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B05252	Laws and acts past in the second [i.e. third] session of the first Parliament, of our most high and dread soveraign, Charles the second, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. Holden at Edinburgh, from the eighteenth of June, 1663. to the ninth of October thereafter, on which day the Parliament was dissolved; by a noble lord, John Earl of Rothes, Lord Lefly and Bambreith ... / with special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament.; Laws, etc.	Scotland.; Rothes, John Leslie, Earl of, 1630?-1681.; Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1663 (1663)	Wing S1273A; ESTC R183990	41,021	57

LAWS and ACTS Past in the second SESSION of the first PARLIAMENT Of our most High and Dread SOVERAIGN CHARLES THE SECOND By the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Holden at Edinburgh from the eighteenth of June 1663. to the ninth of October thereafter on which day the Parliament was dissolved By a Noble Lord John Earl of Rothes Lord Lesly and Bambreith His MAJESTIES Commissioner for holding of the same by vertue of a COMMISSION under His MAjESTIES Great Seal of this Kingdom With the special Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAjESTY Anno Dom. 1663. CUM PRIVILEGIO HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LAWS and ACTS past in the third Session of the first PARLIAMENT of our most High and Dread Soveraign CHARLES the Second by the grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Begun at Edinburgh upon the eighteenth of June 1663. and continued to the ninth of October thereafter I. ACT against separation and disobedience to Ecclesiastical Authority FOrasmuch as the King's Majesty considering the prejudices which did ensue to the Church and Protestant Religion to the Prerogative of the Crown to the Authority of Parliament to the Liberties of the Subject and to the publick Laws and Peace of the Kingdom by the invasions made upon Episcopal Government during the late troubles And finding that Government to be the Church-government most agreeable to the Word of GOD most convenient and effectual for preservation of Truth Order and Unity and most suteable to Monarchy and to the Peace and Quiet of the State Hath therefore with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament by several Acts past in the second Session of this Parliament restored the Church to it 's ancient and right Government by Archbishops and Bishops and hath redintigrated the estate of Bishops to the exercise of their Episcopal Function and to all the Priviledges Dignities Jurisdictions and Possessions due and formerly belonging thereunto And in further order to the settlement of the Church and bringing the Ministers to a due acknowledgment of and complyance with the Government thereof thus established by Law His Majesty with advice foresaid hath also Statute and Ordained That all these Ministers who entered to the Cure of any Paroch without Right or Presentations from the lawfull Patrons in and since the year one thousand six hundred and fourty nine and should not betwixt and the twentieth of September last obtain Presentations from their several Patrons and Collation from the Bishop of the Diocess where they lived should have no right to the uplifting the Rents of any Benefice or Stipend for the year one thousand six hundred and sixty two but that their Places Benefices and Kirks should be ipso jure vacand And that what ever Ministers should without a lawfull excuse to be admitted by their Ordinary absent themselves from the diocesian Assembly or who should not concur in all the Acts of the Church-discipline as they should be thereunto required by the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocess should be for the first fault suspended from their Office and Benefice till the next diocesian Meeting and if they amend not should be deprived and the Church and Benefice to be provided as in other cases of vacancies And the King's Majesty having resolved to conserve and maintain the Church in the present State and Government thereof by Archbishops and Bishops and others bearing office therein and not to endure nor give way or connivance to any variation therein in the least Doth therefore with advice and consent of His Estates conveened in this third Session of His Parliament Ratifie and Approve the aforementioned Acts and all other Acts and Laws made in the two former Sessions of Parliament in order to the settling of Episcopal Dignity Jurisdiction and Authority within this Kingdom and Ordains them to stand in full force as publick Laws of the Kingdom and to be put to further execution in all points conform to the tenor thereof And in pursuance of His Majesties Royal resolution herein His Majesty with advice aforesaid doth recommend to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to take speedy and effectual course that these Acts receive ready and due obedience from all His Majesties Subjects And for that end that they call before them all such Ministers who having entered in or since the year one thousand six hundred and fourty nine and have not as yet obtained Presentations and Collations as aforesaid yet dared to preach in contempt of the Law and to punish them as seditious persons and contemners of the Royal Authority As also that they be carefull that such Ministers who keep not the diocesian Meetings and concur not with the Bishops in the Acts of Church-discipline being for the same suspended or deprived as said is be accordingly after deprivation removed from their Benefices Glebs and Manses and if any of them shall notwithstanding offer to retain the possession of their Benefices or Manses that they take present course to see them dispossest and if they shall thereafter presume to exercise their Ministry that they be punished as seditious persons and such as contemn the Authority of Church and State And as His Majesty doth expect from all His good and dutifull Subjects a due acknowledgment of and hearty complyance with His Majesties Government Ecclesiasticall and Civil as it is now established by Law within this Kingdom and that in order thereunto they will give their chearful concurrence countenance and assistance to such Ministers as by publick Authority are or shall be admitted in their several Paroches and attend all the ordinary Meetings for divine Worship in the same So His Majesty doth Declare That He will and doth account a with-drawing from and not keeping and joyning in these Meetings to be seditious and of dangerous example and consequence And therefore and for preventing the same for the future His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament doth hereby Statute Ordain and Declare That all and every such person or persons who shall hereafter ordinarily and willfully withdraw and absent themselves from the ordinary Meetings of divine Worship in their own Paroch Church on the Lords-day whether upon account of Popery or other disaffection to the present Government of the Church shall thereby incur the pains and penalties under-written viz. Each Nobleman Gentleman and Heretor the loss of a fourth part of ilk years Rent in which they shall be accused and convicted and every Yeoman Tennent or Farmer the loss of such a proportion of their free moveables after the payment of their Rents due to their Master and Land-lord as His Majesties Council shall think fit not exceeding a fourth part thereof and every Burgess to lose the liberty of Merchandizing Trading and all other Priviledges within Burgh and fourth part of their

charging the Sheriffs under the pain of rebellion with certification c. to find caution Burges Indwellers in Edinburgh that they shall yearly make their accompts in Exchequer and pay all things resting owing to the King's Majesty by vertue of their Office And sicklike by the two hundred and thirty Act Parliament fourteenth anno one thousand five hundred and ninety four not only the foresaid Act is ratified and approven but also all Chamberlains Fewers Customers Bailies of Burroughs and Sheriffs and others intromettors with the foresaids Rents are ordained to find caution Burgesses of Edinburgh for yearly compearing and making compt in Exchequer And sicklike by another Act Parliament fifteen Act two hundred and sixty two for preventing of the prejudice that did then arise through the not timeous payment of the foresaids Rents payable out of the High-lands and Isles the saids Fewers are Ordained to find caution to the Exchequer for yearly and thankfull payment of the yearly Rents Duties and Services due and payable forth of the Lands possest and occupied by them or any other in their names wherein if they failed their pretended Infestments and other Rights and Titles they have to any of their Lands either property or superiority are declared forfault and null Which whole Acts of Parliament respective above-mentioned The King's Majesty and Estates of Parliament taking of new to their consideration and finding no means could have been more probable and conduceable for preventing of these prejudices and obstructions that have arisen to His Majesties Affairs through the not timely payment of His Rents and that the neglect of the exact putting of the saids Acts to execution hath been the only fountain from whence these have sprung Therefore and for preventing of the same in the future the King's Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament doth Revive Renew Ratifie and Approve the foresaids Acts respectively and particularly above-written of the dates tenors and contents thereof in all points in so far as the same are or may be extended to the payment or securing of His Majesties Rents and Ordains the same to have force and be punctually obeyed and extended against all Chamberlains Fewers Sheriffs Stewards of Stewartries Bailies of Regalities Bailes of Burroughs and others lyable in payment of any of His Majesties Rents for finding caution in Exchequer to the Thesaurer principal and Thesaurer-depute who are hereby required to cause charge the foresaids persons particularly above-mentioned at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh to compear before them to the effect above-written with certification not only under the pains contained in the respective Acts of Parliament but also in case of their disobedience to denounce them Rebels at the said Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and to be registrate in the Thesaurers or general Registers of Hornings Which charge denounciation and registration respective the King's Majesty and Estates of Parliament Declares to be as sufficient to all purposes and intents as if the same charge were given to them personally at their dwelling-houses and the denounciation at the head Burgh of the Shire where they live and the same registrate in the Sheriff Books thereof And sick like His Majesty and Estates of Parliament taking to their consideration that several of the saids Fewers charged and denounced for not compearing compting and paying of their saids Duties do ly under the Process of Horning apprehending themselves from the distance of the place secure both as to their persons and goods to the great contempt of His Majesties Royal Authority slighting contemning and vilipending His Majesties Laws And His Majesty and Estates of Parliament considering by the nature duty and office of each Sheriff Stewart and Bailies of Regalities within their respective Jurisdictions they as His Majesties Officers are oblieged and by several Acts of Parliament viz. the 30. Act JA. 4. Par. 3. Par. 6. Act 69. Act 97. JA. 5. Par. 7. Act 74. Par. 6. JA. 6. Act 75. JA. 6. Par. 6. Ordained to execute His Majesties Laws and put Letters of Poinding and Caption to execution take and apprehend the Rebels uplift their estates and compt for the same to the Comptroller and Thesaurer and to cause their Clerks give in the Registers of Hornings and to uplift His Majesties retoured Duties blench Duties Taxations and other Duties payable to His Majesty as not only the saids Acts of Parliament but also the several Rolls of Exchequer bears Whereby it appears both by Law and the nature and duty of their Office that they ought to execute His Majesties Letters and cause His Majesty be payed of His Rents by the persons lyable on payment thereof within their bounds and that the contemners of His Majesties Authority be duly punished and His Majesties Laws put to execution by them as His proper Officers Therefore the King's Majesty and Estates of Parliament Ordains when any of the foresaids persons for disobedience to the charges given to them for payment of the Mails Farmes and Duties as said is are denounced Rebels and put to the horn Letters be directed to charge the Sheriff of the Shire and his Deputes Stewart of the Stewartry Baily of the Regality respective within those bounds where the saids persons dwells or lands lyes to take and apprehend their persons and put them in warde ay and while payment be made to the Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute or others appointed by them and an eque retired thereof or to poind and destrinzie the readiest goods and geer and make sale of so much thereof and to cause His Majesties Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute and others appointed by them for that effect to be compleatly payed of the said sum charged for or to instruct sufficient and exact diligence for the same within twenty one dayes next after they be charged With certification if they failzie the saids twenty one dayes being by-past Letters shall be directed to charge them or their respective cautioners to make payment thereof themselves under the pain of rebellion and putting of them to the horn and if they failzie to denounce them rebels c. in manner above-specified XV. ACT concerning Beggars and Vagabonds OUr Soveraign Lord considering the many laudable Acts of Parliament made by His Majesties Royal Predecessors for relief of the Poor and for constraining of Beggars Vagabonds and idle Persons to take themselves to lawful Callings that they might not be burdensom and dis-gracefull to the Kingdom Especially the seventh Act of the sixth Parliament of His Majesties Royal Grand-father King James the sixth of happy memory Ordaining the names of the Poor of ilk Paroch and such as must be necessarily sustained by almes to be taken up and to tax and stint the persons within the Paroch according to the estimation of their substance without exception of persons to such weekly charges and contributions as should be thought sufficient to sustain the said poor People And the hundred and sixty eight Act of the fifteenth Parliament King James the sixth Ratifying the

of which the grass for one horse and two kine may be designed or otherwayes if the saids Kirk-lands be arable Land in either of these cases Ordains the Heretors to pay to the Minister and his Successors yearly the sum of twenty pounds Scots for the said grass for one horse and two kine the Heretors alwayes being relieved according to the Law standing of other Heretors of Kirk-lands in the said Paroch And because several Kirks have no Glebs as yet designed to them it is hereby specially provided that in all designations of Glebs Incorporat-acers in Village or Town where the Heretor hath houses and gardens the same shall not be designed he alwayes giving other Lands nearest to the Kirk And His Majesty with advice foresaid for special causes and considerations Declares that this present Act as to the Manses is to have force as the same had been made and dated the fourteenth of March one thousand six hundred and fourty nine XXI ACT anent comprisings OUr Soveraign Lord considering that since the first day of January one thousand six hundred and fifty two before the making of the sixty two Act of the first Session of this Parliament entituled Act for ordering the paiment of Debts betwixt Creditor and Debitor divers persons having right by posterior Comprisings to the legal reversion of the first Comprising deduced of their Debitors Estate have according to the Law then in force redeemed or satisfied the first Comprising and acquired the right thereof for their own better security lest the legal reversion of the first Comprising should have expired to their prejudice And whereas by an Clause of the foresaid Act of Parliament it is Ordained That all Comprisings led since the said first day of January one thousand six hundred and fifty two within year and day of the first effectual Comprising shall come in pari passu together in maner and upon the provisions mentioned in the said Act Which Clause as it is most just as to all Comprisings led and standing un-redeemed and un-satisfied by the subsequent Comprisers having right to the legal reversion So it were unjust to prejudge those who for their own security have redeemed or satisfied the first Comprising as said is according to the Law then standing Therefore His Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Declares That albeit the foresaid Act was made ad praeterita to regulate the diligence used by Comprisings at the instance of the Creditors Yet it was no wayes their meaning to prejudge posterior Comprisers who bona side for their own security and for preventing the hazard of the expiration of the legal reversion of the first Comprising did redeem or satisfie the same And therefore it is Statute and Ordained That the saids second Comprisers shall no wayes be prejudged of the right of the foresaid first Comprising redeemed and satisfied by them Declaring nevertheless that as to the second or posterior Comprising standing in the parties person who satisfied the first the same shall only come in with the rest of the Comprisers pari passu as it is provided by the foresaid Act. As likewayes Declaring That these presents be no wayes extended to any Comprisings satisfied by the second Comprisers since the making of the foresaid Act of Parliament or to be satisfied in time coming XXII ACT anent Sentences of Excommunication OUr Soveraign Lord considering that the proviso in the twenty fifth Act of the first Session of Parliament entituled Act for denounceing of excommunicate persons anent the exhibiting the Process and Sentence of excommunication before the Lords of Session to the end they might consider the legality of the Process and grounds whereupon the Sentence proceeded before any Letters of denunciation should pass against excommunicat persons was concluded before the restauration of the Bishops and is prejudicial and derogatory to the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Authority as it is now established Doth therefore with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Retreat and Rescind the said proviso and Declares the same to be void and null XXIII ACT for additional provision in favours of the Vniversities OUr Soveraign Lord and the Estates of Parliament taking into serious consideration the condition of the several Universities of this Kingdom And finding that the present mean and incompetent provision of the Masters and Professors thereof is so prejudicial to the flourishing of these Seminaries of Church and State that unless some considerable Augmentation be setled upon them for their encouragment the ablest and fittest persons of ingenious spirits and education will shun and avoid the undertaking of Functions in Universities for want of such ingenuous means as should invite entertain encourage and obliege men sufficient for such laborious imployments to the great decay of Learning and detriment of all ranks of Persons in the Kingdom For preventing and remeeding whereof there being an expedient proposed that the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the inferiour Clergy may allow some part yearly of their Rents Benefices and Maintenance for the space of five years to come as an exemplary testimony of their piety and zeal for the advancement of Learning and Religion Therefore His Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Doth Statute and Ordain That for the cropts and years one thousand six hundred and sixty four one thousand six hundred and sixty five one thousand six hundred and sixty six one thousand six hundred and sixty seven and one thousand six hundred and sixty eight there be raised yearly out of the Rents of ilk Archbishop and Bishop the sum of fifty pounds for every thousand merks of the said Revenues and the sum of fourty pounds out of every thousand merks of the Stipends or Benefices of every Minister and so proportionable six of the hundred as the Benefice or Stipend shall be valued to be more or less by the Bishops of the Diocesses And that the saids several proportions payable by the Bishops shall be yearly given in to the Archbishops of the respective Provinces or such as shall have warrand from them and that the saids several proportions payable by Ministers shall be yearly given in to the Bishops of the respective Diocess or such as shall have warrand from them and for whom the saids Bishops shall be countable Which sums so to be raised shall be distributed to the several Universities according to those proportions which shall be assigned by His Majesty by a Committee to sit at Edinburgh consisting of the Archbishops of St. Andrews and Glasgow and the Bishops of Edinburgh and Aberdeen and four others whereof one to be nominate by the Visitors of the University of St. Andrews and another by the Visitors of the University of Glasgow the third by the Visitors of Aberdeen the fourth by the Council of Edinburgh Hereby authorizing the Archbishop of St. Andrews and in his absence the Archbishop of Glasgow to preside in the said Committee and to appoint their

Kingdom being still more and more sensible of this their happiness by the often and renewed expressions of His Majesties grace and favour and of His tenderness and care of their perservation in the peaceable and secure enjoyment of their Religion Laws Liberties and Properties Do find themselves the more oblieged to renew the expressions of their duty and loyalty to His Majesty And therefore the Estates of Parliament of this His Majesties ancient Kingdom of Scotland do in name and behalf of all His Majesties good Subjects within the same by these presents renew the dutifull tender of their lives and fortunes for the promoving of His Majesties Service and the advancement of His Royal Authority And as they do chearfully recognosce His Majesties Royal Prerogative and undoubted Right of the sole power of raising arming and commanding of His Subjects So in a further acknowledgement of their duty they do make humble and hearty offer to His Majesty of twenty thousand Foot-men and two thousand Horse-men sufficiently armed and furnished with fourty dayes provision to be raised from the several Shires of the Kingdom according to the proportions following viz. From the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk one thousand three hundred thirty three Foot and one hundred fourty eight Horse From the Shire of Berwick eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Edinburgh eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Haddingtoun eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the Shire of Peebles two hundred sixty six Foot and twenty nine Horse From the Shire of Linlithgow three hundred thirty three Foot and fourty two Horse From the Burgh of Edinburgh Lieth and Canongate eight hundred Foot From the Shire of Dumfries eight hundred Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shire of Wigtoun eight hundred Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Air and Renfrew one thousand three hundred thirty three Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Lanerick one thousand Foot and one hundred fourty eight Horse From the Shires of Stirling and Clackmannan six hundred sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Fife and Kinross one thousand six hundred Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Perth one thousand six hundred Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shire of Forfar one thousand Foot and one hundred and three Horse From the Shire of Kincardin and Marshals part of Aberdeen eight hundred Foot and seventy four Horse From the rest of Aberdeen and Shire of Bamff one thousand sixty six Foot and one hundred seventy six Horse From the Shires of Elgin Nairn and this side of Ness one thousand Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Earl of Seafort and Lord Lovat their division of Innerness six hundred sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Sutherland and Caithness and the rest of Innerness one thousand sixty six Foot and eighty eight Horse From the Shires of Argyl Dumbartoun and Bute eight hundred Foot From the Shire of Orknay six hundred sixty six Foot Which Forces are to be in readiness as they shall be called for by His Majesty to march to any part of His Dominions of Scotland England or Irland for suppressing of any forreign invasion intestine trouble or insurrection or for any other service wherein His Majesties Honour Authority or Greatness may be concerned And for the better prosecution hereof the Estates of Parliament do humbly entreat His Majesty may be graciously pleased to give Commissions to such persons to be general Officers Colonels Lieutenant colonels Majors and Rute-masters as His Majesty in His Royal judgment shall think sit and for the other Officers or any other thing fitting to be done for perfecting of the Levies and carrying on of this business they do humbly recommend to His Majesty to give His direction therein to His Privy Council who are hereby impowered with Commission and Authority for the ordering disposing and sole managing of this Affair in such a way as this dutifull offer of the Parliament of His Majesty may be made most effectual and according to the instructions and commands they shall receive from His Majesty And the Estates of Parliament do Declare that if His Majesty shall have further use of their service this Kingdom will be ready every man betwixt sixty and sixteen to joyn and hazard their lives and fortunes as they shall be called for by His Majesty for the safety and preservation of His sacred Person Authority and Government XXVI ACT asserting His Majesties Prerogative in the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraigners THe Estates of Parliament considering that during the late troubles divers invasions were made upon the Royal Prerogatives of the Crown and that in a just abhorrence thereof and in a due sense of the happiness they enjoy under His Majesties Government they are oblieged in all occasions to vindicate and assert the same in the several branches thereof And since the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraign Countries and the laying of restraints and impositions upon forraign imported Merchandizes is by the Law of Nations acknowledged to be proper to and inherent in the persons of all free Princes as an undoubted Prerogative of the Crown They therefore in a dutifull and humble recognizance of His Majesties Prerogative-royal do Declare That the ordering and disposal of Trade with forraign Nations and the laying of restraints and impositions upon forraign imported Commodities doth belong to His Majesty and His Successours as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of the Crown and that by vertue thereof they may lay such impositions and restraints upon imported forraign Commodities and so order and dispose upon the Trade of them as they shall judge fit for the good of the Kingdom Likeas the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament doth hereby Rescind and Annull all Acts Statutes Constitutions and Customs to the contrary and Declares the same void and null in all time coming XXVII COMMISSION for the plantation of Kirks and valuation of Teinds THe King 's most Excellent Majesty being desirous to prosecute the work of valuation of Teinds and plantation of Kirks in reference to His own interest for the annuity and the universal good of His people especially for the incouragement of the Ministers of the Gospel Doth with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Ratifie and Approve the nineteenth Act of the Parliament holden at Edinburgh by His Royal Father of blessed memory in anno one thousand six hundred and thirty three entituled Commission for valuation of Teinds in the whole heads clauses and conditions thereof except in so far as there hath been any alterations made therein by Acts and Commissions made and granted by His Majesty since the date of the said Act or granted by any pretended Parliaments since and which are Ratified Salved or Reserved by this present Parliament and which alterations are

of any part of their Rents whereof they were in possession in the said year thirty seven And although by a special Act of this present Parliament the pretended Parliament holden in anno one thousand six hundred and fourty nine and in the beginning of the year one thousand six hundred and fifty is from the beginning Declared void and null and all that hath followed thereupon Yet nevertheless His Majesty doth with advice foresaid autho rize all Valuations Acts Decreets and Sentences led deduced and pronounced by the Commissions one or moe appointed by the said pretended Parliament for plantation of Kirks and valuation of Teinds and all execution competent thereupon Excepting such Decreets and Sentences given in favours of Ministers for their Stipends or for dividing uniting annexing or building of Kirks which shall be found to have been unjustly or exorbitantly decerned The determination whereof is hereby referred by His Majesty with consent foresaid to the saids Commissioners that they after hearing of parties and consideration of particulars may take such course for altering annulling or allowing of the saids Acts Decreets and Sentences as they shall think fitting conform to the Laws Practick and Custom observed preceeding the year one thousand six hundred and fourty nine And Ordains Processes upon supplications to be summarily granted parties alwayes being cited and that without any reduction And it shall be lawfull to the saids Commissioners or quorum foresaid to proceed in all Summons and Actions to be intended for that effect within the space of two years after the first down-sitting of the Commission And whereas it may fall out that some of the saids Commissioners may be un-able to attend the service through death sickness or other known impediment Therefore His Majesty Declares that He shall be carefull to fill their places with other persons qualified whose oaths for faithfull discharge of the same shall be taken by the Lord Chancellor or in his absence by the President of the said Commission for the time And Ordains this present Commission to endure ay and while the same be discharged by His Majesty and the Acts Decreets and Sentences thereof to have the force strength and effect of a Decreet and Sentence of Parliament and the Lords of Session to grant and direct Letters of Horning Poinding and others requisit in maner contained in the foresaids Commissions And considering that it was the will and pleasure of His Majesties Royal Father that all Heretors who should be willing to buy should have their own Teinds at reasonable rates therefore His Majesty with advice foresaid Statutes and Ordains That all Heretors whose Teinds are not valued excepting as is formerly excepted in this Commission shall have liberty to value and buy the same at such rates as is contained in the Acts of Parliament one thousand six hundred and thirty three With power to the saids Commissioners to augment the saids rates according to the burden of augmentation and others sustained by the Titulars since the saids Acts and the saids Heretors to have the liberty of buying as said is within the space of three years after the valuation With this Declaration alwayes That in case the impediment during the time foresaid flow from the Titular by reason of his minority or other inability in that case the He retor who offers himself ready to buy his own Teind within the space foresaid shall have place so soon as the impediment is removed to buy his Teinds notwithstanding of the expiring of the years and space above-exprest And it is Declared that if the Heretor be Minor and his Tutors neglect the buying of his Teinds within the foresaid space the Minor shall have action for two years after his minority to compell the Titular for selling of his saids Teinds And His Majesty with consent foresaid hereby discharges all former Commissions Declaring the same to be expired XXVIII ACT annent penal Statutes THe King 's most Excellent Majesty having out of His grace and goodness to His Subjects granted an full and free Act of Indempnity Pardon and Oblivion for all crimes and offences committed by them relating to the late troubles and more fully exprest in the tenth Act of the second Session of this Parliament And considering that besides these there be divers arbitrary and pecunial pains adjected to penal Statutes which being strictly exacted would prove an heavy burden to the Subjects who may be lyable thereto And His Majesty being desirous now at the close of this His first Parliament that all His good Subjects may find the effects of His mercy as to exceed all former presidents so to be beyond their own expectation Hath therefore thought fit with the advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament by these presents to Discharge Pardon and Remit all contraveeners of any penal Statutes for all deeds heretofore done by them contrary to the tenor thereof Excepting the Statutes concerning the unlawfull taking of Usury transporting of Silver and Gold slaying of red and black Fish and all Acts and Statutes past in this present Parliament which are no wayes discharged by this present Act. XXIX ACT Salvo jure cujuslibet OUr Soveraign Lord and Estates of Parliament considering that in this last Session of this present Parliament many particular Acts and Ratifications have been past wherein divers Clauses may be inserted prejudicial to the rights and interests of several persons albeit it hath alwayes been His Majesties purpose and meaning and the purpose and meaning of the Estates of Parliament in this as in all preceeding Parliaments That all particular Acts and Ratifications general or special howsoever conceived where persons concerned have not been heard for their Interest before the passing thereof should not prejudge private Rights of parties Therefore His Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains That all particular Acts and Ratifications whatsoever past in this last Session of this present Parliament shall be interpreted Salvo jure cujuslibet Excepting alwayes an Act and Ratification past in this Session of Parliament in favours of the Duke and Dutchess of Buccleuch of their Contract of Marriage which is Declared by His Majesty and Estates of Parliament no wayes to be comprehended herein Extracted from the Records of Parliament by me Sir ARCHIBALD PRIMEROSH of Chester Knight and Barronet Clerk of His MAjESTIES Council Registers and Rolls A. Primerose Cls. Reg. ATABLE of the Printed ACTS 1. ACt against separation and disobedience to Ecclesiastical Authority Page 3 2. Additional Act concerning the Declaration to be signed by all persons in publick Trust Page 6 3. Act against Protections Page 8 4. Act for the establishment and constitution of a National Synod Page 9 5. Act anentruinous houses in Royal Burghs Page 10 6. Act discharging the importation of Strong-waters c. Page 12 7. Act discharging the mixing of Tin with Lead ibid. 8. Act anent the discharging of Advocations for sums within two bundred merks Page 13 9. Act