daye xv dayes.
JAN. 20.—Quhilk daye Mr Patrik Scharp moderatour in the last syno-
dall assemblie, producit judicialie before his brethrene of the presbíterie
of Glasgw ane letter send to him be Mr Johnne Hewesone, anent ane
fast interprisit be his Majestie without consent of the kirk, quhilk suld
begin wbone the first daye of Februar nixt tocum, in all kirkis of this
cuntrey : The brethrene ordenis the fast to be intimat in everie ane of
ther kirkis the nixt Sondaye, -
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JAN. 27.—QUHILK daye, anent ane lettir producit be Patrik Johnsone in
name of sir Archibald Stirling of Keir knicht, anent the kirk of Bader-
nok, in respect that the said kirk is not within the boundis of the presbi-
terie of Glasgw, the said presbíterie can give na ansuer therto, bot re-
ferris the same to the ordinar presbíterie of Dumbartane. • *
THE presbíterie winderstanding David Moresone, ane of the puir men
of the almoushous of Glasgw, to have bein in Jonet Garneris hous
aganis the ordinance of the sessioun of Glasgw, thairfore the said pres-
biterie dischargis sir Bartilmo Simson, master of the said almoushous, to
give to the said David ten s, quhilk is ane monethis wages, bot ordenis
the same to be gevin to the rest of the puir in the said almoushous; and
forder, the said presbíterie certefeis the said David, gif he salbe fund in
hous with the said Jonet Garner, he salbe deposit fra stall and place
therefter in the said almoushous.
THE presbíterie ordenis Johne Stirling in Eister Cader, excommunicat
for caussis set doun in the act past aganis him, to find souertie this daye
viij dayes to obey thair injunctionis, winder the pane of ane hundreth fib.
actit in ther buikis; the said souertie being ane honest responsabill burges
man, induellar in Glasgw. Quhilk injunctionis are thir following: to-
wit, that first the said Johne paye the sowme of fourtie merkis, quherof
ten merkis to be gevin to the kirk of Cader and the thesaurer therof,
and tuentie lib. to the collectour in the presbiterie, to be bestowit to
godlie wses: And that being done, that the said Johne mak his publict
repentance in sekclayth, bairfuitit, bairleggit and bairheidit, first, in the
kirk of Cader; 2, in the kirk of Glasgw; 3, in Leingae kirk; 4, in
Campsie; 5, in Monyaburgh; and the rest of the said dayes in the said
kirk of Cader, in maner of excommunicantis, that is; standing at the
kirkduir of everie ane of the said kirks, than entring to the piller therin,
remaning in quhill the sermont be endit, than cuming fra the piller and
standing at the kirk duir quhill the pepill be cum furth of the kirk; and
swa to indure winto the nixt synodall assemblie of the kirk, at the quhilk
1595. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 79.
tyme, according to his repentance, the said assemblie sall pronunce quhat
tyme the said Johne salbe absoluit fra excommunicatioun. -
QUHILK daye the presbiterie of Glasgwmakis and constitutis Mr John
Bell minister at Cadder commissioner anent the plat, to convein in
Edinburgh wrone the secund daye of Februar mixttocum; and thairto
give in writ befoir the commissioneris in the said plat, the names of the
kirkis within the said presbíterie, and the estait of the samin as is set
doun and subscryvit be the moderator and clerk of the said presbíterie;
and to remane Wpon the jugement of the commissioneris in the said plat,
for the weale of the ministerie at the said kirkis ; and to condiscend to
na thing presentlie to be set doun be the commissioneris in the said plat
without the avise of the presbiterie foirsaid be first had and obtenit ther-
to, bot to report the said commissioneris jugement first to the said pres-
biterie, to be Weyit and considerit be thame gif the saming standis for
the weale of the kirk. -
FEB. 3–The presbíterie ordenis that thair be na thing red or sung in the
newkirk be Johne Bucchane reidare thair, bot that quhilk is contenit in
the word of God. -
MAR. 16.—Anent the number of kirkis within the presbíteries of
Glasgw, Hammiltoun and Paislay.—The presbíterie of Glasgw, con-
sistand presentlie only of sex kirkis, towit, Glasgw, Govane, Ruglen,
Cadder, Leingae and Campsie, quha keipis exercise and discipline with
thame, (as to Monyaburgh, mather exercise nor discipline is keipit be
the minister ther in the said presbíterie;) and of the said sex kirkis, thair
is the minister of Campsie ane auld man having onlie in yeirlie stipend
fourscoir and sex lib., and the minister of Leingae having onlie in sti-
pend fourtie aucht fib. with the vicarage worth tuentie merkis in the
geir ; and the saidis ministeris of Campsie and Leingae throch poverte
keipis nocht the dayes of presbiterie; and it being certane that the pres-
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biterie of Hamiltone and Paslaye consistis ilkane of thame of xv. kirkis,
almaist all weill prowydit in stipend; thairfore the presbíterie of Glasgw,
to the intent that thaj may be equall in kirkis with the saidis presbíteries
of Hammiltoun and Paslaye, ordenis ther commissioneris to crave of the
nixt generall assemblie the kirkis of Monkland, Kilbryde and Egleschame,
furth of the presbiterie of Hamiltone, and the kirkis of Mernis, Eastwod
and Caythcart, furth of the presbíterie of Paslaye, as nixt adjacent to
the toune of Glasgw, that be the adjunctione of the said kirkis to the
presbíterie of Glasgw thair may be equall nomber of kirkis, to wit xij
kirkis to ilkane of the presbiteries of Hammiltone, Glasgw and [Paslay]
JUN. 1–The presbíterie ordenis George Thomsone excommunicat for
the slauchter committit be him aganis umquhile Andro Clerk in Curma-
nok, to mak his repentance sex seuerall sondayes in sekclayth, within the
hie kirk of Glasgw in maneir of excommunicantis, to begin therto the
nixt sondaye, and consequentlie the sondayes thereftir following, and ay
and quhill he be fund penitent; and to paye foure fib. quhairof the twa
part is to be gevin to the collectour in the presbíterie, and the thrid part
to the thesaurer of the sessioune of the kirk of Glasgw.
Almous to an afflicted Grecian.-The presbiterie ordenis everie mi-
mister in this presbiterie to bring in his contributioun of almous fra the
gentilmen within his paroche to the afflicted Greciane for his cheritie to-
wardis the Christianis, and that wgone the nixt Frydaye ; and that everie
minister gang to the gentilmen of his paroche to the effect foirsaid.
THE presbiterie ordenis Mr Niniane Drewe, minister at Leingae, to
gang to my lord Fleming, the lard of Badinhethe, and Johne Stark his
parochineris, and to ask and crave of them sum almous to the Grecian
afflicted, and ransomed be the kirk for the cheritieschawin to the afflicted
Christianis, and to report his diligence to the presbiterie the mixt Frydaye.
1596. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 81
QUHILK daye the presbíterie, whderstanding that Williame Craig in
Walkmylne of Partik is ane persone disobedient to resort to his kirk to
heir Goddis word preichit and the sacramentis ministrated, and ane quha
hes nocht cum to examinationis, nether to be partaker of the sacrament
of the Supper of the Lord Jesus; quhilk Williame hes bein aftymes
summondit to have compeirit before the said presbiterie to have ansuerit
for his rebellioun and disobedience to all trew Christians obedience and
comelie ordour, and the said Williame did remane obstinat and disobe-
dient to the citationis of the kirk Wsit aganis him, aganis quhome also
publict admonitionishes bein gevin be the minister of Govane in the said
Williamis paroche kirk of Govane, quhilk admonitionis threatning ex-
communicatioune aganis the said William, the said William hes also
proudely contemnit; and also the said minister hes wsit prayers to God,
that God in his mercie wald mowe the said Williamis hart to repent of
his former disobedience; the quhilk prayers the said William hes not
crevit to be effectuall towards him, bot hes disdained the same. The
said presbiterie perceavand the said William Craig to be ane obdurit, im-
penitent, godles persone, and disobedient to the woyce of the kirk, thair-
foir ye said presbíterie ordenis the minister of the kirk of Govane to ex-
communicat the said William the nixt sondaye in the kirk of Govane for
his disobedience to the citationis, admonitionis and woyce of the kirk.
JUN. 29.-The presbíterie ordenis ane letter to be written to the persone
of Campsie, in favouris of the minister of Campsie, contrair Thomas
Adame, quha persewes him unjustlie for cutting of asche treis, before the
schiref and his deputtis in Striveling, to be subscryvit be the moderator
and clerk of the said presbíterie.
THE presbíterie decernis Annie Young absent fra the kirk on Sondaye
with hir nichtbouris, ane disobedient to the woice of the minister and el-
deris of Ruglen, being thrise summondit to mak hir repentance twa Son-
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dayes in lining cleithis, and to find souertie never to do the lyk heireſtir,
wnder the pane of ten merkis.
JUL. 13–The presbiterie winderstanding that the absence of my lord
Flemyng fra the kirk of Leingae wpone the Sondaye, his lordschip than
being in Cummarnald, within the boundis of this presbíterie, is the mo-
tive and greit occasioun mowing his tennentis, being parochineris of Lein-
gae, to byd away fra the kirk to heir Godis word preichit on the Son-
daye ; thairfore the presbiterie ordenis Mr Niniane Drewe, person now
present ordinar minister of Leingae, to summound the said lord Fleming
howsone his lordschip cummis in Cummarnald foirsaid, to compeir befoir
the said presbíterie to ansuer for his absence fra the said kirk, and to sik
wther thingis as the said presbiterie salhappin to have to laye to his charge.
And this the said Mr Niniane leiffna wayis windone, as he wilbe ansuerabill
in his office wpone his obedience to God and the woice of his brethrene.
QUHILK daye the presbiterie findis Johne Graye to have callit sir Bar-
tilmo Simsone, ane wastourfallo, commoun thewe, mansworne theye and
lowne; God nor the [devill] tak him away bayth bodie and Saull, thar-
fore dischargis the said Johne Graye to be of the almoushous, and dis-
chargis the said sir Bartilmo to give him ony wageis in ony tymes tocum.
JUL. 27.—The presbiterie ordenis Mergrat Arbuthnot to be summondit
agane this dayexv dayes; and seing scho is presentlie in the hous of Wil-
liam Levingstoune appeirand of Kilsyth, thay requeist him being present
personalie this daye, to cause hir compeir before thame this dayexv dayes.
THE presbíterie haveing appointit sum of thair brethrene to confer with
the lard and ladie Kilsyth anent ther cohabitatioun togidder, contineuis
the said ladie quhill it be fund and tried quhat success sall followe eftir
the conference to be had for thair cohabitatioun as said is.
Aug. 10.—The presbíterie ordenis Andro Rankeyne absent fia the com-
1596. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 83
munioune in the kirk of Monyaburgh the last tyme the samin was minis-
trated, to mak his repentance ane sondaye in the piller in lining cleithis, -
and to paye xx merkis to the thesaurer of his kirk the nixt Sondaye. In-
case he disobey, ordenis the minister of Monyaburgh to proceid be the
censures of the kirk aganis him. -
THE presbíterie ordenis ane testimoniall to be writtin to the lordis of
modificatioun of ministeris stipendis, in favouris of Mr Archibald Glen,
minister at Ruglen, testifeing the daye of his imbuiking minister at Ru-
glen, and declairing that Mr Johne Hewesome, ane of the commissioneris
for the plat, haveing eye to his stipend, left the said Mr Archibald furth
and unbukit. . -
THE presbíterie ordenis the unbrotherlie and uncheritabill deling of Mr
Johne Hewesome, in causing denunce certane of the brethrene of the pres–
biterie of Glasgw to the horne, to be delatit to the nixt synodall assemblie,
thair to be ressavit, and redres therof cravit; sicklyk referris the mater
aganis Johnne Alderstoune to the said nixt synodall.
Aug. 23.−Quhilk daye Johnne Patersone, parochiner of Govane, and
Jonet Wilsoun in Paslaye, parteis content to marie, for performing of
mariage betuixt thame abetuix and Lukismas nixt tocum, abstinence fra
wtheris quhill thay be mareit, and making of na pennie banquettis, hes
fund George Young baxter, burges of Glasgw, cautioune and souertie for
them, winder the pane of ten merkis money. James Wilson, father to the
said Jonet, and the said Johne Patersone, to releiff thair said souertie
anent the premissis.
SEPT. 7.-The presbiterie ordenis Helein Bull, in the parochin of Lein-
gae, refusing to marie Johne Miller, with quhome scho hes bein procla-
mit twyse as scho hes confessit hir self, now being of mynd to marie Patrik
Bryce, to mak her repentance in hir paroche kirk of Leingae for hir in-
constancie; and forder, to paye penaltie to the thesaurer of hir kirk the
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mixt Sondaye, afore scho enter to hir repentance, lykas wes set doune
afore scho wes proclamit with the said Johne Miller. Quhilkis being
done, ordenis hir bandes of mariage to be proclamit with the said Patrik
Bryce, gif the said Patrik will crave the same; and the said Johne can
not find ressonabill caus to staye the same. .
THE presbíterie ordanis Johne Smyth in the parochin of Cadder, for
leiding of cornes, four Sondayes to mak his repentance to his kirk, and
to paye foure fib. to the thesaurer of his kirk the nixt Sondaye.
THE presbiterie ordenis Johne Loutheane for leiding of cornes, thre
sondayes to mak his repentance in his paroche kirk, and to paye to the
thesaurer of his kirk thre fib. the nixt Sondaye.
THE sessioun ordenis Johne Provand for wirking on the Sondaye, to
paye ten schillings to the thesaurer of his kirk, and to mak his repentance
the mixt Sondaye, -
THE presbíterie ordenis Johne Hamiltoune steilbonnatmaker, for the
sclander of adulterie betuixt him and Issabell Stewart, to go on his re-
pentance, the nixt Sondaye to begin therto ; and that on the last Sonday
quhen he is to be ressavit, that it be declarit that the said Johne hes bein
ane railer aganis Godis word, quhilk is odious to declair to the people,
and that he therfore presentlie deservis excommunicatioun. And gif that
ever he be fund giltie of the lyk, that the sentence of excommunicatioun
salbe pronuncit aganis him.
Nov. 23.−Quhilk daye comperit personalie Mr David Wemes, ane of
the ministeris of Glasgw, and declairit that he, according to the ordinance
of the presbiterie of Glasgw, maid wrone the secund daye of November
instant, had sumoundit the parochineris of Glasgw to this daye, to object
(gif ony thing thay had) aganis the lyfe, doctrine and maneris of Mr
Alexander Rowat, appointit be the last synodall assemblie haldin at La-
nerk, to be minister to the parochineris of Glasgw without burgh. Quhilk
parochineris being aftymes callit, compeirit nocht except onlie James
1596. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 85
Forret in Borrowfield, quha confest him weill content with the said Mr
Alexander, baith anent doctrine, lyfe and maneris; thairfoir the said pres-
biterie puttis silence to the act of the said parochineris; and according
to the act of the said last synodall, admittis the said Mr Alexander thair
minister. And in respect that the speciallis of the said parochineris hes
aggreit and condiscendit that the parochin of Glasgw be ane severall con-
gregatioun of yair awin, thairfoir the said presbíterie ordenis the paro-
chineris of Glasgw, to cum on the Sondaye before nwne at tº
houris, to the Blakfreir kirk, quhill the hie kirk be repairit, and thair to
heir the said Mr Alexander teiche the word of God, acording to the act
of the said last synodall assemblie maid at Lanerk theranent, with cer-
tificatioun to the said parochineris, that gif thay salbe fund disobedientis to
this act and ordinance, that thay sall ressave na benefite of the kirk,
quhilkis ar the sacramentis of baptisme and the holy supper of the Lord
Jesus, and the celebratioun of mariage, bot salbe simpliciter denudit of
the samin : And that thaj pretend na ignorance heiroff, the said presbi-
terie ordenis this act to be intimat furth of pulpit in the haill kirkis with-
in this citie nixt Sondaye,
THE presbíterie ordenis ane fast to be keipit wgone the first Sonday
of December, lykas is appointtit to be keipit in all the kirkis within
this realme, for avoyding of the dangeris that is intendit aganis the kirk
in this cuntrey be the excommunicat papistis, professit enemies to the
gospel preichit within this cuntrey.
DEc. 28.—Quhilk daye the presbíterie ordenis the parochineris of Glasgw
to cum upon the Sondaye in tymes to cum to the Blak Freir kirk, to
heir the word of God quhill the hie kirk be reparit, quher thajsall con-
vein to heir the word of God preichit on the Sondaye to thame be thair
minister: In case that thaj disobey, that thaj ressave na benefite in the
kirk, ather of baptisme, the Lordis supper or mariage.
THE presbíterie ordenis Johnne Graye to ask sir Bartilmo Symsoun
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forgivenes the morne at twa houris eftir nwne, for calling him money
evill wordis, as decreit pronuncit aganis the said Johnne beinis: And
forder, ordenis the said sir Bartilmo to paye to the said Johnne his
wages sen Martimes last wes, and the wages that is auchtand to the
said Johnne afoir the said Martimes, to be gevin to the poore of the
almoushous of Glasgw, be the discretioun of Mr David Wemes and Mr
Johnne Couper ministeris of Glasgw.
FEB. 1.-The said daye Mr Johnne Couper for himself, and in name of
the presbíterie and ministeris of Glasgw, protestit that the parochineris of
Glasgw without the toune be ane particular and speciall congregatioun
be thame selfis, separated and devydit fra the toune of Glasgw, accord-
ing to the actis of the generall and synodall assemblies of the kirk maid
thairanent; and that thaj resort to heir Mr Alexander Rowat thair
ordinar minister preiche the word of God to thame, minister the sacra-
mentis to thame, and celebrat mariage to thame, in the hie kirk of
Glasgw, where with diligence ane pulpit salbe erected to the said Mr
Alexander, furmes set to the said parochineris; and the kirk foirsaid
salbe maid windticht and watterticht quhair it misteris sa Sone as possi-
billie may be done, to Goddis glorie and to the edificatioun of the said
parochineris to knawe the word of God; and thairupone the said Mr
Johnne askit actis and instrumentis judicialie in the presbíterie of Glasgw.
THE presbiterie ordenis Geylis Setoun ladie Wodheid, to remowe
furth of hir cumpanie Walter Bucchannane hir present servitour, at the
feist and terme of Witsondaye nixttocum, for remowing of the sclander
raisit betuixt him and hir, &c.
MAR. 1–The presbíterie ordenis everie minister within this presbíterie
to intimat the nixt Sondaye that dame Alinora Heye ladie Levingstoune
is excommunicat, and Mr Alexander Levingstoun to do the same winder
the pane of depositioune. :
1597. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 87
MAR. 29, 1597–Ament the chapel in Kirkintilloch to be ame kirk—
Quhilk daye, anent the summondis grantit wipone ane supplicatioune
gevin in before the presbiterie of Glasgw be the baillies of Kirkintilloch,
quhilk is subscryvit be ane nobill lord my lord Fleming, and certane
[parochineris] of the parochine of Leingae, as the said supplicatioun in
the self beiris; quhairin the parochineris of Leingae in general, and Ro-
bert Boyde of Badinhethe, Robert Boyde of Drwme, Johnne Park of
Achinvoill, Thomas Sommervell in Bourtrey, Robert Fleming in Ba-
loche in speciall, ar ordenit to be summoundit to this daye, to thair
counsale and deliberatioun anent the chapell within the toun of Kirkin-
tilloch, to be maid ane kirk quhairin the word of God may be preichit,
the sacramentis ministrated, and wther benefites of the word therin
exercised. Compeirit personalie [the] saidis Robert Boyd of Badinhethe,
Robert Boyde in Drwme and Robert Fleming in Baloche, quha heirand
the contentis of the said summoundis and supplicatioun, quhairupone the
samin wes groundit to tend to ane novatioune, and thairfore presentlie can
give [na] ansuer, thairfore desyrit ane terme to give ansuer to the samin,
quhilk terme is maid and assignit the xij daye of Aprile nixt to cum, &c.
APR. 12.-Na Minister to teiche in ame wither Ministeris kirk without
license fra the presbíterie.—The presbíterie dischargis Mr Walter Dun-
lop, ane of the regentis of the Colledge of Glasgw, or ony minister
within this presbíterie, to enter heirefter to teiche in the kirk of Cambus-
lang at the request of Mr Johnne Hewesone, or in ony wther kirk at the
requeist of ony minister, withofft thair be licence first grantit be the pres-
biterie of Glasgw to that effect, and that wnder the pane of disobedience.
THE presbíterie ordenis ane letter to be writtin and subscryvit be thair
clerk, to send to the laird of Caythcart, Johnne Blair of that ilk and
Johnne Maxwell tutour of Akeheid, for benneising of the gipseis furth
of thair boundis. - -
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JAN. 7–9uhilk daye Johnne Cauldwell witnes, sworne, admittit, ex-
aminat, deponis he hard Johnne Graye saye to sir Bartilmo Symsoun
that the devill was possest in him, and the said sir Bartilmo in the devill.
JUN. 21.—Quhilk daye personalie present Mr Alexander Levingstoun
persone of Monyaburcht, as he quha wes ordenit to be summoundit to
this daye, to heir him self deposed fra the ministerie at the kirk of
Monyaburcht, for inhabilitie in his persone of spirituall graces to teiche
in the kirk, and for inhabilitie to wse discipline in the said kirk as be-
cummis. Quha being demandit quhidder gif he whderstud not certenlie
that he is wnabill to teich in the said kirk or wse discipline in the saming,
ansuerit that he winderstandis him to be whahill to teich or yit to use
discipline in the said kirk. The moderatour and brethrene of the pres-
biterie of Glasgw thairfore be thir presentis deposes the said Mr Alex-
ander Levingstoune fra the ministerie at the said kirk of Monyaburcht,
for inhabilitie of doctrine and for inhabilitie to wse discipline in the said
kirk, simpliciter and for ever.
Aug. 2.-Mr Johnne Bell minister of Cadder, lait of entring to the
presbíterie, excusing him be ressoun he hes workmen wirkand, whairby
he mycht nocht cum soner: He and his excuse is repellit, and he scharp-
lie admonischit.
QUHILK daye comperit Harie Ross, and denyis that he payntit the
pictures of the Father, the Sone, and the Haly Gaist, in ony houssis
within this realme. *}
Aug.23.—The presbíterie ordenis the minister of Campsie to be summound
agane last twysdaye of September mixttocum. The lardis of Craigbernat
and Glorat kirkmaisteris of Campsie to ansuer anent the stent maid for
the reparatioun of the said kirk, and how the samin hes been wairit.
1597. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 89
Aganis sweiraris and banneris in Glasgºw.—The presbíterie ordenis
that sum ordour be tane with the sweiraris and banneris within the
toune and citie of Glasgw, and specialie on the hie streittis thairof, and
that the ministeris and sessioun of Glasgw be diligent to see ordour
tane thairwith with expeditioune. -
Nov. 8–Aganis slanderaris of the ministerie of Glasgw.—The pres-
biterie Wnderstanding that thair is diverse persones within the tour, and
citie of Glasgw quha traducis and sclanderis vnjustlie the ministerie of the
said citie, as the authouris of putting to deathe the persones latlie execut
for witchcraft within the said citie; thairfore the said presbíterie, be the
avise of the richt honorabill Sir Mathew Stewart of Mynto knicht, pro-
veist of Glasgw, ordenis and statutis, that quhosoever sall sclandir the
ministerie foirsaid to be the authouris of putting to deathe the foirsaid
persones in ony tymes tocum, salbe put in the brankis at the jugis will;
and this to be intimat furth of pulpet within the kirkis of this citie.
DEc. 20.—The presbíterie ordenis Mr Patrik Scharp, Mr David
Wemes, Mr Johnne Couper and Mr Johnne Bell, ministeris of Glasgw,
to travell anent the Hospitall to be foundit in this citie be the merchandis,
and to report thair diligence to the presbíterie this daye xy dayes.
JAN. 3.-Quhilk daye comperit David Calderwod, and grantis that he
ressavit fra winquhill sir Williame Herbertsone ane auld papist buik of
wmquhill the bischop of Sanctañdrois catechisme, is ordenit to delyveir
the buikis he hes of papistrie to Mr Johnne Bell, ane of the ministeris
of Glasgw; and the said Mr Johnne to poste him with questionis of re-
ligioune; and the said Mr Johnne to report to the presbíterie this daye
viij dayes as he sall try and find of the said Davidis religioune.
Ament the barmis of the Grammar Schule.—The presbíterie con-
cludis and thinkis it meit and expedient that the barnis in the Grammar
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scule, all and everie ane of thame, resort to the hie kirk on the Sondaye
to heir Goddis word preichit, the sacramentis ministrated ; and that Mr
Johnne Blackburne Schulemasteir be warnit to this conclusion, that the
samin may be followit.
JAN. 17.—The presbiterie ordenis the ministeris and sum of the magis-
tratis, to be desyrit to espye ane convenient place in the hie kirk to the
grammar schule barnis to sit into ; and the said ministeris of this citie to
report thair diligence to the presbíterie this daye xv dayes.
FEB. 15.-Anent James Fleming the Irische man, it is ordenit that the
ministeris of Glasgw inquire of him his religioun, and report thair dili-
gence to the presbiterie this daye xv dayes.
Frische Scholleris.-The presbiterie ordenis that the master of the
grammar schule catechise his Irische scholleris, that thaj may winder-
stand the groundis of religioune.
THE presbíterie ordenis Williame Blair of Barrestoune to confes the
next Sondaye, in presens of the Sessioun of Campsie, that he hes offendit
is minister of Campsie in sum hard wordis quhairof he repentis.
THE presbíterie ordenis Allane Blair to confes his offens the nixt
Sondaye preiching, for saying he wald be heir quhen the
minister wald [be with] the devill; and to ask God, his kirk and the
said minister forgivenes; and to be warnit to that effect.
QUHIEK daye comperit Johnne Moresone, servitor to the ladie Ri-
cardtoun, and grantis that he hes offendit God, his kirk and Mr Johnne
Couper ane of the ministeris of Glasgw, for spreading of the infamous
Hbell contenit in the depositioun of umquhill Margaret Aiken ane nota-
bill witche aganis the said Mr Johnne be sindrie copeis thairof in di-
verse partis of this cuntrey; for the quhilk he cravis God, his kirk and
the said Mr Johnne forgivenes, judicialie.
1598. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 91
Aug. 8, 1598–Anent ane fast for eschewing of the Pest.—The pres-
biterie ordenis that anent ane fast, it be proponit the morne eftir preich-
ing, for eschewing of the Pest within this cuntrey; and that God wald
grant fair and sessonabill wedder for the inbringing af the ground of the
fruittis thairof, to the sustentatioun of man and beast, for quhais susten-
tatioun God in his blessing hes ordenit the samin.
Aug. 22–The presbíterie ordenis Thomas Steyne, for sclandering of
Mr Johnne Bell minister of Cader, in suspecting that he the said Mr
Johnne had lyin with the said Thomasis wyfe, as the said Thomas con-
fest him self, and witnessis admittit, sworne, deponit; hes confest to
mak his repentance sex Sondayes in sekcleithe, to wit the first in Cader,
ane wther in Campsie, ane wther in Leingae, and the sext Sondaye in
Cader; and thair to be ressavit according to his repentance: and forder,
recommendis him to the baillie of the baronie of Glasgw, to be put in
the castell, thair to remane be the space of aucht dayes in prisoune, and
langer during the said baillies will. -
QUHILK daye Issabell Greinla in the parochin of Cader, for calling
Walter Aikein in Gartferne ane warloche convert thairof, summondit to
this daye, callit and not compeirand, is ordenit to be proceidit aganis
be the minister of Cadder be admonitionis vnto excommunicatioun for
hir disobedience.
Oct. 17.-William Blair in Barrestoun, sworne, deponis he hard Dun-
cane Lennoxe saye, first to Walter Bucchannane thow leis, thaireftir
Walter said he leit, and the said Duncane mintit with ame sword Wn-
drawn to stryk at the said Walter. -
John NE STIRLING elder of Craigbernat, deponis he hard Duncane Len-
nox saye to Walter Buchannane, I heir ane liar makand ane loud lesing,
and that he leit lyke ane lousie limmar; and the said Walter ansuerit to
the said Duncan that he leit, and that the said Duncane porrit with his
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sword; and that Duncanes stepsone drew ame sword and struk at the
said Walter, quha did for his defens, and was red . . . be the deponar
and wtheris, or ellis the said Walter had been in ane hard estait.
Oct. 24.—The presbíterie ordenis the minister of the parochin of Glasgw
to desyre the lard of Silvertounhill to be present this daye viij dayes
with thame, for to give his declaratioun quhat he will mak to the mi-
nister of Stanehous in his stipend.
Nov. 6.-Quhilk daye it is fund that the parochin of Leingae is dissolut
and gevin to all kind of impietie, for laik of exercise of the word of God
within the saming, and of all gud ordour in discipline [in] the samin,
and thairfore hastie remeid is cravit for the weale and salvatioun of the
soules of the parochineris within the samin.
DEc. 26.—Act in favouris of Mr Johnne Bell minister of Cader.—The
presbiterie ordenis the moderator and clerk to subscryve ane lettir in fa-
vouris of Mr Johnne Bell minister at Cadder, that he may get his sti-
pend augmentit, specialie be that quhilk Walter Whyt writter hes furth
of the thriddis of the subdenrie of Glasgw, to be direct to the ministeris
of Edinburgh; ane wther letter to the lard of Keir, for to assist the
said Mr Johnne in the peaceblie getting of his foure acres of gleibland at
the kirk of Cader. -
FEB. 6.—Quhilk daye Richard Wodrop, younger sone to Richard Wod-
rop elder in Dalmarnok, fund in presens of the presbíterie to have cum
by his father and his bonnet on his heid, not salutand his father, is judget
stubburne and a disobedient Sone to his father, quha is continewit to the
penult of Februar instant, and to compeir before the presbíterie to heir
the ressonis to be gevin in aganis him be his [said] father, whairfore he
suld not marie Agnes Chopman: the said Richard Wodrop gounger
summoundit apud acta to the said daye. . . .
1599. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 93
FEB. 13.-Persome of Campsie.—The presbíterie ordenis ane letter to be
writtin and send to Mr William Erskeyne persoun of Campsie, desyreing
him to delyver to the wse of the kirk of Campsie twa siluer cuppis maid
of ane chalice pertening to the said kirk, quhilk chalice he tuik fra the
said kirk sen the reformatioun.
MAR. 13.—The presbíterie ordenis ane lettir to be send to Mr Patrik
Sympsoun minister of Stirling, to desyre him to speik the Abbot of Cam-
buskynnett in favoris of the minister of Leingae; schawing to him that
for laik of stipend thair is apperandlie na service to be maid in the minis-
terie at the kirk of Leingae, and to crave of the Abbot foirsaid his help
in stipend to the said minister; and to send the said Abbotis ansuer in
writt to the said presbiterie, that thaireftir travell may be tane with my
lord Fleming takisman of the personage of Leingae, to see quhat help
his lordschip will mak to ane minister at the said kirk, for it is ane mis-
erabill congregatioun at this present.
APR. 10. 1599.—Quhilk daye comperit David Spens, ane of the baillies
of Rutherglen, for him self and in name and behalf of the toun and pa-
rochin of Rutherglen, and claimit the gers of the kirk gard of Ruther-
glen to appertein to the said toun and parochin, and for to be heireftir
distributit at thair plesure as the saming hes bein heirtofore. The mo-
derator and brethrene of the presbiterie of Glasgw findis the said David,
and the said toun and parochin of Rutherglen, to have intermellit with
the said kirk gard gers that belangit not to thame, and in swa doing findis
thame to have done wrang: Thairfore ordenis thane nocht to intermell
with the saming heireſtir, bot declairis the same to belang to the kirk,
and to appertein to the minister of the said kirk present and to his suc-
cessoris heireftir at thair plesure; certefeing the said baillie, tour, and
parochin foirsaid, gif thai sall intermell with the saming heireſtir, the
censures of the kirk salbe wsit aganis thame.
94 REGISTERS OF THE 1599.
MAII —The presbíterie ordenis ane lettir be writtin and send to Mr
Patrik Simsoun, minister at Stirling, to desyre him to tak the travellis
as to pas to Mr William Erskine persone of Campsie, and desyre him
to send the twa cuppis that pertenis to the kirk of Campsie, maid out of
a chalice pertening to the said kirk, to . . . . . . . concredit in the
keiping of sum responsabill landit gentilman within the parochin of
Campsie, and to serve continualie to the ministratioun of the sacrament
in the said kirk; and also that the said persone be desyrit to provyde
[bread] and wyne to the ministratioun of the said sacrament in the
said kirk to the parochineris thairof incontinent heireftir, and to send
the said persone ansuer to the presbiterie with all . . . . . . . -
JUN. 5–Ament triel of Irischemen.—The presbiterie ordenis the minis-
teris of Glasgw to try within the boundis of thair examinationis quhat
Irsche men ar resortand within the saming, quha ar papistis and pernicious
to wtheris thai hant amang; and that Mr Johnne Blakburne schulemaster
try quhat Irische men ar in his schule, and of thair religioun; and that
the said ministeris and schulemaster report thair diligence to the pres-
biterie the mixt twysdaye following the dait heiroff.
OCT. 31.—Comperit Alexander Muir, and grantis he sauld ane buik
callit Aurea Legenda, and sum wther buikis to the ladie Levingstoun;
to the gudwyfe of West Quarter ane buik callit Morall Philosophie; and
that he ressavit fra Mr James Gibsoun minister at Penkettill ane buik
quhilk is writtin aganis Mr Robert Bruce; and that he gat Burnes
Catechisme fra the minister of Levin; is continewit to this daye viij
dayes, summondit apud acta to the said daye.
Nov. 20.—Quhilk daye Mr Walter Levingstoun minister at Monyaburch,
declaris that Alexander Master the buiksellare hes said, that men aucht to
praye to sanctis, and that the ministeris workis aggreis not with thair word.
1600. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 95
ADAME GAIF at the kirk of Monyaburch, sworne, deponis he heard
Alexander Master saye, that the ministeris word wes bettir nor thair
workis, and that men aucht to praye to angelis, becavse thai ar mair
familiar with God than men are.
QUHILK daye comperit Sibell Dowe, and grantis that scho said wordis
tuiching the houlat hart to be rubbit to ane manis shuldeir to cavse a
man to luifane woman to hir fellow servant in the place of Balquharrage,
becavse scho had hard sik wordis spoken of before, bot schowsit not that
thing in ony sort.
APR. 8, 1600–To pas to inaugurat Mr George Slovan minister at
Leinyae.—The moderator and brethrene ordenis Mr Patrick Scharp,
principall of the college of Glasgw, Mr Alexander Rowat and Mr
William Levingstoun of thair presbiterie, to pas the nixt Sondaye to
the kirk of Leingae, and thair to inaugurat Mr George Slovan minister
of the said kirk, according to the canon of the apostill Paull.
MAII 27.—The presbíterie informit be the minister of the parochin of
Glasgw, that William Watsoun pedell to the kirk of the said parochin
wes druken the last Sondaye, and that he did not his dewtie in his office;
concludis and settis down, that the said William for his abuse of him in
his office, sall mak his repentance in his lining clay this.
JUN. 17.-Anent visitatiown of kirkis.—The presbíterie appointtis that
nominatioun be maid the nixt twysdaye of the ministerie within thair
boundis for visitatioun of thair kirkis.
SEPT. 9.-Quhilk daye the moderator and brethrene of this synodal as-
semblie hes statut and ordenit, as be thir presentis statutis and ordenis,
that thair be ane solemne conventioun of the people within the hail
burrowis of this synod wrone the last daye of September instant, for
96 PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 1601.
thankesgeving to God of his Majesteis preseruatioun, and delyverie of his
Majesteis persone furth of these tratoris handis quha socht the taking
avay of his lyfe furth of this warld, to the wrak of this realme; and
that thair be the lyk conventioun vpone Sondaye nixt thaireftir follow-
ing universalie in everie kirk within this synod; and that on everie
Twysdaye thaireftir thair be preiching of Godis word within the bur-
rowes of this synod, according to his Majesteis will, his consales, and
with the avise of the Commissioneris of the kirk, and thair ordinance
maid alreadie thairanent; and this to be intimat in everie kirk within
this synod, be everie minister within the saming, wbone Sondaye cuming
aucht dayes.
Anent the kirk of Killelane—THE assemblie ordenis the presbíterie of
Paslaye to plant the kirk of Killelane primo quoque tempore, according
to the ordinance of the last synodall assemblie.
SEPT. 9.—The synodall assemblie thinkis it expedient that the inhabi-
tantis of over Greinok and nether Greinok be of ane congregatioun in the
kirk of Greinok in all tymes to cum, and that the nixt generall assemblie
of the kirk ratefie and approve the samin. -
MAR. . . 1601–Quhilk daye George M*Gleis minister at Rosneth,
haveing teichit wipone the 4 chap. and at the beginning thairof, of the
first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians this present daye, is ordenit to
teiche againe wpone the 13 chap. of Luik, at the beginning thairof,
wpone the 8 daye of Aprile nixt tocum; and ordenit to frame his speiche
as to his congregatioun, and to na wayes precipitat his language, but
to mak the samin sensabill, and to conceave his prayer with fervencie
of the spirit, and eftir sermont to mak his pastoral prayer; and is con-
tinewit to the said daye, summondit apud acta thairto.
EXTRACTS FROM THE BUIK OF THE
GENERAL KIRK OF EDINBURGH.*
APR, 29. 1574.—Publicatioun of the Generall Fast.—Forsamekill as
the haill kirk of Scotland being convenit within this burgh, in thair
sessioun haldin the tent day of Merche last bypast, and forseing the
moneyfald appeirand dengeris and greit trublis that ourehang not only
the heidis of all the trew professouris of Christis evangell within this
realme, bot als universall dispersit upoun the haill face of the erth; for
* The Record from which these Extracts are transcribed, is called the Buik of
the General Kirk of Edinburgh. This General Kirk (or Session) was a Court
composed of the ministers, elders and deacons of the city; the ministers being
entitled to a seat during their incumbency, and the elders and deacons being an-
mually changed. This Court continued to sit after the erection of Presbyteries in
1578, but its power was less extensive than before. From this period there were
four distinct assemblies in the Church of Scotland, Kirk Sessions, Presbyteries,
Synods, and the General Assembly (then called the Universal Kirk of Scotland ; )
and in the city of Edinburgh it became the practice to hold particular Sessions
for various causes, besides the General Session or General Kirk, which was en-
gaged chiefly in administering those concerns in which all the congregations in
Edinburgh had a common interest. This volume is mutilated in various parts.
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euoding and eschewin quhairof, that Ministerishes thocht maist necessar
that ane publict humiliatioun and fast, togidder with ane ernest voca-
tioun and prayar, be institutit and adjunit thairto to be maid as the
only ordinarye menis quhairby the saidis scurgis may be removit, ap-
poyntit within Godis holly word, and the feirsche wrayth of God appesit:
The kirk of Edinburgh being myndfull thairof, hes ordeinit thair Minis-
teris to signifie the samin vpon Sonday nixt tocum, to the hail kirk
maist ermistlie, in the name of the living God, &c.; to continew for the
space of aucht dayis, &c. -
Item, In lyk manner the kirk hes thoucht guid that the holly table of
the Supper sall . . . . . and follow upoun the said fast, and bygayne
Sonday . . . . . . ; wairning thairfoir the haill brethering of the north
syd of the toun that thai prepair thame selfis thairto; the seruandis
and sic utheris that plessis to cum to the mornyng sermond, quhilk sal-
begyne a litill . . . . iiij houris in the mornyng, and to continew quhill
fyve houris; and the ministratioun than to begyne, quhilk sall indure
quhill sevin houris or thairby; the secund sermond to begyne at ix
houris, and to continew . . . . . . houris; and thaireftir the ministra-
tioun thane to begyne, and continew quhille xii houris at nowne.
Ordinances of the Kirk.-ITEM, That na stranger that hes bene
aganis our souerane lordis auctoritie, athir derectlie or inderectlie, pre-
some to cum to the said table, . . . . . . . as yit publictlie satisfiit the
kirk, certifeing thame gif thai do the same, thai salbe resit.
ITEM, That sic brether that hes not ressavit thair tekettis, cum to
the places of thair examinatioun upoun Fryday and Setterday mixto-
cum, and ressave the samin.
ITEM, That na inhabitant of this burgh that remanit within the samin
. . . . the lait trublis, that hes not ressault the injunctionis of the kirk,
. . . . thame to present thame to the table, certefeing thame gif thai do
the same, thai salbe debarit and rasit. &
ITEM, To signifie to the haill kirk that the generall assemblay of the
1574. GENERAL KIRK OF EDINBURGH. 99
haill brethering salbe upoun Teudinsday at iſ houris eftir nowne in the
Ouir Tolbuith, Thairfoir the kirk ernistlie requestis the haill communi-
cantes to be thair present.
AND in lik maner, that all strangeris that plessis to resort to the table,
that thai pas to Johnne Durye to ressaue thair tekettis.
AND in lik maner, that na fornicatouris, ather of auld or new, that hes
tº e º 'º e sclander, and as yit not satisfiit the kirk for the samin, presome
e g tº $ tº thame selfis to the said holly table ; certifeing thame that thai sall
not only be rasit thairfra, bot als mak thair . . . . . . . . for the samin, &c.
Margaret Sympsone formicatrice Declaratiown.—The said day
Margaret Symsone being wernit to ansuer the kirk super inquirendis,
compeirand; and being inquirit to quhome it wes that scho buir the last
barne unto, ansuerit, that it wes to ane gentill man in the northland;
thaireftir confessit that the samin wes to Mr Thomas Craige ; the kirk
ordanis the said Mr Thomas to be warnit agane this day aucht dayis.
THE GENERALL AssBMBLAY of the kirk of Edinburgh, haldin
in the Tolbuith of the samin the thrid day of Maij 1574.
The Generall Assemblay.—The said day the haill brethering being
convenit in the said Tolbuyth, the particular kirk being also callit, and
compeirand; the ministeris, Mr James Lausoun, Johnne Durye, Johnne
Carnis, being all removit outwith the presence of the haill brethering,
&c.; and being oppinlie proclamit gif thair wes ony brothir that had ony
thing to lay to the charge of the saidis ministeris, ather in life, doctering
or conversatioun, thane declarit or thaireftir hald thair toungis, for thair
wes tyme and place grantit to all that wald appone thame thairto; and
being sua thre several tymes . . . . . . . . . glorifiit God . . . . .
being removit; and the haill brethering being . . . . . . . ony present,
thair . . . . . . . . lay ony thing to the charge of ony of the . . . . .
deaconis, thair was na thing opponit aganis thame, except aganis the .
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persone of Robert Gurlaw eldar of the said kirk, and that for bying
and carying of certane victuallis furth of this realme; . . . . . . being
ressonit at lenth, and the said Robert being callit in and confessand
that he had coft and cariit mair victuall nor wes in his lycence, and sup-
ponit to haue had ane oursycht thair . . . . . ressoune he wes merch-
and to the rest: The haill Assemblie findis that he hes gevin just occa-
sioun of sclander, being ane eldar of the kirk of God, and transgressand
the lawis in transporting mair victuallis nor wes contenit in his said
lycence, and thairfoir ordanit him to remove the sclander; and it being
ressonit gif . . . . . how this sclander suld be removit, and the forme
of his repentance suld be modefiit heir or be the particular kirk, it wes
concludit, that the samin suld be modefiit be the said particular kirk,
and wes referrit thairto, &c.
James Nesbett and the kirk.-The said day it wes in lik maner menit
be sum brethir, that James Nesbeth had in lik maner sclanderit the
kirk, and that for allegit transporting of victuall furth of this realme;
and being inquirit thairof, denyit the samin, and confessit that he culd
be namenis obtene lycence of my lord regente, &c.
MAIL 13.—Mr Thomas Maccalyene and the kirk.-The said day
compeirit Maisteris Johnne Spottiswod superintendent of Laudiane,
and Dauid Lyndisay minister in Leyth, and Johne Brand minister of
Halyrudhous, as Commissionaris send from the generall kirk of this
realme, and offerit thame reddie to adjoyne with the Ministeris, eldaris
and deaconis of Edinburgh, for taking of tryall and cognesioun of
Sclander committit be Mr Thomas Maccallyane of Cleiftounhill, and
ane of the senatouris of our soverane lordis college of justice, quhidder
that the said Mr Thomas suld be instantlie ressavit to the participatioun
of the holy table at this present or nocht, &c.; Quhairupoun the saidis
Commissionaris disyrit ansuer. To quhome it wes ansuerit that thair
: minister Mr James Lousoun wes absent, togidder with ane greit parte
* & tº
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of the eldaris and deaconis, in respect quhairof the kirk present conti-
newit thair ansuer quhill this day aucht dayis, &c. -
Robert Gourlay and the kirk.-The haill kirk hes concludit that Ro-
bert Gurlaw eldar, sall satisfie and purge the sclander committit be him
publictlie as salbe injonit be the said kirk; that is, that he sall compeir
the morne in the mariage place, thair to confess publictlie his offence and
Sclander of careing away of victuall furth of this realme, confessit be him
in the presens of the generall kirk, cled in his awin gowne; and the
samin being performit and fulfillit as said is, the said gowne to be ressa-
vit fra him, and gevin to ane of the puir at the discretioun of the said
kirk: Quhilk ordinance being red to him in his presens, he obstematlie
refusit to resave the samin : In respect quhairof, the kirk suspendit him
fra all functioun of his office quhill this day aucht dayis, and from parti-
cipatioun of the lordis table in the mene tyme, &c.
MAII 16.—The said day compeirit Robert Gurlaw eldar in the kirk of
Edinburgh, and thair in presens of the Minister, eldaris and deaconis,
submittit him to the jugement of the kirk for the sclander committit be
him, for transporting of certane quheit furth of this realme without ly-
cence or congye, to his awne vtillitie and proffeit, and for the dissobe-
dience committit be him in nonfulfilling the ordinance appoyntit to him, &c.
MAII 20.—The said day, anent the mater of Robert Gurlayis repent-
ance, and removing of the sclander gevin be him for taking away of mair
quheit nor wes contenit in his congye, the modificatioun thairof being
remittit be the generall kirk to the particular assemblie of the Ministeris,
eldaris and deaconis; thai all in ane voce, with the said Robertis awin
submissioun, ordanis him to fulfill the ordinance maid this day aucht
dayis; viz. to compeir the morne in the mariage place eftir sermond,
and thair confess his falt, and ask God and the kirk forgyvenance, dispens-
and that he may compeir in clok or gowne as he sall think guid. And
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as tueching his disobedience maid this day aucht dayis, ordanis him pre-
sentlie to ask forgyvenance of the kirk; quhilk he did, and submittit
himself willinglie to this ordinance, &c.
Dawid Dennelstown and the Kirk.—The said day compeirit Davi
Dennynstoun, and being inquirit gif he had transportit, or git wes myndit
to transport ony quheit furth of this realme at this present, declarit that
as he sall ansuer to God, the kirk wes wranguslie and sinesterlye in-
formit of him, nor he wes neuir myndit to transport ony, &c.
Thomas Glasfurd and utheris reconsilit.—Anent the complentis
gevin in befoir the Ministeris, eldaris and deaconis, being be Thomas
Glasfurd suddart, Johnne Stewart, and Robert Moffet, and Hanis
Myllar, sumtyme ordinaris within the castell of Edinburgh, bering that
in the lait trublis rasit be the inymes, not only aganis our Maister and
Salueour Christ, bot als aganis our Souerane Lord his guid and obedient
subjectis, as in cuming in opin and plane battell to scheid the bluid of
thair derest brethering, and als sen the gevin up of the abstinence and
declaratioun of the publict weiris, . . . . of new agane betuixt the said
toun and castell, thai enterit within the said castell, and contenewalie
remanit quhill God of his justice randerit the samin; during the quhilk
tyme thai tuik plane parte with the declarit tratouris being thairin for
the tyme, assistit to all thair maist weikit factis and interpryssis, as weill
in the demolising and casting downe of the biggynis and housis of the
said burgh, as rasing of fyir within the samin, and burnyng of ane greit
parte of the samin, with schowting of greit and small pessis indefferentlie in
the faces of all, without the feir of God or remorse of conscience, &c.:
And thairfoir creving of God mercy, the conjunctioun agame with Chryst
his faythfull ministeris, reconciliatioun with our said souerane lord, all
excusis sett aparte, maist humblie submittit him self to the disciplene of
the kirk, with promises to ressaue quhatsumeuir injunctioun the kirk
plesit to lay to thame, of the quhilk the tenour followis: That is, that
thai sall compeir upoun Sonday nixt to cum, at therynging of the secund
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bell to the sermond, at the eister kirk duir, cleid in saik cleith, thair to
stand quhill the confessioun be endit; and thair eftir be broucht in and
placit in the publict place of repentance, thair to remane quhill the said
sermond be endit; and thair eftir cariit to the said kirk duir, thair to
stand quhill the haill pepill be departit out of the kirk; and to do the
lik Wodinsday, Frayday and Sonday nixt thaireſtir, quhilk salbe the
end of thair full satisfactioun, &c.
MAI, 27–Mr Thomas Craig and the Kirk—Compeirit Mr Thomas
Craig, and being dilatit to the kirk for fornicatioun allegeit committit be
him with Margaret Symsoun, quha allegeit that scho buir to the said
Mr Thomas ane barne, and the said Mr Thomas declairit upoun his
conscience that scho nevir buir to him ane barne, &c.
Jun. 3–The said day the kirk ordanis Johnne Young vryter to acknaw-
lege his offence for his misbehauiour towart the Ministeris, eldaris and
deaconis, and specialie towart J ohnne Dury minister, &c.; quhilk the said
Johnne Young did, and cravit pardon of the haillkirk thair essembleit, &c.
JUN. 17.—Kirkuod dischargit—It is reportit be the ordinar deacone
of the quarter, that Stevin Kirkuod, ordinar puir admittit of befoir,
merritis nocht the almus langer, and thairfoir dischargeis him thairof.
JUL. 22–Johnstoun and Lambis supplicatioun aganis Adame Moscrop.
—The said day, anent the complent gevin in be Johnne Johnstoun
and Jonet Lambe aganeis Adam Moscrope, beiring, that thai being
lauchfullie proclamit to haue solempnizat the holy band of matrimonie,
the said Adam debarit thame thairof, for quhat caus thai knaw not, as
at mair lenth is contenit in thair said supplicatioun ; and the saidis per-
sonis compeirand personalie, the said Adam in thair presence declarit
that the said Jonet wes mariit upone ane Johnne Kar xx geir syne or
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thairby, quha remanit togidder the space of ten geiris, and git he being
of lyfe; quhilk the said Jonet confessit to be of veritie, and that scho had
spokin with the said Johnne Karane geir syne and mair, and persewit
him for deuorsement befoir the Commissaris of the beschope of Duryme,
and culd obtene na end thairof: And the saidis Johnne and Jonet being
inquirit gif thai had gevin the use of thair bodeis to utheris sene the
tyme that thai war steyit of thair said pretendit mariage, thai bayth
confessit the samin; for the quhilk thai war bayth instantlie remittit to
the Magistrat, &c.
Aug. 1–Thomas Acmoutie his spous and the kirk.-The said day Tho-
mas Acmoutie his spous being delatit to the kirk for violating and breking
of the ordinance of the said kirk maid, inhibiting conuoy and rayatus
access of bankating the tyme of mariage, &c.; and the said Thomas
compeirand for him self and his said spous, and eftir long ressonyng had
thairof, with tryall takin thairintill, hes fund the said act to be trans-
gressit and violatit be the said Thomas and his spous, specialie in superflowis
bankatting, with conventioun of freindis maid vpone the Monenday at
ewin nixt eftir the solempnization of thair said mariage, as the bailleis
and eldaris than vesatouris presentlie declarit; and thairfoir the kirk
suspendis the said Thomas, his said spous and thair seid, from all parti-
cipatioun of the sacramentis unto sic tyme that thai publictlie satisfie the
said kirk, be making of thair publict repentance as violatouris and trans-
gressouris of the ordinance foirsaid; and as to the rest of the breking of
the said ordinance, tueching the penaltye to be uptakin upoun the Souertie,
the kirk remittis the samin to the discretioun of the Magistratt, &c. as
thai will answer to God. - . .
Aug. 19–Jonet Cadie and the Kirk—The said day, Jonet Cadye
seruand to Alexander Bruce, being delatit to the kirk for disagysing of
hirin welvotbreikis, and dansing in menis clething, &c. quha compeirand,
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denyit the samyn, thairfoir ordanis hir to be heir present this daye aucht
dayis, to heir probatioun led. - -
Sept. 2—Institutioun of the Publict Fast—The said day, the Minis-
teris, eldaris and deaconis, as thai war wachemen ouir the flok committit
to thair chargeis, and foirseing the greit appeirand scurges and immanent
plageis of God hinging aboufe the heidis of this meserable colmoune
walth amangis the rest, thai haue aspyit and foirseine the greit plage of
fameng and hunger throw this vnmeserable intemperance of the air and
woddar, quhilk I say threittinnis the said plag of famyne that com-
mounelie followis ryatus exceis of bankatting, quhilk na wayis can be
forbyddin nor inhibitit, athir be preuat or publict admonitionis, with the
greit contempt of the puir, quhairwith this haill realme is replenisit;
(alace) for awoyding of the quhilk, the saidis Ministeris, eldaris and
deaconishes thocht guid and necessar to institute ane Publict Fast and
Humiliation, with ane ernist prayar adjunit thairto, within this burgh for
the space of aucht day.is nixt to cum, quhilk salbegyne vpone setterday
the ferd day of this instant at aucht houris at ewin, and sua to continew
quhill sonday come aucht dayis at sex houris at nycht, according to the
ordour of all publict Fastis obseruit in tymes bypast, Requiring the haill
faythfull of this burgh to observe the samyn in all poyntis as thai tender
the mercies of God; and sicklik requeist the Magistrattis, in the name of
the eternall God, that thai be deligent and cairfull that the said Fast and
humiliatioun be obseruit and kepit, and that the buithis, als well of craft-
men as of merchandis, be stekit upe the tymes of sermondis during the
said tyme ; the hour of the sermond befoir nowne be of the accustumit
manner; the eftir nowne sermond to begyne at foure houris, And ordanis the
minister to signifie the said Fast the morne publictlie to the haill kirk, &c.
SEPT. 9.—Ordinance for sic personis that retenis Fornicatouris within
thair howssis-The said day, . . ing and understanding the fylthe vice
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of formicatioun and adultery daylie mair and mair to incress within this
burgh, and that be ressawing of sic personis in Seruice within our houssis,
quhilk is ane parte of the caus that the angerie face and ferch wrayth of
God is mowit all reddie to plage ws; for auoyding of the quhilk plage,
and that the said vice be punisit to the regeour according to the act of
parliament, hes thocht guid to admoneis and warne the haill faythfull
brethir, maister and maistressis of houssis, that thai cum to the eldaris and
deaconis and gif vp the namis of all fornicatouris, alsweill men and we-
men, remanyng with thame in seruice, betuix this and this day aucht
days; Certefeing the saidis maisteris and maistressis, gif thai failge
heirin, and ony sic fornicatouris be fund remaining with thame thaireſtir,
thai and thair seid salbe debarit from all participatioun of the sacramentis
of the said kirk ay and quhill thai satisfie the samin publictlie as wiola-
touris and transgressouris of the ordinance of the kirk foirsaid.
Oct. 14.—The Tolbuith erected in ame kirk.—The said day the kirk
persawing the greit zeill and ermistnes the inhabitantis of this burgh
beiris to the preiching of Godis wird, ane greit parte of people resortand
thairto upone the sondayis . . . may not guidlie heir, thairfoir hes thocht
guid that fra this day furth thair salbe preching upone the said sondayis
in the Tolbuith alsweill eftirnone as befoir nowne, and ordanis thair
Minister to signifie the samin the morne to the haill peopill, ernistlie re-
quiring samony of thane as may not guidlie heir in the Mekill kirk, that
thai fraquent to the place of the said Tolbuith for heiring thairof in tyme
cuming, &c. -
Oct. 22.—The said day, Marioun Robertsoun being delatit to the kirk
for lemmyng of money, and ressawing of ouklie proffect thairfoir, being
warnit and compeirand, and being inquirit gif scho had ressauit ane
gowne, ane pot, with ane chandillare, fra Margerat Aitkine in plege of
thrye lib, confessit the samyn: And being inquirit quhat proffect scho
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suld haue thairfoir, denyit to ressaue ony proffect; and being inquirit how
lang the saidis guidis had lyand with hir in plege, confessitfyveoulkis or
thairby; and thaireftir being inquirit in presens of the said Margerat
gif the said Marioun had not ressauit fra the said Jonet, confessit that
scho had ressauit vid ouklie for euerie pund of the saidis iij lib. of prof-
feit; for the quhilk, the kirk presentlie remittit hir to the Magistratt to
be punisit according to the lawis, &c.
OCT. 27.—The dewysioun of the Eldaris and Deaconis in foure quarteris
Eldaris for the south west.
Andro Sclater.
Henry Neisbayt.
Nycoll Wildart.
Eldaris for the southeist.
Johnne Johnsoun.
Adam Foullartoun.
Johnne Adamsoun
Deaconis of the southwest.
Johnne Fairlie.
Nycoll Syme.
Eduart Mauchane.
Alex. Oustiane.
Deaconis of the southeist.
James Mathysoun
James Craig
Johnne Robysoun
Johnne Herwy.
Eldaris for northwest.
Johnne Arnot.
Mr. Alex. Mauchane.
George Gibsoun.
Eldaris for northeist.
Mr James Macgill.
Alex. Hey.
David Kinlocht.
Deaconis for the northwest.
Gilbart Prymrois
Robert Galbreyth
Mathow Jamesoun
Johnne Mane.
Deaconis for the northeist.
Mark Kar
Alex. Barclay.
James Merchall.
James Hadnye.
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Nov. 4.—Johnne Browne and utheris reconsilit—The said day, com-
peirit Johnne Brown, Williame Thomsoun, and gaif
in thair supplicationis befoir the Ministeris, eldaris and deaconis, beiring,
that thai remanit within this toun the tyme of the lait trublis raisit be
the inymes, not only aganis our Maister and Saueour Christ, bot als agamis
our Souerane Lord his guid and obedient subiectis, &c. for the quhilk thai
haue of befoir submittit thane selfis to the disciplene of the kirk, with
promes to ressaue the injunctionis thairof; of the quhilk the tennor fol-
lowis, viz. that thai sall compeir the morne at the reingyne of the secund
bell at the eister kirk duire, cleid in black gownis, bair hedit, thair to
stand quhill the minister be enterit in powpeit, and than to be brocht in
agane to the pillar of repentance, thair to sit quhill the sermond be endit,
thaireftir gif confessioun of thair offence and sclander committit befoir the
publict kirk; quhilk being done, salbe the end of thair full satisfactioun, &c.
Mr Thomas Makcalyane and Johnne Durye minister.—The said
day, the kirk hes fund eſtir long ressonyng and disputatioun, that Mr
Thomas Maccalyene hes injurit thair minister, Johnne Durye, in calling
him ane fantastic man, and that he wes ane euill speker, and that he wes
na minister . . . him with sicklik injurious wordis, and thairfor the kirk
ordanit the said Mr Thomas to departe out of thair sessioun, &c.
For the ressawing of Fornicatouris in service.—Item, it is concludit
be the kirk, that quhatsumeuir brother of the religioun, fra this tyme
furth, that ressauis ony Fornicatouris in seruice that hes committit forni-
catioun within this same burgh, that hes not satisfiit the kirk befoir the
ressawing of thame in seruice, salbe debarit from participatioun of the
Lordis table, and utheris sacramentis of Christis kirk, ay and quhill thai
satisfie the kirk publictlie as violatouris of this ordinance, &c.
Nov. 18.—Puiris departit.—It is reportit be the ordinar deaconis of
the quarteris, that James Brown and Kathering Arnot ordinarie puiris
admittit of befoir, ar departit.
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Contribution to the Puir.—It is reported be Henry Neisbayt, that the
counsall send for the haill deaconis of the craftis of this burgh, and propo-
nit unto thame the ordour to be tane with the Puire, tueching euery manis
contrabusion to be gevin to the saidis puiris ouklie, quhairby the samin
puiris may be haldin of the gait and kepit in housis, sua that thai sall
not be sene upone the gait; and hes ordanit the bailye of euery quarter,
with the assistance of the Ministeris, eldar and deaconis of euery quarter,
and to inquire of euery inhabitare quhat thai will bestow frelie upoun the
saidis puris ouklie and to inroll euery manis name, with the sowme at thair
taill quhat thai will gif ouklie, and to begyne this ordour upoun monen-
day or tyisday nixt to cum. : -
Ordinance to the Counsall.—The said day, the kirk ordanis Mr Alex-
ander Mauchane and George Gibsoun, to pas the morne to the counsall,
and confar with thame, tueching ordour and supplie to be tane with the
puiris of Leyth, and to report thair ansuer upoun Thurisday nixt to cum.
Mr Thomas M.akcalyane and the kirk.-The said day, anent the sup-
plicatioun producit be Mr Thomas Mackcalyeane of Cliftounhall, ane of
our senatoris of our Souerane Lordis Sessioun and college of justice, &c.
gevin in this day befoir the Minister, elderis and deaconis of the kirk of
Edinburgh, Mr Robert Pount and Mr Dauid Lyndsay commissioneris
send be the generall assemblie, and adjunit with the said kirk of Edin-
burgh for taking of tryall wbone the said Mr Thomas supplicatioun,
gevin in befoir the Superintendentis, Ministeris and Commissioneris of the
Generall Assemblie; of the quhilk supplicatioun the tennor followis, Wnto
yow my lordis superintendentis, ministeris and vtheris of the generall as-
semblie, menis your seruitor, Mr Thomas Makalyane of Cliftounhall, ane
of the senatouris of oure souerane lordis college of justice . . . . . . . .
vnknawin to your visdomes, that I haue not been admittit to the sacra-
ment of the super of oure Lord thir tua last celebrationis thairof within
this burgh of Edinburgh, notwithstanding my frequent supplicatiounis
gevin in be me for my admitting thairto befoir the kirk of the samin.
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Quhair I estemit me to be inconsederatlie and injustlie handellit and
postponit be the kirk to the greit dolour of my hart and greif of conscience,
and suppois upoun my complent, gevin . . . . youre wisdomes at youre
last conventioun,tueching this p . . . . youre lordshipis ordanit the supren-
tendent of Loudiane, and ministeris [of Edinburgh, Leyth, and Canno-
gait, to put ordour thairto as yit thair is nathing do . . . . effect to the
samin, as thai heir present can declair. Heirfoir I humblie beseik youre
lordshipis to tak sic ordour heiranent as I may be admittit be the said
kirk of Edinburgh, or be the kirk of Leyth or Cannogait to the participa-
tioun of the said sacrament at thair nixt celebratioun and ministratioun
thairof; quhilk of thame that sall first celebrat the samin, and youre
lordshipis guid ansuerrycht humblie I beseik.
Followis the delyverance of the Generall Assemblye.
At Edinburgh the xj day of August 1574.—The Generall Assemblie
ordanis Mr Robert Pount, Dauid Lyndisay, and Johnne Brand, with
the kirk of Edinburgh, to trye gif this complenar remanit within the
toun aganis his will; and gif he remanit aganis his will, to metigait
the act. Sic subscribitºr Johnne Rechye.
Ordinance of the kirk of Edinburgh to the said Mr Thomas.-The
said day, the kirk of Edinburgh, with auise of Maisteris Robert Pount
and David Lyndisay being present, assignis Thurisday nixt to cum to
Mr Thomas Makcalyeane to produce befoir thame sufficientlie and rele-
vantlie qualifiit in vryte the maner how the said Mr Thomas wes com-
pellit to remane within this toun, sua that tryall and probatioun may be
had thairin as accordis, &c. : -
Gloud Hamiltounis Testimoniall.—The said day compeirit Gloud
Hamiltoun of Cochno, and producit ane testemoniall, quhair the said
Gloud had compeirit in the presens of God and his congregatioun, &c.
subscriuit with the hand of Johnne Andersoun minister at Kilpatrik,
of the dait the xiiij day of November 1574; of the quhilk the tenor
followis: Till all and Sundrie quhome it efferis, to quhais knaw.lege,
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and in speciall the kirk of Edinburgh, that Glaud Hamiltoun of Cochno
presentit him self in the presens of God and the congregatioun the tyme
of preching, and thair confessit that he had offendit God contrair our soue-
rane lordis auctoritie and taking parte with the same ; for the quhilk, he
asking mercy in the presens of the haill parochinaris thairof present for the
tyme, and forder obleist him with uphalding of his hand, that he suld be
ane trew sugget to the Kingis Majestie of Scotland in all tymes cuming,
and als to obey the ordour of the kirk now establischit in this realme,
according to the euangell of Jesus Christ.
DEc. 7–The Institutioun of ane generall Fast within the burgh of
Edinburgh.—Item, the kirk hes thocht guid, foirseand the greit appeirand
plage and scurge of Pest, hingand universalie upoun the haill realme,
and that the only ordinarie menis appoyntit be God within his holy wird
quhairby the said appeirand scurg may be removit, is ane publict humi-
liatioun and fasting befoir God; the kirk thairfoir hes thocht guid, with
the celebratioun of the holy table, ane publict fast and humiliatioun for
the space of aucht dayis, togidder with ane ernist inuocatioun and prayar
for the assistance of Godis holy spreit that our synnis may be pardonit,
quhairby the said appeirand scurge may be removit, and Godis vrayth
pasifiit; the said publict Fast to begynne vpoun setterday nixt to cum, at
aucht houris at ewin, and sua to continew quhill Sonday at sex houris at
ewin, thair foud only to be breid and drink with all kind of sobrietie;
the sermond to begyne vpoun setterday at thrie houris eftirnowne, and sua
to continew. The kirkernestlierequeist the brethering and haill communi-
cantisthat thisordour be kepitandobseruit,andsiclik to requeist the brether-
ing, that in the aucht dayis following all modestie and sobreitie be usit, &c.
DEC. 9–Support send to the brether of Leyth.-The said day, the
kirk hes thocht guid to support the puir brether of Leyth in this thair
truble and necessitie, with the sowme of xx lib., quhilk wes takin out of
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the box of the puir, and instantlie delyuerit to Mr David Lyndsay thair
Minister.
DEC, 16–Issobell Clark usurare and the kirk.-The said day, Issobell
Clark being delatit to the kirk as ane usurar and lenner of money for
proffeit, being warnit to this day and compeirand; and being inquirit gif
scho usis to lene ony money, declarit that scho lenis name; and being
inquirit gif scho usis to ressave ony proffeit for lennyng of money, declaris
that scho usis to ressaue name; and being inquirit gif scho had lent ony
money to Robert Fargusoun, confessit that scho had lent him xx 5; and
being inquirit quhat proffeit scho suld haue oulklie thairfoir, confessis
that scho suld haueijãoulklie thairfoir, &c.
DEc. 30–The said day, Dauid Kauerisis content to imbres the religioun
that now is professit within this realme, and to renunce the Mes, the Paip,
and all papistrie, and is content to submit himselff to the disciplene of the
kirk, and to be participant of the sacramentis therof in all tyme cuming.
JAN, 6–Complaint against Walter Thomsoun and his Anauer—
Anent the complant maid be Johnne Dury minister to the sessioun of the
kirk of Edinburgh upoun Walter Thomsoun messenger, beiring that the
said Walter laitlie spokin and fawin in ressonyng and questioun with
Johnne Seytoun lytster, aftermit that the prayar for the deid is necessar;
and for affirmatioun of his ressonyng allegeit that Judasmakabious had
send to Juresulem certane sikkillis of siluer to pray for the deid, quhilk
wes contenit in the bybill; to the quhilk it wes ansuerit be the said
Johnne Seytoun, that the buik of the Makabeis wes apographa, and sua
wes not in the canon of the Ebrewis, and it wes not the ditment of the
spreit of God, and sua na cradeit aucht to be gevin thairto. The said
Walter being warnit and compeirand, and being inquirit gif he had pro-
ponit that questioun to the said Johnne or not, declarit, that he proponit
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the samyn indeid, bot he wauld not beleif that the prayar for the deid is
necessar, mather yit wald he efferme ony Purgatorie to be, and wauld be
content to satisfie the said Johnne for his offence, &c.
Ordinance to Edward Hendersown.—The said day, the kirk ordanis
Edward Hendersoun and his soune, to sing the salmis on the preching
dayis in sic touris as ar maist colmoun for the kirk.
JAN. 13.—Item, that the saidis baillies (Johne Arnot and Nycoll Uddart)
confar the morne with the counsall to prouid remeid for sic as contractis
mariage by the consent of thair paranthis, and als to requeist the remanent
bailleis and counsall to put ordour to sic commone drinking and dansing
housis fra aucht or nyne houris at ewin past.
JAN. 20.—Ordinance with ane requeist to the Counsall.—The kirk
ordanis Johnne Adamsoun, George Gibsoun and Johnne Johnestoun to
pas the morne to the counsall and ermistlie requeist thame to follow out
the ordour begoune for the Puire; and als to tak ordour with drinking
and dansing housis fra aucht or nyne houris at ewin bak; and sicklik to
maist ernistlie requeist that thai on nawayis dispence with the aucht act
of Parliament maid anent the punisment of Fornicatouris, and sicklik to
put ordoure and punisment with oppin and manefest adulthereris, &c.
and to report thair ansuer agane this day aucht dayis.
FEB. 3–Ordinance for the Wemen that remanit within the Castell.—
The said day, eftir lang ressonyng, with votting past thairin, nocht only
of the kirk present, bot als of the kirk preceding the last kirk hes ordanit
the wenen that remanit within the castell induring the lait trublis and
seage thairof, sall satisfie the kirk according to the injunctionis maid, &c.
FEB. 10.-Neill Layng and the kirk.-The said day, Neill Laing being
delatit to the kirk for violating and breking of the ordinance of the kirk,
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for the causing of the making of the pompious convoy and supperflouis
banketting to Margerat Denelstoun the day of hir mariage, &c. The
said Neill compeirand, denyis that thair wes ony supperflouis banketting
maid be him, and confessis the said pompyus convoy, and sua the said
ordinance to be brokin in that part, &c.
FEB. 24.—Mr Robert Hamiltown producit his commissiown.—The said
day compeirit Mr Robert Hamiltoun minister, for himself and as com-
missioner of his kirk, and producit his said commission, &c. to compeir
befoir Maisteris Johne Spottiswod superintendent of Louthyane, Mr
Robert Pont provest of the Quenis College, deput be the Generall Assem-
blie, &c.; and thaireftir the said Mr Robert desyrit to sie the commis-
sioun, quhilk being delyverit to him, allegeit the precept wes generall in
that part beiring to ansuer super inquirendis, and thairfoir desyrit the
heidis quhilkis thai wald inquire of him to be pendit, thaireftir dely verit to
him to gif ansuer thairto; of the quhilk heidis the tennour followis, &c.—
The articlis quhairupown the Minister of Sanctandrois wes
evamenit.—Item imprimis, To inquir Mr Robert Hamiltoun minister
of Sanctandrois, quhairfoir the act of the Generall Assemblie wes nocht
keipit anent the Fasting.
ITEM, To inquir quhat is the caus that at that tyme Robin Huidis
playis wes sufferit to be playit, and thairthrow prophanand the Fasting.
To inquir gif ane clark play wes playit at the tyme of the preching at
the mariage of Thomas Balfouris dochteris. r
ITEM, To inquir him upoun the publict schutting at the Papingo the
tyme of the said fast, himself beand ane.
ITEM, To inquir him of the want of the exerceis.
ITEM, To inquir him upoun the want of the preching oulklie on the
Fryday, and on Sonday eftir nowne oft tymeis.
QUHILKIs heidis being delyverit to him, the said Mr Robert producit his
ansuer thairto; of the quhilk the temnour followis:—
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The productiown of the Ministeris answeris to the articles.—In pri-
mis, concernyng the keping of the fast; albeit the day preceislie wes
nocht observit, and that in respect we knaw nocht sic ane universall
ordour to have bene taine, yit it wes observit, and concludit with the
Ministratioun of the supper of the Lord, according to the Ordoure
observit hidderto in our kirk, with all possible haist as sone as we
wes certifeit of the samin act: As to the secund, concernyng the
suffering of Robine Huidis playis, certane servandis and young chil-
dering plaid thame certane dayis . . . . . alwayis the kirk bayth pre-
vatlie in thair assemblie, and I publictlie in tyme of preching dis-
chargeit the samin as it is notoriouslie knawin, and desyrit the magis-
trattis to tak ordour thairwith : Thrid, ane clark play wes plaid be
the scollouris of the Grammer scull, bot nocht at the tyme of preach-
ing, and yit for causis moving ws we dischargeit the Maisteris to
play the samin: Fourt, as tuiching the schuting of the Papingo the
tyme of public fasting, or yit upoun ame Sonday as sum speikis, I knaw
not; alwayis trew it is, upoun ane Monenday eftirnowne the Papingo
being appoyntit be Johne Walker bowar, syndery boyith of the citie
and gentillmen upaland schot at the samin : Fyft, as for the want of the
exerceis, &c, the caus is to be imputt as wilbe cleirlie provin to the
Ministeris, &c. : Sext, concernyng the caus of wanting of preaching, &c.
it is to be laid upoun the Bischope and thame that had the charge, quha
beand burdenit be the Generall Assemblie, to have providit sic concur-
rance in the Ministrie of Sanctandrois, as maister Guidman and sic uther
had in thair tyme did not performe the samyn ; and as for my awin part
hitherto, I have travellit according to my promes as habilitie of body
servit; sic subscribitur Mr Robert Hamiltoun.
MAR. 3–The alteratioun of the houre of prayar.—The said day the
kirk ordanis thair minister to signifie to the kirk upoun Sonday nixt to
cum, that the hour of prayar is alterit; the said prayar to begyne at
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sevin houris in the mornyng, and fyve houris at ewin, and swa to
continew quhill farder ordour.
MAR. 31. 1575–Neill Laingis delatioun to the kirk.-The said day,
it is reportit and declarit to the brether of the sessioun, that Neill Laing
the day of the mariage of Patrik Turnour and Margerat Deneldstoun had
all togidder violatit and transgressit the act and ordinance of the kirk
maid anent Mariage, inhebeting and forbydding nocht only supperflouis
and ryatus bancatting, bot als the pompius convoy of the bryd growme
and brid, and thairthrow the said act to be violatit and brokin to the
greit sclander of the kirk, quhilk as yit is unremovit; and forder, it is
declarit that the day foirsaid the said Sir Neill said and declarit thir
wordis following in grit disdane and disspyt, that he rather wald be of
the devillis kirk nor be of the kirk of this burgh, and that he sould neuir
be ane member thairof, and wald nocht knaw the samin as the kirk, and
that the elderis and deaconis wer bot fallowis, with sic uther maist oppro-
brius and disspytfull wordis sounding to the lik purpois and effect &c.
to the greit sclander of the kirk, &c.
APR. 7.—Neill Layngis purgatiown.—The said day, Neill Layng being
warnit to this day to ansuer super inquirendis and compeirand, and being
inquirit quhy he had transgressit the act and ordinance of the kirk maid
anent Mariage, inhebiting not only of the pompuis convoy of the bryd
and bryd growme, viz. Patrik Turnour and Margerat Denelstoun the day
of thair mariage, &c. the said Sir Neill ansuerit that he had gevin his
declaratioun thairupoun of befoir; and forder, being inquirit gif he the
day of thair said mariage, declarit and said thir wordis following, that
he rather would be of the deuillis kirk nor of the kirk of this burgh, and
that he sould neuir be ane member thairof, nor knaw the samin as the
trew kirk, and that the elderis and deaconis thairof wer botfallowis, with
sic uther maist opprobrius and disspyt wordis, &c. The said Sir Neill
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denyis the report maid to the said kirk, &c. The kirk contenewis the
said caus to forder tryall.
The France kirk.-The said day, the kirk ordanis thair minister Mr
James Lousoun, to pas the morne to the counsall, and lament the me-
serable estait of the France kirk, being at Lundoun, and to report
thair ansuer agame this day aucht dayis.
APR. 21.—Mr Thomas Maccalyeanis submissioun to the kirk.—The
said day compeirit Mr Thomas Maccalyeane of Cliftounhall, and gave in
his supplicatioun befoir the Minister, eldaris and deaconis &c. that upoun
the ten day of Merche last by past, the Generall Assemblie having consid-
derit his humill supplicatioun presentit vnto thame, hes ordanit the kirk
of Edinburgh to admitt him to the nixt communioun and participatioun
of the sacrament, &c. to be celebratit within this towne, he appeirand
befoir the pulpitt in his awin goune, and makand repentance for his
offence in the face of the Congregatioun, and thairefter gevin the puir that
samin gowne or ellis the pryce thairof, and to fulfil the remanent poyntis
of the said ordinance as at mair lenth is contenit in his said supplicatioun
and ordinance producit heirwith ; of the quhilk the tennor followis, The
aucht sessioun the tent day of Merch ane thousand v hundereth lxxiiijyeirs
Anent the supplicatioun gevin into the generall assemblie of the kirk be
Maister Thomas Maccalyeane of Cliftounhall, ane of the nomber of oure
souerane Lordis College of Justice, Makand mentioun, That quhair upoun
his last supplicatioun presentit in thair last generall assemblie, tuecheing
his non admissioun to the haly sacrament of the supper of the Lord; &c.
Thai be thair act and deliuerance ordanit the Prouest of the Trenitie
College, the Ministeris of Leyth and Cannogait, with the kirk of Edin-
burgh, to tak tryall gif his remanyng in Edinburgh certaine tyme of the
lait trublis wes be compulsioun, &c.; and gif sua Wes fundin, to metigat
thair act, &c. for taking of the quhilk tryell, he hes insistit oftymis;
And thai convenyng togidder, hes put na end thairto, bot for sum guid
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considderatioun as he supponis moving thame, hes remittit the caus unto
thair wisdomes, Quhairfoir maist humilie beseikis thame sen the said re-
manyng within this towne is noterlie knawin till haue bene be compul-
sioun, just feir and dreddour, &c. that thaiwald taksic ordour as he mycht
be admittit at the nixt communioun to the haly sacrament foirsaid to be
celebrat in the towne without ony postponing of him thairfra in tyme
cuming as at mair lenth is contenit in the said supplicatioun ; the said
Mr Thomas being personalie present, and the Commissionaris appoyntit
in the last assemblie for takin tryall gif the said Mr Thomas remanit
within the toun of Edinburgh vpoun the just feir and dredour quhilk mycht
fall in ane constant man, Compeirand be Mr James Lousoun minister of
Edinburgh, quha producit the proces led and deducit befoir thame in the
said mater; quhilk being red and considderit in oppin assemblie, and
the said Mr James, in name of the kirk of Edinburgh, being requirit
quhy the said kirk admittit nocht the said Mr Thomas to the communioun,
Ansuerit for tua causis, first becaus the kirk of Edinburgh ressauis name
that remanit in the tyme of rebellioun within the toun without first com-
peirance befoir thame, and submissioun of thame to the kirk; and secundlie,
that he wes ane elder, and buir office within the said toun; The gene-
rall assemblie of the kirk notwithstanding, having considderit the qualifi-
catioun of the said Mr Thomas iust feir, &c. remanyng within the said
toun votit and concludit the said Mr Thomas ayth to be tane, gif vpoun
the said iust feir he remanit within the said towne, and buir office as said
is; quha being in callit, and entering in the said assemblie, declarit on his
conscience that he remanit as said is within the said toun, and buir office
thair of ane maist iust feir and dredour, quhilk mycht fall in ane maist
constant; The generall assemble of the kirk taking consideratioun of the
said Mr Thomas declaratioun as said is, Ordanis the kirk of Edinburgh
to admit the said Mr Thomas to the nixt communioun and participatioun
of the haly sacrament to be celebratt within this toun; The said Mr
Thomas appeirand befoir the pulpet of Edinburgh in his awin gowne,
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and making repentance for his said offence in the face of the congrega-
tioun, and thaireſter gevand the puir the gowne, quhairin he makis the
said satisfactioun or ellis the pryce thairof. Eatract furth of the register
of the actis of the general assemblie of the kirk be me Mr James Rechy
clark thairof Sic subscribitur Mr. James Rechy: THE Kirk of Edin-
burgh, efter long ressonyng and voting in the said mater, ordanis the
said Mr Thomas to be ressauit according to the act foirsaid, and that he
compeir vpoun ane sonday befoir the celebratioun of the holy Communioun
under the pillar of repentance, directlie befoir the pulpit in his awin
gowne, thair to gif publict confessioun of his offence; quhilk being done,
the said Mr Thomas to delyuer his gowne quhairin he appeiris, or than
the pryce thairof to the puir, and conforme to the ordinance of the said
generall kirk, &c.
APR. 28.—Mr Thomas Maccalyeanis submissioun to the kirk.—The
said day compeirit Maister Thomas Maccalyeane, and submittit himself
to the jugement of the kirk, for the injurie done be him to the Minister
Johnne Dury, &c.
Mr Thomas satisfactioun of the kirk and Minister.—The said day
Mr Thomas Maccalyeane hes satisfiit the said Minister and the kirk for
the injurie foirsaid, be crawing of pardone and forgifnes at the said
Minister and haill kirk, and sua hes satisfiit and reconsilit.
MAIL 12.—Jonet Akinheid and the kirk.-The said day compeirit
Jonet Aikinheid, dochter to umquhill Johnne Akinheid, beiring that
scho being ane barne of the age of x yeiris or thairby, scho enterit to
schew with Margerat Betoun the spous of Glaud Hammiltoun within the
castell, and entering thairin could nocht gait furth agane, &c.; the kirk
in respect of hir tender age, admittis hir to the table of the Lord with-
out ony satisfactioun, notwithstanding hir said remanyng within the
castell, &c.
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Man 19—Anent Vagaboundis and Idill persounis–The said day,
the kirk ordanis Adam Fullartoun and Johnne Adamsoun to pas the
morne to the counsall, and ernistlie requeist thame, that all wagabondis
and idill personis that hes nocht quhairupoun to sustene thane selfis, be
baneist, and als to requeist the said counsall, that ame generall taxatioun
be raisit incontinent for the sustentatioun of the Puir, accordyng to the
lait ordour takin.
MAII 26.—Ordinancis to the Counsall.—The said day the kirk ordanis
Johne Johnistoun, Alexander Hey . . . . . . . Gibsoun to pas the
morne to the counsall and confar with thame tueching the designatioun
of the Ministeris lugene, and to inquir in quhais handis the samin is in ;
to the effect that ane copy of the said designatioun may remane with the
kirk, and be registrat in thair buikis ad futuram rei memoriam, &c.
Item, to confar with the Counsall tueching the ordour to be tane for
the Puir, seing the tyme sua schortlie approchis. :
ITEM, to confar with the said counsall tuecheing the supplie to be maid
to the Franche kirk, being at Lundoun, and to report thair ansueris this day
aucht dayis.
* THE GENERAL Assem BLIE of the kirk of Edinburgh, haldin
in the Tolbuith thairof the vij day of June 1575, at tua
houris efter nowne.
The said day, eftir invocatioun of the name of God and prayar endit,
the Ministeris Mr James Lousoun, Johnne Durye, Mr Walter Maccan-
queill and Johne Carnis, being removit out of the assemblie of the said
kirk, according to the ordour obseruit in tymes past, it wes publictlie re-
quirit gif thair wes ony brother or uther persoun thair present that wald
lay ony thing to the chargeis of ony of the saidis Ministeris, ather in thair
dochtering, lyfis or conversatiounis, lat thame now mak declaratioun
thairof, for thair westyme and place grantit to thame to do the samin;
and being inquirit at Syndery tymes, name maid ansuer thairto; and thair-
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foir the kirk glorifeis God in thair names, desyring God also to assist
thame with his holy spreit for thair contenewance unto thair lyfis end;
And siclik the elderis and deaconis being removit, and requirit as is abone
writtin, na thing wes layit to the chargeis of ony of the elderis and dea-
conis, and thairfoir the kirk glorifeit God.
JUN. 9.—Mr Thomas Makcalyeanis appalatioun fra the kirk of Edin-
burgh.-The said day compeirit Mr Henry Makcalyeane in name and
behalf of Mr Thomas Maccalyeane of Cliftounhall, and intimed ane ap-
palatioun interponit be the said Mr Thomas fra ane ordinance maid be
the kirk of Edinburgh of the dait the xxj day of Apryle last by past to
the generall kirk, allegeand him maist inormelie hurte thairby as at mair
lenth is contenit in the said pretendit appalatioun ; of the quhilk the
tennor followis: AT EDINBURGH the xxv day of May I" V. lxxv
yeiris, the quhilk day in presens of me, noter publict and witnes under
writtin personalie constitutit ane honorabill man, Mr Thomas Mac-
calyeane of Cliftounhall, ane of the Senatouris of Justice, exponit and
declarit that he wes ane of the professouris of the trew religioun now
precheit, and with the first of the congregatioun of the kirk of Edin-
burgh had communicatit, lik as he wes of mynd to have communicatit’
at all and syndrie celebratiounis of the table and supper of oure Lord;
and to that effect had humblie suittit at the said kirk to haue bene ad-
mittit to the said celebratioun ; Nochttheles he on Lawyis culd nor can
gaitt admissioun thairto unles he wald accept to haue maid publict repent-
ance in the sackleyth, and in sic schamfull manner as wes vsit to master-
full murtheraris and raiseris of fyir; Quhairfoir he menit him to the gen-
erall assemblie at sundrie tymes, quha upoun his supplicatioun constitut
venerabill men thair commissioneris to sit with the kirk of Edinburgh, and
tak ordour thairanent, and triall of all; quhen thaie could nocht aggrie
togidder, remissioun wes maid of his supplicatioun to the said generall
assemblie, quha in thair last sessioun hadin the tent day of Merche last,
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wes takin cognitioun vpoun his said supplicatioun gevin in ament the pre-
missis. The said Mr Thomas compeirand personalie on that ane parte,
and Mr James Lousoun commissioner for the said kirk on that uther
parte, efter long ressonyng, and being auisit with the qualificatioun of
the caussis, quhairby his remanyng in Edinburgh during ane certane
space of the tyme of the lait trublis, wes be just feir and dreddour that
mycht fall in ane constant man ; quhilk ayth and declaratioun he
maid, and the samin beand tane, thai ordanit the kirk of Edinburgh to
admit the said Mr Thomas to the Communioun and holy sacrament that
sould be first celebrat within this toun, he compeirand befoir the pulpit
of Edinburgh in his awin cleythis, and makand repentance for his offen-
sis as at mair lenth is contenit in thair act and ordinance maid thairupoun
upoun the foirsaid x day of Merche; and albeit that he had according
thairto schortlie thairefter presentit his supplicatioun to the kirk of Edin-
burgh, desyrand thair ordinance to be gevin him for his admissioun,
offerand him to mak his repentance according to the said act of the gene-
rall kirk assemblie befoir the pillar nixt derect foranent the said pulpitt:
Nochttheles efter long delayis maid in gevin of thair ansuer, thai haue
ordanit that he suld mak repentance vnder the pillar of repentance upoun
ane sonday, by and attour the tennour of the said act of the said gene.
rall assemblie, expres wordis and intentioun thairof, the giffaris of the
samin, as may be considderit be act of the said generall kirk, and act of
the said perticular kirk gevin the xxj day of Apryle last ues; of the
quhilk act and ansuer gevin, the said Mr Thomas gat na knaw.lege nor
could get na act gevin furth to him quhill he compleine for having furth
of the samin, quhilk wes not gevin him quhill the xix day of Maijin-
stant as he maid fayth, and as he will ansuer befoir God. And that the
knawledge of the samin in the maner as it contenis, come allanerlie to his
knaw.lege be the inspectatioun of the said act within thir ten last dayis
last by past, he ay belevand that it had bene maid conforme in all thingis
to the act of the said generall assemblie, and that the said perticular kirk
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wald haue putt na heviar burding nor greterschame to him, quha is thair
mychtbour, than the generall assemblie, being straingeris, and quha wer
men of greit knawlege and discretioun, and knew how sic as we salbe
handillit alsueill as thai or better: Quhairthrow he estemis him self
throw the said ordinance of the foirsaid perticular kirk, and speciallie be
the secund or letter parte thairof, quhairby thai derect him to the pillar
of repentance to be greuoslie and enormelie hurt and euill done to, and
injustlie in dyuers respectis, and namelie be ressoun that his said remanyng
in Edinburgh and beiring of quhatsumeuir office thairintill wes motourlie
knawin to haue bene be just feir and dreddour that may fall in ane con-
stant man ; lik as the declaratioun thairof of aboundance being gevin to
his ayth, he declarit as is abone writtin, and thairfoir be ony regour he
sould have . . . . bene chargeit to mak ony publict repentance at the
least at the said pillar of repentance. Qu . . . . . . . . he had betuix
him . . . . . . . . . . the said generall assemblie hes weill considderit
tº e º º º is 4 º' tº e thairfoir the said Mr Thomas be all maner of actioun,
ressone, law or equitie, that he may appe . . . and reclaime fra the said
ordinance of the perticular kirk of Edinburgh thair said act and ordi-
nance thairto, and all that may follow thairupoun, and fra thair jurisdic-
tioun vnto the generall assemblie thair jurisdictioun, protectioun and
defence, submittand him thairto in maist humill maner for remeid to be
had anent the premissis for the causis foirsaidis and utheris to be proponit,
his supplicatioun and libell to be maid thairvpoun ; Upoun the quhilkis
appellatioun and reclamatioun foirsaid, the said Mr Thomas askit ane or
mainstrumentis at me noter public vnder writtin. Thir presents wes
done within the hall of the said Mr Thomas lugene inwith the said burgh
at aucht houris in the mornyng befoir nowne, or thairby, day, yeir
and place foirsaidis, befoir thir witnes Williame Louesoun, Johnne
Edgar and Johnne Mechealsoun, servandis to the said Mr Thomas,
with utheris dyvers.
Ordinance to Pat the belman.—The kirk ordainis Pat the belman to
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ring the last bell to the precheing euery Weddinsday and Fryday salang
as the Lordis of the Sessioun sittis, ane quarter of ane hour befoir aucht.
The celebratioun of the Communioun for the north Syd of the town.—The
said day, the kirk hes thocht guid that the Communioun salbegyne upoun
sonday nixttocum; the maner and ordour thairof as followis: That is,
the haill north syid of the said toun to prepair thame thairto agane son-
day nixt to cum, the sermond to begyne upoun setterday at foure houris,
and upoun Sonday in the mornyng at foure houris, and to contenew
quhill fyve, and than the ministratioun to begyne, and sua to contenew :
The secund sermond to begyne upoun Sonday at nyne houris, and to con-
tenew quhill ten, and than the ministratioun to begyne, and sua to con-
tenew ; and the lik ordour to be obseruit for the haill south syd of the
toun upoun sonday nixt to cum, &c.
JUN. 16.—Ordinance to Johnne Adamsoun, Mr Alew. Mauchane, George
Gibsoun and Dawid Kinloch, to pas for collectioun of the Contrabusioun
to the France kirk.—The kirk ordanis Johnne Adamsoun to pas throw the
Merchandis for the supplie of the France kirk banisit, being presentlie at
Lundoun ; and siclik ordanis Mr Alexander Mauchane aduocat, George
Gibsoun, to pas throw the Lordis of the Sessioun, Aduocattis and Scribis
for thair part of the supplie to be maid; And siclik Dauid Kinloch to pas to
the deaconis and craftis, &c. and to collect thair parte of the Contrabusioun.
The kirkis requeist to Gilbart Primros and Alexander Barclay.—The
said day, the kirk requeistis Gilbart Prymros and Alexander Barclay
Ipotingar to handill and cure Thomas Gardner sclater of his brokin
laig, and thai salbe ressonablie satisfiit. *
Alexander Blyth and Alea’ander Thomsoun reconsilit—The said day
compeirit Alexander Thomsoun and Alexander Blyth, and in presens of
the Minister, elderis and deaconis, and remittit the rancour and maleis of
ather of thair hartis that ather of thame buir aganis utheris; In takin
quhairof, thai gaif uther thair handis, and sua ar fullilie reconsilit, &c.
1575. GENERAL KIRK OF EDINBURGH. 125
JUL. 7.—Ordinance to the Minister ament the Puir.—The said day,
the kirk ordanis thair Minister to signifie the morne, that thair is sum
brether quhilk ar nocht under the vand of the provest and bailyeis of the
burgh nor thair jurisdictioun, and hes promesit oulklie contrabutioun to
the Puir according to the ordoure takin, and as yit hes nevir payit ane
penny thairof; quhairthrow the saidis puir ar frustrat of thair ouklie
almus in tymes past: The kirk thairfoir maist humilie requeistis all sic
brether, in the name of the eternall God and of his Sone our Lord Jesus
Christ, to pay thair said oulklie contrabutioun in tymes past, and sicklik
ouklie or monethlie in tyme cuming, sua that the guid ordour tane
decay nocht in thair defalt, &c.
JUL. 14.—Requeist to the Counsall.—The said day, the kirk ordanis
Mr James Lousoun minister and George Gibsoun to pass the morne to
the counsall, and requeist thame that ane new vesitatioun of the Puiris
and Inventour be maid of thair ageis, bayth of maill and famill, &c.
JUL. 21.-Dawid Gregor ressavit the Injunctions.—The said day com-
peirit David Gregour, and gaif in his supplicatioun befoir the Minister,
elderis and deaconis, bearing that in the lait seditioun and tumult raisit
be the inymes, nocht only aganis our maister and Salueour Christ, bot als
aganis our Souerane Lord his guid and obedient subjectis, I nocht only
remanit within the toun, bot als acceptit armour vpoun him ; for the
quhilk, I haue all redy submittit myself to the disciplene of the kirk,
and hes promesit to ressave quhatsumeuir uther injunctioun the kirk
plesit to lay to his charge; off the quhilk the tennor followis, that is,
that he sall compeir the morne at the eister kirk duir at the reingyne of
the secund bell, cleid in ane gray gowne, thair to stand bair hedit quhill
the minister be enterit in pulpit, and thairefter be brocht in and set under
the pillar of repentance, and thair to remayne quhill the sermond be
endit, and than gif confessioun of his offence, &c.
126 GENERAL KIRK OF EDINBURGH. I575.
Jul. 28.—John Scott and the kirk.-The said day, the kirk hes dely-
verit to Johnne Scot tailyeour ane merk for transporting of him of the
toun in the pairteis quhair he wes borne, within aucht dayis, and Mungo
Scot is becumit cautioun that he sall do the samin.
Aug. 18.-Ordinance to the Counsall.—The quhilk day ordanis Johne
Johnstoun and David Kinloch elderis to pas the morne to the Counsall,
and ermistlie request and desyir thame to tak ordour for the ingaitting of
the contrabusioun to the Pure ; and als requeist thame for to be diligent
for gaitting of tryall of the deid barne that wes cassin furth in Foresteris
wynd ; and in likwayis for making of ane chaiklok and keis to the Lytill
Kirk duir; and siclik to put ordour to ane Bordaill, allegeit kepit be ane
Urquhart in Grayis clois.
Aug. 25.-Ordinance to the Minister.—The said day the kirk requeistis
thair Minister that on Frayday nixt he travell sumquhat in his sermond
to persuaid the brethering that support may be maid to the Franche kirk
banesit; and als to requeist maist ernistlie, that the guid ordoure be-
gune for the mentenance and sustentatioun of the Puir of this burgh be
interteneit and fall nocht in decay, &c.
SEPT. 1.-Lord Humis desyir at the kirk.-The said day, anent the
supplicatioun gevin in befoir the Minister, elderis and deaconis be Alex-
ander lord Home, desyring the prayaris of the kirk, &c.; the kirk ordanis
Mr James Lousoun and Andro Sclater to pas to the said lord, and confer
with him tueching the poynts of his religioun, and of his offence laitlie
committit aganis our soverane lord, &c.; and gif he acknaw.legis and
confessis the samin, ordanis the Minister to pray for him as ane brothir;
and gif he refusis to agknawlege his saidis offensis, dischargeis the Minis-
ter from praying for him as ane brother; bot only that the said lord de-
syris the prayaris of the kirk, &c.
REGISTER OF THE KIRK SESSION
OF STIRLING.”
AT STIRLING the xvij day of Nouember, the yeir of God
I” W* lxxxxvijyeiris, the Minister, Eldaris and Diacunis of the
Kirk of Stirling being convenit in assemblie.
Nov. 17. 1597–Eldaris and Diacumis to oversie the toun.—The present
Assemblie thinkis meit that everie elder and diacun be appointed to oversie
ane particular portion of the toun; quha salbe haldin cheiflie to tak at-
tendance to the maneris of the pepill therin, that be his privie admonitionis
and discipline of the eldarschip, they may be restrainit fra vice and maid
obedient to the word, &c.
Communione.—The present assemblie thinkis meit that the Sacrament
of the Lordis Supper be ministrat in this kirk on the secund sonday of
December mixtocum; and that the examination preceiding begin on
* In the General Register House are preserved, three volumes of the Proceed-
ings of the Kirk Session of Stirling, commencing on the 17th November 1597,
and ending on the 3d December 1649, a volume containing “Ame Register of the
Personis proclamit in the Kirk of Stirling,” from 28th Nov. 1585 to 23d Jan.
1594, and “Ane Register of the Bairnis Namis bapteizit,” &c. from 16th April
1587 to 29th March 1592. From the first volume of these Kirk Session Records
the following Extracts are taken.
128 REGISTER OF THE 1597.
Monunday nixtocum, the xxj of this instant, and that dew intimatione
be maid heirof in pulpet on Sonday mixt. -
Williame Davie and Margaret Robertsome admonischit—The same
day compeirit William Davie colyear, and Margaret Robertsone spous
to Thomesone wobster, quha be thair awin confessionis ar
fund to have bein togethir in hir hous verie suspitiuslie at evin ; and
therfoir thay ar bayth admonishit, that gif any suspitione be fund in .
ather of thame heiraftir, they salbe accounted giltie of hurdum.
Nov. 24. 1597–Compeirit Johnne Hay servitur to Johnne Russall,
laidnar man to my lord erlle of Argyll, and Jane Moresone, doghtir to
Johnne Moresone travellar, quha grantis fornicatione togithir under
promeis of mariage: The brethrein ordanis thame to mak publict re-
pentance the nixt thrie sermond dayes; his penaltie for bayth, vi s. viijd:
The brethring dischargis him to hant the hous quhair the said Jane
Moresone is fra thyne furth, with certificatione gif he do, that he salbe
judgit relaps in fornicatione.
DEC, 1.—Compeirit Hellen Allan servitrix to Waltir Neish, and confessis
fornicatione relaps with George Archibauld, and that the samin fault is
trelaps in hir persone. The brethring continewis farther proceiding with
hir, quhill the said George be also tryed in the said mattir.
CoMPEIRIT Jonet Nicoll, dochter of umquhile Johne Nicoll maltman,
quha is fund to dwell allane in ane hous be hir self sen befoir Witsonday
last, and therfoir she is ordeinit to entir in service with sum honest per-
sone betuix and Witsonday nixt to cum, and that she keip hirself honest
in the mean tyme, without ony just occasione of sclandir, undir the pain
of xti.; for sure keiping quherof Duncan Patersone merchand is becum
cautionar, &c. -
CoMPEIRIT Archibauld. Howat, quha be testificatione of his father and
divers utheris famus witnessis, is fund ane filthie spekar, oft tymes drun-
1597. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 129
kinsum, disobedient to his father, and ane quha hes put violent handis
in his father; and therfoir he is ordeined to mak publict repentance in
secclayth the nixt Sonday for removing of the sclandir; and the kirk
desyris the bailleis to waird him quhill the nixt Sonday, his fude to be
bread and wattir allanerlie. -
Orray Wemen.—The quhilk day it is concludit and ordeinit, that na
eldar nor diacun suffir ane singill woman that never hes bein mareit to
dwell hir allane in ane hous undelaited to the sessioune of the kirk, under
the pane of viš. viijd. for the first fault, and x 5. for the secund fault.
DEc. 8.—Taikinis.-Appointis to receave the taikinis at the morning
service, Williame Aissone, Johne Henriesone baxter, and Johne Cuth-
bert; at the secund service, Williame Gillaspie, Alexander Browne, and
Alexander Dawsone.
Almus.—Appointis to collect the almus at the first service, Dauid
Murray, and Johne Layng notter; and at the secund service, James
Gairdnar and Johnne Sharar. -
Litill Dur.—To await on the litill durin the kirk, and for keiping of gude
ordur in the uttir kirk at the morning service, Johnne Bruce and Andro
Sandis; and at the secund service, Andro Cowan and George Norwall.
Bellis.—Ordanis the first bell to be rung on Sattirday nixt aftir none
at j hour, the secund half ane hour theraftir, and the last bell to begin
befoir twa houris aftir none: And siclyk the first bell to ring on Sonday
in the morning half ane hour befoir iij houris ; the secund bell at iij
bell to the secund service to knell at the end of the first service.
DEc. 15.—Admonitione to be gevin befoir the miat Ministratione of the
Sacrament.—The present assemblie findis thair hes bein great misordur
amangis the pepill of this congregatione at the last ministratione of the
Lordis Supper, in rash and suddan cuming to the tabill, in spilling of
R.
130 REGISTER OF THE 1597.
the wyne, and in thrusting and shouting in thair passage out at the kirk
dur aftir the ministratione; and thairfoir thinkis meit that this misordur
be rememberit befoir the nixt ministratione of that sacrament, and that
the pepill be admonishit to use thane selfis mair reverentlie.
Puir and Indigent personis.-The assemblie ordanis everie eldar and
diacun to tak up the namis of all the nateive puir within this toun, all puir
that hes haid thair residence in this toun thir thrie yeiris bygane, and
all indigent personis that usis to seik support of the sessione be billis; and
report thair namis to the kirk, that they be advys of the counsell may
tak sum gude ordur for thair sustentatione, and that Idill Vagabundis have
na libertie to leive idill on the puiris almus.
DEc. 22.-The quhilk day James Wre marchand, of his awin propir con-
fessione, is becum actit and oblist as cawtionar and souertie that Margaret
Simsone, doghtir of umquhill Robert Simsone in Drip, triplex in hurdum,
sall with all diligence remove af this toun, and remain furth of it undir the
pane of fyve pundis, toties quoties, quhow oft she be fund therin heiraftir.
JAN. 5.-The quhilk day compeirit Issobell Peiris, and grantis hir with
bairne gotin in fornicatione in Polmais be Johne Murray of Touchadame,
quhilk is the fourt bairne gotin with hir as said is: The brethring di-
rectis hir to satisfie St Ninianis kirk, quher hir said fault is committed,
and report testimoniall therupone.
MAR. 23.-Compeirit Margaret Short spousto Alexander Cousland, quha
being accusit for abusing of hir husband divers tymis within thirthrie oulkis,
lyk as she hes done of befoir, she confessis that upon some wordis spokin be
him, she mintitane shool to him, that she cust in his faice ane cop with
aill, and that through angir she hes spokin angrie wordis to him, and hes
scartit his faice; for the quhilk faultis, and divers utheris injureis done be
hir to hir said husband of befoir, nocht regairding his lyff, The brethrein
1598. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 131
desyris the bailleis to punish hir publictlie, quhairby she may be movit to
abstein fra the lyk in tymes cuming, and that utheris may tak exampill.
APR. 6. 1598.-Compeirit Mwngo Forsyth gairdner, quha be his awin
confessioun is fund to absent himself fra the kirk many tymis on the
Sabbath, and neglectis his dewtie in sustentation of his wyf and bairnis;
for remedie quherof the brethrein desyris The baillies to waird him quhill
he find cautione to amend bayth the saidis faultis; and he is ordeinit to sit
in the Craftis loft, that therby it may be knawin quhen he keipis the kirk.
MAII 18.—The samin day George Kinros, fornicatour sumtyme with
Helein Crawfurd, is admonishit nocht to frequent the said Helleinis cum-
pany, nor receave hir in his chalmer fra thyne furth suspitiuslie, quhilk
gif he do, that he salbe accounted ane fornicatour. -
THE quhilk day Thomas Camrun gairdnar to my Lady Mar is ad.
monesit that he nawayes permit his servand woman to ly in his hous
quher he lyes fra thyne furth, for avoyding of sclandir.
JUN. 29.—Compeirit James Ramsay messinger, and confessis himself to
have becum cautione for Richard Blakburn for keiping the ordur of the
kirk; and namelie, that sic sobrietie should be usit that name in the
said Richardis cumpany sould pay any mair for their lawing on the day
of his mariage nor v š, under the paine of x fi, ; and the said James con-
fessis that he maid the said Richard brydell, and tuik viš, and vijd. for
everie ane of thair lawingis; and thairfore the brethrein decernis the said
James to pay for the said offence, ad pios usus, five pundis money.
SEPT. 28.—Compeirit Duncan Wre and Johne Forbes pyper, quha be
thair awin confessionis ar fund to have walkit all nycht, playand togithir
at the dyse in Marioun Gairdnaris hous, quhill iiij houris in the morn-
ing that thay discordit; and therfoir the brethrein thinkis meit that the
132 REGISTER OF THE 1599.
bailleis detein thame in waird quhill Sonday, thair fude to be bread and
wattir; and upon Sonday nixt that thay mak publict repentence.
THE brethrein ordanis Marione Gairdnar and Elizabeth Foirbrand hir
doghtir, to mak publict repentence thenixt Sonday for the resaitt of the said
Duncan Wre and Johne Forbes in thair hous, playand all nicht as said is.
MAR. 1.-Compeirit Issobell Henresone spous to Alexander Robertsone
baxter, and confessis she gave ill wordis to Johne Millaris wyff befoir
the Communione, and theraftir past to the Communione unreconceillit,
and therfoir she is ordeinit to mak publict repentance the mixt Sonday.
Thayar presentlie reconceillit. *
CoMPEIRIT Jonet Gillaspie spous to Thomas M'Caulay, quha be hir
awin confessione is fund to have refusit reconciliatione with Johne Hestie
befoir the Communione, at the least refusit to declair ony sing of reconci-
liatione as speiking or drinking with him, and therfoir she is ordeinit to
mak publict repentence the nixt Sonday.
MAR. 8.-The quhilk day Duncan Leishman and his wyf is admonesit
to frequent the kirk on the Sabboth aftir none bettir in tymes cuming
nor they have done; and that his wyf leive in chiritie with hirnychtburis.
APB.5.1599.-The quhilk day Alexander Cousland is admonesit to abstein
fra streking of his wyff, quhilk gif he do, he is certifeit that euill fruitis will
follow thairupone to his hurt; and also he is admonesit to abstein fra all
sclanderus behaveour, and blasphemie of the name of God and his nycht-
buris, quhilk gif he do nocht, that ane sherp ordur salbe taine with him.
JUL. 12.—Penny Brydellis.—The present assemblie hes concludit for
the bettir suirtie of keiping of moderatione at Brydellis, that thair be na
mariage maid in this kirk, (quha hes penny brydellis,) quhill thair be
first consignit x fi, and certificatione gevin, that gif thair be mair taine
1600. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 133
for ane man or ane womanis lawing nor v š, that the said xii. salbe con-
fiscat ad pios w8ws, utherwayes gif that moderatione be keipit, that the
said soume consignit be redelyverit againe.
Compeirit Dauid M*Caula tailgur, cautionar for keiping of moderatione
be Robert Moir and Issobell M*Caula, and ther cumpanels on the day of
thair mariage, quha be his awin confessione it is fund that thair was viijs.
taine for ilk persones ordinar, and therby hes contravenit the ordur ap-
pointed to thame; for the quhilk offence the brethrein desyris the bailleis
to caus ther officeris uplift fra the said cautionar v ii. ad pios usus.
JUL. 19.—The eldarship of this kirk being convenit,-The quhilk day
compeirit Marie Bruce, sister to Sir Robert Bruce of Clakmannan knycht,
and confessis fornicatione relaps in hir persone; this last fault committed
with Henrie Commendatar of St Colmisinsh ; for the quhilk she is or—
deined to mak publict repentence the nixt sex sermond dayes: The
said Marie Bruce aftermis that she committed na fault sen she was delyuerit
with the said Commendatar nor nauther man to this present tyme.
Nov. 22.—False Cunyiegevin in almus.-The brethrein undirstanding
that ane great part of the almus gevin to the Pure is fals cungie, callit
Tinklaris, for the quhilk the Puiris gaitis na thing; and thairfoir it is
thocht meit that the Minister publictlie on Sonday nixt, in the name of
God, inhibit the geving of all fals cungie to the puir, seing the samin
procuiris the curs of God to the gevaris thairof.
Feb. 14, 1600.—The brethrein, upoun the earnest sute of Dame Margaret
Fleming lady Garden, upon necessitie thrugh want of milk to hir bairne,
she hes receavit Marione M*Gregur to nureis the samin, being ignorant that
she was offensive and sclanderus to the kirk, quhill now leatlie that the
said Marioun was warnit be the beddall of the kirk; In respect quhairof,
albeit she was banesit the toune for fornicatione, the brethrein grantis
134, REGISTER OF THE - - 1600.
licience to the said Marione M*Gregur to remain mureis with the said
Lady quhill peace nixtocum, and that she be keipit privie aff the Calsay.
MAR. 27.—Compeirit George Kinros, and denyes sclanderus behaveour
with Hellein Crufurd, except onely that quhen he cumis furth of his
chalmer in the morning, she takis up out of his bed the bairne quhilk
was gotin betuix thame in fornicatione of befoir; quhilk doing he pro-
mesis sall nocht be in tymes cuming; and for removing of Sclandir in all
tymis cuming, he promesis to takane chalmer in ane uther plaice, and
sall abstein fra all appeirance of hurdum with hir.
APR. 3.-Compeirit Williame Thomesone fleshar, quha be his awin
confessione is fund to have bein absent on Sonday last fra Godis service,
in the quhilk tyme he drew ane sword and enterit in ane tulgie : and
therfoir he is ordeined to mak publict repentance the nixt Sonday.
JUN. 26.—Compeirit Issobell Peiris, quha be hir awin confessioun is
fund to have taine ane hous hir allaine, against ane act maid in the con-
trair, quhilk is verie suspicius, and ane great occasione of offence in hir
persone, quha hes divers tymes alreddie fallin in hurdum ; and therfoir
she is admonesit to entir and remain in cumpany with sum honest persone
that will be ansuerabill for hir honestie, betuix and the xijday of Julijnixto-
cum, utherwayes the kirk will desyr the bailleis to remove hiraff this toun.
MAII 1.—The present assemblie hes thocht meit that na persone within
this toun nor without, be suffirit fra thymefurth to beg nor seik almus
upon the Sabboth day, quhilk the bailleis ar desyrit to put in executioun.
JUL. 17–Compeirit Margaret Wilsone spous to Duncan Bennet, quha
be sufficient tryell is fund ane abusar and blasphemar of hir husband, of
the eldaris of the kirk and hir nychtburis, many and divers tymes, nocht
1600. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 135
onelie in the day lycht bot in the nycht, nochtwithstanding of many
admonitionis she hes receavit of the eldaris of the kirk to abstein thairfra;.
and thairfor the brethrein of the kirk thinkis meit that the bailleis put
hir in the brankis in the mathir end of the toun, in the sycht of hir
nychtbouris, quherby she may be movit to abstein fra the lyk offencis in
tymes cuming; with certificatione gif the lyk be fund in hir heiraftir, that
the bailleis wilbe desyrit to put hir in the govis.
Andro Liddall.—The quhilk day Andro Liddall is admonesit for tak-
ing ouer great a surfet of wyne, and is certifeit gif the lyk be fund in him
heiraftir, that he sall undirly discipline publictlie.
Aug. 14.—Tullibody Brig.—To collect almus for reparatione of the
brig of Tullibody, Dauid Murray and Johnne Henresone.
Aug. 28.—Puir and Idill Beggaris.—The brethrein ordanes that pub-
lictlie in pulpet on Sonday nixt, all uncuth puir and idill Beggaris Sall -
remove thameselfis from the congregatione and pas quhair thay war borne,
betuix and the penult day of September mixtocum, With certificatione to
thame quha remainis, sall receave na almus.
SEPT. 4.—The Minister reportis that he maid publict intimatione on
Sonday last anent uncuth puir and idill Beggaris, according to the last act
maid theranent in all pointis.
OCT. 16.—Compeirit Agnes Ker spous to Duncan Mitchell, Jonet Hen-
riesone spous to Gilbert Rannald, and Issobell Gilmor spous to Johne
Gillaspie fishar, quha be thair awin confessionisar fund fra the preaching
all the last Sabboth, extraordinar drinkaris aftir none on the Sabboth, and
all the nycht theraftir quhill iiij houris in the morning; for the quhilk
causthay ar ordenit to mak publict repentance the nixt Sonday.
OCT. 30.—Publict Dansing.—The present Assemblie findis thair hes
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136 KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 1600.
bein great dansing and vanitie publictlie at the croce usit be mareit
persones and thair cumpanels on thair mariage day; for staying of the
quhilk in tymes cuming, Ordanis that name be mareit in this kirk quhill
xii. be consignit, for the better securitie that thair be na mair tane for
ane brydell lawing nor v š according to the ordur, and that thair be na
publict dansing at the croce nor on the publict streitis of the toun ; With
certificatioun gif the ordur of the brydell lawing be brokin, that the said
xii. salbe confiscat according to ane former act; and gif thair be any
publict dansing, that fyve pund of the said soume salbe confiscat ad pios
wsus ; and quhair the Brydellis ar maid frie without payment of any
lawing, that thair be consignit be thame fyve pundis, to be confiscat ad
pios usus, incaice of publict dansing, be the mareit personis or ther
cumpany; utherwayes incaice of abstening therfra, that the said v fi.
consignit, be redelyverit again.
DEc. 4.—The present assemblie thinkis meit that everie eldar and diacun
be appointed to ane particulare portione of the toune, quha salbe hauldin
cheiflie to tak attendence to the maneris of the pepill thairin, that be his
privie admonitionis and discipline of the eldarschip, they may be restranit
fra vice and maid obedient to the word; and that the samin may be
keipit in sinceritie without corruptione; that thay attend quhat strain-
gearis resortis to the toun, and to quhat effect; quhairby tryell may be
haid gif any Jesuistis or seminarie Preistis comis within this toun, that
ordur may be tane thairanent as effeiris.
DEC. 11.-Puiris Boa and Key.—The present assemblie appointis the
Puiris box to be keipit be James Duncansone, Reidare, and the key
thairof be Dauid Murray.
Almus-The quhilk day ane Catalog of the Collectoris of the Puiris
almus is maid and allowit be this assemblie.
OBLIGATION BY JOHN EARL OF CASSILLIS
TO MAKE CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO HIS
BROTHER HUGH KENNEDY OF BRUNSTON,
UPON HIS TAKING THE LAIRD OF
AUCHINDRAIN’S LIFE.
ANNO MDCII.
OBLIGATION BY JOHN EARL OF CASSILLIS TO
HUGH KENNEDY OF BRUNSTOUN, ETC.
THE following very singular document might have incurred
the riſk of being thought groſsly fiétitious, but for the light
thrown on the deadly feuds of the Clan Kennedy by several
recent publications. The moſt curious of these, in its minute
details, is an anonymous Hiſtory of the Clan, written, or at
leaſt concluded, in the year 1607 or 1608, edited by Mr Pit-
cairn ;* confirmed and illuſtrated as it is by various proceedings
in the Criminal Courts of Scotland, given to the public by the
same gentleman; nor is it to be forgotten, that on one very
remarkable portion of the ſtory, were shed the lateſt rays of
the poetic genius of Sir Walter Scott.f
Referring to these sources of more ample information, it
may here be enough to mention, that in May 1602, about
* See “Historical and Genealogical Account of the principal Families of the
name of Kennedy. From an Original MS. [in the Advocates' Library.] With
Notes and Illustrations, &c. by Robert Pitcairn, Esq. W. S. &c. Edin. 1830.
f See Pitcairn's “Criminal Trials,” &c. sub anno 1611. 3 :
f See “Auchindrane, or the Ayrshire Tragedy," in the Poetical works.º:
Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Vol. XI. Edin. 1830. 3 :
140 OBLIGATION BY THE 1602.
four months prior to the date of the following paper, Sir Tho-
mas Kennedy of Cullean had been aſsaſsinated by Thomas
Kennedy of Drummurchie, (of the family of Bargamy,) for
which, and for other causes, he and his known accomplices
were afterwards forfeited in Parliament; but that, from the
firſt, the author and ſecret inſtigator of the murder was believ-
ed to have been John Muir, the laird of Auchindrain. The
ordinary courſe of juſtice, however, proved by far too slow and
uncertain to satisfy the vindićtive zeal of the families of Caffillis
and Cullean; a plan for the deſtrućtion of their artful adver-
sary appears to have been devised and prosecuted with great
aétivity and perseverance; and to this design muſt be aſcribed
the murderous family compaćt between the Earl of Caffillis
and his immediate younger brother, Hew Kennedy of Brun-
ſtoun, more uſually denominated the Maſter of Caffillis. Of
his various unſucceſsful attempts “to take the laird of Auch-
indrain's life,” and earn his promised reward, the “Hiſtory
of the Kennedyis” will be found to furnish abundant details;
and the reader of the works above alluded to, muſt be already
aware that a different and more suitable destiny awaited, and
though tardily, overtook that relentleſs ruffian.
The original document, in the hand-writing of John fifth
Earl of Caffillis, and of which an exačt lithographic fac-fimile
is here given, would appear to have been placed by the
parties in the hands of Sir John Vans of Barnbarrach, their
; :oisin-german and active adherent; and in the poſſeſſion of
: the repreſentative of that family it ſtill remains.

1602. EARL OF CASSILLIS, ETC. 141
LETTER EARL of CASSILLIS To HIs BROTHER
To KILL AUCHINDRAIN.
WE Johnne erle of Caffillis lord Kennedy, &c. bindis and
oblifis ws that howſovnne our broder Hew Kennedy of Broun-
ſtoun with his complices taikis the laird of Auchindraneis lyf
that we ſall maik guid and thankfull payment to him and thane
of the ſowme of tuelff hundreth merkis yeirly togidder with
corne to ſex horſis ay and quhill we reflaue thane in houſhald
with our ſelf beginning the firſt payment immediatlie efter
thair committing of the ſaid deid ATToUR howſovnne we
reſlaue thame in houſhald, we ſall pay to the twa ſerwing
gentillmen the feis yelrlie as our awin houſhald ſerwandis
and heirto we obliſs we vpone our honour Subſcryvit with
our hand AT Maybole the ferd day of ſeptember 1602.
JoHNE ERLE OF CASSILLIS.
LETTER FROM KING JAMES VI. TO THE
PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND, AND PRO-
CLAMATION BY THE PRIWY COUNCIL,
ANENT THE ROBES OF EARLS, JUDGES,
MAGISTRATES, CHURCHMEN, ADVOCATES,
CLERKS OF THESESSION AND SIGNET,ETC.
M.DCVI—M.DCX.
ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, JUDGES,
MAGISTRATES, CHURCHMEN, ETC.
IN Scotland the attention of the government was turned at a
very early period to the regulation of the dreſſes of all ranks.
It was thought neceſſary here, as in the early legiſlation of
other countries, to repreſs the luxury of extravagant clothing,
and of no leſs importance to keep up the external diſtinétions
of rank. Some of the moſt curious of the ancient acts of the
Scottiſh Parliament relate to theſe two objects. The endea-
vour to reſtrain expenſe of dreſs in an age and country where
the bareſt poverty affected ſomewhat of a gorgeous exterior,
neceſſarily failed, as we learn by repeated re-enactments of
fumptuary regulations, cauſed by the inefficacy of thoſe pre-
ceding. Whether the ſtatutes preſcribing formal dreſſes for
each order and degree of ſociety were more effectual, it is not
now eaſy to aſcertain; but the lawgivers of different periods
ſeem not to have been ſufficiently of one mind to produce much
uniformity of obſervance among the lieges. In the reign of
T

146 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1606–
James II.” earls are ordained in all Parliaments and general
councils, to use “mantillis of brown granyt opyn befor fur-
“ryt with quhyſ and lynit before outwith ane hand braide to
“ the belt fledg with the ſamyn furring with litill hudis of
“ the ſammyn claith, and to be uſtapon thairſchulderis : And
“ the uther lordis of Parliament to haif ane mantill of rede
“rycht ſa oppinnit befor and lymyt with filk or furryt with
“criſty gray grece or purray togidder with ane hude of the
“ ſamyn claith and furryt as ſaide is And all commiſſaris of
“ burrowys ilk ane to haif ane pair of clokis of blew furryt
“fut ſyde opyn on the rycht ſchulder furryt as efferis and
“with hudis of the ſamyn as ſaid is ;” while “forſpekaris
“for the coſt,” (hired advocates,) are to have habits of green
of the faſhion of a tunicle, with ſleeves open as a tabard.
In ſubſequent Parliaments, we meet with frequent denun-
ciations of “ the great abuſe of the ſubječts of mean eſtate
“preſuming to counterfeit. His Highneſs and his nobility, in
“ the wearing of coſtly clothing ;” but the grievance is attack-
ed rather by repreſſing the extravagance of the lower ranks,
than by an endeavour to fix appropriate and peculiar dreſſes
for thoſe of hereditary or official dignity. It was not until
James VI., whoſe taſte led him to take a perſonal intereſt in
theſe details, had enjoyed for ſome time the ſecurity and ſplen-
dour of his Engliſh Court, that he attempted to introduce a
formal and graduated order in the public apparel of all claſſes
of his Scottiſh ſubjećts. His attention may have been parti-
cularly direéted to the ſubjećt by the “leude error” into which
* Act. Parl. 1455, c. 11. v. II, p. 48, ratified 1457, c. 11, p. 49.
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 147
the Earls in Parliament were about to fall, when admoniſhed
by the firſt of the following documents, preſerved in a volume
of Royal letters, addreſſed chiefly to the Privy Council, now
in the General Regiſter Houſe, and which was ſpeedily fol-
lowed by an Aćt of Privy Council, (24th April 1606,) ordain-
ing “ that the haill Marqueflis and Earlis of this kingdome
“fall leave of thair former reſolution anent the weiring of
“velvett robis in tyme of Parliament;”—“ and that thai fall
“provyde thameſelfis with robis of reid ſcarlet cloath again
“ the mixt Seſſioun of Parliament, whilk Godwilling will be
“ about the middil of June mixtocum.” "
Three years after the date of that letter,i Parliament taking
into confideration, “that the greatnes of his Majeſteis em-
“pyre magnificence of his courte fame of his wiſdome and
“juſtice and of the civilitie of his ſubjećtis hes begun alreadie
“ to allure divers forane princes and utheris ſtrangeris of all
“eſtaittis to mak mair frequent repair to his Countrey nor euir
“ they did in ony preceding age,—and by them na doubt re-
“ porte will go throwch all the warld of the eſtait and governa-
“ ment of the kingdome according to the ordour whilk they
“fall fie obſerued within the ſamyn;” and underſtanding that
his Majeſty has preſcribed for the nobility apparel for the Par-
liament becoming their honourable eſtate, but that the rema-
ment members of that high court have not reformed themſelves
to the like conveniency, —ordained all magiſtrates of boroughs
* Copy of the Council Record in the Skene Library. The original Record of
the proceedings of part of that year is lost. -
t Act. Parl. 1609, c. 15. v. IV. p. 435.
148 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1606–
and their commiſſioners to Parliament, the Judges of the land,
civil, criminal, and eccleſiaſtical, and churchmen, eſpecially thoſe
having vote in Parliament, to wear each a particular dreſs to
be appointed by the King, whoſe order “being ſent in wrytt
“ to his Clerk of Regiſter, ſhall be a ſufficient warrant to
“ him for inſerting thereof in the buikis of Parliament, to have
“ the ſtrength and effect of ane ačt thereof.” -
The order appointed by the King is accordingly contained in
a letter to Sir John Skene, Clerk of Regiſter, of date the 16th
January 1610, which is preſerved in the volume of Royal
letters already mentioned. Its commencement is charaćteriſtic
of the writer and his times. “Truſtie and weilbelovit coun-
“fellour, We greite you weile. The eſteatis of that our king-
“dome, having, as in mony other particulars of more moment,
“heirtofoir repoiſit thair truſte and confidence in us for pre-
“ ſcryveing and ſetting doun of ſeveral ſoirtis of habitis and
“apparrell, for Judgeis, Magiſtrats and Churchemen, that ſo
“ the promiſcuous undiſtinguiſhed weiring of apparrell now
“uſed may not in ony ſtrangeiris (who ar the beholdars of it,)
“mak impreſſioun of the ſtates negligence in this point; and
“We being by our Eſteatis humblie ſolicited to certifie our
“ pleaſour and will heirin, bothe for the conveniencye of the
“mater itſelf deſirit, whiche no doubt will breid reputatioun
“ to that eſtate, and alſua impres in the commoun ſoirt,
“ (whome outward ſhowe do muche move,) a ſpeciall regaird,
“with all dew reverence towards thame in heicher place,
“ and alſo ſhowe our willingnes to concur and adviſe thame
“ heirin.” , . . . . ~ -- -
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 149
The terms regulating the different dreſses are copied
in the following proclamation, with one or two trifling varia-
tions. Inſtead of firſt preſcribing the robes of the Chancellor,
the King's letter commences with regulating the dreſses of
magiſtrates of boroughs; and in doing ſo his Majeſty makes no
diſtinétion in favour of the ſeven greater boroughs, but pre-
ſcribes for all the dreſs which the proclamation orders for
thoſe only of leſs “power and habilitie.” -
It appears that the Clerk of Regiſter failed to comply with
the ſtatute appointing the Royal letter to be inſerted in the
books of Parliament; but the concluding extračt records the
exhibition to the Town Council of Edinburgh of the pattern
robes appointed for their uſe. - - - - - - -
The Proclamation is taken from the Regiſter of Privy Coun-
cil, and the Record of the Council’s A&ts of Sederunt fur-
niſhes the entry prefixed to it. , - -
LETTER FROM KING JAMEs VI. To THE PRIvy CouncIL
of ScotlanD,-ANENT THE ROBBIs—APR. 8, 1606.
sº
%meº
RIGHT truſtie and weilbelovit cofines and counſellours, we
greete yow wele. Quhairas we are certifyed of the intentioun
of the Erllis of that oure kingdome againe the nixt ſeſſiouns of

150 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1606–
Parliament thair to weare thair robis of crimofine velvett,
wheref we mervell muche, for giue thay do follow the cuſtome
of uther cuntreyis, thay committ ane leude error in doing
thairof, for velvot robbis ar nevir at ony tyme worne by omy
Erllis except at Coronationis, creationis, and ſuche publićt
ſolempniteis, as the firſt entrie of ony Prince to his cheif and
principall citie of ony kingdome ; and in tymes of Parliament,
the ſaidis Erllis weiris no thing in thair robis bot ſcarlott
cloathe, diſtinguiſhed for the ſeverall degreis of honour in the
copis or hoodis of the ſame, by ſo many ſeverall garis of quhyte
furringis drawin athorte the ſamin; and thair armone in tyme
of Parliament that uſuallie wearis robis of crimfone velvett
except the Prince awne childrene, and the ſame is a particular
diſtinétioun betuix thame and the nobilitie; And thairfore we
thocht meete to certifie you heirof, that you caus the erllis of
that oure kingdome leave thair former reſolutioun, whiche hes
procedit of thair ignorance of thoſe thingis, and that thai pre-
pair thameſelfis of ſcarlett robbis, according to the lovable
cuſtome of uther cuntreyis, and reſerve the wearing of crim-
ſone robbis as peculiar in Parliament tymes to the Princes
childrene only; and ſo we bid you hairtelie fairwell. From
our Courte at Whythall, the aucht of Aprile 1606.
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 151
APUD EDINBURGH, penultimo Januarii
anno 1610.
SEDERUNT.
Chancellour. Scone. Edzell.
B. St Androis. Blantyre. Bruntiland.
B. Glaſgow. Mr Elphinſtoun. Preiſtfeild.
Wyntoun. Preſident. Sir Alex. Drummond.
Lotheane. Secretair. Sir Lues Craig.
B. Roſs. Prevey Seill. Logy.
B. Orknay. Juſtice Clerk. Sir Andro Hammiltoun.
Saltoun. Aduocat. Foiſterſait. -
Elphinſtoun. Clerk of Regiſter. Sir Johnne Arnot.
Sanquhar. M'Kanzie. Sir William Hairt.
A Proclamatioun paſt anent the Habitis.
THE quhilk day Sir Johnne Skeene of Curriehill knycht, Clerk
of our Soverane Lordis Regiſter, preſentit and exhibite unto
the Lordis of Secreit Counſaill, ane miſfive Letter direétit unto
him from his Majeſtie, concerning his Majeſteis direétioun and
declaratioun anent the Habitis of Judgeis, Magiſtratis, Churche-
men and utheris ſpecifeit and contenit in the ſaid letter, with
a command to the ſaid Clerk of Regiſter to infert the ſame in
the regiſter of the ſtatutis of the Parliament; whilk letter
being red in the ſaidis Lordis audience, thay with all due
reuerence doeth acknowlege his Majeſteis fingular and
I52 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1610,
wnſpeakable wiſdome in the mater foirſaid, and ordanis the
ſaid Clerk of Regiſter to inſert the ſaid Letter in the regiſter of
the Parliament. * . . -
PROCLAMATIOUN ANENT THE HABITIS.
FORSAMEKLE as the Eſtaittis of Parliament of this king-
dome, convenit laitlie in the moneth of Junii I* VI and nyne
geiris, fand it verie meit neceſſair and expedient, and thairwith-
all ſtatute and ordanit, That for the honnour, credite and repu-
tatioun of this kingdome, ſome grave, decent, comelie and or-
derlie habite and apparrell ſould be worne and vſed be all
Judgeis, Magiſtratis, and Churche men of this kingdome, alſwele
for the forder reſpect, reverence and regaird to be had to
euerie one of thame, according to the dignitie of thair ſeuerall
chargeis, functioun and calling, as for the ornament of thair
perſonis, and diſtinguiſhing of thame frome the vulgair ſoirt of
people, Lyke as the ſaidis eſtaitis vpoun infinite prooffis which
thay haue had of his Majeſteis moſt fingulair wiſdome in all
his princelie direétionis, and of his gratious love and affectioun
to this his antient and native kingdome, in all humilitie refer-
rit to his Heynes awne appointment the aſſigning of ſuche
feuerall ſoirt of habite and veſtment as in his Maieſteis judge-
ment ſould ſeame moſt fitting and propper, alſwele for the
Lordis of Seſſioun, being the ſupreame Judgeis in civile aétionis,
as for all vtheris inferiour Judgeis in the lyke cauſes, as alſua
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 153
for the criminall, eccleſiaſticall Judgeis, and for Aduocatis,
Lawyris, and all vtheris leving be law and pračtize thairof, as
alſua for Churche men, aggreable to thair ſeuerall eſtaite and
moyen, as in the ſaid Aét of Parliament at lenth is contenit;
And althoght the Kingis Maieſtie, in regaird of vtheris his
effaires of grittar importance and moment, could not haue the
commoditie at this tyme to reſolue fullie in this buſynes, git to
gif vnto the eſtaitis ſome preſent ſatiſfactioun in this thair ſo
reaſonable defyre, his Maieſtie hes thoght mete now onlie to
ſend doun this directioun to be obeyed by ſuche to quhome it
is injoyned, Reſervand alwyſe at his Heynes grittair leſour and
moir dew confideratioun of the buſynes, the altering or add-
ing heirto whatſoeuir his Maieſtie fall hald fitt and expedient
to augment and eik vnto the ſame. FIRST, That the Chan-
cellour of this kingdome weir, according to his awne diſcre-
tioun, a ritche fair gowne of ſome ſad or grave cullour, con-
forme to his conditioun, eſtaite and rank, and that in his fit-
ting in ſeſſioun, counſell, conventioun, and articlis; bot gif he
be a nobleman, in his ryding to the Parliament that he weare
the habite dew to his rank and degrie of nobilitie: THAT
the Preſident and remanent ordinarie Lordis of Seſſioun ſall
weare a purpour cloath gowne, faced all about with reid
crimofine ſatyne, with a hude of purpour, lyned with crimo-
fine ſatyne alſo, according to the modell and forme of a gowne
ſend doun be his Maieſtie to be a patrone for all gownes of
ordinarie ſeſſionairis, onlie the Preſidentis gowne ſalbe faced
with reid crimofine veluott and the hude lynnit with reid
crymoſine veluott; and the ſaidis Preſident and ſeſſionairis
U
154 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1610.
ſall weare theſe habiteis vpoun the ſtreitis of Edinburgh
during the tyme of feſſioun, and at all fuche tymes as thay
come to counſell, conventioun or vther meetingis; And
the four extraordinarie ſeſſionairis to weare blak gownes of
velvott, ſatyne, or ſome vther filk as pleafith thame, lynnit with
matrix or ſome viher blak lynning, at thair pleaſour: THAT
the Advocatis, Clerkis of the Seflioun and Signet fall haif
thair gowneis of blak lynned with ſome grave kynd of lyning
or furring : AND in lyk maner, that the Juſtice Generall
quhen he fittis in his criminall courte and feate of judgement, fall
weare a reid ſcarlott gowne, faced with quhyte armyne, with a
hude of the ſame, lynned alſua with quhyte armyne; and the
Juſtice depute and Juſtice Clerk principall, ſall weare blak
gownes with hudeis, faced and lynned with reid crimofine ſatyne,
as is afoirſaid; and the Clerk of the ſame court fall weare a blak
gownelynned with blak furring, in that ſame forme as the Clerkis
of the Seſſioun : AS ALSUA that the Dočtouris of the civile
law, and all Commiſſionairis [Commiſſaris, fall wear gownis
of blak, faced on the breiſt and nek with blak velvott: THAT
the Proueſtis of Burrowis, Aldermen, Bailgeis and Counſell of
euerie Burgh, ordinarlie weare blak gownis, lynned with ſome
grave kynd of furring ; whilkis gownes thay fall weare in
thair counſellis, aſſemblyis and mettingis for the affairis of bur-
rowis, bot ſpecialie in the conventioun of thair burrowis quhen
thay are choſin particular Commiſſionairis by the burgh quhair
thay dwell, aither for Parliament or Counſale, whilkis gownis
efter the forme and ſchape of burgeſſes and citizenis gownis,
and not of Miniſteris or divynis gownis, being proper for men
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 155
of thair place, and ordinairlie to be worne be thame afoirſaid,
as moſt comelie and decent for thame and thair eſtate, accord-
ing to the ſchaip, proportioun and modell of a gowne ſent
doun be his Maieſtie, whiche is to be ane example for the
ſaidis burgeſiis gownis, according quhairvnto all vtheris are to
be maid : AND it being verie meitt and fitting that the prin-
cipall grite burrowis of the realme, whilkis are of powar and
habilitie, fall haif thair proueſt, bailgeis, and principallis of
thair counſall to be in ſuche comelie and decent apparrell as
apperteyneth thame to be, for the decencye, comelynes and
gravitie of thair placeis; Thairfore his Maieſtie ordanis and ap-
pointis that the Proueſt, bailgeis and ſome of the principallis
of thair counſall of the burrowis of Edinburgh, St Johnnſtoun,
Dundie, St Androis, Glaſgow, Striuiling and Aberdeyne, fall
weare gownes of reid ſcarlatt cloathe, with furringis aggreable
to the ſame, vpoun Sondayis and all vtheris ſolemne dayis, as
the ryding dayis of the Parliament, the fyft day of Auguſt, the
fyft of Nouember, or ony vther dayis of ſolempnitie; and al-
thoght theſe afoirſaid townes be ſpecialie named for the wear-
ing of theſe ſcarlatt gownes, git it is noway his Maieſteis mean-
ing to ſeclude ony other townes frome weiring the lyke ſcar-
lett gownes, who vndirſtand thair awne habilitie ſufficient for
weiring thairof: LYKEWYSE his Maieſtie ſtatuteis and or-
danis, That the Proueſt of Edinburgh, at all tymes of Parlia-
ment conventioun, and tymes of ſolempnitie, fall weare a grite
goldin chayne with his ſcarlat gowne, and that all Commiſſion-
airis from burrowis to the Parliament, ſall ryde to the Parlia-
ment houſe in thair ſcarlat gounes; bot gif thay be of the
156 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, 1610.
meaner ſorte of burrowis, than thay fall ryde in thair blak
gowneis as thay fitt in thair counſallis: AND fiklyke that all
Miniſteris ſall weare thair apparrell of blak and not of mixt
cullour, and in the pulpit quhen they preiche to the people,
that thay weare thair gowneis of blak, lynned with ſome blak
lyning, and that at ony time thay fall not weare thair cloathis
of ony vther cullour than blak onlie: THAT all Dočtouris of
Divinitie ſall weare thair ſyde blak coattis, gownes and tip-
pettis of ony kynd of filk or cloathe at all tymes for thair
gownes, as pleaſeth thane; and evinſo that all Priouris, Ab-
botis and Prelates, ſall weare in tyme of Parliament gownes
of velvott, ſatyne, or ſome kynd of filk; and finalie, that all
Biſchoppis in thair fitting and ryding to Parliamentis, and in
thair counſellis, conventionis and General Aſſembleis, and in
the churche quhen thay mak ſermone, ſall weare ſuch habite
and veſtment as ar accuſtumat to be worne by Biſchoppis, moſt
proper and decent for the dignitie of thair placeis and eſtate;
and that ordinarlie in thair daylie wearing, and when they go
to pulpit to preach vpoun ordinarie dayis, thay fall weare
thair coattis of blak damaſk ſatyne or velvott, ſo ſyde as to
come lower than thair kneis, and abone the ſame thair lang
gownes of velvott or vther ritche kynd of filk, or when thay
are privat, of cloath, after ſuche forme, ſchape and faſiioun as
the gowne ſend doun be his Maieffie, whiche his Heynes will
have to be as a modell for all gownes to be vſit be Biſchoppis .
heireſter; alwyſe thay muſt evir weare with thair gownes thair
tippet of Spaniſche taffettye abone thair neckis, and ſo ſyde
befoir as thair gownes; and that in thair ryding or travelling,
1610. JUDGES, MAGISTRATES, ETC, 157
thay weare blak ſyde coattis, and abone the ſame thair ryding
cloakis with ſlevis, lynned on the nek, and faced on the breiſt
and at the handis, with blak velvott : QUHILK direétioun
and declaration of his Maieſteis will and pleafour in this mater,
being preſentit vnto the lordis of Secrite Counſall, and red in
thair audience, thay with all dew reverence acknowlegeit the
ſaid directioun and declaratioun to be moſt wyſlie and gravelie
ſet doun by his Maieffie in his fingulair and wnſpeakable
wiſdome; and hes ordanit, and ordanis the ſame to begyn and
reſlaue full obedience, effect and executioun, in the perſonis
of the Lordis of his Maieſteis Seſſioun, and in the perſonis of
the Aduocatis, Clerkis of the Seſſioun and Signet, vpoun the
fyfteine day of Februar mixtocum, and in all viheris per-
fonis of the ſeuerall rankis, degreis and qualiteis abone written,
betuix the day and dait heirof and the firſt day of Marche
mixttocum; for quhilk purpois ordanis letteris to be direét to
officiaris of airmes, chairgeing thame to pas to the mercat
croce of Edinburgh, and vtheris places neidfull, and thair be
oppin proclamatioun to mak publicatioun and intimatioun
heirof, and to command and chairge all and findrie perſonis
of the ranks, degreis and qualiteis particularlie abone writtin,
to conforme thame ſelfis to this preſent ačt and ordinance, and
to gif dew obedience thairvnto in everie point, at the termes
and dayis particularlie aboneſpecifeit, appointit for that effect,
vnder the pane of rebellioun and puting of thame to the horne;
With certificatioun to thame that failgeis or dois in the contrair,
the termes and dayis abone ſpecifeit being bypaſt, that letteris
ſalbe direét ſimpliciter to put thame thairto.
158 ROBES OF THE NOBILITY, ETC. 1610.
ExTRACT FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CouncIL
of THE CITY OF EDINBURGH.
xx Junij I" v1° x".
Provest-Gownis.—The quhilk day Sir John Arnott of Berfik
knycht proueſt Alexander Peirſoun Robert Bannatyne James
Dalgell baillies the deyne of Gild theſaurer and counſall
preſentlie convenit My Lord Proueſt cawſet exhibit and
produce before thaim tua gownes the ane reid the other blak
clayth lynet in the breiſtis with ſaibill furring ſent to his Lord-
ſhip be the Kingis Majeſtie for to be worne be him and to be
patrones of the gownes to be worne be the Proveſt and baillies
and fic of the counſall and toun as ar appoynted therto be his
Majeſtie.
HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT OF LUDOVICK
DUKE OF LENNOX, WHEN COMMISSIONER
TO THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND.
ANNO M.DCVII.

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THE following account of the expenses of Ludovic second
duke of Lennox, while holding the office of High Commiſ.
sioner to the Parliament of Scotland,” is printed from the ori-
ginal preserved in the General Regiſter Houſe.
The firſt part of the account comprehends the period from
the Duke's arrival at Edinburgh “from Court in England,”
on the 26th July 1607, till the conclusion of the Parliament
on the 11th day of Auguſt thereafter; during which time
his Grace appears to have kept his court with much of the
magnificence and expense of royalty. We meet, however,
* The Privy Council granted warrant to the Chancellor to append the great
seal to his commission, (which is engrossed in the books of Parliament, Acta
Parl. v. IV. p. 365,) on the 21st day of July 1607. On the same day the
following entry appears in the Registers of Privy Council, “Anent the ryding to
the Parliament.—The quhilk day the Lordis of Secreite Counsale hes concludit
and resolvit that the Estaittis of Parliament sall God willing ryd upoun Fry-
day the last of Julij instant and ordanis publicatioun to be maid heirof at the
mercat croce of Edinburgh, quhairthrow name pretend ignorance heirof.”
On the 28th July, there appears the usual “ Proclamatioun for keiping of peace
during the tyme of the Parliament;” and on the next day, the following “War-
rand for keiping of a gaird within the burgh of Edinburgh, Forsameikle as it is
maist necessar and expedient that during the present sessioun of Parliament guid
X
162 ACCOUNT OF THE
with a curious mixture of simple tastes and habits, with a dis-
play of the most expensive luxury. The enormous charge for
foreign fruits, spices, and confectionary of forgotten names,
contrasts amusingly with the charge for “four pyntis of curdis
and quhay, V;S. viii d.—Item, for reim, xii; S. iiijd.” We are
not informed what length of time was allowed for consuming
“fourſcoir fyftene gallounes of aill furneiſt at the Parliament,
“conforme to Walter Alexanders compt.”
The next division of the account commences with his Grace's
coming “from the Northe,” beginning on the 21ſt September
at the ferry of Brouchty, and minutely detailing his expenses
at St Andrew's for two days, at Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, on the
Ferry (including ix lib. “to play at the kairtis in the boite,) and
rule and quietnes be keipit within this burgh; Thairfore the Lordis of Secrite
Counsale ordanisane maiser or officiar of airmis to pas to the mercat croce of Edin-
burgh, and thair be oppin proclamatioun to command and chairge the bailleis of
Edinburgh to caus a sufficient guaird be keipit in thrie seuerall pairtis of this
burgh during the tyme of this present Parliament, and to begin thair guaird
upoun Thurisday the penult of this instant ; and in cais ony tumult or commo-
tioun happin or fall out in this burgh, that they tak and apprehend the pairteis,
and present thame before the Lordis of his Majesteis Counsale to be tane ordoure
with and punisit as accordis; as the saidisbaillies will ansuer upounthairobedience.”
The next order of the Privy Council regarding the ceremonial of this Parlia-
ment is on the last day of July, “Ament the Ranking and voiting of the Bischopis
in the Parliament—The Lordis of Secrite Counsale remembering how that of
auld the Bischopis of this kingdome who represented the spirituall estate, wer
ever preferrit, rankit and voitit in Parliamentis and Generall Counsallis before
the Lordis of the temporall estaite; and the Lordis of Secreit Counsall being
weill myndit that in this present sessioun of Parliament, and in all tymes heir-
efter, the saidis Bischopis sall have the lyke place and rank as thair predecessouris
DUKE OF LENNOX. | 63
during a ſtay of three days in Edinburgh, which he leaves on
the 28th for Stirling. On the 6th Oétober we find him jour-
neying from Glaſgow to Donypais, and next day to Edin-
burgh, probably to attend a single meeting of Privy Council.
On the 8th he “lape on horſe” to return to Donypais. He again
came to Edinburgh to Council on the 14th, and rode to Lithgow
on the 17th of the same month. On the 18th and 14th days
of the following month, the Duke is at Stirling along with
his daughter; soon after which time he appears to have re-
turned to England.
Archbishop Spotiswood, in noticing the death of the Duke
of Lennox, which he says affected the king exceedingly, records
his character in the following terms:—“The 16th of February
formerlie bruikit and possest; Thairfore the saidis Lordis statuteis and ordanis,
that in this Parliament, and in all Parliaments heireſter, the Archibischopis and
Bischopis sall ryde in estaite to the Parliament house immediatlie before the
Honmouris, and that they salbe rankit before the haill temporall estaite, and sall
voit before thane.”
On the day preceding the dissolution of Parliament (10 Aug.) the Council
books record the following order for a “Proclamation anent the Ryding to the
Parliament—Forsameikle as my Lord Commissionair his grace and Lordis of
Privie Counsale hes thocht meit that the estaitis sall ryde the morne God will-
ing to the Parliament and to be in the Parliament house sone be myne houris
afoir none; Thairfore Ordanis herauldis, pursevantis and messingeris to pas to the
mercat croce of Edinburgh, and thair be oppin proclamatioun mak intimatioun
heirof to the Estaitis, quhairthrow they pretend no ignorance of the same ; and
to wairne all the prelattis, nobilitie and remament estaittis, to addresse thame-
selfis to the palice of Halyruidhous the morne be aucht houris before none, and
to accompany the Commissionair his grace thairfra upoun horsbak to the Parlia-
ment house, as they will ansuer upoun thair obedience.”
164 ACCOUNT OF THE
(1625,) Lodowick Duke of Richmond and Lennox deceaſed, to
the great regrate of all that knew him; a nobleman of excellent
parts, whoſe very aſpect and countenance did promiſe much
good. He was thrice married, firſt to a fifter of the Earl of
Gowrie, by whom he had no children; his ſecond wife was a
ſiſter of the Lord Loudon, by whom he had a daughter and
ſon, that died both young. In his third and laſt marriage, with
the Counteſs of Hartford, he found more content than in
both the other,” but lived with her only some few years, being
taken away in the 48th year of his age.” _º
It may be mentioned that the “Lady Athoill,” on whoſe
account several payments are ſtated, was Mary Counteſs of
Atholl, second daughter of William Earl of Gowrie, and
widow of two succeſsive Earls of Atholl. She was siſter to
the Duke of Lennox's firſt wife. .
In the account of David Lord Scone Comptroller, for the
year 1606–7, we find the following entries:
“Item for halding my Lord Duik his hous the tyme of
the Parliament, jºo lib.
Item for wyne to the Lordis of the Articles in the Tol-
buthe, x fi, iij Š. iiijd.”
* This hint of the unhappiness of his former marriages, is corroborated with
regard to the second, by an entry in the Record of Privy Council, 24th Sept.
1607, from which we learn that the Duke had recourse to legal measures to
compel dame Jeane Campbell his wife to deliver to his care their daughter. Lady
Elizabeth Stewart, whom she “violently detenit and withheld,”—she “ being
now come to that aig that scho is capable of instructioun and learning.” It will be
observed, that two months later the Lady Elizabeth is in company with her father.
DUKE OF LENNOX.
165
MY LORD DUIKIS GRACE COMPT.
FURNEISIT BE JAMES TRAQUAIR, PULTRIEMAN,
on Wedinsday the xxviij of Julij.
ITEM, sevin powtrie, vi S. viii d. the pice, summa
Item, aucht auld hennis, at nyne schillingis the pice,
Item, twa goung caponis, at xi Ś. the pice,
Item, nyntein chekens, at iijs, the pice,
Item, ane hundreth eggis, at
Item, ane sten of byter, with ane pund,
Item, of sueit butter four pund and ane half,
Item, ane burden cell, with twa fadome of towis,
Item, iiij gray hennis, at xiii S. iiii d. the pice,
Item, iiij mwir fowllis, at viij Ś. the pice,
Item, four powtis, at viii S. the pice,
Item, sex pleveris, at viš. viijd. the pice,
Item, thrie pet cwningis, at xvi š, the pice,
Item, ane quart of wineger,
On Thuirisday the xxix of Julii.
Item, twa powtis, at viiis, the pice, summa
Item, ane perterik,
Item, ane dwsSoune of orengeris,
TO THE BANKETT.
Item, xij caponis, at xvi S. the pice,
Item, tuelf hennies, at ix. $, the pice,
xlvi. S. viii d.
Š.
iii lib. xii
xxii
iiij lib. vi
xxii
.
&r.*©.
iiij lib. ix
xx S. vid.
xv Š.
liii ś, iiii d.
xxxij Š.
xxxii S.
xli Š
xlviii ś.
gº
xvi. 5.
xiij Ś. iiii d.
XV $.
ix lib. xii. s.
w lib. viii ş.
166
1607.
ACCOUNT OF THE
Item,
Item,
ten powltrie, at vii ś. the pice,
ane dwsSoune of gryte chekens, at vis, the pice,
Item, ane quart of winiger, at
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
On Setterday the first of August.
xvi mvrfollis, x 3. the pice,
ten great powtis, at ten schillingis the pice,
sevin grey hennis, at xv Š. the pice,
tuelf pett cwningis, at xx s, the pice,
iii lib. xvii ş.
iii lit. vi ä.
e e º 'º
viii lib.
V lib.
y lib.
xij lib.
iii lib. vi ä.
v lib. x 5.
V lib.
viii lib. xiii S. iiijd.
Item, ane dwssoune of gryt chekens, fyve s. vid, the pice,
Item, vi gryses, at xviii ş, the pice,
Item, fyve geis, xx S. the pice,
Item, twa sten of butter and thrie pund, at iiii lib. vi s. viijd.
the sten,
Item, twa hundreth eggis, at xx S. the hunder,
xl s.
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
tuelf pleveris, at vi s. viii d. the pice,
vi caponis, at xvi the pice,
fyve powtrie, at vi s. viii d. the pice,
ane hen, at
foure pleveris, at vi s. viii d. the pice,
twa gryte powtis at ten schillingis the pice,
ane wilduik, at
thrie pet cwningis, at xx S. the pice,
ane dwsSoune of gryte chekens, at v Š. the pece,
On Sonday the secund of August.
iii powtis, at xiii S. iiii d. the pice,
sex powtis, at viii S. the pice,
twa young blakcokis, at xii ş, the pice,
iiii murfowlis, at x 5. the pice,
ane hen, at
iiij lib. xvi š.
xxxiij Ś. iiii d.
ix S.
xxvi S. viii d.
xx S.
ix S.
iii lib.
iii lib.
xl S.
xlviii ş.
xl S.
xxxi s. vid.
X §.
1607.
167
DUKE OF LENNOX.
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
On Mononday the thrid of August.
vi pair cwningis, at xvi Ś. the pice,
iii grey henis, at xiii ś. the pice,
iiij mvirfowlls, at viii š, the pice,
vi powtis, at viii S. the pice,
ane pertrik,
ane dwssoune chekeins, at v Š. vid, the pice,
iiii caponis, at xvi Ś. the pice,
twa henis, at nyne š. the pice,
On Tysday the fourt of August.
tuelf caponis, at xv Š. the pice,
tuelf henis at ix S. the pice,
tuelf chekeins, at v Š. the pice,
ane pertrik, -
ane hear,
thrie pet cwningis, at xvi Ś. the pice,
thrie stean of butter, at iii lib. v. S. viii d. the stean,
of winiger sevin chopenes at
twa powtis and muirfowl, ix. S. the pice,
ane dwsSoune of oringeris,
On Thurisday the vi of August.
twa grey hennes, ane blakcok, at xiii S. the pice,
twa powtis, twa mvir fowllis, at x 5. the pice,
ane wil duik, at -
On Fryday the vij of August.
iij mvirfowlis, at ten S. the pice,
viii pleveris, at viii ś. the pice,
Item on Setterday the aucht of August.
vi powtis, vi mwirfowlis, at x 5, the pice,
vii chopenes of winiger, at
Q Q & Cº.
iiii lib. xvi Ś.
xl 5.
xxxij Š.
xlviii ś.
XV $.
iii lib. vi Š.
xviii ś.
ix lib.
v lib. viii ş.
iij lib.
XV $.
viii ś.
xlviii ś.
x lib.
xlii ś.
xxvii ś.
XX s.
xxxijš.
XXX s.
iii lib. iiii S.
vi lib.
xlii ş.
168 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
On Mononday the x of August.
Item, ane young blak cok, at xiii ś. iiijd.
Item, ame mwir fowl, at xii ş.
Item, ane per pleveris, at xvi ś.
Item, twa cwningis, at xxi s.
- On Mononday at evin.
Item, twa cwningis, at xxi Š.
Item, ane grey hen, at xv Š.
Item, ane quhape, at x S.
Item, twa pair pleveris, at viii S. the pice, xxxii ś.
TO THE BANKET, the xj of August.
Item, iij pet cwningis, at xx s, the pice, iii lib.
Item, iij powtis, at xijš. the pice, xxxvii.
Item, thrie mwirfowllis, at xijš. the pice, xxxvi S.
Item, ane grey hen, at xy 5.
Item, twa pair pleveris, at viij Ś. the pice, xxxii ş.
Item, vii grysis, at xviii.5, the pice, vi lib. vi. s.
Item, vi duikis, at ix s, the pice, liiii i.
Item, ane guse, at - xvi Ś.
Item, vi pet cwningis, at xx S. the pice, vi lib.
Item, xii muirfowlis, at xij Ś. the pice, vii lib. iiijs.
Item, aucht gryte powtis, at xijs, the pice, iiij lib. xvi s.
Item, aucht blak cokis and ane grey hen, at xv Š. the pice, vj lib.
Item, iiij per pleveris, at viijs, the pice, iij lib. iiiii.
Item, xij hennes, at ix s, the pece, v lib. vii; 5.
Item, tuelf chekines, at v š. vid, the pice, iii lib, vi ä.
Item, ane stean of butter, at iiii lib. vi s. viiid, the stean, iiij lib, vi ä.
Item, ane quart of winiger, at - . . xxiiiji.
Item, ane quarter hundreth eggis, at v š.
I607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 169
Item, ane chopen of hony, at ix s
Item, ane dwsSoun of oringeris, xxiiij 5.
Item, ane hundreth peres, at xxvi s. viii d.
Item,
Item mair, ane cwning,
Item in the first, twa pund of Barbarrie daettes,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
ane chopen can, xijd.
x 5.
Summa Pwltriemanis Compt is ij" lzxxiij lib.
WILLIAM ORME. "
DESEIRTE COMPTE.
ITEM vpone the first day of August 1607, Delyuerit at the com-
mand of WALTER MURRAY, to the furnesching of the Desertis.
iiij lib.
twa pund of dry confectit orenges, vi lib.
twa pund of dry confectit pesches, vi lib.
twa pund of dry confecit corsde Seturn, vi lib.
xij vnce of candeit nitmuinges, vi lib.
tuelf vnce of candeit cannell, vi lib.
twa buistis of codzenokis, xxxij Ś. viii d.
twa pund of wyolatis confeitis, v lib, vi ä.
twa pund of roessis confeitis, v lib. v.j Ś. viii d.
twa pund of colyander confeit,
Item, twa pund of cannell Roman, at vi s. viii d.
the vnce, is x lib. xiii ş. iiijd.
Item, twa pund of carroway confeitis, v lit. vi. s. viii d.
Item, ane pund and ane half of musk confeitis, iiii lib.
Item, xxiiij vnce of amber greise confeit, at x 5. the vnce, is xij lib.
Item, aucht vnce of reid dowbill musk confeit, at iiij lib.
Item, aucht vnce of quhyte dowbill musk confeit, at iiij lib
Item, fourteine buistis of confeitis, skrothertis and sucker
almontis, at Sevin pundis, vii lib.
Y
170 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item, twa pund of wet confecit abrecois, at vijä, the vnee, is vijlib, xy 5.
Itera, twa pund of confecit cherreis, at v š, the winee, is vii; lit.
Item, twa pund of pomdecoynes, at iiij Ś. the ynce, is vi lifi. viijä.
Item, twa pund of pesches, at iij $. iiijd, the vnce, is y lib, vi ä, viijd.
Item, twa pund of grein seges, at s w lifi. Viš. viii à.
Item, twa pund of flowre de orenge, - vi lit. viij 5.
Item, twa pund of Barbarreis, vi lib. viii d.
Item, twa pund of Weneyis puris, vi lit. viij 5.
Item, twa pund of Corsde Seturn, v lib. vi. S. viii d.
Item, aucht pund of Karbassat peiris, orenges, lemontis,
at xxxvi S. the pund, is xiiij lib. viii ş.
Item, for pipes, xxx s.
ITEM vpon the first day of August 1607, furnischit be SAMwFLL
BURNET, at the command of Walter Murray. ...”
In the first, tua Norroway hamis, at y lifi.
Item, ane pund of pepper, xxxii ś.
Item, four vace of nitmuinges, xxvi lifi. vii; $.
Item, whee of maisse, xls.
Item, sex vace clowes, - xlviii S.
Item, sex vince of waillet cannell, xlviii ś.
Item, twa vnce of saiffroun, - iiii lib.
Item, ane pund of ginger, - zwini ş.
Item, twa laifis of cannarye sucker, at xxii.js, the pund, quhilk
weyis vi pund xiv.nce, extendis to with lib. wild.
Item, four pund of raisseingis a ture, xxxvi 3.
Item, four pund of ryse, xxvii. viii d.
Item, aucht pund of plumdames, xx is.
Item, xj pund and ane half of lairde, at vijñ. therand, is iiilib. xijs.
Item, four pund xiivnce of Capreis, at vi lib, wis. will d.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 171
Item, ane pynt of widoly, xxxijs.
Item, four pyntis of winiger of the roise, xxvi s. viii d.
Item, twa pund of roch almondis, xxvi S. viii d.
Item, twa pund of raissingis the Sone, xvi. s.
Item, thrie dwssoun of orenges, xlviii ş.
Item, vpone the ix day of August, 1607, send doun to my Lord
Duikis hous, two pund four vnce of lairde, xviii ş.
Item, thrie gryte Norroway hamis, at vij Bib. x 5.
Item, the x of August, delyuerit to Murkie the maister cuik,
thretene pund wecht of lairde, at viij Ś. the pund, is v lib. iiij Ś.
Item, ane half pund of pepper, xvi Š.
Item, ane pund of ginger, xviii ś.
Item, four vnce of maisse, xl Š.
Item, sex vnce of clowis, xlviii ś.
Item, sex vnce of cannell, xlviii ş.
Item, twa pund of raissingis the some, xvi Š.
Item, four pund of raissingis a ture, xxxvi Š.
Item, four pund of ryse, xxvi S. viii d.
Item, twa pund of roch almondis, xxvi S. viii d.
Item, four pund of plumdames, x Š.
Item, ane quart of winager the roise, xiii S. iiijd.
Item, ane chopen of widoly, xviii ś.
Item, ane chopein of olyves, xx 5.
Item, twa pund of capreis, liii S. iiijd.
Item, ane dussoun of orenges, xxvi S. viijd.
CoNFECTIOUNES, the tent of August 1607.
Item, ane pund and ame half of daittis, iii lit.
Item, sex pund xij vnce of setringes, orringes, karbaissy,
xxxvi š, the pund, it is tuelf pundis iij Ś.
172
ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
v lit. vi s. viii d.
v lib. vi s. viii d.
vj lib. viii ş.
iiij lib. xvi ä.
twa pund paschis, at
twa pund of cors de setrin,
twa pund of flour de Orring, at
ane pund and ane half of poundiquhyres,
ane pund of cherreis, d - iiij lib.
ane pund four vnce of abricois and grein almond, vij lib. x 5.
alevin Vnce damassaines, lv š.
xvi Vnce of Baberreis, iii lib. iiij Š.
x vnce of confectit peiris, x] §
DRY ConFECTIOUNEs. -
ane pund and ane half of dry cors de setrin abricois, v lib.
iiii lib. x 5.
ane pund and ane half of dry orringes,
xxviii vnce of sundrye colloris of draigre muskie,
v vnce of dowbill raid musk confeitis, I 5.
v vnce of quhyte musk confeitis, ls.
ane pund and ane half of karrowy confeitis, iiij lib.
ane pund of amber greise confeit, at viii lib.
ane pund four vnce of wyolat confeitis, at iii lib, vi ś, viii d.
Item, ane pund four vnce of cannell Roman confeitis, at vi lib. xiii S. iiiid.
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
Item,
xiiij vnce of roissis confeitis, at xlvi S. viijd.
ane pund and sex vnce of Colyander leske, iii lib, vi ä.
ane pund four vnce of roise mairry confeit, iii lib. vi. S. viii d.
ten buistis of confeitis, skrothertis and almondis, at v lib.
sex vnce of candeit cannell, at iii lib.
sex vnce of candeit nitmuingis, iii lib.
ane half pund of daitis, xx S.
Summa of this besyid sum lytill sowme contened in ane vthir
particular, extendis to iii" Ixxxiiij lib. xi ś,
Allouit in the compt of the House. WILLIAM ORMe,
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 173.
POTIACIARIEY.
THE Rycht Honourable My Lord Duikis Compt,
beginand on Setterday the first day of August.
Item, on Setterday tuentie four peice of flesche meit, furneist
all of my own flour, quhilk is sax peckis, pryce iiij lib.
Item, for the baiking of the samyn, - xvi š.
Item, sex caill pyis, * - xl s.
Item, to the denner fourtie aucht peis of Sueit meatis, furneist
of my awin, pryce of the pice, vi ś, viii d. extending in the
haill to the sowme of xvi lib.
Item at ewin to the swper, fowrtein peis of flesche meatis,
baikin with thrie peckis of flour, all - xl s.
Item, for the baikin of the samyn, X s.
Item mair, for hony to the cwnigis, xiij Ś. iiijd.
- SUPPER.
Item mair at ewin, fourtie aucht peis of sueit meit, of my awin -
furnissing, pryce xvi lib.
Vpone the xi of August.
Item, furneist of my awin flour, ix peckis, pryce vi lib.
Item, for threttie sex peis of flesche meat baiking, xxiii ş.
Item mair that samyn day, thriescoir and thrie pice of desert,
half merkis the peis, extendis to - xxi lib. vi ä. viii d.
Item, fywe peis of raisit wark, x lib.
Summa, lxxx lib. iiij Ś. Allouit in the House compt, WILLIAM ORME.
FLESCHOWRE COMPT.
My Lond Durkis Court, begynand vpone the first of August.
Item in the first, ane syd of beif and ane syd of weill, - xij lib.
Item mair that samyn day, four scheip, xij lib. v.j Ś. viijd.
174. ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item mair that samyn day, twa scheip, v lib, vi s. viij d.
Item mair that samyn day, thrie lambis, iiij lib. x 5.
Item mair that samyn day, xi tungis, iij lib.
Item mair that same day, four hocheis, xxvi S. viii d.
Item mair on Mononday the thrid day of August, ane syd of beif, viij lit.
Item mair that same day, twa scheip, - vi lib.
Item mair that same day, ane lamb, xxxvi ä.
Item that same day, ane quarter of sewit, xv.jä.
Item mair on Tysday the fourt of August, ane syd of weill, at v lit.
Item mair that same day, twa scheip, v lib, xiii ś. iiijd.
Item mair that same day, ane lamb, xl S.
Item mair that same day, sex tungis, xxx 8.
Item mair on Weddinsday the fyft of August, ane syd of beif, at viij lib.
Item mair that same day, twa scheip, vi lib.
Item on Thurisday the sext of August, ane lamb, xl 5.
Item that same day, twa hocheis, xiii S. iiijd.
Item mair on the sevint day of August, ane lamb, xxvi Ś. viii d.
Item to him on Setterday the aucht of August, for ane syd of beif, xi lib.
Item to him on Mononday the tent of August, for vitungis, XXX. Š.
Item on Tysday the xi of August, for thrie scheip, pryce ix lib. xiii ś. iiijd.
Item mair that same day, ane syd of ane young kow, vii lib.
Item mair that same day, ane lamb, xl 3.
Item mair that samyn day, ten tungis, - liiij Ś.
Item mair that same day, for hochis, xxvi S. viii.d.
Item mair that samyn day, ane bak stay of the hender leg,
and ame bak stay of the forder leg, to be rostis, vii liff.
Item mair that same day, thrie pund of chewat, xijs.
Summa of the Compt abonewretin, is j xxix lib. ii ś. iiijd.
Allouit in the compt of the House,
WILLIAM ORMr.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 17s
Item mair, quhilk com out of Straithearne, ane karcage of
fyne beiff, xiiij lib.
Item mair, xx caponis at xij Ś. the piee, xij lib.
Item, of myir fowllis xxvi, at viš, Vijd, the pice, viij lib, xii; S. iiijd.
Item, for sex mwtoun bukis, xiiij lib.
Item, for twa stenis of cheis, liii ś. iiii d.
Summa, li lib, vi s. viijd. Allouit in compt of house,
WILLIAM QRME.
HERBIS AND SELLATIS,
Wpone the penult day of Julii 1607 yeiris, the Compt of the Herbis
furneist to my LoRD DUIK sen his cumming to the Abbay, be me
JAMES FRISKEIN.
Item mair, furneist be me to my Lordis howse for herbis, the
penult day of Julij, xii ş
Item mair vpone Fryday the last day of Julii, for herbis, xii ś
Item mair vpone Setterday the first day of August 1607 yeiris,
furneist be me to his Lordsebipis howse, for cwReys xxiiijš.
for dowbill furnesehing.
Item mair vpone Sonday, xiis.
Item mair vpone Mononday the thrid day of August 1607, xii ś.
Item mair for Tyisday, xii ś.
Item mair for Weddinsday, Xii ś.
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Item mair for Thuirsday, xijš.
Item mair for Fryday, xii Š
Item mair vpone the aucht day of August 1607, xii ś
Item mair vpone Sonday the nynt day of August 1607, xii ş.
Item mair vpone the tent day of August, xii ş.
Item mair vpone Tyisday, xij Š.
Summa of this, ix lib. Allouit in house comptis, WILLIAM ORME.
176 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
THOMAS FENTOWNIS COMPT.
- Memorandum.
Item in primis, for a dwssoun of torchis, pryce of the torche
viii ś, quhilk extendis to - ? iiij lib. xvi š.
Item, for thrie coffer claithis, and thrie watter claithis, and , -
ane dwssoun of serueitis, -
Item mair, twa furneist beddis, quhilk extendis to xl $. in the
nycht, inde for the haill claythis furneist, vilib. x s.
Item mair, delyuered to Jhon Towris to be depursed in the
mercatt, the sowm of threttie tua pundis, hard and examinat -
according to the particular, . - xxxij lib.
Summa of thir twa particularis, is xliij lib. v.j Ś. -
Allouit in the house comtis,
- WILLIAM ORME.
LADINSTERIs compTE.
Item mair, I haif ressauit of neaprie, first, thrie dwssoun and
aucht, and thrie coveris; I hawe ressauit nixt agane, twa
dwssoun and ane half and thrie towallis, and twa cuveris;
mair, thrie dwssoun of neaprie, and thrie towallis, and iii
cuveris; mair, sex dwssoun and vi cuveris, and thrie watter
cloithis ; mair, twa dwssoun and twa cuveris and four
towallis, . vi lib.
Item mair, for wesching of my Lordis grace lyning and lanis .
and schirtis, . . vi lib.
Summa of this, is xii lib. Allouit in the House comptis,
WILLIAM ORME.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 177
JAMES DALZELLIS COMPTE.
WALTER MURRAY servitour to my LoRD DUIK of LENNox,
Comptis gevin vp be James Dygell, merchand in Edinburgh.
In the first, gevin at your command to Walter Alexander, xx lit.
Item, for takeing of my Lordis Grace [geir] that come in the -
first schip to the Abbay, - x lib. x s.
Item, for naillis, and to thame that put we the tapestrie in
the Kingis howse, . ii lib.
Item, for the frawcht of the haill geir that come in the first
schip, and thrie men wictuallis and passage, jºxx lib.
Item mair, twa twnes of wyne layit in my Lordis howse at
your command, at twa hundreth xxx lib, the twin, is iiijºlz lib.
Item, for the inlaying of it in Leith, and vpbringing of the
same to the Abbay, . v. lib. v.js, viii d.
Item, for twa Dysboles to my Lord chalmer, xxxij lib.
Summa of this compte, the xy day of Aguste, is viºxlix lib. xviš. viijd.
- - WILLIAM ORME.
Resawit heirof, - - ijº lxxx lib.
Swa restis the forsaid day, iij likix lib. xvi s. viijd.
Mair ressawit the xvii day of Agwste, it xl lib. x, dles.
Swa restis yit of this compt, - ij" xx lib. .
Item mair, to James-Dalzell for ane stand of new dameis, quhilk.
I borrowit fray him to serwe my Lord at the Parliament,
quhilk is stollin and away, and can nocht be had, the Sowme of
Cause Robert Monteith be eaſaminat heiranent, and he will
declair his conscience, and quhat is in his hand restand, j bort
claith of dormik and ia, serwittis ; as for any vther he knawis
nocht thairof, althocht he was Pantrieman.
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178 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
BAXTERIS COMPTE.
The Compt of the breid furneissit to my Lord Duikis Grace hous,
begining vpone Mononday the xxvij of Julii 1607.
Item in the first, sent downe that samyn nycht, being the xxvii
of Julii, - . - yxx
Item vpone Weddinsday the xxix of Julii, ifixx
Item vpone Fryday the last of Julii, iiijº
Item vpone Setterday the first of August, xvijº
Item mair that samyn day, of men menschotis, vijº
Item vpone Sonday the secund of August, vixx
Item vpone Mononday the thrid of August, vjºr
Item vpone Tyisday the fourt of August, vjºr
Item mair of men menschotis that samyn day, iijº
Summa of this of flour, four menschotis, extendis to sevin
hundreth fyve ** And of men menschotis iiiii”.
The Compt of the flowr furneist to the kiching, and to baik my
Lordis venisoun meat with.
Item in the first, sent downe to the kiching, half peck, vi s. viijd.
Item mair for thrie peis of venisoun to baik thame, iii pecks, xl Š.
Item mair to baik four gryter peis, fyve peckis, at - iii lib, vi s. viii d.
Item mair for the baiking of ewerie ane of thame and wark-
manschip, at sex schillingis the pice, summa of the sevin
extendis to t- * , xlij Ś.
The secund compt, beginand vpone Thuirisday the sext of
August, i - iiiixx
Item vpone Fryday the sevint of August, vixx
Item vpone Setterday the aucht of August, . - vixs
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 179
Item vpone Sonday the mynt of August, yxx
Item mair of men menschotis that samyn day, - Hixx
Item vpone Mononday the tent of August, vixx
Item vpone Tyisday the xi of August, xiixx
Item mair of menschotis that samyn day, vi xx
Summa of this compt of four flour menschotis extendis to vi'iii”
And of mane flour menschotis, to jºiiixx
.Summa of the twa comptis of four flour menschotis,
extendis to xiiij°xl
And of mane flour menschotis, to iij** at xii d. the pece, inde
j" v lib, and vij lib. xv Š. iiii d.
CANDILL COMPTE.
My Lord Duikis Compt of Candill that his servantis has ressawit
frame, HENDRIE TUEDIE, to my Lordis vse.
Item, ressault vpone the xxvi day of Julii ij stane of Candill, vilib. viiis,
Item, ressauit vpone the thrid day of August vther twa stane
of Candill, pryce of the stane, vi lib. viii ś.
Item moir, a stane of candle, - iij lib. iiij Ś.
Summa of this, xvi lib. Allouit in the House compt. WILLIAM ORME,
COMPT WESCHELLIS BoERow1NGE.
WALTER MURRAYIs CoMPT.
Item, for the len of tuentie fyve dwssoun of veschell, and ge keipit
thame xv dayis, at iiijs, the dwssoun everie aucht dayis, is x lib.
Item, for the len of thrie dwssoun and ane half of new Inglis
weschell, at viii schillingis the dwssoun everie aucht dayis,
and 3e keipit thame xv dayis, is - - . lvi S.
180 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
* * * * * * * c e o 'º e G
Item, that thair wantis ane plait ane cover and ane trunchear,
veyand thrie pund ten vnce, at x 5, the pund, is xxxvi S. iij d.
Item mair, for caireing hame his weschell, xii ś.
Summa of this is xvi lit. viij Ś. iiij d.
Allouit in House comptis, WILLIAM ORME.
CERTANE ConFECTIONIs.
THOMAs ADAMSoun his Compt, vpone the furnissing of
skrothertis confeitis, succour almondis and ryise.
Item, furneissit be him xxxvi buistis, at xviij lib.
Item, vi pund ryise, at - Yl S.
Summa of this, xx lib. Allouit in House comptis, WILLIAM ORME.
JHON DOBBEYIS COMPT.
THE DUIKIs CoMPT or FLESCHE.
Item in the first, ane kow, xxij lib.
Item mair, ane dwsSoun tungis, iiij lib.
Item mair, thrie mwtoun bowkis, price of the pice ij lib. ix lib.
Item mair, ane syde of beif, pryce xx lib.
Item mair, ane hudroun weill, the pryce of it viij lib.
Item mair, ane lamb, pryce xxx S. iiijd.
Allouit in Hous comptis, WILLIAM ORME.
BEARE COMPT.
Item, furnissit be G.ILLIE FERRIE to my Lord Duikis howse, fra Thuiris-
day the xxiij of Julii to Sonday the ix of August for Beir to the pottis
xxxii d, ewerie day, twa dayes thair wes bot xvid, in the day, on Sonday
twa schillingis, on Mononday twa schillingis, on Tysday xxxii d.
The iust compt that I haif furneist in the haill is, xxx S. viii d.
Allouit in House compt, WILLIAM ORME.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. - 181
THE COMPT of payment of Servand feis and wagis at the Par-
liament in Edinburgh, be WILLIAM ORUMIs advise. -
Item, to Williame Stevin and Rod Aiking, twa cuikis that
seruit in tyme of banket, iij lib.
Item, to the scullgieman, - iij lib.
Item, to the woman that sowpit the howssis and brocht in the
Watter, - xliij Ś. iiijd.
Item, to William Skeldoun that cairiit provisioun to the plaice, iii lib.
Item, to the dum man and his fallow that seruit the cop buird, viii lib.
Item, to the goung man that seruit with John Craig in kiching, iii lib.
Item, to the boy that wreitt Mwrkeis comptis in the laidnar
and kiching, xxvi S. viii d.
Item, to Mwrkie that same day, four leadis of coillis, ºxxx s.
Item, to Nicola in Edinburgh at William Orumis desyre till
ane compt for his chairges in Edinburgh, and be the way to
Glasgow, - vi lib.
Item, to Thomas Robesoun to be his chairgis to Glasgow, xlviii ś.
Item, to Mwrkie maister cuik to be his expenssis in Edin-
burgh, and be the way to Glasgow, iiii lib. xvi s.
Item, to Walter Alexander for his horse wages to Glasgow, iii lib.
Item, mair to him for his wagis in Edinburgh, and be the way
to Glasgow to ane compt, Vi lib.
Item, to Robert Ross and Arthour Glen for bearing vp stolpis,
and serueing, - iii lib.
Item, to thrie cuik boyes that steirit the speittis and skoureit
the Weschell, xxxvi š.
Item, to John Craig, cuik for his wagis, conforme to his con-
ditioune, ix lib.
Item, to Thomas Fentounis man that keipit the vter get, xii ş.
Item, to William Orum for his horse to Glasgow, iii lib.
182 - ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item, to Walter Alexander for iii quartis of wyne, eſter the
wyne wes done in the seller in Edinburgh, - iii lit.
Item, to him for glassis and cokis to the barellis, xxiiii ś.
Summa of this, is lxviii lib. xvi š. WILLIAM ORME.
GOLDSMYTHIS compte.
My LoRD DUIKIs CoMPT.
Item, furnisit to the buist xxiii vaces, at iii lifi, the vnce, lxix lib.
Item, furnissit to the gilting to the roismobillis xxvii granis, at :
ix lib. x 5. the roismobill, extending to - xhix HE. xviii ś.
Item, furneissit of quik siluer to the wark xv vnces v š. the
wnce, extending to iiii lit. xv. d.
Item, for the fasone xvi crownis, at iii lib. xviii ś, the crowne,
extending to iii” ii lit. viii ş.
Summa, jº likxxix lib. ii ś, vi ä. WILLIAM ORME.
- MILKE COMPTE,
Frome the xxviij of Julii to the xi of August, for ten pyntis
of milk, being fyve fische dayes pryce of the pynt, xx d.
Item mair to the feist, ane pynt of milk, xx d.
Item mair, four pyntis of curdis and quhay, viš. viii d.
Item, for reim, xiii S. iv. d.
- . AILL COMPTE. -
Item, for fourscoir fyftenegallounes of aill, furneist at the par-
liament, conforme to Walter Alexander compt, li lifi, vi ä. viii d.
Summa of this compt, is lij lib. xvi ś, viijd. -
Allouit in the house compt, -
# * * * 4. WILLIAM ORME.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 183
DEBWRSINGIS by THE Hows IN EDINBURGH.
Delyuerit to JAMEs KNILAND at sindrie tymes to serue
my Lordis purse, befoir his Grace gangand to the north, -
conforme to his tikat of resait, vj“ lxxxi lib. xiii ś. iiii d.
Item, for ane goldin pestment to hing the gryt seall to my
Lordis commissioune, - v lib. vi ä. viii d.
Item, for reid wax to the said seall, xxx S.
Item, for registrating and writting of my Lordis commissioun
in Latein, • xviii lib.
Item, to Mr James Raith and to his man in drink siluer, for
the gryt seall to the commissioune, vii lib.
Item, on the first day of August, to go out of Edinburgh to
the Wemeis with ane letter direct frome my Lord, XX s.
Item, to twa men that cairreit weschell to the abbay, xiii S. iiii d.
Item, to Patrik Nemach, merchand in Edinburgh, for ane
gryt string and ane gryt fass of gold and silk to hing the
buist with the commissioun, xiii lib. xv.j Š.
Item, vpone the sevint day of August, gevin at Williame
Orum and Mwrkies desyre for xv lead of coillis, vi lib.
Item, to puir folkis at my Lordis command, at the abbay win-
dow of Halyrudhous, xl S.
Item, vpone the viij day of August for twa hundreth peiris, xl S.
Item, the same day for thrie hundreth chereis, iii lib.
Item, to the puir at the head of the Cannogait in Edinburgh, liii ś. iiii d.
Item, to James Robisoun to pay for aucht horse waiges to
cairye my Lordis servandis to Steirling fra Edinburghe, xxiiij lib.
Item, to Walter Keir to gif ane servand of my Lord Orkinnayis
for drink siluer of ane horse, ix lib.
Item, to Quintein Lowe to gif in drink siluer to Sir John -
Schairpis man for siluer wark, quhilk wes borrowit, iii. Hib.
184 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item, vpone the sevin day of August for sevin lead of coillis, xlix 5.
Item, gevin for aucht wax candill to the twa banket dayis, iii lib. x 5.
Item, gevin to Thomas Mwsset for the last schipis ffrawcht
that brocht hame my Lordis geir conforme to the particular, jºxx lib.
Item, gevin to my Lord his Grace selff at the going to the
north, .
- - jº xx lib.
Item, gevin in Hamiltoun at my Lordis Grace command to
ane man gif pearis to his Grace, *. iij lib.
Item, in Hammiltoun to ane number of puir folkis, being sindrie
companyes, liij Ś. iiijd.
Item, to the drummeris and pyparis thair, - xl S.
Item, to the brodis at the kirk duris in Glasgow on Thuiris-
day the xxi of August and Sonday the xxiiij of August, iiii lib. x 5.
Item, to puir folkis be the way, quhen my Lordis Grace come
first out of Stirling to Glasgow, xxxiii ś. iiii d.
Item, to Walter Alexander for the carage of trunkis and bein
puncheounes to the sellar, - lvi ś.
WILLIAM ORME.
My Lord Duikis Grace horse chargeis, at his Gracis cuming from
court in England the xxvi of Julij 1607. .-
Item, the said xxvi of Julij enterit in my Lordis stable at
Halyruidhowse vii horsis, ilk horse in the day ane pec aittis
at vii S. and iii ś. in stray, montis ilk day to iij lib. x 5.
The xxvii day, Alexander Muirheidis hors absent, remanit sex
horsis at - - - - iii lib.
The xxviii day, sex horsis, - iii lib.
The xxix day, sex horsis, . - iii lib.
The penult day, Alexander Muirheidis horse cam again, quhilk
makis vij horsis at iij lib. x 5.
1607. - DUKE OF LENNOX. 185
The last of Julii, vii horses at - iii lib. x 5.
The first of August, Thomas Grahame cam with twa horsis, -
quhilk makis nyne horses at is - iiii lib. x 5.
The secund of August, nyne horsis at iiii lib. x 5.
The third of August, nyne horsis at iiii lib. x 5.
The fourt of August, enterit the maister stableris gray naig,
quhilk makes ten horsis, at V lib.
The fyft of August, entered ane horse from my Lord of Rox-
broch, quhilk makis xi horsis, at - v lib. x 5.
The sext of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
The sevint of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
The aucht of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
The nynt of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
The tent of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
The elevint of August, xi horsis, at v lib. x 5.
My Lord of Orknayis broun horse enterit for bering my Lordis
Grace fute mantill at Parliament the first of August, and
remanit to the xii of August exclusive, being in all xi dayis,
at x $. in corne and stray, montis to v lib. x 5.
Item for breid to him and all the rest of my Lordis Grace
horsis induring the forsaid tyme, being xxxiiijdousane at
vi š, the dowsane, inde x lib. iiii ś.
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ExTRAoRDINAR CHARGE MAID IN My LoRD GRACE STABLE.
Item first, for nyne elnis halfell hardin cloyth for horse scheitis, iii.lib. x s.
For four pair stirrap ledderis, at xiii S. iiii d. a pair, liii ś. iiii d.
For tua new harnessingis, I Š.
For four pair girdis, xlviii ş.
For thrie pair stirrap irnis, xxxvi Š.
For thrie new bittis, xxiiii ś,
186 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
For thrie howsing girdis, xxx S.
For sum towis to be bindingis for horsis, xii ś
For ane horse kaim, - xvi Š.
For sewing round about the frenze of my Lordis fut mantill, x 5.
For mending my Lordis post sadill, and the rest of the sadillis, xiiii ś
For twa ledder heid stealis with thair loudges, xl Š.
For sewing the thrie scheittis for the horsis, V lib.
For tuelf gang horse schoune, at xx 8. the gang, Inde
For the bluiding of ane horse, and giffing him a drink,
xii lit.
XXX S.
For taking the hoik of the paidges broun naig, . X Š.
For thrie cariaige horsis the xij of August from Edinburgh to
Sterwelling, at iii lib, ilk horse, - ix lib.
For five sadillit horsis, that is for George Cleland merchant,
Robert Setoun, Robert Lecky and James Robeson, at iii lib.
a peice, Inde xy lib.
Summa of bothe the sydis, vijxx x lib. iiij Ś. iiij d.
Quhairof resault fra Walter Murray, xxiiij lit.
And fra William Orme, xxxvi lib.
Swa restis fourscoir ten poundis iiij Ś. iiijd., to be payit be Walter
Murray chalmerlane. This compte is sein be me James Cleyland
and Walter Keir, AT Glasgow the xxvi of August 1607.
- WALTER KEIR. J. CLELANDE.
This compte preceding is satisfeit and payit be Walter Murray of
Casaquhy, chalmerlaine to my Lord Duikis Grace, and theirfoir quyt-
clameis and dischargeis the said Walter Murray and all viheris theirof
for now and euer be this present, subscrivit be Walter Keir for me,
James Robeson burges of the Cannowgaite, AT Edinburgh the sext of
December 1607, befoir thir witnes, WALTER KEIR.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 187
My LoRDE DUIKIS GRACE Compte, quhen and sen his Grace come
fray the Northe, beginande at the Ferrey of Brwchtie and Portna-
craige, wrone the Mononday the 21 day of September 1607.
Item, to the boitmen at Portnacraige for careinge his Grace
horsis and cumpany, iiii lib. x 5.
Item, giffin ane man to gange to his Grace to the northe with
letteris, at his Grace awin letteris command, iiii lib.
Item, on the 22 of September to ane of his Gracis futmen to
gange to Edinburgh to prowyde for his Grace, xl Š.
Item, WPone the 23 of September to ane of his Grace futmen
to gange to Brwinteland to prowyde for his Grace, and to
Dumfermelin with ane letter, - xl Š.
Item, for twa horses owt of Brwinteland to Sanct Androis to
twa of his Gracis serwantis, iii lib. xiii ś. iv. d.
Item, in Sanct Androis in Mr Henry Russellis hows, for Mr
Burnettis chalmer and wither gentilmen of his Grace, and
for thair extraordinaris twa nychtis, and for ane supper to
his Gracis haill cumpanie thair, xviii lib.
Item mair in Sanct Androis, in Androwe Duncansownis howse
for ane denner and ane supper to my Lord Gracis haill cum-
panie and grwmes also, and wther extraordinaris, xviii lib.
Item, at the brige of Kirkkaldie in drink siluer, at his Gracis
command, the 23 of September, xxiiii lib.
Item, for my Lord Gracis horses in Sanctandrois twa nychtis,
beinge in number xviii horsis, ewerie horse twa peckis of
aitis twa nychtis, in aitis ii lib. if at sex S. the peck, inde x lib. xv Š.
Item for stray to the said horses for twa nychtis, twa Ś. the
horse, iii lib. xii ś.
Item, in Brwinteland for my Lordis Grace supper and denner
wpone the 23 of September, my Lord Mar, my Lord
188 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Bwrle, my Lord Erskine and wtheris being with his Grace
thair extendis to xxxvi lib.
Item, to waigis to the serwantis thair all being feit be James
Clelande, iiii lib.
Item, in Brwinteland for Nedis bede, Thomas Grahames, and
the grwmes with thame, xxiiii lib.
Item, to my Lordis Grace on the ferie cumand ower to Edin-
burgh the said day to play at the kairtis in the boite, ix lib.
Item, in Edinburgh giffin at my Lorde Blantyris command, to
James Kynneris man, for making ane band conserninge my
Lady Athoill, to his Grace, vi lib. xii ś.
Item, the said day to Alexander Dalapis man, for gettinge
certane wretis to produce befoir the Commissar, at George
Hwchesownis desyre, xxiiii S.
Item, to the officeris in the constrey in Edinburgh the 26 of
September, my Lordis Grace being thair, xl Š.
Item, on the nixt Thwrsday thairefter, George Hwchesown
and Mr Robert Lermonthe being present with the clerk
in the constrey, vi lib.
Item, the said day to the officeris thair, xl Š.
Item, for my Lordis Grace expenssis in Edinburgh in John
Kynlochis hows, betwix Thursday the 24 of September and
Mononday the 28 of September, conforme to his particular
compte, iij" xlviii lib. viii ş.
Item mair, to the serwantis of that hows, be William Ormes
sicht, vi lib.
Item, for his Gracis horse in Edinburgh the said tyme, con-
forme to the particular compt thairof, subscryveit be George
Clelande, xxxii lib. xvi s.
Item, to James Robesoun for fowre feit horses the 28 of Sep-
tember to Sterling with his Grace serwantis, xii lib.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 189
Item, to Alexander Cleland to gange with his Grace to Strivi-
linge, to gif poore or ony wther particularis, xxxvi lib.
Item, for Mr Birnettis bed and his extraordinaris, and wheris
with him in Edinburgh thair, - iii lib.
Item, to Drummeris that come to his Grace thair the said tyme, iii lib.
Item mair, to ane quhisler and ane fidlar the 26 day thair, iii lib.
Item, gifin for moyeninge of ane thowsand merkis to my Lady
Athoill, and for making the band thairof, x lib.
Item, for my awin charges in Edinburgh fray Monanday the
28 of September to Sonday the fowrt of October, awaiting
on his Gracis twrnes thair, my self horse and man, x lib.
Item, fºrmesit be me to my Lady Athoill in Edinburgh, at
his Gracis speciall command, betwixe the fowrtene day of
Agwste to Fryday the 2 day of October 1607, conforme to
the particulare compte gewin thairwpone and subscryvit
be hir Li serwant, vje lxxxii lib. xiij Ś. iv. d.
WILLIAM ORME.
THE CompTE of HIS GRAcIs ExPENSIS IN GoINGE To EDINBURGH
and beinge thair wrone the sext of October 1607.
Item, to the pywire be the way betwix Glasgow and Donypais,
the sext day, *- xvi Š.
Item, wbone the sewint day cuminge to Edinburgh to the pyre
be the way at the fute of Leithwynde, beinge twa cumpaneis, xlviš. viiid.
Item, in Lithgowe, at his Gracis command, to ane boy to gang
to Striuelinge, xxiiii S.
Item, on the sevinte day to ane fitmane to gang to Dredane
to Mr Alexander Kinge, xii ş.
Item, to Mr Edwarte Merschell commissar clark, for extract-
ing decreit Adherens, for precept and his awin waigis, at his
Gracis command, xliiii lib.
190 ACCOUNT OF THE 1607.
Item, to his man in drynk silwer, iii liff.
Item, to his Gracis house in Edinburgh the said tyme, con-
forme to the particular compt, v liff. xx d.
Item, the said day to George Clelande to pay for the gray
horse beinge in Lastarige quhen he wes spilte, viii liff.
Item, on the 8 day of October quhen his Grace lape on horse,
to the pvire in Edinburgh, at Kinlochis, xl 5.
Item, to Jhone Kynloche for his Grace expenssis, beinge with
him on Wodinsday at nycht at supper, and the 8 of October
to brekfast in ordinare wyne howsmeill, conforme to the
compt, xxxv lib. xvii ś. iiijd.
Item, on the aucht of October, quhen his Grace lape on owt
of Edinburgh to Donypais gewin to George Cleland to gif
the pvire be the way, vi lib.
Item, the said day send with my man efter his Grace, seing I
geid nocht my self and gifin to Alexander Cleland, xviii lib.
Item, wbone the 9 day of October for letteris to chairge my
Lady befoir counsall on Thwrsday the 15 of October, xl S.
Item, for my awin expenssis in Edinburgh, beinge derectit be
his Grace to stay the 9, 10, 11 dayis of October, iiii lib.
WILLIAM ORME.
My LoRDIs GRACE CoMPT, debwrsit be me at his Grace cuminge
to Edinburghe to Counsall wrone Wodinsday the xiiij of October,
quhair his Grace remanit in Edinburgh Thwrsday and Fryday,
and raid on Setterday the xvij day of October to Linlithgow.
Item, gifin to the pvire at Leithwyndheid, at the fit of Canno-
gait, and quhen his Grace lape on, iiii lib. x 5.
Item, gifin to Johnne Kynloche to helpe James Kneland to
pay his Grace charges in Edinburgh the said tyme, - iiixx lib.
1607. DUKE OF LENNOX. 191
Item, gifin to Jhonne Ramsay the said tyme to pay for sex
qwartis of wyne he brocht owt of the towne to serwe his
Grace, becaus it wes better wyne, vi lib.
Summa, iiixx x lib. x 5.
WILLIAM ORME.
My deburseing in Striuiling quhen his Grâce come thair with his
Grace dochter vpone the 13 day of Nowember 1607.
Item, gifin to Cristall Alexander the said day at my Lord
Blantyris command, quhilk James Stewart suld payit of
bygane furneisinge, 1 lib.
Item, wrone the 14 day of Nowember, giffin in Striuiling to
Alexander Clelande to serwe my Lordis adois, xviii lib.
Item, the said day to gownge Mynto for silwer he gaif owt in
Edinburgh quhen decreit Adherens wes gifin owt, and he
become cawtioun thairfore, iii Jib.
Item, wyone the 12 day, gifin to the fyt mane to gange to
Edinburgh at his Grace command for letteris Wpon commis-
sioun for Jwstice Cowrt, and with letteris to Dalape, xl Š.
All this former compt did come to laite at vii of the clock befoir my
depairtur towardis England, so that I had no tym to ea'amine the same,
and so hes drawin a scoir at the end of ewerie pagen that no moir aug-
mentatiown salbe. And so being assured of the Compter his homestie,
I may the moir bauldlie subscryve his comptis, remitting the compting
to yow Auditouris, quha I dout nocht hes knawlege of the Comptar his
homestie as said is.
WILLIAM ORME.
INDENTURE OF A HORSE RACE BETWIXT
THE EARLS OF MORTON AND ABERCORN
AND THE LORD BOYD.
ANNO M.D.C.XXI.

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HoRSE racing has never borne a prominent place among the
national amusements of Scotland. So long as this country con-
tinued a separate kingdom, war formed at once the occupation
and the amusement of her nobles, who were from neceſsity
not leſs than from choice amateurs of the art. The noblest of
domestic animals was regarded as an article of use rather than
of luxury, and the cares of the legislature were directed to
preserve horses from injuries by malice or careleſsneſs, and
from exportation beyond the realm. In a country little adapt-
ed for the pastimes of the chase, and a climate alike unfavour.
able to the breeding of stock and to the abundant supply of
suitable sustenance, speed and pedigree were scarcely attended
to. Accordingly the race course was rarely resorted to by
our early Kings and their aſsociates, who preferred the martial
exercises of weaponshaws and butts, or sought relaxation in
cards, dice and other games of hazard. One entry, however,
I96 INDENTURE 1621.
occurs in the Treasurer's accounts of 1504, and must be con-
sidered as an exception. It is in these terms:
“Item, the fecund daij of Maij to Dande Doule quhilk
“he wan fra the King on hors rynning, xxviijs.”
It does not appear on what course this royal match was run,
but in 1552, a race had been established at Haddington for a
silver bell, as is shewn by the following extract from the re-
cords of that Burgh. -
1552, May 10.—The quhilk day John Forrois, burgess of Hading.
toun, came cautioner that ane worthy and mychty lord, George lord
Seytoun, sall bring the silver bell that his horse wan upon the x day of
Maij the yeir of God I" W* fiftie twayeiris, to the said burgh of Had-
ingtoun, upon the thrid day of November the samyn yeir of God, and
present the same to the provost and baillies of the said burgh of Hading-
toun, with ane augmentation lyke as the said lord pleases to augment for
his honour; and the same bell to be run for the said day, swa that the
wynnar thereof may have the same again; and for observing of thir pre-
missis the said John Forrois has actit himself in the common buyk of
Hadingtoun, the said x day of May, the yeir of God above specifit.
In the course of the following century this new taste of
our ancestors had gained such ground that their exceſsive paſ.
sion for the turf called for the interposition of Parliament.
The preamble of Stat. 1621 chap. xiv. is in these terms:
“Confiddering the monyfold evillis and inconvenientis whiche
“enſew upoun carding and dyceing and horſe races, whiche
“ar now over muche frequented in this cuntrey to the gryit
“ prejudice of the liegis; and becaus honeſt men ought not
1621. OF A HORSE RACE. 197
“expect that anye wynning hade at anye of the games abone
“writtin can do thame guid or proſper,” &c. The statute
goes on to limit all wagers upon horse races to the sum of
one hundred merks, under penalty of forfeiture of the surplus
to the poor of the parish.
The records of other Royal Burghs afford curious notices
of the progreſs of this paſsion. Some such have been re-
covered by the care of Mr Motherwell from the records of
Paisley, and appeared in the Paisley Magazine. The earliest
of them is to this effect:
Act ament the Silver Bell.—April 1608. Item, it is concluded that
ane silver bell be made of 4 oz. weight, with all diligence, for ane Horse
race yearly to be appointed within this burgh, and the bounds and day
for running thereof to be set down by advice of my Lord Earl of Aber-
corn Lord Paisley and Kilpatrick.
The prize thus instituted was, like that run for at Hadding-
ton, subject to the arrangements of modern champion-cups,
and the owner of the horse that “ bore away the bell”
was obliged to find caution, under a penalty of 100 punds,
for again producing it at the race of the following year,
while the stakes which accompanied it became his property.
All this, and other curious details, are fully set down in the
next “ačt” of the sporting bailies of Paisley.
Act setting downe ane hors Raiss.-Apud Paisslay decimo tertio die
mensis maij 1620. The quhilk day Andro Crawfurde and Jo Algeo
younger baillies of ye burghe thairof, with the counselle of the samyn
• Acta Pan. Jac. VI. Vol. IV. p. 618.
198 INDENTURE 1621.
being convenit in the tolbuith of the said bur', with advyce of ane mobill
and potent erle James erle of Abercorne &c. proveist of the said burghe,
for ordour taking with sundrie thingis concerning the commoune weill of
the samyn, and namelie anent the conclusioune of thair bell race and
efterschot, quhilk was of auld set doune and not effectuat. Thairfoir it
is now concludit and ordanit be the saidis baillies and counsell, with ad-
vyse and consent foirsaid, that yeirlie in tyme cuming thair bell raice
salbe rwne on the saxt day of Maij in manner following, viz. to be start
at the gray stane callit St. Connallis stane, and fra that richt eist to the
lytill house at the calsayend of Renfrew, and fra that the hie Kingis way
to the walnuik of Palslaye; and quhat horse first comes over a scoir at
Renfrew sall have ane dowbill aingell, and the horse
and maister yairof that first comes over the scoir at the said walnuikof
Paislay, sall have the said bell with the said burghe's airmes yairvpoun,
for yat yeir, togidder with the rest of the gold that salbe gevin in with
the said bell in maner following ; except ane dowbill aingell that salbe
given to the secund horse and his maister yat comes nixt over the scoire
to the formest; and to that effect the saidis bailleis and counsell present
and to come, with advyse of thair said lord proveist, obleistyame to give
in yeirlie with the said silver bell the pieces of gold following, viz. the
said lord proveist ane dowbill aingell, the saidis bailleis and counsell ane
vther dowbill aingell. Lyikas the noblemen haifand landis within the
parochin of Paislay, as my lord Sempill ane singell aingell, my lord
Rose, my lord of Blantyre, everie ane of thame ar
willing, for the vphalding of the said bell race, yelrlie to give in ane
single aingell yairvnto ; and everie awner of the horse that rwnes to pro-
duce ane singill aingell of gold to the said bailleis befoir the foir. The
horse be drawen out, lyikas all the awnneris of the horses that sall happen
to ryne yelrlie salbe obleist to be present within the bur' of Paislaye,
dayes at leist befoir the said raice day, and thair to be ready with
thair ryderis befoir ten houris befoir nowne, and therydaris to be weyit at
162: . OF A HORSE RACE. 199
the trone of the said bur' of Paislaye stane wecht; quhair
the maisteris or viheris haifand power of thame salbe present, with the
rydaris in the tolbuithe of the said burghe, for gifing up thair names, cast-
ing of the dyce for thair places in outleiding and the wandhandis. And
becaus this present yeir is so far spent, it is concludit be the said lord
proveist and vther noblemen, with advise of the saidis bailleis and coun-
sell of yis bur', that the said bell raice be rune the first day of Junij
mixtocum, fra the gray stane callit St Connollis stane to the said lytill
house, and fra yat to the walneuk of Paislaye, as said is, haifand yair
horse alwayis dyetit in the said burt in manner foirsaid. And quha hap-
pens to wone the said bell, keipand thair wecht in manner above written,
being weyit againe at the said trone, sall have the said silver bell hung at
his horse heid, and ye gold foirsaid. With this provisioune, that the
maister of the horse or onie wtheris haifing power of him salbe actit as
principall, with ane sufficient burgess man as cautioner for him con-
junctlie and severallie, for productioune of the said bell to the saidis
baillies of Paislaye, als gude as he sall resave the samyn, with what aug-
mentatioune pleist him to adde, yelrlie apoun the said saxt day of Maij
befoir nyne houris in the morning, and quhatever horse beis not keepit
and dyettit within the said burgh the space foirsaid befoir the said day,
and led fra Paislaye to the starting place, they sall not be sufferit to runne
in tyme cuming, and quhatevir horse winnis the said silver bell three
yeiris togither, the maister owner yairof sall have the said silver bell to
himselff conforme to the manner of vther burrowes.
Item, it is concludit be the saidis bailleis and counsall of the said burº,
with advyse of my lord proveist, that ane efterschot raiss sall be run
yeirlie in all tyme cuming, fra ane scoir at the sclaittis of Ellirslie to ane
vther scoir at the calsayheid of the said bur' of Paislaye, be horse of the
price of ane hundreth merkis, ryddand with the wecht foirsaid, for ane
furnischeit sadill, quhilk salbe yeirlie presentit be the saidis bailleis of
Paislaye present and to cum, at the scoir at the said calsayheid. And
200 INDENTURE 1621.
quhilkis of the saidis horses that sall happin to cum first over the said
scoir at the said calsayheid, the awner yairof Sall have the said sadill,
stok thairof and covering; and the awner of the Secund horse, that sall
happin to cum secundlie over the said scoir, sall have the furnisching of
the said sadill then presentit: the ryders allwayis of the saidis horses
keipand thair wechtis they war weyit of befoir their furthdrawing, and
navther wayis.
The anxiety of the authorities of Paisley, in favor of a
pastime so much in contrast with what are now supposed the
characteristic pursuits of the citizens of that community, may
be perhaps accounted for by the taste and influence of their
provost, the Earl of Abercorne. The “ačt” last quoted is
drawn with the skill of a connoiſseur, probably from the special
dictation of that nobleman, and may have aſsisted in calling
from the legislature a few months afterwards the testimony
against turf sports which has been quoted. At all events, the
interposition of the law does not appear to have checked the
Earl's propensities to this species of gambling ; for about the
very day in which the statute was passed, he, in open breach of
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1621. OF A HORSE RACE. 2O1
ANE INDENTOUR OF ANE HoRSE RAISE BETUIX MY
LoRD MoRTOUN ABERCORNE AND BoyDE.
THE erle of Mortoun obleiflis himſelf to produce George
Rutherfuirdis Barb Naig :
The erle of Abircorne obleiflis him to produce his gray Naig :
My lord Boyd obleiffis him to produce his bay horſe:
Upone the conditiounis following. Thayar to run the firſt
Thuirſday of November nixtocum, thrie mett myleis of Cow-
per raiſe in Fyff, The waidger to be for euery horſe ten dowbill
Anegellis, The foirmeft horſe to win the haill thretty, Ilk rydare
to be aucht ſcottis ſtanewecht, And the pairtie not comperand,
or refuiſſand to configne the waidger, fall vndergo the foirfal-
tour of this ſowme, and that money foirfaltit ſalbe additt to
the ſtaik to be tane away be the wynner. Forder, we declair
it to be leſum to ony gentilman to produce ane horſe and the
lyke waidger, and thay ſalbe welcum. Subſcryuitt with
all our handis, AT Hammiltoune, the fyfteine day off Auguſt
1621.
MOR TON.
ABER CORNE.
B O Y D.
In 1622, the Paisley bell-race and cup were gained by another
of the parties to this curious obligation, the Lord Boyd.
The Mercurius Caledonius for the first week of March 1661
contains this quaint advertisement:
- 2 C
202 : INDENTURE 1621.
“The famous Horse Course of Cowper in Fyfe, which by the iniquity
“ of the times hath been so long buried, to the great dissatisfaction of our
“Nobility and Gentry, is to be run, conform to the institution, upon
“ the secund Tuesday of April: There is a considerable number of
“ Horses to carry on the work of the day; among others a Waywood of
“ Polonia hath a Tartarian horse. This noble Gentleman was pleased
“ to come to this Nation to congratulate our happy restauration; And it
“ is to be desired that such curious Gallants as comes from Forreign
“Nations to see the Course, that they do not as others formerly did,
“sleep in the time of the Solemnity. It is now clearly made to appear
“by a frequent concourse of Gentry in these Fields, that the report of
“ the Horse Infection was an absolute aspersion.”
The Cuper races are mentioned repeatedly by the gossipping
author of the Diary of Fife, who fixes their institution in 1621,
being the same year with the preceding indenture, and with
the prohibitory statute. It does not appear, however, that
the meeting of 1661 was graced by the novelties promised in
the Mercurius.
Apr. 30. 1661.—The laird of Philiphawch his horse wan the race att
Cuper this yeire, and Stobs horse surnamed Scot was second. Onlie thir
two ran, and as they went foorth so they returned, Philiphawch his
horse being still first. That which was formerlie money is now conuert-
ed to a large siluer cupe, worth 18 lib. sterl, or therby, as is reported.
The rydar that wan was Johne Hoome. On the morrow being the first
of May, they ran for a siluer cup, worth 5 lib. sterl. given in by the
prowest of Cuper for the tyme, videlicet, the earle of Rothes, wher
Powry Fotheringames horse in Angus caried the day, the same Johne
Hoome being the ryder, and William Arnot's horse, Fernys brother,
was the last of the fowre horses that ran. *
* Diary of Mr John Lamont, printed at Edinburgh 1830, p. p. 135, & 160.
1621. OF A HORSE RACE. 2O3
The town-council of Stirling were also patrons of a horse
race, and in 1664 the prize was a silver cup. More recently
the sports of that burgh became very diversified, and the relic
of courtly jousts, which it is easy to detect in the tilting match
patronized by the Guildry, is strangely contrasted with the
goose race proposed by the Maltmen.
Apr. 16. 1706.-The councill appoints intimatione to be made upon
the next May fair, and the two Fridayes before that there is ane goose
race to be ridden for by the maltmen of the burgh upon the Saturday
immediatlie before Whitsunday nixt, a little without the borrowes gate,
which is to begine at myne aclocke in the morning: As also ane horse
race for ane fyne sadle and furniture, to the value of tuelve poundis four-
teen shilling, to be ridden for the said day at one o'clock in the afternoon,
betwixt the burrowes gate and William Shirrayes in Cambusbarrone,
back and foir, value of each horse to run not to exceid sixty pound: As
also ane foot race betuixt the burrowes gate and Whytehill at thrie
aclock the said day for ane pair of stockings, new shoes and blue bonnet.
Apr. 21. 1707.—The councill appoints ane horse race to be run at
Stirling upone the day of May next for ane silver mug, to the
value of which is to bear in great letters STIRLING PRIZE :
As also ane foot race to be run for the said day by men only for ane pair
of shoes, ane pair of stockings, ane pair of gloves, and ane bonnet: As
also recommends to the gildrie, to order ane race for ane large gold ring
to be run for upon horse back with lances the foresaid day; and to the
maltmen to appoint ane goose race the samen day; and the omnigatherum
to appoint another race for ane load Sadle, ane pair of sods, and ane new
sack full of coals the samen day; and appoints all the foresaids races to
be put in the weekly gazzett for six weeks to come to the effect the
leidges may be acquainted thairwith.
LETTERS FROM HENRY II. KING
OF FRANCE, To HIS COUSIN MARY,
QUEEN DOWAGER OF SCOTLAND.
M D XLV— M D LIV.

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THE originals of the following Letters from Henry II. of France are
contained in the first volume of the Balcarras MSS., in the Advocates’
Library. That valuable collection is comprised in eight folio volumes,
lately arranged and bound. It was presented to the Advocates' Library
by Colin third Earl of Balcarras, in the early part of last century, and
consists of a mass of public documents, besides many papers relating to
the family of Balcarras, and to the University of St Andrews. The
public documents were probably collected by John Lindsay, parson of
Menmure, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, who was
appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal, Mar. 8. 1595, and Secretary of
State, May 26. 1596," and who is well known as an active statesman
in the reign of James VI.
HENRY THE SEconD of France, was the second son of Francis I.
He was born in 1518, succeeded to the crown in 1547, and died in 1559.
He married in 1533 the celebrated Catherine de' Medici, daughter of
the second Lorenzo, by whom he had Francis II., Charles IX., and
Henry III., successively Kings of France. His sister Magdalen was
the first wife of James V. of Scotland, but she died in 1537, a few
months after her marriage. Her widowed husband married afterwards
Mary of Guise, widow of Louis Duke of Longueville. Her descent
may be thus briefly sketched.
* Registrum Secreti Sigilli, lxviii. 126, 169.
208 LETTERS OF HENRY II.
Claud, a younger son of René II. Duke of Lorraine, obtained from
Francis I. the duchy of Guise, and had by Antoinette de Bourbon,
with other issue, Francis Duke of Guise, Claud Duke d'Aumale,
Charles and Louis both Cardinals, Francis Great Prior of France, René
Marquis d’Elbeuf, and Mary Queen of Scotland, to whom the following
letters are addressed. Her marriage with James V. took place in 1538,
and the only surviving child was Queen Mary, to whom, upon her father's
death in 1542, devolved that fatal heritage the crown of Scotland, when
she was but a few days old. She was carried to France in 1548, and
was married there in 1558 to the Dauphin, afterwards Francis II.
These observations may suffice to shew the relative position of
the parties referred to in the subjoined letters, most of which were ad-
dressed by Henry II. to his cousin the Queen Dowager of Scotland,
between 1545 and 1554. The letters themselves may however require
more particular notice.
The concluding words of compliment and the signature are always
in the King's hand-writing, and the counter-signature of Bordelet
his Secretary of State is generally appended. The first two letters
were written by Henry before he succeeded to the throne, and may be
regarded merely as expressions of kindness and affection. We are
informed by Lesley, that in the spring of 1545 Monsieur de Lorge
2
Mongumry, “ane knycht of the ordour of France,” arrived in Scotland
with 5000 troops to support the French party in that kingdom, bearing
with him the Order of St Michael to the Regent Arran, and to the
Earls of Angus, Huntly and Argyle. To this expedition the former
of these two letters appears to refer. Mongomery was captain of the
Scotish archer guard of Henry II., and from his lance that monarch
received, at a tournament held in honor of the marriage of the Princess
Elizabeth, the unfortunate wound of which he died in 1559. On this
accident it was remarked,
Quem Mars non rapuit, Martis imago rapit!
KING OF FRANCE. 209
The third of the series was written about the same time, to intercede
for John Lord d'Aubigny, who had been imprisoned in consequence of
the intrigues of his brother the Earl of Lennox with the English party.
From this interference it may be presumed that d'Aubigny was secretly
in favor of the French alliance for the young Queen, to which his bro-
ther was so actively opposed. This is the more probable from his being
in the service of France, in which he commanded the Scotish archers
and the garrison of Avignon.
Another letter, without date, commending in warm terms the exertions
of the Queen Dowager in support of Henry's views, is here introduced,
as it was about this time that these exertions became important. Robert-
son says, that “ after the death of Cardinal Beatoum, [in May 1546,
“Mary of Guise took a considerable share in the direction of affairs. She
“ was warmly attached by blood and by inclination to the French interest,
“ and in order to promote it, improved with great dexterity every event
“which occurred.” The defeat of the Scootish army at Pinkie rendered
necessary an urgent application for aid from France, and gave an oppor-
tunity to the Queen Dowager and the French ambassador d’ Oysel to
effect Henry's grand object, of obtaining possession of the person of the
infant Queen, by making this the condition of sending an army to Scot-
land. These terms were reluctantly agreed to by the Regent in the end
of 1547; and a new incursion of the English, under Lord Grey de
Wilton, in April 1548, hastened the dispatch of succors from France.
On the 16th of June a fleet arrived at Leith, bringing 5000 men under
the command of Monsieur d’Essé, and Queen Mary was forthwith
sent to France. There were with this army some of the most distin-
guished officers of France,—Brissac, d’Estanges, de Biron, Strozze Prior
of Capua, the Conte Reingrave, &c. Those who wish to learn the de-
tails of the expedition may consult the minute narrative of Lesley, or the
gossiping pages of de Brantome; and in particular, Beaugue's Histoire de
la Guerre d’Ecosse, presented to the Club by William Smith, Esq. The
210 LETTERS OF HENRY II.
importance of its services during two campaigns was scarcely worthy of the
chivalrous motive which the latter writer ascribes to Henry ; and it is not
difficult to see that the custody of the young Queen, and a diversion of
the English from Boulogne, were to him objects of greater moment than
fulfilling the duties of knight-errantry “comme protecteur des personnes
affligées.” Numbers five, six and seven of the subjoined documents bear
upon these transactions. The Sire de Montluc was John Bishop of
Valence, brother of the Marechal de Montluc, one of the most accom-
plished diplomatists of his time, whom de Brantome, generally the most
indulgent of biographers, characterizes as “fin, delié, rinquant, rompu
et corrompu, autant pour son sgavoir que pour sa pratique.” The in-
tention of sending the Marechal de Termes as Lieutenant-General
does not appear to have taken effect until the summer of 1548, when,
according to the authorities above quoted, he superseded Monsieur
d'Essé, in consequence of the latter having suffered from a severe attack
of jaundice.
Number eight recommends to the Queen the services of Captain
Fauchet, and is probably that alluded to in the immediately subsequent
letter. The Madame de Vallentinois mentioned here was Diana of
Poictiers, the favorite mistress of the King; but the chief interest of
the letter consists in the concluding sentence being in the hand-writing
of Henry, for which reason it is selected as a specimen of his autograph.
The next letter alludes to an insurrectionary movement which took
place in Guienne in 1548, in consequence of the discontent against the
odious Gabelle, or salt tax. A more interesting portion of its contents
relates an anecdote of court gossip in reference to the Queen of
Scotland, at the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale. Moreri fixes the 1st
of August 1547 as the date of this marriage, but Mary's presence proves
that it must have been in the following year.
The Archbishop d’Armacan, or of Armagh, appears to have been
Abbot elect of Dryburgh, and in his favor the King of France writes
KING OF FRANCE. 211
in 1549, praying that he may be put in possession of that preferment
with all dispatch.
In the summer of 1549, King Henry mustered his forces in order to
wrest Boulogne from the hands of the English. He therefore recalled
a force of four galleys under M. de Villegaignon, by the three letters
which follow next in order. -
Numbers fourteen and fifteen anxiously press the Queen Dowager to
obtain the release, by exchange, of James fourth Lord Fleming from
his captivity in England. Henry had been urged to this by the mother
of Lord Fleming, who was one of the ladies in attendance on Queen
Mary in France.
In the next letter the King highly commends the service of David Pan-
ter Bishop of Ross, ambassador resident at his Court from Scotland.
The preparations against Boulogne being completed, Henry took the
field; and on the 28th of August, he writes to the Queen Dowager
of his success in reducing Ambleteux and other forts.
The war, commenced in 1551 between Henry and his hereditary rival
Charles V., had led to important advantages in favor of the former
during 1552. In the following year, the Emperor made great exertions
to recover Metz and other losses; but these were met by equal energy
on the part of Henry, and although Therouaine and Hesdin fell, the
arms of France were generally successful, until in 1554 victory crowned
them at the great battle of Renti. To some of these events the next
four letters refer. Numbers eighteen and nineteen testify the zeal of the
French monarch to bring his strength into the field; but amid the din
of arms, he pays a pleasing tribute to the lamented death of the amiable
Edward VI. of England. The two others present us with minute and
interesting details by Henry, of the campaign during August and Sep-
tember 1553. -
The remaining four letters do not concern matters of public moment,
and are remarkable only as showing the minute attention which Sove-
212 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1545.
r
reigns were then ready to give to private interests. In these instances it
might perhaps not be difficult to trace, or to conjecture, inducements
for Henry's interference: his intercession in favor of Achessone may
have been gained by the offer to raise a troop of light horse for his ser-
vice; and possibly the ruined merchants, whose entire means and sub-
stance were in the hands of Scotish pirates, may have still been able to
raise a timely contribution to his treasury. The exact situation of
“Millport, near Leith,” may now be doubtful, but the compact is
curious by which an individual offers to construct a fortified harbor, to
be repaid in benefices or pensions. The last of the series recommends
the Sire de Fleming, probably John the fifth Lord who was then heir
presumptive to his brother, and whose family were much in attendance
upon the young Queen of Scotland.
A MADAME MA SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma Seur, Jay receu voz lettres par le fieur Dozy,
vallet de chambre du Roy, monſeigneur et pere, Et entendu par
luy, de toutes choſes de par della, ſuiuant la charge, que luy
en auiez donneeſ dont Jay eſte treſaiſeſ Et encores plus daudir
ſceula bonne fante en laquelle vous a laiſſeſ Dauentaige le
fieur de Lorges ma amplement informe du faiét de ſon voiaige,
du bon traiétement, que Iuy auez faiét, durant Icelf, Et meſ.
mement de la dilligence et bonne affection, dont vous auez vſe
comme faićtes chacun jour, es choſes, qui touchent les affaires
du Roy, mondićt ſeigneur et pere, dont bien fort vous remercieſ
Vous aduiſant bien madame ma Seurſ que fien aucune choſe
1546. · KING OF FRANCE. 213
Jay moien de vous fere plaiſir et ſeruicer et men aduertiſſant Je
my emploieray dauſſi bon cueurſ que apres meſtre recommande
a votre bonne gracer Je ſupplie noſtre feigneur vous donnerr
en Santer treſbonne et longue vie De Sainét Germain en Laye
le iiij"jour de Mars mil v° xlv. -
- Voſtre bon frere
ETE /VF， V.
A MADAME MA SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
- MADAME ma Seuri Encores que Je nay gueres de choſes de
nouueau a vous eſcriprer Pour nen eſtre ſuruenu de puis que
Je vous eſcripuiz derrenierement par Anſir varlet de chambre
du Royr monſeigneur et perer Si aſſe que ſen allant preſente-
ment par commandement du Royr mondiét feigneur et perer le
ſieur de Mandoffe ſon confeiller et premier monſieur d'Hoſtel/
deuers vous : Je ne lay voullu laiffer partir/ fans lacompaigner
de la preſenter pour touſiours vous affeurer que Je ſuis/ et ſe-
ray/ votre bon frere et amy. Et que en toutes choſes ou il vous
plaira me trouuerez toufiours preſt a vous fere plaifirr Ainſi
que pluſamplement vous dira ledit fieur de Mandoffe fuiuant
la charger que Je luy en ay donnee/ Sur la ſuffiſance duquel
me remeétant ne vous feray plus longue lettrer fineſt apres
meſtre recommande a votre bonne gracer pour ſupplier noſtre
feigneurſ quil vous doient madamer ma feur en Santer treſ-
bonne et longue vye. De Fontainebleau le iiij" Juillet 1546.
Voſtre bon frere et amy
JH E NVR V.
2 F
214 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1546.
A MADAME MA. SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma Seur, Vous ſcauez le temps, quil y a que le
fieur Daubigny fut prins, et conſtitue priſonnier, pour la faulte
commiſe par le Conte de Lenox ſon frere, Et pour ce quil ne
fe peult juſtiffier ſinon parce qui fen pourra certifier du coſte
deſcoffe. Je vous ſupplier madame ma feur, apres auoir ſceula
verite du faiét, voulloir aduertir le Roy, monſeigneur et pere,
de ce quen aurez troutieſ affin que ce paoulure gentilhomme.
A qui Je defire fere plaiſirſ laiant toufiours congneu homme
de bien, et affectioune a me fere feruice, ſoit deliure et mis
en liberteſi lon veoit, quil ſoit ingnocent de ceſ dont Il eſt
fouſpeconneſ ou bien pugny/ comme II appertiendra/ ſi dauan-
ture Il la miriteſ Ainſi quil eſt bien raiſounable. Ce faiſant ma-
dame, ma feur, vous ne me ferez moins de plaiſir, que oeuvre
meritoireſ Et fil vous plaiſt aucune choſe mordonner vous
pouluez eſtre certainer que me troutierez toufiours preſt a me y
emploier, dauffi bon cueur, que Je deſire eſtre humblement re-
commande a votre bonne graceſ Suppliant, pour fin dela pre-
ſente, noſtre feigneur, quil vous doientſ madame, ma feur, auſii
bonne Sante et longue vye, Que la vous fouhaitte.
Voſtre humble et bon frere et amy
JBIE AWR Y.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne Seuri Tout cer que Je vous reſpondray
aux lettres, et a cer que mauez faićt fauoir par Cabaſſolles, Van-
1546. KING OF FRANCE. 215
guedomar et autres retournez de decar Ce ſera quil eſt impoſſi-
ble dauoir plus de contentament que Jayr du bon ordrer que
vous donnez par tout et du grant ſoing et troauailr que vous
prenez a commander et maintenir toutes choſesr pour le bien
de mon feruicer eſtabliffement et feurete des affaires delar Et
congnoiffent le beſoing quil eſt que Je y mette la main a bon
effienti Je faiz faire toute dilligence pour le ſecoursr que vous
entendrez du ſieur de Montlucr mon conſeiller/ Maiſtre des re-
queſtes de mon hoſtelr preſent porteurſ que jenuoye pardela
amplement inſtruict de mon intention de toutes choſes dont Je
m'affeurer quil vous fcaura bien rendre compter Et vous dire
au long toutes nouuelles1 tant du pere que des enfans vous
priant, Madame ma bonne feur1 le voulloir oyr et croyre de
tout cer quil vous dira de ma part. Tout ainſi que vous feriez
celluyr qui fera perpetuellement.
Voſtre bon frere
PIEN F? V.
MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE,
MADAME ma bonne Seuri Par le ſieur de Montluc vous
avez bien au long ſceu de mes nouuelles Et le preparatifſ qui
fe faict pour le ſecours que Je delibere vous enuoyer Lequel,
comme vous entendrez du ſieur Doyſelr mon ambaſſadeur
aupres de vous1 auquel Jen eſcriptz plus au long Je fais haſter
en toute dilligencer et eſperer quil fera voille le quinziefme ou
vingtiefme dauril Cependant ſen retournant ce porteur/ Jay
bien voullu vous faire fcauoir comme Jay receu voz lettres par
216 · LETTERS OF HENRY II. 154s.
les ſeigneurs de Fourquenaulx/ Et Viſquer et deulx entendu cer
· que leur auiez commande me dire dont jay eſte trefaiſe Et de
fcauoir que noz affaires de de la ſoient en fi bonne diſpofition
Ce que Je maſſeure procedder plus de votre prudente et
bonne conduiéter que de toute autre choſe Vous aduifant que
Je vous defpefcheray le fieur de Termes fi bien inſtruiét et
pourueu de toutes choſesr que vous aurez occaſion de croyre
toufiours de plus en plus/ quelle eſt mon affeétion au bien et
proſperite deſdictes affaires Et par luy vous ſera amplement fatiſ-
faict et reſpondu a tous les poinctz contenu2 es inſtructions
que avez baillees auſdiét feigneur de Fourquenaulx et de Viſque
Qui me gardera vous fere plus longue lettre pour le preſent
Priant Dieu madamer ma bonne feur vous auoir en ſa faincte
et digne garde Eſcript a Chantilly le xxx° jour de Mars 1548.
Voſtre bon frere
FTE /VR V.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUARlERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne Seuri Par les ſeigneurs de Fourquenaulx
et de Viſque Jay fceu bien au long de vos nouuelles depuis
font auſſi arriuez par deuers moy les cappitaines Bacche et le
fieur de Obignyr lun de voz gentilzhommes deſquelzi et par la
lettre que mauez eſcripter Jay entendu leſtat des affaires de de-
lai Surquoy Je fcriptz en chiffre bien au long mon intention
au fieur Doyſel mon ambaſſadeur qui vous communicquera la
lettre a laquelle Je vous prier madamer ma bonne ſeur adjouſ-
ter foy comme fi elle eſtoit a vous addreffant Et fur le tout
1548. | KING OF FRANCE. 217
prendre vne finale reſolution ſuiuant mon intention laquelle ne
tend a aultre chofer que au bien grandeur et repoz de voſtre
Royaume/ Et vous affeure bien que en cella il ne fera riens
oublie de mon couſter Remectant a vous efcripre et reſpondre
plufamplement a toutes choſes par le ſieur de Termes qui fen
Ira, fi bien pourueu et inſtruiét que jeſpere en aurez contante-
ment/ priant Dieu madame ma bonne ſeur/ vous auoir en fa
fainéte garde. Eſcript a St Germain en laye le xv" jour
Dauril 1548.
t
Voſtre bon frerer
JH E VP ? V.
A M1ADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUARIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur Renuoyant preſentement le
ſieur de Fourquenaulx par de la pour cappitaine du chaſteau
de Humes/ En la compaignie du ſieur de Termes que Je y
enuoye lieutenant general, Et ne feroit que rediéte de reſpon-
dre aux inſtructions et memoiresr quil rapporta dautant que de
tout cellar Jay baille ample inſtruction audit ſieur de Termes/
qui vous en rendra bon compter et tel que Je maffeurer en
aurez contantement : Mais Je vous aduiſeray bien Madame
ma bonne feur que ledit fieur de Fourquenaulx feſt treſbien
et ſaigement acquičte de ce quy luy auiez commander Et par-
tant de vous fi bien inſtruičt/ comme il eſtoitl Il na riens ob-
mis a me diret de cer que luy auiez commander comme auſſi
ne penſay Je auoir faict pour la fatiſfaction que vous deſirez
es choſes qui touchent le bien et aduantaige des affaires de de-
218 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1548.
8,
la : Comme vous entendrez a larriuee dudit fieur de Termes/
Sur lequel me remettant Je ne vous en diray autre choſe :
Ayant donne charge audit fieur de Fourquenaulx vous dire de
mes nouuelles et de celles de notre petite fille la Royne de-
fcoſſer dont Je vous prie le croirer Tout ainſi que vous feraiz
moy mefmes priant Dieu madame ma bonne ſeur vous auoir
en fa Sainéte garde. Eſcript a St Germain en laye le xixº
jour de Auril qo v° xlviij.
Voſtre bon frere
ETE V F? V.
A LA ROYNE DESCOSSE MA BONNE SEUR.
MADAME ma bonne Seur/ Defirant pour cauſes qui con-
cernent mon feruiffer que le capitaine Fauchet fe retire hors
mon Royaume pour quelque tamps/ Je luy ay commande vous
aller trouuer/ et le tenir pres de vous ſamployiat a vous faire
feruiſſer qui me faict vous prier le me vouloir guarder et lauoir
pour lamour de moy pour bien recommander et croyre ce quil
vous dira de ma part et ce que par mon commandemantr mon
couſin le Cardinalr voſtre frerer et madame de Vallantinoys vous
an eſcripuet et Je me ſera vng treſgrant plaifir et Je priray
Dieu madamer ma bonne feurſ quil vous doit cer que myeulx
deſirez de Fontainebleau ce dernier jour de Decembre.
et Je vous prye madame ma feur la voys pour recoumaunde
et lanployer vous aſurant quyl eſt houme de byen et de feruyfe.
Voſtre bon frere
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MADAME MA bonNE SEUR LA RoyNE Douaipiene Descosse.
MADAME ma bonne Seurſ L'autre lettre que vous aurez
auecques la preſenter eſtoit faiéte pour vous eſtre enuoyee par
homme expresſ Mais ainfi que Je le woullois faire partir, Jay
eu nouelles, que mon ſecours party de Bourdeaulx, auoit, par
fortune de temps, eſte contrainét relaſcher en Bretaigne :
aumoien de quoy Jay aduiſe enuoier quant et quant les deniers
qui eſtoient Ja ondit pais de Bretaigner ainſ que vous enten-
drez des ſeigneurs de Fourquenault et de Viſque preſens por-
teurs, Sur leſquels me remettant Je ne vous en diray autre
choſe, Mais Je veulx bient que vous ſachiez madame ma bonne
feurſ que Jauois faićt trouwer aux nopces de mon couſin le
duc Daumaller votre frere, tous les ambaſſadeurs des princes,
qui font aupres de moy, ou ne faillit pas celluy dangleterreſ
deuant le quel Je feiz, tout apropos, dancer mon filz le Daul-
phin auecques ma fille la Royne deſcoffe, Et comme Il deui-
foit auecques celluy de l’Empereur, mon couſin le Cardinal de
Guiſe ſapprocha de luy, auquel Je dićt quil les faiſoit bon veoirſ
Et mondićt couſin reſpondit que ceſtoit Vng beau mariaige:
ledit ambaſſadeur repplicqua feullement quil y auoit grant
plaiſir de les veoir, encores que Je foye treſaffeureſ quil my en
prenoit gueres, et aufſi peu a la bonne chere quil voyoit que
Je leur faiſois, Ce font madame ma bonne feurſ les nounelles
de noſtre petit meſnaige, dont J evous ay bien voullu faire part
affin que vous ſentiez delay vne partie du plaiſir, que Jen recoy
ordinairement dićte que augmente de jour en jour voyant ma
fille et la voſtre aller toufiours de mieulx en mieulx, Quieſt
la pluſgrant contantement que puiſſe auoir
Voſtre bon frere HENRY.
220 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1549.
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1 l.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur/ Si vous auez ſceu quel perſon-
nage eſt Larceuefque Darmacan prefant porteur ſon alle par
de la vous ſera treſagreabler pour le bien qui fen peult eſperer,
eſtant de la bonne et fainéte vie quil eſt/ Et de telle ediffica-
tion pour le bien de la religion que vous nen pouuez auoir que
treſgrant contantementi Et pour autant quil merite deſtre
bien et fauorablement traicter Jay bien voullu Madamer ma
bonne ſeurſ vous eſcripre ceſte lettre en ſa faueurſ pour vous
prier tant affectueuſment que faire puis voulloir donner orderr
que lempefchement qui luy eſt donne par de la en la joyffance
de labbaye de Driburht dont il a eſte bien et juſtement pour-
ueul ceffe et len fere mettre en poſſeſſion et paifible joyſſance
puis que le droict eſt de ſon coſte. Priant Dieu madame ma
bonne ſeur vous avoir en fa ſainčte garde. Eſcript a Meul-
lain le xj° jour de May œ) v° xlix.
Voſtre bon frere
PIE NR V.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur Pour les cauſes que vous enten-
derez du Sieur Doyfel mon ambaſſadeur pardelar Leſquelles
Jeſtime ne vous feront deſagreablesi Jeſcriptz preſentement au
cheualier de Villegaignon fe retirer pardecat auecques les qua-
tre gallaires quil a auecques luyr dont Jeſpere quil Revfſera
vng grant et commun bien a nous deux noz Royalmes et fub-
1549. KING OF FRANCE. 221
12.
gećtz ainfi que voſtre dira pluſamplement ledit Sieur Doyſel,
Vous priant madame ma bonne feur eſtre contante audir ſon dićt
Retour agreable, Et eſtre aſſeuree quil en fortira a layde de
Dieu Vng fruićt, dont nous ne ſcaurions auoir que tres grant
contantement le demourant Je le Remeetz ſur ledit Sieur
Doyſel. Priant Dieu madame ma bonne feur vous auoir en
ſa fainéte garde. Eſcript a la Bocheguyen le xv" jour de
May 1549.
Voſtre bon frere et couſyn
PIE WR Y.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESC OSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur, Pource que Je ſuis depreſent
bien auant en guerre auecques les Anglois et que Je ſuis apres
a me preparer et armer a lencontre deulx de tous coſtez et
meſmement par la mer, Je vous prie madame ma bonne feur
que ſuiuant ce que Je ſcriptz preſentement au fieur de Ville-
gaignon qui eſt pardela vous luy ordonnerez que incontinant Il
ayt a partir auec mes quatre gallaires, dont Ilala charge, Et fe
vienne rendre au lieu, que Je luy faiétz ſcaudir, vous adui-
fant que Je ſuis bien deliberez de donner tant daffaires de ce
coſte a noz communs ennemysſ quil ne vous fera pas malaiſe
den auoir bon marche par dela. Qui ſera lendroićt madame
ma bonne feur, ou Je prieray Dieu quil vous ayt en ſa ſainéte
garde. Eſcript a Paris le xxiijº jour de Juing cov" xlix.
Voſtre bon frere
HENRY.
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13.
l4.
A MONSIEUR DE VILLEGAIGNON CAPPITAINE DE MES GALLAIRES.
MoNSIEUR de Villegaignonr Pource que Je fuis deprefent
bien auant en guerre auec Langlois/ et que Je Regarde a me
fortiffier et armer de tous coſtez a lencontre deulxr et mefme-
ment par la merr a ceſte cauſe Jeſcriptz preſentement a la Royne
deſcoſſer ma bonne feur/ et auſſi au fieur de Termes mon
lieutenant general audit pais deſcoſſer quilz vous laiſſent venir
de decat auecques mes quatre gallaires vous priant et ordon-
nant ne faillir dincontinant partir/ pour vous rendre a Rouen
ou depreſent font mes autres gallaires/ le pluſtoſt quil vous
fera poſſibler Et fault monſieur de Villegaignon que vous Re-
gardez de les conduire et amener le plus ſeurement que vous
pourrezi Car vous entendez aſſez que la perte des dites galaires
me viendroit a preſent trefmal apropoz pour le beſoing que
Jen ayſ et auſſi de votre perfonne. Priant Dieur monſieur de
Villegaignonſ quil vous ayt en fa garde. Eſcript a Paris le
xxiij° jour de Jung Lan o v° xlix.
HENR V.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feurr Je croy que vous penſez aſſez le
foingr peine et grande vigillencer que ma couſinez la dame de
Flamyn prent ordinairement a lentour de la perſonne de
notre petite fille la Royne deſcoſſer qui veritablement faiét en
cela ſi bon vertueux et honeſte deuoirr quil eſt raiſonnable, que
vous et moy ayons perpetuelle fouuenance delle de ſes enffans/
1549. KING OF FBANCE. 223
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et de ſa maiſon, A ceſte cauſe, et quelle ma faićt plainóte dung
de fes enffans, qui eſt encores priſonnier en angleterre, a la
deliurance duquel, Je deſire bien tenir la main, et faire tout ce.
quil me ſeroićt poſſible mais ne ſi offrant de preſent loccation
de mon couſte, Il ma ſemble madame ma bonne feur/ Vous
deuoir eſcripre et prier, que fi vous avez le moyen de le faire
eſchanger auecques quelque autre priſonnier Angloys ce fera
wng bon outare faićt et pour perſonne qui le merite. Priant
Dieu madame ma bonne feur quil vous ait en ſa ſainéte et
digne garde. Eſcript a Paris le xxvi jour de Juing q v' xlix.
Voftre bon frere
HENR Y.
. A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur/ Depuis le Retour du Cappitaine
Achaux Jay faićt enuers luy, quil ma remys le droićt par luy
pretendu fur meſtre Vbilfort Angloys, priſonnier en eſcoffe,
dont touteſfoys Je le doy recompenſer. Et pource que Je de-
fire bien fort, pour les bons et agreables feruices, que faićt de-
pardeca la dame de Flamyn, alentour de la perſonne de noſtre
petite fille, la Royne deſcoffer quon peuſt retirer ſon filz, le
ſieur de Flamym, priſonnier en Angleterrer par eſchange dudićt
Vbilfort, Je vous prie bien affectueuſement, madame ma bonne
feur, me&tre peyne, que ledićt eſchange ſe face, Et par meſme
moyen, retirer auſfile fieur d’Eſtange pour vng autre priſonnier
angloysi Et fi tant eſt, quil ſy trouvaſt difficulte, Je deſireroys,
madame ma bonne feur, que plus toſt on baillaſt les troys pri-
ees LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1549.
16.
Efcript a Mouchy le ix" jour daouſt co v° xlix. .
fonniers angloys que vous auez pour lefdiét feigneurs de Fla-
myn et d'Eſtanges affin de fatiffaire a la continuelle prierer que
men faict ladit dame de Flamyn et auſſi au feruicer que ma
faict ledict ſieur d'Eſtanger lequel meriter que Jaye fouuenance
de luy et le retire hors de la captiuite ou Il eſt. Priant Dieu
madame ma bonne feur quil vous ayt en ſa fainéte et digne
garde. Eſcript a Chantilly le xxv" jour de Juillet oo v° xlix.
- | Voſtre bon frere HE IVR Y.
A MADAME MA BoNNE sEUR LA RoYNE DEscossE.
· MADAME ma bonne ſeur/ Pource que monſieur Leueſque
de Roſſer qui longuement a refide pres de ma perſonner ambaſ-
fadeur de la petite royne deſcofſer ma filler et de ſon royaumer
ma faict entendrer quil eſt delibere bien toſt ſe retirer en efcoſſer
Il ma fembler que Je feroye grant tort et a moy et a luyr ſi
Je ne me congratuloisr auecques vousr de bon ſongneux et
loyal office dont Il a ordinairement vfe de deca, au faict de ſa
legacion qui a eſte de ſorter que Jay treſbonne cauſe de men
louer et contenter layant ordinairement congneutreſaffectionne
feruiteur de la Roynet fa maiſtreſſer de vous et du royaume
· deſcoſſer et grandement enclin a la perpetuelle conſeruation
de lancienne amytie des Royaumes de France et deſcoſſei Vous
priant madamer ma bonne feur que a ſon arriuer pardelar
vous le vueillez auoir en bonne et fauorable recommandation,
comme ſa vertu et fidelite le merite. - Priant Dieur madamer
ma bonne feur quil vous ayt en ſa fainéte et digne garde.
Voſtre bon frere HENR Y. .
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17.
18.
A MADAME MA BONNE, SEUR LA ROYNE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feurſ Depuis vous auoir depeſche le
Cappitaine Canmoux, Jay mis vne petite armee ſus pour venir
veoir en ceſte frontiere ou noſtre ennemy commun ſe pourroit
myeulx endommaiger, Et yay auecques la grace de Dieu tel-
lement exploićte, que Jay prins par force la Ville et Chaſteau
Dambleteux Celluy de Sellacqueſ et la place de Blacquetzl ainfi
que vous entendrez plus au long et par le menu par le fieur de
Termesſauquel Jeſcriptzle diſcours de laffaire comme Il eſtpaſſe,
dont Je ne vous feray redićte, Mais Je vous affeureray bien que
Jay par la tellement empeſche ledit ennemy, que Jeſpere
que nous en aurons bien meilleur marche dun coſte et dautre,
Eſtant bien delibere ny obme&tre riens de ceſtuy cyr Comme
Je vous prie madame ma bonne feur, tenir main et donner
ordre quil ne ſoit faiét du voſtre, Carlon ne ſcauroit choiſir
meilleure ſaiſon ne pluſgrande opportunite, comme Je le-
ſcriptz pluſauant audit fieur de Termes, ſur lequel me remec-
tant, Je prie Dieu madame ma bonne feur vous auoir en fa
fainéte garde. Eſcript au camp pres Ambleteux le xxviijº jour
daouft cov" xlix.
- Voſtre bon frere
HE WR Y.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DEscossE.
MADAME ma bonne feur, Voyant la bonne et grande vo-
“lunte-que legentilhomme preſent porteur pour lequelle mauez
226 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
eſcript a de me faire ſeruicer et y amener vne compaignye de
troys cens hommes eſcoffois/ Je luy en ay voluntiers donne la
commiſſion/ foubz la promeffe que ma faiéte de les rendre en
mes frontieres de Picardye dedans ſix fepmaines pour le pluf-
tard, Et pour luy en donner plus de moien luy ay faict
bailler troys cens eſcuzi Vous priant madame ma bonne
ſeur luy voulloir preſter pour ceſt effect/ voſtre bonne ayde et
faueurſ de forte quil puiffe fatiffaire a fadit promeffe au bien de
19.
mondit ſeruice. Priant Dieu madame ma bonne ſeur vous
auoir en ſa fainéte et digne garde. Eſcript a St Germain en
laye la iij° jour de Juillet 1553.
• Voſtre bon frere
©\ PºſE /VR V.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne ſeur Le retardement du fieur Doyſel
de la venue duquel Je nay encores aucunes nouuellesi eſt
cauſe que Jay eſte quelque temps fans vous eſcriprer pour
vous tenir ainſi que Je deſire et ay accouſtume continuelle-
ment aduertye de mes bonnes nouuelles/ Et de leſtat de mes
affaires dont Jay donne charge a mon couſin le conneſtable/
vous faire bon et ample diſcours/ vous aduiſant que mon armee
commance fort a famaffer Et font mes forces defia fi ache-
mynees que Je leſpere auoir preſte dedans la fin de ce moys
Et quant et quant la meétre aux champs pour approcher de mon
ennemy Qui eſt attache a Heſdin dedans lequel lieu Il y a de
fi gens de bien que Je mactendz eſtre la affez a temps pour
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1553. KING OF FRANCE. 227
vous en faire oyr bien toſt de bonnes nouuellesr de celles
dangleterrer Je ne vous en eſcriptz poinét Mais ayant ſceu
comme vous aurez la mort dun fi bon frere filz et amyr que
meftoit le Jeune Roy dernier mortr Vous madame ma bonne
feurr maymant comme vous faictes mayderez a regretter lin-
croyable et doloreuſe perte que Jay faicte en ceſt endroit dont
Je ne vous feray plus longue lettre. Priant Dieu madame ma
bonne feur vous auoir en fa fainéte et digne garde. Eſcript a
Compieigne le xix° jour de Juillet 1553.
Voſtre bon frerer
HENRY.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feurſ Apres auoir longuement actendu
le ſieur Doyſel/ Qui a eſte retarde en angleterrer ainſi quil ma
dict vous auoir eſcript En fin Il eſt arriue depuis deux joursr
Et a commance a me rendre compte par le menu de tous les
affaires de delar Surqoy Je prandray bien toſt vne reſolutionſ
Et puis vous y feray bonne et ample reſponcer Cependant Jay
bien voullu faire ceſte depeſche pour continuer a vous faire
part de mes nouuelles Et de ce qui eſt ſuccedde depuis la
perte de Therouenne et Heſdin ou les ennemys feirent tel ef-
fort de batterye de ſappe et de myner Que finablement eſtant
la place petite comme elle eſt et veue de beaucoup de mon-
taignes Meſmes apres que leſdit ennemys eurent mis le feu de-
dans leurs de mynest qui baiſſerent grandement le rampartſ
furent les gens de bien qui eſtoient dedanz contrainctz entrer
228 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
en compoſitionſ Et neantmoings y font demourez priſonniers
mes couſins les duc de Bouillon, et Conte de Villars, et
auecques eulx quelzques autres gentilz hommes, Le de-
mourant des fouldatz et beaucoup de cappitaines retournez,
De forte quil ny a pas eu grande perte de gens, Leſdit ennemys
auoient tellement endommaige ladit place quilz ont bien veu
me la pounoir garder, Et pour ceſte cauſe font depuis le xx"
du paſſe quelle fut perdue toufiours demourez a acheuer dela
ruyner et deſmoliry, ſans en eſtre partysſ finom depuis quatre
ou cinq jours, quilz ſe font mis en chemyn tirant vers Doul-
lens, Et meantmoings touſiours couſtoians leur frontiere et
fans labandonner, Et croy que ce qui les tient en ceſte irre-
ſolution eſt qui ſcauent bien que mon couſin le conneſtable eſt
pres Damyens, ou Il commance damaſſer mon armee, La-
quelle dedans huiét jours fera toute preſte, Carles douze mille
Suiſſes que Jay faiét leuer et le reſte de mes forces y ſeront,
Auecques leſquelles Jeſpere, madame ma bonne feur, que
Jauray la reuanche du dommaige quilz mont faićtſ Et que les
premieres nouvelles que vous en aurez vous feront beaucoup
plus agreables que celles que vous en aues eues Juſques Icy,
Deſquelles touteſfoys Il fault remercier noſtre feigneur, et
eſtimer quil faićt tout pour le mieulx, Je ne veulx auſfi faillir
a vous aduertir comme pour endommaiger mon ennemy plus
auant, Je faiétz tenir preſtz, encores fix mille Suiſſes et vingt
enfoignes de Lanſduenetz. Pour auecques vng autre nombre
de francoys, faire vne armee dung autre couſte ou Je veoy
vng beau Jeu prepareſ Et penſe troutler mon dićt ennemy fi
las et ſi eſpuiſe que Jeſpere auecques layde de Dieu me recom-
f
1553. · KING OF FRANCE. 229
penſer a bon eſſienti Pour le moins ay Je ceſt aduentaige fur
luyt Quil ne garde riens de ce quil apris du myen Et vous
fcauez combien de places des fiennes Jay miſes lannee paffee
en mon obeiffance Lefquelles Jay depuis tellemant acouſtrees
encores quelles feuffent deſia grandement fortes/ Quil ſe veoit
hors deſperance de les rauoir Jamais Jeſtime auſſi vous auoir
eſcript comme mon couſin le marefchal de Briſſac a mis en ma
dicte obeiſſance la ville fortereſſe et tout le marquiſat de Seuer
Auecques le chaſteau de Courteuiller Qui eſt vne treſbelle
place et entre fort auant en pays Dont mes limittes font gran-
dement auanceesr Jay auſſi nouuelles que mon armee de mer
et celle du grant ſeigneur ont eſte pieca defcouuertes pres dela
pouiller Et fayz mon compte que les premieres lettres que
Jauray ditallye apporteront leur arriuee ſur les terres de mon
ennemyr ou Ilz auront moien de luy faire beaucoup de dom-
maiger Ayant donne tel ordre pour les receuoir et fauoriſer
par terre que Jeſpere en tirer vng bon et notable ſeruice Ceſt
madame ma bonne feur tout ce qui ſoffre pour le preſent Dont
Jay bien voullu vous faire part Remeétant le ſurplus ace que
mes couſins vos freres qui ſont Icy aupres de moy vous en
pouront faire fcauoirr Priant Dieu madame ma bonne ſeur
vous auoir en fa fainéte et digne garde. Eſcript a Compiegne
le xiij° jour Daouſt 1553. -
Voſtre bon frere HEWR V.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
21. MADAME ma bonne ſeur/ Pour continuer a vous tenir bien
2 H
230 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
au long aduertye des mounelles de mon armee, Et de celle de
mon ennemy Je vous aduiſe, Que depuis ce que Je vous ay
dernierement eſcript, Jay faićt tout ce quil ma eſte poſſible
pour rencontrer ſon armee, Et y a tantoſt vng moys que Je
voye la pourſuiuant de logeis a autreſ Et chaſſant deuant moy
Salis ce que Jamays, Il ſe ſoyt offert ne preſente vng feul
homme pour venir au combat, Sinon a Cambray ou ladit em-
pereur cuydant marreſter, Et que Je mainuſeroye a laſfieger
auoyt mis vingt ſix ou wingt ſept enſeignes de gens de pied de-
dans, Et plus de quinze cens cheuaulx dont Il en fortit vne
foys enuiron deux cens des plus brauesſ Leſquelz encores quilz
neufſent habandonne la faueur de leur canon furent ſi furieuſe-
ment et rudement repoulfez par aucuns des miens fi trouverent
quilz en tuerent et porterent par terre de prime abbordee plus
de cinquante, Et entre autres font demourez pris, Le Conte
de pont deuaulx, Le Conte Darques et le fieur de Trelon, Le
Peloux cappitaine de cheuaulx legiers, et vng autre cappitaine
auſſi nomme Jehan baptiſte gendre tuez, Le marquis de Renty
frere du duc daſcot fort bleſſeſ Et vne Infinite dautres, de forte
que depuis, Il men eſt Jamays forty pas vng quinayt eſte re-
coigne Juſques dedans les portes de la ville, ou Je ne me ſuis
woullu arreſter Mais men fuis venu Icy, dou Je pars demain
pour aller pourſuiuant mon ennemy, Juſques aux portes de
Vallenciennes ou Il a retire ſadit armee, Que Je faiz tout ce
que Je puis pour attirer Juſques a luy auoir faiét bruſeer tout
ſon pays meſmes les faulxbourge Darran, Et fi auant a dextre
et a ſeneſire quil eſtayſe a veoir quily a beaucoup a dire de
ſes braueryes aux effectz, Je luy ay auffi faićt abbatre prendre
1553. KING OF FRANCE. 231
et raſer dix ou douze petitz fortz quil auoyt tout au long de
ceſte frontiere/ Et faiét meétre en pieces tout ce que feſt troue
dedans de maniere que le pays eſt fort neétoyer Et eſpere
auant que Jen parte que vous en orrez encores de meilleures
nouuelles/ fil me veult attendre ou lieu ou Je le voys chercher
et pourfuiure Du couſte de piemont le ſieur Dompferrand
voullant eſſayer de recouurer les places et pays que mon couſin
le mareſchal de Briſſacr a prinſes ceſt eſte de ce couſte la auoyt
amaffe vne groſſe armeer Juſques a vingt quatre mil hommes/
Mais Il a trouue les forces que Jay la ſi gaillardes Que fin-
ablement Il a eſte contrainct faire par ſoubz main Rechercher
mondit couſin le mareſchalr de faire vne trefue et ſuſpencion
darmes pour tout ce moysr qui ſe continuera ſoubz mon plaifir,
tant que Je vouldrayt Ayant accorde que tout ce que Jauoye
priuer du ſien me demouraſt ce pendant Et neantmoins reſti-
tue quelques lieux ou Il feſtoit mis et dont Il auoyt prins la
fidelite dautant quilz neſtoient point fortz de forte que par la
fault croyre quil eſt en fort mauuays train de fefdit affaires/
Leſquelz auſſi ſont plus brouillez que Jamays en Allemaigner
Et le marquis Albert dont Il penſoyt tirer quelque ſecours ſi
pauure et ſans moyenſ quil eſt au bout de ſon roolle. Je ne
fcay auſſi madame ma bonne ſeur ſi vous auez ſceu comme
mon armeer de mer feſt Impatrony de liſle de Corſer dedans
laquelle eſt de prefent mon couſin le fieur de Termes, auec-
ques dixhuict ou vingt enfeignes de gens de pied et beaucoup
de gentilzhommes Ayans deſia reduict en mon obeiſſance la
plus grande partye des places fortes de ladit Iſle Qui eſt
pour rompre et oſter tout moyen a lempereur de pouuoir
232 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
trafficquer fi facillement quil faiſoyt deſpaigne en Italye, et aux
Geneuoys de le fauorifer tant commodement quilz ont faićt
Juſques Icy.
Jauoys ceſte lettre preſte a partir, que Jay faićt retenir Juſ-
ques a ce Jourdhuy, Pour vous faire dauentaige ſcaudir Comme
ma principalle Intention a toufiours eſte de trouer moyen
dattacher, et affronter mon ennemy et ſon armee, Ce que Je
cherche Il y a tentoſt vng moys, Ayant change de tant de
logeist Entre fi auant en ſon pays et tant faiét de dommaige
pour cuyder les y attirer, que Je penſoys veu les brauerys
dont Il a vſe parcydeuant, que le cueur luy feroyt mal de
veoir ſes ſubge&tz ainfi offenſez quilz ſont, Et luy perdre trop
de reputation fil ne ſe me&toyt en quelque deuoir, Et finable-
ment voyant que ladit armee ne bougeryt point dun Campſ ou
Il ſeſt fortiſfie aux portes de Vallenciennes counert de Riuieres
de maraiz et dinfiniz foſſez et difficilles aduenues, Je me Re-
ſoluz de marcher hyer droićt a luy, Et de faiét feiz me&tre
mon armee en bataille, Et Icelle achemyner Juſque ſur le
bort de ſondit fort dont Il ſortit ſept ou huićt cens cheuaulx
des leur et quelzques harquebuziers, Qui a la faueur de leur
artillerye vindrent pour empeſcher que lon ne recongneuſt
ledit fortſ Et la ſe dreſſa vne forte et roidde eſcarmouche,
Qui ne dura gueres Car ſans faire compte ne Regarder au.
dangiers de leurdit artillerye les recoignerent et Renfoncerent,
fi auant et fi furieuſement dedans ladit fort, Quil y en eut
beaucoup deulx mortz et pris de maniere que de puis Il nen
ſortit Vng ſeulu Et fi demoura madit armee en bataille a leur
veue et a la portee de leur Canon plus de troys groſſes heures,
1553. KING OF FRANCE. 233
22.
Tentant et eſſayant tous moyens de les faire venir au combat
dont Ils monſtrerent bien nauoir point denuye et ſe tindrent
ed ans leurdit fort Quilz ont choyſi de tout auantaigeux/
Ayans vne telle ville que Vallenciennes au doz maraiz Riuieres
foſſez1 Et tout ce que lon peult demander de ſeurete deuant
eulx En ſorte que lon ne les en peult deſloger Sans euident
et apparent dangier de grande perter Qui fut cauſe que Jen
retiray mes gens fi acharnez touteſfoys que ce ne fut que a
treſgrande difficulte et encores plus grant regret/ Ce que
Jeuſſe bien plus mal ayſement faict ſans la nuict qui furuint/
Laquelle ne garda pas que lon ne les aye bruſlez/ Juſques aux
portes dudit Vallenciennes/ Et prins tant de leurs priſonniers
que Je ne vous en puis dire le nombrer Voylla madame ma
bonne ſeur leſtat enquoy ſont mes affaires pardeca dequoy Je
nay voullu faillir a vous faire part Comme Je feray des autres
choſes qui ſoffriront. Priant Dieu madame ma bonne ſeur
vous auoir en ſa ſančte et digne garde. Eſcript au camp de
Souleſmes pres Valenciennes le xvijº jour de Septembre 1553.
Voſtre bon frere
HE WR Y.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne ſeur Je vous ay par deux diuerſes fois
eſcript et prye en faueur de Jehan de Compludo Julian Mother
Yuon Rocaz Julian Poulain et autres marchans leurs conſors
demourans en ma ville de Nantes/ Pour le faire adminiſtrer .
Juſtice en certain proces quilz ont pardela en voſtre conſeil/
234 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
23.
pour la reſtitution de fix nauires chargees de marchandiſe a
eulx appartenans, quileur onteſte depredees en mer par deux
cappitaines eſcoſſois nommez Andre Roberſon et Robert Alain
leurs alliez et complices, diſans leſdit marchans eſtre eſpaignolz
et partant leurs nauires et marchandiſes Robbe dennemys,
Encores quilz foient mes ſubieótz. On quel proces tant a eſte
procede dunepart et dautre quel eſt a preſent conclud et en
eſtat de Juger, Et pour ce que Je defire ledit proces prandre
wne bonne et prompte fin, briefue Juſtice effe adminiſtrer
auſdit marchanz et leur, bon droićt en Icelluy garde et con-
ſerue. A ceſte cauſe Jay bien woulu de rechef vous en eſcripre,
Vous priant, madame ma bonne feur, vouloir tant fair pour
moy, mettant en confideration la pitie qui eſt lefdit marchans
mes ſubie&tz et queen cela conſiſte tout leur bien et ſubſtance,
Et que ſi ledit proces prenoit plus long traićt Ils ſeroient to-
tallement Ruinez et deſolez, Que de leur fair adminiſtrer la
meilleure et plus briefue expedicion de Juſtice que fair ſe
poura, Et vous ferez choſe que Je Receueray a treſgrand et
treſagreable plaiſir. Priant Dieu madame ma bonne feur quil
vous ait en ſa fainéte et digne garde. Eſcript a villiers couſ.
terez le xviije jour d’Oétobre 1558.
Voſtre bon frere 4.
HE WHE Y.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
Madame ma bonne feur, Jehan Acheſon qui eſt archier de
ma garde eſcoſſoiſe, ma faiét entendre que des le viuant du
1553. KING OF FEANCE. 235
feu Roy deſcoſſe mon bon frere que Dieu abſoille lon con-
manca a fortifier vng haure nomme le port du moulin presle
petit Liét fur lheritaige dudit Acheſon, pour Receuoyr nauires
a tous ventz et marees, a quoy ſon pere des le commancement
employa une bonne ſomme dargent foubz leſperance de la pro-
meſſe que feu mondit bon frere, luy feit de pourueoir lun de
ſes enftans de quelque benefice ce qui ne feſt depuis effectue,
auffi font les outraiges de ladit fortificacion demeurez impar-
faiétz. Combien que ceſt endroićt la ſoyt lune des principales
deſcentes et aduenues du pais et Royaulme deſcoffe, et qui
feroyt de plus grande feurete fi ledit port eſtoyt paracheue,
Ce que ledit Acheſon offre fair a ſes deſpens, Aſſauoir deux
entrees et deux boulleuoirs pour la feurete dicelles, Pourueu
que en Recompence lon veille ſuyuant la promeſſe de mondit
bon frere donner a lun de ſes enffans Juſques a mil liures de
Reuenu annuee en benefices, ou bien penſion de ladit ſomme
ſur la premiere abbaye qui vacquera audit Royaulme deſcoffe,
Et pource que ceſt choſe quil ne ma pas ſemble fans quelque
apparence et confideracion, Jay bien voulu acompaigner ledit
Acheſon de ce mot de lettre, Pour vous prier, madame ma
bonne feur, que vous aduiſez fi en loffre, quel faićt Il y auroyt
auantaige et vtilite pour le bien dudit Royaulme et felon ce
que vous en aurez trouwer vous luy pouruoyez fur fondit offre
ainſ, que vous aduiſerez et Reſouldrez pour le mieulx, En-
quoy Je vous prye lauoyr pour Recommander Et auſii luy
permečtre de leuer pardela et paſſer de deca la mer Juſques
a cent cheuaulx legiers eſcoſſoys, dont Je luy ay accorde la
charge et cappitanrie, Ayant veu la bonne volunte quil a de
236 LETTERS OF HENRY II. 1553.
24.
ſemployer en mon feruice et fur cer madame ma bonne feur,
Jeprie Dieu quil vous ayt en ſa fainéte et digne garde. Eſcript
a Fontainebleau le xxij" jour de decembre 1553.
Voſtre bon frere
HENRY.
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE DESCOSSE.
MADAME ma bonne feur, Jehan Achiſſoune lung des archiers
de ma garde eſcoſſois, ma faićt entendre quil fait (ya quelque
temps) tellement offenſe de paroles Iniurieuſes par vng anglois,
Que a la fin me les pouant comporter, Il auroit tellement eſte
proudcque par ledit anglois quil auroit tue et occis, Et pource
quil eſt perſounage qui ma faićt cy deuant et faićt encores or-
dinairement feruice, et qui na auparauant commis ne per-
petré cas digne de reprehenſion, Je vous prieſ madame ma
bonne feur, lauoir en confideracion de ce pour recommande,
Et fi ceft cas remiſſible et quil ſoit paſſe ainfi quil me faićt en-
tendre de luyvouloir remečtre et pardonner, Luyen faiſant
pour ceſt effect expedier les lettres de remiſſion pour ce nec-
ceffaires, Et le traićtant en cela, comme auez accouſtume mes
ſeruiteur et ceulx qui vous font recommandez de ma part,
de forte quil ait moien de continuer le feruice quil ma Juſques
Ici faiét, et a encores enuie de faire, Enquoy me ferez treſ.
grande plaifir. Priant Dieu madame ma bonne feur quil vous
ait en ſa fainéte garde. De Fontainebleau le xxv" jour de
Decembre 1553. -
Voſtre bon frere HENR Y.
1554 . KING OF FRANCE. 237
A MADAME MA BONNE SEUR LA ROYNE DOUAIRIERE ET
REGENTE DEscossE.
MADAME ma bonne ſeur/ Le ſeur de Flamyn preſent por-
teur ma demande conge daller faire vng voiage en eſcoſſe pour
aucuns ſiens affaires particulliers/ Ce que Je luy ay accorde
l'ayant bien voullu accompaigner de ce mot de lettre/ Pour
vous prier lauoir pour Recommande de comme vng Jeune
gentilhommer qui a bon vouloir et ſe monſtre grandement
affectioune au feruice de ma fille La Royne deſcofſe ſa ſou-
ueraine/ et au mien. Il vous dira des nouuelles de mon bon
portement eſtans toutes autres choſes demourees au meſme
eſtat quelles eftoient lors dela depeſche que Je vous ay faict
faire dernierement qui me gardera vous pouuoir faire ceſte
cy plus longuer ſi ce neſt pour prier Dieu ma dame ma bonne
ſeurſ quil vous ayt en fa treſſainéte et digne garde. Eſcript a
EIE IVA? V.
92 I
25.

LETTERS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS,
DURING HER RESIDENCE IN FRANCE,
TO HER MOTHER MARY THE QUEEN
DOWAGER OF SCOTLAND.

Gº Gºff, §§§ }%){º}{º} Sº, §§
©99&}{22&}{2}ºs 53)3×3
THE following four letters, addressed to the Queen Dowager by her
daughter, form an appropriate addition to the preceding collection.
They were written in France, and are printed from the originals in the
handwriting of Mary, which are preserved in the General Register House.
The first is in the stiff hand of a very young person, and was evidently
written before the Queen's marriage. The next two seem to have been
sent with the Commissioners who had gone from Scotland to attend
her nuptials in 1558. The last probably relates to the succours obtained
from France by the Queen Regent in 1559, against the Lords of the
Congregation.
A LA ROYNE.
MA DAME le Roy Vous enuoye Monſieur de Breize qui m'a
comme ſcauez fait de bon coeur treſhumble feruice, et de jour
en autre fe force de faire chose qui me ſoit agreable, qui me
fait vous prier de bon coeur luy faire bon recueil, et luy faire
entendre que vous ay priee de ce faire. Il a commandement
du Roy vous conter amplement de toutes nouelles, qui me
garde vous faire plus longue lettreſ fi non vous fupplier
treſhumblement mentretenir toufiours en voſtre bonne grace
COIN) Iſle
Voſtre treſhumble
et trefobeiſſante fille
Tháñe
242 LETTERS OF MARY 1558.
A LA ROYNE MA MERE.
MA DAME Mesſieurs les ambaſadeurs de mes eſtats eſtants
depefches par le Roy pour retorner vers vous ie nay voulu
faillir de les acompagner de la preſante pour vous tesmoigner
le bon deuoir quils ont fait a mes noces vous aſeurant madame
que aues ocaſion de vous en contenter vous fupliant madame
les vouloir fauoriſer en ce que verays etre raifonable et pour
ce que leur fufiſance eſt fi grande ie me remaitray du tout en
euls vous priant les croire et de ce que ie leur ay commande
vous dire de ma part enſemble lonneur que le Roy et Royne
et le Roy mon mary me fait continuelement et de tous mes
bons parents et amis et auſſi du contentement quils en on reſſeu
pour etre ſi bien reſeus et gratifies de tout ce quil a eſte poſſi-
ble ce que ie ſuis ſeure que ils vous feront entendre fi au
long quil ne meſt beſoin vous en dire dauantasge ſi non que ie
vous enuoiray aucuns memoires par monſeur Ruhe de ce quil
ma femble bon ce que iay fait entendre ausdits ſieurs de mes
eſtats ausquels ie commande vous en randre conte et en pren-
dre votre aduis ne voulant iamais rien faire ſans iſelui qui
ſera lendroit ou ie vous preſanteray mes tres humble recom-
mandations a votre bonne grace Priant Dieu vous donner
madame aultant dheur et de contentement que vous en defire
Votre tres humble
et tres obeiſsante fille
/////%
1558. QUEEN OF SCOTS. 243
3
A LA ROYNE MA MERE.
MADAME Dieu a voulu que les embaſadeurs qui vont pre-
fentement vers vous eſtant a mi cheminſ ayent eſte reponfes
iufques a Dieper la ou ils font tous malades/ et monſieur
d'Orcenay mort/ qui leur a fait menvoier Arfquin preſent
porteurſ pour me femondre de ce que vous leur aues acorde
de iouir des priuileges/ qui ſont que les abeis des feus qui mou-
roint en ce voiager leur abaies feuſent refinees a leurs parens
ou amis, comme ils vous fairont entendre. A quoy ie fait
reſponce denecrire au Roy mon mari lequel ie mafure re-
metra le tout en vous/ comme auſsi ay je fait. Monſieur de
Puguillon ma prie de le vous ramanteuoirr fil eſt poſſible de
luy fauer quelque pancion fans faire tort a perſonne : ien ſerois
bien ayſer comp ma prie le vous recommender/ non pas en
ſellar mais en quelque choſe que conoiteres etre a propos : ie
vous ſuplie ne loblier ie vous ecris auſſi pour Aſquin ; ie
ferois bien ayſe quil iouent moien/ quant aus nouelles de la
court/ le Royr le Roy mon mari et tous mes oncles ſont au
campſ qui ſe portent tous bien Dieu merſiſ il a beaucoup de
maladies au camp/ mays il commencent a diminuer. Lon
eſperoit vne paix mais celle eſt encores ſi incertaine que ie ne
vous en diray rient fi non que londit que la paix ne ſe devoit
traiter par priſoniers comme le conneſtable et le mareſchal
flandre ; Dieu veuille que tout vienne a bien/ ie vous afeure
que fet grand pitie ſi Dieu niprouoit que de nous car nous
auons fi peu de gens de bonne foiſ que ne ſe faut eſtoner ſi
nous auons du mal. Pour ce que il fault que iecriue au Roy
244 LETTERS OF MARY 1559.
mon mari pour ſette morti il vous plaira mexcuſer fi ne vous
fais plus long diſcours ſi non vous fuplier ne parler a perſonne
de ce denier propos qui fera lendroit ou apres metre recom-
mendee tres humblement a votre bonne gracer ie priray Dieu
vous donner madame en ſante tres heureuſe et longue vie, ce
xvi d feptembre.
Votre tres humble
et tres obeiſsante fille
2 %Z ^
A LA ROYNE MA MERE.
MA DAME Voiant que le Roy enuoye vers vous monſieur de
la Broſe et dAmiens pour vous foulaſger et ayder a doner ordre
aus afaires que vous aues qui eſt fe mefemble ce quil y a long
temps, que vous demandies ie ne voulu faillir a faire mon de-
uoir de me ramanteuoir par la preſente a votre bonne grace
et vous ſuplier par iffelle tres humblement ne vous faſcher ni
ennuier au moins que naies ſouenancer que Dieu vous a tant
aydee a toutes vos autres aduerfites quil ne vous layra point
a fette heurer que en aues meilleur beſoin que iamays car fi
vous venies auuoir mal vous faues bien1 quil ne fauldroit
iamays eſperer les voir autres que ſe quils ſe montrent a fette
heure la vu ieſpere que vous feries cauſe de leur faire recon-
oitre et Dieu et leur deuoir. Pardonnes moy fi ie fuys ſi har-
die car la poine que ie entendu que vous vous donnes me fait
1559. QUEEN OF SCOTS. 245
tant craindre que naies mal que ie ne me puis guarder de
parler comme ie le pancer et pour ce que ſes deus vous fauront
aſſes trop comme tout ſe paffer par deffa ie ne vous en diray
autre choſe fi non que ie vous puis afeurer que le Roy a un
tel foign de vous fecourir que vous en contenteres/ car il me
la ainſi promis ce que ie ne luy lairay oblier ni a la Royne qui
nous a fait ſet honneur de pleurer bien fort en oyant direr vos
poines ie luy ſuis tant tenuer que ie ſuys feure que comme elle
me fait de plus en plus paroitrer elle ne vous layſera ſans tout
layde quelle pourra elle eſt fi troublee encoresr et a en tant
de mal a la maladie du feu Roy, que ie crains vne grand
maladier auecques leunne quelle en a ie croys que ſi ce neſtoyt
le Roy fon fils quil lui eſt ſi obeiſant/ quil netait rien que
ce quelle veul que mouroit bientoſt qui ſeroit le plus grant
malheurſ qui ſauroit aduenir a ſe paure pais et tous nous
autres. Le Roy fe porte bien Dieu merſi qui ſera lendroit ou
ie priray Dieu vous donner madame en ſante tres heureuſe et
longue vie.
Votre tres humble
et tres obeiſante fille
///a7%

ACT FOR SEQUESTRATING THE
QUENIS MAIESTIES PERSON AND
DETENING THE SAME IN THE
HOUS AND PLACE OF LOCHLEVIN.
XVI JUN. MDLXVII.
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THE following document seems scarcely to require any histori-
cal illustration in this place. The ill-omened marriage of the
Queen of Scots and the Earl of Bothwell was solemnized on
the fifteenth of May 1567. On the fifteenth of the following
month, after taking her last farewell of her husband, the Queen
surrendered herself, at Carberry Hill, to the confederate nobles
who had come in arms against her; and on the following day,
in violation, as has been contended, of the conditions of her
surrender, she was conducted as a captive to the solitary castle
of Lochlevin. The original warrant under which this bold
measure was carried into execution, has been preserved in the
archives of the Earls of Morton, the lineal representatives of
the Laird of Lochlevin, to whose keeping the Queen of Scots
was committed; and to the ready permission of the present Earl,
the Club is indebted for the fac-simile here given of this inte-
resting paper. It was first printed by Mr Laing, in the Appen-
dix to his “ Dissertation on the Murder of Darnley,” from a
copy found among the Manuscript Collections of Mr Walter
Goodall; the inaccuracies of which appear to have been nume-
rous, and such, in some instances, as to obscure its meaning.
Its publication in this authentic form, may be therefore re-
garded as an accession to the genuine materials of Scottish
history.
250 ACT FOR SEQUESTRATING 1567.
Apud Edinburgh decimoserto die mensis Junii Anno
Domini millesimo quing entesimo sea agesimo septimo.
FORSAMEKLE as efter the ſchamfull and horrible murther
of umquhile the King the Quenis Majeſties late huſband, hir
Majeſtie being reviſt with the Erll Boithuile principall and
cheif authour of the ſaid murther and therefter Joynit with him
in maiſt ungodlie and diſhonnorable maner under the name of
ane pretendit mariage Continewing in that ſtate to the evi-
dent dangeir of the innocent perſoun of our native Princes lyff,
and owerthraw and diſtrućtion of the nobilitie and haill ſtate
of this commoun weill, quhill on juſt neceſſitie it behuvit the
mobilitie and utheris faithfull ſubjećtis to tak armes for puniſ.
ment and revenge of the ſaid murther; Agamis quhome come
the ſaid erll Boithuile, leidand the Quenis Majeſtie in his cum-
pany, and ſchadoand his murther and utheris wickit enormiteis
fra puniſment with the cloik of hir auðtoritie, And refuſand
fingular combatt, fled and eſchapit himſelf; Hir Majeſtie in
the mentyme willinglie cuming in the cumpany of hir ſaid no-
bilitie and faithfull ſubjećtis fra Carbarry hill to Edinburgh,
quhair efter they had oppinnit and declarit unto hir hienes hir
awin eſtait and condicioun, and the miſerable eſtait of this
realme, with the dangeir that hir deareſt ſone the Prince ſtude
in, Requirand that ſhe wald ſuffer and command the ſaid mur-
ther and authouris therof to be puniſt, Fand in hir Majeſtie fic
untowardnes and repugnance thairto, That rather ſche apperit
to fortefie and mantene the ſaid erll Boithuile and his complices
1567. THE QUENIS MAIESTIES PERSON. 251
in the ſaidis wickit crymes, nor to ſuffer iuſtice pas forwart;
Quhairthrow gif hir Hienes fuld be left in that ſtate to follow
hir awin Inordinat paſſioun, it wald not faill to ſucceid to the
finall confuſioun and exterminioun of the haill realme; Sua
that efter mature conſultatioun be commoun advyſe, IT is
thocht convenient, concludit and decernit, that hir Majeſties
perfoun be ſequeſtrat fra all ſocietie of the ſaid erll Boithuile,
and fra all having of intelligence with him or ony utheris quhair-
by he may have ony comfort to eſchaip dew puniſment for his
demeritis: And finding na place mair meitt nor commodious
for hir Majeſtie to remane into Nor the hous and place of Loch-
levin, Ordanis commandis and chargeis Patrik Lord Lindſay
of the Byris Williame Lord Ruthven and William Douglas
of Lochlevin To pas and convoy hir Majeſtie to the ſaid place
of Lochlevin, and the ſaid Lard to reſlave hir thairin, and
thair thay and every ane of thane to keip hir Majeſtie ſuirlie
within the ſaid place, and on na wyſe to ſuffer hir pas furth of
the ſame, or to have intelligence fra ony maner of perſonis Or yit
to ſend advertiſmentis or direét hir intelligence with ony levand
perſonis, except in ther awin preſence and audience Or be the
commandiment and directioun of the Lordis underſubſcrivand
or ane part of thame repreſenting the counſall at Edinburgh or
utherwiſe quhair thaiſall reſort for the tyme As thai will anſuer
to God and upon thair dewitie to the commoun weill of this
cuntrie Kepand thir preſentis for thair warrand: Attour the
ſaidis Lordis and utheris underſubſcrivand, obliſſis thame and
ther airis faithfullie and promittis to the ſaid Patrik Lord Lynde-
ſay Williame Lord Ruthven William Douglas of Lochlevin,
252 ACT FOR SEQUESTRATING, &c. 1567.
and thair airis To releve and keip thame ſkaithles of the reſ-
ſaving keping and detenyng of the Quenis Majeſties perſoun
in maner foirſaid And to fortefie mantene and defend thame
fra all levand creatures that in the law or by the law wald
preſume to perfew or invade thame for the ſamyn.
A THOLL. MORTO UN.
GZAFNCARNE. MAR.
J. GRAHAME. ALEXA L. H.WME,
SANQUHAR. SYMPLE.
WCHIL, TRE.
BOYAL LETTERS AND OTHER ORI-
GINAL DOCUMENT'S ADDRESSED
TO THE LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH.
MDLIX—MDCXVIII.
THE family of VANs of BARNBARRoch, in whose archives the originals
of the following documents are preserved, possessed in 1451 the lands
from which this designation was taken, and appear to have been settled
in that part of the country at least a century earlier. Sir Andrew Vaus
of Galloway is mentioned as one of the companions in arms of William
first Earl of Douglas at the battle of Poictiers in 1356, in which he is
said to have fallen; and Alexander Vaus was Bishop of Galloway in
1426. VAUS has been generally considered the same as DE WAUx or
DE VALLIBUs, a name conspicuous for centuries among the chivalry of
Europe, and supposed to have been introduced into Scotland in the suite
of the sainted Queen Margaret. The Barons de Vallibus were located
at Dirleton in the thirteenth century, and since the failure of the male
line under Robert III., their blood has descended through families of
distinguished rank. From them the house of Barnbarroch is said to
have sprung, and though the name has been corrupted into VANs, the
armorial bearings support this belief. Such a corruption is indeed very
ancient; for we find “Johannem de Vans” among the hostages for the
ransom of William the Lion in 1174 : See the Liber Niger Scaccarii,
edited by Hearne, vol. i. p. 36. On the other hand, Rymer, Prynne
and Leland, spell the name according to its other varieties. -
The third in descent from Robert Vans of Barnbarroch who lived
in 1451, was JoHN, to whom seems to have been addressed the first of
the Barnbarroch papers. He was heritable Crowner of Wigton in

256 LETTERS TO THE
right of his wife Janet, daughter and heiress of Sir Simon M*Culloch
of Myretoun. To him succeeded his eldest son,
ALEXANDER WANs of BARNBARRoch, who subscribed the association
in support of the infant James, on the forced abdication of the crown by
Queen Mary in 1567. It would seem however from number 4. of these
papers, that, like many of the politicians of that day, he was in corres-
pondence with both parties. He married first the Lady Janet, daughter
of Gilbert second Earl of Cassilis; and secondly Euphemia, daughter
and coheiress of Sir John Dunbar of Mochrum. Having no male issue
of either marriage, he was succeeded by his brother,
MR PATRICK VANs of BARNBARRoch, one of the busy spirits of a
bustling age. Bred to the church, he successively obtained the rectories
of Wigton and Douglas, and was appointed an ordinary Lord of Ses-
sion on the spiritual side in 1576–7. Although the letter of Mary, ad-
dressed to him in 1571 from Sheffield (No. 10.), exhorts the parson “to
abyde constant at our obedience,” and plainly designates the dominant
faction as “rebels,” yet there seems reason to conclude, from the me-
morials here preserved of his political connections, that he was trusted
as well as rewarded by the most bitter opponents of the unfortunate
Queen. His ecclesiastical profession did not prevent his aspiring to
civil offices and honors: he was a knight, a privy councillor, a lord of
the articles, and a commissioner for the provision of ministers and the
augmentation of stipends. It is said that he was the first to suggest to
James a marriage with the Princess of Denmark; at all events, he was
selected as envoy to propose that alliance, and sailed in the summer of
1587, accompanied by Mr Peter Young, the King's preceptor. Their
mission appears to have failed for the time, but a year afterwards was
renewed with better success. When the Queen was expected in August
1589, after the marriage ceremony had been performed by proxy, Barn-
barroch received, in numbers 20, and 21., his Majesty's commands as to
'the services which were expected of his loyalty on her arrival; and after
LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 257
she had been forced back by stress of weather, Sir Patrick accompanied
his royal master in his romantic voyage to meet his bride. He was
present at the nuptials at Upslo on the 23d of November; and on the
15th of December he returned to Leith with Lord Dingwall, and
others, bearing “news of his Majesteis guid succes and estaite.” . To him
likewise were entrusted the arrangements for the reception and entertain-
ment of the Danish suite, by numbers 22. and 23. of these documents."
Sir Patrick Vans married first Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Ken-
nedy of Girvanmains; secondly Kathrine, daughter of Gilbert third
Earl of Cassilis. By the latter he had -
SIR John VANs of BARNBARRoch, who succeeded on the death of
his father in 1597. In his youth the interest of his father procured his
nomination as Commendator of the abbay of Crossraguel, and he was
appointed of the Privy Council and household of James VI.
This brief sketch of the individuals of the house of Barnbarroch, to
whom the subsequent documents relate, will throw some light upon the
matters therein contained. The great-great-grandson of Sir John ob-
tained by marriage the estate of Sheuchan, and in consequence added to
his own the name and arms of Agnew, which are now borne by his
grandson, Patrick Vans Agnew of Barnbarroch and Sheuchan. In
Pinkerton's Correspondence, vol. II. p. 10, there is a letter from the
late Mr Vans Agnew, which mentions the collection of original docu-
ments at Barnbarroch, amounting to ninety-three. From thirty-two of
these the following selection has now been made, and illustrated with
three facsimiles, by the obliging permission of Mr Vans Agnew.
l. A letter from [Gilbert fourth P] Earl of Cassilis to his cousin [John
Vans of P] Barnbarroch, as to some jealousies existing between the Earl
and his neighbour Stewart of Garlies. -
* Moysie's Memoirs, Maitland Club Edition, pp. 63, 70, 78 to 83 : See also, for parti-
culars of this marriage, the contribution of Mr James Gibson Craig to the Bannatyne Club.
258 LETTERS TO THE
2. An exemption by Francis and Mary, subscribed by the Queen Regent,
to Gilbert fourth Earl of Cassilis, from the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of Wig-
ton, Agnew of Lochnaw, in consequence of variance between them, 1559.
3. A letter by Francis and Mary to Cardinal Nicola di Simonetta, re-
commending that Mr Thomas Hay should be preferred to the vacant
Abbey of Glenluce, and that a pension of 100 lib. should be provided
out of its revenues to Mr Patrick Vans, 1559. -
4. A letter from Mr Patrick to his mother, requesting a supply of arti-
cles for his wardrobe. - -
5. A letter from Queen Mary, calling upon [Alexander Vans of Pl
Barnbarroch to attend the muster at Stirling, against the insurgent
lords, on the last of September [1565?] -
6. A letter from Queen Mary and Henry Darnley to [Alexander Vans
of?] Barnbarroch to the like effect.
7. Another from the Queen to [Alexander Vans of P] Barnbarroch,
sent from Wingfield by the Lord Boyd, 1569.
8. A letter from the Regent Murray, calling upon [Mr Patrick Vans
of] Barnbarroch to relieve Robert Commendator of Whithorn, na-
tural son of James V., who was besieged in his house of Crugiltoun
by the Queen's forces, 1569.
9. Another from the same, instructing Barnbarroch to forward the col-
lection of outstanding stipends, 1569.
10. A letter of encouragement by Queen Mary to Barnbarroch from
Sheffield, to remain constant in her service, 1571.
11. A letter from the Regent Mar, desiring Barmbarroch to march and
assist the blockade of Edinburgh, 1572.
12. Anotherfrom the Regent Mortoun, of similar tenor tonumber 9,-1579.
13. A letter from James VI, commanding the attendance of Sir Patrick
at Dumfries and Perth, on the Justice Ayre and other matters, 1582.
14. Another from William first Earl of Gowrie, with farther instructions on
these points, 6th August 1582. The Earl was brother of Sir Patrick, in
consequence of the latter having married Elizabeth Kennedy, who was
LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 259
daughter by a former marriage of Lady Janet Stewart, the Earl's step-
mother. This letter was written seventeen days before the raid of Ruthven.
15. A letter from the King, continuing the person of John fifth Earl of
Cassilis, then a pupil, under the charge of Sir Patrick Vans, who
was his uncle by marriage, 1584.
16. & 17. Two letters from the King, commanding the attendance of
Barnbarroch at the muster against the Lord Maxwell and the banish-
ed Lords then in arms, 1585; immediately before the taking of Stir-
ling by the insurgents." -
18. Instructions to Sir Patrick Vans and Mr Peter Young, ambassadors
to Denmark, to obtain facilities for the importation of victual from
the Baltic during the scarcity, 1587. - -
19. A letter from the Master of Orkney to his uncle and foster-father
Sir Patrick, engaging his interest against the Justice-clerk Bellenden,
probably in the matter of the annexation to the crown of the tem-
poralities of bishopricks, 1587.
20. & 21. Two letters from the King to Barnbarroch, requiring his at-
tendance on the arrival of the Queen from Denmark, and his contri-
bution to the larder on that occasion, 1589. -
22. A letter from the King to Sir Patrick from Croneburgh, with in-
structions for the reception of the Royal suite on their arrival, 1589.
The “Ordour” referred to is printed at p. 29. of Mr Gibson Craig's
collections relative to the marriage of James VI. " . -
23. An appeal by his Majesty to the loyalty and liberality of the Laird
of Barnbarroch, to contribute towards the expenses incurred in enter-
taining the Danish suite, who had come over with the Queen, 1590.
24. A summons to Sir Patrick to attend the council in the matter of
the Prince's baptism, 1594.
25. A letter from the King, commanding [Sir John Vans of] Barn-
barroch to demit the house and place of Crossraguel, that it might
be repaired for the use of the Prince, 1602.
* Moysie's Memoirs, p. 54.
260 LETTERS TO THE 1559.
26. A letter from the King, desiring that Barnbarroch should attend
upon the Commissioner at the ensuing General Assembly at Perth,
1618.
TO MY ASSURITT CUSING THE LAIRD OFF BARNEBARRACHE.
Rycht aſſurit cuſing Efter my hartlie commendatiouns I
think lange tto vnderſtand our nichtbour Garleis meaneis tto
follow fourth, and I man ſurge haue sum off gour avne ueil-
uillyrs quha vill ſumthing lett gow be forfeine off his inten-
tiounis aluayis In caiſe thay uald cum upon thair muſter
dayis tto mak ony forme off prouocatioun I pray gow be nott
rache tto caſt gour ſelf in ony lyklie inconvenient, In reſpect
ge haue nott fik number as ſuld be, and I fall haue ſum man
att gow chortlie in better equipage, that fall bringe men as
neir thair getis godwilling that thay lyk als lytill, and if ge
fie materis lyklie tto draw tto ony ſuddentie, aduertiſe me bak
uith diligens, and I fall nocht be cairles, iff gour turneis be
nocht all the graiter in this cuntrie att mertimes, I uald be
glaid ge micht be afeild with me, for me Lord Argyl hes
urettin aneuerie freindlie letter tto me tto be preſent att the
endit off that blok with my guiddochter sua tto your nixt
occaſione and euer I reſt
3our uerie aſſuritt cuſing,
CASSILLIS.
The Inche, the 23 off October.
I uill haue deſyritt gow to my freind Thomas off Synnenes
tto ſtay uith gow ane quhyll, vntill the tyme I ſend mo.
1559. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 261
ANE EXEMPTIONE FOR THE ERLE OF CASSILLIS AND HIS HAILL
DEPENDENTIS FRA THE SCHIREF OF WIGTOUN.
REX ET REGINA.
WE vnderſtanding that thair ſtandis ſum variance diſcord
and vnkyndnes betuix oure couſing Gilbert Erle of Caffillis
his kin freindis and ſeruandis on that ane parte and oure
ſchiref of Wigtoun his kin freindis and feruandis on that vther
parte quhairthrow he and his deputtis may be na jugeis com-
petent to thame in ony actioun concerning thame : Thairfore
We for eſchewing of grettare inconuenienttis be thir preſentis
Exemis oure ſaid couſing his kin freindis alliay tenmentis ſer-
uandis and parttakaris fra our ſaid ſchiref and his deputis thair
juriſdićtioun office and power anent ony actioun concernyng
thame alſwele criminale as ciuile in tyme cuming induring
oure will Chargeing heirfore our ſaid ſchiref and his deputtis
that thai defift and ceiſe fra all calling perfewing or proceding
vpoun ony ačtioun concernyng oure ſaid couſing his kin
freindis alliay tennentis ſeruandis or parte takkaris owther cri-
minallie or ciuillie in tyme cuming ay and quhill thai haue
command of ws in the contrare diſchargeing thame vther-
wyis of all proceding thairintill and of thair offices in that
parte during the ſaid ſpace notwithſtanding ony commiſſioun
of Juſticiarie gevin or to be gevin be ws in the contrare to oure
ſaid ſchiref or his deputtis : Anent the quhilk we diſpenſe in-
ſafare as concernis the premiſſis be thir preſentis Gevin vndir
oure ſignet and ſubſcriuit be oure derreſt moder Marie quene
drowriare and Regent of oure Realme At Edinburcht the
2 M .
Q62 LETTERS TO THE 1559.
day of the geir of God I® v* 1 nyme 3eiris and of oure
regnis the fecund and auchtene 3eiris.
IMARIE R.
REUERENDO IN CHRISTO PATRI DOMINO NIcoLAo A sERMoNETA
CARDINALI RERUM REGNI NOSTRI SCOTIE PROMOTORI.
FRANCISCUS ET MARIA dei gratia Francorum et Scoto-
rum Rex et Regina Reverendiffimo in Chrifto patri et domino
Nicolao a Sermoneta Cardinali rerum regni noftri Scotie pro-
motori digniffimo S. Reverendiffime pater in gratiam familiaris
noftri Thome Hay prefbiteri fcribimus ad fanétiffimum domi-
mum noftrum Papam accurate poftulamufque nonmodo ut hunc
monafterio de Glenluce alias Vallis Lucis Ciftercienfis ordinis
Candide cafe diocefis per obitum venerabilis quondam patris
Jacobi illius ultimi Abbatis nunc vacan. preficiat abbatem. Ve-
rum etiam ut ex ejufdem monafterii fruétibus centum librarum
ufualis monete regni noftri fcotie annuam penfionem Patricio
Vans clerico liberaliter conferat. Nos hanc caufam R. P. T.
fidei quam noftris rebus femper prefto fuiffe fenfimus diligenter
commendamus, petimufque ut ejus opera atque autem hoc ne-
gotium quam fieri poteft celerrime conficiatur Quo quidem
rem nobis fecerit gratiffimam. Cetera que huc fpeétant ex
Jacobo Thorntom noftro Iftic procuratore intelliget R. T. P.
cui faufta omnia feliciaque precamur Datum Ambafie xxiij
Menfis Martij 1559.
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1565. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 263
TO MY LOUING MOTHER THIS BE DERECIT.
Most Louing mother efter my hairtlie commendaciounis
ge ſall vit that I am in good helth praiſfit be God viſſing this
ſam to gow and all gouris 3e fall vit that I am verie ſcant of
linnine cloth of ſarkis and aurlairis I haiue vrytin verie oft
to gow about them, and 3e haiue never ſend me ane anſer I
pray gow that gevaild ſend me ſum mo ſchankis for them that
I haiue vill be ſchoine doine I mervell that ge ſend vs not
out the flingill fuollitt ſchoine quhilk ge promiſfit to ſend them
out till vs Nocht ellis bot committis gow to God and my
moſt hairtlie commendaciounis to gour ſelf and to my fiſteris
the thrid day of Januar.
3our louing fonne
PA TRICK PAN.S.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARNEARROCH.
TRAIST freind We greit gow weill. Nocht onelie hes oure
rebellis and diſſobedient ſubjećtis thair affiftaris takin on ar-
mour riddin with conuocatioun to and fra in the cuntre And
fortifiit and withhaldin diuerſe houſfis and ſtrenthis agamis ws
Bot als as weill apperis be thair procedingis myndis to draw
in ſtrangearis in our realme And ſa far as in thane lyis to
peruert the haill ſtait of our commoun weill quhilk to ws is
vnſufferabill And we traiſt name of oure faythfull ſubieótis (of
quhilk nowmer We ſpecialie eſteme gow) wilbe contentit of
thair vnnaturall defe&tioun Bot with thair lyfis and geir will
ſet furthwart our guid and iuſt qwerrell Praying gow gairfoir
264 LETTERS TO THE 1565.
effectuuſlie That accumpaneit with the haill force ge may mak
with xx dayis vićtualis eftir gour cuming with palgeonis to ly
on the feildis ge faill nocht to addres gow to meit ws at Stri-
uiling the laſt day of ſeptember inſtant. -
MARIE R.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LAIRD OF BARBURRAUCH.
TRAIST freind We greit gow weill. Nocht onelie hes oure
rebellis and diſſobedient ſubjećtis thair affiſtaris takin on armour
riddin with conuocatioun to and fra in the cuntre and fortifiit
and withhaldin diuerſe houſis and ſtrenthis aganis ws Bot als
as weill apperis be thair procedingis myndis to draw in ſtran-
gearis in our realme And ſafar as in thame lyis to peruert the
haill ſtait of our commoun weill quhilk to ws is vnſufferabill
And we traiſt mane of oure faythfull ſubie&tis (of quhilk now-
mer We ſpecialie eſteme gow) wilbe contentit of ther vnna-
turall defectioun Bot with thair lyffis and geir will ſet furth-
wart our guid and iuſt q\werrell Praying gow thairfoir effec-
tuuſlie That accompaneit with the haill force ge may mak with
xx dayis vićtualis eftir gour cuming with palgeonis to ly on
the feildis ge faill nocht to addres gow to meit ws At Stri-
uiling the laſt day of ſeptember inſtant And frathyne to pas
furthwart with ws to fic places as the occaſioun of oure ſtaite
fall require As ge will therby do ws maiſt thankfull pleſure
and gar ws confirme the ſame guid opinioun quhilk We euir
conſauit and preſentlie hes of gow Subſcriuit with oure handis
At Dunde the xiij day of ſeptember 1565. -
- MARIE R. HENRY R.
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1569. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 265
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARNBARROCH.
TRAIST freind We greit gow weill Forſamekill as in tymes
bypaſt we haif ewer aduertifit gow be our lettres of our pro-
ceidingis with the Quene of England our gud fifter, nocht ſay
amply as we wald haif done be refſone of the diſcommoditie
of paſſage hes bene betuix thir realmes bot at the leiſt of the
gude opinione we hade of the reſolutioun thairof , And now
Our traiſt couſigne and counſalour my Lord Boyd ane of our
Commiſſioneris towart our ſaid gud fifter, being returnit fra
hir and hir counſale We haif depeſchit him with thir preſentis
in our realme to declair vnto gow the verraye treuth and gud
eſtait of our affaires, and our mynd in all thingisſ Quhilk be-
caus of his ſufficiency we wald not wryt amply Bot referring
the ſame to him quhome ge fall credeit as our ſelff Committis
gow to God Off Wingdfeild the iiij daye of Junij 1569.
MARIE R.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARBARRAUCH.
TRAIST freind efter maiſt hertlie commendatioun, We vn-
derſtand that certane futemen and horſemen ar preſentlie cum
in Galloway direct be the Lord Flemyng, quhilkis intendis or
ar alreddy affegeing the hous of Crugiltoun pertening to our
brother the Commendatar of Quhithorne And fen the at-
temptat is ſa manifeſt, and committit vnder the tyme of com-
moning We pray gow maiſt effectuuſlie As ge will euir ſchaw
ws pleflour and guidwill That with all poſſible diligence ge
266 LETTERS TO THE 1569.
convene gour kin freindis and ſeruandis and all that will do
for gow, and releve our ſaid brother of the ſaid affege And
perfew the authouris thairof with all hoſtilitie for the quhilk
ge falhaue fic warrand as ge will think reſonable And this
we aſſuritlie lippen for at gour handis as euir ge will deſerue
our gudewill and kyndnes Thus We commit gow to God
At Edinburgh the xxiij of Aprile 1569
In haiſt
3our aſſurit freind
JAMES REGENT.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARNEBARROCH.
TRAIST freindis eftir our hartlie commendationis It is nocht
vnknawin to gow how the miniſteris of gour cuntrey hes this
lang tyme bygane wantit thair ſtipendis and drevin thairthrow
to povertie the occaſioun of thir grite trublis that hes laitlie
bene quhairthrow thei ar nocht abill to ſerue thair cuir with-
oute remeid be provydit thairto Quhairfor havand confidence
of gour gude mynd and will that ge beir to the glorie of God
and furthering of the progres of Chriſtis evangell We haue or-
danit this berare Hendrie Smyth colle&tour to reſort to gow
Quhome we deſyre effecteouſlie not allanerlie to pay to him
famekill as gear addettit in gour ſelf bot alſua that ge will
concur aſſiſt and fortefie him to the payment of all vtheris
reſtand awand within thay boundis ſafar as poſſible ge may
quhilk we doubt nocht bot ge will do the erar for this oure
requeſt And God haue gow in his keiping Off Striueling
the penult day of Aprile I" V* lxix geiris
JAMES REGENT.
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1571. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 267
10.
TO OURE TRAIST FRENID THE LARD OF BARBARRACHE.
TRAIST freind We greit gow weill. Sen the Reuerend
father in God our truſtie couſin and counſalour The Biſchop of
Gallowaye (who as a faithfull Commiſſioner hes weill and de-
ligentlie done his devuoir in treating with the Quene our
gudfiſter this quhile bygane for our reſtitution and releif of gow
our good ſubie&tis) Is reparing in they partis And can mair
amply Informe gow of the haill proceiding theranent nor is
poſſibill be our lettres to mak yow winderſtand; We refer the
ſame to his ſufficiency whom ge fall credit as our ſelf And
ſeing thair is na occaſion (notwithſtanding this new delaye) to
diſpair of the obteaning of our long ſwtes: for our ſaid good
ſiſter hes maid playne demonſtration to the rebelles Commiſ-
fioners of her will and determinat Intention to haif w8 reſtored
and they promefit to returne haiſtely with Commiſſion of the
reſt of that faction (quhilk they alledgit not to haif) to treat
with her and ws to the ſame effect; We praye yow in the meane
tyme to abyde conſtant at our obedience, ſhawing oppynly your
honeſt profeſſion therof, to concur togidder without diffimula-
tion at all occaſions And finally to declair your ſelfis ſuche at
this tyme as heireftir for ewer gewold haif ws to eſteme yow
Quhilk being for our advancementſ ge fall not fynd We will
abandone nor leif yow at any extreme neceſſitieſ but aſſures yow
of ſufficient ſupport and releif in convenient tyme as gud ordour
is tane alreddy thairfor, And ſo wiſhing alwiſe contſinuele]
augmentation of your courage to our devotion We commit yow
to God At Shefeild the laſt daye of Aprile 1571.
Your veri good frynd
MARIE R.
268 LETTERS TO THE 1572.
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To OUR RYCHT TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF
BARNBARROCH.
RYCHT traiſt freind efter maiſt hartlie commendatioune The
troubles heir ſa lang continewing throw the withhalding of the
toun of Edinburch aganis oure ſouerane Lord and his auðto-
ritie It is thocht maiſt expedient to retene vićtuallis frome the
toun And for that end thair is men of weir plantit in the
houffis nixt adiacent thairto Quhairthrow with the travellis
of ſum nowmer of horſmen the mater aperis to tak gude and
ſpedie ſucceſſe Preſentlie we ar accumpaneit with the bor-
douraris of Merſe and Tividale quhilks ar content to tary heir
for a moneth quhairof thair is a gude parte alreddy paſt And
be advyſe of the counſale It is thocht gude that be proclama-
tioun the weſt bordour and cuntrey be drawin heir to Leyth
agane the xx day of this moneth provydit to remane for ane
vthir moneth, within quhilk ſpace God willing the mater wilbe
at a poynt. Praying gow heirfoir effectuouſlie That ge with
goure kin freindis and ſeruandis abill and weill horſt men will
addres gow to be heir at Leyth in weirlike maner the ſaid
xx day of Aprile inſtant provydit to remane for the ſpace of
ane moneth thairefter According to the proclamatioun paſt
thairvpoun As ge will do the Kingis Maieſtie gude feruice and
do ws thankfull and acceptabill pleſour Sua we commit gow
to the protećtioun of God frome Leyth the fyft day of Aprile
1572.
3our aſſuirit friend
JHON REGENT.
1573. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 269
12.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARNEARROCH.
TRAIST freindefter our hartlie commendatione The comptis
of the maiſt pairt of the colle&tore hes laitlie bene hard and
amangis otheris the colle&touris compt of Galloway quhairin
to our greit mervell we heir that thair is mony grit reſtis and
hornyngis producit for diligence quhilk is na ſatiſfactioun to
the Miniſteris of thair ſtipendis lang awand thane , nor git is
it ony releif of the vtheris chargeis that neceſſarlie man be
ſuſtemit That quhilk is awand man be payit and this contempt
of horning can nocht be permittit langar without pvniſment
Bot becaus ſyndre noblemen and vtheris of guid place and
reputation ar in roll, We haue cauſit the publicatioun thairof be
ſtayit quhill firſt be our awin lettres we admoniſhe thame fa-
vorabillie to pay the debt and obtene thame felfis relaxt quhilk
being done we ar deſyrous of na mannis troubill and thairfoir
will deſyre and pray gou effectuouſlie that als weill of that
quhilk ge gour ſelf is awand as of it awand be gour freindis
and nychtbouris quhair gour credit and auðtoritie may availl
ge will mak and caus payment be maid of the ſaidis debtis and
reſtis off the crope and geir of God IQ V, thre ſcoir tuelf
geris and of all geris preceding vnpait to the colle&tour Harie
Smyth quha is purpoiſlie cum furth at this tyme for reſait of
the ſame and ordanit to returne with diligence with fik expe-
ditioun as he refſauis quhairin ge fall do gour ſelf eaſe and we
will think alſua ge do ws guid pleaſour thairin quhair vther-
wyife gif gour name ſalbe divulgat as at the horne it can nocht
bot turne to gour diſplefour and preiudice at fumtyme perad.
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270 LETTERS TO THE 1573.
13.
venture quhen ge had rather doubill the payment of the debt
And ſa louking that our requeiſt and admonitioun fall availl
at gour handis We commit gou in the protećtioun of God At
Halyrudhous the xxix day of Maii 1573.
3our aſſured freind
JAMES REGENT.
TO OUR TRAIST FREIND THE LAIRD OF BARNBARROCH
SENATOUR OF OUR COLLEGE OF JUSTICE,
TRAIST freind We gret gow wele Being movit with the
complaintis of our ſubie&tis havilie oppreſſit with the many-
fauld crymes of the Weikit and Inobedient vnpuneift be ordour
of juſtice We haue concludit be aduiſe of our counſale to hald
courtis of iuſticiarie within the ſchirefdomes of Perth Striuiling
and Dumbartane this ſomer And conſequentlie in vther partis
of our realme quhair greteſt neid is And hes maid choiſe of
gou to be ane aſſeſſour to our Juſtice and a compoſitour with
our Theſaurar vpoun knaw.lege and gude report had of gour
habilitie for fic ſeruice / quhairinto gour gudwill we traiſt is
nathing inferiour , Deſyiring gou thairfoir effectuuſlie That
ge will addres you for this purpois and be preſent with our
Theſaurer to that effect at Perth vpoun the firſt day of Julij
nixtocum Betuix and quhilk day all things requiſite in that
behalf ſalbe prouidit and ſet fordwart / We haue lykuiſe ap-
pointit gou and the lard of Capringtoun to be preſent at our
Juſtice court to be haldin at Drumfreis the xxv day of Junij
mixtocum and at Lochmaben vpoun the xxviij day of the ſame
1582. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 271
14.
moneth , quhilk dyet We mon effectuuſlie requeiſt gou to
keip firſt , allthocht the vther day at Perth , be ſuddane thair-
eftir, quhilk we fall caus be continewit for ſum dayis thair-
eftir that ge may convenientlie repair thairto Sen our deliber-
atioun is to vſe gour aduiſe and feruice in baith , And ſa luik-
ing to vnderſtand be gour anfuer quhat falbe certanlie lippinnit
for at gour hand that this Work be not miſlippynnit Committis
gou in the protećtioun of the almyttie AT Striuiling the xx
day of aprile 1582.
- JAMES R.
To our BRooDYER THE LAYRDE OF BARNBARRACHE.
BRoth ER eftir maiſt hertly commendatiounis At laſt the
Kingis Majeſtie with auiſe of his Counſall hes reſoluit vpoun
the halding fordward of the iuſtice Courtis in this tyme of va-
cance appoynting to euerie commiſſioun fic as he thinkis fall
be maiſt hable for his feruice in that pairt having a verrie guid
opinioun of gour ſelf as a man affectionate to further the
pvniſchment of offendouris to quyet the cuntrey and procure
his hienes commodetie And ſeing a part of the releif of
my greit and wechtie burding conſiſtis in gour diligence and
gudwill I will effectuouſlie requyre gow to be myndfull thairof
and to be vpoun a reddines to pas fordwart to the iorney of
the north for halding of the courtis thair aganes fic tyme as
my Lord of Thirluftane fall gif gou aduertiſment quho is pre-
fentlie tayreit vpoun ſum courtis that the Duke haldis be com-
miſſioun ſua that I think ge may ſpend ane greit part of this
272 - LETTERS TO THE 1582.
15.
moneth in gour awin effairis befoir he can be reddy Alwyis
I will pray gou to be on a reddineſe as he aduerteifis for as I
put gow huirilie to payns ſua fall ge fynd me maleſe reddy to
do for gou quhairin my trawell and payns may awaill The
Court of Drumfreis is continewit to the xx of Oétober quhair
my Lord of Arran is appoynted to be lieutennent ſua that ge
will haue ſufficient tyme to accompleiſe gour iorney in the
north , and returne thairto agane in convenient tyme I reſ-
ſaued neuir word frae gou fen gour hame paſſing albeit I
wrait laitlie fra Edinburch with ane boy of gour awin bot I
vnderſtude be the clerk Regiſter that ge paſt to Drumfreife
beleifand the court had haldin thair , quhairof I was ſorie that
ge fuld haue maid fic waiſt trawell the clerk Regiſter ſayes
that the lettre come ane moneth efter the daiting thairof to
his handis The Kingis Majeſtie is heir preſentlie at my houſe
and pas herfra ame of thir tuo dayis to Athoill to the hunting
and is to be ewiſe they partis about Glaſgow befoir the end
of this moneth All thingis heiraway continewis in gude quyet
and ſua hertlie deſyring to vnderſtand of gour weilfair I ceiſe
for the preſent Committing gou to God At Ruthven the
ſaxt of Auguſt 1582.
3our lowing and aſſured brother
G O PVR YE.
TO OUR TRUSTY AND WEILBELOUIT COUNSELLOUR THE LARDE
OF BARBARRAUCHE,
TRUSTY and weilbelouit Counſellour We greit gow Weill,
1584. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 273
16.
Fforſamekle as we vnderſtand gour earneſt affectioun and cair
hithertillis borne to the hous of Caffillis Namelie in the keping
and preſerving of his perſoun quha preſentlie occupiis that
rowme being now a puple Quhairfoir it is our Will That ge
retene him ſtill in gour cuſtody knawing gow to be ſa kyndlie
and weill affectionat to him , And lett him not depart furth
of the ſame to quhatſumeuir perſoun or perſonis ſuitan his de-
liuerie of gour handis without our ſpeciall command to deliuer
him and that ge knaw to quhom 1 for quhilkis thir preſentis
falbe to gow ſufficient warrande At falkland the xij day of
Julij 1584. -
JAMES P.
To our RICHT TRAIST FREIND THE LAIRDE OF BARNBARRAUCH.
RICHT traiſt freinde We greit gow hertlie weill, We haue
lang differrit to burdene our ſubie&tis to trauell in perſoun for
repreſſing of the inſolence and lang continewit rebellioune of the
Lord Maxwell in hoip to haue ſettillit that diſordour before
now. Bot finding his contempt increſſing and our gude ſubječtis
eweiſt the Weſt bordour havellie oppreſt be his treaſonabill
proceidingis , And that maiſt vnthankfullie be the aſſiſtance
of our declairit traytouris and rebellis expellit furthe of our
realme and the brokin men and the vis of the bordouris he
intendis the further trouble of our eſtateſ We intend God
willing in proper perſoun to repair to the boundis ſa lang diſ-
orderit and oppreſfit be him with a ſufficient force of our faith-
full and gude ſubiectis , and hes maid proclamatiounis to that
274 LETTERS TO THE 1585.
17.
effect agane the xxij day of Oétober inſtant Quhairfoir We
defyre gow effectuuſly that ge weill and ſubſtantiouſly accum-
paneit with gour freindis tennentis and ſeruandis and all that
ge may mak addres gow to meit Ws at Craufurde caſtell the ſaid
xxij day with carriage and palgeonis to ly on the feildis provydit
to accumpanie ws be the ſpace of xxx dayes according to our
ſaidis proclamatiounis. As ge will do ws ſpeciall pleafour and
gude feruice Thus We commit gow to God at Sterling the
ſext day of Oétober, 1585.
JAMES P.
TO OUR RICHT TRAIST FREIND THE LAIRDE OF BARNEARRAU CH.
RychT traiſt freinde We greit gow hairtlie weill Albeit be
our ſeuerall proclamacyonis publiſlit heirtofore We ordanit
our gude ſubie&tis to meit ws at the caſtell of Craufurde vpoun
the third day off Nouember nixt with cariage and palgeonis to
ly in the feildis for xxx dayis Bot confiddering the greit diffi-
cultie to get out the lauborarris of the grund with cariage in
reſpect the cornis ar in many places vnled and win Seing
alſua the dyet of our proclamacioun is in the mirk of the morne
and that our rebellis that war in Englande ar enterit in our
realme be the middill marche And aſſiftit be findrie oure
vnnaturall ſubiećtis that maiſt vnkyndlie and vnthankfullie hes
ſchakin of our obedience and joyned thame to our rebellis
Off intent to reife and manteine publićte weire in the bowellis
of our realme gif thair inſolence be not withſtand and repreſt
Thairfoir We deſire gow effectuuſlie that ge with gour houſhald
1585. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 275
18.
and ſubſtantious freindis maiſt habill and beſt horſfit in weir
like maner addres gow to be at us heir in ſtriueling vpoun fet-
terday mixtocum the penult day off oétober inſtant or ſoiner
gif poſſibill ge can To accumpanie and affiſt ws in defence and
ſaieftie of our honour life and croune Leveing gour commonis
that ar occupeit in winning of the cornis and gour cariage be-
hind quhill vpoungour hame cuming and knawlege of our mynde
ge ſend thame further aduerteiſment as ge will gif ws a pruif
of gour louf and effectioun to ws and deſerue our ſpeciall
thankis Thus we commit gow to God in Striueling the xx
day of oëtober 1585. •
We deſire gow effectuuſlie to gar proclame thir lettrez with
all diligence at Wigtoun And although it be efter the day to
cum alſone as is poſſible and to gar deliver thir lettrez.
JAMES R.
TO OUR RICHT TRUSTIE AND WEILBELOUIT COUNSALLOURIS SIR.
PATRIK VANS OF BARNBARROCHI KNY CHT AND ME, PETER
goung OF SEYToUN our ELEEMOSINAR OUR AMBASSADOURIs
IN DENNEMARK,
REX.
Sir Patrik Waus of Barnbarrow Knycht and Mr Petir 3oung
of Seytoun oure ambaſſadouris preſentlie direct in the realme
of Denmark We greit gou wele Forſameikle as we ar informit
that thair is a gret nowmer of our ſchippis of the haill portis
of our realm frauchtit toward Danſkin for bying of vićtually
276 LETTERS TO THE 1587.
The merchandis and byaris quhairof armyndit to tranſport and
ſell the ſamin in vther forayne pairtis for thair gretar avantage
and commoditie, Without reſpect to the gret ſkarſtie and derth
preſentlie appeiring within this our realme Or the inconvenient
that may enſew thairvpoun baith to ws and thame gif thai
ſalhappin to be interceptit be the Quene of Englandis ſchippis
in the paſſing throuch the pace to the pairtis of France Flan-
deris or Spayne , Quhairof We and our counſale having con-
fideratioun , Haue thocht gude that it ſalbe rememberit be
gou as ane part of gour commiſſioun, That quhen God fall
ſend gou to the toun of Elfinvre 3e ermiſtlie ſoliſt the tollen-
dar That he cuſtome name of theſe our ſchipis quhilkis ſalhap-
pin to be laidin with any kynd of vićtuallſ quhill as they obleife
thame ſelfis to cum directlie in Scotland thairwith To be ſald
heir for the releif of the pure , and ſupplie of the derth and
ſkarſtie / And heir withall ge fall not faill to caus extraćt out
of the Cuſtumaris buikis , the Name of ilk ſchip with the name
of the Maiſter and merchand thairof and the toun quhair thai
dwell Togidder with the quantitie of the vićtuall , that is cuſt-
tº ſº tº º º in ilk ſchip that we may the bettir knaw they per-
ſonis that ſalhappin to carrie thair vićtuall to forayne pairtis
in this gret derth and neceſſitie within our realme and caus
thame be handillit as thai mereit / As ge will anſuer to ws
heirvpounſ for the quhilk thir preſentis ſalbe to gou ſufficient
warrand and commiſſioun Subſcriuit with our hand At Falk-
land the xiiij day of Junij 1587.
- JAMES R.
1587. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 277
19.
TO MY VERIE GUID LORD THE LAIRD OF BARNEBARROCH LORD
OF OUR SOUERA.NE LORDIS SESSIOUN.
My Lord and father Eftir my hertlie commendatiouns , I
wes glaid to heir of gour Lordſchipis repairing toward court at .
this tyme feand I may haue that occaſioun as to mene to gour
Lordſchip the manifeſt and inexſpectit wrang , quhilk vnde.
ſeruitly I ſuſtene at the handis of the Juſtice Clerk , quha firſt
prepairit the way to cancelett my leving, nixt hes tane my
plaice our my heid and laſt of all vnder termes of commoun-
ing and appoyntment hes liftit ane cumpanie of ſuldartis in
quyet maner (as the commoun bruit is) to pas our to Ork-
ney and intruſe thameſelf in my poſſeſſioun , and to perfew
my fatheris lyffe to the vter exterminacioune of our raice , and
that but regaird to my bluid my richt my freindſchip and null
offence committit be me aither aganis his Maieſtie or him.
Quhairwpon feand gour Lordſchip is ame of my ſpeciall freindis,
and that I determene with my ſelff to do no thing in ony mater
of wecht but my freindis ſpeciall adwyfe / I haue fend this
preſent to gour Lordſchip as I haue done the lyk to all my
honourabill freindis to vnderſtand quhat courſe ge think meit-
eft to follow, and for quhat affiſtance and help I may luik
for in this my homeſt and wechtie ačtioune at gour Lordſchipis
hand. For I perſaue they intend no delay in thair interpryſe
quhilk in the end may be judged als foliſchelie attemptity as
wyfelie inventit or happilie endit. And ſua luikand for gour
Lordſchippis anſuer Committis gour Lordſchip to God Frome
Edinburch the xij of December 1587. *
3our L, foſterſone at power
MAISTER OF OR KNA. Y.
2 O
278 LETTERS TO THE 1589.
20.
21.
TO OUR TRUSTY AND WEILBELOUIT COUNSELLOlújR. SIR PATRIK
VANS OF BARNEBARROCH KNYCHT ANE OF THE SENATOURIS
OF OUR COLLEGE OF JUSTICE.
TRUSTY and weilbelouit counſellour We greit gow hairtlie
weill Oure mareage now at Godis pleſour being concludit
and the Quene our bedfallow hourlie luikit for to arryve ho-
norabillie accumpaneit It becumis Ws to haue the maiſt
honorable and honeſt of our gude ſubie&tis with ws at that
tyme , And thairfoir We will earneſtlie and effecteouſlie re-
quirgow that ge fail nocht all excuſis ſett apairt to be with ws
at Halierudehous or quhair we ſalbe with all gude diligence
eftir the refrait heirof with na gryte nvmer bot ane certane of
gour honeſt freindis and ſeruandis maiſt habill and of beſt equip-
page that hes na quarrell nor ar nocht of thame ſelfis querrelus
to accumpanie ws during the tyme of the ſolemnitie and that
ge knaw our forther plefour As ge will do ws richt thank-
full fervice to be rememberit quhane tyme and gude occaſione
fall ſerve And this committis gow to God At Edinburch
the penult day of auguſt 1589.
JAMES R.
TO OUR RYCHT TRAIST COUNSELLOR SIR PATRIK VANS OF
BARNEBARRAUCH KNY CHT,
RychT traiſt counſellour We greit gow weill 1 Oure mariage
now at Godis pleſoure being concludit and the Quene our
bedſallow hourlie louked for to arryve / It becums ws to haue
fic as accumpanels hir weill and honorablie interteneyit as our
ambaſſadourishes fand the lyke in pruiff alreddy, To the
1589. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 279
22.
fortherance quhairof we mon employe the guid will of oure
loving ſubieótis of beſt affectioun and habilitie and thairfore
erneſtlie and effectouſlie deſyris gow that ge will ſend hither
to the help of the honorable charges to be maid in this ačtioun
fic quantitie of fatt beif and muttoun on fute wyld foulis and
venyſoun or viher ſtuff meit for this purpois as poſſiblie ge
may provyde and furneis of gour awin or be gour moyane and
exped the ſame heir with all diligence efter the reflait of this
oure lettre and delyuer it to our ſeruitour Walter Neiſche
Maiſter of oure Lardner quhome we have appointit to reſaue
the ſame and gif his tickat thairvpone That we may particu-
larlie knaw the guidwillis of all men and acknaw.lege it accord-
inglie quhen tyme feruis and that ge delyuer gour tickat of
that quhilk ge fend to ane of our Maiſter houſhaldis ; quha
fall attend thairvpoun, aduertiſing him quhat ſalbe lyppinnit
for that . . . . . . . . as ge will do ws rycht acceptable ple-
four and feruice And ſwa for the preſent committis gou to
God At Edinburch the penult day of Auguſt 1589.
JAMES R.
TO OUR TRUSTIE AND WEILBELOUIT COUNSALLOUR THE
LAIRD OF BARNIBARRACH.
TRUSTIE and weilbelouit counſallour we greit gow hartlie
weill The cair quhilk We man haue in honour, to fie the
gentilmen defignit for oure convoy, weill vſit and interteneit
in oure realme, and the neceſſitie of our eſtate vnabling ws to
do it of our awin hes mowit ws to commit that burding to fum
ſpeciallis of our counſall, quha in abilitie and affectioun to our
280 LETTERS TO THE 1589.
23.
honour are thocht maiſt likelie to diſcharge that turne , amangis
the quhilkis as we haif ſpeciallie maid chois of gow, Sa will
we rycht affectuouſlie deſire gow, that vpoun ficht heirof , ge
faill nocht with all diligenceſ to addresgow to our ſecreit coun-
ſaleſ quha will acquent gow with the Ordour we haue ſet doun
and ſent thame and quhairwnto We will maiſt earniſtlie re-
queiſt gow, that all excuſis ſet aſyde, ge will conforme gow
for gour pairtſ and thairin teſtifie vnto ws gour cair of our
ſaid honour, and the gudwill ge carie to fie it relewit of this
ſtrait amangis the reſt , as ge will do ws richt memorable and
thankfull pleaſour, Sua reſting that in this, ge wilbe laith to
diſapoint our expectatioun We commit gow to God frome
Cronebourg this xxj of februare 1589.
JAMES P.
TO OUR TRUSTIE AND WEILBELOUIT COUNSALOUR THE LAIRDE
OF BARNEBARROCH AN E OF THE SENATOURIS OF OUR COLLEGE
OF JUSTICE,
TRUSTIE and veilbelouit counſalour We greit gow weill
The expenſis of the houſfis quhilkis war haldin in heir to
the ſtraungeris being appointit to be payit be a commone
contributione of certane noblemen and barronis and for gour
pairt promiſe being maid of the foum of iſ fbs. quhairof
reſtis jº ths. It is now thocht meit that the ſum with the
vther foumes promittit be the reſt expreſſit in a roll maid at
gour lait being heir ſalbe collectit and imbrocht for ſatiſfeing
of the creditouris with all convenient expeditione Quhairfor
this ſalbe to defyre gow affectiouſlie that according to gour
1590. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. 281
24.
former promiſe ge will nocht faill to caus the ſaid foume
be ſend hither and delyuerit to Alexander Lawſoune imme-
diatlie efter the reflait heirof for the releif of him and fic
wtheris as haid the chairge and ouerfight of thair houſiis that
in default thairof they be nocht perfewit and troublit be the
furniſſaris quha being for the maiſt pairt puir folkis ſchoris
daylie to wſe the rigour and extremitie of the law aganes
tham Quhairin ge as amangis vtheris fall declar gour affec-
tioune and furthvardnes in this lait ačtione concerning our
honour and weill ſa ſall ge do ws meſt acceptable feruice plea-
four and releif w8 of the exclammatioune quhilk vtheruyis mey
be maid And for the ſam ſall ge find Ws willing to acknaw-
leig gour guidwill accordinglie. Thus for the preſent We com-
mit gou in the protećtione of God from Halirudhous the thrid
day of Junij 1590. -
- JAMES R.
TO Olu R TRUSTIE AND WEILBELOWIT COUNSALL OUR THE LAIRD
OF BARNBARRow ANE OF THE SENATOURIS OF OUR COLLEDGE
OF JUSTICE, &c. &c. -
TRUSTIE and weilbelouit conſallour We greitt gow hartlie
weill The tyme of the ſolempnitie of the baptiſme now ſchortlie
approaching requiſit it is that a lytill befoir our conſall be
convenit and preſent with ws heirſ for our better accumpane-
yng, and ther gud avyſe and opinioun to be had in all thingis
belanging that turne tuiching w8 ſa neirlie in honour and
weill We have thairfoir thocht gud effecteouſlie to deſyr
gow that ge faill nocht to be heir at ws vpon Tyſday cum
282 LETTERS TO THE 1602.
25.
aucht dayis the xiii day of this inſtant, for the effect forſaid
as ge will do ws acceptabill plefour and ſervice Sa we committ
gow to God frome Sterling the thrid of Auguſt 1594.
JAMES R.
To our RICHT TRAIST FREIND THE LARD OF BARNBARROCH.
RICHT traiſt freind We great gow hertlie wele In reſpect
We intend to caus build and repair the hous and place of Corſ.
ragwell to the vſe of our deareſt ſone the Princel to quhome
the ſame is maiſt proper for his reſidence quhen he ſalhappin ,
to reſorte in thai pairtes/ We haue heirwith ſend to gou a di- -
miſſioun of the ſam place and monaſterie in fauour of our ſaid
deareſt ſomeſ to be ſubſcriuit be gour and returne bak agane
with the bearar, Quhairvnto we will effectuuſly requeiſt gou
to geild, and it ſall nawayes be preiudiciall to gou in the poſ-
ſeſſioun of the rentis and dewties of that benefice, And that we
fall requyte gour guidwill in a greater mater as gour occaſioun
fall preſent, Sua perſuading our ſelff of gour conformitie heirto
and ge will mereit our ſpeciall thankis and do ws acceptabill
26.
pleſour, We commit gou to God from Halyruidhous this xxi
of Februar 1602. -
JAMES R.
TO OUR TRUSTIE AND WELBELOUED THE LAIRD OF
** BARNBARRACH,
JAMES R.
TRUSTIE and welbeloued Wee greete yow well / Whereas
certeyne articles were propoſed by vs to be concluded by the
1618. LAIRDS OF BARNBARROCH. ess
church there, at our late being in that our kingdome, which
at the laſt aſſemblie holden at St Andrewes were deferred to
the nexte enſewing Wee haue thoughte good to call an aſ-
ſemblie nationall of the church in theſe partes, and haue ap-
pointed them to conuene at Perth the 25th of Auguſt nexteſ
to the effect thoſe articles may be paſt in conſtitution eccleſi-
aſticall At which Wee haue made ſpeciall choiſe of yow to be
preſent that yee may aſfifte and furder our good and royall
intention, ſo far as lyes in yow. Therefor wee moſte earneſtlie
deſire yow to keepe the ſaid time and place, and attende our
Commiſſioner whome wee ſhall appointe to keepe the ſaid
aſſemblieſ by whome yee ſhall more particularlie vnderſtand
what is our pleaſour. And this aſſuring our ſelfe that yee will
not fayle to do as yee wolde merite the continuance of our
fauour Wee bid yow farewell, Given at our caſtle of Winde-
for the viijh of Julie 1618.

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THE subjoined extracts from the Records of the Town-Council of Edin-
burgh illustrate the origin of the University Library of that city. From
them it appears that the Library existed before the College had been
founded; for although Robert Reid, Bishop of Orknay, died in 1558,"
yet some years elapsed before the magistrates were able to make effec-
tual this legacy of 8,000 merks, bequeathed by him for the endowment
of a College. This was at length accomplished in 1582, mainly by the
exertions of William Litle, a reputable burgess, afterwards Provost of
Edinburgh, and proprietor of the estate of Liberton. His brother was
Mr Clement Litle, Advocate and Commissary of Edinburgh, who left
to his native town his collection of books, which was very extensive for
the time. Mr Clement died on the 1st April 1580, and the following
clauses are extracted from the Testament-Testamentar and Inventory
of his goods, preserved in the Records of the Commissariot of Edin-
burgh, and recorded on 20th Feb. 1582.-* Item his haill bukis of
“theologie, estimat to the soume of ane thousand merkis, quhilkis wer
“left be the defunct in legacie to the Toun of Edinburgh, to be usit be
“ the ministeris, eldars and diacones thairof, as is underwritten. Item
“his haill law bukis, and uther bukis for scollaris, estimat and extend-
“ing be just calculatioun by the airschip, to the soume of ane hundreth
“fourtie pundis, xvij S. viijd.” It is unnecessary here to anticipate the
* His death at Dieppe, when on his return from attending the marriage of Queen Mary,
is ascertained at page 243. of the present volume. -

288 |BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN 1580.
Commoun
Librarie.
terms of the Deed of Bequest, nor the steps taken to render it available
to “the kirk of God thairin,” as these are fully detailed below. It is
however worthy of remark, that the addition to Mr Lowson's house,
built to receive the books, is supposed to have stood upon the very site
now occupied in part by the Library of the Faculty of Advocates.
When removed to the infant College in 1584, these books formed the
nucleus from which has sprung the valuable Library now belonging to
the University; but the inscription, selected by the Town-Council in
1580, still distinguishes them among the mass of after acquisitions.
The brothers were, during their lives, useful and eminent citizens, and
their memory was celebrated by a descendant in 1683, in this monu-
mental inscription in the Greyfriars' Church-yard :
Qualis at ille Clemens, quam magnus et ille Littelus,
Hoc cives, illud Bibliotheca docet :
Nobile par fratrum. / meritis certatur utrinque,
Metropolin, musis, hic fovet, ille favet.
26 Aug. 1580.
THE QUHILK DAY, Johne Adameſoun, William Littill and
Henry Neſbit, bailleis, Lucas Wilſoun, dene of gild, Andro
Steiuinſoun, theſaurer, Johne Johneſtoun, James Forman,
Johne Mayne, Williame Fairly, and John Wilky, of the coun-
ſale, underſtanding that umquhill M. Clement Littill, advo-
cat, and ane of the Commiſſaris of this burgh, of guid memorie,
for the zele he buir to the promotioun of the religioun, weill
of this burgh, and help and releif of fic as beiring funétioun
in the miniſtrie ſuld happin to want buikis neceſſar to thair
vocatioun, hes left ane ſufficient nummer of guid and godlie
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 289
buikis to the miniſtrie of this burgh : And that this his zelous
deid may inſtigat uthers of the lyke mynd to dote and gif thair
buikis to the lyke uſe, quhairby it may follow that ane com-
moun Librarie fall be erectit within this burgh, to the greitt
increſs of pietie and religioun, and ſuppreſſing of errouris;
Quhairfore thai haif accordit be the authoritie of the guid toun
to concure and fett fordward this honeſt and godlie wark with
all thair power; And thairfoir hes thocht expedient and
ordanit that ane Hous or Librarie be maid at the end of M*
James Lowfouns miniſters ſtudie, of ane part of the over loft
of his dwelling hous in the kirk yaird, having ane entres
throw his ſtudy, and ane uther throw the ſaid loft, quhairin
fall be putt in keping the ſaidis bukis dotit and gevin to the
ſaid uſe and all uther bukis to be dotit and gevin therto, of
the quhilkis the ſaid M. James and fic as ſall be principall
miniſter of this burgh for the tyme fall haif the cuſtody and be
anſwerabill therfore upoun Inuentour, And ordanis Andro
Steuinſoun Theſaurer to caus big and mak the ſaid hous or
Librarie in lenth according to the breid of the ſaid loft and
in breid of the ſpace of futes or therby, to raiſe heicht
and inlarge the wyndow preſentlie nixt to the ſaid ſtudy, brod
the ſamyn and to ſylour the ſaid Librarie ſufficientlie and to
furneis all neceſſareis to the making bigging and completing of
the ſame as fallbe thocht expedient and commandit him be
William Littill quhome thai haif maid maiſter and owerfear of
the ſaid wark, And the expenſis heirof fall be allowit to the
ſaid Theſaurer in his compts.
290 BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN 1580.
14 Oét. 1580.
THE QUHILK DAY, in preſence of Alexander Clerk of Balbirny,
proveſt of the burgh of Edinburgh, Alexander Vduart, James
Nicol and Johnne Sym bailgeis, Johnne Harwod dene of gylde
thairof. Johnne Adameſone, Henry Neiſbet, Johnne Jhonne-
ſtoun, Lucas Wilfone, Andro Stevinſone, Frances Kinloch, Ro-
bert Bog, Alexander Ouſtiane and Eduard Galbraith of the
counſale, Alexander Ouſtiane tailgeoure, Gilbert Primrois
chirurgiane, Eduarde Hart goldſmyth, Patrik Broun ſkynnare,
Johnne Richertſone ſaidlare, Johnne Harret baxter, Johnne
Blythman fleſcheoure, Williame Stevinſoun wrycht, and Tho-
mas Dikſone furroure, Comperit Williame Littill, burges of the
ſaid burgh, brother and onlie executoure conſtitute be vnguhile
ane richt honourable MAISTER CLEMENT LITILL, aduocate, and
ame of the Commiſſaris of Edinburgh; and declarit quhow that
his ſaid vimquhile brother, vpoun the day of his deceis, being of
perfyte mynd, and confiddering with himſelf that he wes to
be callit frome this lyfe to the mercies of God, and be the
luiffing affectioun and greit zele borne be him to the kirk of
God and to the aduancement of his worde, wes juſtlie movit
and maiſt cairfull that the buikis and warkis of halie ſcrip-
turis in greit multitude conqueiſt be him in his tyme ſuld
nocht periſche or be ſeperated, Left with ane luiffing hart and
mynd his haill buikis and warkis of Theologie to the richt
honourable and his natiue toun of Edinburgh, and to the kirk
of God thairin, to the effect and purpois, that fik perſonis
knawin of honeſt conuerſatioun and guid lyfe, (and navtheris,)
quhilkis ar and fall be willing to travell and be exerciſed in the
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 291
eſtait and vocatioun of miniſterie, or vtherwayis of dewitie
deſyrous, and ſpeciallie fik perſonis as ar or fall be of bluid
to the ſaid vmduhile Maiſter Clement, for the aduancement of
the glorie of God and his trew and ſinceir worde preichit and
preſentlie profeſſit within this realme of Scotland, Sall at the
pleſoure and will onlie of Maiſter James Lowfoun, now preſent
miniſter of the ſaid burgh, or quhat fumeuir vther miniſter that
ſalhappin to haue the charge of the miniſtrie and of the ſaidis
buikis efter him and in his place for the tyme, haif frie acceſs and
ingreſs at all ſik convenient tymes heireftir as the ſaid miniſter
preſent or to cum fall think guid and expedient, and na uther-
wayis, for reading and colle&ting the fruitfull knawledge be the
ſaidis builds, as it fall pleis God to diſtribute his graces to the reid-
aris; and erneſtlie deſyrit his ſaid brother for the performance
heirof and deliuerance of the ſaidis buikis; Conforme to the
quhilk lattir Will, The ſaid Williame Litill promitted the dely-
uerance thairof, and hes preſentlie deliuerit to the ſaidis proveſt
baillies and counſale of the ſaid burgh, the ſaidis buikis haill
togidder, intituled according to the particulare Cathalog fol-
lowing; and on euerie ane of thame is prented the armes of
the ſaid vm.guhile Maiſter Clement, with thir wordis :
I AM GEVIN TO EDINBVRGH & KIRE OF
GOD BE MAISTER CLEMENT LITIL
THAIR TO REMAN. 1580.

Q92
1580.
EOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN
Cathologus Lìbrorum quos vir eximius et beate memorie
Magister Clemens Litill Edinburgene ecclesie et minis-
tris ejusdem obiens legavit et consecravit.
Omnia Augustinj Opera, volumini-
bus octo et decem tomis comprehensa.
Augustinj et Crisostomi Theologia
per Coruinum.
Hieronimi Opera, voluminibus qua-
tuor et nouem tomis comprehensa.
Opera Epiphanij.
Basilius Magnus et Epiphanius
contra hereses.
Basilius Magnus de Matrimonio.
Justini Opera.
Andreas Epitimus de missa fietitia.
Eusebij Opera.
Guilermj breuiarium.
Tertulliamj Opera.
Baculus Pastoris.
Ceprianj Opera.
Defensio sanæ doctrinæ de Sacra-
mentis.
Biblia Sacra juxta Vulgatam edi-
tionem.
Biblia Hebraica cum Chaldaica
Periphrase et Rabinorum Commen-
tarijs, quinque voluminibus compre-
hensa.
Musculi locj communes, bis.
Idem in Genesim.
Idem in Psalmos.
Idem in Matheum.
Idem in Joannem.
Martyris defensio doctrine Aposto-
lice de Sacramento Eucharistiæ.
Eiusdem tractatio et disputatio de
Sacramento Eucharistiæ.
Idem de duabus naturis Christi.
Eiusdem locj communes.
Idem im librum Judicum.
Idem in epistolam ad Romanos.
Idem in epistolam priorem ad Co-
rinthos.
Bezæ testamentum cum eiusdem
notis.
Eiusdem confessio fidei christianae
cum papisticis heresibus.
Idem de Poligamia et de Diuortiis.
Eiusdem epistolarum theologica-
rum liber vnus.
Caluini Harmonia in Euangelia.
Eiusdem epistolæ et responsa.
Idem contra consiliumTridentinum.
Eiusdem responsio contra calum-
nias cuiusdam Nebulonis.
Eiusdem institutiones.
Idem de scandalis.
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
293
Eiusdem defensio orthodoxæ fidei
de Trinitate contra Seruetum.
Idem in Isaiam.
Contemplationes idiotæ de amore
diuino.
Idem in Psalmos.
Idem in epistolas Pauli, et ad He-
breos, et in epistolas canonicas.
Brentius in duodecim priora capita
Lucæ.
Idem in Exodum.
Idem in libellum Bullingerij cui
titulus est, Tractatio verborum Do-
mini, In domo patris mei multæ
sunt mansiones.
Eiusdem Enarrationum Euangelio-
rum dominicalium, pars prima.
Flaccus Illiricus de voce et re fide.
Catechismus Tubingensis Lutheri
et aliorum, prefatione Brentij.
Viretus de verbo verbi Dej sacra-
mentorum et ecclesiæ ministerio.
Idem de origine veteris et mouæ
Idolatriæ.
Bucerus de regno Christi, et que-
dem alia.
Eiusdem disputatio contra Stepha-
InUlIIl. '
Idem de vera et falsa administra-
tione cœnæ Dominj.
Idem contra Albertum Pigium.
Chrisostomi Opera 4. volum. et 5.
tom. comprehensa.
Scripta duo aduersaria Bartholo-
maej Latomj et Martinj Bucerj et
Philippica Toclæj, vno volumine.
Antididagma consultoriæ delibera-
tionis, et de vocatione Martinj Bu-
cerj, vno volumine.
Bullingerus in Matheum et Joan-
In eIm.
Eiusdem decades quinque.
Idem in epistolas Pauli et 7. ca-
nonicas.
Idem de origine cultus diuorum et
simulachiorum.
Idem aduersus Anabaptistas e Ger-
manico sermone in Latinum con-
uersus per Josiam Simlerum.
Idem de antiquissima fide et vera
religione.
Eiusdem tractatio verborum Do-
minj, In domo Patris mej multæ
sunt mansiones.
Idem aduersus omnia catabaptista-
rum dogmata in acta et quedam alia.
Idem de Consiliis.
Idem de gratia Dej justificante, et
Bibliander de Trinitatis fide Catho-
lica, vno volumine.
CEcolampadius in libros Propheta-
ITUATA.
2 Q
294
1580.
BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN
Eiusdem exegemata in Jobum.
Idem in Danielem.
Eiusdem annotationes im Joannem.
Magdeburgicæ Historiæ centuriæ
quatuor primæ.
Theologica bibliotheca ex priscis
authoribus.
Bibliander de misteriis passionis
Christj.
Pellicanj Index bibliorum.
Eiusdem tom. l. in vetus testa-
mentum.
Eiusdem operum pars altera.
Zuinglij operum, tom. l.
Eiusdem, tom. 2.
Eiusdem, tom. 3.
Erasmi tomus primus in nouum
testamentum.
Eiusdem declamationes.
Lutherus in Mosem.
Eiusdem questiones sacræ.
Idem contra xxxij articulos Loua-
niensium theologistarum.
Eiusdem commentarij in Joelem.
Idem in xij caput prioris epistolae
Pauli ad Corinthos.
Idem in Micheam, Cantica Canti-
corum, et quosdam Psalmos.
Deuteronomion Mosæ cum annota-
tionibus Lutheri.
Idem aduersus Papatum Romæ.
Idem de captiuitate Babilonica et
Henrici Helmesii homiliæ de Pur-
gatorio et defunctorum suffragiis.
Eiusdem epistolæ.
Borrhaus in Mosem.
Santis Pagnini Lucensis Isagogæ.
Eiusdem Isagogæ ad misticos sacræ
scripturæ sensus, vno volumine.
Foxus de Rebus gestis in ecclesia.
Diomisius in 2. librum Sententia-
Tum.
Idem in 3. lib.
Idem in 4. lib.
Idem in Psalmos.
Idem in 5. lib. Mosis.
Eiusdem vita, et catalogus operum.
Feriæ missæ cautela.
Dracomites in Euangelia.
Tres tomi Operum Hugonis, tribus
voluminibus.
Idem in epistolas Pauli, et im Cano-
micas, Acta et Apocalypsim.
Joannes Maior super tertium sen-
temtiarum et in Euangelium Mathei.
Idem in quatuor euangelia.
Joannes de Turre, questiones super
euangelia.
Eiusdem questiones super euan-
geliis.
Altissiodorensis im 4. libros senten-
tiarum.
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
295
Bonauentura super 4 libros sen-
tentiarum.
Idem in 3 librum.
Ruardi Tapperjoperum tomus pri-
IIlllS.
Okcanj epitome.
Thomae de Aquino pars prima sum-
mae sacrae theologiae.
Eiusdem secunda secundae.
Idem in 4 Euangelia.
Petrus de Palude in 4 libros sen-
tentiarum.
Missale Laurencij Vallae in nouum
testamentum cum annotationibus.
Sacri canonis missae expositio.
Antonij Opera.
Pighius. .
Robertus Watsonus Anglus.
Westhemerj conciliatio sacrae scrip-
turae.
Eiusdem tropi et schemata.
Eiusdem conciliatio scripturae ex
postrema editione.
Hosij propugnatio catholicae doc-
trinae.
Holkot questiones.
Damasceni opera.
Eucherij lucubrationes.
Zmaragdusineuangelia et epistolas.
Inuentorium generale Gabrielis
Byell.
Idem in vltimas distinctiones ma-
gistri sententiarum.
Stephanus Brulifer in 4 lib. senten-
tiarum.
Tilemannus Heshusius aduersus
Caluinum, Bezam, Boquinium.
Eiusdem dialogi de vera communi-
catione corporisetsanguinis Christj.
Eiusdem abstertio calumniarum
quibus aspersus est Caluinus.
Eiusdem perspicua explicatio con-
trouersiae decoena Dominj,vnolibro.
Thomae de Vio Cajetanj de peccatis
summula.
Eiusdem commentaria in secundam
secundae Thomae Aquinatis.
Eccijtomus 2.
Eiusdem, tomus 3.
Gaspar Meganger in epistolam ad
Ephesios. -
Knopken in epistolam ad Romanos.
Spangenbergius in Acta.
Neogeorgus in primam Joannis
epistolam.
Hiperaspicinus contra CEcolampa-
dium. -
Poemata doctorum virorum de cor-
rupto ecclesiae statu.
Bernardus Echinus de presentia
Christi in coena, et eiusdem laber-
inthj.
296
Lactancius.
Latomj defensió aduersus Bucerum
de quibusdam controuersijs.
Diui Amulij de spiritu.
Haymon in Isaiam.
Catalogus hereticorum a Bernardo
Lutzenburgo.
Antisophistici libri 3. de legitima
vindicatione scripti a Theodoro
Bibliandro.
Item Beza de hereticis a ciuili ma-
gistratu puniendis.
Item edicta veterum principum
Romanorum de Christianis.
Ludouicus Carbaialus de restituta
theologia.
Joannes Royer in epistolas feriales.
Paulus Constantius de causa bo-
emica.
Joannes Picus in Canticum Canti-
COITUAÎÎÎ.
Franciscus Picus de immortalitate
animj.
Theophilactus in epistolas Paulj.
Idem in euangelia.
Breuiarium ad vsum sacrum.
Scotus.
Scotus subtilis.
Tartaretus in quartum sententiarum
Scotj.
Questiones secundum ordinem al-
phabetj, incerto autore.
BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN 1580.
Durandus et Petrus de Palude de
causa ecclesiasticæ potestatis.
Marcj Marulj euangelistarium.
Marsilij questiones super 4. lib.
sententiarum.
Alexandrj de Halis questionum pri-
mæ partis summæ tabula.
Eiusdem questionum 2 partis sum-
mæ tabula.
Eiusdem questionum 3 partis sum-
mæ tabula.
Eiusdem questionum 4 partis sum-
mæ tabula.
Idem de auctoritate scripturæ.
Eiusdem opus de virtutibus.
Dridom de ecclesiasticis scripturis
et dogmatibus.
Opuscula Jacobi Almanj.
Petrus de Aquila.
Erasmi Sacerij locj communes.
Petrus Artopeus in conciones euan-
gelicas.
Bulla cenæ Domini Papæ tertij.
Summa conciliorum pontificum a
Petro usque ad Julium tertium per
Bartholomeum Carramzam.
Spangebergius in epistolas quæ
diebus festis recitantur.
Constitutiones concilij Moguntinj.
Marcus Antonius in Psalmos.
Syluæ nuptialis libri 3. a Joanne
Neuizano.
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
297
Thomas Aquinas in Apocalipsim, et
de sensu Ricardi Smythej sacrj
episcoporum et sacerdotum celiba-
tus aduersus Martyrem.
Joannes Hessilis depresentiaChristj
in eucharistia.
Declamatio Jubilej futurj Romæ et
Borchaus de veteris et nouj hominis
ortu atque natura.
Liber Jesu Syrach Latine redditus
e Germana per Justum Jonam.
Bodinus de vnione dissidentium.
Ridleus de coena Dominj.
Margareta theologica Spangen-
bergij.
Cranmerj defensio de sacramento
corporis et sanguinis Christj.
Hyemeron Dej opus, explicatum a
Vuolphango fa. capitone theolog.
Christopherus Hofman in epistolam
ad Titum.
Catalogus testium veritatis qui ante
nostram etatem reclamarunt Papæ.
Vita Paparumper Robertum Barns,
et ejusdem articuli religionis.
Helmesius de verbo Dej.
Annotationes in nouum testamen-
tum per M. Vitum Theodorum.
Claudius Tonssord de Valdensium
errOre.
F. Menotj sermones quadragesi-
males.
Deauctoritatescripturæ et ecclesiæ.
Hemmingij admonitio de supersti-
tionibus vitandis.
Dispositio in formam Euchiridij his-
toriæ euangelicæ.
Item Hemmingij catechismus, et
eiusdem institutio eorum qui prop-
ter Christum de fide examinantur et
de ritibus ecclesiæ Tigurinæ.
Comparatio coenæ Dominj et missæ
papisticæ per Thom. Beconum.
Sacræ Conciones Leonhardj Cul-
mannj Melanthon in Ecclesiastem.
Idem in Psalmos.
Eiusdem loci communes.
Idem decorporedoctrinæ christianæ.
Siluester Prierates de modo con-
uincendi Lutheranos.
Syluestrinæ secunda pars.
Apologia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.
Nicolaj Denijse opus super quatuor
nouissimis.
Eiusdem opus per Fratres Minores
de Obseruantia.
Concilium Tridentinum.
Jo. Brunellus de sponsalibus et
matrimonijs.
Forma ecclesiasticj ministerij per
Jo. Lascum.
Tractatus de beneficio a Jo. de Sel-
uale monico.
Daneus ad Timotheum.
298
1580.
BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN
Conciliorum tom. l et 2.
Meierusinvtramque epist.adCorint.
Secunda pars Rosarij Bernardinj de
bustis.
Bugenhagius in Jeremiam et de
blasphemia in spiritum sanctum.
Idem in Jonam et historia ex pro-
batis historijs collecta.
Summa summarum quæ syluestrina
appellatur.
Duarenus de sacris ecclesiæ minis-
terijs et beneficijs.
Item Tractatio Petri Soncquet de
erudiendis clericis.
Item Vinculum mundj.
Item De signis celestibus, vno lib.
Gemmianus de exemplis et simili-
tudinibus rerum.
Lombardj librj 4. sententiarum.
Concordanciæ Bibliæ.
Confessio christiana catholicæ fidej
synodj prouincialis.
Georgius Maior de refutatione pro-
phanationis coenæ Dominj.
Idem de arbore consanguinitatis.
Barthorij moralia in omnes vtrius-
que test. lib.
Pragmatica Sanctio studiosis vtilis-
sima.
Joannes Ferus de examine ordinan-
dorum.
Joannes Duns super sententiarum.
Vincentius Belnacensis de varijs
rebus.
Titilmannj elucidatio in omnes
apostolorum epistolas.
Frater Michael de Sancto Sebas-
tiano.
Dialecticon de veritate Christj in
Eucharistia.
Camerarij disputatio cum Joanne
Caluino.
Golscaltus Rosemondus de modo
confidendj.
Hadrianj Sextj questiones in4.sen-
tentiarum.
Codex comitatus fratrum.
Joannes Pecham de summa trini-
tate et fide catholica.
Bertramus de corpore et sanguine
Christj.
Item Augustinj epistolæ ad Darda-
InUlIÌì.
Et eiusdem Tractatus de corpore et
sanguine Christj.
De conceptione Mariæ, de eiusdem
dolore, de eiusdem statione iuxta
crucem Christj, et de assumptione.
Summa qfthe buihis contenand the volumes abome written
is threttene scoir and aucht buikis.
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 299
The quhilkis buikis the ſaidis Proveſt, baillies and coun-
ſale hes preſentlie reſtauit fra the ſaid Williame; and pro-
mittis faithfullie, and obleiflis thame and thair ſucceſſouris,
proveſt, baillies, and counſale of the ſaid burghe of Edin-
burgh for the tyme, to the airis of the ſaid vnguhile Maiſ.
ter Clement, for the cairfull and faithfull preſerving and
keiping of euerie ane of thame; and that at na tyme heir-
eftir ony of the ſaidis buikis to be diſtributed, gevin, put
away or removed, athir be credeit or vihirwayis, furth of
the duelling houſe of the ſaid Maiſter James Lowſone, as place
appointit for thaim to remaine; Nor that name of the ſaidis
buikis ſalbe lent nawyiſe furth of the ſaid duelling hous quhair
thajar preſentlie put in keiping, bot vpoun the conditioun
contenit in the ačt of the deliuerance of thame to the ſaid
Maiſter James Lowſoun, be the ſaidis proveſt, baillies and
counſale. And that compt quarterlie ſalbe tame of the ſaidis
buikis as effeiris, ſua that thaj may and fall remane togidder
in the ſaid place appointtit thairto, to the effect foirſaid,
and in perpetuall memorie of the gude affectionate mynd of
the ſaid vmquhile maiſter Clement, to the fingulare com-
forte of the kirk of God and to all his faithfull ſeruandis.
Vpoun the quhilkis premiſſis the ſaid Williame aſkit inſtru-
mentis.
And thaireftir the ſaid day, in preſens of the foirſaidis proveſt,
baillies and counſall, Comperit Maiſter James Lowſoun miniſter,
and grantit him to haue reffauit reallie and with effect the par-
ticular buikis abone writtin, as is contenit in the Cataloge fra
Williame Littill, in name of the ſaidis proveſt, baillies and
Af 300 BOOKS OF CLEMENT LITILL IN 1580.
counſale, and to have preſentlie put, ordourit and layit the
ſame in the houſe and Librare maid and appointit to that effect;
And thairfoir actit, band and obleiſt him ſelf for releif of the
toun and diſcharging of his dewitie in the credeit committit
wnto him, to preſerue and keip the ſaidis buikis diligentlie and
faithfullie vnlent vndiſponit or put away to ony maner of
perſoun, according as the ſaidis proveſt, baillies and counſale
hes bund and obleiſt thameſelfes to the airis of the ſaid vm-
quhile Maiſter Clement, and to be anſourable for thefaidis buikis,
and mak the ſame furthcumand to the ſaidis proveſt, baillies
and counſale, and thair ſucceſſouris, ſua oft as he ſalbe re-
quyrit be thame thairto.
27 Januarij 1580.
Certane Buikis THE SAME DAY, in preſens of William Naper, baillie, Mr James
eiket to the º & e º *
commoun Lowfoun, miniſter, confeſt and grantit him to have reſlavit
Librarie. • * * g. * . . e. * * : * º &
10T3T162 fra William Littill, in name of the executouris of umquhile
M. Clement Littill his brother, the buikis underwrittin to be
eikit to the reſt of the buikis left be the ſaid umquhile Mr
Clement to the commoun Librarie, viz.
Vinzettus questionis. Promptuarium diuinj Juris et utri-
Joannes Maior in 1. 2. 3. Senten- usque humanj.
tiarum. Rationale diuinorum officiorum.
1580. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 301
Ane catechisme in Inglis sett furth Acta Constantiensis Concilij.
in name of the Archbischop of St Bibliander contra CEcolampadium.
Androis. Ane reply to Hardin be Jowell.
Ane catechisme in Inglis set out be
ane Papist.
Eaſtending to aucht buikis.
Quhilkis buikis the ſaid Mr James aétit himself to preſerue
and keip in the ſame maner, as he is oblift for the remanent
buikis in the ſaid Librarie, conforme to the Aét maid ther-
upoun, the xiiij of Oétober laſt.
18 Sept. 1584.
THE SAME DAY Ordanis the Townis Librarie ſkelfis and
buirds thairof to be tranſportet furth of the lugeing fumtyme
occupeit be Mr James Lowſoun, miniſter, and ſett up in the
townis College, in a hous convenient, at the ficht of Williame
Littill, bailyie, and to be delyverit to Mr Robert Rollok,
maiſter of the ſaid College, and he to be obliſt to the cuſtody
thairof, ficlyk as the ſaid Mr James wes obliſt of before. And
ordanis the theſaurer to mak the chairges of the tranſporting
and upſetting thairof, quhilk ſall be allowit in his compts.
Librarie.

INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
MDLXXXVIII—MDCXII.
THE Libraries of the several Colleges in the University of St
Andrews were long on a very limited scale. The most ancient
collection of books appears to have been that which was
formed by the Faculty of Arts, a body which held its meet-
ings in the buildings of the Paedagogium, afterwards occupied
by St Mary’s College. These books were acquired principally
by donations, but some of them, (though probably a very in-
considerable part,) may have been purchased by the Faculty
Quaestor, who collected and disbursed the several contributions
annually made by the candidates for the academical distinc-
tions of Bachelor and Master of Arts. Not a few of the books
of St Mary's College were given by Archbishop Hamilton.
The Library of St Leonard's College owed its existence to Prior
Hepburn, and was increased chiefly by the gifts and bequests
of the succeſsive principals, at least almost all the most
ancient books bear the names either of John Hepburn, (founder
of the College,) or of Alexander Young, Thomas Cuningham,
John Annand, John Law, John Duncanson, George Buchanan,
James Wilkie, and Robert Wilkie, the principals of the Col-
ege from the time of its erection in 1512 to the year 1611.
It was afterwards greatly augmented by the Earl of Buccleuch,
by Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet, and especially by the muni-
ficent gift of Sir John Wedderburn, physician to Charles I.,

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who was a regent in that College from the year 1620 to 1630,
and by the legacy of Dr Mungo Murray, son of William Mur-
ray of Ochtertyre, (one of the regents from 1625 to 1635,) who
was afterwards Profeſsor of Astronomy in Gresham College,
and Rector of Wells, and who before his death in 1670 be-
queathed several thousand volumes to that College,_a be-
quest which is thus commemorated in the inscription on his
monument, • *
MORIENS COLLEGIO LEONARD IN O
LECTISSIMIS MULTIS INSTRUCTAM LIBRIS
sv AM LEGAVIT BIBLIOTHECAM.
The Library of St Salvator's College was progreſsively ac-
quired in the same manner as the others.
The University Library was founded in 1612 by James
.VI., who on his visit to Scotland in 1617, set down the fol-
lowing among other “Articles concerning the Univerſitie of St
“ Andrews:–That the Librarie be finiſhed and furniſhed with
‘ all poſſible ſpeed, ne sint magistri sine libris :” and “That
“ means be uſed to draw ſcholars to the New Colledge for the
‘ ſtudie of divinitie; and, for their maintenence, there be two
‘ at leaſt to be entertained by everie dioceſe throughout the
“ kingdome, by the help of the biſhops, noble, and gentle
“ men, with the miniſters of the ſaid dioceſes, ut non sint
“ libri sine magistris.” -
The Inventories here printed, are taken from the Originals
preserved in the seventh volume of the Balcarres MSS. in the
Advocates' Library, and from a manuscript collection of Do-
cuments belonging to the University of St. Andrews.
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807
COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS,
INVENTAR OF THE BUIKIS IN THE NEW
COLLEGE.
1. De Origine et Continuatione
Mysterii Ecclesiæ Petri Vireti, cum
Chron. Pantaleonis.
2. Breuiarum Rom.
3. Prima pars secundæ Operum S.
Thom.
4. Aetius Medicus per Cornarium
Lat. versu.
5. Ammotationes Erasmiim N. Test.
6. Index Operum Erasmi.
7. Pars prima Operis Text. Bibl.
cum postilla Hugonis. -
8. Speculum Doctrinale Vincentii.
9. Tomus 4. Hieronymi.
10. Tomus 9. Operum Hieronymi.
l 1. D. Carthu. de individua Tri-
nitate. .
12. D. Carthu. de Hominis Re-
demp. Christi Incar. «
13. D. Carthus. in D. Areopagitæ
libros Coment.
14. D. Carthus. Enarrationes in
5 lib. Mosis. -
15. D. Carth. Enar. in Jos. Jud.
IRuth. Reg. Chron.
16. D. Carth. Operum Minorum
tom. l. -
17. D. Carth. Operum Minorum .
tom. 2. -
18. Thomæ de Vio. Com. in 5 lib.
Mosis, 2 Caietani Cardinalis, cum
ejusdem Com. in 4 Euang. Aeta
Apost. et Epist. Pauli et alior.
Apost.
19. Index Operum Augustini.
20. To. 2. Operum August. com-
plectens Epistolas, et 3. complec-
tens didactica.
21. Tomus 6. Operum August.
continens Polemica.
22. Tho. Aquin. Coment. in Epist.
Pauli.
23. Cornelii Celsi de Re Medica,
cum G. Paulini Commentario in
duos priores lib. et Annota. in
CeterOS. -
24. Burchardi Wormaciensis Eccl.
Episcopi Decretorum lib. viginti.
25. Caroli Bouilli Opuscula ali-
quot, viz. de Intellectu, de Sensu.
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
26. Index ad Thom. Aquin. sen-
tentias.
27. Erasmi tom. 9. Apologiaruin.
28. Alex. Aphrod. in Metaph. in-
ter Sepul. et in resolut. pr. et post.
et in topica.
29. Ammonius in Pophy. praed. de
inter. &c. Lat.
30. Jacobi de Valencia Comment.
in Psal et Cantica ferialia, &e.
31. Operum Erasmi tom. 3. epist.
32. Vita Christi ex Euang. et
Scrip. Ortho. per Ludolphum Ed.
33. Hugonis Card. postilla in Ps.
Esaiam, et Solomonis libros.
34. D. Carth. Epist. et Euang.
Dominicalium Enarratio.
35. Claud. Buliand. in 4 Euang.
36. Tho. de Vio Caietani in Porph.
praed. et poster. analyt. comment.
Item Simplicii com. in lib. de calo.
interp. Moibetto.
37. Ephamerides Stophleri a 1532
in alios viginti subsequentes.
38. Ruperti libri de Operibus S.
Trinitatis.
39. Durandus in Mag. Senten.
Mesme cum Expositione Mundini
super canones vniuersales.
40. Dioscoridis Pruellio interprete.
41. Joan. Justi Lanspergii Epistola-
rum et Euangel. dominicalium En-
arrationes.
42. Almansor imperf. manuscript.
43. Je. Benedicti Com. in 4 Euang.
et Acta.
44. Boetii Arithmetica.
45. Rupertus in Mach. de Gloria
filii hominis et Glorificatione Tri-
nita. et in Joam. Euang. et Apoca-
lyp. Com.
46. Rupertusin minores Prophetas.
47. Sermones Roberti de Lilio, ord.
minorum, aduentualis quadragesi-
milas, &c.
48. Cyrilli Arch. Alexandrini con-
tra varias haereses Arii, Eunomii,
&c. tom. 2.
49. Arist. priora a Joan. Francisco
Bon. Veronensi, Lat. vers. et com.
illustrata.
50. Quintuplex Psalterium.
5 l. Guil. Papin de Imitat. Sanctor.
52. Sermones Dominicaleseiusdem.
53. Homiliae in Evang. Domi. per
Roiardum.
54. Hom. in Euang. ejusdem pars
Hyemalis.
55. Eccii Hom. super Euang. de
tempore Pasci vsque ad Adventum
tom. 2. -
56. Eius. Hom.tom. 3. de Sanctis.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
57. Homil. in omnes epist. ferialis
quadragesimae per Roiardum.
58. Postillae maiores in Epist. et
Euangel. totius anni, nouae pres-
surae soletia elucubratae.
59. Augustini Dati Elegantiae.
60. Alberti Logica a Bernardo
Plumatio recognita.
61. Valere le Grand 1489 Com-
mentario Gallico editus.
62. Galeni Methodus medendi Li-
nacro interprete, et de Composi-
tione Medicamentor. eiusd. Joan.
Guiniterio Interprete.
63. Galenus de Alimentor. Fa-
cultatibus Joachimo Mart. . . . .
Idem de Pulsibus
Guiniterio interprete.
64. Dauidis Duglasii Scotide auro
liquido quod potabile vocant Epist.
Interprete.
ad Paulum 3 pontific.
65. Sermones de Sanctis per an-
numper Hugonem de Prato Florido.
66. Marci Gatinariae de curis aegri-
tudinum particularium Almansoris.
67. Traité de trois vertues Theo-
logaes.
68. Troys Oraisons de Cicero tra-
duict de la langue Latin en Fran-
cois.
69. Inuentarium eorum quae in
operibus Gersonis continentur.
70. Missale secundum usum Salis-
buriensem.
Gabriel in tertium Sententiarum.
71. Tomus octauus operum Au-
gustini.
72. Diui Ambrosii opera.
73. Speculum Naturale Vincentii.
74. Speculum Historiale Vincentii.
75. Index Bibliorum Authore D.
Chuoneado Pelicano RubeaQuense,
cum eiusdem Com. in 5 lib. Mosis.
76. Marloratus in totum Nouvum
Testamentum.
77. Tomus quintus Chrysost.
Praeter Jurisinterpretes, Bartholum,
Baldum, Jasonem, Alexandrum,
Zazium, Paulum de Castro, Spe-
culatores, &c. quorum volumina
circiter triginta sex, vtcunque cor-
rosa a teneis, adhuc in puluere et
situ conseruantur.
MR ANDRO MELVILE.
MR. JoAN. Rob ERTson.
MR JHONE CALDCLEUCH.
MR PATRIK MELVILE.
2 S
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
THE INVENTORIE OF THE COMMOUN BUIKIS
OF THE NEW COLLEGE.
Glossa ordinaria in 5 lib. Mosis.
Chrysostomi tomus quintus, &c.
Dionysii Carthusiani Epistolarum
ac Evangeliorum dominicalium en-
narratio, adiunctis variis sermonibus
et homiliis.
Origenis operum pars secunda.
Origemis operum pars prima.
Speculum Doctrinale Vincentii.
Textus Bibliæ cum postilla domini
Hugonis, pars prima.
Erasmi Rot. operum nonus tomus.
Erasmi Rot. operum primus tomus.
Ruperti Abbatis libri quadraginta
duo.
Speculum Naturale Vincentij.
Dionysii Carthusiani de Indiuidua
Trinitate liber primus.
Quintuplex Psalterium.
D. Burchardj Decretorum libri vi-
ginti.
D. Cyrilli contra hereticos tomus
secundus.
D. Thomæ Aquinatis in omnes
Pauli Epistolas Commentarii.
Aetij Medici tetrabiblos.
Ruperti Abbatis in duodecim Pro-
phetas minores Commentariorum li-
bri triginta duo.
Euclidis Elementa cum Campanj
Theonis Hipsectis Commentariis.
Dionysij Carthusiani ennarrationes
in libros Josuæ, Judicum, Regum
Paralypomenon.
Alexandri Aphrodisei Commenta-
ria in duodecim Aristotelis libros de
prima Philosophia.
Commentaria in quinque Mosaicos
libros Thomæ De Vio.
Pedaci Dioscoridis de Medicinali
Materia libri quinque.
Item de venenatis animalibus, &c.
libri quatuor.
Dionysii Carthusiani commentaria
in omnes Dionysii Areopagitæ lib.
Dionysii Carthusiani de Redemp-
tione et Justificatione liber ter-
tius.
D. Durandi super sententias M.
Petri Lombardi opus.
Vita Christiani per Ludolphum
Saxonium.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Erasmi Rot. in Nov. Testamentum
annotationes.
Erasmi Rot. operum tomus tertius,
Epistolas continens.
Speculum Historiale Vincentij.
C. Galeni methodus medendi libri
quatuordecim.
D. Aurelii Augustini operum tomus
secundus, continens Epistolas.
D. Aurelii Augustini operum to-
mus sextus, continens ra roAeutica.
Index omnium quae insigniter ab
Augustino dicta sunt.
D. Hieronymi oper. tomus nonus.
Augustini operum tomus octauus.
D. Ambrosii opera omnia.
Tomus quartus operum Hieronymi
supposititius.
Postillae majores in Epistolas et
Evangelium.
Sermonesde Sanctis Hugonisfratris.
Homiliae in omnes epistolas feriales
per Johannem Roiardum.
Homiliarum Joannis Ekkii tomus
tertius.
Homiliae in Evangelia dominicalia
per Johannem Roiardum.
Joannis Ekkii homiliarum tomus
secundus.
Martii Gatibiatriae de curis aegritu-
dinum.
AugustiniDapide elegantialibellus.
Sermones Roberti de Livio.
Sermones dominicalium Guilielmi
Pepin.
De Imitatione Sanctorum Guilielmi
Pepin.
Inuentarium eorum quae in operi-
bus Gersonis continentur.
Petrus Venetus de origine et con-
tinuatione ministerii verbi Dei.
Seuerini Boetii Arithmetica.
Thomae De Vio in praedicabilia Por-
phyrij, &c.
Thomae Aquinatis de Ente et Es-
sentia commentarii.
Buceri in quinque libros Psalmo-
rum commentarii; item in librum
Judicum et Sophoniam prophetam.
Joannis Gagneri in Evangelia et
acta apostolorum Scholia.
D. Clementis recognitionum libri
decem ad Jacobum fratrem Domini.
Simplicii commentaria in 8 libros
Aristotelis rept arpoaoetes.
Index omnium librorum Aristotelis:
item omnium operum eiusdem to-
mus secundus.
ChuonradiPellicanitomussecundus.
Homiliae in Evangelia dominicalia
per Joannem Roiardum.
Ephemeridum Joan. Stefhori.
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C. Galeni de alimentorum faculta-
tibus libri tres.
A. Cornelii Celsi de Arte Medica
libri 8.
Ru. Gerardi de solo super 9. abmas.
Joan. Justi enarrationes in Evan-
gelia et Epistolas.
Breuiarium Romanum.
In Evangelium secundum Joannem
enarrationes Claudii Guilliandi.
Homiliae ad populum Hieronymi,
Augustini, Ambrosii, &c.
Mesne cum expositione Mondini
super canones vniuersales, &c.
Epitome omnium oper. Augustini.
Porphirii de quinque vocibus insti-
tutio, item Hermio in praedica-
menta Aristotelis, et commenta-
ria.
Prima secundae operum S. Thomae
Aquinatis.
Valere le Grand.
D. Jacobi Pareth comment. in Psal.
D. Hugonis postilla in Psalterium,
secunda pars.
Ruperti in Macbaeum de gloria et
honore filij hominis libri tredecim,
item de glorificatione Trinitatis
libri novem.
Dionysii Carthusiani operum mi-
norum tomus secundus.
Ejusdem operum minorum tomus
primus.
Commentaria in Logica Aristote-
lis Bernhardi Plumatii et Alberti
Magni.
D. Bonauenturae in secundum lib-
rum Sententiarum secunda pars.
Dionysii Carthusiani summae fidei
orthodoxae libri duo.
D. Bonauenturae in quartum librum
Sententiarum quarta pars.
Canones Consilii provincialis Colo-
niensis.
Thomae Aquinatis in librum pri-
mum Sententiarum.
Thomae Aquinatis ejusdem liber
secundus Sententiarum.
Thomae Aquinatis ejusdem quartus
liber Sententiarum, cum ejusdem
problematis.
Joannis Franscisci Burane in priora
Analytica Aristotelis expositio.
Alex. de Imola prima super Infor-
tiato.
Baldus super septimo octauo etno-
no Codicis.
Jasonis Maini prima super Digesto
veteri.
Jasonis Maini pri. super Infortiato.
Jas. Maini pri. super Digesto nouo.
Baldus super quarto et quinto Cod.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Quarta pars consiliorum domini
Baldi de Perusia.
Barlamus super secunda parte In-
fortiati.
Repertorium consiliorum Alex. de
Imola.
Bartoli prima super Digesto veteri.
Paulide Castro prima super Digesto
veteri. -
Bartoli super Digesto nouo.
Prima Baldi super Digesto veteri.
Repertorium Baldi super Codice.
Sextum volumen consiliorum Alex.
Repertorium Baldi de Ubaldis.
Bartoli prima super Infortiato.
Pauli de Castro prima super Codice.
Jasonis Maini prima super Codice.
Speculi pars prima.
Tertium volumen Consilii Alex.
S»
Repertorium super lect. Alex. de
Imola.
Páuli de Castro prima super Diges-
tO nouO. »
Casus longi super D. veteri.
Tertia et quarta pars Guil. Durandi.
Alex. de Imola prima et secunda
super Codice.
Paulide Castro pri. super Infortiato.
Thrie orationis of Cicero in French.
Some copyes of Freir Maichels
Catechisme.
Nouum Testamentum Syriace cum
typis Hebraicis, ex interpretatione
Tremellii, in folio.
Thesaurus linguae sanctae Pagnini,
in folio.
Marlarotus in N. Testamentum.
THE INVENTARIE OF THE BUIKIS IN THE
COMMON BIBLIOTEIEK OF THE NEW
COLLEGE.
Augustini Opera.
Epitome Operum Augustini per
Joannem Piscatorem.Coloniae 1549.
Opera Ambrosii.
Origenis pars prima et secunda
ANNO 1598.
Opera Bernhardi.
Quintus et ultimus tomus Operum
Chrysostomi.
Clementis Recognitionum libri
duobus voluminibus. Basilea 1536.
decem.
314
INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE 1588_
Cajetanus in Mosen et Novum
Testamentum.
Burchardi decretorum libri viginti,
ex Consiliis, &c.
Rupertus Abbas de Operibus Tri-
mitatis.
Rupertus in Mattheum etJoannem.
Rupertus in Minores Prophetas.
Jacobus de Valentia in Psalmos.
Homiliæ sive sermones præstan-
tissimorum doctorum per Alcuinum
Levitam. Parisiis 1537.
Speculum Historiale Vincentii.
Speculum Doctrinale Vincentii.
Speculum Naturale Vincentii.
Vita Christi per Ludolphum Car-
Anno 1534.
Hugonis Cardinalis Postilla prima
pars im Genesin et alios libros his-
toricos Vet. Testamenti.
thusiem.
Hugonis in Psalterium secundapars,
cum tertia parte in Proverbia, &c.
Bucerus in Psalmos, lib. Judicum
et Sopho. Prophetam.
Petrus Viretus de Ministerio Verbi
et Sacramentorum,cum Pantaleonis
Chronographia.
Conradi Pellicani tomus secundus
et tertius.
Alberti Logica per Bernhardum
Plumatium recognita.
Ammonius in Porphyrii Catego-
rias et Interpretationem Aristotelis.
Boetii Arithmetica.
Thomas de Vio Cajetanus in Por-
phyrii Prædicabilia, Arist. Prædi-
camenta cum Simplicii Commenta-
riis in libros de Caelo, et Prædica-
menta Aristotelis.
Simplicii Commentaria in libros
Aristotelis de Physico Auditu.
Index Alphabeticus et tomus se-
cundus Operum Aristotelis.
Mesuæ Canones Universales.
Galeni Methodus Medendi et de
Anatomicis Administrationibus.
Breviarium Romanum.
Cyrilli Operum tomus secundus.
Galeni de Medicamentorum Facul-
tatibus.
Ephemerides Stephleri ab Amno
Christi 1532, in alios viginti annos
subsequentes.
Dionysius Carthusianus super Dio-
mysium Areopagitam.
Dionysii Areopagitæ Epistolarum
et Dominicorum Euangeliorum to-
tius anni Enarratio.
Dionysii Carthusiani Operum Mi-
norum tomus primus.
Dionysii Carthusiani Operum Mi-
norum tomus secundus.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Dionysii Carthusiani Enarrationes
in libros Josuac, Judicum, Ruthi,
et Paralip.
Dionysii Carthusiani in primum
librum Sententiarum.
Dionysii Carthusiani in tertium et
quartum lib. Sententiarum.
Aetii Medici Tetrabiblos.
Alexandri Aphrodisei in 12 libros
primae Philosophiae, et in Analytica
priora, Elenchos et Topica Aristo-
telis. *
Euclidis Elementorum Geometri-
corum libri cum Theonis Com-
mentariis.
Pedacii Dioscoridis libri de Medi-
cinali Materia quinque, de viru-
lentis Animalibus quatuor.
Johannis Lanspergii Carthusiani
Epistolarum et Evangeliorum Do-
minicalium enarrationes.
In Johannis Evangelium Enarra-
tiones Claudii Guilandi.
Johannes Gardneus in quatuor
Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum.
Erasmi tomus tertius Epistolas
complectens.
Erasmi tomus nonus Apologias
complectens.
Erasmi in N. T. Annotationes.
Index Operum Erasmi.
Thomas Aquinasin Epistolas Pauli,
et Gorrani in easdem.
Prima secundi Operum Thomae.
Tomus quartus Operum Hieronymi,
cum tomo quinto.
Tomus nonus Operum Hieronymi.
Durandus in Magistrum Senten-
tiarum. -
Quintuplex Psalterium.
Valer le Grant.
Inventarium Operum Gersonis.
De Imitatione Sanctorum sermones
dominicales Guilielmi Pepini.
Sermones Roberti de Litio.
Augustini Pathi de Elegantia libel-
lus.
Homiliae Dominicales per fratrem
Joannem Royardum.
Homiliarum Eccii tomus tertius
de Sanctis.
Sermones de Sanctis per annum
fratris Hugonis de Prato Florido.
Postillae Majores in Epistolas.
Marlorati Catholica Expositio in
Novum Testamentum.
Index Bibliorum Authore Conrado
Pelicano, cum ejusdem Commen-
taris in libros Mosis.
Magnum Lexicum Hebraicum Sanc-
tis Pagnini, cum Mercerietaliorum
Annotationibus.
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE 1588–
N. T. Syriacum Hebraicis literis,
cum Interpretatione Tremellii.
Baldus super quarto et quinto Co-
dicis.
Prima Baldi super Digesto Veteri.
Quartum volumen Consiliorum
Baldi.
Baldus super septimo octavo et
nono Codicis.
Repertorium Baldi.
Repertorium Lec. Baldi super Co-
dice.
Jasonis Maini prima super Digesto
veteri.
Jasonis prima super Digesto Novo.
Jasonis prima super Inforciato.
Bartoli prima super Digesto Novo.
Bartoli prima super Inforciato.
Bartoli prima super Digesto Veteri.
Pauli de castro prima super Digesto
IlOVO.
Pauli prima super Digesto Veteri.
Pauli prima super Inforciato.
Pauli prima super Codice.
Alexandri de Imola prima et se-
cunda super Codice.
Repertorium super Lec. Alexandri
de Imola.
Alexandride Imula superinforciato.
Repertorium Consiliorum Alex-
andri.
Tertium volumen Consiliorum
Alexandri.
Sextum volumen Consiliorum
Alexandri.
Catechisme of Johne Archbishop
of Sanctandrois. Anno 1547.
Sic Subscribitur,
AN. MELVILE.
M. J. Johnstous.
M. PATRIK MALVILE.
BIBLIOTHECA LEONARDINA.
Augustini Libror. quarta pars.
Canones Augustini.
Libror. Augustini 2 pars.
Manuale Augustini.
Quaestiones Augustini.
August. de Trinitate.
Libror. Augustini 6 pars.
Retractatio Augustini in lib. Con-
fessionum.
Librorum Augustini octava pars.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Chrysost. in Marc. et Luc.
Chrysost. 2 tom. in Epist.
Chrysost. 3 tom.
Opera Chrysost.
Tertius et 4 tom. Origenis.
Priores 2 tom. Origenis.
Origenis 4 tom.
Origenis 2 prior. tom.
Opera Bernardi.
Aliud volumem Bernardi.
Bernardus super Decretales.
Lyræ prima pars.
Lyræ secunda pars.
Lyra in poster. part. Vet. Test.
Lyrain secund. volumen Bibliorum.
Repertorium in Glossam Lyranani.
Pars 1. Lyræ cum Glossa ordinar.
Pars 6. eiusdem cum Glossa ord.
Pars 4. eiusdem cum Glossa ord.
Pars 1. Lyræ cum Glossa ord.
Prima pars Historiar. Antonini.
Tertia pars summæ Maioris Anto-
nini.
Quarta pars Antonini.
Pars tertia Gersonis.
Gersonis 2 pars. bis.
Gersonis 4 pars.
Inventoria Gersonis. bis.
Invent. Gers. et de Passione, et de
laude Scriptorum, et Potestate Ec-
clesiastica.
Gregorii Papæ Decret. Compilatio.
Digest. vetus de
Gregorii decretalia.
IDecretum Aureum Divi Gratiani.
Sextus Decretalium.
Sextus et Clementinæ.
Margarita Decret.
Opusculum in Regul. Juris.
Registrum in Opus Ambros. eius-
demque Opera.
Gregorii Moralia.
Gregorii Epistolæ.
Prima secundi Sancti Thomæ.
Gabriel in 3 Sentent.
Gabriel bis in Can. Missæ.
Gabriel in 4 Sentent.
Gabriel de Festivitatibus Christi.
Inventorium contentorum in 4
Collect. Gabrielis in 4 lib. Sentent.
Aliud Invent. in 4 Collect. Gabriel.
Tabul. Quæst. 3 partis secund.
Alexandri Dominicales.
Tabul. Quæst. 4 partis secund.
eiusd. •
Tabul. Quæst. 2 partis secund.
eiusd.
Authorit. Sacr. Script. Alexandri
de Ales.
Consequentiæ Maioris.
Introduct. Maioris in Arist. Dialect.
Maior in 3 Sentent. quater.
2 T
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
Maior in 1 Sent. bis.
Maior in Matth.
Maior in 4 Sentent.
Maior in Evangelist.
Ricard. in Media Villa in 1 Sent.
Idem in 2 Sent.
Idem in 3 Sent.
Sermones AEstivales Meffret.
Sermones Hiemales eiusdem.
Sermones Petri Alliac.
Idem in Lib. Sentent.
Postillae Maiores.
Postillae Evangeliorum.
Bricot in Physicen, bis.
Textus Logicaeet Physicae eiusdem.
Idem in Physicam et Metaphys.
Johannes Dorpt, ter.
Dialog. Gulielmi de Ocham.
Joan. Duns in 2 Sentent.
Repertorium eiusdem in 1, 2, 3
Sent.
Idem in 2 Sentent.
Idem in 4 lib. Sentent.
Quodlibetum eiusdem.
Concord. Maiores Bibliorum.
Supplement.Theoriae Fratris Jacob.
Philip.
Opera Dionyside Caelest. Hierarch.
Expositio Orationis Dominicae.
Steph. Brules in lib. Sentent. Bo-
naVenturæ.
Quaestiones Morales M. Martini
de Fortitud.
Holkot. in lib. Sapient. Solomonis.
bis.
Alexandri Doctrinale.
Expositio Valent. in Psalmos.
Summa Angelica de Casibus Con-
scientiae.
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Albertus Magnus.
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Greilisit.
Liber Ceremoniarum Comment.
Quadragesimales
Sermones Dormi secure.
Consil. Nicol. de Sicilia Abbatis
de Suppositionibus.
Sophista.
Quaest. Dulwart. in 8 Phys. et de
Caelo.
Beda Presbiter in Proverb.
1690.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Rationale Diminori.
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Richardus de Arca et 12 Patriarch.
Elegantiæ Vallæ.
Haymo in Epist. Pauli.
Aurea Rosa in Evangel.
Sermones Oliveri de Adventu.
Catholicom.
Catechismus D.Jo.Wynrami super-
intendentis.
CatechismusJo. Hammiltoun episc.
Adagia Erasmi.
Loci Theolog. Urb. Rhegii. et
Catechis. Cal.
Agrippa in artem brevem.
Pat. Cockburn de Pec. in Spir. S.
et de Script. Phras.
Aug. dat. in Precepta Elegant.
Q. Curtius de gestis Alexandri.
Grammat. Perotti.
Tartaret. in Ethic. cum prolog. Bi-
bliorum. -
Calepinus.
Quæst. Dulwort. in Phys.
Virg. cum Comment.
Homiliarius Eckii contra Sect. ab
auth. recog.
Pars l Operum Antomi Coceisabell.
Posterior pars eiusdem.
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Biblia Lat. vulgo translat.
Philmelaneth in Joannem.
Biblia Hebraica.
Calepinus excuss. 1558.
Opera Demosth. Lat. cum Com-
ment.
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Enar.in omnes Ciceronis Orationes.
Opera Math. Jo. Shoneri.
Opera Platonis.
Comment. Morzilli in Timeum
Plat.
Geographia Ptolomei.
Vicomercatus in 8 lib. Phys. et 4
Meteor.
Scheg. in Phys. et Ethi.
Tho. in lib. de Cælo, Ortu et In-
teritu Animi.
Strebeus in 3 lib. etc.
Aphrodiseus in Metaph. et lib. de
Ort.
Thom. in Metaph.
Varii Interpretes in quosd. lib.
Log. Arist.
Compositio et usus variorum Astrol.
per Joannem Stephlerinum.
Olympiod. in 4 lib. Meteor, et
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
Joannes Gramin primum eorundem.
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taria.
Salustius.
Hist. Eccles. Eusebii.
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Rerum.
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Quest.
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Postilla Maior in Epistol. et Evan.
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Epist.
Postilla Jordani de tempore.
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Summa Angelica.
Canones Con. Provinc. Coloniens.
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dem primarii.
Summa Consil. et Pontif a Pet. ad
Jul. 3.
Musculin Math. etlocos communes.
Muscul. in Psalmos.
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Bullinger. in Acta Apost.
Jo. Cal. Instit. Christianae Relig.
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Pet. Mart. in Epist. ad Rom.
Forma Precum Anglicarum.
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Tab. Jo. de Monte Reg. Math.
Monas in Theorica.
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Jaco. Zigleri Comment. in Plin.
Cursus 4 Artium Math. per Cir-
velum.
War. Opusc. Variorum.
Ilias Homeri per Vallam.
Sphera Mizaldi.
Theoricae Purbatchii, bis.
Partit. Dialect. Joannis Sturmii.
Famil. Epist. Gal.
Ephemeris Caelest. Mizald.
Hecuba Eurip. Gal.
Opera Senecae emendata.
Ecclesiast. Histor. Niceph.
Elementa Euclid.
Comment. Al. Aphrod. Graece in
Por. Aristot. et Reph.
Ilias Homer. Graece.
Erip. Trag. cum Comment. Graece.
Opera Xenophont. in 3 vol. in 8
Graece. -
Dict. Graec. Phavorini. Graec.in fol.
Nicetae Histor. Graec. et Lat. cum
Scol. in fol.
Opera Hesiodi Graece.
Diodor. Sicul. Hist. lib. aliq.
Graece in 4.
Polibius Graece, in folio.
Paul. Eginaetae Med. lib. 7. Graece
in fol.
Lexicon Favorini.
Ecclesiast. historia Eusebii.
Oecolampad. in Hier....et Ezechiel.
Chronica Scot. Hectoris Boetii.
Tit. Livius cum annotat. doct.
vir. in folio. et rufo vitulo.
Cajetanus in Logica Arist. in 8.
Opera Arist. Grecein 2 tom. in fol.
Joseph. de Judaic. et Opera Sente.
uno vol. -
Xenophontis Opera in fol.
Castigationes Pierii in Virg. in fol.
Strabo de Situ Orbis in fol.
Robertus Gagninus et gest. Franc.
in fol.
Bonaventurain primum Sentent. in
fol. -
Cornucopia Peroti, in fol.
Chronica Carionis, in 8.
Aloranus Machometis. in fol.
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haif it for the tyme.
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INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
CATALOGUS LIBRORUM BIBLIOTHECAE
COMMUNIS ACADEMIAE ANDREA-
POLITANAE.
1612.
1. DECEMB.
Libri quos Potentissimus et Serenissimus Princeps
JAcoBUs MAGNAE BRITANNIAE REX, Academiae
Andreapolitanae donavit.
Augustini Opera, fo. Lugd. Tib. 5 10 0
Athanasii Opera Graec. et Lat.
fo. Heid. gº sº
Ambrosii Opera, fo. Basileae,
Arnobii Opera, fo. Hamburgi,
Bernardi Opera, fo. Parisiis,
Basilii Opera, fo. Basileae,
Bedae Opera, fo. Colon.
Bonaventurae Opera, fo. Colon.
Bibliotheca Patrum, fo. Paris.
Chrysostomi Opera, fo. Paris.
Cyrilli Opera, fo. Paris. -
Cypriani opera, fo. Genevae,
Clemens Alexandrinus, fo. Par.
Clemens Romanus, fo. Coloniae,
Concilia Generalia, fo. Coloniae,
Concordantia Bibl. fo. Franc.
Damasceni Opera, fo. Basil.
Epiphanii Opera, fo. Basileae,
Eusebii Opera, Gr. fo. Paris.
— Opera, Latiné, fo. Basil.
Ephraimi Opera, fo. Coloniae,
I
I
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2
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6
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O
O
O
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10 0
10 O
10 O
12 6
1 5 0
10 O
10 0
13 4
I 3 4.
9 0
13 0
6 O
0 0
16 6
12 6
5 0
10 0
12 6
12 6
Fulgentii Opera, 8vo. Basil.
Gregorii Magni Op. fo. Paris.
Gregorii Nazianzeni Op.fo. Bas.
Gregorii Nisseni Op. fo. Paris.
Gersonis Opera, fo. Parisiis,
Hieronymi Opera, fo. Parisiis,
Hilarii Opera, fo. Basileae,
Hug. Cardin. Opera, fo. Venet.
Irenaei Opera, fo. Colon. -
Justimus Martyr, Graeco Lat, fo.
Innocentii Papae Op. fo. Col.
Isidori Hispalensis Op. fo. Par.
Kempis Opera, 4to. iºn
Lyrae glossa ordin, fo. Lugd.
Lactantii Opera, fo. Basileae,
Laurentii Justin. Op. fo. Wen.
Leonis Papae Op. 8vo. Antw.
Originis Opera, fo. Basileae,
Parisiensis Opera, fo. Venet.
Prosperi Opera, 8vo. Colon.
Procopius Sophista, fo. Paris.
Rich. de S. Victore, fo. Venet.
15
I 5
IO
10
I 0
12
15
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O
:
17 6
17 6
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Ruperti Opera, fo. Colom. 1 10 0 Chemnitii Examen, fo. - O 12 O
Tertulliani Opera, fo. Heid. 1 0 0 – Loci Communes, fo. – 0 12 0
Theophilacti Opera, fo. Basil. 0 10 0 Tacitus cum Com. Diverso. fo. 1 5 O
Theodoreti Opera, fo. Parisiis, 1 8 0 Suetonius cumCom. Divers. fo. I 5 O
Thesaurus Linguae Sac. Pag- Seneca cum Com. Diverso. fo. 1 5 0
mini, fo. e - 2 15 0 Marloratus in N. Testam. fo. 1 0 0
– Linguae Graecae, fo. – 4 0 0 – in Isaiam, fo. - - O 9 O
Calvini Institutio, fo. - O 9 0 – Loci Communes, fo. – 0 9 0
– in Samuelem, fo. – 0 8 0 Mollerus in Psalmos, fo. – 0 12 6
– in Psalmos, fo. - – 0 9 0 – in Iesaiam, fo. – – O 6 6
– in Danielem, fo. – 0 5 6 Bilson his Survey, fo. – O 6 O
– in Jobum, – – O 10 0 – de Gubernatione, 4to. O 3 6
– in Moysem et Josuam, fo. 0 12 6 Lavaterus in Paralip. fo. – 0 6 0
– in Evangel. et Acta, fo. 0 1 1 0 – in Proverbia, fo. – 0 5 O
– in Epistolas, – – O 9 0 – in Josua, fo. – – 0 3 4
– in Iesaiam, fo. - - O 7 0 – in Judicum, fo. – – 0 3 6
– in Jeremiam, fo. – O 9 0 – in Hester, fo. – – O 3 6
– Opuscula, fo. – - 0 12 0 – in Jobum, fo. – – 0 5 6
Gesmeri Opera, fo. - - 3 0 0 Whittakeri Opera, fo. - 1 1 o
Libri quos Serenissimus Princeps HENRICUS MAGNA:
BRITANNIAE Haeres et PRINCEPs VALLIAE, Academiae
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Aristotelis Opera, Graeco Lat. fo. 1 5 6 Frenche Historie, fo. - O I 1 O
Ovidii Opera, cum Comm. fo. 1 5 0 Syntagma Juris, fo. as I 0 0
Pici Mirandulae Opera, fo. 0 14 0 Sadeelis Opera, fo. º - 0 1 1 0
CatalogusTestium Veritatis, fo. 0 17 6 Petrarchae Opera, fo. - O 1O 6
Raderus in Martialem, fo. O 15 O Josephus, Graeco Lat. fo. I 2 O
Plinii Historia, fo. e a O 15 6 Thucidides, Graeco Lat. fo. O 14 O
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Hameri Opera, Græco Lat. fo. O 13 6 Pierii Hieroglyphica, fo. 1 4
Stobæus, Græco Lat. fo. — O 18 0 Biblia Græca, fo. . . _ 1 0
Camdeni Britannia, fo. — 1 6 8 Pineda in Jobum, fo. , - 1 5
Eiblia Hutteri, fo. — 1 10 0 — de Rebus Solomonis, fo. 0 13
Galeni Opera, Græce, fo. 3 0 0 Zanchii Opera, fo. - 2 6
Baronii Ammales, fo. 6 vol. 5 0 0 Miscellamea altera, - 0 4
3 9. 0
Centuriæ Magdeburg, 6 vol.
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Dux, JAcoBI MAGNAE BRITANNIÆ REGIS Filius,
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— Problemata, fo. •- O 7 6 fo. _ - - -a 12 0
Hookeris Workis, fo. - 0' 8 0 Hutteri Test. 12 Linguar. fo. 3 15
Bellarmini Opera, fo. — 2 5 0 Fachinæi Controvers. J uris, fo. 0 15
Biblia interlineata, fo. — 1 4 0 Sicardus in Codicem, fo. O 17
Bisciolæ Horæ subces. fo. o 18 4 Gomezii Resolut. Juris, fo. o 15
Notitia utraque Dignitatis, fo. 0 12 6 Poetæ Principes, Græco Lat. fo. 1 o
Krantii Opera, fo. - O 18 0 Bercharii Dictionarium, fo. 2 O
Gesta Dei per Francos, fo. O 18 0 Pandectæ Triumphales, fo. o 15
Budæi Com. Linguæ Græc. fo. O 12 6 Romanæ Hist. Scriptores, fo. 1 12
— im Pamdectas, fo. -a O 7 6 Biblia Castalionis, fo. _ O 12
fib. 34 10 10
Libri quos Serenissima Princeps ANNA, MAGNAE BRI-
TANNIÆ REGINA, Academiæ Andreapolitanæ
donavit, 10 Augusti.
Antonini Chronicon, fo. iib. 2 10 0 Aeiieas Sylvius, fo. — 0 10
Anglica Normam. Cambdeni, fo. O 13 6 Bodinus de Republ. fo. — O 1 3
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;
6
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325
Bellaii Chronicom, fo. - 0 7 6 Cælius Rhodoginus, fo. 0
Comment. Cæsaris, fo. — O 13 6 Gregorius de Republ. fo. 0
Dionysius Halicar.Græco Lat.fo. 1 2 6 Natalis Comitis Historia, fo. 0
Dion Cassius, Græco Lat. fo. 1 0 0 Scotus in Tacitum, fo. — O
Chronicon Carionis, fo. - O 10 0 Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ, fo. 1
Guevarræ Horolog. Princ. fo. 0 12 6 Decreta Eccles. Gallicanæ, fo. 1
Hungari Rerum Scriptores, fo. 0 8 0 Opinceri Chronologia, fo. 1
Herodotus, Græco Lat. fo. 0 16 0 Cuspiniani Opera, fo. 0
Italia Illustrata, fo. • 0 13 6 Constantini Lexicon, fo. 1
Lazius de Repub. Romam. fo. O 17 0 Oratores Veter. fo. — . 0
Lazius de Migrationibus Gen- Photii Bibliotheca, fo. — 1
tium, fo. — - .- 0 11 6 Tormelli Annales, fo. - 1
--- Græcia, fo. •- - O 3 0 Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ, fo. 2
Matthaeus Paris. fo. - 0 13 6 Trithemii Opera Historica, fo. 0
Mercatoris Chronologia, fo. O 9 0 Paulus Jovius, fo. - 1
Onuphrius de Repub. fo. 0 7 0 Chytraei Chronicom Saxon. fo. 0
— Fasti Consulares, fo. — 0 10 0 Lutheri Opera, fo. - 2
Nicephorus, fo. — — 0 13 6 Pelicani Opera, fo. -• 1
Polybius Casauboni, fo. - 1 10 0 Zuinglii Opera, fo.' -» 1
Pighii Annales, fo. -. 0 12 0 Ursini Opera, fo. •- 1
Sigonii Opuscula, fo. - 0 13 6 Aristophanes cum comment.fo. 0
— de Regno Italiæ, fo. O 6 6 Isocrates Græco Lat. fo. - 0
— de Occidental. Imperio, fo. 0 6 6 Mattheus Westmonasteriensis
— de Antiquo Jure Rom. fo. O 18 6 Flores Historiarum, fo. 0
— Fasti Consulares, fo. - O 7 6 Antiquitates Eccles. Britan. fo. 0
Reneccii Historia Juliæ, fo. 1 15 0 Xenophontis Opera, fo. - O
— de Familiis, fo. - O 15 0 ASumma, tib. 58 12 0
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Meyeri Annales Flandriæ, fo. 0 12 0 For charges to sett them a
Zonaras, fo. *- *- 0 10 O shipbord, - O
Stemmata Principum, fo. 1 10 0 Summa totalis, tib. 60 5 O
11 6
0
10
16 O
8 0
8 O
2 U
326 INVENTORIES OF BUIKIS IN THE
1612.
Libri quos Serenissima Princeps ELIZABETHA,
JAcoBI MAGNIE BRITANNIAE REGIS filia,
Academiae Andreapolitanae donavit.
Buceri Opuscula, fo. - fib. 0
— in Evangelia, fo. º: O
Bullingerus in Iesaiam, fo. 0
— in Danielem, fo. tº- O
— in Epistolas, fo. + = O
— in Acta Apost. et Apocalyp.
fo. - gºs tº- Eº
Chytraeus in 5 lib. Moysis, fo.
— in Josua, Judic. &c. fo,
Danaei Opuscula, fo. <-->
Hunmei Opera, 4 volum, fo.
Huberi Antibellarminus, fo.
Flemmingii Opuscula, fo.
Hyperius in Epistolas, fo.
O
O
O
1
2
O
O
O
Illyricus in Novum Testa, fo. 0
— Clavis Sacrae Script, fo. 0
Junii Opera, fo. º I
Marmacus de Eucharistia, fo. 0
Mercerus in Genesin, fo. O
— in Prophetas, fo. sº O
Martyr in Genesin, fo. – O
0
— in Judicum Lib, fo. -
10 O
15 0
8
12
12
2
15
17
12
18
15
18
15
13
13
8 6
5 6
4, 6
4.
Martyr in Regum Lib, fo. O 11 6
— in Samuelem, fo. * O 9 0
— ad Corinthios, fo. gº O 6 O
— Loci Communes, fo. O 16 O
Lossius in Novum Testam, fo. 1 6 8
Oecolampadius, fo. mº 0 15 0
Rivii Opera, fo. - º 0 1 0 O
Senneccerus in Epistolas, fo. 0 16 0
Simlerus in Exodum, fo. O 6 6
Segedini Loci Communes et
Tabul, fo. - * tºº, 0 10 0
Urbani Regii Opera, fo. 0 15 O
Stephani Glossa Ordinaria, fo. 0 10 0
Vogelii Thesaurus, fo. – O 13 6
Theatrum Genealogicum, 4 vol.
fo. tºº tº ſº tº 4, 10 0
Westmerus in Psalmos, fo. 0 10 O
Hendorphii Theatrum Histo-
ricum, fo. º gº 0 1 0 O
For a tronck, tº- O 12 O
For charges, ſº 0 4 2
Summa, tib. 30 8 0
1612.
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COLLEGES OF SANCTANDROIS.
Catalogus Librorum quos M. JoANNEs Jonston Us, SS.
Theologiae Professor in Collegio Mariano, Testamento
reliquit Academiae Andreapolitanae.
Biblia Parisiensia Latina.
Lyrae 2 pars Postillae.
— 3 pars.
Osiandri Harmonia Evangelica.
Mollerus in Psalmos.
Mercerus in Prophetas Minores.
Andreas Masius in Josuam.
Funccii
habet.
Chronologia — Melvi.
Scaliger de emandatione temporum.
Melvinus habet.
Davidis Chytrae Chronicon Saxo.
Melv. hahet.
Hadrichomius de terra Sancta.
Balaeus de Scriptoribus Britanniae.
Epitome Bibliothecae Conr. Gesneri.
Ortelii
editione.
Josephi Historia.-Blar. habet.
Ruardi Tapperi Explicat.
Naucleri Chronica.
Dictionaria Biblica Ariae Montani.
Bl. habet.
Anatomia Gallica,-Melv. habet.
Hemmingius in Joannem.
Geographia,
ex prima
Calepinus.
Boetii Historia Scotica.
Panter habet.
Loci Communes Petri Martyris.
R. B. habet.
Lexicon Scapulae.—Melv. habet.
M. P.
Opera Jacobi Cujacii Jurisconsulti. Ex donat. DA. LINDSAY de Balcarras.
Catalogus Librorum quos Reverendissimus in Christo Pater
D. GEORGIUs ABBotus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis,
Bibliothecae Andreapolitanae donavit.
The Inglisch Bible of the last new Ignatii Vita cum picturis, fo.
Translation, fol.
Biblia Hebraea, fo.
Massonis
shoppis, fo.
Consecration of Bi-
Missale Romanum, fo.
Knichtis Concordance, fo.
Cassalius de quadripartita Justitia.
Gesta Dei per Francos, fo.
328
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Directorium Inquisitorum, fo.
Choppinus de Sacra Politica, fo.
Angelocrator de Ratione Tempo-
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Thomas More against Tindal, fo.
De Divinis Catholicae Ecclesiae,
fo.
IHeskins Parlament, fo.
Plutarchi Vitae Graec. duo. vol. fo.
Pineda in Jobum, 2 tom. fo.
Americae 9° pars, fo.
Toletus in Joannem, fo.
The Historie of Venice, fo.
Catalogus Gloriae Mundi, fo.
Thomae Summae Textus, fo.
Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores per
Savillium, fo.
Erasmi Novum Testamentum, fo.
Ex Donatione Magistri PATRICII
JUNII Bibliothecarii Serenissimi
Principis Jacobi Magna Britannia
Regis.
Biblia Complutensia, tribus vol. fo.
Petri Lombardi Sententiae, in fol.
Albertus Magnus, tribus volum. in
Sententias, in fol.
Bartholomaeus de Proprietate Re-
rum, fo.
Summa Angelica, fo.
Serrarius in Apocr. 2 vol. 4to.
Sa Notationes in Biblia, 4to.
Anastasii Historia, 4to.
Rhemish Testament, ann. 1582 et
1600, in 4to. bis.
Legendario de Vita Dei Sancti, 4to.
Stapleton against Juel, 4to.
Reinoldus de Idololatria, 4to.
Fitzherberds Policie and Religion,
2 volu. 4to.
Sutlivius de Ecclesia, 8o.
Canisius de Verbo Dei, 4to.
Vintoniensis Epist. de Eucharistia,
(Steph. Gardner,) 8o.
Facii Historia, 8o.
Nicolaus de Antichristo, 8o.
Apologie pour Herodot. 8o.
Alexandri de Ales Opera, 4 vol.
fo.
Gabriel Biel in Sententias, in fo.
Durandus in Sententias, fo.
Joannes Duns Scotus in Senten-
tias, fo.
Titi Livii Historia, in fo.
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Theologiae Doctoris.
Bibliotheca Possevini, 3 volum. fo.
Bibliotheca Sixti Sinensis, fo.
Theatrum terrae Sanctae Andri-
comii Delphii, fol.
Ex DonationeM. RoBERTI SPOT-
TISVOD,
Averrois Opera, duodecim volumi-
nibus in 8uo.
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NEUToNI, Praeceptoris olim
serenissimi Principis piae me-
moriae Henrici filii Jacobi Regis
Britannae.
Francisci Suarez Opera, 9 vol. fo.
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EDMISToNII, Angli, SS. Theo-
logiae Baccal. et in Collegio quod
est Oxoniae Socii.
Aristotelis et Theophrasti Opera,
4 vol. fol.
Thesaurus Linguae Graec. 4 vol. fo.
Eustathius in Homerum. Graec.
2 vol. fol.
Eugubinus de perenni Philosophia,
fol.
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Concordantiae Heb. et Graec. fol.
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Harmonia Confessionum fidei, 4to.
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RAvII, Praeceptoris serenissimi
Principis D. Caroli Ducis Ebo-
racensis.
Opera Chrysostomi, ex editione
Savilii. Doctor Vedderburn penes
se habet,
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soNI, Ministriet Concionatorisin
Legione Scotica in Geldria.
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THE TESTAMENT AND LETTIR WILL
OF MR JOHN JOHNSTOUN, ANE OF
THE PRINCIPALL MAISTERS OF THE
NEW COLLEGE OF ST ANDROIS,
ANNO MDCXI.

MR John Johnston, of the Aberdeenshire family of Caskieben,
was educated at King's College Aberdeen, and afterwards
studied at more than one of the foreign Universities. In 1587
he was at Helmstadt, and in 1591 he resided at Geneva. In
1592 he became one of the colleagues of Mr Andrew Melville
in St Mary's College, St Andrew's, where he held the station
of second Master, or profeſsor of the New Testament. He
died at St Andrews of a lingering and incurable disorder on
the 20th of October 1611. He is the author of a number of
works, all of considerable rarity, as Inscriptiones Historica,
Regum Scotorum, Amst. 1602; Heroes ea omni Historia
Scotica lectissimi, Lugd. Bat. 1603; Consolatio Christiana,
1609. He was highly respected and admired by the most
eminent of his contemporaries, not only for his literary accom-
plishments and theological attainments, but for his singularly
honourable, consistent and amiable character.
THE TESTAMENT Testamentar and Inventarie of
the guidis, geir and debtis of umquhill Mr JoHNE JoHNE-
stoun, ane of the principall Maisters of the New College of
St. Androis, within the citie thairof, parochin of the samyn
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and shirrefilome of Fyiff, the tyme of his deceise, quhilk
was the twantie day of October I* VI" and allevin geiris,
faithfullie maid and geuin we be Robert Johnestoun of
Creimound, Mr Robert Merser minister at Ellon, Mr
Johne Kinneir minister at Luchares, and Mr William
Erskyn minister at Dyninow, executoures testamentares
nominat be the said wnquhill Mr Johne in his Legacie
and Lettir Will efter specifeit ; as the samyn of the dait at
St Androis the threttie day of Julijthe geir of God I"VI"
and allewin geires at mair lynthe beares.
IN THE FIRST, the said umquhill Mr Johne the tyme of his deceise
forsaid, haid the guidis, geir and debtes, of the pryces and valoures efter
specifeit, viz. his buikes, abuilziements of his body and plenisching of his
chalmer, estimat to iii" xxxiii liff. vi s. viii d. ; ITEM gewin win be the
executoures of reddie money, iii" xxxiii lib. vi Ś viii d.
Summa of the Inventarie, vi. lxvi lib. xiii S. iiii d.
DEBTIS AW CHT AND BE THE DEID.
IN THE FIRST, their was auchtand to the said winquhill Mr Johne
the tyme of his deceis forsaid, be John Johnstoun of Caskiben, conforme
to his obligatioun, the summe of iº" iii" lili lib. Item be James Traill,
ii lit. Item be Capitan Wm. Murray lent to him be James Traill, con-
form to ane Obligatioun of the said Capitan maid to the said James, and
ane assignatioun thairof maid to the defunct with promeis to him thair-
wpon the soume of iii. xxxiii lib, vi ä viii d. Item be Mr Patrik Orum
Intromettour with the College leiving and James Makgill of Rankeillour
his cautionar, iii xl lib. xiis, according to ane decreit befoir the Lordes.
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Item be the New College or intromettour with the rent thairof, fourtie
bollis wictuall for the space of four yeires, viz. 1607, 1608, 1609, 1610,
extending yelrlie to ten bollis, assignit to the said defunct be his Ma-
jesteis gift, and the defunct in possessioun theirof the space of ten yeires.
Thairof four bollis aittis, thrie bollis thrie firlottis beir, and four bollis
ane firlot quhyit; pryce of the boll ourheid, iiii lib.; Summa, i lx lib.
Item mair be Mr Patrik Orum, for ame part of the defunctes stipend of
the cropt 1609 yeirs, conform to ane compt. Item restand awand be
the said College intromettours with the rentes thairof, of the defunctes
stipend of the cropt 1610 yeires, thrie chaldeirs wictuall; thairof twelf
bollis quhyit, pryce of the boll viliš. xiii ś. iiii d. extending to fourscore
lxxxvi lib. xiii ś. iiii d. Item, ane chalder beir, pryce of the boll, v lib.
xiii S. iiii d. ; Summa, lxxxxvi lib. xiii ś. iiii d. Item mair auchtand to
the defunct be the said College intromettours with the rental thairof,
is lxxxxvi lit. money as rest of tua hundreth punds his stipend of the
money and wictuall forsaid of the cropt 1610. Item restand awand be
the said College and intromettours with the fruites and rentes thairof for
the defunctis stipend of the cropt 1611 yeiris, fourtein bollis ane firlot
quhyit, pryce of the boll seuin punds; nyntein bollis thrie firlots beir,
pryce of the boll fyve liff. vi s. viii d. ; tuentie four bollis aittis, pryce of
the boll four punds. Item of siluer duties for his stipend 1611, ii' lib.
Summa of the haill stipend of siluer and wictuall of the cropt 1611.
Item mair gevin wo be the executoures, awchtand be Mr Patrik Orum
sumtyme oeconomus of the said College, conform to his obligatioun,
xxxiii.lib. viš. viii d. as principall, and ten punds liquidat expensis. Item,
the pryces forsaid of his said wictuall, stipend 1611, iii‘i lib. and of the
siluer dutie, ii" lib. Summa totalis of said yeires stipend, v ane punds.
Summa of the Inventarie and debtes, iii” vii" xxxi lib. vi s. viii d.
Na debtes awchtand be the deid, whairof thair is na divisioun.
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FOLLOWES THE LEGACIE AND LETTIR WILL.
FIRST, I leaue, as ane token of my small thankfullnes to my guid
and gratious God, quha gratiouslie hes visited me with mercie from
tyme to tyme, (to quhois blessed name I render everlasting thanks and
praise, throw his deir sone Jesus Christ my onlie Saviour;) thairfor I
leave for his Maiesties honour ane thousand merkis, to be mortifiet and
imployit upon ane annwall rent for intertaineing ame puir schollar of best
qualification and help, to serve in the kirk of God for the space of four
yeris successive, and efter another, to be brocht wo in theologie within
the College of Abirdein or St Androis, abyding in the sinceritie of doc-
trine and disciplin; or if it sall be thocht meit, out of the cuntrie, in the
most sinceir Universitie professing the doctrin of Christ, gieving the
powar of lauchfull electioun, efter dew sufficient and woricht tryall, to
the faithfull ministrie in the toun, abyding in the sinceritie of doctrin
and disciplin, to the principall of the said College and schoolemaister of
the said toun, be the adwyise and oursicht of the laird of Caskiben, the
laird of Creimond, and their successoures professing the truth of sinceir
religion. Provyding alwayis, that if ther be any of my poore freinds
or name meit for the said roum and benefeit, that they be respectit ca-
teris paribus, and no outherwayis. Expreslie also provyding, that my
sister sone, Mr Johne Sanderis, (if he profeit in leirning, and it pleis
God to bestow grace upon him for that holie calling,) that he be pro-
vydeit thairto for the first four yeires. In the meintyme, dwring the
lyiftyme of my mother, that the annuall rent of the said thousand merkes
sall cum to hir for hir mantenance, and for help of hir barnis and oyes
dwring her lyftyme allanerlie, and thairefter the said mortificatioun to
tak effect as said is ; And it is my express will that ane letter of mortifi-
cation heiranent be authenticklie and faithfullie maid in my name, with
advyis of my executouris, or ony tua of them, and at the sicht of the
formamit persones nominat to the electioun, ane authentic coppie thairof,
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seillit and subscrivit, to be put in the hands of the provest and counsall
of the said toune to be registrat in their toune buikis, ane wther in the
hands of the ministrie of the said toune, the third in the hands of the
principall of the said College, the fourt in the hands of the lairds of
Caskiben and Criemound. Forder, my will is, that if the persoun quha
sall injoye this benefit sall happin, (as God forbid) to mak apostasie in
religioun, or deboishe in lyif and conversatioun, or that he ydlie bestow
his tyme in the holie course and studie of theologie, That in that case,
he to be bund to refound the haill benefeit quhilk he hes receavit, Or-
daining that this mortificatioun to be maid authenticklie and faithfullie
in dew forme be the forsaids persones, as they sall be answerable to the
tribunal seat of the Lord Jesus, quha hes blissed ws in these letter
dayes with the cleir licht of his blissed Evangell, for the quhilk be praise
and glorie to him for evir.
Item, I leave tua hundreth merkis, and the annual rent thairof to be
mortifeit to the gramar schoole of Abirdein, to be bestowit on poore
, schollares of guid expectatioun for their releefe, and to be disponed at
the sicht of the maister of the said gramer schoole, and of the ministrie
of the toun. Provyding that if ther sall be any of my poore freinds or
name of guid expectation, be respectit; ordaining ane lettre of mortifi-
catioun to be maid in my name in perpetuum, and to be registrat in the
buikes of the toun of Aberdein, and ane copie thairof to be in the cus-
todie of the maister of the schoole, and ane wther in the hands of the
ministrie. And siclyk this benefit to be usit faithfully as they sall ansuer
to God, to quhom this chairge is gevin of my lettir Will and Legacie.
Item, I leave to the hospitall of the toun of Aberdein ane hundreth
markes, and the annual rent thairof, to be imployit with the same con-
ditiounes and privilegis quhilk haif bein grantit to wther benefactoures of
the said hospitall.
Item, I leave to the kirk of Aberdein my new Byble, of Androw
Hartes print.
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Item, Undirstanding that ther is ane Librarie to be erectit within the
Universitie of St Androis within the new College thairof, if that guid
purpos tak effect, in taiken of my guidwill for the furderance of the same,
I leave my cheiff byikes in folio, with the haill broddit mappis, for aug-
mentatioun of the said Librarie, Ordaining Mr James Martin provost of
the auld College, and Mr Peter Bruice principall of St Leonards Col-
lege, to haif the custodie of the samyn wintill the said purpose tak effect.
And in case within yeir and day the said purpose tak not effect after my
deceise, I ordain the said buikis and mappes to remain with the said
new College, in the custodie of the maisters of the said new College,
for the dutie, use and exercise of the students and schollares of the said
new College; and this to be done faithfullie but fraud or guyle, as they
sall be ansuerabill to God, in quhois hands the saids bukes sall cum.
Item, I leave to the studentes or bursaris of the said new College
ane pensioun of twantie four punds, out of the lands of Balgarvy and the
feu maills of Ladeirnye, the title quhairof I haif acquyrit fra Thomas
Melvile in Leithe, some to capitan Robert Melvile lyifrentar of the said
pensioun. The richtes and evidentes heirof are lyand in the hands of
Hew Peibles nottar publick, my agent in Edinburch, and are to be
receauit at his hands: Willing and intreating the maisters of the said
new College, to obtein ane perpetuall mortificatioun of the said pensioun
at the Bishoip the superiors hands. Alwayis this my part and gift I
leave to be imployit upon the first tua studentes and successivelie to
wther tua quha sall follow for ane small helpe to by them buikes or
wther necessaris.
Item, I leave to the hospital of St Androis, in taikin of my thankfull-
mes to God, fiftie merkes and the annual rent thairof, to be mortifeit for
that use, according to the laudable custome begoun be wthers.
Item, ament the remanent of my buikis, I leave them to Mr John
Sanderis my sister sone, in case he continew in virtew and course of
leirning and honest conversatioun, and no wtherwayes; quhilk failzeing,
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ordaines them to be sould, and the benefit thairof to redound to my
breither and sister barnes, equallie to be devydit amongis them; and in
the meintyme, that the saidis buikis remain in the custodie of Mr Ro-
bert Merser minister at Ellone, and to my executoures nominat, winto
the tyme the said Mr Johne Sanderis giff pruiff of his vertue, and be
meit for the use of the said benefeit. Item, I leaue to my sister some
Mr Johne Sanderis tua hundreth merkis, and to his sister begoittin upon
my sister Mariorie ane hundreth merkis. Item, to my sister Margret
and her barnes thrie hundreth merkis. Item, to my sister Jeane ane
hundreth merkis. Item, I leave to ane of my sister Isobells somes, if
she hes any that is lyik to be ame schollar, in taken of my brotherlie
loue to hir and hir barnis, knawing that God hes verie weill provyddit
for hir and hir barnes that they neid no help of me, ane hundreth pundis;
and failzeing thairof to ane of Alexander Johnstounes barnes, quhama-
reit hir eldest dauchter, that is meit to be ane scollar, I leave the said
hundreth pundis.
Item, I leave to Mr John Leslie minister in the Birse, fourtie lib.
providing that it be imployit upon buikis meit for the furderance of his
gift and ministrie, at the sicht of the laird of Creimond and Mr Robert
Mersser. Item, I leave to Sara Blak, dauchter to wrmguhill Mr David
Blak of guid memorie, for guid cause, fourtie merkis. Item, I leave for
my buriall fourtie pundis. Item, to James Johnstoun buiksellar, and his
barnes, tuantie lib. Item, I leaue to Mr Johne Mair aucht pundis,
quhilk he is auchtand to me. Item, I leave to the portar thrie lib.
Item, to the boy in the kitchen fourtie Ś. Item, I leave to the beddel
and his barnes ten merkis, to help to bring them up in wirtew. Item,
I leave to Christan Johnstoun at Stravithie milne tuantie merkis. Item,
to Alexander Davidsoune, ane puir schollar in the auld College, ten
merks. Item, I leive to Peiter Simpsoun, the post, his wyiff quha wais
nuries to my sone Edward, thrie punds.
As for the abuilziement of my bodie and plenising, I haif declarit my
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will apart, quhilk I haif subscrivit with my hand, quhilk I ordain
to be als valid as this my legacie; and for fullfilling of this my Lettir
Will and Legacy, I haif nominat, and be thir presents nominates Ro-
bert Johnstoun of Criemond, Mr Robert Merser minister at Ellon, Mr
Johne Kinneir minister at Lucharis, and Mr William Erskyn minister
at Dynninow, (quhom I haif evir fund honest, faithfull and kynd to
me in my lyiftyme) executoures; beseikand them not to refuis to accept
this burding, willing that the expensis in exeguuting this burding be
taine aff the readiest. Providing expreslie, that if any quha suld receave
benefit be this Testament, mak any controversie to my executoures, or
discord among them seilfis, or shaw their discontentment, that they be
excludit fra all benefeit of this my Testament and Lettir Will. In witness
quhairof I haif subscrivit thir presents with my hands, day zeir and
place forsaid, befoir thir witnesis: Mr Charles Geddy, Mr John Mur-
ray, Mr Johne Sanderis, and Peiter Medlar my servitour, and Mr
Johne Kinneir minister at Luchares, writer heirof.
Sic subscribitur, MR John E. John Estou N.
MR CHARLEs GEDDY, Witness. MR John E SANDERIs, Witness.
MR John E MURRAY, Witness. MR John E. KINNEIR, Witness.
AT SANCT ANDROIS, the fyiſt day of August the yeir of God
I* VI* and allewin yeires, I Mr Johne Johnestoun, ane of the maisters
of the New College of St Androis, ratifeis my Testament and Lettir
Will, writin be Mr Johne Kinneir minister, writin the tuantie nynt day
of July last by past, in all poyntes and circumstances, with this eik of
certan particularis as followes :
Imprimis, Their will be fund in my studie in ane drawar lockit tua
hundreth merks in tua quhyit purses. Item, their will be fund in the
same drawar ane litle purse woven of silver and thairin five old rois-
nobles, with ane old scottis croune of gold. Item, in the same purse
ane litle inamelit ring with ane perfyt diamond, quhilk wes sent to me
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be the noble Prince, of the valour of lx lib. Item, in the same purse
will be fund ane wther gryt ring, with ane diamount, quhilk I suppone
to be wpricht. Item mair, their restis auchtand to me be Ninian Johne-
stoun ane hundreth merks, for the quhilk I haif satisfeit James Traill,
of quhom I haif receavit for my releif the said Ninian his obligatioun,
togidder with ane assignatioun with ane blank to be fillit at my plesser,
quhilk peices concerning the said Ninian ar lyand in the handis of Hew
Peibles nottar publick in Edinburch. Item, the said Ninian is restand
awchtand to me tuantie four punds of borrowit money, according to his
awin subscriving in ane of my awin lang compt buikes, besyde sundrie
wther particular dettis restand awand be him to me, anent the quhilk
dettis I declare my will as followes:
That Duncan Balfoure and Christian Johnestoun his spous, cause
pursew the said Ninian for the said soume of one hundreth merkis,
quhilk I leave to his eldest soune Johne Johnestoun. Provyding
that the said hundreth merkis being obteinit be keipit in custodie
of the said Duncan and Christian Johnstoun, and be them to be
disponit to the said Johne in convenient tyme. As for the annuall
rent of the said hundreth merks for fyve yeires, and the said tuantie
four punds and wthir dettis, I dischairge and remitt to that most ungraite
man, wishing him moir grace and holines.
Item, It is of truthe that I haif nevir bein sufficientlie peyit of my
stipend of the College, especiallie thir allevin yeirs bypast, methir any
sufficient compt exhibeit to me, ane part of my stipend wrangfullie im-
pareit, ane wthir part violentlie withhaldin, quhilk be equitie and ac-
cording to justice suld and aucht be reclaimit be my executoures. And
if it sall happin my executoures in any thing to be trublit be any of the
new College of St Androis; in that case I ordain that the said College
be pursewit for my stipend yeirlie, quhilk consistes of thrie chalder and
ten bollis wictuall, togidder with tua hundreth punds more, quhairof I
was in use of payment, and quhairwnto I haid richt partlie be the
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foundation, partly be his Majesties dispositioun, quhilk will be fund
among my writes in ane blak pock in the said studie, within the drawer.
Forder, I leave the tua hundreth merks to defray Alexander Melvillis
det to Alexander Dudingstoun for the quhilk I was cautionar. And
this is for satisfeing of ane decreit arbitrall past betuix the said Alexander
and me, gevin out be the arbitriment of Mr David Mairnes and Mr
William Erskyn. As for the rest of the summe conteinit in the decreit
forsaid, viz. thrie hundreth merks, I ordaine the samyn togidder with
the wther tua, to be peyit of the reddie money quhilk is in my studie.
Item, I leave in taikin of my sinceir loue and affectioun to Mr Andro
Melvill, ane fyne new Duche cap of fyne blak velvet, lynit with fyne
martrik skinnes. Item, to Androw Glasfurd ane auld roisnoble, for
his guidwill and guid seruice done to me. Item, I leaue to Mr William
Erskyn, in taiken of my faithfull freindship, ane auld roismoble, togither
with my sword. Item, to Mr Johne Kinmeirane lyik taikin, ane auld
roisnoble. Item, to Mr Dauid Meirnes ane lyik taikin of the same
affectioun, ane auld roismoble. Item, to Mr Robert Roche in taikin of
the same affectioun, ane auld roisnoble. Item, I leaue to Duncan
Balfour, in taikin of my love and guidwill to him, ane brouderit muche
with silk, that latelie was sent to me from Londoun. Item, to Chris-
tian Johnestoun his wyif, quhom I haif fund kynd and faithfull, I leave
ane wylie coit of wyld cattis skinnes, togidder with my muffellis of pir-
neit silk lyneit with furring. Item, I leave to hir dauchter Majorie
Johnestoun, ane fedder bed with ane bowster, lang syne appointit for
hir new hous, to quhom hartly I wish of the grace of God. Item mair,
I leave to hir the grytest ring of gold abone mentionat, with ane dia-
mond, quhilk I suppone to be wpricht. Item, I leave to hir my Frenche
blak coffer, with the money lockaris. Item, I leave to Mr Robert
Mauld commisser of St Androis, Camdeni Britannia, with the Sand glasse
quhilk I gat from him self. Item, to his some I leave ane silver
pyik toothe, in forme of ane trump, ouergilt with gold. Item, to the
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laird of Caskiben I leave my grytest tass of silver. Item, to Robert
Johnestoun of Criemond my litle tass. Item, I leave to Mr Robert
Merser minister at Ellan, quhom I haif fund alwayes kynd and faith-
full, my litle ring with the diamond, quhilk he himself brocht to me
from our noble Prince. Provyding that if he die without aires maill of
his awin, that the forsaid ring be left to the best schollar native in Abir-
dein, especially the best poet, becaus I recavit it as ane reward of my
poesie. Item, I leave to Mr Robert Messer minister at Ellon, my
falding spoone of siluer, quhilk I brocht my self fra Geneva. Item, I
leave to Mr Robert Messer persoun of Banquhorie, my auld kynd
maister, in taikin of my thankfull deutie, my quhyit cope with the silver
fitt. Item, I leave to Alexander Melvill my brother in law, my bow
and my new quaver. Item, to Johne Anderson printer, Tremellius
Bible, in octauo. Item, I leave the trunk that lyes wnder the bwirde,
with Mr Johne Davidsones paperis thairin, to Mr Robert Wallace and
Mr Alexander Hoome, in Prestounepannes. As for my awin paperis and
writin buikes, both perfytit and wnperfytit, I leave to the custodie of
Mr Dauid Wedderburne and Mr Robert Merser, that if they find any
thing perfytit they may tak ordour thairwith ; especiallie, they will find
ane buik of poemes of myn unprinted, containing Epigrammata Silvas,
Justa et Librum Curarum, quhilk will be fund in ane paper buik in
folio, coverit with quhyit perchement, fauldit with ane string, quhilk I
desyir to be reviseit, and if thocht worthie, it may be published be the
said Mr Dauid Wedderburne, and that be the moyan of Mr Andro
Aedie or Mr Gilbert Jak. As for my buikis quhilk I left to Mr Johne
Sanderis, it is my express will that they be reserweit in the custodie of
Mr Robert Merser minister at Ellon, ay and quhill the said Mr Johne
gif ane pruiff for ane yeir or tua of his virtuous and godlie behaviour;
wtherwayis, the said expectatioun failzeing, I leave them to the use of
the new College of Aberdein. The same condition I add to the por-
tioun left to him, that in case he gif not sum notable pruiff of virtew
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and godlieness, his portioun I leaue to be distributit among my brother
and sister barnes. Item, I leaue to Johne Craufurd ane clok of Inglis
claithe, with ane neck of velvet. Item, ane stand of clothes of Inglis
claith, quhilk I warit dalie in winter. Item, ane pair of breikes, ane
pair of shankes of Frenche claithe of the seill, with tua hattis. As for
the rest of my abuilziement, viz. ane wther goun of risillis for the sum-
mer, togidder with ane new clok of risillis, with ame neck of velvet, I
leave Mr Johne Sanderis, evir wmder the former conditioun, togidder
with ane stand of perpetuance, winder the former conditioun of pruiff
of wirtuous and godlie behaviour, and no wtherwayes, quhairof I haif
seen hithertille small experience, quhilk is the express cause of myspair-
ingnes to him in this my Letter Will, praying God hartlie for grace and
blissing to him. As for my tua wther gounes of claithe, the ane with
blak furring, the wther without furing, I leave to my sister Margaret
hir barnes. Item, I leave to my sister Margaret and hir barnes, my
haill plenishing of my chalmer of bedding, trunckes, kistes and wther
haill insicht for ane hous, quhilk I think meit to be sould, and the pryce
thairof to be distributit among the bairnes. Item, I leaue tuelff silver
spoones to be devydit sa far as they will extend among my brother and
sister barnis proportionallie; expresslie ordaining and declairing my Will,
that if any sall grudge or mak any discord or contentioun ather ament
my legacie heirin conteinit, or in my wther legacie the xxix day of July
1611 yeirs, that that persoun or persounes sall be excludit fra all bene-
fit afoir specifeit. And if it sall happin that if anything sall be doutfull
in my Legacie, I leave the decisioun and interpretatioun thairof to Ro-
bert Johnstoun of Criemond, and Mr Robert Messer of Ellon, my exe-
cutoures, to be haldin firme and suir quhat they determine. Finallie,
I leave to my servant Peiter Midle ten punds, with ane stand of risillis
growgrainis quhilk I kuist of this summer. Item, it is to be rememberit
that the anwal of capitan Murrayis siluer lyand in his hand remaines
wnpeyit for tua yeiris and ane halff. Lastlie, if ther be any superplus
1611. OF MR JOHN JOHNSTOUN. 345
ather of siluer or wther plenishing omittit not distributit, I leuae thairof
thrie hundreth merks to be gevin for the use of the puir schollares of
Aberdein, togidder with the former tua ; and the thrid of the superplus
to my sister Margret and hir bairnes; and the rest of the superplus
equally to be distributit among my brother and sister barnes, at the
sicht of Robert Johnstoun of Criemond, and Mr Robert Merser, execu-
toures, according to the discretioun and necessitie of the forsaid brother
and sister barnis, and that to be haldin firme and suir as if I haid maid
express nominatioun and distributioun thairof in my Legacie. Expres-
lie provyding, that of the reddiest siluer that I leave, their sall be gevin
to my mother for hir present adois fourtie punds, by and attour my
former legacie.
Item, I leave to Mr William Erskyn a blak Duche coffer, with money
bands of yron. Item, to Mr John Kinneir ane quhyit Duche coffer.
Item, I leave to them conjunctiie all my lettrones, togidder with my
louse mappes unbroddit in the studie. My paintit picture I appoynt to
be sent to Aberdein again to my mother. And this my last Dispositioun
I ordain to be haldin alse authentik as the wther, and faithfullie to be
performeit be my executoures, as they will ansuer to God, to quhom be
praise and glorie for euir. Writtin day and place forsaid. Writtin be Mr
Robert Roiche minister at Innerkeithing, and subscribit with my hand
befoir thir witneses: Gavin Weimes of Wnthank, the said Mr Robert
Roche, and Peiter Midle my servand.
Sic subscribitur,
MR John JoHNEstoun.
MR RoRERT Roche, writer heirof. Witness.
GAVYN WEIMEs of Wnthank, Witness.
Item, Remember to delyuer aucht volumes of Bellarmyn, perteining
to Johne Wallace in Campheir, to Johne Lepar, and to return his
tickct of recept thairof bak again at Sanctandrois.
346 TESTAMENT AND LETTIR WILL, &c. 1611.
AT SANCT ANDROIS, the nynt day of October 1611 yeirs,
I Mr Johne Johnestoun, be the mercie of God preserveit alyve, calling
to memorie sum of my speciall freindis, hes eikit thir particularis to my
Testament and Lettir Will. I leave to Mr Androw Duncan and Robert
Durie, my deir afflictit and baneisheit brethren, ane hundreth merks,
equallie to be devydit. Item, to James Traill, in taikin of our old
freindship, Perkins warkes, in folio, Perkins woon the Galatianes, to-
gidder with ane fyne stickit mutche lately cum out of Londoun to me.
Item, to his eldest sone Tremellius Bible. Item, to Mr William Erskyn
six buikis in quarto, with my litle poetical buik. Item, alse mony to
Mr Johne Kinneir. Item, to Mr Robert Merser tuelff buikes in quarto.
Item to Mr Johne Kinneir and Mr William Erskyn, my fyne paper that
is cum hame to me. Item, to Mr Robert Merser my best goune, lynit
with Londoun furring. Item, to Alexander Coling sclaiter, fyve merks.
Item, to Thomas Monypennie ane hundreth merks. To Dauid Besse
tuelf punds.
Sic subscribitur, MR John E JoHNESToun.
|MR. John E. KINNEIR, Witnes.
DECREIT ANIENT THE RANKING AND
PLACEING OF THE NOBILITIE OF SCOT_
LAND IN THAIR, ORD OTUR IN PARLIA-
MENTS AND GENERALL COUNSELLS.
W MARTII MDCVI.
DE JURIE PRELATION IS NOBILIUM
SCOTIAE;
A MEMORIAL OF THE WRITES AND EVT-
DENTS PRODUCED BE SUNDRY EARLES
AND LORDS BEFORE THE COMMISSION_
ERS DEPUT BE THE KINGS MAJESTY
ANENT THE PRECEDENCY AND PRIORITY
OF DIGNITIE.
A. D. M. D.C.VI.

&#3 & #2 & 33 & Cº, &
© (ſ3tº §
§§§
THE uncertainty which is well known to have existed as to the
date of the creation of various Scottish Peerages, became the
occasion of frequent and angry disputes as to the order of pre-
cedence in Parliaments and General Conventions of the Estates;
and among the many laudable endeavours of King James VI. to
allay the feuds and contentions of his nobles, that pacific monarch
appears to have turned his earnest attention to the adjustment
of their respective claims of priority. In that view, the follow-
ing Act was passed in the Parliament of November 1600:—
“ CoMMISSION ANENT THE RANKING OF THE NOBILMEN
The Kingis Majeſtie and Eſtaittis in parliament Confider-
ing the frequent contentionis and debaittis that fallis out be-
tuix mobilmen at the parliamentis and generall Conventionis
Anent the priorie in places and voting for removeing of all fic
occaſiounis of controverſeis and Eeleſtis heireftir Hes gevin
and grantit commiſſioun To the lordis of his hienes ſecret
counſaill thair being preſent for the tyme ſex of thair Number
quha ar Erlis and Lordis To convene in halyrudhous the tuelf
day of februar mixttocum And thair to determine and conclude
Anent the priorie of the place of euerie nobilman within this
Realme And incaice of the comperance of ony nobilmen or
ony in thair Name to produce thair infeftment and evidentis
352
for Inſtrućting of the ſaidis commiſfioneris That they ſall reſ.
ſaue the ſamyn and heir the allegatiounes of all pairteis comper-
and And gif furth thair determinatioun according to Juſtice
As they will anſuer to god and his majeſtie vpoun the diſcharge
of thair offices And quhateuir beis determinat be thame IT
is declarit that the ſamin fall haue alſe great ſtrenth faith force
and effect as gif it wer concludit in this preſent parliament /
And thairfoir it is appointit to the effect that name of the ſaid
nobilitie fall think thame felfis heirby preiudgeit be the Igno-
rance of this preſent commiſſioun That thir preſentis be dew-
lie publiſlit at the heid mercat croces of this Realme and vtheris
places neidfull That betuix and the ſaid day appointit in the
ſaid commiſſioun they may ather be thame ſelfis or vtheris in
thair names Produce fic teſtefeis of thair antiquiteis as may
informe the ſaidis commiſſionaris with certificatioun that eftir
the expyring of the ſaid day the ſaidis commiſſioneris nocht-
withſtanding of thair abſence fall procede and gif furth thair
declaratour Alfweill anent the preſentis as abſentis vnder the
penaltie abone ſpecefeit”
It does not appear that any proceedings took place under
this Commiſsion to the Secret Council; but the subject was
not lost sight of, and after the King's acceſsion to the English
crown, there was iſsued a Commiſsion under the Great Seal,
to a certain number of Peers and Privy Councillors, with powers
similar to those conferred by the Act of Parliament; and
under this Commiſsion a train of proceedings were held, which
terminated in a “ Decree of Ranking,” dated on the fifth of
March 1606. This award of the Commiſsioners was declared
353
to be liable to challenge in the Court of Seſsion, at the instance
of those who might conceive themselves aggrieved by it; but
that no other mode of resistance might be attempted or counte-
nanced, the King addreſsed the following letter to the Lords
of the Privy Council in Scotland:—

“Right truſtie and weilbeloued Cuſingis and Counſallours,
We greit yow hairtlie weill The vntymelie contentions of
dyuers of oure nobilitie and members of oure Parlement of
that kingdome fallin furth In oure owne tyme having moved
ws to appoynt the moſt juſte and indifferent remeid that in oure
jugement could be deuyſed for removing the cauſes of fuche
diſordours dois now perſuade ws expreſlie to command yow
with dew and convenient expedition ſtraitlie to chairge all and
findrie oure lieges and ſubie&ts of that oure kingdome dewti-
fullie to conforme thameſelfs to the ordoure ſet downe anent
thair places and rankis be theſe who wer authoriſed be oure
commiſſion to that effect And nowayes to preſume to impugne
or contrauene the ſame direétlie or indirectlie vnder the pane
of incurring oure heighest diſpleaſour And with ſuche more
expres certification of horning wairding or treaſoun as you fall
find the conſequence of the apparent diſordours to requyre to
be expreſſed in your Proclamations or chairges whairanent theſe
ſall be to yow ane ſufficient warrand So we bid yow hairtlie
fairewell From oure Court at Tibollis the 19 of September”
354;
Neither the Royal Commiſsion nor any part of the pro-
ceedings of 1606 now remain on record ; but in at least two
different manuscripts preserved in the Advocates' Library,
there are Abstracts or Minutes of the evidence produced
to the Commiſsioners, or found by them in the Public Re-
gisters, and copies of the final Decree of Ranking pronounced
by them.
From one of these manuscripts, which is in the hand-
writing of Sir James Balfour of Denmiln, these documents
were given in a Collection of “Tracts concerning the Peer-
age of Scotland,” published by James Carmichael in the year
1791. Another copy is contained in a Collection of Legal
and Historical Documents made by Sir Alexander Seton
of Pitmedden, and is accompanied with a preface, and numer-
ous remarks and additions by Lord Pitmedden himself; and
being on the whole more accurate than that printed by Car-
michael, it has been thought deserving of republication. The
Decree of the Commiſsioners has been given, not from
either of the Manuscripts alluded to, but from an official
Extract under the signature of the Clerk of Council, which
had been preserved among the family papers of Denniston of
Denniston, and has been lately deposited in the General
Register House by the present representative of that family.
The additions and remarks printed within brackets appear
to have been made by Lord Pitmedden, and some of them
are in his Lordship's handwriting.
355
DE JURE PRELATIONIS, ETC.
PREFACE TO THE READER.
[For better understanding of this following manuscript, which containes
a Minute of the evidents of some of the ancient nobility, which were
produced to instruct the right of precedency anno 1606 before some
Commissioneris deputed by the King to cognosce therupon, it is neces-
sary to be knowen that before the year the nobility of Scotland
were not created by patents as now, bot the old way of creation wes by
some extrinsick solemnity or ryte, such as girding them with a belt in
publick Parliament, or other publick assembly, or by listing them in
publick rollis by the titles conferred upon them, or by designeing them
so in the publick charters and evidents of ther lands; and which not
being alwayes in the custody of the noblemen concerned, many contra-
versies did arise for precedency and priority of places and votes in Par-
liament, which were so warme even in the dayes of King James 6th,
(at which tyme one wold think the ancient noblemen might have come
to some clearing,) that for remeid the King and Estates in the Parlia-
men; 1587 were necessitat to make ane Act, which is the Act 41 in
number, narrating the same inconveniency: That forasmuch as in divers
Parliaments holden by the King and his most noble progenitors, sundry
questions had been amongst noblemen for priority of place and votes in
Parliament, and therupon sometymes quarrelling, to the disturbance of
the suprem Court of Parliament, which ought to proceed with the
greatest honor and quyetnes, Therefor, forbiding in tyme coming all
356 DE JURE PRELATIONIS
such quarrellis or provocation of trouble to others for priority of places
and votes in Parliament, otherwayes than by supplication, and to be
content with the order and direction of the King and Estates ay and
whill there should be a decision by law, under the pain of being repute
disturbers of the publick peace of the kingdome, and to be punished
therfor at the discretion of the King and Lords of the Articles: and
after this they only protested. See the 9th unprinted Act of the Par-
liament 1604.
This Act cemented differences for the tyme, and the year 1606 a
Parliament being to be holden in July, ame effectuall course was taken to
obviat all such tumults as had bred trouble in former Parliaments. The
King granted commission to some of the nobility and others of the Privy
Councill, to call before them all the noblemen that debated, to produce
before them such evidents as they had for instructing their precedency;
whereupon summounds were ishued forth at the instance of the King's
Advocat against these noblemen, to compeir the day of that
year; and most of them compeiring personally or by their procurators,
they produced such charters or other writes as they had, wherein they
were designed by their titles, and what they wanted they extracted from
the Registers and Rolls; and accordingly the Commissioners did give
Decreet, Ranking them in their severall orders, which is therfore called A
Decreit of Ranking, and is daitit the fifth of the moneth of March 1606.
Of these wrytes so produced a Minute was taken in order as they
were produced, and these are Minutes which follow ; and efter the
Minutes ther is a copy of the Decreit of Ranking, and after that a List
of the noblemen so ranked, taken out of the Decreit; and last of all, a
List of the whole Nobility of Scotland, by all their titles, as they are in
the year 1661 and 1685." - w
It is lykewayes to be observed, that though the Bishops were not
called in this action, yet in this booke, betwixt the production of the
* It has been considered unnecessary to print these Lists here.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 357
Earles and Lords, there is a minute of ane old charter subscrived by them,
quherby they swear to the Bruce against the Baliol. Where any altera-
tion has been made since the production be processes, or when I find men-
tion of families in ancient histories, I mark it by way of addition.
Lastly, Its to be observed that ther wes no production made for
Dukes and Marqueses, for their creations are but late and weill known.
The Duke of Albany is first, as being second brother of the royall
family; the Duke of Lennox, who is next, was created in August 1581,
Spotswood History, page/315; Duke of Hamilton the thrid.]
COMES ANG USIAE
Compeired not; but there wes produced for him a write bearing Georgius
Comes de Angus frater Isobellae Douglas Comitissae de Marr, et Gar-
rioch, 9 Nov. anno 8 regni in Rotul. Cartarum [Rob. 3..]
[I cannot understand how he sould be so designed, seeing his sister be-
came Countess of Marr be successione to him onlie, as I am told, for I have
not seen the evidents. See quhat I have noted at Marrs productione.
COMES ARGATHELIAE.
I find no minuts of productione made be Arguile; perhaps it is because
he gott the precedence from all other Earles without debaite, for I know
he retained it till he wes made Marquis; but it seemes to me ther wes no
just ground for his claime, for I have gott a mott of a Charter out of the
Duke of Hamiltoun's Charter-kist, past be King James 2, in plaine Par-
liament, erecting all his lands in one Lordship, dated 3d of July 1445,
in quhich, among other witnesses, ther is Alexander Earl of Huntley and
Duncan Lord Campbell, who could not be Arguil's eldest some, for he
could be no member of Parliament, and farder I am told be one who
sayed he saw Arguiles patent, that it was daitted A. D. 1457.]
3 A
358 DE JURE PRELATIONIs
COMES CRAWFORDIAE
Compeared.—Produced ane Infeftment given be King Robert, dilecto
fratri suo Davidi de Lindsay Comiti de Crawford, [baroniae de Crawford]
cum quatuor punctis Coronae et in liberam regalitatem, 10 Dec. anno
9 Regni ejus, (in Rotulo Cartar. Roberti 3. B.)
[This David seems to be the sone of James Lindsay of Glenesk, who
wes created Earle of Crawford. The date of the Infeftment answers to
the year 1399, bot Boethius Hist. Scot. lib. [18. fol. 375. v. 70.] and of
Ballantynes versione lib. 18, sayes he wes created be Rob. 2. See Lesly
upon the Life of the King, pag.
Ex REGISTRo.
Item, in the Roll foresaid a Charter of the lands of Megill is con-
firmed by the said King Robert 3 fratri suo Davidi de Lindsay Comiti
de Crawford 24 Dec. 1404, et Regni Regis anno 15.
Item, anno predicto et in eodem Rotulo K. R. 3. confirmes a Charter
of the lands of Melginch and Clovath, given be Isobella de Douglas
Commitissa de Marr et Garrioch dilecto suo consanguineo Domino
David de Lindsay Comiti de Crawford Apud Kildrymmie 8 Aprile 1403.
In the quhilk Roll dyvers and sundry are conteined given to the said
Earle, in which he is called frater Regis et Dominus David Comes de
Crawford Miles. - . . ;
Item, a Charter given be Robert 3. to his sone and appearand air,
James Stewart Prince of Scotland, of the lands called the Principality,
terrae Senescallia, of the date 10 Dec. 1404, and of his reigne the 15
year, David de Lindsay Comes Crawfordie is a witnes.
[For a farder informatione of this familie, I add hear a printed Infor-
matione quhich the Earle of Crawfuird gave me against David Lindsay of
Edzel, who layd claime to the title of the familie as mail, and perseued a
Declarator therupon in the Parliament 1686, quherof I was a member.]
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 359
COMES DE ERROLL.
Compeired as ane of the Commissioners: Willielmus Dominus de Hay
Regni nostri Constabularius, in a Charter given to him of the lands of
be K. Ja. 2. 17 March 1449, et Regni sui 14.
Ex REGISTRo.
In a Charter granted be the King to the Earle of Douglas Gulielmus
Dominus de la Hay Constabularius Regni et Wilielmus Comes de
Keith noster Mariscallus Regni nostri Scotiae, are witnesses, 7 Jul
1451 in Rotul. Cartarum. ‘. . . .
Item 12 Feb. 1455, In a Charter granted by the King in
of the property to David Stewart of the Earldom of Murray, Willielmus
Comes de Erroll Constabularius Scotiae, Willielmus Dominus de Keith
Mariscallus Scotiae, are witnesses. He is made Earle betwixt the year
of God 1451 and 1455. .
[ADDITIONS.
Among the evidents of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden Barronet,
one of the Lords of Session, of some land which holds of the family of
Erroll, there is a more ancient document than any of these, towitt, a
Precept of Clare Constat, granted by William designed Earle of Erroll,
dated 13 Dec. 1415, so that the said observation, bearing Erroll to
have been made Earle betwixt the 1445 and 1451, is false.
Item, among the said writes there is Instrument of Seasine following
on another precept of Clare Constat of the same lands, and contains the
precept ingrossed, daited 6 June 1421, which also instructs the creation
of the Earle of Erroll to be long anterior to the 1451.
And yet I have seen another observe in these words: 1454, William
Lord Hay, Constable of the kingdom of Scotland, created Earl of
Erroll, Ja. 2, anno regni 17.
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Boetius, in vitam Kenneth 3, who begann his reign anno 977, sayes
that Hayius who wes the first of this family, and got his estate for his
service against the Danes in the battle there mentioned, wes relatus
inter Nobiles at a Parliament then holden at Skoon; but nobility is
here only taken in that generall sense in which Toraquell treats of it in
his book De Nobilitate.
Evidents of his office of Constabulary belonging to the family of
Erroll, and right of precedencie belonging to the office.
The Earle of Erroll claims precedency of all the nobilitie of Scotland
mixt to the Chancellour, though of ane ancienter creation than himself,
be vertue of his office of Constabulary, of the which that precedency is
a priviledge; and to instruct that it is a priviledge, he produces a Report
of a Commission that was granted be the King under the Great Seal
anno 1631, to take tryall of the priviledges of the Constable; which
Report, in the second article therof bears, that the precedency is due
to the Constable next to the Chancellor, but he hes never been in pos-
session of it, but only takes place by his antiquity as Earle.]
COMES MARISCHALL
Ex REGISTRo.
Wes one of the Commissioners—Primo Aprilis 1426. In the tyme
of King Ja.. the first, Robertus Marischallus Scotie miles compt is made
in the Exchequer in the Shirreff Roll of Kincarden Apud Perth,
per Alexandrum Straiton deputatum Comitis Marischalli Scotiae, 4 Julij
1458, in the tyme of King Ja. 2d. anno regni 21, In Rotulo Viceco-
mitatum, and in anno 1455, he is called Dominus de Keith. Vide
Earle of Erroll, so he has been made Earle betwixt the years of God
1455 and 1458, [And so in another Charter granted be the same King
NOBILIUM scotle. 361
to John Earl of Sutherland, dated 24 of Feb. 1445, which is mentioned
in Sutherlands productione. :
The family of Marischall beganne in the dayes of Malcolm the 2d,
some to Kenneth 3, who entered to reigne anno salutis 1010. The occa-
sion was, that one Kethus a young man fought valiantly against Camus
King of the Danes, at Barrie and Aberlemnon in Angus, and at Gam-
rie and Crochden, vulgo Cruden, in Buchan, and for that service got
these lands in Lothian called at this day Keith from his name, and was
created Marischall of Scotland. Boet. Lesly and Buchan. upon the Life
of Malcolme 2d. See the observation made be us upon the valour of
Errolls predecessor.
Wee see there is but short tyme betwixt the rise of these families.
The one ryses be the father, and the other be the sone, betwixt the
entrie of whose reignes there interveined but 33 years, according to Lesly.]
coMEs suTHERLANDIE
Compeired.—Produced to the Lords Commissioners deput be the Kings
Majesty for the declaration of the priority of dignity of the Earles and
Lords, &c. A charter given be King David 2, to William Earle of
Sutherland and Margaret his spouse sister to the said King, of the barrony
of Cluny lyand within the shirrefdom of Aberdeen, dated 14 November
17 year of the reigne of the said King, which is in the year 1346.
[ADDITIONs.
The Earle of Sutherland produced no more the tyme of the Ranking,
and therefor he wes ranked in the place as he here stands, after the
Earles of Argyle, Crawford, Erroll, and Marischall; bot ther being a
Salvo in the Decreit of Ranking, that it should be free for parties grieved
to crave a rectification before the Judge Ordinar upon production of new
Evidents, the Earle of Sutherland be vertue of this salvo raised a
362 DE JURE PRELATIONIS
process of Reduction, Improbation and Declarator, against these four
Earles, wherein he lybelled that his predecessors, (to whom he hes
succeeded jure sanguinis,) were Earles of Sutherland in the tyme of
King William the Lyon in the 12 centurie, long before the predecessors
of the Defenders were nobilitat, and therfor did call for production of all
their auncient wrytes, wherupon they found precedency more auncient
than the Pursuers to be reduced and improven; concluding also that
his rycht of precedency before them might be declared against the De-
fenders and their successours for all tyme coming.
This proces wes insisted in before the Lords of Session anno 1667;
at which tyme the pursuer, for instructing of his active title, produced
the series or progress of the auncient writes following:—
Imprimis, a charter granted be William Dominus of Sutherland, de-
signed also sone to the said Heugh Frisken, confirming the said base
charter. The witnesses of both charters are one, and wants dait.
Item, King William the Lyons confirmation of the said Heugh his
charter, dated at Sleuchills 29 Apryll.
Item, King Alexanders confirmation of a charter granted be the said
Gilbert then bishop of Caithnes to his brother Richard of his saids lands
of Sutherland relative to K. Williams said confirmation, dated at St
Andrews 26 Dec. 1235.
Item, ane Indenture betwixt William designed Earle of Sutherland
and Bishop of Caithness, for dyvers lands in contraversie betwixt the two
Earles and the Bishop and his predecessors, dated the 10 of the callends
of October 1275. This seemes to be the date bot is ane old character.
Item, ane Extract of a charter of confirmation be Robert the Bruce to
William Earle of Ross of the lands of Dingwall, which are said to lye in the
Earledom of Sutherland, dated at Cullen the 5 Aug. 1332, anno regni 16.
Item, ane agreement be Kenneth E. of Sutherland and Bernald
Murray of Culvy, anent the lands of Skibo, and daited at St Andrews
chappell of Golspie, anno Domini 1330.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 363
Item, ane extract of a charter granted by King David, of the date,
at Edinburgh, 17 October anno reg. 35, confirming a charter granted
be William Earle of Sutherland to his brother Nicolas Sutherland, of
16 davachs of land, lyand within the earledom of Sutherland, dated at
Edinburgh 13 Sept. 1360. This charter is also produced.
Item, a confirmation granted be Robert Duke of Albany, Governour
of Scotland, dated at Faulkland the 10 of August 1408, confirming
the charter granted be. Robert Earle of Sutherland to his brother
Kenneth of the lands of Draney, which charter is daited at Dunrobin
22 January 1400. º
Item, a charter granted be John Earle of Sutherland of the barronie
of Thornboll to Alexander Sutherland.upona'sight of the Resignation
made be Nicolas Sutherland of Duffus, in the hands of the said Robert
E. of Sutherland as superior therof, in favours of Henry Sutherland,
the sone of Nicolas, father of the said Alexander, which charter is
dated at Pomphray Castle in England 12 July 1444.
Item, a charter under the Great Seal, granted be K. Ja. 2. to John
Earle of Sutherland, of the Earledom, dated at Inverness the 24 Feb-
ruary 1445. In this charter Marischall is witnes, and designed Domi-
nus de Keith, and Erroll is witness and designed Earle.
Nota. It is informed be Sutherland that Erroll is made Earle a year
before this, being the 17 of the reigne of Ja.. the 2d. -
Item, a sasine of John Earle of Sutherland (the heretrixs brother)
quherby he is infeft in the earledom as air to his father, John Earle of
Sutherland, dated 14 Dec. 1512. - - -
Item, a service quherby the said heretrix Elizabeth is served air to
hir said brother John, dated at Inverness 3 Oct. 1514, in the quhilk
she is designed Countess of Southerland.
Item, a charter under the Great Seal by Queen Mary to John Earle
of Sutherland, sone to the said Alexander, of the earledom, dated at
Edinburgh 6 August 1546. This charter is to John Earle of Suther-
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land, and to Elizabeth Campbell, Countess of Murray his spous, and
proceeds on his own resignation; bot it does not appear by the charter,
and this John wes son to Alexander.
Item, a charter granted be K. Ja. 5 under the Great Seal, to Alex-
ander Master of Sutherland, son of the marriage procreat betwixt Adam
Gordoun and the heretrix, dated 10 Sept. 1527. This man dyed before
his father and mother. **
Item, a service quherby John Earle of Sutherland, son to the said
Master, is served heir to the heretrix his grandmother, dated at Inverness
23 July 1567.
Item, the retour of Alexander Earle of Sutherland as air to the said
John his father, dated 8 July 1523.
Item, a charter be K. Ja.. under the Great Seal to John Earle of
Sutherland upon the resignation of the said Alexander his father, dated
at Dalkeith 23 March 1580.
Item, a charter under the Great Seal to John Earle of Sutherland by
the said King, and that of the earledom of Sutherland upon his own
resignation, dated penult Maij 1601.
Item, the special service of John now Earle of Sutherland as air to
the said E. John his father, at Invernes 4 June 1616.
Item, 3 retours whereby the said John now Earle of Sutherland is
served air by progres to William first Earle of Sutherland, quho is the
second person mentioned in the progress; which three retours are dated
at Inverness 24 May 1630, and were exped for carying on the proces of
precedencie. This first of them bears, Qui Jurati dicunt Quod quon-
dam Willielmus primus illius nominis Comes Sutherlandiae atavus
quondam NicolaijSutherlandii Comitis atavi quondam Alexandri Ma-
gistri Sutherlandii atavi Joannis nunc Comitis de Sutherland Latoris
presentium obiit ad fidem et pacem Alexandri secundi.
Another bears, quod quondam Willielmus Sutherlandiae Comes atavus
quondam Joannis Sutherlandiae Comitis atavi quondam Joannis Suther.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 365
landiae Comitis patris Joannis nunc Sutherlandiae Comitis Latoris,
Et qui obiit ad fidem et pacem Davidis Regis Scotorum. -
The third bears, quod quondam Johannes Comes Sutherlandiae atavus,
quondam Joannis Comitis Sutherlandiae patris Joannis nunc Suther-
landiae Comitis Latoris presentium obiit ad fidem et pacem Jacobi 4ti.
This action being insisted in the year 1671, the pursuer did pass from
the Earles of Argyle and Crawford, and insisted only against the Earles
Erroll and Marischall, and obtained certification against the defenders
documents of honor, not produced, whereof the coppy followes.
November 24, 1671–The Lords grants certification against any
patents of honor, wrytts and evidents granted in favors of the Earle
of Erroll, his predecessors and authors, to whom he may succeed, jure
sanguinis, whereby he may clame place and precedency before the per-
sewers; but refuses to grant certification against any patents of honor,
wryts and evidents granted to other persons wherein the defender is
named or designed, and only concerned collateralls, but prejudice
alwayes to the defender of any right of precedency due to him as Con-
stable as accords of the law, and superceeds extract of the certification
untill the first of Januarij; betwixt and which tyme, what farder the
defender shall produce, to be receaved. -
Bot before extracting, there wes a petition given in for a new hearing,
which was assisted by the Earle of Rothes, chancellor, and divers others
of the nobility, who thought themselves concerned in this preparative.
And after a full debate, the interloquitor was recalled, and the contrare
found that no certification could be granted against patents of honor of
any noblemen at the instance of another.
The ground whereupon the interloquitor was recalled was, 1°. that
anent honors, for most part are instructed by Parliament rolls and
charters in the registers in which the nobilitie were ranked be their
places, and designed be their titles, and these being in publica custodia no
certification could be granted against them. 2”. No certifications can be
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granted even against patents of honor, becaus the Persewers title is
not sufficient for that effect, and can only be a title to found a declarator
of precedency against the defenders, as being more ancient evidents than
theirs, bot could be no title of improbation, becausall titles of improbation
should be rights de eodem subjecto. As for example, when ane heretor
of lands persewes ane improbation of another mans rights of these
lands, he must first instruct his own right to the lands; and no man,
before he be infeft in lands, can have action for improving another mans
infeftment thereof, bot the pursuers evidents of honor are of his own
titles and dignities only, and the defenders their evidents are rights of
their honors, and so are rights of different subjects, and therefor the pur-
suer's rights could be no sufficient title for improving the defender's rights.
This argument was thought be some to be too nice and subtile, yet it was
judged be the Lords to be sufficient for recalling the forsaid certification.
After this Interlocutor was pronounced, the pursuers insisted in their
conclusion of Declarator of precedency, and diverse alledgeances were
made against connexion of the progress of their titles, as also some
objections against the formalities of their Retours, which were answered
with prescription; bot the material defences were, primo, That the
course of succession of the honor and dignitie of the Earle of Sutherland
was interrupted by the succession of Elizabeth the airess of Sutherland,
who was served to her brother John Earle of Sutherland 1514, married
to Adam Gordoun son to the Lord Huntly, by which succession the
title and dignity of Earle of Sutherland became extinct, becaus women
are uncapable of such titles, and they cannot be conveyed to them
except the patent be ether taken to them expressly, vel heredibus quibus-
cunque; and that auncient patents which were taken haeredibus in gene-
rall were not sufficient to convoy such titles to women by the ancient
Feudale Law : The reason whereof was this, that thes titles did an-
ciently carry along with them offices in warr wherof women were in-
capable; viz. Comes was one who attended the Prince in warr, so
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 367
mamed a comitando ; and Marchio or Marques was so called because he
had the defending of borders or marches; and Dux or Duke was so
called a ducendo because they had the leading of the army; and it's
only the late Feudall Law and custom of patents that has introduced the
transmission of these titles without offices, and has made the females capable
therof. 2°. The defender, Erroll, claimed precedency upon his priviledge
as Constable, conforme to the Report that was made to the King upon the
tryall of his priviledges, which I have mentioned at his production; and the
Earle Marischall led clame to a precedency nixt to the Constable by his
place as Marischall, but instructed no such priviledge, neither did the
Lords lay any stress upon this defence, because if ever they had it, they
had been more than 40 yeirs out of possession. 30. It was urged for
Erroll, that Boethius and Buchan. upon the Life of Kenneth the 3 do
affirme his predecessor to have been relatus inter mobiles, and that in
dubio this should have its own weight, according to Theodos. and
Valent. in lib. 1. c. de Consulibus lib. 12. quis (inquiunt) in uno eodem-
que genere dignitatis prior esse debeat nisi qui prior meruit dignitatem.
But the only argument that seemed to have weight with the Lords,
was that of the titles becoming extinct by the succession of the airess, and
which was so much the stronger, that Adam Gordoun who married her
did obtain a Earles patent to himself, and he and his successors retained
the armes and sirname of Gordon with the armes of Sutherland in a
sheild of pretence only, which imports that they layd no clame to the right
of precedency of the family and title of the family as coming to them by
succession; and yet, on the contrair it was urged, that if the successors
of Adam Gordon had wanted a right to the auncient title, they could
only have taken place from Adam Gordon's patent, and yet they goe
furder up, being ranked mixt after the Earle Marischall.
The Lords did not determine.]
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COMES DE MARR
Compeired.—Produced before the Lords Commissioners a charter
of Dame Issobell Dowglas Countes of Marr and Alexander Stewart
son to the Earle of Bucchan her spouse, of the earledom of Marr, with
the castle of Kildrimmy and lordship of Garioch, 9 December 1404.
Rob. 3. 14.
Nota, Be this charter and the contract of marriage on which it pro-
ceeds, the estaites of Dowglas and Marr belonging to this ladie as airess
of both families, was provided to her and her husband, the longest liver
of them two in liferent, and to the aires of the mariage, which failzeing,
to return to her aires ex utraque parte; and ther being no aires of this
marriage, the clause was so interpreted be sentence of law as to divide
the families betwixt the nearest respective aires of both, in manner efter
subjoyned.
Item, a charter of confirmation made by King Robert 3, confirmeand
the charter abovewrittin, primo die Januarij 1404.
Item, a letter be King Robert 3 to Sir Thomas Erskin knight, pro-
missand that the K. should not receave a resignation of the earledom
of Marr, to be made be Issobell Dowglas Countes of Marr, dated 22
November, anno 4to regni Regis.
Item, ane Act of Parliament in anno 1587, ratifieing the haill rights
titles and provisions made to John Earle of Marr and his predicessors,
of the earledom of Marr, as air be progress to Dame Issobell Dowglas
Countes of Marr. -
Item, the extract of a retour, of the date the 20 March 1588, whereby
John Earle of Marr is served air as nearest and lawful air to Dame
Issobell Dowglas Countes of Marr. [As to the estaite of Marr the
aire of the familie of Dowglas haveing succeided to that familie, as I
have said in the marginall note.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 369
ADDITION.
The Earles of Marr are more ancient be farr then this productione
instructs, for befor this ther were Earles of Marr of that ilk; to wit,
Donald Earle of Marr, contemporarie with King to whom
succeided his sone Gretney Earle of Marr, and to him succeided his some
Thomas Earle of Marr, in whom failzied the maile line, and the estaite
not being tailzeid, his sister Margaret succeidded both to lands and dig-
nities, and was the mother of the said Isobel Douglas mentioned in the
first charter produced; shee was first maried to the Lord Swintoun of
that ilk, and hade no ishue be him; then she maried William Earle of
Douglas, be whom shee hade two children, to wit, James Earle of Dou-
glas and Marr—some call him George—killed at the battel of Otter-
burne anno foght be King James 2. against the Inglish, and the
said Isobel, who succeided to her brother as aire to the estats of both
families of Douglas and Marr, and was twice maried, first to Malcome
Lord Fleeming, and nixt to Alexander Stewart, naturall sone of the
Earle of Buchan, who was one of King Roberts Sones procreat upon his
Queen Euphame Ross, but had ishue be none of them; and she deceis-
sing befor her last husband, he fell to the liferent, and the estaite of
Douglas came back to the nearest air of that line, and the family of Marr
to the Lord Erskin. Befor the Lord Erskine succeided, his familie
seemes to have been great; for our histories tell us upon the Life of Ro-
bert 2d Joannes Major de Gestis Scotorum. lib. 5. fol. 113. in fin. that
this King being much opposed in his succession to the crown upon the
death of his uncle King David Bruce be the Earle of Douglas, who
layd clame to the crowne upon the joynt titles of the Cumyn and Baliol
unite in his person, and having assembled ane army against Robert 2d,
the Lord Erskin, then Governour of Dumbartan and George Dunbar
Earle of March, and the Earle of Murray his brother, did oppose the
Earle of Douglas, till at last the contraversie wes ended by matching
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the Erle of Douglas eldest to one of the Kings daughters, procreat
betwixt him and Euphame Ross.]
COMES DE MONTEITH
Compeired.—Produced a Charter given be King James 3. Willielmo -
Comiti de Monteith, erecting the town and port of Monteith into a free
town, dated the 8 Februarij 1466.
Ex REGISTRo.
He is Lord of Parliament 12 Januarii 1467, and also the 3 June 1467,
Ja. 3. Patricius de Graham, Comes de Stratherne, Willielmus Gra-
ham de Kincarden, are witnesses in a charter given be Robert Duke of
Albany Earle of Fyfe and Monteith, confirmeand a charter given be Sir
William Keith Marischall to Sir Robert Keith of Troup, his some, of
the Shirreffdom of Kincardin. Apud Perth, 12 March 1406. Rotul.
Cartar. Rob. 3.
COMES DE ROTHES
Compeired.—Produced ane instrument of sasine, bearand that Ja. 2. K.
of Scots gave to Andrew Lesly, some to George E. of Rothes, the lands
of lyand within the shirrefilome of Fyfe, 16 Nov. 1459.
Ex REGISTRo.
In a Charter granted be the King to Andro Balfour Georgius Do-
minus de Lesly is witnes, 9 June 1452, in Rotul. Cartarum; and so
he is made and created Earle betwixt the year of God 1452 and 1459.
COMES DE MORTO UN
Compeired—Produced ane instrument of Robert Halywood and Richard
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 371
Robert, nottars, 4 November 1404, in the tyme of King James the 3d,
bearing the solemnization of marriage betwixt James Earle of Mortoun
and Jean Stewart, daughter to King James the first.
Ex REGISTRo.
In the tyme of Robert Duke of Albanie, Earle of Fyfe and Mon-
teith, mention is made of Sir James Dowglas de Dalkeith miles 26 July
1411 ; but Jacobus Comes de Mortoun consanguineus Regis is witness
in a Charter given be King James the 2d, 24 October 1458, Patricio
Domino de Graham de terris de Ballingrochin, Carrister, Dougalstoun,
Barloch, Killerman, Kilmoran, Kilraock, Muckracter, Garrockearon,
Killerne, Strabline, Muckdow, Clockburr, Gartferme, Cronqhwylieg,
Ardull, Kimoth-hastell, Corryarchel, Auchinrosch, cum pertinentiis in
liberam baroniam de Muckdock jacen. infra vicecomitatum de Stirling.
In Rotul. Cartar. 12 January 1452, William Douglas of Mortoun is
Miles. -
COMES DE ATHOLL
Compeired not.—Memorandum.—King Robert 3. 1404, regni sui 14,
gave and disponed to his well beloved brother Walter Stewart Earle of
Caithnes, Comitatum Atholiae et Dominium de Methven, with the four
poynts of the Crown and free Regality, in Rotulis Cartarum Rob. 3.
Rotul. 13. This Earle of Atholl was forfaulted for the slaughter of
King James the first, 1437, and so no succession came of him, and
therefore this Earle of Atholl who now presently lives, cannot pretend
any right or dignity proceeding fra the Earle forsaid.
COMES DE MONTGOMERIE
Compeired.—Produced a note under the Clerk of Registers hand write,
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whereby Heugh Earle of Eglintoun sate asane Earle in Parliament 1503.
Item, a Charter subscribed by the Clerk of Register made be King
James 4. to Hugh Earle of Eglintoun off the lands of Uttermure, Litle-
kirkheid and others, 26 June 1509.
Ex REGISTRo.
Mention is made of Dominus de Montgomerie 15 March 1503, in
the book of Parliament James 4, and in the Parliament 31 March 1503,
Hugo Comes de Montgomerie compeirs in Parliament; so it is manifest
that he hes been made Earle betwixt the 18 day and the 24 day of
March the year forsaid. -
COMES DE MONTROSE
Compeired as ane of the Commissioners.-Produced ane instrument
under the subscription of Walter Foster, ultimo Martij 1505, containing
thereintill a precept of seasing made in the tyme of King James 4, to
William Earle of Montrose of the lands of Old Montrose, conteining
also ane erection of the saids lands in a earldom ; quhilk precept is of
the date 18 March 1504.
Ex REGISTRo.
He is Lord of Parliament 3 Februarij 1505, and therein compears as
ane Earle in Parliament.
COMES DE GLENCAIRNE.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired not.—He is Lord and Earle in the Parliament 3 Feb.
1505; in the quhilk Cuthbert is called Comes de Glencairne, and also
in the Parliament 18 November 1505.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 373
The Lord Kilmares compeirs as Lord of Parliament 17 October
1478; et 4 Octobris 1479, Dominus Kilmares compeired in Parliament.
He produced before the Lords of Secret Councell in the tyme of Parlia-
ment holden 15 June 1609, a Charter wherin Alexander is creat Earle of
Glencairne and Lord of Kilmares 28 May 1485, et regni Regis 28 Jacobi 3.
COMES DE CASSILLS
Compeired.—Produced a Charter given be King James 4. to David
Earle of Cassills and Margaret Boyd his spouse, of the castle of Cassills,
&c. 5 Feb. 1511. -
Ex REGISTRo.
In the roll of the Compts Balivorum ad extra anno Domini 1509,
he is called David Dominus Kennedy miles, and in the roll of the
Accompts Balivorum ad extra 6 August 1510, mention is made of Com-
potum Davidis Kennedy Comitis de Cassills de terris de Leswald et
Menebrige. So he is made Earle betwixt 1509 and 1510.
COMES DE BOTHWELL.
Ex REGISTRO.
Compeired not.—Patrick Lord Haills is made and created Earle of
Bothwell be King James 4. 17 October 1488, in the books and Register
of the Acts of Parliament. -
COMES DE CAITHNES.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired not.—Upon the 6th day of May, in the Books and Re-
gister of the Acts of Parliament, anno Domini 1471, in the tyme of
King James 3, mention is made of William Earle of Cathnes.
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The castle of Ravinscraig, the lands of Wiltoun, Dubbe and Car-
berrie, and 40 merks pensioun furth of the customs of Edinburgh, dur-
ing his lyfetyme, is given to him for his right of the earledom of
Orkney, 6 May 1471, Jacobi 3. Wide Lord Sinclare de Sancto Clero.
He produced before the Lords of Councell a Charter made be King
James 3. to William Earle of Orkney &c penult. Apryle 1456.
[OBSERVATION.
Here betwixt Caithness and Wigtoun ther wants ten Earles, viz.
Buchan, Murray, Orkney, Atholl, Winton, Linlithgow, Home, Perth,
Dumfermling and Dumbar. The reason seems to be, that their place
has not been contraverted among themselves, altho Atholl does contra-
vert with Caithnes be way of declarator, bot without declarator he could
not be ranked otherwayes than he is. All the rest does willingly cede
to Caithnes, and are before Wigtoun; but this contraversie betwixt
Atholl and Caithnes is ended by Atholls being made Marques.]
COMES DE WIGTOWN.
In Parliamento inchoato apud Perth, primo die mensis Julij 1606,
John Lord Flemming and of Cumbernauld was created and made Earle
of Wigtoun.
The Parliament to be holden at Perth the first day of Julij 1600, ,
and did end the 9th day of the samen moneth, whilk did continue to the
28 day of March next thereafter, 1607.
Upon the tenth day of the said moneth of Julij 1606,
COMES DE KINGHORNE.
Patrick Lord Glames was created and made Earle of Kinghorne.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 375
COMES DE ABERCORNE.
James Hamiltoun was made Earle of Abercorne, Lord Paisley and
Kilpatrick.
COMES DE LOTHIAN.
Mark Ker was made Earle of Lothian, Lord of Newbotle and
Morpeth.
COMES DE TULLIBARDEN.
John Lord Murray and Tulliebardin was made Earle of Tullybarden,
Lord Gask and Ballguhider.
[VISCOUNT OF FENTOUN.
Sir Thomas Areskine, be the Kings Patent and Charter under the
Great Seal of of the date, at Westminster, the 18th day of .
March 1600, is made Wiscount of Fentoun, Lord Dirletoun, and his
airs male specified in the said Charter; whilk infeftment is confirmed
and ratified in Parliament holden at Perth the 9 day of July 1606.]
VISCOUNT OF HADDING TO UN.
Sir John Ramsay is created and made Barron and Banrent G.2 and
Lord Ramsay of the Barnes, Lord of our Soveraigne Lord's Parliament;
and the samen day, immediatly thereafter he is created and made
Viscount of Haddingtoun, Lord Ramsay of the Barnes, 16 Junij 1606.
376 DE JURE PRELATIONIS
[DE JURE PRELATIONIS EPISCOPORUM.
In a Charter containing a declaration of the fidelity made and to be
made be the Bishops of this realm for the tyme, and their successors,
to King Robert Bruce and his airs, oy to umquhill Robert Bruce his
goodsir as lawfull King; and having by reason of his said goodsirs
better right to succeed to the crown of this realm than John Baliol had
promoved by the King of England thereto, the seals of the saids
Bishops are appended thereto in this order following, and in the body
of the said Charter the samen order of precedency is observed by the
writer; the whilk Charter hes neither date, day, moneth nor year; bot
other Charters concerning the same purpose of the right and succession
of the said King Robert and his airs, sealed be Estates of this realm
for the tyme, are of the date 15 July 1326.
Willielmus de Lambertoun, Ecclesiae Sancti Andreae.
Robert Wyscard, Glasguensis.
Willielmus Dunkeldensis.
Henricus Lechen Aberdomensis.
David de Moravia Moraviensis.
Nicolaus de Balmyll, Dumblanensis.
Thomas de Donde, Rossensis.
. Fercherdus Mellegomnik, Cathenensis.
. Joannes Kininmonth, Brichenensis.
. Andreas Lesmurensis.
11. Thomas Candidae Casae.
12. Allanus Sodorensis.
No mention is made in the said Charter of Episcopus Orchadensis.]
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LORD LINDSAY
Compeired.—Produced ane infeftment given be Robert King of Scots
to his cousen William Lindsay knight, of the lands of Drem, 27 Decem-
ber anno regis 5. [1376.] * -
Item, ane instrument under the subscription of Thomas Killconqhar,
containeand a precept dated and direct William Keith, Marischall of
Scotland, to his bailzie, of his lands of for seasing therof,
to be given Domino Willielmo Lindsay, Domino de Byres, 20 Sep-
tember 1378, in the tyme of King Robert the second.
Item, ame instrument bearand Nobilis et potens Dominus Willielmus
de Lindsay, Dominus de Byres, 26 Feb. 1386, of Robert 2d. Item,
ane Indenture made betwixt Dominum Willielmum Mure, Dominum
de Abercorne et Dominum Willielmum Lindsay, Dominum de Byres,
2 November 1385, Rob. 2.
Item, a Charter, without a date, made be William Keith of Keith,
Marischall of Scotland, domino et mobili viro domino Willielmo Lindsay
militi Domino de Byres et Dominae Christianae sponsae suae, of the
lands of Auchterstruther, and principall messuage thereof infra vice-
comitatum de Fyffe, in excambion of the lands of Dinnotter.
Item, ane infeftment granted be Walter Bishop of St Andrewes,
nobili viro Domino Willielmo Lindsay militi et Dominae Christianae
sua sponsae, off all and haill the lands of Auchterstruther and castle
thereof, be resignation of William of Keith, Marischall of Scotland,
1 Julij 1373. Rob. 2. -
Item, he produced a Charter made be William of Keith, Marischall
of Scotland, Domino Willielmo Lindsay militi Domino de Byres, of
ane annual rent of 8 lib. to be lifted furth of the lands of Dunnoter, 8
March 1372. Rob. 2.
Item, he produced a Charter given be James King of Scots, dilecto
consanguineo suo Johanni Lindsay Domino de Byres, ratifieng and ap-
878 DE JURE PRELATIONIS
proving a Charter made be the said Lord to Archibald Newtoun of the
lands of Drem, 22 Februarij 1445. Ja. 2.
Ex REGISTRO.
In the Register of St Andrewes, (whilk book is in the keeping of Mr
John Arthur, ane of the Commissars of Edinburgh,) is conteined Constituo
Alexandrum Lindsay Dominum de Glenesk, per Dominum Willielmum
Londells Episcopum Sancti Andreae, in Justiciarium et Senescallum to-
tius regalitatis Sancti Andreae, quhilk conteines a tailzie, and specially
Domino Willielmo de Lindsay Domino de Byres, 9 Apryl 1378. Rob. 2.
LORD FOR BES
Compeired.—Produced a Charter of David King of Scots, of his reigne
the 35 year, confirmeand a Charter made be Thomas Earle of Marr, Joanni
de Forbes Domino ejusdem, of the lands of Edinbanchrie and Craiglogie.
Item, a Charter made be William Fraser Dominus de Philorth nobili
viro Alexandro Forbes militi Domino ejusdem, off the lands of Meikle-
fintray, 28 March 1412. Rob. 3.
Item, a Charter made be Alexander Stewart Earle of Marr and
Garrioch, confirmeand a Charter made be Willielmus Lindsay, Dominus
de Rossie, Domino Alexandro Forbes Domino ejusdema, of the lands
of Aufurd, daited 24 of 1423. Ja. 1.
Item, a letter written in English be Andrew of Futheis to a noble
Lord, Sir Alexander of Forbes knight, Lord of that Ilk, whereby the
said Andrew upgave freely to the said noble Lord the frank tenne-
ment of the lands of Futhors, 12 December 1436, the last year of the
reigne of King James 1. -
Item, a charter made be Thomas Earle of Marr, confirming the
charter be him, Johanni de Forbes domino ejusdem of the lands of Edin-
banchrie and Craig Logie, 15 November 1474.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 379
Item, ane indenture in English made betwixt a noble Lord, Sir
Alexander Forbes of that Ilk on that ane part, and John Futhos on the
other part, dated 1423, Ja. 1.
Item, a charter made be Alexander Bishop of Murray, Joanni de
Forbes domino ejusdem, of the lands of Finrossie, 8 July 1378.
Item, a letter in English made be William Chalmer to a nobleman,
Sir Alexander of Forbes, Lord of that Ilk, whereby he disponed the
waird of the air of Adam of Balcorne, dated 15 Februarj 1414, Ja. 1.
Ex REGISTRo.
In the shirreff court of Aberdeen, Domini Alexandri Lindsay, Comitis
de Crawford, Vicecomitis de Aberdeen, et Alexandri Domini Forbes,
sui deputati militis, a precept written in English is directed be the King .
to the Lords of Exchequer, makeand mention that the King hes re-
mitted to his cousing, Alexander Lord Forbes, the arrieradges and rests
of his last accompts, whilk precept is of the date 12 July 1447, Ja. 2.
LORD GLAMMIES
Compeared.—Produced ane instrument under the signe and subscription
of Nicoll Marr nottar publict, bearand a decreit arbitrall given be certain
persons inter magnificum virum Joannem Lyon, Dominum de Glames Ca-
merarium Scotiae on that ane part, and Thomas of Straquhen, &c anent the
right of certain tenements lyand within Perth, 21 Jan. 1378, Rob. 2.
Ex REGISTRo.
Nobilis Dominus Patricius Dominus Glames is witnes in the Revoca-
tion made be King James 2. under the Great Seal and subscription of
two nottars, 16 October 1455.
Item, he produced a contract under form of instrument under the
subscription of John Row nottar, bearand the appoyntment made betwixt
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nobilem virum Dominum Joannem Lyon Dominum de Glames on the
ane part, and John of Fernley on the other part, anent resignation to be
made in the Kings hands of the lands of Thurstoun in favors of the said
Dominum Johannem Lyon dominum de Glames, 10 September 1379,
Rob. 2.
[LORD OLIPHANT NOW MORDINGTOUN
Produced a charter, given be King Robert the Bruce, of the lands of
Kilpirnie, Newtyll and Ochertyre to William Oliphant of Aberdalgie,
dated 12° anno regni sui. - *
Item, a charter given be King David in these words (dilecto et fideli
nostro Waltero Oliphant, pro bono serviciosuomobisimpensoet Elizabethae
sorori nostrae) of the lands of Duplin and Aberdalgie, dated anno 1364.
Item, a confirmation of all former charters, granted be King Robert
the 2d Stewart, dated apud Edinburgum 10 Decembris anno Regni
nostri 18, anno 1388.
Item, a charter in English of the lands of Cranshawes, wherein he is
called Walter Lord of Aberdalgie, dated anno 1412.
Item, a retour Joannis Oliphant Domini de Aberdalgie, wherein he
serves himself air avo suo, dated at Dumbar anno 1445.
tº Ex REGISTRo.
A sasing of the lands and mannor place of Ochterhous, dated anno
1456, James 2d his dayes. He is witnes in a charter penult October
anno 1458, King James 2d his dayes.
A charter of the lands of Brodland anno 1462. He is Lord in Par-
liament anno 1457 and 1467.]
LORD ANNANDAILL
Compeired not, quia non est.—Dominus de Annandaill Lord of Parlia-
ment upon the 3d of Februarij 1505. Ja. 4.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 381
He is witness in the Kings charter given be the King to David Lord
Lindsay 12 October 1458. Ja. 2.
He is Lord of Parliament 14 March 1482. Ja. 3. Vid. L. Ochiltrie.
LORD OCHILTRIE
Compeired.—Produced a note under the subscription of the Clerk of
Register, bearand that Dominus Andreas Stewart, Dominus Avandaill
is witnes in the revocation made be King James 2. under the Great
Seal, and subscription of two nottars, 16 Oct. 1455. Ja. 2.
Item, he produced a note, subscryved, as said is, be the Clerk of
the Register, bearand that Dominus Andreas Dominus Avandaill regni
Scotiae Cancellarius wes ane of the ambassadors in Denmark anent the
marriage betwixt King James 3. and Margaret only daughter to Chris-
tianus King of Denmark, whilk contract is dated 8 September 1468.
Ex REGISTRo.
Andrew sometyme Lord Avandaill was made Lord of the Parliament,
to have vote therein as Lord Ochiltrie, dated the 15 March 1542, in the
first Parliament holden be Queen Mary and her Governour, Duke
Hamiltoun.
LORD CATHCART
Compeired.—He produced ane Act of Parliament under the subscrip-
tione of the Clerk Register, of the date 9 October 1460, bearand a
Decreet given betwixt Allan Lord of Cathcart on that ane part, and
Alexander Areskin and Christian Crichtoun his spous, anent the office
of the Bailziary of Ochiltrie.
This year, 1460, King James departed fra this life.
Item, he produced ane Act of Parliament under the Clerk of Regis-
ters subscription, bearand that Allan Lord Cathcart sate as a Lord in
Parliament 20 November 1479. Ja. 3.
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Ex REGISTRo.
He is Lord of Parliament 9 October 1466, Ja. 3., and sicklyk 20th
November 1469. Ja. 3.
And sicklyk anno 1481, he is not only Lord of Parliament, bot also
he is Warden of the West Merches. Ja. 3.
LORD GRAY
Compeired.—Produced a charter made be Thomas Strachan Dominus de
Glenkindy nobili viro et potenti Domino Patricio Gray militi Domino
de Broxmouth of the lands of Smadoun, dated 16 May 1406. Rob. 3.
A charter made [be] Robert King of Scots dilecto consanguineo suo
Patricio Gray, of the lands of Longforgound, the 11 Februarii, the 3d
year of the Kings reigne. -
A charter made be Robert King of Scots consanguineo suo Patricio
Gray, of a pension of 26 lib. 13 S. 4 d. Sterling, 23 Februarii, ii
year of the Kings reigne.
Ane instrument under the note and subscription of Patrick Nicoll,
bearand that Richard Buttergask actornatus mobilis et potentis Domini
Andreae Gray de Foulls recognosced certane lands of the barrony of
Craigie, quhereof he was superior, because the same sold without his
consent, the 5 November 1405. Robert 3.
Ane instrument under the subscription of Robert Short nottar, beir-
and that a number of Barrones in Fyffe fand by inquest that of ane con-
tract past betwixt Dominum Andream Gray Dominum de Foulls on
the ane part, and Sir John Weyms on the other part, anent the mar-
riage of my Lord Grayes sone with the Laird of Weymes daughter, ther
was a hundreth and sex score of merks restand unpayed contained in
the said instrument, 6 March 1432. Ja. 1.
Ex REGISTRo.
He is Lord of Parliament 12 October 1467. Ja. 3.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 383
He is witnes in many charters in the Registers 1458. Ja. 2. He is
ane of the Auditors Quaerelarum 9 October 1466. Ja. 3.
Andreas Dominus de Gray Magister Hospitij Regi, and ame of the
Auditors of the Exchequer 20th November 1452. Ja. 2.
LORD YEASTER
Compeired.—Produced ane instrument under the subscription of Alex-
ander Clark nottar, bearand that nobilis Dominus David de Hay miles
Dominus de Yeaster recognosced two husband lands with a Coatland of
the town and lands of Duncan Law, because Edmond Hay tenment of the
saids lands sold the same without his consent, 8 Februarii 1448. Ja. 2.
[Item, he produced a note extracted be the Clerk Register furth of
the books of Parliament, bearand that John Hay of Yeaster was made
Lord of Parliament and was ordained to be styled Lord Hay of Yeaster
the 1487. Ja. 3. Wide Lord Ruthven.] -
LORD SALTO UN
Compeired.—Produced ane instrument under the subscription of George
Thoirswood, bearand that the King the samen day created Lawrence
Abernethie of Rothimay, Lord of Parliament, and ordained him to be
styled therefter Lord Saltoun of Abernethy, 28 June 1445, Ja. 2.
LORD SIN CLARE DE SANCTO CLERO
Compeired.—Produced ane infeftment, given be King James King of
Scots, dilecto consanguineo suo Gulielmo de Sancto Clero filio et haeredi
apparenti Willielmi Comitis Orcadiae et Cathanensis, Domini de Sancto
Clero of the barronie of Newburgh and uthers, 16 November 1459, Ja. 2.
Ex REGISTRo.
In the first parliament holden be King James 4, 14 Januarij 1488,
anent Sir Henry Sinclare Our Soveraigne Lord, with advyce and dely-
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verance of the Estates of Parliament, declares that since the said Sir
Henry's grandsir and father, Lords Sinclare for the tyme, are deceissed,
and the said Sir Henry righteous air and heretor to them, that he is chief
of that blood; and will therefor that he be called Lord Sinclare in tyme
coming, with all dignities, eminent priviledges, tennents, tennenderies
belonging thereto, after the forme of the charters and evidents made ther-
upon.
Robert Duke of Albany, Earle of Fyffe, &c. confirmes a charter given
be Henricus de Sancto Clero, Comes Orcadiae Dominus de Sancto
Clero, of the lands of Loganhous Simmells hope jacen. in mora de Pent-
land, suo fratri germano Joanni de Sancto Clero, apud Rosling, 12
Sept. 1410, Ja. 4. -
Dominus Willielmus Comes Orcadiae et de Cathness &c. dominus de
Sancto Clero Cancellarius Scotiae is witnes in the Revocation made be
Ja. 2. under the Great Seal and subscription of two nottars, 16 October
1455, Ja. 2.
Dominus Henricus de SanctoClero Comes Orcadia is witnesin a charter
given be King Robert 3. to his sone and air, James Steward of Scotland,
of the lands of the Principality, dated in December 1404, et regnisui 15.
LoRD CARLYLE
Compeired.—Produced a charter given be King James King of Scots
dilecto consanguineo et consiliario suo Johanni Domino de Cairleill, rati-
fieing a charter made be Robert Charterhouse of Amisfield, of ane annual
rent of 10 lit. money, to be taken furth of the Barrony of Amisfield,
26 January 1480, in the tyme of King James 3.
Ex REGISTRo.
He is Lord of Parliament 1481, and Lord of Councell 1480. Ja. 3.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 385
LORD SEMPLE
Compeired.—Produced ane instrument of sasing under the subscription
of John Moderwill nottar, that seasing was given be William Flemming
of Baruchra, Shirreff of Lanerk, at command of a precept of the Chan-
cellarie, provido viro Johanni Semple tanquam viro et legitimo actornato
nobilis et potentis Domini Johannis Domini de Semple, filii et haeredis
quondam bonae memoriae Thoma Domini de Semple, off the lands of
Glasford, lyand within the barrony of Kilbryd and shirreflom of
Lanerk, 27 November 1488. The whilk year King James 3. deceased.
Item, a charter given be King James King of Scots dilecto consan-
guineo suo Johanni Domino Semple, of the lands of Cassiltoun and
others, dated 21 September 1505. Ja, 4.
Ex Registro.
He is Lord of Parliament 3 Februarii 1505.
LORD HERRIES
Compeired.—Produced ane infeftment given be James King of Scots
dilecto suo Andreae Herries filio et haeredi apparenti dilecti consanguinei
sui Herberti Domini Herreis de Terregleis, of all and haill the barrony
of Terregleis and Kinkgunzean; and a precept of seasing, upon resigna-
tion of Janet Douglas, daughter to Archibald Earle of Douglas, 25
Februarj, the 12 year of the Kings reigne.
Ex REGISTRO.
He is Lord of Parliament 3 Feb. 1487, in King James the 4. his tyme.
And in the Parliament 6 Feb. 1491. Ja. 4. And in the Parliament
3 Feb. 1505. Ja. 4, -
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Dominus David de Terregleis miles constituitur Curator consanguinei
Regis Joannis Herreis de Terregleis, patris Sui Et quod dictus Johannes
fuit incompos mentis fatuus et naturaliter idiota, 24 Apryll 1478. In
the book of the Register of the Charters.
LORD SANQUHAR
Compeired.—Produced ane Extract subscribed be the Clerk Register,
bearand that Robert Crightoun of the Sanquhair was made Lord of the
Parliament, and ordained to be called Lord Crichtoun of Sanquhair, iſ
January 1487. James 3. Vid, Lord Ruthven.
LORD ELPHINSTOUNE
Compeired—Produced a charter given be King James King of Scots,
dilecto et fideli et consanguineo suo Alexandro Domino Elphinstoun, off
the lands of Quarrell, lyand within the Shirreffdom of Stirling, 29 Aug.
1512. Ja. 4.
Ex REGISTRo.
Alexander Elphinstoun is made and create Lord Elphinstoun and
Lord of Parliament at the baptisme of Arthur Prince of Scotland &c.
as the charter given and granted to him and Elizabeth Barclay his spous
testifies, 14 January 1509. Ja. 4. The whilk charter is written upon
the back of the roll of the Chequer Compot. Balivorum ad extra,
anno 1510. Ja. 4.
LORD BORTHWICK.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired.—He is Lord of Parliament 1481, Ja. 3. And also he is
Lord of the Counsell eodem anno. -
He is Lord of Parliament 1482. Ja. 3. He is witness in a charter
confirmed be King James, given be James Douglas, of certain lands
NOBILIUM SCOTLE. 387
within the barronie of Bothwell to James Dundas, penult. February
1416; in the quhilk charter Dominus Johannes de Seton Dominus
ejusdem is a witness, in the book of the Register conteinand charters.
And sicklyk the King confirmes a charter given be Margaret Dutches
of Turing, Countes of Douglas, Lady Galloway and Annandaill, to
James de Cairnes, 4 Agust 1416. In the quhilk charter Dominus Guli-
elmus Borthwick Dominus ejusdem is a witnes, in libro Registri Cartarum.
LORD MAXWELL.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired not.—In Rotulo Computorum Vicecomitatum Compo-
tum Herberti Domini Lo. Maxwell militis Wallis Ammandiae, 27 June
1444, 1447. Ja. 2.
Item, In the rolls of the charters David 2. in Rotulo F. F. in the mids
of a charter mention is made of Willielmus de Maxwell Dominus ejusdem.
In the Parliament 6 Aprile 1478, Dominus Maxwell is a Lord of
Parliament. Ja. 3. * -
Item, he is Lord of the Parliament 12 October 1467, in King James
3. his tyme. -
In a charter given be Thomas Sommervaill to a Cheplane, &c. con-
firmed be King James 3 upon the 5 June 1424, Dominus Herbertus de
Maxwell, Dominus de Carlaverock, Joannes de Cockburne, Dominus
de Ormistoun, Joannes Scrymgeor Constabularius de Dundee milites,
are witnesses. -
King Robert 1. dedit et confirmavit Eustachio de Maxwell militi
dilecto, &c. suo pro fractione et prostratione castri de Carlaverock ad
terram decem libras sterlingen. in annuo redditu &c. in Rotulo Cartarum
Roberti 1. And because the said Sir Eustachius Maxwell was oblidged
to pay to the King 20 lit. Sterling yearly for his lands of Carlaverock,
therefor the said King Robert 1. discharged him and his airs perpetually
of 10 lit. of the soume of 20 lit. yearly, in Rotulo Cartarum. Rob. 1.
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LORD LOVETT.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired not.—Wide the Register of infeftments in the 25 year of
the reigne of King James 1. Ane indenture made, tertio Martii 1426,
in English Language, betwixt two noble Lords and mighty, William of
Fentoun and Lord of that Ilk on the ane part, and Hutcheon Fraser
Lord of Lovatt on the other part, anent the marriage of the said
Hutcheon Fraser Lord of the Lovett with Janet of Fentoun, sister of
the said William of Fentoun Lord of that ilk; Quhilk indenture is con-
firmed by the King 16 Septembris, anno regni sui 25. In libro registri
Cartarum 1430.
LORD ROSS.
Mention is made of Johannes Ross de Hacket ij Aprile 1481. Ja. 3.
Dominus Hacket is Lord of Parliament 3 Feb. 1489. Ja. 4.
LORD O GIL VIE.
Ex REGISTRo.
Compeired not.—In the Parliament of King James 4, 18 May 1491,
Sir James Ogilvie of Airlie Knight, is creat and made Lord Ogilvy,
and the samen year past to Denmark ambassador.
LORD RUTHVEN.
William Ruthven of that Ilk is made Lord Ruthven and Lord of Par-
liament ij January 1487. Ja. 3.
The whilk day and year, 1. Drummond of Cargill wes made Lord
Drummond. 2. Robert Crichtoun is made Lord Sanqhar. 3. John Hay
of Yeaster was made Lord Hay of Yeaster. 4. And William Ruthven
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 380
was made Lord Ruthven. The Lord Ruthven wes made Erle of Gowry
in August 1581. Spotswood's History, page 315, and wes forfaulted in
aIMIMO and his forfaulture ratified be the Act Parliament.
*
LORD TORPHICHEN
Compeired.—Produced a charter made and given be Mary Queen of
Scots, whereby the Barronie of Torphichen is erected in a free barrony,
with all priviledges and dignities of his predicessors Lords of Torphichen;
according to quhilk election he produced sundry precepts of Parliament
directed to his predicessors as Lords Torphichen, whereby they had vote
in Parliament; quhilk charter was granted anno Domini 1563.
Apud Edinburgum 17 Maij 1606.
LORD BACCLEUGH.
Walter Scot of Branxholme Knight, was made and created Barron
and Banrent, and Lord of our soveraigne Lords Parliament, and to be
called in all tyme coming Lord Scot of Baccleugh.
Apud Perth 10 day of Julij 1606.
LORD BLANTY RE.
Walter Stewart pryor of Blantyre made Knight of Cardonald, Barron
and Banrent, Lord of our soveraigne Lords Parliament, and to be
stylled in all tyme coming Lord of Blantyre.
LORD BURGHL.I.E.
Sir Michael Balfour of Belgarvie Knight, is made arid created Lord
Balfour of Burghlie at Whitehall in England, 16 Julij 1607, without
any mention of airs. *
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LORD OF KINCLEUGH.
Att Edinburgh, 5 1607.
John Stewart, brother-german to Patrick Earle of Orkney, is made
and created Lord of Kincleugh, without mention of airs.
LORD HALYRUDHOUS.
Mr John Bothwell, Lord of the Session and also of the Privy Coun.
cell, and his airs male, is created and made Lord Halyrudhous.
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 391
DECREIT ANENT THE RANKING AND PLACE-
ING OF THE NOBILITIE OF SCOTLAND IN
THAIR ORD OUR IN PARLIAMENTS AND GE-
NERALL COUNSELLS.
AT EDINBURGH the fyft day of Marche the yeere of
God Im VI and Sax yeeres ANENT our Soverane Lords
Letters direét Makand mentioun Forſameekle as his Majeſtie
and Lords of ſecreit counſell Confidering and remembering the
great contentiouns and differences whilks manie tymes occurred
and fell out among the nobilitie of this kingdome of Scotland
anent thair precedencie and prioritie in ranking and voting in
parliaments and generall counſells And how that this thair
contentioun lay ever over unremembred or agitat but at the
verie inſtant of thair meetings at his Majeſteis parliaments and
conventiouns At whilk tyme thair wes greater mater of im-
paſhement offered to the eſtaits to compone thair differences
then to intreat upon the principall ſubjećt for whilk thay wer
aſſembled His Majeſtie and the saids Lords thairfoir being
cairfull to have this contentioun removed and the controverſeis
and eyleiſts which ariſe among the nobilitie for that caus ſattled
and pacified whairthrow the nobilitie and eſtaits being fred
and releeved of ſuche mater of contentioun thay may in peace
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love and amitie concurre together and deliberat upon ſuche
maters as ſall be intreated and motioned in parliament heer-
after His Majeſtie for this effect hes given his Hieneſſe com-
miſſioun under the great ſeale to a number of his Hieneſſe
nobilitie and counſell who ar most indifferent and nawayes
ſuſpect of partialitie To conveene and call before thame the
whole noblemen of this kingdome and according to thair pro-
dućtions and verificatioun of thair antiquiteis To ſett doun
everie mans ranke and place As in the commiſſioun foreſaid
paſt under the great ſeale at lenth is conteanit AND ANENT
the charge givin to Ludouick duke of Lennox Johne mar-
queis of Hammiltoun George erle of Huntlie Patrik erle of
Orkney George erle of Caithneſſe Alexander erle of Suther-
land James erle of Murrey Francis erle of Erroll George erle
Marſhall David erle of Crawfurd James erle of Atholl Johne
erle of Montroſe James erle of Perth erle of Men-
teith Andrew erle of Rotheſe Alexander erle of Dumferm-
ling Archibald erle of Argyle James erle of Glencarne Johne
erle of Caffills erle of Eglintoun William erle of
Angus William erle of Mortoun Johne erle of Marr Alexan-
der erle of Linlithgow Counteſſe of Buchan
erle of Wyntoun Alexander erle of Home Simon lord
Fraſer of Lovatt Edward lord Bruce of Kinloſſe Johne lord
Forbes Patrik lord Glammis James lord Ogilvie Alexander
lord of Spynie Patrik lord Gray Laurence lord Oliphant
Johne lord Murray of Tullibairdin David lord of Skoone
James lord Lindeſay lord Sinclair James lord of Bal-
merinoch Patrik lord Lundores James lord Colvill of Culroſe
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 393
Johne lord Fleming Alexander lord Elphingſtoun Andro lord
Stewart of Wchiltrie Thomas Lord Boyd Allane Lord Cath-
cairt Hew lord of Lowdoun Robert lord Sempill Claud lord
of Paiſley James lord Abercorne Johne lord Maxwell James
lord Hereis Robert lord Creichtoun of Sanquhare James lord
Carlile Robert lord Roxburgh lord Roffe James lord
Hay of Yester Marke lord of Newbottle James Lord Tor-
phichin James Lord Borthuick lord Thirlestane Tho-
mas lord Dirltoun and lord Saltoun And the tutors
and curatours of the ſaids Dukes Marqueiſſes Erles and Lords if
they anie have To have compeerit before the saids Lords Com-
miſſioners at a certaine day bygane And to have brought and
produceit with thame ſuche writs evidents documents and teſ.
timoneis as thay have or can uſe for acclaming of that ranke
and place of precedencie and prioritie challengit be thame be-
foir vthers To have been ſeene and confiderit be the ſaids
Lords commiſſioners And to have heard and ſeene thair rankes
and places of prioritie and precedencie appointed and ſett doum
to thane According to the antiquitie of thair produćtiouns And
that whilk ſould be verified in thair preſence And thay and
everie one of thame decernit to take that place whilk ſould be
appointit and preſcryved unto thame be the ſaids Lords com-
miſſioners as ſaid is Certifeing all ſuche perſouns as ſould not
compeere be thameſelves or thair procuratours in thair names
That the ſaids Lords commiſſioners would goe fordward in ſet-
ting doun everie mans ranke according to that whilk ſould be
verified as ſaid is and ſould proceed according to the ſpeciall in-
ſtrućtiouns given be his Majeſtie to the ſaids Lords commiſ.
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fioners for this purpoſe And that the determinatioun of the
ſaids Lords commiſſioners ſould ſtand in full force and effect
Ay and whill ane decreit before the ordinar Judge be recoverit
and obteamit in the contrair Lyke as at mair lenth is conteamit
in the ſaids Letters executions and indorſatiouns thairof
QUHILKs being callit and diverſe termes and dyets being keepit
to this effect And the ſaid Johne erle of Montroſe Alexander
erle of Dumfermling Francis erle of Erroll George erle Mair-
ſhall and Alexander erle of Linlithgow compeerand perſonallie
And the ſaid Alexander erle of Sutherland compeerand be Mr
Robert Learmonth his procurator The ſaid Johne erle of
Marr compeerand be Mr Thomas Hoip his procuratour The
ſaid David erle of Crawfurd compeerand be Laurence Scot his
procuratour The ſaid Andrew erle of Rotheſe compeerand be
Mr David Ayttoon his procuratour The ſaid William erle of
Mortoun compeerand be the ſaid Mr Robert Learmonth his
procuratour The ſaid erle of Menteith compeerand
be Grahame his procuratour The ſaid Hew erle
of Eglintoun compeerand be Johne Bell his procuratour
The ſaid Johne erle of Caſſils compeerand be Robert Hammil-
toun and Gilbert Roſie And the ſaids Andrew lord Stewart
of Vchiltrie James lord of Balmerinoch and James lord
Abercorne compeerand perſonallie The ſaid James lord
Lindeſay of the Byres compeerand be the ſaid Mr Robert
Learmonth his procuratour The ſaid Johne lord Forbeſſe
compeerand be James Fogo his procuratour The ſaid Patrik
lord Glammis compeerand be Mr Johne Schairp younger his
procuratour The ſaid Patrik lord Gray compeerand be
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 395
Patrik Whytlaw of Newgrange his procuratour The ſaid
Johne lord Saltoun compeerand be Mr William Livingſtoun
his procuratour The ſaid Allane lord Cathcart compeerand
be George Angus his procuratour The ſaid James lord
Cairlile compeerand be the ſaid Robert Hammiltoun his pro-
curatour The ſaid Robert lord Sanquhair compeerand be
Crichtoun of Lugtoun his procuratour The
ſaid James lord Hay of Yeſter compeerand be Mr George
Butler his procuratour The ſaid Robert lord Sempill com-
peerand be the ſaid Johne Bell his procuratour The ſaid
Johne Lord Hereis compeerand be Cuthbert Cuninghame his
procuratour The ſaids Alexander lord Elphingſtoun com-
peerand be the ſaid James Fogo his procuratour The ſaid
James lord Torphichin compeerand be the ſaid Mr Robert
Learmonth his procuratour The ſaid lord Thir-
leſtane compeerand be Thomas Fleeming his procuratour
The ſaid Alexander lord of Spynie compeerand be the ſaid
Mr Robert Learmonth his procuratour And the haill
remanent lords particularlie abone writtin being oftymes
called and not compeerand diverſe termes and dyets being
aſſigned to thame for this effect The writts evidents teſti-
moneis and documents produced be the ſaids perſouns com-
peerand whairby thay and everie one of thame acclamed thair
prioritie and precedencie befoir uthers being diverſe tymes and
at diverſe dyets verie diligentlie and exačtlie fichted tryed
examinat and conſiderit be the ſaids Lords commiſſioners and
the ſaids Lords being thairwith As alſua with the rankes and
places of ſuche erles and lords as wer promoved and created
396 DE JURE PRELATIONIs
in his Majeſteis owne tyme weill and throughlie adviſed
THE SAIDS LORDS Commiſſioners hes decernit decreittit
appointit and ſett down And be thir preſents decernis
decreittis appoints and ſettis doun the rankes and places
following to the haill noblemen of this kingdome To be
bruiked keeped and poſſeſſed be thame in all parliaments
generall counſells and publićt meetings heerafter IN the
firſt The ſaids Lords Commiſſioners DECERNS and Ordains
the Duke of Lennox to have the firſt place the Marqueis of
Hammiltoun the ſecund place and the Marqueis of Huntlie
the third place Becaus by the cuſtome inviolablie obſerved
in all kingdoms the place of honour and dignitie among
mobilitie is firſt in the perſons of dukes next marqueiffes and
then in the perſons of erles and lords And mixt unto thame
The ſaids Lords Commiſſioners DECERNS and Ordains the
erles abovewrittin To have bruike and poſſeſſe thair rankes
and places according as thayar heere writtin ranked and
ſett doun in order following ; viz. Angus Argyle Crawfurd
Erroll Mairshall Sutherland Mar Rotheffe Mortoun Men-
teith Eglintoun Montrois Caffills Caithnes Glencairne
Buchane Murrey Orkney Atholl Wyntoun Linlithgow
Home Perth Dumfermling and Dumbar AND ficlyke the
ſaids Lords Commiſſioners DECERNS and Ordains the Lords
particularlie abomewrittin To have bruike and poſſeſſe thair
rankes and places according as thayar heere writtin ranked
and ſett doun in order following ; viz. Lindeſay Forbes
Glammis Fleeming Saltoun Gray Vchiltrie Cathcart Carlile
Sanquhair Yeſter Sempill Sinclair Hereis Elphingſtoun
NOBILIUM SCOTIAE. 397
Maxwell Oliphant Lovat Ogilvie Borthuick Roſſe Boyd
Torphichin Paiſlay Newbottle Thirleſtane Spynie Roxburgh
Lundores Lowdoun Dirltoun Kinloſſe Abircorne Bal-
merinoch Murray of Tullibairdin Colvill of Culroſſe and
Skoone AND DECERNS and Ordains all the erles and lords
particularlie abomewrittin To keepe bruike and poſſeſſe thair
rankes and places in tyme comming According to the ordour
and rankis abonewrittin now appointit preſcryvit and ſett
doun unto thame And to make na queſtioun trouble nor
pley in this mater to anie appointed to have place and ranke
before thame in maner foreſaid BUT PREJUDICE alwayes
to ſuche perſoun or perſons as fall find thameſelves intereſt and
prejudgit be thair preſent ranking To haue recourſe to the
ordinar remeed of law be redućtioun before the Lords of
Counſell and Seſſioun of this preſent decreit for recoverie of
thair owne dew place and rankis be produćtioun of mair
ancient and authentick rights nor hes beene vſed in the
contrair of this proceſſe Summoning thairto all ſuche per-
ſouns as thay ſall thinke wrangouſlie rankit and placeit
before thame And in this meane tyme this preſent decreit
and determinatioun to ſtand in full force ſtrenth and effect
Ay and whill the pairtie intereſt and prejudgit obteane law-
fullie a decreit before the ſaids Lords of Counſell and ſeſſioun
as ſaid is And ordains thir preſents to be inſert and regiſ-
trat in the bookes of privie counſell And an authentick
extraćt heerof to be delyverit to the Clerk of Regiſter and
another extraćt to be delyuerit to the Lyoun Herauld to be
keeped be thame for thair better knowledge and informatioun of
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EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTERS OF
THE PRESBYTERY OF GLASGow AND OF
THE KIRK SESSIONS OF THE PARISHES OF
CAMIBUSNETHAN HUMBIE AND STIRLING
SUBSEQUENT TO THE YEAR MDC.
REGISTERS OF THE PRESBYTERY
OF GLASGOW.
Nov. 9. 1603.--Duncan Leiche.—The presbíterie requestis the
magistratis of Glasgw to cavse thair officers put the said presbítereis
decreit to executioun againis Duncane Leiche, anent the payment of
fourtie lib. money, to be payit be him for the reparatioun of the Hie Kirk.
Nov. 16.—Quhilk daye personalie present Isabell Brennat, craving
hir barne to be baptiseit, gottin be ane whknawin man wrone hir
on the landis of Provand, scho cumand fra the toun of Glasgw with ane
burdein on hir bak, at the fair of Glasgw, in the yeir 1602, as in hir
bill gevin in be hir befoir the moderator and brethrene of the presbíterie
of Glasgw is at mair lenthe contenit; is continewit for the present quhill
farder triall be gottin, becaus it may be that scho hes borne the said
barne to ane wther wyfes husband, or have committit ane hynous sin be
the begetting of the said barne.
Dec. 28. Ministeris of the Presbiterie to teiche in the Blakfreir
kirk on the Thurisdaye.—The presbíterie ordenis the ministeris of the
said presbíterie to teiche in the Blakfreir kirk on the Thurisdaye for
a tyme tocum, as thai stand in the catologue and roll; and that th
Principall of the College begin to teiche the said Thurisdaye in the said
kirk, and begin thairto the xij daye of Januar instant.
Anent profanatioun of the paroche kirk.-The presbiterie ordenis the
greit and horribill profanatioun committit and done be sum godles and
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vicked persones within the paroche kirk of Glasgw, to be declairit be
the ministeris of the said citie the nixt sondaye ; to wit, how that the
said persones hes tame avay thre irne stenchoris of the glasnit doore of
the said kirk, and enterit in the said kirk, and hes ruggit avay the cleyth
fixt to the pulpet of grein stemmyne and irne that held the besein for
the water to baptisme; and how schamfullie and filthelie thai did pollut
the said kirk be thair excrementis quhairwith the firmes wer defylit, that
God wald revile the said persomes in the awin tyme to winderly thair
condigne punisment.
To ryid to Falkland.—The presbiterie appointtis Mr David Wemes
to ryid to Falkland agame the 26 daye of Julijinstant, to meit with his
Maiestie, in favoris of Mr Patrik Walkingschawe minister at Monkland,
anent our souverane lordis letteris raisit aganis Adame Boyd for hurting
of the said Mr Patrik.
Jan. 1604.—Anent Mr Robert Bruce.—The presbiterie thinkis
gud that Mr Robert Bruce be requeistit to . . . . . . Glasgw, to
preiche Godis word to the people within the toun of Glasgw for a
tyme, quhill God provyde a Minister to the said toun; and . . . . . .
thair in the stead of wrmquhill Mr Johnne Couper, ane of the ministeris
* * * g º & and that Mr Andro Boyd and Mr Archibald Glen speik the
counsell of the said toun and sessioun of the kirk, thair to mowe
thame to require and desyre the said Mr Robert to cum and preiche
to thame the word; and that also Mr William Levingstoun, Mr Alex-
ander Rowat, and . . . . . . . . . Archibald Glen, speik to my lord
Fleming that his lordschip wald desyre the said Mr Robert to cum to
the toun of Glasgw, to the effect foirsaid.
Feb. 8,- certane appointtit to speik to Mr Robert Bruce.—The pres-
biterie ordenis Mr David Wemes, Mr Johnne Bell ministeris of
Glasgw, Mr Johnne Bell minister at Cader, Mr Alexander Rowat,
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Mr William Levingstoun, Mr Archibald Glen and Mr Robert Seot, to
speik Mr Robert Bruce incontinent heireftir, to desyre him to preiche
for a tyme in the kirk of Glasgw, quhill God provyde a minister thairto
in the steade of winquhill Mr Johnne Couper minister thair.
Feb. 16.—The presbiterie ordenis Mr David Wemes, Mr Johnne
Bell minister of Glasgw, and Mr Alexander Rowat minister in the
parochin without the toun of Glasgw, to travell with Mr William
Watsoun minister at Bruntellein, to persuade him to accept in and wrone
him the ministerie within the said toun, now vacand through the deceis
of wimquhill Mr Johnne Couper; and as thai sall further, that thai
report to the brethrene this dayexy dayes.
Feb. 22.—The presbíterie desyris Mr Andro Boyd to baptise the
barnis of the toun of Glasgw the morne; quha promeisit to baptise the
saming the morne, God willing, eftir the sermont.
Quhilk daye compeirit personalie Marioun Walker, and grantis
that thair is an crucifix in a brod in hir hous; and, ſarder, that scho
suld have mae of thame gif scho had silueir, and quhen . . . . . . . .
wpon it, hir hart reiveis, and that scho brocht the said crucifix out of a
mirk chalmeir, and set it to the light. The presbiterie ordenis the
Ministeris of Glasgw to travell with the magistratis of this citie, that
thai wald have the said crucifix remowit and destroyit, becaus the saming
is ane idole to the said Marioun, quhilk may easelie be gatherit be
hir speichis.
May 3.—To the minister of Campsie, anent the kirk of Geneva.
The presbiterie ordenis thair brother the minister of Campsie to travell
with the gentilmen and substantious yearmen men of his parochin nerrest
adiacent to him quhair he duellis, for to get fra thame support to the
persecuted kirk of Geneva, with all diligence; and as he sall further in
404 REGISTERS OF THE 1604.
collecting the said support, that he send in the saming to the said pres-
biterie the first daye the occasioun salbe offred.
May 16.- To speik the Lard of Badinhethe.—The presbíterie
ordenis Mr Patrik Scharp principall of the college of Glasgw, and Mr
David Wemes ane of the ministeris of Glasgw, to speik in Glasgw
Robert Boyd of Badinhethe, anent his not keiping of his kirk, he being
ane elder and ane speciall gentilman of his paroche ; and for halding of
Robert Falconer in Deirdeik on his ground, the said Robert Falconer
being excommunicat: and for the profanatioun of the Sabothe daye wsit
about his place be playing at the futeball, toleratit and oursein be him ;
and anent the erecting of images in the yle of his paroche kirk, com-
mittit and authorized be him, to the sclandeir of God his kirk, and greiff
of the saming; and farder, to crave the said Robert Boyd of Badinhethe
contributioun to the persecuted kirk of Geneve, &c. and to report, &c.
Jun. 27.-Anent meitting the niact Fridaye.—The presbiterie or-
denis the principall of the College, Mr Robert Scott moderator, and
Mr Johnne Bell minister of Cader, wrone aduerteisment to be maid to
thame be the ministeris of Glasgw, to meit the nixt Frydaye with the
priour of Blantyre, in presens of my lord duik of Lennox, anent pro-
visioun of stipend to Mr David Wemes, one of the ministeris of Glasgw,
furthe of the parsonage and vicarage of Glasgw, for the weale of the
ministerie of Glasgw thairof, &c.
Anent ane Act of the Generall Assemblie.—The presbiterie ordenis
Mr Robert Scot moderator, to send for the act of the Generall Assem-
blie anent the plantting of ministeris in certane speciall townis of this
realme, quhairof the toun of Glasgw is ane, that the said act may be
sein and considerit, and the forme thairin contenit followit furth anent
the planting of ane minister to the toun and citie of Glasgw, in the place
of winquhill Mr Johnne Couper, ane of the ministeris of the said citie.
1605. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 405.
For the kirk of Geneve.—The sessioun of Glasgw to be desyrit to ap-
point men to gader throuch this toun for the help of the kirk of Geneve,
fra thame that hes not gevin of thair liberalitie thairto as yit.
Jul. 11.—Offending in Campsie.—Quhilk daye, anent ane lettir
send be the minister of Campsie, quhairin he declairis that thair ar
superstitious rites wsit be sum of his parochineris, as passing to ane well
in Menteithe with ane sick barne, and fetching of well water to ane sick
woman. The presbiterie ansueris . . . . . . ... quhilk the said minister
cravis, to wit, that he try the offens committit be his parochineris of
fending in the premissis, and convict thame as giltie befoir his elderis, &c.
Apr. 24. 1605.-Anent contribution to the kirk of Geneve.—The
presbiterie ordenis that it be proponit the morne in the sessioun of the
kirk of Glasgw, anent the contributioun for the toun of Glasgw to the
kirk of Geneve, and to declair that the samin behovit to be in readines,
or then charges will be gevin for payment thereof.
Aug. 21.— Mr Johnne Spottiswood bischop of Glasgw.—The Mo-
derator and bretherene of the presbiterie of Glasgw, heirand the pro-
positioun maid to thame be thair brother Mr Johnne Spottiswood bischop
of Glasgw, quhairin he schawis that he is some heireftir, God willing, to
pas to his Maiestie towardis the southe partis of Greit Brittanne, and that
he cravis thair licence, seing for a tyme he wilbe absent fra his flok. The
said Moderator and brethrene grantis to the said Mr Johnne licence to
pas to his Maiestie sone heireftir, anent the effaires of the kirk. And
quheir also the said Mr Johnne cravis a testimoniall fra the said presbi-
terie, to be subscryvit be thame, that he hes not as yit subscryvit the
admissioun past in his favouris to the bischoprik of Glasgw, The said
moderator and bretherene grantis that a testimoniall be writtin and sub-
scryvit be thame, to be dely verit to the said Mr Johnne, quhairin thai
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may testifie that the said Mr Johnne hes not as yit subscryvit the said
admissioun, past be the last synodall assemblie in his favouris to the said
bischoprik of Glasgw, &c.
Feb. 12. 1606.-Matthew Boyd admittit ane poore man of the Bishops
almoushous.—The quhilk daye the Moderator and brethrene of the
presbíterie of Glasgw willis and agreis, that Matthew Boyd, burges of
Glasgw, be ane of the poore of the bishop of Glasgw almous hous,
situat besyde the castell of Glasgw, and bruik for his lyftyme, as ony
poore man thairof bruikit of befoir, according to the foundatioun, in fyir,
bedding, yard, stipend and casualiteis, and be enterit and admittit
thairto presentlie, as thai enter and admitt him at thir presentis, and to
his part of the said yard; ordering Sir Bartolmo Symsoun, present
maister of the said almoushous, to paye to him his wages in tyme
to cum, fra the dait heirof, during his lyftyme as becummis, gif he be
fund worthe to bruik the saming for his said lyftyme.
Apr. 16.—The Presbiterie findis, be probatioun of witnes ad-
mittit and sworne, that Jonet Makkie had havelie sclanderit Johne
Fleming, noter, calling him fals mansworne dog; thairfoir the said
presbíterie decernis and ordanis the said Jonet, being ane parochiner of
Govane, to paye to the thesaurer of hirkirkxiiis iiijd money on Sondaye
mixttocum, and to sit doun on hir kneis the said day eftir nwn, in pre-
sens of the elderis and wther honest men duelland in Gorballis and
Brigend, and to ask the said Johnne forgivnes for sclandering of
him, &c.
June 25–Anent the priechingis to be maid in the outh dayes in
the Blakfreir kirk.-Quhilk daye, in the censures of the ministerie of
Glasgw, the presbíterie is grieved . . . . . . preichingis ar maid in the
oulk dayes in the Hie kirk and New kirk; and thairfoir that the said
1607. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 407
dayes the preichingis be maid in the Blakfreir kirk, becavse of sindrie
outtis that hes fallin furth be the change of the place.
Aug. 13.—Anent the Fast.—The Presbiterie ordenis that thair be inti-
matioun maid the nixt Sondaye in all the kirkis within this pres-
biterie, of the fast to be keipit on the twa last Sondayes of August
instant, for thir following caussis: To wit, the flood of sin abunding
everie quheir, the plague of pestilence breaking wb in sindrie partis,
the daylie danger quhairin his Majestie is, and his Majesties delyverie
and preseruatioun ; and that everie Minister within the foirsaid presbiterie
be diligent heirintill.
Nov. 19–Marioun Layng in leprosie.—Quhilk daye, anent the
lamenting gevin in be James Mitchell in Balmoir tuiching the disease
of Marioun Layng, his spous, in leprosie, to his greit greif, quhair throw
mether he nor his servandis can have with hir swa deseasit sik familia-
ritie and pleasantnes as is requisit Seing the estait of the said Marioun is
vnknawin to the presbiterie. The said presbiterie referris the triall
thairof to the Minister of Campsie and nychtbouris to the said Marioun,
that as he be thame sall find, he send into the presbiterie with diligence.
Quhilk daye compeirand Mr David Wemes, ane of the ministeris of
Glasgw, moderator in the presbíterie thairof, and producit his hienes
letteris prentit aganis Ministeris within the realme of Scotland, quha
sall preich or praye in favouris and for the ministeris of the realme, de-
clarit to be his Maiesteis tratoris be his Hienes consall haldin at Lin-
lythqw, quhilk letteris wer red judicialie; and woone the productioun
thairof, the said Mr David requirit act and ordinance of his diligence to
be set doun in the buikis.
Mar. 4. 1607.-Anent ame kirk to be within the town of Kirkintilloch-
Quhilk daye, Seing that it is fund meit and expedient be the erle of
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Wigtoun and presbiterie of Glasgw, that thair be ane kirksituat and buyldit
within the toun of Kirkintilloch, for mony respects and cawssis, and
the exercise of the word and sacramentis in the present kirk to be left
af thair, and translated to the kirk to be buyldit in the said toun;
thairfoir the said presbiterie ordenis this to be intimat the nixt sondaye,
in the said present kirk; and that all and everie ane of the parochineris
of Leinzae be summondit to the nixt Weddinsdaye, to obiect and saye
aganis this overture quhairfoir it aucht not to be fullelie perfyted; with
certificatioun to thame that sall not compeir, thaisall not be farder hard,
bot the said Erles intentioun and mynd for the situating and buylding
of the said kirk in the said toun, to have the full force and effect in
tymes tocum.
May 13.—The kirk and presbíterie of Glasgw ordanis Gavin Lek-
previk, some to Johnne Lekprevik in Spittill, for dinging of Marioun
Maxwell his stepmother, to be in the joggis the nixt Sondaye, be the
space of half ane hour afoir his minister shall enter to the sermont,
and to stand thairin the said space in lining cleithis, bairfuttit, bairleggit,
and bairheidit; and howsone his said minister sall enter in the kirk to
preiche Godis word, that he pas on the piller within the said kirk, and
thairon remane in lining cleithis, bairfuttit, bairleggit and bairheidit,
during the haill tyme of the sermont; and at the command of his minis-
ter, ask God, his kirk and the said Marioun forgiveness, on his kneis,
for the sclandeir he hes committit be the dinging of the said Marioun ;
and that he find souertie winder the pane of xx lib. money, that he sall
obey this ordinance; Quha fand the said Johnne Lekprevik his father
cavtioun and souertie for him winder the said pane, that he sall obey the
foirsaid ordinance.
May 27.—Ament the employing of the silueir collectit to the kirk
of Geneve.—Quhilk daye the Moderator and brethrene of the pres-
1607. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 409
biterie of Glasgw present for the tyme, hes concludit and ordenit, and
heirby concludis and ordanis, that the silueir collectit to the kirk of
Geneve, in the handis now of Mr Robert Scot, ane of the ministeris of
Glasgw, be employed with all possibill diligence to the wses vnder-
writtin; to wit, twa hundrethe merkis thairof to help the calsaye in the
commoun passages passing throucut the Lone and Brigend, fra the eist
and south partis to the brig of . . . . . . . . consequentlie, to the burch
thairof; and the rest of the said silver employed for the helping to big
the brig of Cadder, that . . . . . . . . landis of Campsie and Cadder; and
that the said Mr Robert . . . . the saming fra him for the wse foirsaid,
to sik persones as the presbiterie sall think gud.
June 24.—Anent the Bischop of Glasgw.—The Presbiterie wm-
derstanding that thai ar ordenit be the last Synodall Assemblie to
summond the bischop of Glasgw howsone he sall cum hame to this
cuntrey, to compeir before thame and the commissioneris eftir following ;
to wit, Mr William Birnie, Johnne Lindsaye, Mr Robert Darroche,
Mr Patrik Walkinschawe, Mr Johnne Hay, Mr Patrik Hammiltoun,
Mr Walter Stewart and Mr William Simpsoun, within the Blakfreir
kirk of Glasgw, at ame certane daye and houre, to be contenit in the
summondis to be raisit aganis him; and thair to accuse him for his non-
residence, and for his negligence in the discharge of his office in the
ministerie in the kirk of Glasgw, and for his not subscryveing of the
caveatis of the Generall Assemblie, contenit in his admissioun quhilk he
promeisit to have subscryvit; and anent ane wther greiff notishit be
thame, and offens in his persone that can be laid to his charge, as in
the act of the said last synodall assemblie is at mair lenthe contenit.
The said presbiterie, for thair obedience to the said act conforme thairto,
summoundis the said Bischop personalie present and moderat... in thair
presbiterie to the xxijdaye of Julijinstant, to compeir before thame and
the said commissioneris in the said place at ten houris before noon;
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and ordenis letteris to be writtin be thair clerk to the said commis-
sioneris to be present the said daye, to the effect foirsaid.
Aug. 26.-Leiding of the teinds of the Borrow rodes of Ruther-
glen.—The presbíterie heirand of Sir Claud Hammiltoun of Schaw-
feild knicht intentioun to leid the teind schawes of the borrow rodes
rodes of Rutherglen this yeir, quhilk pertenis to the present Minister of
Rutherglen, quhairof he and his predecessoris ministeris thair hes bein
in peaceable possessioun and wse of leidding of the saming to thair wse
thir mony and diuers yeiris bygone, Ordanis thair brother Mr Andro
Boyd, minister of Egleschame, to pas to the said Sir Claud, and to
disswade him fra his intentioun of the Leiding this yeir the said teindis,
bot to let the said present minister have the wse thairof this yeir as he
had thir yeiris bygane, seing the saming are ane greit part of his leving,
to serve in the cuir of the ministerie at the kirk of Rutherglen. As also
the said Presbiterie straitlie forbiddis Mr Walter Hammiltoun present
minister of Rutherglen, in ony wayes to aggrie with the said Sir Claud
anent the leading of the said teindis this yeir to be wsit be the said Sir
Claud, whder the pane of depositioun of him fra the ministerie at the
said kirk.
Quhilk daye comperit Duncan Leitch, accusit for defylling himself in
whordome with the Seiknesse callit . . . . . . . . and for defylling his
vmquhile wyfe thairwith, as is alledgit, and reportit to hawe ben the
caus of hir deathe, and that woon hir death-bed scho suld have left hir
death vpon him. He denyed that thair was such a thing; thairfor the Pres-
byterie, for probatioun, ordanis witnessis to be summoundit, and the said
Duncan to compeir the nixt daye of presbyterie; sumound apud acta.
The quhilk daye the brethering thinkis good that Mr John Spottis-
woode, Bishop of Glasgow, be conferrit with at his hamecuming out of
Edinburgh, anent Mr William Levingstoun minister at Moniabroch.
Mar. 9. 1608–Quhilk daye Mr Andro Boyd, minister at Egil-
1608. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 411
sham, fand himself havelie diseased, craved licence of the presbyterie
to repair to the . . . . . . . . . . in Ingland, quhair by the advyse of
learnit phisicianis, it is thocht that he, God willing, may get some releiff
to his disease; and the presbitrie considering the necessitie of this
sute and desyre, hes grantit to the said Mr Andro, &c.
Persones of Cadder for smooring of thair bairnis.-Quhilk daye com-
perit Jonet Watsoune, Jonet Lyndsaye, Margarit Tueidie, parochinaris
of Cadder, accusit for smooring of thair bairnis in the nicht; is referrit
to the session of Cadder, to be tryit thair.
Apr. 20.-Gabriel Sempill of Cathcart to mak his repentance.—Quhilk
daye compeirit Gabriel Sempill of Cathcart, summoundit to that daye, and
was accusit for interupting his ordinar minister, the minister of Cathcart,
in the tyme of his sermon vpon Sondaye was aucht dayes, efter a most
barbarous maner, against the rule of Godis word and actis of parlia-
ment, and siclyk for affirming that the syn . . of the patriarchis, as incest
and polygamie was no syn; confessit the same. Therfoir the presbyterie
ordanit the said Gabriel Semple of Cathcart, to mak his repentance
efter a moste humble maner in the kirk of Cathcart the nixt Sabaoth,
and confesse his offence befoir the congregatioun of Cathcart; his re-
pentance to be receved be Mr William Hamilton minister at Ruther-
glen, and hes promysit never to do the lyk offence vnder the pane of
excomunicatioun.
Mai; 25.—Persounis of Rutherglen to mak repentance.—Quhilk daye
comperit Hew Cuik, James Lyoun, Johnne Wilson, Thomas Brok, and
confessit thair offence in dancing the suoorde dance in Govan vpon ane Sa-
baoth daye ; and besydes this, the saidis James Lyoun, Johnne Wilsone
and Thomas Brok, for thair disobedience to the injunctiones of the
kirk, injoynit to thame for thair superstitious gysyne in the tyme called
superstitiouslie Yule dayis. The presbyterie injoymes to thane of
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new to mak thair repentance the nixt Sondaye in the kirk of Ruther-
glen, in the publict place thairoſ, in linning cloathis, and to returne
the nixt Weddinsdaye in presbyterie, and vpon the report of thair
minister tuitching thair behaviour and repentance, to receive the farder
mynd of the presbyterie. The said Hew Cuik promysit never to be
fund in the lyk offence winder the pane of excommunication.
Jun. 1.-Siluer joundit to the Poore be John Stoddart.—Quhilk
daye the Presbyterie is content and aggreit with, that the siluer
fundit be Johnne Stoddart minister of Campsie to the poore of this
citie of Glasgow, quhairvnto the said presbyterie are maid oversearis,
that the samyn be dedicat to the use of the poore within Glasgow, the
substance of the first fundatioun being alwayes kept.
Jun. 8.-Dauid Spense repentis.-Quhilk daye Hew Campbell
in Rutherglen, admittit witnes be Dauid Spense, sworne, deponis,
That Dauid Spense said he suld stick ane minister, and he would nocht
give ane fart for excommunicatioun,
Quhilk daye the said Dauid confessit in his deposition that sic
wordis fell furthe, for the quhilk he repentit fra his heart; the presby-
terie thairfoir injoynit him to confes his syn and offence in the public
place in the kirk of Rutherglen, and vpone his repentance, to be ressavit.
Jun. 29–Anent my Lord of Angus.-The quhilk daye the Pres-
byterie appointis Mr Patrick Sharp, Mr John Bell and Mr Robert
Scott to resort to my lord of Angus, and desyre his lordschip, in name
of the presbyterie, to resort to the kirk, he and his wyfe and seruandis;
and to confer with his lordship now and then, quhen occasioun offeris,
in the controvertit heidis of religioun. .
Aug. 3–George Erle of Huntly.— Quhilk daye intimatioun is
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ordanit to be maid out of all the pulpits of this presbyterie, tuitching
the excommunicatioun of George Erle of Huntlie, excommunicat at the
last General Assemblie.
Sept. 21–Erle of Angus.-Quhilk daye the Ministeris of Glas-
gow gave thair diligence in pronuncing the sentence of excommuni-
catioun against William Erle of Angouse, for his obstinacie and con-
tumacie in refusing to confesse, swear and subscryve the confessioun of
faithe sett doun be the reformit kirk within this realme and confirmit be
act of Parleament, being thryse lauchfullie admonishit, with 3 seuerall
prayeris, according to the ordour of the kirk. The presbyterie ordanis
that the chief partes of this realme be advertisit of the said excommunica-
tioun that intimatioun may be maid thairof, and speciallie the kirkis
within the synode of Cliddisdaill.
Nov. 16.-M*Knair.—Quhilk daye comperit Adam M*Knair; the
presbyterie continewis him till this daye fyftein dayes, and in the mein-
tyme inhibitis him to go out of his parochin in ony tyme cuming to cure
ony diseasis, or to take the cure of ony that cumis to him, in respect it is
knowen that he hes na skill excepthe vsevnlauchfull meanes, as issuspectit.
Jan. 18. 1609.-Mr James Stewart.—Quhilk daye the presbyterie
having taken tryell of the offence gevin be Mr James Stewart minister
at Campsie, in baptizing the chylde of John Levingstoun of Baquhar-
rage, in a privat house in tyme of a great storme, yit by the ordour of
the reformit kirk within this realme, and contrar the actis of Generall
Assemblie, for taking awaye of the said sclaunder hes suspendit him fra
the functioun of the ministrie during the will of the presbyterie; and
that the nixt Sabaothe a brother gang to the kirk of Campsie, namelie,
Mr John Bell minister at Cadder, and thair teache; and efter sermoun
endit, he delate the offence forsaid in most grave maner; and that the
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said Mr James, sitting in a place before the pulpit with the said Johne
Levingstoun, confesse ilk ane of thame thair offence, according to the
gravite thairof.
Jan. 25.-Johne Allan.-Comperit Johne Allan in Shettilstoun,
and confessit his misbehaviour done to the sessioun of the Baronie,
in saying thair was na justice among them, and vttering vther sic
wncomelie speeches; The presbyterie, considering the greatnes of his
offence, injoynes him to mak his repentance in the kirk of the Barronie
the nixt Sabaoth, in the publict place thairof, in linning cloathes, and
to confesse his offence befoir the congregatioun; and thaireſter vpon
thair nixt sessioun to compeir and sit doun befoir the minister and eldaris
vpon his knees, and askethame forgivnesse efter a most humble . . . . . .
Mar. 29.—James Riddell.—The quhilk daye the Presbyterie ordanes
ane lybell summondis to be gevin to James Riddell burges in Ruther-
glene, summoning him before thame for his contemptous sitting still at
the Lordes table, being commandit be his minister, Mr William Ham-
miltoune, to ryse thairfra; as also for his contemptous scheiring of the
grass of the kirk yaird vpone the Sabothe day, in contemp of the ordi-
nance of his minister and sessioune.
Aug. 2.-Mr Patrick Walkinschaw.—Quhilk day Mr Patrick Wal-
kinschaw minister at Muncklande, complenit of Mr Johne Bell minis-
ter at Cadder, for his vncharitable rasing letteris to charge him to fur-
neise the elementis to the kirk of Cadder, quhilk wtherwyes he micht
have gottin of him be worde; and becaus vpone this charge letteris of
suspension war to [be?] purchasit except ther var sum medis taine into it,
and sene the parocheners of Cadder is to have thair communioune the nixt
Sabothe, (for this caus and wthers we think it gude that nothing be
done in that matter concerning the communioun quhill the synodall
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assemblie.) of the quhilk the presbyterie ordanes the said Mr Johne to
adverteis his parochiners of the Samyne. -*t
The visitatioun of the Baronie kirk.-Quhilk day the presbyterie or-
danes Mr Patrik Scharpe as principall, and Mr Johnne Bell minister of
Glesgow to viseitt the Barronie kirk of Glesgow Tuysday mixt; ordanes
the minister to intimat the same to his flok.
Nov. 1.-Ordinance of the Presbíterie.—Quhilk day ordanes the haill
brether to keipe the nixt Saboth, quhilk is the fyft of November, so-
lemlie; to gif solem thankis to God for his Majesteis delyverie from
that tricherous conspiracie enterpryceit aganst his persoum with Prince
and Quein and the haill nobilitie of Ingland, in blawing wo thair per-
sounes in the air with poulder, in the yeir of God 1605.
Dec. 13.— Mr William Hamiltoun ordanit to persew Sir Claude Ham-
milton of Shaufeild knicht.—Quhilkday Mr William Hammiltoun minister
at Rutherglen, being demandit be the moderator and brether of the pres-
byterie, Quhider he was resolvett to transport him self thairfra or not?
ansueritt, That he hopes to be better resoluit betuix and Candlemas,
and forder, that at that tyme he soulde gif full satisfactioun to thair
questioun; quhairwith the said brethering war satisfeid for the present.
And becaus the brethering var informit that thair was sum privie dealing
betuix Sir Claud Hammiltoun of Shawfeilde knicht and the said Mr
William, anent the steipende belonging to the said kirk of Rutherglen,
quhilk may tend to the prejudice thairof in tymes cuming; thairfoir be
thir presentis the said brethering inhibeittis the said Mr William to
transact anie wayes with the said Sir Claud thairanent without thair
advyse and consent first had and obtenit thairto, bot that he persew the
said Sir Claud befoir the judge competent, for his wrangous and violent
intrusioun of him selff in the possessioun of that part of the ministeris
stipend quhilk is callit the teind Schawes of the Inne borrow ruid, being
416 REGISTERS OF THE 1610.
the vicaris part thairof, and continowallie in thair possessioun past me-
morie of man; this the brether ordanes him to do winder the pane of
depositioun, and in no poynt he falzie heirintill.
Mar. 7. 1610.-Margatt Howstoun.—Quhilk day comperit Margat
Howstoun, depones, That Christian Cuming come to Litill Govane to
James Andersone his hows first, and coulde not gaitt James Andersone
his wyffe at that tyme. Then scho cam to Robert Stennis, and said
scho valde gaitt remeid for hir; and the deponer sperit, Quhatt way
scho Valde gaitt the remeid? scho said scho soulde do with hir as scho
did withe another woman in Glasgow, Jonnet Craufurd ; scho said her
mother tuik hir doun the watter to a Heyland woman, quha pat Jonet
Craufurd nyne tymes throw a hespe of blew yairne, thryse backwardis,
thryse forwward and thryse a syde way; allso scho tuik a threid of silk
and a threid of worsett plettit togidder, and gave h . . a bowet atchesonne,
and gif scho tint the achesone scho valde tyme the man, and scho tint it;
and the heyland wyffe send hir another, and thei suoir the said Jonet
Crawfurde deiplie that scho soulde nevir tell agane; and scho gave hir for
the doing of it a stan of quhytt lint, and scho soulde yeirlie gifhir a . . . .
Apr. 18.——Gleib at the kirk of Carmunnok.--Ordanes Mr Andro
Boyde, Mr William Hammiltoun, to gif Mr Archibald Glen designa-
tioun of fowr aikeris of gleib land at the kirk of Curmanok, betuix this
and the first of Maii.
May 16.—Alexander Colquhoun off Lus.—Quhilk day comperit
Alexander Colquhoun of Lus, he lachtfullie summoned to this dyett be
the synodoll assemblie, to produce his witnes aganst Mr Johnn Camp-
bell his minister, that he was that daye ane pairtie aganst him with
Clangregour at Glenfrone. The said laird bene enquyrit be the modera-
tor, to wit, the bischope of Glasgow, gif he could qualifie that Mr
1610. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 417
Johnn Campbell was present in the foirnamed day as a pairtie aganst
him P Answerit, He could prove that he was wrone the fieldis, bot he
coulde not prove that he was aganst him; bot the said laird desyrit the
brether of the presbyterie to demand sic interrogattor at the said Mr
Johnn quhilk valde prove the said Mr Johnn to have bene thair as a
pairtie aganst him: The brether of the presbyterie hawing considerit
thir interogatoris, thocht it not meitt to demand or accuise the said Mr
Johnn of thame, becaus manie of thame tendit mair to the civill judge
then to thame, bot so monie of thame as appertenit to thame they de-
mandit thame of the said Mr Johnn; quhilkis interrogatoures contenit
sum men that he had vnlaufullie mareitt without anie warant. The said
Mr Johnn satisfeid the brether, and leitt thame sie that he mareitt
nane without the warrant baithe of the presbyterie and sessioun, as
judiciallie he producet into the handes of the Clark, as also soulde de-
lyver the rest aganst this day tuantie dayes.
Oct. 23.—Thomas Lord Boyde.—Quhilk day Thomas Lorde Boyde
gave in his supplicatioun, craving that his tennentis micht be fred fra the
judicature of maister Johnn Bell minister at Cader, becaus of the ill
will that he careis to him, abusis his tennentis baithe be worde and
deid, and valde not gif thaim justice: The presbyterie contenowes
thair answer to his (lordschippis) supplicatioun quhill they tryett farder
by the supplicatiounes of his tennentis.
Nov. 7.-Johnne Philpe his supplicatioun.-Quhilk day Johnne Philpe
gave in his supplicatioun, craving the benefeitt of marriadge betuix him
and Helan Willsoun, quha was alledgett to hawe hir former husbande
levand. It is of veritie and sufficientlie proven that hir husband hes not
bene with hir this tuentie fowr yeiris, quhilk is a sufficient declaratioun
that the mariadge is annullit in the selfe. -
Quhilk day the presbyterie having considerit the supplicatioun foir-
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said, gevin in be Johnne Philpe and Helene Willsoun, and efter tryell
funde that now it is mair then tuentie four yeiris since hir husband left hir
quho since that tyme hes not bene hard of, grantis libertie to the saidis
Johnne Philpe and Helan Willsoun to marie, and to that effect desyris
the ministers of Glasgow to procleame thair bandis.
Feb. 6. 1611.-Mr Robert Hamiltoune his Complaint.—Quhilk day
comperit Mr Robert Hamilton . . . . . . helper to Mr Johne Howisone
at the kirk of Cambuslang, with ame presentatioun direct fra Sir Claud
Hamiltoun of Schawfeld knycht, and delyverit the samyn, and wes
willing to accep the cuir thair gif the presbyterie thocht the provision
was sufficient for him as ane honest man to leiue on : The presbyterie
thinkes, in respect that the said Mr Robert has no libertie of transport...
and sene Mr William Hamilton has not as yit demittit his service at the -
said kirk of Rutherglen, thinkes that . . . . . is not meitt for it.
Jul. 3.-Ane Letter of my Lorde of Glasgow.—Quhilk day the
brethering having receavit this day in presbyterie ane letter of my Lord
Bischope of Glasgow, contening his advyse anentane solemn visitätioune
of the kirk of Cader, and the brethering hearing, as the said lettir bearis,
that thair was (vow clamosa) of diverse sclanders gevin out of Mr
Johnn Bell minister of the said kirk, Ordanes ane edict for visitatioun
to be servit at Cader the mixt Sabothe, the sevint of J ulii instant; and
to that effect ordanes Mr James Stewart persoune of Campsie to preiche
in the kirk of Cader the said day, and to intime the visitatioun thair;
and farder, ordanes the haill brether to keip the day of visitatioun,
quhilk sall be, God villing, vpone Fryday the tuolt of Julii.
Aug. 14.—Edict to be servit at the kirk of Rutherglen.—Johnn Archi-
bischope of Glasgow, and brethering of the presbyterie thair, to our
velbelouit Mr Alexander Rowatt minister of the Barronie off Glasgow;
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Forsameakle as we haue direct to ws be Sir Claud Hamilton of Schaw–
felde knycht, patrone of the kirk of Rutherglen, ane presentatioune of
Mr Robert Young to be rector and minister at that kirk, ye sall vpone
the Sabothe nixt ensewing, efter sermont at the said kirk, warne and
charge the gentillmen, provest, belyeis and eldermen of that toun, to be
present and compeir befoir ws on Wadinsday nixt, the tuentie ane of
this instant, August, in the Colledge kirk of Glasgow, at myne houris
befoir noone, to heir the said Mr Robert gif pruiff of his qualificatioun
and abilitie to serve at that kirk; and farder, to propone quhatsumevir
thing they knaw concerning his lyffe and maneris quhairby he may be fund
vmmeitt for that charge, and that ye report this edict dewlie execut and
indorsat be you. Gevin in our presbyterie the day and yeir of God forsaid.
Aug. 21.-Mr Robert Young his admissioun.-Quhilk day Mr Ro-
bert Young maid his serment of tryell as he was ordanit on the 3.
Coll. 1, 2, and vas allowet be the brether and thocht meit to discharge
the functioun of a minister at the kirk of Rutherglene; desyris the Bi-
schope of Glasgow, according to the act of the quholl assemblie, to
inaugurit him in the said kirk; the quhilk his lordschip condiscendit to
do vpone Sondaye cum eight dayes.
Oct. 30.—Quhilk day Mr Robert Scott and Mr Andro Boyd gave in
thair diligence in satleine Mr Alexander Rowatt at the kirk of Cader as
thair ordinar pastour, quhairvnto the haill pepill hartellie condescendit. ...
June 3. 1612.-Rid his injunctions.—The presbyterie injoynes to
Jhone Rid in the Overtowne of Cormonnok, for prophaning of the Sab-
both daye in casting the stone and hammer the same daye quhen the
communion was celebrat, to mak his repentance two severall Sabboths
within the parish kirk of Cormonnok, and that he pay to the thesaurer
of the kirk fourtie shilling, &c.
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June 17.—Thomas Blakwood his Injunctions.—The presbyterie injoynes
to Thomas Blakwood in Kirklie, within the parochine of Govane, for
prophaning the Sabboth daye in being ringleader to the matche played
in shooting of gunes and other vaine games and pastymes, to make his
publique repentance in his owne seat within the kirk of Govane on Son-
daye next, and to pay 20 shillingis to the wse of the kirk.
July 8.- George Scott painter.—Quhilk day compeirit George Scott
painter, and being accused quhy he painted the crucifix in mony houses
of the . . . . . . quhilk is liklie to breid ane corruption, and to turne
the heartes of the ignorant to idolatrie, and to mak them beleve that
thair houses cannot be happie or blessed bot quhair the crucifix is ; the
said George confessit, and promeised not to do it in tymes cuming, &c.
July 29.—Commissioune for the Painters.-Quhilk daye the presby-
terie gives commissioune to Mr P . . . Scharpe, Mr Jhone Bell, Mr
Andro Boyde, Mr Archibald Glen, to go to the provest and baillies of
the towne of Glasgow, to desyre them to takordour with the two painters
that wer secreitlie keipit in the houses of Glasgow painting the crucifixes.
Oct. 27. 1613.−Followes the depositiounes of sindrie persones sworne
and admittit witnesses vpon divers and sindrie heids of the complaints
gevin in be Patrik Flemyng of Barochan, and elders of Killillen.
Depositiounes aganis Mr George Semple minister at Killillen.—
Jhone Huchesoune one of the baillies of Paisley being sworne and ad-
mittit witnes, depones, That Mr George Semple had ane book of Mr
Michaell Scotts, of unlawfull airtes; that he saw him buy Albertus
Magnus ; that he hard him speak of sindrie vnlawfull conceits; that
he hard tell long syne he was wont to mak lascivious ballads and somets;
that he is evill spoken off; that he hard his owne wyfe say, quhen he
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was afeild, that Mr George came in one nicht in his house, and speirit
quhy thei were so long vnsowping; said, Quhat will ye give me and I
sall tell yow quhat is in your ambrie P
William Alpe sworne and admittit witness, depones, He saw Mr
George have ane book of vnlawfull airtes, and was wont to terrifie him
quhen he was at the skoole; hard tell that he made ballads and somets,
and that he caryes not a good bruit. -
Thomas Whyte sworne and admittit witnes, depones, That Mr
George is greedie and covetous ; that Jhone Semple gave him some
money in hope he wald hald back the leprosie from him that he was in
danger of. - *
William Martein sworne and admittit witnes, depones, That he and
Mr George lying in their beds in one chalmer, and demanding of him
quhat he wold do with all his gold, said he knew quhen he wold die,
and then he wold distribute the samen, and give one peice of gold to one
good fellow, and one to another, that wold bid God be with him; and
being askit how he knew quhen he wold die, answered, he knew very
weill; and moir nor that, that he wold laye sex lynes vnder his head
that wold tell him all that he did.
Mr Thomas Muir sworne and admittit witnes, . . . . . . . That hering
Mr George teach vpon one of the petitions of the Lordis prayer, and
making ane comparisoune betuix the authoritie of ane erthlie king and
the King of hevin, repo . . . . the tennour of the kingis letters till he
came to thir word... Oure will is heirfoir, etc.
Robert Steinstoune sworne and admittit witnes, depones, That Mr
Georg causit ane poor man, Arthour Din and Margaret Semple his
wyfe paye his lawing, and that it is his fashion oftentymes so to do;
depones, That the said Mr George is very greedie.
Jhone Park sworne and admittit witness depones, He was not in the
kirk at that tyme quhen Robert Speir presentit his bairne to be baptiz-
ed; depones, That Mr George took nyntein merk for two bollis meill
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from him, and hechtand him ane discharge wold not give him it; and
that the said Mr George is greedie.
Patrik Bartlomew sworne and admittit witnes, depones, That he hard
Mr George ame yeir syne preach out of the pulpit that ane woman wold
not beleve the bonnok were bakin till she felt it with her nailes, and
that ane woman quhen she had done her ease, wold not trow it quhill
she lookit over her shoulder.
Aug. 24. 1614.—Sir James Kincaides injunction.—The presbyterie
injoymes to Sir James Kincaide, for the prophaning of the Sabboth daye
in drawing of his weapons and fechting thairwith within the kirk
yaird of Campsie immediatlie efter sermon, at the quhilk tyme vnguhill
Jhone Lennox was slaine; to mak his publique repentance in all humble
maner in linnen clothes within the kirk of Campsie, in the publique
place thairof, on Sondaye come eicht dayes.
Nov. 3.-Mr George Semple Minister.—The quhilk daye, anent the
actioune and cause intendit and persewit be Patrik Flemyng apeirand of
Barochane against Mr George Semple minister at Killillen, and speciallie
anent the said Mr George his slaunderous lyfe and conversatioune, quher-
by as is alledgit he is not meitt and sufficient to edifie at the kirk of Kill-
illen, as the accusations gevin in against him more fullie proports.
Quhilk actioune be ane act of the last Assemblie was referrit to certaine
Commissioners conjoynit to the presbyterie of Glasgow to take tryell and
judge therin: At the calling quherof vpon the eicht daye of Junii last
bypast, compeirit the said Mr George befoir the commissioners foirsaid,
and sicklyk compeirit the said Patrik Flemyng: The said Mr George
alledgit that the dait of the commissioune was expyrit, as als that he was
absolvit be the commissioners of the Generall Assemblie, to quhome he
sometyme appellit, as also becaus that Mr Patrik Scharpe, quhom he
oftentymes declyned, was moderator, who ought not to sit, as he alled-
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git, in that actioune, and therefoir appealit fra the commissioners and
judges foirsaide. And the said Patrik compeirand, alledgit on the other
part that ther was no dait speciallie appointed, bot thei, at quhatsoever
tyme betuix and the next synode, might proceid; as also that his ordi-
nar presbyterie and assemblie had befoir deposit him, and sicklyk that
the said Mr George can alledge no sufficient cause to declyne the said Mr
Patrik. Vpon the quhilk the presbyterie and commissioners foirsaid
referrit the whole matter to the present Assemblie, warning both the
parties to compeir there apud acta. The reasons and allegations of both
the parties being read, sein and considered, parties compeirand, the
Assemblie hes found the processe foirsaid interrupted be the said Mr
George his appellatioune to my Lord of Glasgow, or to any other judge
competent, .
Blakburne
Mr David Barcley, Mr Michael Wallace, Mr . . . . . . . Mr James
Greg, to concurre with my Lord of . . . . . . . with quhome thei sall
meitt in the Heich kirk of Glasgow the thrid daye of November next,
at ten houres befoir none, and to tak further tryell of the complaints
gevin in be Patrick Flemyng and his associats, gevand to them full
power and commissioune to cognosce and trye the said Mr George his
. . . . conversatioune and doctrein; quhom thei have appointed to tea . .
vpon the 16 cap. of Jhones gospell, from the 8 verse to the 12; and
efter dew tryell, as said is, Ordaines the said commissioners with con-
currance foirsaid, to proceid, decerne and to give sentence according to
equitie; That incaice he be found guiltie of the slaunders persewit, to
depose him simplie fra the functioune of the ministrie; and incace he be
found innocent, to repose him, warning the said Mr George heirvnto,
apud acta ; ordaining also sommonds to the effect abovewritten to be
direct to sommond witnesses to compeir in the actioun of slaunder foir-
said to beir leill and suithfast witnes in the accusations foirsaid.
Quhilk daye compeirit Mr George Semple, and according to the ordi-
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nance of the synodoll assemblie taught vpon the 16 cap. of Jhones gos-
pell, beginand at the 8 verse: “And quhen he is come he will reprove
the world of sin, of richteousnes and of judgement,” etc.
The commissioners foirsaid having heard the said Mr George vpon the
text to him prescryved to give specimen doctrinal, were no wayes
satisfied therewith, bot thocht him vnmeet and insufficient to edifie at
the kirk of Killillen.
1 Accus. Quhilk daye Mr George being accused for compairing ... pul-
pitt of incredulous folkes to ame wyſe that wold not bel.... her eine
quhill she chopped on her bonnok, nor that she had done her ease
quhill she looked over her shoulder . . . saw it reik; denyit the same.
2. Being accused for lying in pulpett, in speciall concerning Thomas
Killoch, denyes the same, bot grantes be beso... the people to tak no
offence with him being excommunicat.
3. Being accused for traducing of his brethrein in pulpitt, say...
they are mony knaves amongst ws, monie of ws abuses mens wyfes, bot
I thank God for it, I am flyting frie; denyes the same.
4. Being accuised for railing against lordes and lairdes, ass.ming in
pulpitt that none of them wold come to the kingdome of hevin, and if
ony of thame came thair, thei are als rare as ... nisoune; denyes the same.
6. Being accused of . . . . . for ane daye, denyes the same.
7. Being accuised for affirming in pulpitt that if ony man had two
sones, the one of them without doubt is ordained for hell, denyes the
SàIIle.
8. Being accuised for abusing of people vnder the colour of medicein,
denyes it.
9. Being accuised for offering to recover thame that are taken awaye
with the fairie folk, denyes the same.
10. Being accuised for offering to mak barren wenen to beir bairnes,
denyes the same, bot grantes he said thair is maturall causes to helpe
thame.
1619. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOw. 425.
11. Being accuised of 13 yeiris non residence, grantes he is not resi-
dent bot of necessitie, becaus all his materials are stollen awaye.
12. Being accuised for four Sabbothes absence from his kirk together,
grantes the same, bot he was compellit be the brethrein of the Presby-
terie of Paisleyes sommonds.
13. Being accuised for not vsing of disciplein in his kirk, denyes the
Sålſſlee
14. Being accuised for falsifying of a processe in his session book,
denyes the same. -
15. Being accuised for forging of ane letter sent to the synode in his
favoures, denyes the same. -
16. Being accuised for his vaine talk at tables to commoun people,
saying that of old the brydes had a good lyfe, quhen the maister got the
first nicht, the minister the second, and the brydgrome the third ; denyes
the same.
Jun. 3. 1618–Martenis Injunction.—The presbyterie of Glasgow
injoynes to Marie Martein, for calling Margaret Pharie ane revin witch
carlein, to stand on Sondaye next at the kirk dore of Rutherglen in the
Joggis, from the ringing of the second bell to the ringing out of the
thrid, and efter sermon to sitt downe upon her knees, and to crave God
. and the partie quhom she hes offendit. Quhilk being performit
and she found penitent, is ordanit to be absolvit.
Sept. 30. 1618–Ane Manse to be designed to Mr Robert Scott.—
Quhilk day Mr Robert Scott ane of the ministers of Glasgow desyrit my
lord archbischop of Glasgow and brethrein of the presbyterie ane de-
signation of his Manse, quhilk was ordanit to be done the said day.
Jul. 14. 1619.-Michael Spense.-Compeired Michael Spense deacon
of the Bonnet-makers, and was ordanit to convein the whole craft, and to
426 REGISTERS OF THE 1626.
takane band of everie one of thame that thai sould not wark thair bon-
nets or ony other thing on the Sabboth daye; and if ony contravenit, to
exact the said penaltie, otherwise he and thai both sould be scharplie
punished : And this the said Michael promeised to do.
Mar. 15. 1620.—Glasgow Kirk and the Baronie.—The quhilk daye
compeired the provest and bailyies of Glasgow, accompanied with ane
number of the counsell and sessioune thairof; compeired likwise Sir
Walter Stewart of Minto knicht, Mr James Corbatt, with ane number
of the parishioners of the Baronie kirk of Glasgow, who all condescendit
that it sall not be lawfull to everie man, mether in brugh nor landward,
to bring in ane throuchstone to the kirk yaird without licence, and that
he shall paye ane sowme of money for that priviledge and licence to
good and godlie vses; bot quho sall have his libertie to give licence
and to exact the pecuniall sowme, and to quhilk of the kirkis vse
it sall be employed, the decision quhairof was continued to ane other
occasioune.
Mar. 9. 1625.-Compeired Elspeth Faulds and Margaret Armour,
parishioners of Eglishame, who vpon the
information of thair slaunderous behaviour of Sodomy were inhibited
others company, and said Elspet commandit to put awaye out of hir
company the said Margaret, vnder the paine of excommunicatioun.
Mar. 22. 1626.-John Craufurd and George Dagleishes Injunctions
to stand in the Jogges—The quhilk daye compeired befoir the presbyterie
of Glasgow Johne Crawford and George Dagleish, indwellers in Achin-
loch . . in the parish of Cader, who werinjoynit conforme to ther confes-
sions for thair extraordinar and filthie abuse, not to be written nor to be
maid mention of, and notourlie knowen to the whol parishioneris of Cader,
to mak thair humble and publick repentance in this maner; first, to
1626. PRESBYTERY OF GLASGOW. 427
stand in the Jogges at the kirk dore of Cader on Sondaye next, or ony
Sondaye therefter at the appointment of the Minister, from the ringing
of the second bell to the . . . . . ; and therefter to go to the piller within
the kirk, and to give signes and tokens of vnfeinyet repentance, and
to pay everie one of thame fyve lit. to good and godlie vses of the kirk
of Cader. +
Aug. 2.-The quhilk daye wer convenit the archbishope of Glas-
gow, Mr Jhone Bell, Mr Robert Scott, Mr Robert Wilkein, Mr
Alexander Rowat, Mr &achary Boyde, Mr Thomas Boyde, Mr Jhone
Crichtoune, Mr Jhone Forsyith, Mr Archibald Grahame, Mr James
Scharpe; absent, Mr James Mowbrae.
Causes of the Publik Fast.—Ane fast to be intimated the next Son-
daye, and to be keipit two Sondayes immediatlie following; the causes,
. 1. For the forgivenes of our sins, and the purging of the land of sin. 2.
For the delyvery of thir kingdomes from the cruell invasioun of the mer-
ciles Spanierd. 3. For defence and continuance of the libertie of the Gos-
pel and puritie therof. 4. For preserving his Majesties royall persone,
and blessing his gouernment ; for directing and defending his navies
by sea, for preserving his armies by land and the armies of his
confederats. 5. For Gods blessing to the fruits of the ground, and for
ane seasonable harvest. 6. For converting or suppressing of Papists
and Papistrie.
REGISTER OF THE KIRK, SESSION
OF CAMBUSNETHAN.”
Apr. 15. 1636. The quhilk day the elderes being convenit, actis
William Ranie, that gif evir he be found drokin or blaspheming vpoun
the Sabbathe day, or any vther day, that he sall pay X lit., and to
stand in saiclothe vi dayes.
Jul. 18. 1641.-The quhilk day compeirit James Gibsone in Crindl-
dyk, for the filthie fact and sinne of adultrie, committed with Christian
Steill, spouse to Gilbert Smaillie, and was enjoyned to mak his repent-
ance in sackcloth, bairfooted and bairlegged, without ruff or ourlaire,
vpon the publick place appoyntit for penance within the kirk, quhilk
sall begin vpon sunday nixt, and fra thairfurth to continew in maner
foirsaid for the space of half ane yeir, and to pay 20 lib.
Sept. 4. 1642. The quhilk day compeirit James Marshall in Over-
toun, and gave in ane bill of complaint aganis Robert Somervell in
Gowckthrople, alledging that the said Robert to have profanned the
Lord's day, stryking the said James Marshall, and breaking ane staff
* The Records of this parish commence in 1636, and like most landwart registers, contain
little of general interest, being mostly confined to the detail of local petty misdemeanours
against morality, the cognizance of which would appear to have been the usual business of
the Kirk Session. They are, however, curious, as shewing the peculiar jurisdiction exercised
by the church at that period, the moral character of the people, and the heinous light in
which such peccadillos were viewed, so very different from the present day.
1648. KIRK SESSION OF CAMBUSNETHAN. 429
vpoun his head; and thervpon consignit twa merks according to the cus-
tome to be confiscat gif he succeids not in probatione of the poynts of his
bill, and the pairties ordanit to be summoned to be present the nixt day.
Jan. 29. 1643.−The quhilk day Marion Ross, spowse to Adame
Weir in Garein milne, profaner of the Sabbath for holding a candle to
Walter Pinkertoun in Dalserf parochin till he set ane milne agaite: sa-
tisfied, and was absolvit.
May 28, 1643.−The said day Claud Hamiltoun of Garen and
John Somervell in Overtoun was accused of comone drunkenness,
who immediatlie thairvpon acknowledgit the samen, and promised
amendement and abstinence in tyme coming, be their humble craving
God mercie before the sessioun.
June 3. 1645–The quhilk day compeirit Georg Bruntoune and
Elspeth Durie, and confessed they had lyen in an habituall fornicatione
the space of three or four years as if they had bein married persons; for
the quhilk caus they were both ordeinit to goe to the publick place each
of them in sakcloth, and to continue in standing each Lord's day till they
give sings of repentance; and their penaltie was not nominat till the ses-
sioune took farther tryell, it being alledgit they wer bot poore boddies.
June 21—The said day compeirit Elspeth Durie and being found guiltie
of slandering of Troyallous Aittoune most vnjustlie, for the quhilk schowas
ordained to stand in sackcloth barfot and bairleged at the church door from
the ringing of the second bell till the minister be in pulpit, and so to con-
tinue each day quhen their is sermon till scho give sings of repentance.
Aug. 27. 1648–The quhilk day compeirt James Gibsone, and stood
to his former denyall that he was not guiltie of the drunkenness he was
3 K
430 REGISTER OF THE 1649.
chalingsed vpon ; the three witnesses being present, the minister having
inquyred at the said James if he had any thing to say against them,
quhairfor they might not be admitted, he declaired that he had nothing
to say ; vpon the quhilk they war takin sworne, and having deponed,
James French declaired that he was drunk in his judgment, and that he
cam to his dore quhen his wyf was travelling, and called the women
damned hoores and puritents, and the divell tak al puritents, and strook
his own horse on the face, and said he sould put his horse from being a
puritent; also Jean Weir and Marione Inglish did witnes the samine :
and yet notwithstanding of all that was proven, he refuised to confes his
fault, bot said, in face of the sessioune, an they war as good as Georg
of the Grein, he would not obey their injunctions: also he being sundrie
tymes befor the sessioune for his drunkenness and railling, as our register
bears, the wholl sessioune, al in on voyce, did ordaine him to go to the
publick place at the beginning of sermon, and so to continue each Lord's
day till he giue sings of repentance, and thus to stand in sakcloath."
Sept. 22. 1649.-The quhilk day the Sessioune caused mak this act,
that ther sould be no pypers at brydels, and who ever sould have a
pyper playing at their brydell on their mariage day, sall loose their con-
singed money, and be farder punisched as the Sessioune thinks fitt.
* James appears to have been an incorrigible toper, and by way of restraint, entered into
the following obligation to eschew the “sin of drunkenness.” June 9. 1650.—I James
Gibsone, traveller, indueller in Craftletheid, being aft and divers tymes convict and censured
be the Sessioune of the kirk of Cambusnethen for the sin of drunkenness, and now at this pre-
sent being conveined befor them and their Commissioners of Parliament for the sam fault, do
voluntairilie of my own accord, inact myself to the saidis Commissionars, apoynted for laying
on of pecuniall mults, that if ever heirafter I sall transgres and committ the lyk fault, then I
sal be summarlie excommunicate; and also be thir presentis do bennishe myselfe their bounds
in all tyme coming, and to pay fortie punds : and in tokin of my consent, I haue commanded
the clerk of the Sessioune to subscryve thir presentis in my name, because l cannot wrytt
my selfe. Sic sub. JAMEs Grbson E, with my hand at the pen.
1695. KIRK SESSION OF CAMBUSNETHAN. 431
Jan. 13. 1650.-The quhilk day the Sessioune caused mak this act,
that each pairtie to be proclaimed, sould lay doune aught merk, and
the pairtie rewer sould loose theirs, and the other sould get their aught
merks vp againe.
Jun. 3.-The quhilk day the Sessioune caused mak this act, That
if any men and women sal be guiltie of promiscous dancing, they sall
stand in publick place, and their confes their fault, and be punisched as
the sevill judge thinks fit.
Feb. 3. 1695.-Baptized Janet, daughter to James Dickson, in the
paroch of Dalzell; but because he was guilty by being a shouldier in
the times of persecution, and by being drunk sometimes, befor the Ses-
sioune wold suffer his child to be baptized, they desired him to confesse
his sin in so doing : and likewise he promised, that when he should be
called to it by a lawfull church judicatory, he should give satisfaction
according to the degree of his offence. *
Oath of purgation administered to Mary Dalzell, accused of for-
nication, in presence of the congregation. Sept. 1695.
I Mary Dalzell do hereby declare and swear, with my hand lifted up
in presence of the great and terrible God, the searcher of hearts and
judge of the quick and dead, quhom I do hereby call to wittnes the
truth of what I now assert, and to avenge my perjury by all the curses
writen in the Scriptures of truth, in caice I swear falsly, That I am free
and innocent of the sin of furnication with John Strethern, charged upon
me, and of all sinfull medling with him tending thairto; wishing the
Lord may not hold me guiltles, when I shall appear before his awfull
tribunall, if this my declaratione and oath be not according to truth.
REGISTER OF THE KIRK SESSION
OF HUMBIE.*
Oct. 27. 1644.—The which day collected 57 lib. 6 S. for supplie of
souldiers in the north in cloths and other necessars.
Nov. 3.-The which day ane day of thanksgiving was keeped for the
victorie of our armie at Newcastle. (Note, in another hand.) Which
was a mocking of God.
Jul. 6.—The which day given for a key to the kirk door, 10 s.
* The Kirk Session Records of the Parish of Humbie are not of very ancient date. The
earliest volume preserved commences in January 1643, and terminates in April 1677. There
is at the end a register of marriages and of births. The M.S. which is in 4to, is in good preser-
vation, and, with the exception of a few pages at the beginning, and a leaf or two of the mar-
riages and births, is very distinctly and neatly written. Some person has, however, purposely
mutilated the record of marriages, by cutting away the lower part of one of the leaves. The
abstracted entries are between the 22d of June and 7th of July 1647.*
The Extracts which follow, though not possessing the same value as those that precede, are
extremely curious, and will form not the least interesting portion of the Miscellany.
* In the list of marriages, under the date of February 14, 1647, occurs that of “James Skirving of Plewlandhill”
to “Marion Boyd.” This person was a descendant of the Standard Bearer of the Earl Marshall, who so dexte-
rously preserved the banner from being captured, by concealing it about his body, when the Scottish army was
defeated at Flodden Field. An account of this matter will be found in the notes to Weber's Flodden Field. The
Standard is now in the Advocates' Library, having been presented to the Faculty by the late Mr William Skirving,
musician in Edinburgh, the representative of the family. Early follies compelled him to part with the estate, and
he was obliged to earn a livelihood by teaching music. He died at an advanced age, much respected by all his
acquaintances.
1646. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 433
Jul. 13.—The which day given for the Acts of the Generall Assem
blie, with the directorie, 25 § 4 d. g -
Jul. 26. 1645.-The which day ane solemne fast was keeped, that
the Lord would remove the sword and pestilence.
Aug. 10.—The which day, in respect of the dangerous state of the
countrie, it is, ordained to be publicklie proclaimed in the parish kirk,
g that none presume, either masters or servants, men or women, to goe
out of the bounds that they dwell upon, whatsomever earand or business
to anie suspected place, without speciall leave of the masters of the
ground; and if any doe in the contrair, with certification, they sall not
be receaved back to their owne houses and dwellings, bot their houses
sall be locked and closed up. As also that none presume to receave any
person within the parish, from any place whatsomever, without libertie
from the masters of the ground and kirk session conjunctlie, whder the
like paine and condition forsaid.
Sept. 7-The which day there was no preaching becaus of the danger
of the time, and the near approaching of the enemie, being at Cranstone.
Sept. 14.—Collected 4 § 4 d. The which day no session, becaus of the
danger of the enemie.
Jan. 11. 1646.—Collected 9 Š. No session because of the coldnesse
of the weather."
Jul. 5.-Collected 20 S 2 d. The which day ane solemne fast was inti-
mat to be upon Thursdaye following, and the causes thereof were read.
* There was also no session on the 18th, for the same reason.
434 REGISTER OF THE 1646.
The which day George Earle of Seaforth his excommunication was
intimat. (Note, in another hand.) By villains and traitors.
At Hadingtone, Sept. 2.-The which day the brethren appointed Mr
Johne Cockburne to mak publick intimation at the kirk of Humbie to
the parishioners of the said parish, that they come to Hadingtone on
Wednesday next, and heare Mr Thomas Charteris his popular sermon,
enjoymed to him as the last part of his triall for his ordination and ad-
mission to be collegue and helper to the said Mr John.
MR DAVID CALDERwood, Moderator.
Sept. 6.—Received from Mr Thomas Charteris for the kirk of Humbie
their contribution to the Turks captives, and for the brunt land in Pot-
terraw, twentie-four pound sixteen shillings, whereofane suspect shilling.
MR. Robert Browne.
Oct. 25.-The which day the kirk session of Humbie having taken
triall of that matter anent James Steill his selling of his wife to Patrick
Fowler, and having re-examined both parties, aad such others as were
present, the session findes the occasion and circumstance of the busines
to be this, as they deponed: to wit, That Patrick Fowler having comed
to the Hie-lie to bring home a shearer whom he had fied, and James
Steill having fied the same man, and they being together in John Wood
his house drinking and speaking anent fieing of shearers; in the mean
tyme James Steill his wife came in, and they fell in speaking anent
her; but they all deponed that they cannot tell how that purpose be-
game, but grants that in ane idle toy or mirriment the one did sell his wife
and the other did buy her for 4 lib., which was re-delivered within two
or three days; and the buyer deponed, that he coft her to get 20 days
shearing of her; they deponed that the woman went presentlie home to
her owne house. James Steill granted that he took his wife be the hand
1647. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 435
to give her to the other, but the other denys that he receaved her; the
woman also denys that her husband took her by the hand to deliver
her, but declared they were both in ane idle mirriment and at drinking,
and was never from her goodeman befor or sensyne, neither was there
any more motion of that business, except as is above written. This is
all the kirk session can try in the business, either be the depositiones of
the parties, or such as were beside that could be found. The shearer
who was fied to them both, and who was the speciall witnes and the
occasion of their meeting, being ane stranger, is gone from this countrie,
and so could not be had. This was taken to the Presbiterie."
Dec. 27.—The which day Janet Young was delated to have pulled
Bessie Brabner's privities; and the said Bessie compeired and affirmed
the same; therefor the said Janet was sharply rebuked, and to mak
her publick repentance the next day.
Feb. 7. 1647.-The which day the act agent pennie bridles was read
as follows: Whereas the generall assemblie holden at Edinburgh, Jan. 23.
1645, by ane special act past upon the 13 of Feb. in the last session
thereof, upon the afternoone, did ordaine to everie presbíterie within the
kingdome to tak speciall care as they sould think fit, in their severall
bounds respective, to restraine abuses at pennie bridles, flowing from
three causes specified in the said act, viz. the excessive number of people
convened thereto, the extortion of them therein and their licentiousness
thereat, to the great dishonour of God, the scandall of our Christian
profession, and prejudice of the countries welfare. In obedience to the
which act, the brethren and ruling elders of the two presbíteries of
Hadingtone and Dunbar having seriouslie considered anent the former
* Upon the 22d of Nov. Steill and Fowler “made their publick repentance, as was directed
by the Presbiterie.”
436 REGISTER OF THE 1646.
three causes, finds that the number of persones above twentie convened to
pennie bridles, and the prices exceeding 12s, the man, and 85. the woman,
occasiones great lasciviousness and hurt to the poorer sort; as likewise
finds that piping and dancing befor and after dinner or supper, and the
staying of persones conveened for drinking, the dinner and supper being
ended occasiones great lasciviousness; moreover that lowse speaches
and filthie communication and singing of badie songs and prophane min-
strelling in time of dinner or supper tends to great deboshrie; throw all
which abuses flowing from the forsaids three causes, pennie bridles in
our judgement becomes seminaries of all profanation within our bounds.
For redresse whereof we the brethren and ruling elders of the two pres-
biteries forsaids earnestlie recommends to all magistrates, and those who
have the civill power throwout the limits of the two presbíteries, to in-
terpone their authoritie with ours; and for this effect will be pleased to
mak ane speciall act, ordaining, under the penaltie of twentie pounds to
be exacted of the saide persones that sall be found guiltie to the wse of
the poore, that in time coming the number of persones convened to
pennie bridles exceed not twentie ; that the prices thereat be not above
12 S. the man, and 8s. for the woman; that there be no pyping or danc-
ing at all befor or after dinner or supper, and no staying of persones for
drinking the dinner or supper being ended: and withall that there be no
lowse speaches, filthie communication and singing of badie songs or pro-
phane minstrelling in time of dinner or supper; and we the brethren
and ruling elders forsaids for our part ordaines all persones sall be found
guiltie of any of the former abuses to be conveened befor our kirk sessions
respective, to have some ecclesiastical censure farder put upon them, and
that for their offensive and scandalous cariage; and in regard the causes of
the former abuses proceeds alswell from these in whoses houses pennie
bridles are made as fra the saids are to be married, therfor ordained for
farder restraint of the former abuses that the persons are to be maried
(at least the man) come themselves and bring with them the pairtie in
1648. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 437
whose house the bridles to be made, that both bridegroom and master of
the house where the bridle holds, some competent time befor the solem-
nization of the mariage, may consigne the said pecuniall summe of
twentie pounds, at least find caution, and act themselves and their cau-
tioner for that effect, and that befor the kirk session where they are to
be maried, or such as sall be delegat be them for that wse, that they
sall give obedience to the former act in all the particulars therof, and be
answereable for all persones conveened to the bridle; which if they re-
fuse to doe, the benefit of marriage to be denyed to them; and obe-
dience be given, ordaines the said penaltie consigned to be refounded,
otherwise the said summe to be confiscat to the wse of the poore of
the parish where the fault is committed.
May 29.—Collected 475. The which day it is statuted and ordained be
the session of Humbie, that if any servant commit fornication, whether
man or woman, both of them sall pay their halyear's fee. Under the name
of servants, we comprehend cottars and farmers children serving their
parents. We appoint farmers falling in the like fault to pay 5 lit. for
everie chalder of victuall or for everie 100 lit. they pay to their masters.
Lastlie, if heritors commit fornication, we ordaine them to pay 40 lib.
according to the Act of Parliament.
Oct.1. 1648.-Collected 4 lib 8 s. The which day the English men
had their quarters in this parish.
Dec. 10.—Collected 9 s 2d. The which day ane intimation was made of
ane fast to be upon the 14 of December and 17. As also a solemne ac-
knowledgement of publicke sins and breachs of the covenant, and a solemn
engagement to all the duties contained therein, namelie, those which doe
in a more speciall way relate unto the dangers of these times. A solemne
league and covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour
3 L
438 REGISTER OF THE 1649.
and happiness of the king, and the peace and saftie of the three king-
doms of Scotland, England and Ireland, were read this day.
Dec. 14.—Collected 8 s 6 d. A solemne fast day.
Dec. 17.—Collected 22 S 6 d. This was a solemne àst day, and the
publick acknowledgement with the covenant were againe read.
Dec. 24.—Collected 36 5. This day the covenant was sworne and
subscrived.
May 27, 1649.-Robert Romaners ordained to be cited for playing
at the bullets on the Sabbath day.
It was reported that Margaret Brotherstone did water her kaill wbon
the Sabbath day, and thairwpon was ordained to be cited.
June 10–The which day compeired Robert Romaners, and
acknowledged his profaning of the Sabbath day by playing at the
bullets. - -
Also compeired Margaret Brotherstone, and confessed her breach of
Sabbath in watering of her kaill, and thairwpon ordained to give evi-
dence in publick of her repentance the next Lord's day.
Sept. 16.—Collected 44 S 4 d. The which day it was reported to the
session that Agnes Gourley was lying under a scandall of charming
kine that their milk gave no creame, quhairwpon the session ordained
her to be cited the next day.
Sept. 23.-Collected 30 58 d. The which day Agnes Gourley being
questioned anent the charming of the kine, deponed as follows: That about
three years since, Anna Symsonethen servant to Robert Hepburneof Keith,
1650. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 439
could not please the milk of their kine for it gave no creame; and the said
Agnes said, can you not cast over some of it into the grup, for they say
to ane by word, God betack ws to, they are under the yird that have as
much neede of it as they that are above the yird. Confesses also shee went
and saw the milk, and it was no ways altered as shee thought; here-
after shee went with them to the milking of the kine herselfe, but re-
membered not whither shee did milk the kine or not ; but confesses shee
did cast over the milk into the grup herselfe, and said, God betack ws to,
there may be they are under the earthe that have as much neede of it
as they that are above the yird. Grants likewise shee did put salt and
wheat bread into the cows lugs. Being posed where shee got the
wheat bread, and how long it was betuixt the time she did cast the milk
into the grup and the puting of the salt and bread into the cows lugs,
answered, That Anna Sympsone and Rachell Forrester brought it from
Hadingtone, and that it was that day, or else the day after, betulxt the
casting of the milk into the grup and putting of the salt into the cows
lugs, and that at the same time Anna Sympsone and Rachell Forrester
were present. Being asked who did learne her, answered, shee heard
of ane going man. The session taking to consideration her deposition,
referred her to the presbiterie.
Dec. 9–It was reported be the minister, that Agnes Gourley was
ordained be the presbiterie to mak publick repentance in sackcloth, for
charming kine.
Dec. 16.-Collected 12 S 2 d. The which day Agnes Gourley gave
in publick evidence of her repentance for charming kine.
Jul. 28. 1650.-The which day there was no collection, in respect of
the few number of people, and the enemie his marching alongst Gleds-
more towards Edinburgh. * , -
440 REGISTER OF THE 1651.
Sept. 8–Collected 1558 d. And to this day no sermon, in respect
of the minister his attendance upon ane regiment of the armie.
Oct. 13.-Collected 10 $ 8 d. The which day no session, in respect
the people, and especiallie elders, masters of families, were necessitat for
the most part to stay at home, becaus of the plundering of thair
houses in taking away sheep and cattell.
Apr. 27. 1651.-The which day James Rodger, Johne Rodger,
Johne Howdan, Andrew Howdan, and George Patersone, were com-
plained upon for playing at the golf upon ane Lord's day; were ordained
to be cited the next day. -
May 4.—The which day compeired the aforementioned persons, and
confessed thair prophaning of the Lord's day by playing at the golf;
were ordained to mak their publick repentance the next day.
The which day Johne Howdan was deposed from his office, being
ane deacon.
Sept. 14.—Collected 22 S 4 d. The which day intimation was made of
ane collection for the suppliedf wounded souldiers at Leith and Edinburgh.
Sept. 21.—The which day George White ane elder complained upon
Issobell Spence, that because he had done his duetie in declaring her
to the session to be trilapse in fornication, shee abused him, calling him
“hinging headed fellow,” and that he was not worthy to be ane elder;
ordained to be cited.
Sept. 28.-Collected 12 5 2 d. The which day compeired Isobel
Spence. Being questioned whither shee did abuse George White ane
elder, in miscalling him “hinging headed fellow,” and that he was not
1654. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 441
worthie to be ane elder, denyed the same ; quhairupon George White
desired Elizabeth Thornton and Bessie Clegorne witnesses to be cited
against the next day. -
Oct. 5.-The which day Issobell Spence being called upon, and Eliza-
beth Thomsome and Bessie Clegorne witnesses, the said Issobell being
questioned if shee had any thing to accept against them, answered not.
Compeired Elizabeth Thomsone, and deponed that Issobell Spence did
callCeorge White “hingingheaded fellow,” and notworthie to beane elder.
Compeired Bessie Clegorne, who deponed the same. The session
having found it proven against her, rebuked her for the same, and or-
dained her to compeir befor the presbíterie for her trilapse in fornication,
and that also they might rebuke her for her carriage in scolding upon
ane elder when he was doing his dutie.
Oct. 26.—Collected 25 § 4 d. The which day Issobell Spence entred
in sackcloth to the publick place of repentance, to give satisfaction for
her trilapse in fornication, and for scolding upon ane elder when he was
doing his dutie.
Feb. 26. 1654.—It was reported that there was a woman found in
the moore near Randerstone, travelling in birth, and that there shee had
brought forth her childe; quhairupon the minister, Alexander Borthwick
and Richard Skirving elders, were desired to goe and examine her.
Mar. 5.—This day the minister and elders reported that they had
examined that woman who had brought forth her childe in the moore,
but now lying at Randerstone; that shee declared that her name was
Christian Raith, daughter to umquhill William Raith in Oxtone mill;
and that being in her way to Inchcarny, shee was arrested near Rander-
stone with the paines in travelling of birth. Being questioned who was
442 REGISTER OF THE f 1654.
the father of the childe, deponed that it was to a married man, one
William Tofts mealmaker, dwelling for the present at Wintone; and
that she had comed to be his servant at Whitsunday last, and that with-
in few days after shee came to his service he had carnal dealing with her.
Being questioned if shee was in kin to William Tofts, declared they
were sister and brother bairnes. -- - - s
The session taking to consideration the busines, and finding that they
were both strangers, did refer the mater to the presbiterie; and withall
it was ordained that care should be had of her to keepe her secure, that
shee should not flee away, till shee were brought before the presbíterie.
Apr. 9.-This day the session being informed that Christian Raith was
now convalesced and able to travell, ordained that shee should be taken
down to the presbiterie upon Wednesday next, and that one or two
men should goe along with her, and bring her befor the presbíterie.
Jul. 2.-The which day Margaret Dicksone was delated for swearing,
and that shee did utter this fearful imprecation, “The divell sweepe
away such persons out of town;” ordained to be cited.
Jul. 9.—The which day compeired Margaret Dicksone, and acknow-
ledged her guiltines in swearing and uttering the former fearfull impre-
cation; quhairwpon it was ordained that shee should be publicklie re-
buked befor the congregation the next day, and was ordained by the
magistrat to pay 40 s.
Jul. 23.—The which day Margaret Dicksone gave in publick evidence
of her repentance for swearing and uttering the former fearful imprecation.
Aug. 20.—Collected 39 S 4 d. The which day compeared John
Crage, and confessed his drunkennes; quhairupon he was ordained to
1654. KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 443
mak public satisfaction the next day, and by my lord Humbie his mas-
ter was ordained to pay 6 s 8 d.
Jonet Steil compeared; confessed her cursing and swearing; quhair-
wpon, she being befor publicklie rebuked for the same befor the con-
gregation, and now no white amended, the heritours thought fit and
ordained her to stand upon ane stone at the kirk doore, from the first
bell to the last, and to have ane paper put on the wall with this inscrip-
tion, “ Here stands Jonet Steill, for cursing and swearing.”
The which day the session ordained that ane speciall care should be
had of putting in execution the Act of Parliament for restraining the
great number of people at pennie bridles; and that the persons befor
they be married, should enact themselves and find caution not to exceed
the number specified in the said Act.
Sept. 3.-Compeired Margaret Steill, and confessed her absence
from the publick worship ; quhairwpon shee was sharplie rebuked and
recommended to the magistrat for puting her in the Jogs if ever shee fall
agane in the like.
Sept. 17.-The which day William Paterson gave in publik evidence
of his repentance for his profaning the Lord's day, in going to his bro-
ther at Inchcarnie for writes anent ane law busines.
Oct. 22–Collected 40 $ 2 d. The which day given in of collec-
tions be James French to Margaret Borthwick 7 lib 4 § 8 d. The
which day given out be Martine Borthwick to ane distressed minister
who preached here, called Mr James Crichtone, who came from Ire-
land, ten pounds.
Nov. 26.-Collected 28 S 4 d. The which day ther was no session,
the minister being sent for to see the Ladie Keith, then dying.
444 KIRK SESSION OF HUMBIE. 1655.
Dec. 10.—Collected 27 s. The which day intimation was made of
ane fast to be keeped the next Sabbath for the contempt of the Gospel:
As also intimation was made of ane collection to be for the burnt land
at Edinburgh.
Dec. 17.-Collected 46 lib 10 $ for the burnt land at Edinburgh.
The which day the fast formerlie intimat for the contempt of the Gos-
pell was solemnelie kept.
Feb. 25. 1655.-Collected 30 S. The which day Thomas Cranstone
and Bessy Gourlay cited, compeired and confessed their adulterie;
quhairwpon they were referred to the presbyterie.
March 11–The which day the minister reported that the presbyterie
had referred back to the session Thomas Cranstone and Bessie Gourlay,
to mak publick satisfaction for their adulterie.
March 18.-Collected 32 5. The minister was at Elsingford. The
which day Bessie Gourlay entred in sackloth to mak satisfaction for her
adulterie with Thomas Cranstone.
Apr. 1.-Collected 21 S 6 d. The which day Thomas Cranstone
entred in sackloth to mak satisfaction for his adulterie with Bessie
Gourlay."
* Cranston subsequently, (Dec. 16.) was fined ten, and Bessie Gourlay twentie merks.
Both were thereafter publickly rebuked.
REGISTER OF THE KIRK SESSION
OF STIRLING.4
Mai; 28. 1601.-Andro Liddall.—Anent the complent producit be
Johne Kirkwod contrar Andro Liddall tailyur for abusing the giftis of God
in geving to the said Johnne steallit maister to drink, lating him to undir-
stand the samin was drinking beir ; be quhais perswasione the said Johne
wes movit to drink the said master, as at mair lenth is conteinit in the said
complent: Compeirit the said Andro personalie; with the quhilk the
brethrein being advysit, thay find the said Andro Liddall hes gevin to
the said Johne Kirkwood steallit maister to drink, &c.; and for remov-
ing of the sclander thairof, he is ordeinit to mak publict repentance the
nixt Sonday in secclayth; and be auctoritie of the civill Magistrat heir
present he is ordeinit to pay ad pios usus vilib xiij Ś iiijd. &c.
Jan. 6. 1603.−Seattis inhibit in the body of the kirk.-The brethrein
of the kirk findis necessar that thair be commodius roume reservit within
the bodie of the kirk to the servaris at the Communione tabillis to serve
thairat on baith the sydis, hes therfor refusit to grant licence to the
Commissar of Stirling to big ane removabill dask for his wyff befoir that
seat pertening to my Lady Countes of Argyll, albeit thay be verrie willing
* The Extracts contained in this second Part of the Miscellany, are taken from the three
volumes of the Proceedings of the Kirk Session of Stirling preserved in the General Register
House, and in continuation of those formerly given. See page 127.
3 M
446 REGISTER OF THE 1604.
to prefer him to any uther place in the kirk that he sall happen to sute,
quhilk salbe fund ressonabill be the kirk and counsell : And also the
brethrein hes presentlie concludit that na seat nor dask salbe licentiat
heiraftir to be biggit, removabill nor unremovabill, within the bodie of
the kirk, to any persone or persones. -
Aug. 4.—Ednam contrar Cairnis.--The bretherein of the kirk findis be
probatione of diveris famus witnes, that Marjorie Edman relict of umquhile
Johne Andersone baxter hes sclanderit Margaret Cairnis spous to Johne
Quhytlaw baxter and hir familie, as thair bill bearis; And also that the
said Marjorie besoght God that the boche and glengor mycht be in the
toune or the morne theraftir, that she mycht harll thane out with elcrukis
lyk doggis: Inrespect quherof, and of hir diverissclanderis of befoir, and
namelieaneact maid concerninghir on the 15 day of Julij 1585, the brethrein
ordanes the said Marjorie to mak publict repentence the next Sabboth,
and to crave God and the persones forgivenes quhome she hes sclanderit,
as also the toune on quhome she hes usit sic precationis; with certifica-
tion, gif she be fund ane sclanderar heiraftir, that she salbe put in the
govis according to the ordur, and publishit as a commoun sclanderar,
inrespect of the act above specefeit.
Feb. 23. 1604.—Compeirit Margaret Reid, quha for hir adulterie is
ordeinit to compeir befoir the presbiterie the mixt Wadinsday in linning
clathis, to receave hir secund injunctionis.
Maii 17–Kirk of Geneva.-The quhilk day the minister reportis
that the money collectit in this toun for the support of the trublit kirk
of Geneva is delyverit to Henrie Nisbet burges of Edinburgh, generall
collectour appointit thairto, as his acquittance receavit thairupone bearis
at mair lenth, quhairof the tennor followes : I Henry Nisbet burges of
Edinburgh, grantis me to have receavit fra the ministrie and eldarship
1606. |KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 447
of the kirk of Stirling, the soume of fyve hundreth threttie pundis and
ten shillings, and that for the help and support of the trublit kirk of
Geneva, quherof I salbe Godwilling comptabill, &c.
Aug. 2.—Hospitall.—The brethrein of the kirk desyris the minister
to requyr the counsell of the toun to mak ane autentik Rentall of the
Rent of the Hospitall.
Sept. 13.—The Pestilence.—The brethrein hes concludit and ordenit
that during the tyme of pestilence thair salbe ane humiliatione with ane
fast within this burgh ilk Sonday quhill the preaching aftirmone be
done; and this to be intimat the next Sonday.
Dec. 27.—Marie Bruce.—The quhilk day compeirit Marie Bruce
dochter to Robert Bruce of Clakmannan, and confessis fornicatione
with Johnne Carmichaell servand to my lord erle of Argyll, quhilk is
the fourt fault in hir persone, &c.
Apr. 24. 1606.-The Puiris bow.—The present assemblie aggreis and
commandis the keiparis of the Puiris box to len furth of the samin to
Archibald Allane notter the sowme of twa hundreth pundis money upone
his awin obligatione, and ane cautionar for him to be oblist therfor,
conjunctlie and severallie to content pay and redelyver the samin againe
to the keiparis of the said box betuix and the ellevin day of November
mixtocum; and in cais of failye, sall pay therwith of penaltie xx lib;
quhilk principall soume the said Archibald Allane grantis him to have
receavit.
Mai: 15.-The present assemblie ordanis ilk brother within his awne
boundis to serce diligentlie all the persones within thair boundis that
hes absented thameselfis from the Communione the last tyme of the
4.48 REGISTER OF THE 1607.
ministratione therof, and report thair namis to the sessione that ordur
may be tane with thame, seing it is fund that thair is viº iij taikinis de-
lyverit that ar nocht brocht bak againe.
Aug. 14.—Cuthbert Cunyngham.—The brethrein thinkis meit that
Cuthbert Cunynghame provest of Dunbartane colledge sall pay ad pios
usus, fyve pundis money, for the passage thrugh the kirk to burie the
corps of umquhill Jonet Alexander his spous.
QUHY THE BRETHREIN of THE KIRK conven IT Nocht.— Thair was
na meiting of the brethrein of the Eldarship of this Kirk fra the aiij day
of August 1606 to the aaria day of Januar 1607, in respect of the Plaig
of Pestilence that was in this toun the tyme foirsaid.
Jul. 16. 1607.-The quhilk day compeirit Marione Craufurd, and
confessis Johnne Levenox servand to Johne Layng motter ravishit hir
besyd the park fourtein dayis befoir Candilmes last, and that she is with
bairne gotin with hir be the said Johne the said tyme.
Jul. 30.—The quhilk day compeirit Johne Levenax servand to Johne
Layng notter, and confessis xx dayes befoir Candilmes last he mett with
Marione Craufurd at the south yett of the park nixt to Cambusbarroun,
quhair he struglit with hir, and brak the band of hir coit, and handlit
hir naikit body with his hand, and that the wemb point of his breikis
was mathir brokin nor lousit, and denyes carnall copulatione with hir,
and of ravishing of hir.
The said Marionie Craufurd on the uthir part affirmis that the said
Johne Levenax layd handis upone hir the plaice and tyme foirsaid, and
be forse pat hir to the grund, and defoircit and deflorit hir against hir
will ; to this taikin, that he lowsit and pat down his breikis, and nocht-
withstanding of hir great shoutis and cryes that she utterit, he wald
1608. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 449.
nocht leive hir quhill he gat his foull lust satisfeit ; at the quhilk tyme
she consavit bairne to him.
The brethrein remittis this mater to be advysit be the presbyterie, and
to that effect warnis bayth the parteis to the fyft day of August nixtocum.
Aug. 21. 1607.-The Communione.—The brethrein thinkis meit that
the holie Sacrament of the Lordis Supper salbe ministratin this kirk upone -
Sonday the penult day of August instant; and to the effect the pepill
may be the bettir prepairit, the kirk desyris the dene of gild to convein
his gild brethir, and ilk deacon to convein his awin brethir of craft, and
to tak tryell of all variancis amangis thane, and to reconceill thame.
Aug. 27.—Seing the sacrament of the Lordis Supper is to be ministrat
in this kirk the nixt Sabboth, thairfore ordanis the first bell to be rung
on Sattirday nixt after none half ane hour befoir twa houris, the secund
bell at twa houris, and the last bell half ane hour befoir three houris.
Item, that the first bell ring on Sonday nixt to the morning service half
ane hour befoir three houris, the secund bell at three houris, and the
the secund service to begin immediatlie aftir the ending of the first service.
Sept. 3.— The Lordis Supper.—To the end the holie Sacrament of
the Lordis Supper may be ministrat with the greater reverence, thair-
fore the brethrein of the kirk desyris the thesaurar and maister of wark
to attend that the windois of the queir be clois at all tymes, and spe-
ciallie at the tyme of the ministratione of the sacrament, in sic sort that
na foull have any interes within the queir.
Maii 19. 1608.-The quhilk day Jonet Edman spous to Johne Sherp,
and Jonet Bakcanquell spous to Johnne Forbes, ar fund commone sclan-
deraris, bannaris, sweararis, drunkardis and prophanaris of the Sabboth,
450 REGISTER OF THE 1608.
absenting thameselfis fia the kirk; for the quhilk thai upoun thair kneis
askit God forgivenes; and is certifeit iff any sic faultis be fund in any
of thame heiraftir, that thay salbe brankit thrugh the toun, put in the
govis, and banesit the toun.
Dec. 1–Brydellis–The bretherein of the Kirk ratifeis the Act of
Councell underwrittin, maid anent Brydellis, and ordanis that na testi-
moniall be gevin bot according thairto in all pointis.-wavij Novem-
bris.-The quhilk day the Councell convenit, Statutes and ordanes,
that all and quhatsumevir persones duelland within this burgh or parro-
chin thairof, quha salhappin to be proclamit for mariage contractit betuix
thame, sall mak thair brydellis and bankatis within this burgh fra thyme-
furth; And iff thay fealye, being proclamit within the paroche kirk of
this burgh be the ministeris thairof, and mak thair brydallis outwith the
said burgh; in that caice the pairtie or parteis that salhappin to contra-
vein, sall pay to the toun the soume of twentie pundis money: Provyd-
ing alwayes that this act be onelie extendit against the men and women
quha salhappin to be joyned in mariage bayth duelland within this burgh
or parochin thairof: And if ony persone duelland within this burgh
marie ane outland woman, in that caice it is statut and ordanit that it
sall nocht be lesum to him to desyr any ma persones nychtbouris of this
burgh nor tuenty persones: And if it be fund or tryed that he dois in
the contrar, in that caice he sall pay to the toun the soume of ten pundis;
and willis that the kirk befoir thay grant testimoniall, tak ane pand
thairfoir: Lykas if any outland man marie any woman duelland within
this burgh, in that caice, thair brydellis and banketis salbe maid within
this burgh; and if the woman contravein thairintill, in that caice sall
pay uther twenty pundis; and willis that befoir any testimoniall be
granted be the minister or reedar, or yit befoir mariage be solemnizit,
that they tak ame pand for the said soume.
1610. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 451
Jan. 25. 1610.-Seik personis,—Anent praying for seik personis, the
brethrein findis that the upgevaris of thair namis neglectis and omittis to
declair to the reedar quhen they depairt furth of this lyff, thrugh the
quhilk negligence thay are sindre tymes prayit for after thair death; for
remeid quhairof, the brethrein of the kirk ordanis, that name be prayid
for fathynefurth except sic personis as argevin up to the reedar ilk ser-
mond day, and quha ar nocht gevin up on the said day, that thair namis
gevin up of befoir be deleited furth of the roll.
Feb. 22.—Beatria. Clark.-The quhilk day the brethrein ordanis to
give to Beatrix Clark dochter to umquhill Andro Clark, to help to cure
ane disaise broken out in hir faice and sum uther pairtis of hir body
vj lit. thairof iij lib. this day, and uther three pundis when she is
haill.
The brethrein ordanis to give Philp Roustis wyff, to cure ane disaise
in hir faice, quhowsone she is haill, vi lib. -
Jul. 12.—The quhilk day compeirit Grissall Glen and Marioun Gil-
laspie, quha for ther superstitione in passing in pilgramage to Christis
well, as thay confessit the last day, thayar ordeinit to mak publict re-
pentance the nixt Sonday in linning claithis.
Sept. 6.-Compeirit Hellein Thomsone spous to Duncan M'Lean,
quha is fund ane commoun ressetter in thair hous of commone beggaris,
and lugis thame therintill, amangis quhome it is knawin that thair is
greit sinis usit; for remeid quherof, the said Hellein is admonesit that
frathynefurth na beggaris be receavit in hir hous, except aigit and febill
personis allenerlie; With certification if she utherwayis do, in receaving
of yung men and yung wemen beggaris in hir hous, and gevis thame
luging, that she salbe seveirlie punesit as ane ressaittar and ane men-
teinar of harlatrie.
452 |REGISTER OF THE 1614.
Maii 23. 1611.-Johne Lindsay being accusit for breking of the
ordur of the toun, quha hes mareit ane woman parochinar in this toun,
be making of his brydell without this toun; he confessit the samin, and
therfor it is fund that he is in the tounis will of xx lib. quhilk thay will
uplift fra him except he be his gude behaveour in the toun procure thair
favour thairintill.
Feb. 6. 1612.-The brethrein of the kirk aggreis and gevis thair full
consent to the ordinance of the Councell, commanding that na persone
be sein upone the gaitis nor drinkand in tavernis, aill housis, nor in na
uther housis at any time after ten houris at evin; at the quhilk hour ane
bell is appointed to be rung for adverteisment besyd uther adverteis-
mentis be the knok and utherwayes.
Apr. 21. 1614.—The Communione.—The present Assemblie being
informit that the sacrament of the Lordis Supper was short syne ministrat
in Alloway, (quhair my lord of Mar and famelie hes thair residence,)
his Lordschip selff beand than in Lundoun awaiting on his Majesteis
service; and becaus his lordschip beand admitted knycht of the gartane
is obleist to sum deuteis to the honour therof upoun the xxiij day of
Aprill, quhilk is the day immediatlie preceiding the xxiiij day of this
instant, on the quhilk the said sacrament is appointit to be ministrat to
all this congregatione; and becaus his lordship hes bein accustumat to
receave the said sacrament in this kirk, and that in respect of his dewteis
obleist to the said knychtlie ordur upon the day immediatlie preceiding,
prepairit in Alloway, quhair his lordships residence is presentlie, he can
nocht also be dewlie prepairit for receaving of the sacrament on the next
morne thaireftir ; his lordship therfor desyris that he may have the said
sacrament upon the next Sonday theraftir, viz. on the first day of Maij
nixt tocum ministrat to him; quhilk the brethrein of the kirk grantis to
his lordship, and therfor ordanis the said sacrament to be ministrat in
1615. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 453
this kirk thir nixt twa Sabbothis mixtocum, viz. the ane half of the toun
on ane day, and the uther half of the toun on the uther day, ane ser-
veice onelie to be ilk day, with the doctrein of preparatione to be on
ilk Satterday preceiding. -
Jul. 6. 1614.—The quhilk day Johne Williamsoun toun clerk of
Stirling, of his awin propir confessioun, is becum obleist as cautionar
and souertie for Johne Erskyne of Litill Sauchie, that he sall satisfie
the kirk of Stirling for sclandir of the kirk befornicatioun committed be
him with Margaret Erskyne dochter of umquhile Adame Commendator
of Cambuskynneth, and also the civill magistrat of the said burgh, &c.
Dec. 29.-Mariagis._The brethrein understanding the importun and
untymus suitis of the compleiting of mariagis suited be many personis in
this congregatione, at tymes nocht decent for that purpois, thairfoir the
haill assemblie present Inhibitis the granting of all sic sutis, and dis-
chargeis the ministratioune of all mariagis frathynefurth in this kirk
except on the ordinar preaching day immediatlie after sermond, and at
na uther tyme : And if any personis desyris testimoniallis to be mareit
in ane uther kirk, that the samin be nocht granted, inrespect the Puiris
brod is therby hurt, except thay give xx s to the puir for helping of the
said damnage, without prejudice to the last act on the 1st of Dec. 1608.
Maii 1.1. 1615.-John Keir.-The quhilk day compeirit Johne Keir
in Cambuskynneth, and confessis he tuik to Jonnet Murrioch in Dun-
blane ane sark of Williame Gillaspie his gude sone, and askit of hir if
he wald die or leive ; quha ansuerit him, that he wald nocht die this
yeir ; and that she cust ane knot on ane of the slevis of his sark, and re-
dely verit the samin agane to him, and baid him put it on hir; and ther-
for he is warnit to compeir befoir the Presbíterie on the xvijday of Maij
instant, to receave his injunctionis.
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454. . REGISTER OF THE 1617.
Jun, 1.—James Uttem brother in law to Johne Robertsone tailyur, is
fund to have absentit himself from the Communione the last ministratione
therof without any just caus; and therfor he is admonesit on his kneis, with
certificatione if he do the lyk heiraftir, that he sall mak publict repentence.
Jun. 8.-Compeirit Agnes Young spous to Gilbert Brys, and con-
fessis she wes at Christis well, and therfoir she is ordeinit to mak publict
repentance in linning claythis the mixt Sabboth.
Jan. 9. 1617.-Vagabundis banesit.—The quhilk day compeirit Alex-
ander Mitchell, quha confessis the resset in his hous, hurding in his loft
of William Kellie and Elizabeth Buchanane, allegeit mareit vagabundis,
quha hes na calling nor quhairupone to leive, contrar the command
gevin be straik of drum to all the citinaris of the toun, and therfor the
brethren of the kirk remittis the said Alexander Mitchell to be punesit
be the magistratis and councell as thay think meit, and desyris the
magistratis to baneis the saidis vagabundis aff the toun.
Jun. 5-Thomas Liddall, Beddall.—The brethrein being myndfull
to mak Finlay Liddall thair Beddall sumthing honest in his abulyement,
now in the approching of his Majestie and Court to this toun, &c. hes
thocht meit that Thomas Lawhop sall buy to him ane cloik meit and
convenient for his esteat, &c.
Sept. 4.—The quhilk day compeirit Issobell Robein, spous to Andro
Lokart, quha is fund a sclanderar of Jonet M*Bend, spous to Andro
Neilsone, lyk as she is under ane euill report of hir toung with uther
personis; thairfore the brethrein ordanis hirin this sessione upon hir kneis
to ask the said Andro Neilsone in name of his spous forgivenes for hir
fault, quhilk she hes satisfeit ; lyk as also sall pas to the presens of the
said Jonet M*Bend, and befoir hir acknowledge hir said fault and craive
1618. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 455
hir forgivenes; and siclyk the said Issobell Robein is presentlie certi-
feit if she be fund ane sclanderar of any persone heiraftir, the magis-
tratis wilbe desyrit to put hir in the brankis.
Jan. 15. 1618.-Steuinsone satisfeit.—The quhilk day Johnne Ste-
uinsone servand to Dowgall Galloway, be his awin confessione is fund
to have bene leatlie sa ouercum with drink that he lost sindrie of his
sencis ; and therfor is ordanit to hummill himself presentlie on his kneis,
and to crave God and his kirk forgivenes for the samin, and to pay Xx 5.
ad pios usus ; quhilk he hes obeyit.
Feb. 26.—Hospitall.—The quhilk day the brethrein of the kirk un-
derstanding that the maisteris of the Neather Hospitall hes bene dealling
for conqueis of certane park ackiris of land, Seik manis hous, yaird and
croft lyand within the territorie of this burgh of Stirling, to the use of
the puir of the said Hospitall, quhilk now in end thay have coſt for
threttie four hundreth merkis, and hes be advyse of the provest, bail-
leis and councell of the said burgh perfyted securities therupone, quhilk
hes bein hard sein and considderit be the brethir present; and therfore
the haill assemblie of the eldarschip of this kirk ratifeis and approvis the
conqueis and bying of the saidis landis to the use of the said Hospitall
and puir therof, and thinkis the samin weill done be thane; quherupone
the saidis Maisteris askit instrumentis. -
Boweys Ill.—The quhilk day the brethrein of the kirk understanding
that Thomas Cragingelt of that Ilk, hes renuncit and simpliciter ouer-
gevin his rycht, interes, kyndnes, propirtie and possessione that he hes,
haid, or any wayes may claim or have in and to that Ill in the Rude
kirk of Stirling, callit of auld the Boweys Ill, and now Craigengeltis;
Thairfore the present assemblie ar content and consentis that the corps
of the said Thomas and Anna Rollok his spous, and the bairnis of the
said Thomas quhome God sall visie be deathe in thair awin tymes, sall
456 REGISTER OF THE 1618.
have bureall frelie in any part of the said kirk, except the said Ille, quher
the magistratis and councell of Stirling and eldarship of the said kirk sall
nominat and appoint.
Apr. 14. 1618.-Ea:erceis on the Thurisday.—Seing it hes pleasit
God to tak frome this kirke thair gude and godly pastor Mr Patrik
Simsone, quherby thay have nane to preache the word nor minister the
sacramentis unto thame, bot sic as the presbitrie of thir boundis grantis
volunterlie unto thame; and to the end the parochinaris of this kirk be
nocht destitut of doctrein on the Thurisday, quheron thay have bein
accustomit to have doctrein teachit ordinarlie unto thame be thair pastour,
The said presbitrie hes ordeinnit that thair exerceis of the word salbe
teachit unto thame be thair pastor ordinarlie ilk Thurisday at the ordinar
tyme therof; and to the end the brethir of the said presbyterie may be
the better comforted in the said wark, the brethrein of this assemblie
earnestlie exhortis that all the citinaris of this toun may be admonesit to
frequent diligentlie to the said exerceis ilk day therof, and that thay
give liberallie unto the puir the said day as thay war accustomat to give
of befoir on the samin.
Perambulation in the Uttir Kirk dischairgit.—The present Assem-
blie undirstanding that thair is ane ungodlie custume usit be sindrie
honest men in ganging in the Uttir kirk upone the Sabboth befoir the
minister enter in the pulpet, quhen God his word is red publictlie and
the salmis sung in the Inner kirk, quherby the said holie word is nocht
reverenced as becumis ; and therfor the present assemblie dischairgis all
sic perambulatione in tymes cuming, and commandis that all the accus-
tomat doaris therof sall, incontinent after the entrie within the uttir kirk,
repair to thair awin accustomat seatis and give cairfull attendence to the
preaching and reeding of God his word and praising of his holie name,
be singing of psalmes in all tyme cuming. *
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Sept. 22.-Johne Row.—The quhilk day Johnne Sharar and Johnne
Johnsone bealleis reportis that the magistratis and councell of this burgh
hes thocht meit that Mr Johne Row sall have for uptaking of the psalme
yeirlie x merkis money; the ane half therof to be payit be the townis
thesaurer, and the uther half be the kirk furth of ther penalteis; quher-
unto the brethrein of this assemblie aggreis, &c.
Finlay Liddall—The brethrein of the kirk remembering that they
promesit to give to Finlay Liddall thair Beddall, ii ś oulklie to keip
clein the feildis about the kirk, quhilk thay rest awand to him sen the
fyft day of Junij last, &c.
Mar. 2. 1619.- Thomas Lindsay and Sara Broun.-In the term
assignit to prove sclanderus behaviour betuix Thomas Lindsay and
Sara Broun togithir in hir maistres hous: Compeirit baithe the saidis
personis personallie, and confest that sen thay war admonesit be this
assemblie, thay war togithir in hir maistres hous quhen she was furth of
the toune three nychtis, and that thay lay in naikit bed togithir the
saidis three nychtis, bot denyes carnall deall; the brethrein continewis
the said mater to the ix day of Merche instant to farthir tryell; thay
baith warnit thairto apud acta.
Mar. 9.—Puir.—The present assemblie understanding thair is ane
great nummer of honest indigent personis within this congregatione that
levis varie hardlie thruch want of thair necessaris, and yit ar ashamit to
mein ther esteat publictlie as utheris dois; And seing chiritie requyris
that thay sould be cheiflie respectit and nawayes neglectit of thair por-
tione of the puiris almis collectit to that effect, Thairfoir the haill assem-
blie present with ane consent hes concluded and appointed thair brethrein
of the kirk underwrittin, &c. &c. as personis that best knawis the esteat
of this toun, to tak ane privie and exact tryell of the namis of all sic
persones as arabone specefeit within this toun, and to roll thame ; and
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after deliberat advysement, to appoynt quhow everie ane of thame salbe
supported according to thair present esteat and necessitie, &c. &c.
The quhilk day Thomas Lindsay and Sara Broun admonesit to ab-
stein fra all appearance of evill, &c. and to mak publict repentance the
nixt three sermond dayes.
Sept. 21.—Item for licience to burie the corps of umquhill Geillis
Sinclair, spous to Johnne Sinclair, within the bodie of the kirk, xl merk
besyd and attour payment for the valvet mortclayth according to the ordur.
Dec. 19. 1620.-David Murray, Musitionar.—The quhilk day the
brethrein of the kirk, at des}r of the Magistratis and Councell, consentis
to give David Murray musitionar, for uptaking of the psalme in the kirk
and teaching of ane mwsick schooll in this toun, xx merk yeirlie during
his service, &c.
Jan. 30. 1621.-David Hairt.—The quhilk day David Hairt, prenteis
to Gilbert Bauhop wrycht, confest prophanatione of the Sabboth in
playing at the goff in the park on the Sabboth aftirnone in tyme of
preaching; and therfor is ordenit to pay ad pios usus vis viijd &c.
The quhilk day compeirit Cristiane Levingstoun, relict of umquhill
Cunynghame, quha is fund ane ill keepar of the kirk, and oft tymes
contending with hir doghtir; for the quhilkis she is sherplie admonesit
and commandit to mend the saidis faultis in tymes cuming.
Feb. 13.-Penalteis.-The brethrein of the kirk ordanis the Collectour
of the penalteis to pay furth of the rediest therof to the Maisters of
the Hospitall lxxx merkis, quhilkwes borrowit of thair rent to ane eccle-
siasticall use; and this act salbe his warrand.
Pulpet to be Reformit.—The brethrein of the kirk, be advyse of my
Lord Provest, thinkis meit that the pulpet and Reederis letrun salbe
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taine doune and reedefeit againe; and therfore thay ordein that the samin
be done be Johnne Johnsone and Duncan Watsone maisteris of the kirk
wark be advyse of my Lord Provest, the Minister, Johne Sharar Dean
of Gild, and Johne Williamsone toun clerk; and that they mak commo-
dious seattis about the fit thairof meit for the maister of the sang schooll
and his bairnis to sit on, for singing of the psalmes in the tyme of the
holie serveice of the kirk.
Mar. 13.—The quhilk day compeirit Robert Heriot, quha confessis
he prophanit the Sabboth be playing at the kyllis in tyme of the ser-
mond; for the quhilk he is ordenit to mak publict repentence the mixt
Sabboth on his feit, and to pay ad pios usus XX S.
Maii. 8.-The quhilk day compeirit Marione Alshunder, doghter to
Johne Alexander, and confessis she brew eall in ane hous be hir self and
sellis it; quhilk tread she is commanded to leave aff seing she is ane
singill woman be hir self, and commanded to entir in honest serveice with
diligence under the paine of the actis of the kirk.
Oct. 23.−Finlay Liddall, Beddall—The quhilk day compeirit Finlay
Liddall beddall, quha be his awin confessione he is fund sindrie tymes
to have bein overcum with drink, and therby miswsis his offeice, as in
speciallyisternycht he rang the bell at sex houris at evin, quhilk aught
to have bein done at viij houris according to the accustomat ordur;
quherby the towne was put in affray, and the kirk sclandirit be his evill
exampill: and therfor he is sherplie admonesit in the name of God and
his kirk, that he be nocht fund at any tyme heirafter any wayes overcum
with drink, mather yit any wayes miswse his offeice; With certificatione
if he be fund to do in the contrar that he salbe simpliciter deposit frome
all offeice he hes of the kirk. - •
460 REGISTER OF THE 1622.
Dec. 25.—Proclamationis of promesis of mariage.—The present as-
semblie undirstanding diveris abusis to have bein usit be sindrie that
makis promeis of mariage to utheris, and gevis up thair names to be
proclamit; for remedy quhairof It is statut and ordeinit, that frathyne-
furth nane be proclamit quhill ilk partie that is parrochinaris of this kirk
consing x lib in money, athir cunyeit or uncunyeit, for the better secu-
ritie, that mather of the parteis sall fealye in completing of thair mariage
within the space of fourtie dayes nixt, and immediatlie following the first
day of ther proclamatione ; quhilk if any of thame do, the partie feal-
yeand sall lois ther x lib consignit, and to be payit ad pios usus ; and for
the better securetie, that thay sall abstein fra all hurdum togithir, that
thay and thair cumpanyes sall abstein fra all dansein on any part of the
publict streitis of the toun; and that thair salbe na mair tane for ane man
or ane womanislawein on the day of thair mariage nor fyve shillingis, &c.
Jan. 8. 1622.-Stevensone and Donaldsone.—The brethrein under-
standing that Alexander Stevinsone, spous to Jonet Ure and Margaret
Donaldsone, ar leatlie apprehendit together, nochtwithstanding thay war
obleist of befoir to abstein frautheris cumpany, under the paine of cair-
tein thruch the toun and diveris uther puneishmentis contenit in actis of
the kirk and civill magistrat; Thairfore the brethrein of the kirk desyris
the civill magistrat to execut the said punishment against thame accord-
ing to the saidis actis in all pointis.--Thir persomes wer baith cairted.
Feb. 12.-Registrein of Baptisme.—The quhilk day the present As-
semblie findis ane great number of the bairnis baptizit in this kirk
omitted furth of the Register thairof in default of thair parentis, quha will
nocht sute the samin expres contrar the actis of the generall kirk, and
to the greit hurt of our posteritie quha sall have ado therwith ; for re-
medy quhairof. It is statut and ordeinit be this assemblie that befoir any
bairne be baptezit in this kirk at any tyme heiraftir, the father of ilk
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bairne, or in his absence ane speciall freind therof, sall first pass to the
Clerk of the said Register and give up the name thairof, with the parentis
and witnessis quha salbe hauldin to try if the parentis hes sclanderit
the kirk and nocht removit the samin ; quhilk if he find, that he declair
the samin to the minister and follow out his directione therintill, and
thairafter to register thame according to the ordur, and deliver ane
tiket thairupone to the father of the bairne to be reported to the minister,
quhairby he may knaw if the ordur be keipit, and the clerk sall receave
for his travellis ij Ś. MR. JAMEs LAURIE, Minister.
Mai: 7.-The Kirk Calsay.—The present assemblie hes thocht meit,
and appointed the maisteris of the kirk wark to caus big with diligence
ane meit and convenient calsay in the kirk gait, betuix the kirk dur and
therfra doun by the kirk to the townis calsay at the north east part of
the said kirk; and also doun by the south syd of the ministeris hous to
the townes calsay, of sic breid as the saidis maisteris sall think meit,
and that upone the first and rediest of that money that is and salbe col-
lectit for reparatione of the kirk; and this act salbe ane warrand therfoir.
Jul. 23.—Puir.—The quhilk day Johne Andersone convenar and
Johne Johnsone baillie for thameself, and in name and behalf of James
Short and James Spittall, Reportis that thay have tane ane privie tryell
of the honest indigent personis within this congregatione, quhom thay
have rollit privallie as thay war appointed be ane act of this eldarship
made upone the vij day of Maij last bypast; and after gude deliberat
advysement hes considderit thair neid, and hes thocht meit that thay sall
have distributed amangis thame in maist privie forme the soume of ane
hundreth pundis money; quhilk soume thay have receavit furth of the
Puiris box fra the handis of James Duncansone and Johne Squyar
keeparis thairof, and have distributed the samin amongst the said indi-
gent personis in meast privie maner: Quhilk haill report being advysit,
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462 REGISTER OF THE 1622.
the present assemblie allowis it in all pointis, and ordanis this act to be
ane sufficient warrand to the keeparis of the said box for thair dischairge
of the soume abonewrittin delyverit be thame as said is.
Aug. 20–Uncuth Puir.—The present assemblie findis that thruch
many inoportune sutis made for support of uncuth straingeris, our awin
pure ar prejudgit of thair almus; for remade quhairof, it is ordeinit that
na brother of this eldarship sall frathymefurth sute any support to any
uncuth straingearis, except onelie to our awin nateive pure, and untill sic
tyme as thay may be first helpit.
The Minister and remanent brethrein of this eldarship being con-
venit, and assisted with the Provest and twa of the bealleis.
Aug. 28.—Margaret Moderall.—The quhilk day compeirit Margaret
Moderall, quha confessis herself with bairne goten with hir in fornica-
tione be Thomas Norie as she alledgis; and being desyrit to declair the
tymes and pleacis quhen thay offendit togithir, she confessis the first
tyme thairof was that nycht of Johne Cunnyngbrugh his lykwaik in
Thomas Thomesone his hous, quhair thay lay togithir the meast part of
that nycht; the secund tyme at peace last in William Sinclairis stair;
the thrid tyme in M*Facounis yaird in the nycht about Witsonday last.
The samin day compeirit the said Thomas Norie, quha being con-
fronted with the said Margaret and accusit upone hir said confessione
abonewrittin, he denyes hir bairne to be his, and confessis that he offen-
dit with hir sindrie tymes in the moneth of November last bypast ; and
denyes all offence with hir in any uther moneth : As concerning
M“Faconis yaird declairit be hir, he confessis that upon hir intysement
he past to that yaird quhair she was, and be passing ouer the dyk ane
sten fell on his leg, quherby he was sua hourt that he could nocht have
deall with hir, and with great difficultie he come hame to his fatheris
hous, quher he lay three dayes befoir he gat habilitie therof; to this
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taikin quhen he left hir, she cursit him and said she should gar him rew
it: The brethrein continewis farther proceiding with the said Margaret
quhill the thrid day of September mixtocum, that ordur may be tane
with hir and hir cautionar anent hir returning to this toun without
licience after she was banesit thairfra. As concerning the said Thomas
Norie, the brethrein ordanis him to mak publict repentance the nixt
Sabboth for his fornicatione confessit be him with the said Margaret as
said is, his penaltie ad pios usus iij lib v.j Ś viijd.—This penaltie receavit
and gevin in drink silver to the warkmen.
Sept. 3.—The quhilk day compeirit William Rannald, servitur sum-
tyme to the gudeman of Kersie, to quhome it is declarit that Margaret
Moderall is leatlie returnit to this toun sen he became cautionar that she
sould abstein therfra under the paine of x liff; quhais returning he con-
fessis, and the brethrein decernis him to pay as cautionar foirsaid fyve
pund of the said penaltie ad pios usus.
Sept. 17.-The quhilk day compeirit Marione Moderall, doghter to
umquhill.Johnne Moderallin Greinyairdispersonalie, to whometheminister
in name of this eldarship that she hes fallin in three severall faultis of
fornicatione; the first twa faultis with Johne Levingstoun, and the thrid
fault with Thomas Norie as actis maid thairupoun beris: In respect
quhairof, besyd hir disobedience and contempt done oftintymes to the
civill magistratis of this toun, she hes incurrit that punishment set doun
be the Esteatis of Parliament against all fornicatouris that fallis the thrid
tyme in the said fault; to wit, ather to pay ane hundreth pundis money
if she be willing rather nor to be punesit in hir persone as followes or
responsabill therfore; utherwayes to be imprisoned threoulkis, hir fude
to be bred and watter allanerlie; and theraftir to be dowkit three tymis
in the deepest and foullest pule or watter of the toun or parrochin; and
therafter to be banished the toun for ever as the 13 act of his Majesties
464 REGISTER OF THE 1622.
first parliament at mair lenth beris. And seeing the said Marione is
now fallin in the said danger, she is askit if she will pay the said ane
hundreth pundis, and releive hir body of the uther punishment above
writtin; she ansueris that she is nocht responsabill therfoir : In respect
quhairof the brethrein of the kirk desyris the civill magistrat of this burgh
to execut upone hir the uther civill puneishment contenit in the said
act; with the quhilkis thay being advysit, and also with hir contemp-
tuous disobedience against thair auctoritie in tymes bygaine sindrie and
divers tymis; and on the uther part to remove all appeirance of strait
dealling according to the rigur of law against hir; Thay with advyse
of the brethrein of the kirk thinkis meit that for the present thay will
pas over the wardein of hir persone and dowking thairof according to
the act of parliament, and decernis and ordanis her to be presentlie
reponit to waird quhill with convenient diligence she be banesit this
toun for evir; With certificatione if she be fund therin heiraftir without
licience, that nocht onelie the remanent punishment prescryvit be the
aet of parliament now past over salbe execut against hir, bot also sic
farther punishment as the civill magistrat sall think meet for hir return-
ing without licience aftir hir banishment as said is; And to the effect
name within this toun sall pretend ignorance of hir said banishment,
Ordanis that the tyme of hir banishment she be convoyit through the
toun with strek of drum, commanding that name receave hir heiraftir
within this parrochin under the pane of fyve pund money toties quoties.
Vpone the fuſt day of November 1622 thair was na meitting of this
eldarship in respect the sermond maist for gloriféing of God for his
Majesties delyverie frome the powdir treasone continewit quhill aij houris.
Nov. 7.—The brethrein of the kirk grantislicience to Henrie Elphing-
stone to burie his young doghter in the kirk, quha promesis thairfoir
x lib. ad pios usus.
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Feb. 25. 1623.−Bureall.—The quhilk day the minister, elderis and
deacunis of this kirk, with advyse of the provest, bealleis and councell
convenit with thame, for avoyding of the great abbuse and prophanatione
of God his hous in bureing of deid corps within the samin, hes ordeinit
that frathisfurth thair be na bureall within this kirk, except be licience
bayth of the sessione and magistratis, first soght and obteinit therto;
and for the better restrent therof, ilk corps that salbe bureit in the uttir
kirk on the north syd therof, betuix the pillars and the wall, the procu-
raris therof sall pay to the use of the kirk and puir the soume of fourtie
pundis; and for ilk corps that salbe bureit in the west end of the said
kirk, undir the stepill devydit fra the remanent flure of the bodie of the
kirk be ane greete of stanis alreddie layid half ane fut heyeher then the
said flure, the procuraris therof sall pay therfoir the soume of threttie
º pundis to the use foirsaid; and for ilk corps that salbe bureit within the
east end of the kirk at the bak of the merchandis loft, the procuraris therof
sall pay ane hundreth merk to the use forsaid; and ilk corps that salbe
careit thrugh the kirk to the Ille of the laird of Garden, or to the Ille of
Duncan Patersone, the procurar of leive therto sall pay thairfoir to the
use foirsaid the soume of ten merkis money; And that the licience to be
granted of the saidis buriall plaicis sall not infer to the procureris nor
ther successouris any propirtie or kyndnes of bureall roume in the saidis
plaicis at na tyme heirafter be any maner of way; Dischargeing also all
bureall rowme in any uther part of the said kirk, except the placis foir-
saidis in maner abone writtin in all tymis cuming.
Sept. 2.-The quhilk day compeirit Issobell Dowgall, quha is fund
ane resettar of Oray women and uther vicious persones; and therfor she
is admonesit to abstein fra the receaving of any siclyk persones in tymes
cuming under the paine of banisein hir the toun.
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Dec. 9.—The quhilk day the brethrein of the kirk grantis licience to
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the executouris of umquhill Robert Robertson merchand, to lay ane hewn
stone upon his corps bureit in the kirk yaird for payment ad pios usus of
xx merk money, besyd and attour xl merk he left in legacie to the puir.
Mar. 9. 1624.—Puiris Ill.—The brethrein of the kirk allowis and
approvis the repairing of that Ill in the kirk pertening to the puir of the
Hospitall, and aggreis that the maisteris thairof proceid therin to the
compleiting therof.
Jun. 15.-Hospitall ; Armis of the Burgh.-The brethrein of the kirk
and magistratis understanding that the maisteris of the Hospitall in re-
pairing thair Ill on the south syd of the kirk, and seing thair is ane
geavill bigit be thame on the north end of the Ill nixt to the kirk quhilk
sould have been bigit be the toun; and for biging of ane dur in the said
geavill for the use of the kirk: Thairfore ordanis the Collectouris of the
reparatione of the kirk to pay to the maisteris of the said Hospitall xl
merk, and ordanis the saidis maisteris to caus hew upone ane meit com-
modious plaice thairof this tounis armis, viz. the Wolff on ane craig.
Oct. 11. 1625.-The quhilk day the brethrein of this assemblie call-
ing to memorie the abbuse of this materiall kirk be wyld foullis, namelie
the howllat, quha enteris thairin the tyme of divine service be ane
windo within the allegit Ill of Duncan Patersone, &c. &c.; decernis the
saidis windois to be closit up be sic meinis as thay think meit for staying
of the entrie of all foullis within the kirk, to the dishonour of God and
his holie service therin in tymes cuming.
Aug. 29. 1626.-The quhilk day James Duncansoune vicar of Stir-
ling, being weake and impotent through age, and unable to serve the
kirk in reading and writing to the session as before, willinglie dimitted
his place and clerkship of the session; in token quherof he delyverit four
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great session-buiks in folio to the brethrein ther present, together with
the registers of baptisme and mariage; protesting alwayes, that during
the said James his lyftyme, he might have accesse to the buiks for
drawing furth of extracts and making some benefite therby, quhilk the
brether granted and condescendit unto.
Maii 1. 1627.-Puirs Boa.—The quhilk day the breatherein ordeanes
the thesaurer of the Puirs box to lend out fyve hundreth merkis for
annuallrent, according to the custome of the cuntrie, they remaining
answerable to ws.
Mai; 22.—Minister his wuſes seat.—The quhilk day the breathrein
ordeanes Andro Yunge kirk thesaurer to build ane seat befoir Margaret
Erskin her seat for the Minister his wyfe, and for all succeeding Minis-
ters wyfes efter her. -
Dec. 25.-The quhilk day the breatherein ordeanes the officer to
warne the eldars against Sonday nixt, to sitt into the Merchands loft,
and thair to hold up thair hands befoir the congregatioune in signe and
token of thair fidelitie in the said office of the eldarschip for ane yeir to
come, whose names followeth, &c.
Sir William Alexander.—The quhilk day Sir William Alexander,
efter his returne from his sea voyage, gave to the puir of Stirling fiftie
aucht pundis money.
Jan. 29. 1628.-The quhilk day compeared Margaret Donaldsoune
spous to James Forsythe, and being accused of the breatherein for
giving ane sark of her bairnes to Helen Squyar to tak to Margaret
Cuthbert in Garlick.craig for to charme the same ; the said Margaret
Donaldsoune confessed that schoe gave her the sark, and the said Helen
Squyar confessed that schoe tuik it to that Margaret Cuthbert intending
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to have it charmed, bot denyes that it was charmed at all, becaus the
said Margaret Cuthbert refuised: Thairfoir the breatherein ordeanis
the said persounes, to witt Margaret Donaldsoune for giving of the
bairnes sark, and Helen Squyar for receaving of it, to sitt togidder upon
the seat quhair the breckers of the Sabbaothe sitts, and mak thair publict
repentance upon thair kneis befoir the congregatioune.
Mar. 25.—Williame Meassoune puirman.—The quhilk day compeared
Williame Meassoune puirman in the Hospitall, and being accused for
not wearing of his liveray, and not keiping of the kirk, and for his
drunknes, and for wanting his mark aff his gowne sleife; is ordeaned
giff ever he be sein wanting his gowne, or drunk, or out of the kirk, or
wanting his mark, he should losse his place.
Maii 6.—Neilsoun satisfied.—The quhilk day the breatherein ordeanes
Adam Neilsoune to mak his repentance upon the kirk fluir in presence
of the congregatioune, for his consulting with Stein Maltman ane witche.
Jun. 10–Jonet Alexander hir legacie.—The quhilk day the minister,
eldaris and deacounes of the kirk of Stirling, Ratifies and approves the
acquittance and discharge granted be the thesaurer and maisters of the
Hospitall of the said burgh, with consent of the provest, bailleis and
counsell thairof, to Walter Cowane burges of the samyne burgh, of the
sowme of twa hundereth punds, quhilk wes left in legacie be um-
quhill Jonet Alexander his mother, to the puir of the said Hospitall
and ministrie of Gods word within the said burgh, equallie betuix
thame, as the said discharge in itself at mair lenth beares; the quhilk
sowme wes delyvered the day foirsaid to James Spittall and Thomas
Bauhop present maisters of the Hospitall.
Jul. 22.—Abuse of Cambushenneth his seat.—The quhilk day the
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breitherein perceaving the abuse of the merchants and craftsboyes by dis-
haunting thair awin seats destinat for thame to sitt intill, and haunting
my Lord of Cambuskenneth his seat, and that they use it for this caus
to cum in and go out quhen they pleas in tyme of divyne service, as
lykways for thair using the Kings seat for the said causes: Thairfoir
the breatherein ordeanes the deane of gild to tak ordour with the mer-
chants, and the deacone convener to tak ordour with the craftsmen
and boyes.
Feb. 10. 1629.-Cowan and Shorts Legacies.—The quhilk day the
minister, eldars and diacones of the kirk of Stirling being convenit, Rati-
fies and approves the act of counsall, &c. anent the discharge to Alex-
ander Cowane chirurgeone, executour to umquhill James Schoirt, &c.
Jul. 21.—The Kirk Bible.—The quhilk day the breatherein or-
deanis Patrick Sword kirk thesaurer, to give to James Wallace for
the binding of the Kirk Bible four punds.
Sept. 15.—Alteration of the Prayeris.-The quhilk day the bretherein
ordeanes the minister to mak intimatione to the congregatioune upon
Sonday nixt, out of pulpit, conserning the changing of the prayers,
from sevin hours of the morning and fyve houris at evin, to aucht hours
of the morning to four houris at evin. -
Dec. 29.- The minister, provest, bailyeis, councell and the auld
eldars and deacones of this kirk being convenit.—The quhilk day the
brethrein ordeanes the act maid in the councell be the provest and
bailleis conserning the buriall in the Hospitalls Isle to be insert in our
buik of sessioune, in forme and maner as followis:
Act of the Hospitalls Isle.—That no persoune quhatsumever fra this
furth be buried in the Hospitalls Isle within the kirk of this burghe,
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whill first they be satisfied therfor be those that cravis the same, &c.;
to witt, for ilk persoune, man or woman, fourtie punds, and everie bairne
tuentie punds, unforgiven, &c.
Jan. 12. 1630.-Collectioune for the Mosse.—The quhilk day the
bretherein appoints thir persounes following, to wit, Androw Yung for
the first quarter, Walter Cowane for the secund quarter, James Spittall
for the thrid quarter, and James Fothringhame for the fourth quarter,
to assist the minister to gather the collectioune for the gentlemen whose
lands wes overflowed with the mosse; who repoirted thair diligence
thairin, that they collected four hundreth and ten merks and above.
Jun. 1.—Christes Well.—The quhilk day compeirit Elspet Aiken spous
to Andro Cunynghame tinckler, Jonet Harvie, William Huttoune cutler,
Margaret Mitchell dochter to Alexander Mitchell, Jonet Bennet dochter to
James Bennet cuik, James Ewein sone to Johne Ewein wobster, Margaret
Wright, James Watsoune, who confessis passing in pilgrimage to Christes
Wellin Maij, and thairfoir they arordeaned to mak publick repentance the
nixt Sabboth in thair awin habeit, under the paine of disobedience.
Lykway I Mr Patrik Bell am ordeaned to desyre the bretherein of
the presbyterie to appoint ane actuall minister for to preache upon
Sonday nixt, for to tak ordour with the said persounes abovewritten.
Jun. 7. 1631–Kirk Bell.—The quhilk day Androw Yung bailyie,
repoirted that he, according to the Counsell and Sessiounes directioune,
went to my lord of Madertie and bought ane bell to the kirk upon the
fourt day of Junij 1631, weightand nynteen staine weight; the quhilk
the bretherein of this eldarschip approved and allowed; and as for the
pryce thairof, thay sall allow the same to him as maister of the kirk
work in his compts, and the rest of the expenssis in hinging thairof
according to his compts thairanent.
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Jun. 28.—Cups redelyvered—The quhilk day the silver cups wer de-
lyvered haill and feir againe to the sessioune be Mr Josephe Lawrie
minister, and gevin be the sessioune to Mr Patrik Bell reidar for to keip.
Jul.12–Distressed bretherein of the Palatinat—The quhilk day
Mr Patrik Bell reidar, according to the directioune of the Presbytrie,
relaited to the Sessioune of Stirling conserning the distressed ministers
of the Palatinat and uthers, that they would contribute for thair neces-
sitie out of thair christian charitie and liberalitie; the bretherein hard
the samyne, and remitted it to the counsell of the said brughe.
Aug. 30–Sir Williame Erskeins armes.—The quhilk day Jhone
Cowane proponit to the bretherein ane overtour conserning umquhile
Sir Williame Erskeins armes, tobe put up in the Hospitalls Isle, quhair
the said umquhile Sir William his corps lyeth, towit, ather without
claiming the propertie to the said laire, or to pay for the propertie of so
muche, or then to buy the Isle of the toune; the quhilk overture being
voted be the sessione, the bretherein remitted the samyn to the counsell
to be done heirin to thair pleasour. -
Sept. 6.—Sessioune and Presbíteriall Buiks.-The quhilk day Mr
Joseph Laurie minister of Stirling, producit in presens of the bretherein
upoun the sessioune table thrie sessione buiks and sax synodoll and
Presbíteriall buiks in folio, quhilk wes delyvered to him be umquhill
James Duncansoune leat clark to the sessioune and presbiterie, &c. &c.
Oct. 4.—Lord William Viscount of Stirling.—The quhilk day the
moderator, elders and deacones of the sessione of the kirk of Stirling
being convenit within the said kirk, within thair sessioune hous thair-
intill, They all with ane consent and assent, for divers and sindrie resson-
able gud caussis and consideratiounes moving thame, being weill and
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ryplie advysed, have given granted and disponit, &c. to ane noble lord,
William Vicount of Stirling, Lord Alexander of Tullibodie and his aires,
all and haill that seat or loft within the said kirk of Stirling, boundit
betuix the seat or loft quhilk perteinit to umquhile Adame commenda-
tare of Cambuskenneth on the west, and the seat or loft presentlie
possest be the maister and scollers of the grammar schole of the said
burgh of Sterling on the east, &c. Reservand, &c.
Sept. 4. 1632–The quhilk day the minister, eldars and deacones of
the kirk of Stirling, Ratifies and approves the richt and dispositioune
grantit be the masteris of the Hospitall thairof in name of the puir of the
samyne, with consent of the provest, &c. in favours of my Lord Vicount
of Stirling, &c. of thair Isle situat on the south syde of thair said kirk,
sumtyme called Bowyes or Craigingelts Iyle, and now the Puires Isle, &c.
Cunynghame the blind man,—The quhilk day the bretherein ordeanes
Archibald Stirling master of the kirk wark, to give to Williame Cunyng-
hame blind man for the ringing of the meakle bell upon Sonday befoir
noone and efternoone and upon Wednesday quarterlie threttie schillings.
Apr. 30. 1633.−Margaret Chapman.—The quhilk day compeired
Margaret Chapman spous to Jhone Bennet cuper of Stirling, and being
accused be Agnes Bennie spous to Andrew Bell wobster in Stirling, for
taking of her milk from hir out of hir breist, sche having abundance
thairof, be unlawfull meanes, and laying of seiknes upon hir and hir
bairne, as the said Agnes Bennie alledges: The said Margaret Chap-
man confest that schee learned of ane Margaret Dundie in Sanct John-
stoun, quhen any woman lost hir milk, to caus the womans bairne that
wants the milk to souck ane uther woman who hes milk in her breist,
becausane greidie eye or hart tuik the milk from the woman that wants
the milk; and that schoe learned be Margaret Downie spous to Thomas
Burne Smith in Stirling, to nipe the womanes cloithes who had the
1636. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 473
breist of milk, and be so doing the milk sould returne agane to the
woman that wantit it; and swa accordinglie the said Margaret Chapman
confessed that schoe practized the samyne, and caused hir bairne souck
Agnes Bennie, and that the said Margaret Chapman nipped Agnes
Binnie's aprone, &c. &c.
Dec. 24.—Sessiones ordinance conserning the Ministers wuſes seat.—
The quhilk day the breatherein ordainis Johne Johnestoune and Duncan
Watsoune, maisters of the kirk work, to goe to the Lady Buchanan, and
Margaret Erskein spous to Mr Thomas Rollok, to inquyre upon what
richt they sitt into and occupye that seat quhilk was buildit for the
Ministers wyfe, be ordinance of the Sessioune, &c. -
Dec. 31.—The quhilk day Johne Johnstoun and Duncan Watsoune,
maisters of the kirk work, being direct and ordeaned be the sessioune
the last sessioune day to inquyre, &c. &c., they reported that the said
Ladie Buchannan ansuered, that tithers of better judgement sould heir of
it: Thairfoir the brethrein ordeanes Mr Henry Guthrie minister, John
Johnstoune and James Alexander to go to my Lord of Marr and ac-
quent him thairwith.
Jul. 22, 1634.—Contributione for the famine of Orknay—The quhilk
day the Minister produced ane letter of the Bischop of Orknay, secundit
with ane act of counsell conserning the deplorable famine of Orknay and
Zetland, the quhilk the sessioun laid to hart, and ordeanes intimatione
to be maid out of pulpit upon Sonday nixt the 27 of Julijthairanent to
the congregatioune; and nominats and appoints James Howstone con-
veinar and Johne Johnestoune to collect upon Sonday cum aucht days
for thair supplie, the 3 day of August, with ane of the bailyeis of the toun.
Jul. 5. 1636.-Mr Henry Guthrie his promeis.--The quhilk day Mr
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Henrie Guthrie, minister at Stirling, promised to mak compt of the
moneys was collected for the famine of Orknay to the sessione the mixt
day, and ridde himself thairof.
Sept. 5. 1637.-Dyett of prayers changit.—The quhilk day the brea-
thren ordeanes the prayers to be changed fra sevin hours in the morning
to aucht hours, and fra fyve hours at evin to four according to the
ordour. .
Campbell her banischment—The quhilk day the brethrein considering
the vyle lyfe and conversatione of Jonet Campbell be abusing her body
with diverse and sindrie men, and that her remaining among honest
people for her caus procures Gods wraith upoun thane : Thairfoir the
bretherein ordeanes the said Jonet to be cairted through the toune and
banisched, and intimatione to be maid, that no inhabitant within the
towne ressaive the said Jonet Campbell within thair houssis heirefter
under the pane of ten punds; and gif the said Jonet lay doune her
bairne at any neightbouris dure, in that caice the said Jonet sall be
scroudged through the toun whensoever schoe sall be apprehendit.
Dec. 31. 1638.-Buying of Agnes Craufurd.—The quhilk day com-
peired Williame Williamsome stranger, and being accused for buying of
Agnes Crawfurd spous to Robert Baird, upon the quhilk bargane he
gave Agnes Crawfuird foirsaid sax punds, and to the foirsaid Robert
Baird aucht punds, all which the said Williame Williamsome confessed:
For the which offence the brethrein ordenis the said money to be given
to Johne Liddell and Alexander Huttoune collectors of the penalties,
and the said William Williamsone and Agnes Crawfuird to be locked in
chrynes at the cross betuix ellevin and twell hours upon Wednisday
mixt; also the said William Williamesome and Agnes Crawfurd ar inter-
dyted of wthers cumpanie heireſter except in kirk and mercat, under the
paine of being reput adulterars indeid.
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Jul. 1. 1639.--Beggars restrained—The quhilk day the sessione
ordenis the visitors for the efternoone to attend lykways at the kirk duir
in the foirnoone fra the first to the thrid bell, to restraine the beggers
fra cumming up above the stepps, and that none without exceptione be
suffered to sitt ather at the kirk wall or kirk bourock.
, Jul. 22.-Act contrair Nocturnall Meitings.-The quhilk day it wes
represented to the sessione how diverse within this Congregatione, being
seduced thairto by the entysement of some strangers from Ingland and
Ireland that have creipt in, do at thair owin handis and without the
allowance of magistrats, minister or elders, convein thameselffes, con-
fusedlie out of diverse families, about bed tyme in some privat house,
and thair for ane great pairt of the night, employ thameselffes in ane
publick exercise of religione, praying successivelie, singing psalmes,
exponing scripture, discussing questiones of divinitie, quhairof some sa
curious that they do not vnderstand, and some (as they staite thame) so
ridiculous that they cannot be edified be tham; by whiche vnc.owth and
confused meitings, the commone people ar drawin to vilifie and sett at
naught the exercise of Gods worship in privat and particular families
apairt; yea some of thame to lightlie and sett at naught the publick
worship of God in the Congregatione, conceaving (as they ar taught by
thir trafficking strangers) thir privat meitings as they call thame to be
moir effectuall for turning soules to God then preaching it selffe : The
Sessione of the Kirk having considered seriouslie of the noveltie and
scandall of thir confused, vntymous and vnalowable meitings, how they
do seim to be invented by some spirits favoring Brownisme, and gif they
should be tolerat to spread throwghe this kirk might prove licklie meins
to introduce the same, and so be processe of tyme to invert and overturne
the trye forme of Gods worship, boith privat in eache familie apairt and
publick in the Congregatione, which now throwghe the mercie of God
is happilie reformit and purgit of corruptiounes: for this caus the Ses-
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sione not knowing what calling strangers fra wther nationes speciallie
Laikes can have to traffick so, to convein people over whome they have
no chairge without the allowance of thair oversiears, and that under
night, to ane exercise of religione (thocht privat in respect of place, yet
publick in respect of the nature of the exercise and of the number
gathered together thairanent); and doubting also gif suche of our people
as throughe simplicitie and blind zeale haue bein overcum by thame and
move to frequent these meitings, in so doeing can be excused of the
breache of that point of our covenant where we swear to abstein fra the
practise of all novationes introducitin our kirk vntill the tyme they be tryed
and allowed in frie and lawfull assemblies; thir meitings being ane nova-
tione to us never known nor practised among us bot since Februar last,
and for ought we know destitute of the allowance and warrand of any
frie and lawfull assemblie of this kirk : Thairfoir the Sessione ordenis
ane remonstrance heirof to be maid vnto the presbiterie, that they may
consider seriouslie of the perrell imminent to our kirk by thir seids of
Brownisme, which Sathan is begune to sowe, and may think vpon
tymous remeids whairby the samyne may be chocked; and in the mein-
tyme the Sessione recommending unto all within our Congregatione to
mak conscience of the publick worship of God in the Congregatione, and
of the privat worship of God in eache particular familie by it selffe,
Dischargis all within our Congregatione from keiping any suche meitings
as thir afoirsaid, whairin people out of diverse families convein thame-
selffes together ut supra, vntill the tyme the Kirk of Scotland in ane frie
and lawfull Assemblie do try and allow the same ; and the samyne act to
be intimat to the Congregatione, and in speciall to these who being se-
duced have bein keipers thairof.
Aug. 12.-Nocturmall Meetings— Quhilk day certain of these who
had bein reproved befoir for keiping these winwaranted nocturnall
meitings being conveinit befoir the Sessione for new deboirdings, whiche.
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wer so intolerable as forced the Sessione takane present course: Thair-
foir it is ordeined that the Minister with all diligence shall wreat to Mr
Alexander Hendersone and Mr David Dicksone concerning thair folies;
and till thair answer be returned, that the ringleaders of thame shall be
taken and put into ward for preveining disorder, viz. Robert Mitchell,
Johne Dawsone, Johne Henrie, Johne Hendersone, Robert Forrester,
and the rest to be warnit to the next sessione day; and in the mein-
tyme dischargit from keiping any suche meitings till that next ses-
sione day, vnder suche paines as the sessione shall inflict on suche as
trangressis.
Jul. 20. 1640.-Act conserning little stones in the Kirk yaird.—Quhilk
day the sessione considering how certaine people at thair awin hand,
and without consent of the sessione, put in the kirkyaird litle stones,
one at the head and ane wther at the fute of graiffes, some with thair
names ingraven thairon, quhairby in proces of tyme they and thairs
may apprehend themselues to haue ane propertie: Thairfoir for pre-
venting heirof, the Sessione ordenis the kirkmasters to caus remove all
suche stones, great or small, that have not bein put in be allowance of
the sessione, and that name be permitted to be put in heirefter, except
the sessione upon gud considerationes give warrand thairto.
Aug. 24.—Jeane Chalmers.-Quhilk day compeir Jeane Chalmers,
servitrix to William M*Clay maltman, and confessed fornicatione with
Johne Moresone alias hold; and confessis the first tyme of thair con-
gres wes about the xx day of Februar, and the last tyme wes twentie
weiks fra this day; who also confessit herself relaps, and fell first with
Patrick Mitchell parochiner of Kinkairne, and last with the said Johne
Moresone: Quhairfoir the bretherein ordenis the said Jeane to go to
the crosse, and stand vpon it ane hour in the foirnoone vpon Satturday
nixt, betwix ellevin and twell hours, or then to redeim herselffe with
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ten merks, and to stand sax severall Sabbaths in the publick place of
repentance, in her awin habite.
Dec. 14.—Voluntarie Contributione.—Quhilk day it is concludit, that
intimatione sall be made de novo the nixt Sonday from the pulpit con-
cerning the cellecting of the voluntarie Contributione, whiche is for ad-
vancement of the gud caus, to be the week following; and that the
minister, deane of gild, conveinar, Patrik Sword and James Howstone
elders, accompanied with ane bealye of the quarter sall go throw the
haill towne and ressaue the charitie of all sorts of persounes as God sall
move thair harts; Visitors appointed, Jhone Steinsone, Johne Russall.
Mar. 22. 1641.-The quhilk day ane bill being gevin be James
Wallace doctor to the Inglis bairne, seiking ten punds to be gevin him
inrespect he had gotten the same thir ten yeares bygaine, and wes bur-
dened with sume puir scollares: The sessione finding that they are not
tyed in payment of any pairt of his stipend, and that thair gud will in
granting that to him thir yeares bygaine can not be ane argument to
tye thame for the tyme to come, Abrogats and dischargis the foirsaid ten
punds in all tyme cuming as not due nather to him nor any in that place.
Jun. 6. 1642.-Act anent keping the Lords day.—Quhilk day the
Sessione being cairfull that the Lords day be weill keiped, ordenis inti-
matione to be maid the nixt Sonday, that no fischers fische wpon the
water fra Satturday at twell houris at evin till Sonday at twell houris
at evin; as also dischargis the salmone marcat vpone Sonday morning,
and the transgressers of ather to pay for the first fault ten punds, and
thairefter according to the discretione of the sessione.
Nov.7—Sir Charles Erskein of Cambushenneth—The quhilk day the
sessione having considerit a petitione gevin in by Sir Charles Erskein
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of Cambuskenneth, craving that the dask on the south syd of the
churche nearest the sessione hous, with the foir dask thairof, quhilk
perteined to Adam Commendator of Cambuskenneth, and wes possest
be his lady, may be disponit to the said Sir Charles ladys wse, and to
his successors heritors of the lands of Cambuskenneth: The sessione
findeth the said petition reasonable, and thairfoir gevis and disponis to
the said Sir Charles, as said is, and to his successors heritors of the
said lands of Cambuskenneth in all tyme cumming, swa lang as the
saids lands of Cambuskenneth remaineth of this parish, the said dask on
the south wall of the kirk, nearest the sessione hous, with the foir dask
thairof, with libertie to him and his successors to repair or reedifie the
same when neid requyreth, keiping the proportion in hight breid and
lengtht as now it is ; Reserving onlie, with consent and tolerance of the
said Sir Charles, to Margaret Erskein dauchter to the said Adam, the
libertie of a seat within the said dask, after Sir Charles lady and wthers
of her companie and qualitie, for herselfe allannerlie during her lyftyme.
Lykas it is speciallie provydit, that this gift and donatione doeth onlie
comprehend the dask nearest the sowth wall and the dask immediatlie
befoir it, and doeth nowayes include the foirmost dask of the thrie,
quhilk albeit is to be joyned to the wther two, doeth properlie belong
to the Minister. -
Jul. 17.—Memorandum of Actis.--Item, it is ordaynit actis to be maid
concerning Beggaris quha efter the thrid bell is rwng out gois away fra
the kirk. • * -
Item, anent the restraint of Mariadges vpone the Sabboth day.
Item, anent Pyparis accumpanying persones to be maried.
Item, Thir thinges to be considerit efter the Commwnione.
Item, anent the Brydaill lawingis to be reducit to the old order.
Item, that the Pandis be not redelyverit till the Sessione find that
thair is no scandall. -
480 REGISTER OF THE 1644.
Sept. 4.—Act anent the keipping of the Portis on the Sabboth day.—
It is ordaynit for the better keipping of the Sabbothe, and restrayning
of passingeris for travelling with horssis or loadis, that nayther the
Bridgport nor Barresyet be farther opnit, bot onlie the wickitis thairof,
fra morning till efternone on the Sabbothe day; as also that in tyme of
sermone, both befoir and efternone, the wickitis be keippit clois and
lokit; and in cais the samin be not preceislie obeyit, these that hes the
trust of the keyes to pay for everie transgressione xl S. toties quoties.
Nov. 20.—Act for banishing of Jeane Ros.-Compeirit Jonet Ros,
and confessitfornicatione with the Leivtennent Generalis trumpetar, ane
Germane, The Sessione having hard hir awin confessione how she
went of hirawin frie will, not being sent, and how she stayd in his
chalmer and bed quhill efter midnicht, and lay carnallie with him at thair
pleasour vntill they wer scarred by the wyfe of the hous, occasioned
thairby; The Sessione considdering the hie offence givin to God, and the
great scandall to this Congregatione, Thairfoir ordaynes the said Jeane
Ross to be publiklie cairttit throw this toune with touk of drwme, and
banishit the samen, not to be resavit be onye inhabitant wnder the
payne of ten punds; lyikas the Sessione requeistis the Magistratis to
interpone thair authoritie and concurrance, that this sentence without
delay may be execut against hir. Q
Apr. 15. 1644.—Ordanis Hieland Mary, servitrix to James Balfour,
to compeir the nixt day, for hir scandalous conversing with souldiers.
Dec. 9.-James Thomsome to be Reidar of this church.-The quhilk
day the Sessione in one voyce did elect and choyce James Thomsone,
sone to Mairtein Thomsone burges of the Cannogait, to be Reader
of this Church and Clerk to our Kirk Sessione; alowing to him for
the same the casualities and fies which his predicessour had off the
1647. KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 481
sessione, and that by and attour the dewtie conditioned to him by the
toune counsall.
May 12. 1645.-Drinking in tyme of Sermone.—Ordanis to warne
for drinking in Johne Bairdies hous in the Raploch in tyme of sermone,
Mairy Macpatone, Johne Reddoches dochter, Jonet Aissone, Elspet
Whytbrow relict of vimquhill Johne Frissell, Anna Monteith, and the
said Johne Bairdie and his wyf for resetting them. -
Jun.9.—Contribution for Kelso.-James Houstoune conveiner, and Pa-
trik Sword to atend and gather the contributione on Sonday next for Kelso.
Jul. 7.-Ordaines the Boxmaisters to send money with our Merchants
that ar going to Holland for bringing home velvett to be tuo Mort-
clothis and silk therto, &c.
Jul. 28.-The Meitinges of the Sessioun from the 28 of July 1645 to
the daitt eſtir following interrupted by the Visitatioun of Pestilence.
Apr. 13. 1646.-Penny Brydells.—The quhilk day Ordaines intima-
tioun to be maid annent the restraint of Penny brydells, in regaird they
haue béine the occasioun of exces and profanitie.
Mar. 30. 1647.-Ardinha his Dedication.—The quhilk day compeirit
Johne Dowe youngar of Ardinhall, and presentit to the Sessioun thrie
hundreth merkis money Scottis, freillie given and dedicat by Hary Dow
his father for the vse of Spittallis Hospitall and mantenance of the poore
to be putt thairin; quhilk the Sessioun receauit thankfullie, &c.
[BECAUSE I had my educatione in my youthheid within the towne
off Striuiling, at skoolles and learning off guid exerceissis To the glorie
482 REGISTER OF THE 1649.
of God and in takine of thankfull remembrance to the place, I haiff
givin and bestowit sum thrie hundreth merkis money for help to the
stock and prowisione off the auld Hospitall at Striuiling, callit Spittillis
Hospitall, and for a supplie to the intertinement off the indigent and
misterfull peopill remaining thairat present and to cum ; Whiche hoiping
wilbe acceptit in guid pairte, Giwand all praise to God almightie, and
still praying for his mercie and remissione off my sins throughe the
richteous merites off his blissed sone Jesus Christ my onlie Saviour, I
rest waiting for the tyme that he salbe pleasit to mak the seperatioun.
August 1645, To be presentit to the Kirk
Sessione at Striuiling. H. Dow off Armehall.]
Dec. 21.--Burialls in the tyme of the Visitatioun and Seiknes.—
The quhilk day compeirit James Rynd measson, and delyverit on the
sessioun table the soume of thrie score mynteine pundis thrie schillinges
ten pennies money, in full satisfactioun and payment of the haill moneyes
intromettit with be him the tyme of the visitatioun and seiknes within
the toune for libertie of buriall in the kirk yeard to diverse persones that
died in the visitatioun, quhairoff the Sessioun discharges the said James
Rynd for now and evir.
Feb. 22. 1648.-Anent changing the mercat day.—The quhilk day
Report wes maid be the Magistratis that the counsell of this brugh haue
determined and ordained that the mercat day sall be changit from Sa-
turnday to Fryday weiklie in tyme coming, and desyres the Ministeris
to signifie the same to the presbytrie the morrow, desyring that they
may intimate the same in each paroche of the presbytrie on Sonday mixt.
Apr. 24. 1649.-Ordinar, William Alexander.—Quhilk day the Ses-
sioun admitts William Alexander eldar to be ane ordinar, and to gett a
weiklie penny as the rest of the ordinaris gettis.
1649. KIR K SESSION OF STIRLING. 483
May 23.-Search for Cristane Hay—Reference to the Magistrates
to cause search the toune for Cristane Hay, and to cause remove hir
seing scho is dilated to be a scandalous persone and a stranger.
Aug. 22–Breaking the Sabbath by fischeing.—The quhilk day com-
peired James Patersone, George Wright, George Fairlie, Andro Lekie,
William Craufurd and James Aisson, fischeris, who being particularlie
examined, were all fund guyltie of breaking the Sabbath by fischeing
betuixt 10 and 12 houris on the Sabbath day at evine; and also Patrik
Houstoun takisman of the said fischeing compeirit, and wes fund acces-
sorie to their said fischeing ; Thairfore the Sessioun ordaines evrie one
of them to mak publict repentance before the Congregatioun for thair
scandall quhen they sall be requyrit, and appoyntis each of them to pay
of penaltie 3 lib. And ordaines all of them to find cautioun to obey the
saidis Injunctiounes.
Sept. 24.—Feastis dischargit on the Sabbath.-Quhilk day, for the
better observing the Sabbath, it is statute and ordainit, that no feastis
nor banketts be maid heireftir on the Sabboth day at Baptismes, because
that throw great confluence of people and feasting at bankettis the
Sabbath is much prophaned; with certificatioun that if any sall heireſtir
transgres this act, they sall be tane notice of and censured according as
the Sessioun sall think fit; and ordaines this act to be intimate from the
pulpitt the nixt Lordis day.
Oct. 15.—Selling drink on the Sabbath.--Ordaines Jeane Patersone
to be cited to the mixt day; who having compeired before the congrega-
tioun the last Sabbath to mak publict repentance for being relaps in
selling drink in tyme of sermon on the Sabboth, did not give such evi-
dentis of repentance as the minister desyrit, and thairfoir scho is to be
examined whither scho did it out of obstinacie or ignorance.
484 KIRK SESSION OF STIRLING. 1649.
Oct. 29.-Issobell Walker.—Quhilk day compeired Isobell Walkeir,
who being examined confest that scho cald Robert Mitchell false puri-
tane knave, and said that he wes ane ill instrument in putting away our
sueit ministeris, and said schowald still say als much to him if he were
present, but denyed any farder expressiounes.
Compeired Williame Tailyeor one of the witnesses, who being suorne
judiciallie, deponed, That he heard the said Isobell say to John Machan,
follow that man, meaning Robert Mitchell, and he will cause the spirit
come on yow; and heard hir also say, that the said Robert wes ane ill
instrument in putting away our sueit ministeris, &c.
Nov. 5.—Repoirt maid that Johne Kempe maid publict repentance
the last Lords day for profaning of the Sabbath as he wes appoyntit, &c.
Nov. 12.-Jonet Gillies.—Compeired Jonet Gillies, who is found
guyltie of being out of the kirk in tyme of sermon on the Sabbath day
vnnecessarlie ; scho being examined wes fund ignorant, and wes admo-
nisht and rebuked for hir fault, and exhorted to keip the kirk better and
get more knowledge, Vnder the paine of severe censure; and appoyntis
notice to be takine (if scho profeit or not) be the eldaris of the quarter
quhair scho dwellis.
Nov. 27.-Compeired Johne Smyth, who is fund guyltie of breaking
the Sabbath by vayging throw the feildes vnnecessarlie in tyme of ser-
mon, and Seing he ves admonishit of before for transgressing the Sabbath,
and is now fund guyltie of the same fault agayne, Thairfore ordaines
him to mak publict repentance before the Congregatioun for his said
fault the first Sabbath that wee haue occasioun of ane actuall Minister,
and to stand before the pulpitt all the tyme of sermon.
PETITION FOR A TOLERATION TO THE
STANG, WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE
REGALITY COURT OF HUNTLY THEREON.
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RIDING THE STANG, according to Brockett," was “a punish-
ment among the vulgar; inflicted upon formicators, adulterers,
severe husbands, and such persons as follow their occupations
during particular festivals or holidays; or at prohibited times,
when there is a stand or combination amongst workmen.” It
is still prevalent in various parts of England : and in many
schools in the north country, where a boy is either disliked
by his companions, or has committed any petty offence, he is
made to Ride the Stang, i. e. is mounted “astraddle on a long
pole or Stang,” and supported upon the shoulders of his com-
panions, in which unpleasant situation he is “borne about the
neighbourhood backwards.”
“When,” continues Mr Brockett, “they cannot lay hold of
the culprit himself, a boy mounts the Stang ; but he is unmo-
lested, though attended with the same tumultuous cries, if not
with increased shouts of acclamation. The proxy vociferously
proclaims, that it is not on his own account that he is thus
treated, but that of another person, whose crime he names.”
“The ceremony is also resorted to when a woman has gained
an improper ascendancy over her husband, so as to make him
* Glossary of North Country words. 2d Edition, Newcastle, 1829, 8vo. p. 287.
4.88 PETITION FOR A 1734.
bear every species of indignity. In this case, it is called
• Riding the Stang for a neighbour's wife;’ and a man is
placed in the same uneasy situation as before described, so
that he may be supposed to represent, or to sympathize with
his henpecked friend, whose misery he sometimes laments in
doggrel rhyme applicable to the occasion. He is carried
through the whole hamlet, with a view of exposing or shaming
the viraginous lady, and of thus preventing further outrages
on the person of her pitiable partner.””
This custom was also prevalent in Scotland, although pre-
sently in disuse; and the curious papers, now for the first
time printed, derive considerable interest from the circum-
stance of one of them being an attempt to legalize this
popular mode of punishment, at a period so comparatively
recent as 1734. In this instance, Mr John Fraser, whose
station in life does not appear from the documents in question,
had been guilty of assaulting his wife; and the married women
in the neighbourhood, finding that Mr John Gordon of
Avachy, baillie of the regality of Huntly, to whom they pre-
ferred an application to grant “toleration to the Stang, which
has not only ever been practicable in this place, but in most
parts of this kingdome,” was not disposed to recognise their
demand, although there was “no Act of Parliament to the
contrair,” took the law in their own hand, and “violently
attackt the person of the said John Fraser in the face of the
sun, about three in the afternoon, tore his cloths and abus’d
* Brockett, ibid.
1734. TOLERATION TO THE STANG. 489
his person, by carrying him in a publick manner through the
town of Huntly upon a tree.” For this outrage, the aggres.
sors were punished by fine, and obliged to find caution.
Dr Jamieson tells us that he had been “informed that, in
Lothian, and perhaps in other counties, the man who had
debauched his neighbour's wife, was formerly forced to ride
the Stang.” * In some parts of England, and particularly in
London, it is understood that, among coal-heavers and persons
of that description, it is very usual to punish any one of their
number, who may be suspected to be too intimate with a
friend's wife, in a similar manner.
Mr Hone, in his Every-day Book,t remarks, that “Riding
Stang” is a custom that prevails in some parts of England on
New-year's day to the present hour; and upon the authority
of a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine (1791) says, “that
on the 1st of January, multitudes assemble early in the morn-
ing, with baskets and “stangs,” and whoever does not join
them, whether inhabitant or stranger, is immediately mounted
across the “Stang,” and carried, shoulder height, to the next
public house, where sixpence liberates the prisoner. Women
are seized in this way, and carried in baskets; the sex being
privileged from riding “Stang,” in compliment, perhaps, to the
use of side saddles.” - *
It thus appears, that “Riding the Stang” must not be con-
sidered exclusively as a punishment for offences, but that it
was resorted to at the commencement of the year as a frolick,
* Jamieson's Scot. Dict. roce Stang. t Vol. I. p. 12, 13.
490 PETITION FOR A 1784.
though certainly not a very pleasing one for the individual
who might be thus elevated. With the following amusing
account of an exhibition of Stang Riding, which came under
the notice of a gentleman well known in the literary world,
these observations may appropriately be concluded.
“Travelling once through one of the midland counties of
England, when the coach stopped to change horses at the inn
of a populous village, I observed the whole mobility of the
place in motion. The principal figure in the procession was
a large he-looking fellow, dressed in women's clothes, with his
face smeered with raddle (keel), sitting on a hand barrow,
which was hoisted on the shoulders of four stout fellows, who
were occasionally relieved by others. These were preceded
by a herald, accompanied by the sow-gelder in his actual-ser-
vice uniform, as trumpeter, with a band of music. On my
asking, what was the matter P the herald stepped forward, and
made his proclamation with much ludicrous solemnity:—A
woman had beaten her husband.—Had the man beaten his
wife, they would have horsed him on a pole, and given him a
rough ride round the village; “but as it was a woman, they
were a bit decent, loike, and made up the best red-faced ter-
vagan they could, to shame her about the place.” •.
“This exposé finished, HUzzAE followed HUzzAE from the
merry rout; the sow-gelder (who was leader of the band)
blew his horn of office, tongs and gridiron, marrow-bones and
cleavers, struck up, and the pomp proceeded!”
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1734. TOLERATION TO THE STANG. 491
CoMPLAINT OF ANN JOHNSTON AND OTHERs.
Unto the much Honoured the Baillie of the Regality
of Huntly, the humble Complaint and Representation
of the under subscribers upon Mr John Fraser, Hus-
band to Ann Johnston in Huntly,”
Humbly Shewing,
That upon the Eleventh of January instant the said
Mr John Fraser did under cloud of night most inhumanly
and barbarously beat and bruise Anne Johnstoun his said
spouse, to the effusion of her blood and great hazard and peril
of her life And not only then, but it is his constant practice,
as can be attested be severalls of the neighbourhead who have
divers and sundry times risen from their beds at middnight and
has rescued her out of his mercileſs hands, or she had been
most miserably butchered by him And seeing your Petitioners
are informed that said Fraser has given in ane information to
your Lordshipe against some of our good Neighbours, who
upon Saturday last being the twelth instant went to his house,
alleadging they would cause him Ride the Stang (use and wont
in such cases) but to our certain knowledge with no other
design than to fright and deter him from his villanous and
cruell usage of his said spouse in all time comming,
May it therfore please your Lordshipe to take this our
more than most lamentable case into your most serious
* The original Petition, of which a facsimile is here given, is, together with the
Proceedings of the Regality Court of Huntly, preserved in the General Register House.
492 PETITION FOR A 1734.
consideration by granting a toleration to the Stang
which has not only ever been practicable in this place
but in most pairts of this Kingdome, being wee know
no Act of Parliament to the contrair: Or else if your
Lordshipe can fall on a more prudent method, wee
most humbly begg your opinion for preventing more
fatall consequences, Otherways upon the least disoblig-
ment given wee must expect to fall Victims to our hus-
bands displeasure from which Libera Nos Domine.
Ann Johnston. Barbra Jessiman.
Agnes Scot. Grissall Allan.
Lilles Garden. Janet Forsith.
Elizabeth Boigie. Agnes Gordon.
I. R. Isobal Kemp.
Jen Guthrie. J. P.
Janet Roy.
Huntly, 18th January 1784. JoHN GoRDoN of Avachy B.
The Defender appearing and craving to be allowed to prove
that he uses his wife civilly and in the ordinary way, the
Baillie allows him till too morrow for doing the same With
certification if he failled, he would not only remitt the scanda-
lous part to be punished by the Kirk Sessione but otherwayes
fine and amerciat him as he should see cause.
JoHN GoRDoN.
1734. TOLERATION TO THE STANG. 493
REGALITY Court of HUNTLY again mett within the
tolbooth therof, upon the nineteenth day of January
1734. By JoHN GoRDoN of Avachie, and other ordinary
members. *.
Complains Mr John Fraser in Huntly, with concurse of the
procurator fiscal, upon James Meldrum servant, Alex. Brown
in Huntly, John Falconer and William Allan, servants to
Baillie Falconer in Huntly, who yesterday, upon the eigh-
teenth current, violently attackt the person of the said John
Fraser in the face of the sun about three in the afternoon,
tore his cloths and abus’d his person, by carrying him in a
publick manner through the toun of Huntly upon a tree.
Therfore craves they may be fined and amerciat in such sums
as the baillie shall su- cause, and to remain in prison till they
pay the same, or find caution therefore and to the peace; and
decerned to pay five pounds sterling, in name of damages, to
the private party.
Compeared the persons complained upon, and judicially
confessed and acknowledged their being accessory art
and part in the cryme lybelled against them; but can’t
write.
The Baillie, in respect of the said confession, fines and
amerciatts each of the said Defenders in twenty pounds Scots;
and decerns conjunctly for twelve pounds of assythment to the
privat party, and ordains them to remain in prison till they
find caution to the peace.
JoHN GoRDON.
H. & J. PILLANS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
IND E X
TO THE
MISCELLANY OF THE MAITLAND CLUB.
VOLUME I.
IN DE X.
ABSENTING from Church and Communion,--
Acts of the Presbytery of Glasgow, General
Kirk of Edinburgh, and Kirk Sessions of
Humbie and Stirling against, 77, 81, 82, 131,
132, 134, 135, 404, 443, 447, 454.
Absolution from the Sin of Adultery granted on
payment of fines, 59.
Account of the Household of Ludovic Duke of
Lennox, when Commissioner to Parliament
in the year 1607, 161;—Pultrieman, 165;–
To the Rankett, 165, 168 ;-Deseirte, 169;
—Confections, 171, 180;-Potiaciariey, 173;
—Supper, ib. ;–Fleschoure, 173, 180 ; –
Herbis and Sellatis, 175;—Ladinsteris, 176;-
James Dalzellis, 177;-Baxteris, 178;-Can-
dill, 179;—Weschellis borrowing, ib. ; –
Beare, 180;-Servandis fees, &c., 181;—
Goldsmiths, 182; —Milk, ib.;—Aill, ib. ; –
Debursings by hous in Edinburgh, 183;
—Stable, 185 ;—His Grace's travelling
charges, 187;—William Ormes at Stirling,119.
BADERNOK Kirk,-presentation to, 60, 64, 75.
Baptism,-anent Registering of “ the bairns
baptizit in the Kirk of Stirling,” 460.
Barmbarroch, Lairds of -notices respecting,
255;-Royal letters, &c. addressed to, 260.
Beddall, ament allowance for his abulyement,
454, 457;-Sharply admonished for being
drunk, 459.
Acts, Memorandum of sundry, 479.
Adultery and Fornication,-Sentences of Kirk
Sessions and Presbytery against, 56, 59, 60,
62, 74, 84, 103, 105, 108, 113, 128, 130,
131, 133, 134, 410, 428,429, 431, 437, 441,
444, 446, 447, 453, 462, 463,474, 477, 480.
Alexander, Sir William,-gift from him to the
Puir of Stirling, efter his return from his sea
voyage, 467.
Almouhouse men to give confession of thair
faiths, 62;—Anent sichting the treis at, 76;
Men, orders anent, 75, 78, 82, 85, 103, 406,
468.
Alms to an aflicted Grecian, 80.
Angus, the Earl of, to resort to the Kirk, 412;
—Excommunicated, 413.
Archer Guard of Mary Queen of Scots, and
Notices of payments on account of them, 27.
Assembly, General, Act of 99.
Auchindrain, obligation by John Earl of Cassillis
as to taking the life of the Laird of, 139.
Beggars, a resetter of, admonished, 451.
Begging of alms on Sabbath forbidden, 134,475.
Bell to the Kirk at Stirling, 470.
Bethune, Mary, -her contract of marriage with
Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne, 39; Verses on,
41;—Janet Betoun, Lady of Buccleugh’s let-
ter to the Queen Regent, 40 (note).
Bible, binding of the Kirk, 469.
iv IND EX.
Bonaventura Cornelius Bertramus, Professor
of Hebrew at Geneva,-Letter from him to
Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoul, 8.
Bond abjuring Papistry, &c., 54.
Branks,—an abuser of her husband sentenced
to be put in the, 135.
Braule in Kirkyard of Govan, 70, 72.
Brownism, peril of, in nocturnal meetings, 476.
Brydellis, orders anent, 65, 132, 136, 430,
435, 450, 452, 481. See also Marriages.
Buikbinder, John Gibson,-his account and
CADDER, act in favour of the Minister of, 92;-
visitation of the Kirk appointed, 418.
Calsay to be made in Kirk gait, Stirling, 461.
Cambuskenneth, Lord of.-his seat in the Kirk
of Stirling abused, 468;-Sir C. Erskin's
petition for a daskin the Kirkconsidered, 479.
Cambusnethan,—Extracts from the Registers of
the Kirk Session of, 428.
Campsie, -James Stewart, Ministerat, suspend-
ed, 413;—Kirk, stent for repair of 88;—
Persoun of, to restore two silver cups taken,
93, 94.
Campsie and Cadder,-the Ministeres to see
the puir helpit, 73.
Cassillis, Letter by John Earl of, bribing his
brother to take the Laird of Auchindrain's
life, 141.
Castle and Town of Edinburgh,-ordinances
of the General Kirk of Edinburgh against
those who remained in it during the siege,
102, 108, 110, 113, 117, 119, 125.
Cautionery for marriages, 65, 66, 69, 83, 131,
DANCING,-Kirk Session of Cambusnethan
against promiscuous, 431.
Decreit anent Ranking of Nobilitie, 351.
Deid, prayers for, ament, 112.
Deposition of Mr Alex. Livingstone, Persoun of
Monyaburcht, for his inability to teich or yit
to use discipline in the kirk, 88.
Disagysing in welvot breikis, and dansing in
precept, 17;—Entries relative to him from
the Lord High Treasurer's accounts, 21.
Buiks in the Royal Library, list of, 3;—The
, King's Majesty's, 13;–of Clement Little in
the University of Edinburgh, 286;—Inven-
tory of, in Colleges of St Andrews, 307.
Bullets, -sentence for playing of on Sabbath,
438.
Burial,—orders anent, 69, 465, 469, 482;-
Ringing of bell for, 69.
133, 136,443;-for attendance on ordinances
and baptism of children, 68.
Charming of Kine,—proceedings against Agnes
Gourlay for, 438.
Charteris, Henrie (burges of Edinburgh), 22.
, Mr Robert (Printer), 22.
Church and Communion,-attendance on, en-
forced, 68.
Churchmen's Robes, 145.
Clan Gregor at Glenfrone,—evidence anent,
416.
Clerks of the Session and Signet's Robes, 145.
College of Glasgow,-Statute as to Students of
theology in the, 68.
Commission ament Ranking of Nobilitie, 351.
Commissioners to General Assembly, 63.
Communion. See Sacrament.
Contribution for the gud caus (1642), 478.
Convention for a thanksgiving, 95.
Covenant sworn and subscribed, 438.
Crucifix, —anent removing of, as an idol, 403;
—Anent painters of 420.
mennis clething,--a woman summoned for,
104.
Drinkers, extraordinar, sentenced, 135.
Drinking and Dansing Houses, 113;—ouer
grit a surfet of wyne, admonition on, 135;—
Obligation to abstain from, 430.
Drunkenness, sentences against, 422, 429, 442,
455, 481.
INDEX. W
EARLs, Anent the robes of, 145.
Edinburgh,-Extracts from the Buik of the Ge-
neral Kirk of, 97;—Catalogues of Books of
Clement Little to the University of 285.
Egyptianis,—anent receiving them at Ruther-
glen, 61;—banishing of 87.
Elders and Deacons in the Kirk of Edinburgh,
—division of them, 107.
FAC-SIMILEs. See Signatures.
Fasts appointed, 65, 77, 85, 91, 97, 105, 111,
407, 427, 433,437, 438, 444, 447.
Feasts on Sabbath prohibited, 483.
Fishing on Sabbath prohibited, 478;—Persons
fined for, 483.
GENEVA, anent help to the persecuted Kirk of,
403, 404, 405, 408, 446.
Gibson, John,-the King's Buikbinder,-ac-
count of Books furnished to King James
VI., 17;-Notices of him, 21.
Glasgow Presbytery, Extracts from the Regis-
ters of 53, 401 ;—Parochineres of Glasgow
to have ane pastor of thair awin, 70, 86;–
certain Ministers to travell anent the Hos-
pital to be foundit in Glasgow, 89.
Glenfruin,—evidence anent the day of, 416.
Gourlay, Agnes, cited for charming kine, 438.
Govan,—designation of glebe and manse, 73.
HAMILTON of Cochno Gloud,—testimonial by,
110;—Minister of St Andrews examination
of him, and his answers, 114.
HENRY II. KING OF FRANCE,-Letters from him
to his cousin, Mary Queen Dowager of Scot-
land, 207.
Enemy (English), no Kirk Session held, owing
to the approach of the, 433;—Quartered at
Humbie, 437.
Erskine, Sir William's arms to be put up in the
kirk of Stirling, 471.
Excommunicat persons,—order anent, 60.
Excommunication,-sentences of, ordered, 54,
81, 86, 91, 413, 434.
Fleming, the Lord, summoned for non-atten-
dance at church, 82.
Football,—playing at on the Sabbath prohibited,
404.
Fornication, 99. See also Adultery.
France Kirk, anent the, l 17, 120, 124, 126.
Govis, a blasphemer of her husband threaten-
ed with the, 135. |
Grammar Scule,—acts anent the bairns at-
tending the Hie Kirk of Glasgow, 89, 90.
Grecian,—alms to an afflicted, 80.
Greinok,-the inhabitants of over and nether
to be ane congregatioun, 96.
Gunpowder Plot,-commemoration of 415;—
Sermon upon, prevents the meeting of the
Session of Stirling, 464.
Gurlaw and others,-proceedings against for un-
lawful transporting of wheat, &c. 99, 101,
102.
High Church,-protest anent the repair of 86.
Home, Alexander Lord, his supplication for
prayers of the Kirk, 126.
Horse Race,—Indenture of, between the Earls of
Morton and Abercorn and Lord Boyd, 201;
notices and extracts anent, 196,-202 ;—
vi IN DE X.
act anent at Paisley, 197;—do. at Stirling,
203. -
Hospital in Glasgow,-Order to Ministers
respecting the, 89.
Hospital at Stirling,-rental of ordered, 447;
lands bought for, 455;-arms of the burgh to
be carved for, 466;-legacy to, 468, 481.
Houlat and other wild fowl, abuse of the Kirk
of Stirling by, 466.
ILL (Aisle) Boweys, right to renounced,
455; conveyed to Wiscount Stirling, 471,
472.
Ill (Aisle) Puirs, repairing of, 466.
Indenture of a Horse Race, 201.
Irishmen,-scollers in the Gramer Scule of
Glasgow to be examined, 76, 90, 94.
JAMES THE SIXTH,-His Library, 3;—his pre-
cept for payment to John Gibson, book-
KELso, contribution for, 481.
Kennedy of Brounston,-letter by Earl of Cas-
sillis to, 141.
Killellan, Presbytery of Paisley to plant the Kirk
of 96.
Kilsyth, Lady and Sir William Livingstoun, of,
—proceedings anent them, 71, 74, 76, 82.
King's-guard, anent contribution for, 58, 59.
Kirk, Hie, -sum to be recovered for repairs of,
401; Blackfriars, preachings in, 406; Kirkin-
tilloch, 87, 407; Barony, visitation of, 415;
LEINYAE,-the Minister found to have been
unprofitable in handling the text prescryvit.
to him, 58;-the parish declared “dissolut
and given to impiety for laik of God's word,”
92;—order to speik to the Abbot of Cam-
buskynnet in favour of the Minister, 93.
Houlat-heart, -a charm, 95.
Hude, Robin, enquiry ament play of 114.
Huirs and harlots, a receiver of, to be put in
the “piller,” 73.
Humbie, Extracts from the Kirk Session Re-
gister of, 432.
Huntlie, George, Earl of, excommunicated,
413.
binder, 20; letter to the Privy Council,
149; thanksgiving within the Synod of Glas-
gow to be made for his preservation (1600),
95.
Jesuits,—enquiry to be made anent, 136.
Joggis, sentence to stand in the, 426.
Johnstoun, John, maister in New College of St
Andrews, the testament of 333.
Judges,—Anent the robes of, 145.
of Stirling, against building seats in body of,
445; of Edinburgh, the general, extracts from
book of, 97; Sessions, extracts from records
of, 97, 428.
Kirks, list of ordered, &c. 72; ament the number
within the Presbetries of Glasgow, Hamil-
ton and Paisley, 79.
Kirkintilloch, chapel in, to be a Kirk, 87.
Kirk-yairds of uther folkes parochins,—na corps
to be laid in, 69.
Lennox,-The household account of Ludovic
second Duke of, when commissioner to Par-
liament, in the year 1607, 165.
Leprosy, persons affected with, 68,407.
Letters,-Earl of Cassillis to his brother to take
Auchindrain's life, 141; King James VI. to
IN DE X. vii
the Privy Council anent robes, &c. 149;
anent precedence of the Nobilitie, 353; Henry
II. of France to Mary Queen Dowager of
Scotland, 207; Mary Queen of Scots to her
Mother, Queen Dowager of Scotland, 241;
to Lairds of Barnbarroch, 260. See Cata-
logue of these, 257.
Library of Mary Queen of Scots and of King
James the Sixth, 3. -
MAccALYANE of Cliftonhall, Thomas, Senator
of the College of Justice,—proceedings
against, 100, 108, 109, 110, 117, 119, 121.
Magistrates, Robes of, 145.
Maister—steallit,-sentence for giving it to a
person to drink, 445.
Marriage,_anent promises of 460;—untime-
ous suits of, 453;—riotous banketting at,
104, 113, 116, 131, 136;—by consent of pa-
rents, order ament, 113.
MARY QUEEN of Scots, Her Library, 3;—
Roll of the Archearis of her Body Guard,
25;—Letters from her to her Mother, Mary
the Queen Dowager, 239;-Act for seques-
trating and detaining her in the house of
Lochlevin, 249.
Mass and Papistry renounced, 112.
NoBILITIE,-anent the Robes of Earls, Judges,
&c., 145; ranking and placing of them in
Parliaments and General Councils, 351;
OGILVIE of Boyne, Alexander,-his contract
of marriage with Mary Bethune, one of the
Queen's Maries, 39.
Little, Clement, Advocate, and Commissary of
Edinburgh,-notices ament, 287; catalogue of
his books in the University of Edinburgh,
292. -
Livingstone, Dame Helen Hay, Lady, -sum-
moned, 66;—Mr John Couper to confer with
her anent the heidis of religioune, 67;—to
be excommunicate, 86.
Meetings, nocturnal for worship,-act against,
475.
Mercat-day changed, 482.
“Mes-priests and hearers of Mes” to be “given
up,” 59.
Ministers and Preachers, orders and sentences
anent, 57, 58, 60, 64, 69, 75, 84, 87, 88, 92,
93, 94, 95, 96, 402,403, 404, 407,410, 413,
418, 419, 424, 425, 434, 466, 474.
Ministers, contribution of, to the plat, 75.
Money, alender of for profit sentenced, 106, 112.
Mortcloths,—money to be sent to Holland for,
481.
Morton, James Earl of, his precept for payment
of price of books for King James VI., 16.
Mosse, subscription for lands overflowed by,
470.
Commission to the Lords of Privy Council
concerning it, 351; Decreet of the Privy
Council thereon, 391.
Orkney,+contribution for the famine im, made
in the kirk of Stirling, 473.
Orray women,_order anent, 129, 465.
viii INDEX.
PAPINgo, enquiry anent shooting at the, 114.
Papists, intercommuning with, 53, 54, 94;—
Books of Papistry, 89.
Parochinaris of Glasgow, articles given in to, 70;
—protest anent, 86.
Pat the Bellman,—ordered to ring the bell every
Wednesday and Friday “ sa lang as the
Lordis of Sessioun sittis,” 123.
Perambulation of “ Uttir Kirk” at Stirling pro-
hibited, 456.
Pestilence,—Fast on account of, 447;—pre-
vents meeting of the Kirk Session of Stirling,
448, 48l.
Plat, contribution to, 75, 76;—Mr John Bell,
commissioner anent, 79.
Poor, contribution for the, 109, 111, 113, 120,
125, 126, 130, 412, 457, 461 ;-False Coin
given as alms to them in the Kirk of Stirling
prohibited, 133.
Poor's-box of the Kirk of Stirling,-loan from,
447, 467.
RANKING of the Nobility in 1606, 351.
Rape,—accusation for committing, 449.
Repentance,—sentences of Presbytery and Kirk
Sessions to mak, 54, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67,
73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 90, 91, 95,
101, l02, 104, 108, 125, 128, 129, 131, 132,
135, 406, 408, 411, 412, 414, 419, 420, 422,
425, 426,429, 435, 439, 440, 441, 442, 445,
446, 458, 459, 463,468, 478, 483, 484.
Ringing of the Bell of the Deid declared eccle-
siastical, 69.
SABBATH,-Acts of the Presbytery of Glasgow,
and the Kirk Sessions of Cambusnethan,
Humbie and Stirling, against profanation of
the, 67, 419, 420, 422, 425, 428, 429, 438,
440, 458, 459, 483, 484.
Sacrament,-ministration of, at Campsie, 67;—
Ports in Stirling to be kept shut on the Sab-
bath-day, 480. -
Prayer, hour of, altered, 115,469,474;—for Seik
persons, 451.
Precedency of Nobility, commission respecting
the, 351;-Decreet anent, 391.
Presbytery of Glasgow,-Excerpts from the
Registers of the, 53, 401.
Proclamation by the Privy Council anent the
Robes of Noblemen, &c. 152.
Profanation of the Kirk,-order anent, 401;—of
Sabbath. See Sabbath.
Psalms,—order ament the singing of 113;—al-
lowance made for “uptaking” of, 457, 458.
Pulpit and Reederis letrun in the Kirk of Stir-
ling to be “reformit,” 458.
Pyparis and Playeris at profane games on Sab-
bath,-act against, 67;-prohibited at Bry-
dells, 430.
Robes of Earls, Judges, &c.—Letter by King
James the Sixth to the Privy Council
anent, 149; Proclamation anent the Habites,
152.
Robin Huidis Playis,—notice respecting, 114.
Rosneth, –Order to the minister anent framing
his speech in preaching to his congregation,
96.
Ruglen,-Grass in the Kirk-yard claimed by the
Town, 93;-anent leading of the Teinds of
the Burrow Roods of 410, 415.
at Edinburgh, 98, 124;–Stirling, 127, 129,
449, 452.
Saints, depositions anent the worship of 94.
Saint Andrews,—Inventary of Books in the
Colleges of 307;-the Testament of Mr
John Johnstone, Maister in the New Col-
lege of 333.
IN DE X. ix
Saint Roche and Saint Temes Kirk-yards,—de-
claration anent, 61.
Seat in the Kirk at Stirling for the Minister's
wife, 467, 473, 479.
Semple, George, minister of Killellan,—curious
depositions against him, 420;—farther pro-
cedure, 422;—Robert, Lord, proceedings
against him and Helen Drummond, 62, 65.
Signatures, Fac-Similes of James Earl of Mor-
ton, Regent, 16; King James VI., 20, 149,
353 ; Abbots of Dunfermline and Cambus-
kenneth, 20; Janet Betoun, Lady of Buc-
cleugh, 41; Mary Queen of Scots and Darn-
ley, 49; Earls of Huntly, Argyll, Bothwell,
Murray, and Athol, 49; Mary Bethune, and
Ogilvie of Boyne, 49; John Earl of Cassillis,
141 ; Earls of Morton and Abercorn, 201 ;
Lord Boyd, 201 ; Henry II. of France, 218;
Mary Queen of Scots, 241, 242, 244, 245,
262, 264, 267; Earls of Atholl, Mortoun,
Mar, Glencairn, and Lords Uchiltrie, Sempill,
Hwme, Sanquhar, &c., 249 ; Francis and
Mary Queen of Scots, 262; Henry Darnley,
264; J. Prymrois, clerk of Privy Council,
TESTAMENT of John Johnstoun, Maister in the
New College of St Andrews, 333.
Throuchstones,—anent license to have in Glas-
gow Kirk and the Barony, 426.
Tinklaris, a false coin given as alms to the Poor
in Stirling prohibited, 133.
UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH,-Catalogue of
Books presented to it by Clement Litle, 292.
WAGABonds and Idle Persons, 120, 130, 135,
454.
Wans. See Barnbarroch.
398; Sundry petitioners for a toleration of
the Stang, 491. -
Slander,-Presbytery declared Judges of, 70;
against the Kirk, 100; against Ministers,
89.
Slanderers,-sentence against, 454.
Smooring of Bairns,—persons summoned for,
4ll.
Sodomy, sentence of Presbytery against, 426.
Spottiswood, Mr John, Bishop of Glasgow,-
license to, 405;—summoned for non-resi-
dence, &c., 409.
Stang,-Notices ament, 487; Petition for a
toleration to the, 491 ; proceedings on, 493.
Stirling, William, Wiscount of,-seat or loft in
the Kirk of Stirling given to, 471, 472.
Stirling,-Extracts from the Register of the
Kirk Session of, 127, 445.
Stones in the Kirk-yard of Stirling,-none per-
mitted without warrand of the Session, 477.
Superstitious Rites, 77, 95, 405, 411, 416, 438,
451, 453, 454, 467, 470, 472.
Sweirers and Banners, order anent, 89;—sen-
tences against, 442, 443.
Tolbuith of Edinburgh erected into a Kirk for
“ sa mony as may not guidlie heir in the
Mekill Kirk,” 106.
Tullibody Brig.-alms for reparation of 135.
Turks' Captives,—contribution in the Kirk of
Humbie for, 434.
Usury,-proceedings against Marioun Robert-
soun and Issobell Clark, for, 106, 112.
Visitation of Glasgow, 72; of Cadder and Camp-
sie, 73; of Kirks, 95.
X INDEX.
WALDGRAw, Robert (Printer), 22.
Watering Kail on Sabbath punished, 438.
Wife, proceedings anent the Sale of a, 434,
474.
Witehes, order of Presbytery anent, 59; Minis-
ters slandered as cause of the death of 89,90.
Young, Mr Peter, King James the Sixth's
Preceptor, −Letter from him to the Lord
Justice Clerk, 13; Letters of grant to, 15.
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Wodheid, Geylis Seytoun, Lady, -ordinance
against her, 86.
Wodrop, Richard, younger of Dalmarnok, sum-
moned for being stubborn and disobedient to
his Father, 92,
Yule-day, the parishioners of Ruglen sum-
moned for holding, 77.
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