TWO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, The one concerning such benefice and STIPENDS as have been possessed without Presentations from the lawful PATRONS: The other concerning MASTERS of UNIVERSITIES, MINISTERS, &c.  

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Edinburgh, Printed by Evan tiler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1662.   

ACT concerning such benefice and Stipends as have been possessed without presentations from the lawful PATRONS.  
At Edinburgh, the eleventh day of June, 1662.  
THe Kings most Excellent Majesty being desirous, that all His good Subjects may be sensible of the happy effects and fruits of the Royal Government, by a free, peaceable and safe enjoyment of their due interests and properties under His protection; and that in His restitution they may find themselves restored to these Rights which by Law were secured unto them, and by the violence and unjustice of these late troubles and confusions have been wrested from them: And considering that notwithstanding the right of Patronages be duly settled and established by the ancient and fundamental Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom; Yet, divers Ministers in this Church have, and do possess benefice and Stipends in their respective Cures without any Right or Presentation to the same from the Patrons. And it being therefore most just, that the lawful and undoubted Patrons of Kirks be restored to the possession of the Rights of their respective Advocations, Donations and Patronages; Therefore His majesty, with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament, Doth Statute and Ordain, That all these Ministers who entered to the Cure of any Paroch in Burgh or Land within this Kingdom, in or since the year one thousand six hundred and forty nine( at and before which time the Patrons were most injuriously dispossessed of their Patronages) have no right unto, nor shall receive, uplift nor possess the rents of any bnfice, modified Stipend, Manse or Gleib for this present cropped, one thousand six hundred and sixty two, nor any year following, but their Places, benefice and Kirks are, ipso jure, vacand. Yet His majesty, to evidence His willingness to pass by and cover the miscarriages of His people, Doth, with advice aforesaid, Declare, That this Act shall not be prejudicial to any of these Ministers in what they have possessed or is due to them since their admission: And that every such Minister who shall obtain a Presentation from the lawful Patron, and have Collation from the Bishop of the diocese where he liveth, betwixt and the twentieth of September next to come, shall from thenceforth have right to, and enjoy his Church, bnfice, Manse and Gleib, as fully and freely as if he had been lawfully presented and admitted thereto at his first entry, or as any other Minister within the Kingdom doth or may do. And for that end it is hereby Ordained, That the respective Patrons shall give Presentations to all the present Incumbents who in due time shall make application to them for the same. And in case any of these Churches shall not be thus duly provided before the said twentieth of September, then the Patron shall have freedom to present an other betwixt and the twentieth day of March, one thousand six hundred and sixty three; which if he shall refuse or neglect, the Presentation shall then fall to the Bishop, jure devoluto, according to former Laws. And suchlike His majesty, with advice foresaid, doth Statute and Ordain the Archbishops and Bishops to have the power of new Admission and Collation to all such Churches and benefice as belong to their respective Sees, and which have vaiked since the year one thousand six hundred and thirty seven: And to be careful to plant and provide these their own Kirks comform to this Act.   

ACT concerning Masters of Universities, Ministers, &c.  
At Edinburgh, the twenty fourth of June, 1662.  
THe Kings most Excellent Majesty, according to the laudable example of His Royal Progenitors in former Parliaments, Doth with advice and consent of His Estates convened in this present Parliament, Ratifle and Approve all and whatsoever Acts and Statutes heretofore made, concerning the liberty and freedom of the true Church of God, and the Religion now professed and established within this Kingdom; And considering how necessary it is for the advancement of Religion and Learning, for the good of the Church, and peace of the Kingdom, that the universities and colleges be provided and served with Professors, Principal, Regents and Masters, well affencted to His Majesty and the established Government in Church and State; His Majesty, with advice foresaid, doth Statute, Ordain and Enact, That from this time forth no Masters, Principal, Regents, nor other Professors in universities or colleges within this Kingdom, be admitted, nor allowed to continue in the exercise of any Function within the same, but such as are of a pious, loyal and peaceable conversation, submitting to, and owning the Government of the Church by Archbishops and Bishops, now settled by Law, and who having given satisfaction therein to the Bishops of the respective dioceses and Patrons, and having, in their presence, taken the Oath of allegiance, shall procure their attestation of the same; that is to say, the Professors and other Masters of the Vnivrrsities of St. Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen, to have the approbation and attestation of the Archbishops and Bishops, who are the respective Chancellors of the saids universities; and the Professors and other Masters of the New-toun college in Aberdeen and college of Edinburgh, to have the approbation of the respective Patrons, the Earl of Marshal and Magistrates of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and an attestation and certificat under the hand of the Bishops of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, respectivè, that they have taken the Oath of allegiance, and that they are persons who submit to, and own the Church-government as now settled by Law. Likeas His Majesty finding it necessary for the peace and quiet of the Church, that the Ministers be such as will aclowledge and comply with the present Government of the same, Doth therefore, with advice foresaid, Statute and Enact, That whatsoever Minister shall, without a lawful excuse to be admitted by his Ordinary, absent himself from the visitations of the diocese, which are to be performed by the Bishop or some of the Ministers to be appointed by him, or from the Diocesian Assembly; or who shall not, according to his duty, concur therein, or who shall not give their assistance in all the Acts of Church-discipline as they shall be required thereunto by the Archbishop or Bishop of the diocese, every such Minister so offending shall, for the first fault, be suspended from his Office and bnfice till the next Diocesian Meeting, and if he amend not, shall be deprived, and the Church and bnfice to be provided as the Law alloweth in other cases of Vacancies. And His Majesty considering, that under the pretext of Religious exercises, divers unlawful Meetings and Conventicles( the nurseries of sedition) have been kept in private families, Hath thought fit, with advice foresaid, hereby to Declare, That as they do and will give all due encouragement to the worship of God in families amongst the persons of the family, and others who shall be occasionally there for the time, so they do hereby Discharge all private Meetings or Conventicles in houses, which under the pretence of, or for, Religious exercises may tend to the prejudice of the public worship of God in the Churches, or to the alienating of the people from their lawful Pastours, and that duty and obedience they owe to Church and State. And it is hereby Ordained, That none be hereafter permitted to preach in public or in families within any diocese, or teach any public School, or to be Pedagogues to the children of persons of quality, without the licence of the Ordinary of the diocese. And Ordains these presents to be printed, and published at the Mercat Crosses of all the Royal Burghs within this Kingdom.