INDEX TO THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 1638-1649.

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Aberdeen, pretended Assembly of 1616 at, condemned, 25

Abernethie, John, pretended Bishop of Caithness, deposed, 28

Absents from General Assembly, Act for Censuring, 476

Acknowledgement and Declaration to be subscribed by engagers in the late unlawful war against England, 544

Act and Declaration against the Act of Parliament and Committee of Estates, ordained to be subscribed the 10th and 12th of June, 1648, and against all new Oaths or Bands, in the Common Cause, imposed without consent of the Church, 497

Acts of General Assembly, 1638:—Approving Registers, p. 22;

condemning Pretended Assemblies, p. 24;

against unlawful Oaths of Intrants, p. 26;

condemning the Service Book, &c., Deposing pretended Bishops, p. 26;

Declaring Episcopacy abjured, p. 28;

against the Five Articles of Perth, p. 32;

restoring Kirk-Sessions, &c., p. 34;

anent Constitutions to be revived, p. 34;

anent Censures against Deposed Ministers, p. 38;

against the Civil Places and Power of Kirkmen, p. 38;

against Printing Acts or Treatises concerning the Divisions of the Times without warrant of Mr A. Johnston, as Clerk of Assembly and Advocate for the Kirk, p. 39;

anent censures on scandalous and malicious persons, and refractory Presbyteries, p. 39;

ordering Presbyteries, &c., to obtain Copies of Acts, p. 39;

concerning the renewal of the National Covenant; concerning the subscribing of the Confession of Faith, p. 40;

concerning Yearly General Assemblies, p. 40;

ordaining a Supplication to the King, 40

Acts of General Assembly, 1639:—Ordering the Bishop of Orkney’s Abjuration of Episcopacy to be registered; containing the causes and remedy of the bygone evils of the Kirk, p. 204;

approving an old Register of Assembly, p. 205;

approving the Deposition of Ministers by the Committees, p. 205;

anent receiving of Deposed Ministers, p. 205;

anent Keeping the Lord’s Day, p. 206;

approving Articles and Overtures anent Printing the old Acts, for restraining of people from passing to England to Marry, anent expenses of Commissioners to Assembly, Session Books, Deposed Ministers, Acts against Papists and Excommunicate Persons, Catechism and Trial of Intrants and Ministers, p. 206;

ordaining subscription of Confession and Covenant, with Assembly’s Declaration, p. 208;

anent Appellations, p. 208;

anent advising with Synods and Presbyteries before determination in Novations, anent Ministers’ Catechising, and Family Exercises, 208

Acts of General Assembly, 1640:—Anent Assembly-house, p. 278;

anent Demolishing Idolatrous Monuments, p. 279;

against Witches and Charmers, p. 279;

for censuring Speakers against the Covenant, p. 279;

against Expectants refusing to subscribe the Covenant, 279

Acts of General Assembly, 1641:—Approving Overtures of Assembly at Aberdeen for ordering Assembly House, p. 293;

anent old Ministers bruiking their Benefices, p. 293;

against sudden receiving Ministers deposed, p. 293;

approving Overtures anent Universities, p. 293;

against Impiety and Schism, p. 294;

anent Novations, p. 294;

anent Bursars and Expectants, p. 294;

against Unlawful Bands, p. 295;

anent the Kirk of Campheir, 297

Acts of General Assembly, 1642:—For bringing in of the Synod Books yearly to the General Assemblies, p. 320;

anent the choosing of Kirk Sessions, p. 321;

approving the interpretation of an Act at Edinburgh anent Trial of Ministers, p. 321;

anent the order for making Lists to his Majesty and other Patrons for Presentations, the order of Trial of Expectants, and for trying the Quality of Kirks, p. 321;

anent Lists for the Kirks in the Highlands, p. 322;

approving of Overtures for a supplication to the Council for due execution of Acts against Papists, &c., p. 322;

anent the joining of the Presbytery of Skye to the Synod of Argyle, p. 323;

approving Overtures and Transplantation of Ministers and Provision of Schools, p. 326;

anent Contrary Oaths, p. 327;

approving Overtures anent Family Exercises, Catechising, keeping of Synods and Presbyteries, &c., against Petitions, Declarations, and suchlike, in name of Ministers, without their knowledge or consents, p. 327;

containing the Assembly’s desires to the Lords of Council and Conservators of Peace, p. 328;

for Lord Maitland’s presenting the Assembly’s Supplication to the King, &c., p. 330;

appointing Commission of Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 330;

against Slandering of Ministers, p. 332;

anent ordering of Assembly House, p. 332;

for remembering, in Public Prayers, the Assembly’s desires to the King and Parliament, and indiction of a Public Fast, p.332;

concerning certain References and Overtures on order of keeping Assemblies, &c., transmitted to Presbyteries, 333

Acts of General Assembly, 1643:—Ordaining Overtures anent Bills, &c., to be given to Committees for their guidance;

for election of Professors, to be Commissioners to Assemblies, by Presbyteries, p. 345;

for subscribing the Covenant, p. 346;

for searching Books tending to Separation, p. 346;

approving proceedings of Commissioners of last Assembly, p. 347;

against Burials, and Hanging of Honours, &c., in Kirks, p. 349;

anent Reposition of Ministers deposed by superior Judicatories, p. 349;

against Masters who have Servants that profane the Lord’s Day, p. 349;

for preparing the Directory for the Worship of God, p. 349;

Recommendation anent Students, &c., p. 351;

approving of the League and Covenant, respecting Lists for Presentations, p. 353;

approving Overtures anent Witchcraft, &c., p. 354;

appointing Commission to go to Ireland, p. 354;

against Ministers haunting with excommunicate persons, p. 355;

anent an order for using civil execution against excommunicate persons, p. 355;

appointing Commission to repair to England, p. 359;

appointing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, 359

Acts of General Assembly, 1644:—For present entry of the new erected Presbytery at Biggar, p. 397;

concerning Declaration subscribed by Scottish Lords at Oxford, p. 398;

against the Rebels in the North and South, p. 398;

against secret Disaffecters of the Covenant, p. 398;

for sending Ministers to the Army, p. 398;

for renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 399;

for renewing Commission to persons appointed to repair to England, Answer to Presbytery with Army, p. 399;

concerning Bursars, Penalties in Acts of Parliament, Promise of Marriage made by Minors, &c., p. 405;

concerning Dissenting Voices in Synods and Presbyteries, p. 406;

concerning the election of a Moderator in Provincial Assemblies, p. 406;

for keeping the Fast in the town where the Assembly holds, 406

Acts of General Assembly, 1645:—Approving proceedings of the Commission of the two preceding Assemblies, p. 418;

for establishing and putting in execution the Directory for the public worship of God, p. 418;

approving Overtures for advancement of learning and good order in Grammar Schools and Colleges, p. 419;

approving Overtures propounded for ordering of the Bursars of Theology, and maintaining of them at the Schools of Divinity, p. 421;

approving the opinion of the Committee for keeping the greater uniformity in the Kirk in the practice and observation of the Directory in some points of public worship, p. 421;

approving the propositions concerning Kirk Government, and Ordination of Ministers, concerning a Solemn Warning to the People and Armies, p. 422;

against Lykwakes, p. 427;

recommending to Sessions to have the Printed Acts of Assembly, p. 427;

for censuring the observers of Yule Day, for encouragement of Scholars to Professions in Schools, p. 427;

for restraining abuses at Pennie-Brydals, p. 427;

discharging Deposed Ministers to be reponed to their former places, p. 427;

renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 427;

renewing Commission of persons appointed to repair to England, for prosecuting the treaty of Uniformity in Religion 428

Acts of General Assembly, 1646:—Concerning the Registers and Acts of Provincial Assemblies, p. 445;

concerning the public satisfaction of married persons for Fornication committed before marriage, concerning Excommunication of Lord Seafort, p. 445;

concerning Corruptions in Ministry, p. 446;

approving proceedings of Commission of preceding Assembly, p. 447;

for joining the Presbyteries in Orkney and Zetland to the Provincial of Caithness, p. 447;

concerning Expectants preaching in public, p. 448;

for censuring complyers with the public enemies of this Kirk and Kingdom, p. 448;

against loosing of ships and barks on the Lord’s day, p. 448;

anent Children sent without the kingdom; approving certain Overtures, p. 448;

renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 449;

renewing Commission for prosecuting treaty for Uniformity in England, p. 450;

for a public Fast before next Assembly, Recommending Presbyteries in calling of Ministers to regard Congregations, 452

Acts of General Assembly, 1647:—Allowing half of the Ministers in the Presbytery of Zetland, with their ruling elders, to keep the Provincial Assembly, p. 468;

for observing the directions of the General Assembly for Secret and Private Worship, and mutual edification, and for censuring such as neglect Family Worship, p. 472; against such as withdraw themselves from the Public Worship in their own congregations, p. 474;

approving of the proceedings of the preceding Assembly’s Commission, p. 475;

approbation of the Confession of Faith, p. 475;

for revising the Paraphrase of the Psalms, &c., p. 475;

recommending the execution of the Act of Parliament at Perth for uplifting pecunial pains to be employed upon pious uses, and of all Acts of Parliament made against Excommunicate Persons, p. 476;

discharging the importing, venting, or spreading of erroneous books or papers, p. 476;

for debarring of complyers in the first class from Ecclesiastic Office, p. 476;

for pressing and furthering the Plantation of Kirks, p. 476;

for censuring Absents from the General Assembly, p. 476;

renewing former Acts of Assembly for trial and admission of Expectants, p. 476;

renewing Commission for prosecuting treaty of Uniformity in England, p. 477;

renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 477;

concerning the hundred and eleven propositions therein mentioned, concerning Overture on Subscription of Covenant, 479

Acts of General Assembly, 1648:—Concerning Commissions from Burghs, p. 496;

concerning the examining of the proceedings of the Commissioners of Assemblies, p. 496;

approving proceedings of last Assembly’s Commission, p. 496;

approving the Larger Catechism, p. 496;

against sudden admitting of Deposed Ministers to particular congregations, p. 496;

against the Act of Parliament and Committee of Estates, ordained to be subscribed the 10th and 12th of June, and against all new Oaths or Bands in the Common Cause, imposed without consent of the Church, p. 497;

approving the Shorter Catechism, p. 498;

discharging a little Catechism printed at Edinburgh, 1647, p. 498;

for censuring Ministers for their silence, and not speaking to the corruptions of the time, p. 509;

concerning education of Highland Boys, p. 510;

explaining fifth article of Overtures, concerning Appeals past in the Assembly, 1643, p. 510;

discharging Deposed or Suspended Ministers from any exercise of the Ministry, or meddling with the Stipend, against a Pamphlet put forth in name of Henderson, p. 510;

for taking the Covenant, &c., p. 511;

concerning Presbyteries maintaining of Bursars, p. 511;

for disjoining the Presbytery of Zetland from the Provincial Synod of Orkney and Caithness, concerning Overtures for Remedy of the Sins of the Land, p. 511;

for examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms, p. 513;

enjoining Presbyteries to enforce Acts concerning Papists, &c., p. 513;

for prosecuting the treaty for Uniformity in Religion in England, p. 514;

renewing Commission for public affairs of the Kirk, p. 514;

exempting Murray, Ross, and Caithness, from the Contribution granted to the Boys of Argyle, &c., p. 515;

concerning Provision for Ministers in Burghs, p. 515;

concerning Collection for the Poor, p. 515;

discharging Duels, p. 516;

concerning Deposed Ministers, 517

Acts of General Assembly, 1649:—Approving the Proceedings of the preceding Assembly’s Commission, p. 542;

approving Proceedings of the Commissioners sent to the King, p. 543;

discharging Promiscuous Dancing, p. 543;

concerning the receiving of Engagers in the late Unlawful War against England to Public Satisfaction, p. 543;

a Solemn Warning to the Members of the Kirk, p. 544;

concerning Catechising, p. 549; appointing Commission for Public Affairs, p. 549;

concerning Election of Ministers, p. 550;

for a Collection for entertaining Highland Boys at Schools, p. 552;

appointing a Commission concerning the Trial and Punishment of Witchcraft, &c., p. 553;

concerning Persons to be admitted as Bursars, 553

Acts of Assembly, Overture for Printing, 206

Acts of Assembly, Order to procure, 39

Acts of Assembly, Sessions recommended to have the Printed, 427

Acts of Provincial Assemblies, Act concerning, 445

Admission of Ministers by Presbyteries, anent, 34

Admission of Expectants, Acts renewed anent, 476

Appeals, Overtures on Procedure in, 333

Appeals, Explanation of fifth Article in overtures on, 510

Appellations, Act anent, 208

Approbation of the Proceedings of the Commissions of the Assembly, p. 347, 418, 447, 475, 498, 542.

Approbation of the Commissioners sent to the King, 543

Approbation of Solemn League and Covenant, 353

Approbation of Confession of Faith, 475

Approbation of Larger Catechism, 496

Approbation of Shorter Catechism, 498

Argyle, Overtures concerning the Education of Highland Boys in the Province of, 510

Argyle, Exemption of Murray, Ross, and Caithness, from contributions for the Boys of, 515

Army, Act for sending Ministers to the, 388

Army, Letter to Assembly from the Presbytery with the, and Answer thereto, 396, 399

Articles and overtures approved by Assembly anent Border Marriages, Expenses of Commissioners, Session Books, Deposed Ministers, Papists, &c., Catechism, and Trial of Ministers or Entrants, 206

Assemblies, Reasons for annulling the Pretended, 24, 25

Assembly, the King’s Letters to, 21, 292, 320, 345, 445.

Assembly, Letter to the King from, 355

Assembly’s desires to the King, anent Lists for Presentations, 353

Assembly’s remonstrance to the King, 1645, 429

Assembly’s supplication to the King, 1648, 515

Assembly’s supplication to Commissioner, 206

Assembly’s Commission to those that repair to England, 359

Assembly, Declaration of English Parliament to, 347

Assembly’s Answer thereto, 355

Assembly, Propositions of English Parliamentary Commissioners to, 350

Assembly and Convention, result of debates of their committees with English Commissioners, 353

Assembly’s Letter to English Parliament, 450

Assembly’s Letter to Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of London, 451

Assembly, Letter from Presb. with Army to, 396

Assembly, Letter from Ministers in England to, and Answer, 348, 358

Assembly’s Declarations, and brotherly Exhortations to their brethren in England, 468, 506

Assembly’s Letter to Kirk in Netherlands, 404

Assembly’s Letter to their countrymen in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Hungary, 478

Assembly’s Petition to Parliament, presenting their thoughts and desires concerning the duties which the exigency of the times requires, 1645, 420

Assembly’s Answer to paper sent from Committee of Estates, of date July 28, 1648, 505

Assembly’s Supplication to Committee of Estates, 509

Assembly’s Answer to Committee of Estates, 496

Assembly’s Declaration, 1648, concerning the present dangers of religion, and especially the unlawful engagement in war against England, 498

Assembly’s Warning and Declaration concerning present dangers and duties, 544

Assembly, Act for keeping a Fast in the town where it meets, 406

Assembly-house, Overtures anent, approved, 278, 293

Assembly-house, act anent ordering of, 332

Assemblies, General, anent, 36

Assemblies, General, Power to hold them, 40

Assemblies, General, Overtures on order of keeping, 333

Assemblies, Provincial and National, &c., restored in full integrity, 34

Assemblies, Provincial, order of, 37

Assemblies, Provincial, Act anent election of Moderator in, 406

Assemblies, Provincial, Act concerning Registers and Acts of, 445

Assembly, Provincial, of Caithness, Presbyteries in Orkney and Zetland, joined to, 447

Assembly, Provincial, of Caithness, Act allowing the half of the Ministers in Presbyteries of Zetland only with their ruling elders to keep, 468

Assembly of Divines at Westminster, Letters to the General Assembly from, 351, 417, 495

Assembly’s, General, letters to Assembly of Divines, 357, 428, 451, 508

Ballantyne, Adam, pretended Bishop of Aberdeen, deposed, 27

Bands, unlawful, Act against, 295

Bands, Act and Declaration against, in the common cause without consent of the Church, 497

Banns, Marriage without Proclamation of, 37

Baptism of Beggar’s Children, Desire and Overtures on, with Assembly’s answer, 479

Benefices, Act anent old ministers bruiking, 293

Biggar, Act for entry of new-erected Presbytery of, 397

Bills, Overtures anent, 345

Bishops, Deposition of, 1638, 26 to 28

Book of Canons, &c., condemned, 26

Books tending to separation, Act for searching, 346

Books and papers, Act discharging the importing, venting, or spreading of erroneous, 476

Bridals, Penny, Act for restraining abuses at, 427

Burghs, Provision to Ministers in, 515

Burghs, Act anent Commissions from, 496

Burials in Kirks, 37, 349

Bursars and Expectants, Overtures anent, 294

Bursars, Ordinance concerning, 405

Bursars of Theology, 421, 511, 553

Campbell, Mr Neil, pretended Bishop of Isles, deposed, 27

Campheir, (Campvere,) Act anent, 297

Canons, Book of, condemned, 26

Catechising &c., 206, 208, 209, 327, 549

Catechisms, Approbation of, 496, 498

Catechism, printed at Edinburgh, entitled “A. B. C. with the Catechism,” Act discharging, 498

Censures ordered against scandalous persons, 39

Censuring ministers for their silence, and not speaking to the corruptions of the times, Act anent, 509

Censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472

Censuring complyers with the public enemies of this Kirk and kingdom, Act for, 448

Censuring absents from Assembly, Act for, 476

Children of Papists, &c., Overtures anent, 513

Children sent without the kingdom, act anent, 448

Christians in Ireland, Petitions from, 396, 345

Church of England, Letter from Ministers of, 348

Church of England, General Assembly’s answer to ministers of, 358

Civil execution against excommunicate persons, Act anent an order for using, 355

Colleges, Overtures approved for advancement of learning and good order in grammar schools and, 419

Collections for poor, Act concerning, 515

Collection, for Highland Boys, Act for, 552

Commission, the King’s, to Marquis of Hamilton, 1638, 21

Commission, High, condemned, 26

Commission to Ministers to go to Ireland, 331, 354

Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, 330, 359, 399, 427, 477, 514, 549.

Commission, Reference made to, anent persons designed to repair to England, 359

Commission, Reference made to, for re-examining and emitting Paraphrases of Psalms, 553

Commission to persons appointed to repair to England, for prosecuting treaty of Uniformity in Religion, 359, 399, 428, 450, 477

Commissions from Burghs, Act concerning, 496

Commissioners, Expenses of, 206

Commissioners, Act concerning examining the proceedings of, 496

Commissioners, Act for election of Professors to be, 345

Commissioners at London, letters to, 328, 403, 430

Commissioners at London, letters from, 400, 416

Commissioners of English Parliament, Propositions of, 347, 349

Commissioners of English Parliament, Result of debates of Committees of Convention and Assembly appointed to meet with, 353

Commissioners sent to the King, approbation of, 543

Commissioner, the King’s, declaration of, 207

Commissioner, Assembly resolves to proceed without, 278

Complyers with the public enemies of the Kirk and Kingdom, Act against, p. 448;

for debarring from Ecclesiastic office, 476

Confession of Faith, article concerning, (1638), 37

Confession of Faith, subscription of, ordered, 40

Confession of Faith, King’s acknowledgment of craved, 40

Confession of Faith, Approbation of (1647), 475

Confession and Covenant, supplication anent, 207

Confession and Covenant, Act ordaining subscription of, with Assembly’s Declaration, 208

Conference of Ministers, Lawyers, and Physicians, concerning Witchcraft &c., Commission appointed by Assembly for, 553

Congregation, Act against such as withdraw themselves from Worship in their own, 474

Congregations, Presbyterians recommended in the calling and admission of Ministers to consider the interests of, 452

Constitutions of Church revived, (1638), 34

Corruptions in the Ministry and Remedies, 446

Corruptions of the times, Act for censuring Ministers for not speaking to, 509

Covenant, Solemn League and, 362

Covenant, Approbation of, 353

Covenant, Act for subscribing, 346

Covenant, Act against secret disaffecters of, 398

Covenant, Censures ordered on speakers against, 279

Covenant, Act anent Expectants refusing to sign, 279

Covenant, Act for taking, at first receiving of the Lord’s Supper, and for the receiving of it also by all Students at their first entry to College, 511

Covenant, Overture approved representing that Students of Philosophy at their entry and laureation, and that all other persons as they come to age and discretion, before their first receiving the Sacrament, be holden to subscribe, 479

Dancing, Promiscuous, Act discharging, 543

Declarations of English Parliament, 323, 347

—— —— Answers to, 324, 355

Declaration subscribed by Scottish Lords at Oxford, Act concerning, 398

Declaration of Assembly, 1648, concerning the present dangers of Religion, &c., 498

Declaration and Brotherly Exhortation of Assembly, to their brethren of England, 468, 506

Declaration by Assembly, of the falsehood and forgery of a Pamphlet put forth under the name of Mr Alexander Henderson, 510

Declaration and acknowledgment, to be subscribed by engagers in the late unlawful war against England, 544

Declaration and Warning of Assembly concerning present dangers and duties, 544

Defection In the Ministry, Act 1595 concerning, ratified, 34

Deposed Ministers, Acts anent, 205, 349

Deposed Ministers, Act Discharging them to be reponed to their former places, 427

Deposed Ministers, Act against their sudden Admission to Particular Congregations, 496

Deposed Ministers, Act concerning, 517

Deposed or Suspended Ministers, Act Discharging them from any Exercise of the Ministry, or Meddling with the Stipend, 510

Deposition and Excommunication of Spottiswood and other Pretended Bishops, 26, 27, 28

Deposition of Ministers by Committees, approved, 205

Desires of Assembly to Lords of Council, anent Uniformity of Kirk-government, 328

Desires of Assembly to the King for £500, 328

Desires of Assembly to the King, anent Lists for Presentations, 353

Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for preparing, 349

Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for establishing and putting in execution, 418

Directory, Opinion of Committee of Assembly approved for keeping the greater Uniformity in the Kirk in the Practice and Observation of the, 421

Directory for Election of Ministers, 550

Directions of Assembly for Secret and Private Worship, and for censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472

Disaffecters, Secret, of Covenant, Act against, 398

Dissenting voices in Presbyteries and Synods, Act concerning, 406

Divines in England, Letters to and from Synod of, 351, 357, 401, 402, 417, 495

Divinity, Act for encouraging Scholars to study, 427

Doctrine, eight General Heads of, contained in CXI Propositions, approved, 479

Duels, Act discharging, 516

Ecclesiastic office, Act for debarring of complyers of first class (mentioned in Act of Assembly 1646) from, 476

Election of Moderator in Provincial Assemblies, Act anent, 406

Election of Ministers, Directory for, 550

England, Assembly’s Letter to Parliament of, 450

England, Assembly’s declarations and solemn exhortations to their brethren of, 468, 506, 551

England, Act for prosecuting treaty for Uniformity in Religion, &c., in, 514

England, late Unlawful War against, Act concerning the receiving to public satisfaction, &c., the late engagers in, 543

Enormities and corruptions in the ministry, with the remedies, 446

Episcopacy declared to have been abjured, 28

Episcopacy renounced by Grahame, Bishop of Orkney, 204

Estates, Assembly’s Supplication to Committee of, 1648, 509

Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Committee of, 496

Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Paper sent from Committee of, 505

Estates, Act and Declaration against Act of Parliament and Committee of, 497

Erastianism, Assembly bears testimony against in Act concerning CXI Propositions, 479

Excommunicate Persons, Act anent an order for using Civil Execution against, 355

Excommunicate Persons, Act against Ministers haunting with, 355

Excommunicate Persons, Article (16) anent frequenting with, 37

Excommunicate Persons, Act recommending the execution of the Act of Parliament at Perth for uplifting pecunial pains, and of all Acts of Parliament made against, 476

Excommunicate Persons, &c., Overtures concerning, 513

Excommunication and Deposition of Bishops, 1638, 26, 27, 28

Excommunication of Earl of Seafort, 445

Execution, Civil, Act anent an order for using, against Excommunicate Persons, 355

Expectants, &c., Overtures anent approved, 294

Expectants preaching in Public, Act anent, 448

Expectants, trial and admission of, 37, 476

Expenses of Commissioners to Assembly, 36

Fairlie, Mr James, pretended Bishop of Lismore, deposed, 27

Family Exercises, &c., Act anent, 327

Fast, Act for keeping, by congregation where the Assembly holds, 406

Fast, &c., ordered, 332

Fast, Public, Act ordaining, 452

Fornication committed before Marriage, Act concerning public satisfaction for, 445

Glasgow, pretended Assembly at, 1610, condemned, 24

Government of the Kirk, Act approving Propositions concerning, 422

Graham, James, (Marquis of Montrose,) Act concerning Proclamation of, 448

Grahame, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Orkney, deposed, p. 27;

renounces Episcopacy, 204

Guthry, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Murray, deposed, 27

Henderson, Mr Alexander, Assembly’s Declaration of the Falsehood and Forgery of a Pamphlet, put forth under the name of their Reverend Brother, after his death, 510

Highlands, Recommendation to Train Preachers for, 351

Highlands, Lists for Kirks in, 322

Highland Boys, the Education of, 510, 552

Honours &c., Act against Hanging, in Kirks, 349

Impiety and Schism, Act against, 294

Independency, Assembly’s Testimony against, in Act anent CXI Propositions, 479

Ireland, Petition of Distressed Professors in, 345

Ireland, Commission for Ministers to go to, 331, 354

Ireland, Letter from Distressed Christians in, 396

Ireland, Commissioners at London recommended to send Directory for Worship to, 431

Judicatories, Superior, Act anent Reposition of Ministers deposed by, 349

King’s Letters to Assembly, 21, 292, 320, 345, 443

King, Letters from Assembly to, 296, 355, 450, 563

King, Remonstrance of Assembly, 1646, to the, 429

King, Assembly’s Supplication to the, 1648, 515

Kirk, Causes and Remedy of its Bygone Evils, 204

Kirk, Opinion of the Committee for keeping the greater Uniformity in the, 421

Kirk and Kingdom, Act against Complyers with Public Enemies of, 448

Kirk of England, Letter from some Brethren of the Ministry of the, and Answer thereto, 348, 358

Kirk of England, Letter from Synod of Divines in, and Answer thereto, 401, 402

Kirk-Government, Act approving Propositions concerning, 422

Kirkmen, against Civil Places, &c., of, 38

Kirk Sessions and Provincial and National Assemblies restored to full integrity, 34

Kirk Sessions, Act anent, 321

Kirk Sessions, Article (17) anent Voicing in, 37

Kirks, trying quality of &c., Act anent, 321

Kirks, Recommendation to Presbyteries anent planting, 353

Kirks, Act for pressing and furthering the Plantation of, 476

Kirks, Burial in, Acts anent, 37, 349

Kirks, incommodiously United in Corrupt Times, Overture for Disjunction of, 479

Kirks, Particular, Visitation of, 34

Kirks, Highland, Act anent Lists for, 322

Kirks in Netherlands, Assembly’s Letter to, 404

League and Covenant, Solemn, 362

League and Covenant Solemn, Approbation of, 353

Learning, Overtures for advancement of, 419

Lindsay, Mr Patrick, pretended Archbishop of Glasgow, deposed, 26

Lindsay, Mr David, pretended Bishop of Edinburgh, deposed, 26

Lindsay, Mr Alexander, pretended Bishop of Dunkeld, deposed, 28

Linlithgow, pretended Assemblies of 1606 and 1608 at, condemned, 24

Lists, order for making, to King and Patrons, &c., 321

Lists, for Kirks in Highlands, 322

Lists for Presentations, desires of Assembly anent, 353

Lord’s Day, Act anent keeping, 206

Lord’s Day, Act against masters who have servants that profane the, 349

Lord’s Day, Act against loosing of ships and barks on, 448

Lord’s Day, anent profanation of, by markets on Saturdays and Mondays, 36

Lord’s Supper, anent its more frequent administration, 36

Lykwakes, Act against, 427

Manses and Glebes, Overtures respecting, 479

Markets on Monday and Saturday, anent, 36

Marriage, Promise of, made by Minors, 405

Marriage without proclamation of Banns, 37

Marriages, Border, 206

Married persons, Act concerning the public satisfaction of, for ante-nuptial Fornication, 445

Masters whose servants profane the Lord’s Day, Act against, 349

Maxwell, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Ross, deposed, 26

Ministers, Trial of, 206, 321

Ministers, Ordination of, Act approving propositions concerning, 422

Ministers, Article anent conversation, admission of by Presbyteries, &c., 34

Ministers, Directory for Election of, 550

Ministers, Presbyteries recommended to consider the interests of particular congregations in the calling and election of, 452

Ministers, Transplantation of, &c., 326

Ministers, bruiking benefices, Act anent, 293

Ministers haunting with Excommunicate Persons, Act against, 355

Ministers, slandering of, Act anent, 332

Ministers, Act censuring, for silence, &c., 509

Ministers in Burghs, Recommendation for securing Provision to, 515

Ministers, deposed, Censures ordered against, 38

Ministers, deposed, Acts anent receiving, 205, 293

Ministers, deposed, Act anent reposition of, 349

Ministers, deposed, Act discharging them to be reponed, 427

Ministers, deposed, Act against sudden admitting of, to particular Congregations, 496

Ministers, deposed or suspended, discharged from any Exercise of the Ministry or meddling with the Stipend, 510

Ministers, deposed, Act concerning, 517

Ministers, to go to Ireland, Commission for, 354

Ministers, Act for sending, to the Army, 398

Ministers of England, Letter from and Answer to, 329

Ministers in Church of England, their Letter to Assembly and Answer, 348, 358

Ministers, Petition for, from Ireland, 345

Ministry, Defections in, 34

Ministry, Corruptions in Office of, &c., 34, 35

Ministry, Enormities and Corruptions observed in, with the Remedies thereof, 446

Ministry, deposed and suspended Ministers dischargedfrom any Exercise of the, 510

Ministry, Anent the entering of Ministers to the, 36

Ministry, Renovation of former Acts for Trial and Admission of Expectants to the, 476

Minors, Overture concerning Promise of Marriage made by, 405

Moderator, Act anent Election of, in Synods, 406

Moderators, Article anent choice of, 34

Montrose, Marquis of, Act concerning James Graham’s Proclamation, 448

Monuments, Idolatrous, anent demolishing, 279

Netherlands, Assembly’s Letter to Kirks in, 404

Non-Communicants, &c., 322

Non-Residents, Article anent, 34

Novations, anent, 208, 294

Oaths, unlawful, of Entrants, 26

Oaths, Act anent contrary, 327

Ordinance concerning Bursars, 405

Ordinance for uplifting Penalties, 405

Ordination of Ministers, Act approving propositions concerning, 422

Overtures remitted to Presbyteries on Proceedure in Appeals, prescription of Scandals, and keeping General Assemblies when Presbyteries do not send the full numbers, or Members go away, 333

Overtures anent Bills, References and Appeals approved, 345

Overtures anent Witchcraft, &c., approved, 354

Overtures concerning Promise of Marriage, made by Minors, to those with whom they have committed Fornication, 5

Overtures for correspondence by Letter among Presbyteries;

for Presbyteries appointing some to direct the Studies of Young Men not able to furnish themselves in charges to attend the Universities;

for Universities condescending on the best Overtures for Grammar and Philosophy;

for promoting the spread of the knowledge of God in Christ, through the Highlands and Islands;

for ordering Professors to produce Copies of their Dictates to be revised by the Assembly;

for making Ministers’ Manses and Stipends free to the Entrants, approved, 449

Oxford, Act concerning Declaration signed by Scottish Lords at, 398

Papists, &c., anent, 206, 322, 513

Paraphrase of Psalms, 475, 513, 553

Parliament of England, Declaration of, and Answer thereto, 323, 324

Parliament of England, Declaration of the, to the Assembly, 347

Parliament of England, Propositions of Commissioners of the, 347

Parliament of England, Result of Debates of Committees of Convention of Estates and Assembly, appointed to meet with Commissioners of, 353

Parliament of England, Answer of Assembly to Declaration of the Honourable House of, 355

Parliament of England, Assembly’s Letter to, 450

Parliament, Petition to, from the Assembly, 420

Parliament, Act and Declaration against Act of, June 10, 1648, 497

Parliament, Petition to, anent tithes, &c., 544

Pastors, Article anent presenting, 37

Patrons, Order for making Lists to, 321

Perth, pretended Assembly at, condemned, 25

Perth, Five Articles of, declared abjured, 32

Petitions, &c., Act anent, 327

Petition from Assembly to Parliament, concerning the duty of the latter in the exigency of the times, (1645), 420

Piety, Directions of Assembly for cherishing, 472

Pious uses, Acts for employing penalties on, 405, 476

Plantation of Kirks, Act for furthering, 476, 478

Poor, Act concerning collections for, 515

Popery and Superstition, anent repressing, 36

Prayers, public, &c., ordered, 332

Preaching in public, Act anent Expectants, 448

Precentors, Maintenance of, 553

Presbyterial Meetings, 34

Presbyteries, Admission of Ministers by, 34

Presbyteries and parochines, Competency of, 34

Presbyteries, Recommendation to, anent Students that have the Irish language, 351

Presbyteries, Recommendation to, anent planting Kirks, 353

Presbyteries, Act anent Dissenting Voices in, 406

Presbyteries in Orkney and Zetland joined to Provincial Synod of Caithness, 447

Presbyteries recommended to consider the interests of Particular Congregations in the Calling and Admission of Ministers, 452

Presbyteries, Act concerning their Maintaining of Bursars, 511

Presbyteries recommended to send opinions on matters referred to them, 431, 517

Presbytery of Skye joined to Synod of Argyle, 323

Presbytery with the Army, Letter of, to Assembly, with the Answer thereto, 396, 399

Presbytery of Biggar, Act for entry of, 397

Presbytery of Zetland allowed to send only half of its Ministers with their Elders to the Provincial Assembly of Caithness, 468

Presenting Pastors, Readers, &c., Act anent, 37

Presentations, Order for making Lists to Patrons for, 321

Presentations, Desires of Assembly anent Lists for, 353

Press, Act controlling the, 39

Proclamation of James Graham, Act anent, 448

Profaneness, Ecclesiastic Remedies against, 512

Professors, Act for Electing, as Commissioners, 345

Propositions from Commissioners of English Parliament, 347, 349

Propositions, Act concerning CXI, 479

Psalms brought from England, Act for revising Paraphrase of the, 475

Psalms, Paraphrase of, Act for examining, 513

Readers, Act anent presenting, 37

Rebels in North and South, Act against, 398

Recommendation to Presbyteries anent planting of Kirks, 353

Reference from Presbytery of Kirkaldy, 333

Reference from Synod of Fife, 333

Reference to Commission anent the Persons designed to repair to England, 359

References, Overtures anent, 345

Register, Act approving an old, 205

Registers, Testimony of Com. for Trial of, (1638), 22

Registers, Act approving, (1638), 22

Registers and Acts of Provincial Assemblies, Act concerning, 445

Religion, Declaration of Assembly, 1648, anent present dangers of, 498

Religion, Act for prosecuting Treaty for Uniformity of, in England, 514

Remedies for Grevious and Common Sins of the Land in this present time, 1648, Overtures on, approved, 511

Remonstrance of Assembly to the King, (1645), 420

Reposition of deposed Ministers, Act anent, 349

Sabbath Day, Profanation of, in Landward, for want of afternoon service, 37

Sabbath Day, Assembly recommends to Presbyteries the Execution of old Acts of Assembly against breach of the, 38

Sabbath Day, Profanation of the, 322

Scandals, Prescription of, overture on, 333

Schism, Act against, 294

Schism and Division, Directions of Assembly for avoiding, 472

Scholars, Act for Encouragement of, to Professions in Schools, 427

Schools, Article anent the planting of, 34

Schools, Provision of, &c., 326, 427

Schools, Overtures approved, for advancing of Learning and good Order in, 419

Schools of Divinity, Overtures approved for ordering of the Bursars of Theology, and maintaining them at, 421

Schools, Act for Collection for entertaining Highland Boys at, 552

Schoolmasters, Act anent presenting, 37

Schoolmasters and Precentors, recommendation for maintenance of, 553

Scriptural Songs, recommendation for translation of, into metre, 475

Scriptural Songs, Act for examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms and other, 513

Seafort, Earl of, Excommunication of the, 445

Separation, Act for searching Books tending to, 346

Servants that profane the Lord’s Day, Act against Masters of, 349

Service Book, &c., condemned, (1638), 26

Sideserf, Mr Thomas, pretended Bishop of Galloway, deposed, 26

Sins of the Land, Overtures for Remedies of, (1648), 511

Slandering of Ministers, 332

Spottiswood, John, pretended Archbishop of St Andrew’s deposed, 26

St Andrews, Pretended Assembly at, (1617), condemned, 25

Stipend, Suspended and Deposed Ministers discharged from meddling with, 510

Students who have the Irish language, anent, 351

Students of Philosophy, Overture anent their Signature of League and Covenant, 479

Students at their first entry to Colleges required to take the Covenant, 511

Superstition and Popery, anent repressing, 36

Supplications to the King, 40, 41, 209, 323

Supplications to Commissioners anent Large Declaration, 206

Supplication relative to Confession and Covenant, and Answer thereto, 207

Suspended and Deposed Ministers discharged from any Exercise of the Ministry, &c., 510

Synod Books, Act anent, 320

Synod of Divines in England, their Letters to the Assembly, 351, 401, 417, 495

Synod of Divines in England, Answers to, 357, 402

Synod, of Orkney and Caithness, Act disjoining Presbytery of Zetland from, 511

Synods and Presbyteries, anent advising with, 208

Synods and Presbyteries, anent keeping, &c., 327

Synods, Act anent dissenting voices in, 406

Testimonials, Overture anent, 333

Tithes &c., Assembly’s Petition to Parliament, anent, 544

Titles savouring of Popery, Art. (19) against, 37

Transplantation of Ministers, &c., 326

Trial of Expectants, Article anent, 37

Trial of Ministers, Declaratory Act anent, 321

Trial and Admission of Expectants to the University, Renovation of former Acts for, 476

Trial of Expectants, &c., 521

Uniformity in the Kirk, Opinion of Committee on, approved, 421

Uniformity in Religion, Commission of Persons sent to England for prosecuting Treaty of, renewed, 428, 450, 477

Uniformity in Religion in England, Act for prosecuting Treaty for, 514

Unity, Directions of Assembly for maintaining, 472

Universities, Overtures anent, approved, 293

Universities, Recommendation to, anent Students that know Irish, 351

Universities, Desires and Overtures from the Commissioners of, and the Assemblies Answer thereto, 478

Visitation of Kirks, Schools, and Colleges, 34

Voices, Dissenting, in Synods and Presbyteries, 406

War, Declaration of Assembly, 1648, concerning the present dangers of Religion, especially the unlawful Engagement in, 498

War against England, Act concerning the receiving of Engagers in the late unlawful, with Declaration or Acknowledgment to be subscribed, 543

Warning, A Solemn and Seasonable, to the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Burghs, Ministers, and Commons, and Armies of Scotland, 423

Warning and Declaration by Assembly concerning present and imminent dangers, &c., 544

Wedderburn, Mr James, pretended Bishop of Dumblane, deposed, 27

Whytefoord, Mr Walter, pretended Bishop of Brechin, deposed, 26

Witchcraft, Overtures anent, 354

Witchcraft, Commission for a Conference of Ministers, Lawyers, and Physicians, concerning the Trial and Punishment of, 553

Witches, Act against, 279

Worship of God, Act for preparing the Directory for the, 349

Worship of God, Act for Establishing and putting in Execution Directory for the, 418

Worship, Private and Family, 472

Worship, Public, Act against such as withdraw themselves from, in their own congregation, 474

Yule Day, Act censuring Observance of, 427

Zetland, Presbyteries of, 447, 468, 511