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A summary of the acts of the Parliaments of Scotland against popery and papists.; Laws, etc.
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1680
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contained in the Laws and Acts of Parliament made on that behalf which is death as may appear by the aforementioned Acts of Parliament The Eleventh Act of the first Parliament of King Charles the Second 1661. Act for taking the Oath of Allegiance OUr Sovereign Lord being truely sensible of the many Sufferings and sad Confusions that his dutiful and Loyal Subjects have been brought under during these troubles and desirous that his Royal Government in its due Administration may be refreshing and Comfortable unto them And conceiving it necessary for that end and for the honour and advancement of his own Service the Welfare and Happiness of his Subjects and the peace and quiet of this Kingdom that the places of of Publique Trust which be the Channels and Conduits by which his Majesties Government is conveyed unto his People be supplyed and exercised by persons of known Integrity Abilities and Loyalty Do therefore declare That it is and will be his Majesties Royal Care that those whom according to the undoubted right of the Crown he hath or shall think fit to call to his Councels or any publick Imployments shall be so qualified And that for the full satisfaction of all his good Subjects and for removing any Scruples or Jealousies can arise upon this account they shall before their admittance to or exercise of any such Trust Give such publick testimony of their Duty and Loyalty as may evidence to the world they are such as the Kingdom and all honest men and good Subjects may justly confide in And therefore the Kings Majesty with Advice and Consent of his Estates of Peers had Doth Statute and Ordain That all and whatsoever person or persons who are or shall be Nominate by his Majesty to be his Officers of State of his Privy Council Session or Exchequer Justice General Admiral Sheriffs Commissaries and their Deputies and Clerks and all Magistrates and Council of Royal Burghes at their admission to their several Offices and before they offer to exerce the same shall take and swear the Oath of Allegiance hereunto subjoyned And also that all other persons who shall be required by his Majesties Privy Council or any having Authority from them shall be obliged to take and swear the same The Oath of Allegiance I For testification of my faithful Obedience to my most Gracious and redoubted Soveraign Charles King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Affirm testifie and declare by this my Solemn Oath that I acknowledge my said Sovereign only Supreme Governour of this Kingdom over all Persons and in all Causes And that no Forrein Prince Power State or Person Civil or Ecclesiastick hath any Jurisdiction Power or Superiority over the same And therefore I do utterly Renounce and forsake all Forreign Power Jurisdictions and Authorities And shall at my utmost Power defend assist and maintain his Majesties Jurisdiction forefend against all deadly enemies And shall never decline his Majesties Power and Jurisdiction As I shall answer to God Note That the Confession of Faith and Doctrine Believed and professed by the Protestants in Scotland in Twenty six Articles were ratified by the Three Estates at Edenburgh Aug. 17. 1560. and exhibited to the King and same Estates in Parliament and by their publick Votes authorized as a Doctrine grounded on the Infallible Word of God Decemb. 15. 1567. which was the first Parliament of King James the sixth as may be seen in the fourth Act or Chapter of the Statutes then made By the same Parliament the following Chapters or Statutes were enacted viz. 1. For abolishing the Popes usurped Authority and the Laws formerly made against Gods Word Chap. 2. 3. 2. For Confirmation of the said Confession Chap. 4. 3. For abolishing the Mass Chap. 5. 4. For Declaring the true and holy Kirke Chap. 6. 5. For Admission of Ministers Chap. 7. And according to these Acts the Coronation Oath which here follows transcribed out of the Eighth Act or Chapter of that Parliament must needs be understood when it requires the King to Maintain the true Religion Preaching of the Word and Administration of the Sacraments then received and preached in the Realm The Title of the Eighth Act or Chapter and the Act it self follows in these words 8. Anent the Kings Oath to be given at his Coronation Item Because that the encrease of Virtue and Suppression of Idolatry craves that the Prince and the People be of one perfect Religion which of Gods Mercy is now presently professed within this Realm Therefore it is Statute and Ordained by our Sovereign Lord My Lord Regent and Three Estates of this present Parliament That all Kings and Princes or Magistrates whatsoever holding their Place which hereafter at any time shall happen to Reign or bear Rule over this Realm at the time of their Coronation and Receipt of their princely Authority make their faithful promise by Oath in the presence of the Eternal God that enduring the whole Course of their Lives they shall serve the same Eternal God to the uttermost of their power according as he hath required in his most holy Word revealed and Contained in the New and Old Testaments and according to the same Word shall maintain the True Religion of Christ Jesus the Preaching of his Holy Word and due and right Administration of the Sacraments now Received and Preached within this Realm and shall Abolish and gainstand all false Religion contrary to the same and shall Rule the people committed to his charge according to the Will and Command of God revealed in his foresaid Word and according to the laudable Laws and Constitutions received in this Realm no wise Repugnant to the said Word of the Eternal God and shall procure to the uttermost of their power to the Kirk of God and whole Christian People true and perfect peace in all time to come the Rights and Rents with all just Priviledges of the Crown of Scotland to preserve and keep inviolated neither shall they transferr or alienate the same They shall forbid and repress in all estates and degrees Reife Oppression and all kind of wrong In all Judgements they shall Command and procure that Justice and Equity be keeped to all Creatures without exception as the Lord and Father of Mercies be Mercifull to them And out of their Lands and Empire they shall be careful to Root out all Heresies and enemies to the True Worship of God that shall be convict of the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid Crimes and that they shall faithfully affirm the things above written with their Solemn Oath Chap. 9. Provides that no person may be Judge Procurator or Member of Court or Notary who professes not the true Religion FINIS
A SUMMARY OF THE ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENTS OF SCOTLAND AGAINST Popery and Papists IMprimis By an Act of Parliament of Q. Mary made at Edenburgh the 24 August 1560. Popery is abolished Item By the Second Act 1 Parl. Jac. 6. 1567. the before mentioned Act is ratified and it is further declared and Ordained that no Subject of Scotland sute or desire title or right of the Bishop of Rome or his Sect to any thing within the Realm under the pains of Proscription Banishment and never to bruke Honour Office nor Dignity within the Kingdom and the Defenders of such or Furnishers of them with Money shall incurre the same Punishments and the Contriveners hereof to be proceeded against by the Justice By another Act of Q. Maries made at Ed. the 24 of August 1560. all former Acts of Parl. contrary to the Word of God Protestant Principles and Confession of Faith of the Church of Scotland are annulled It. By the 3 Act 1 Par. Ja. 6. 1567. this last mentioned Act of Q. Maries is ratified being verbatim repeated and the 26 Articles of the Confession of Faith insert as they were approven by Parl. in Q. Maries Reign on the 17 August 1560. It. By the 3 Act Parl. Q. Mary made at Ed. 23 August 1560. it is statute and ordained that no manner of person or persons say hear or be present at Mass under pain of Confiscation of their Moveables and Unmoveables and punishing their Bodies at the discretion of the Magistrates for the first fault of Banishment out of the Realm for the second fault and of Death for the third fault It. By the 5 Act 1 Parl. Ja. 6. 1567. this Immediate foregoing Act is ratified It. By the 6 Act 1 Parl. Ja. 6. 1567. it is declared that whoever gainsays the Confession of Faith professed in the Parl. 1560. and more particularly expressed and ratified in the present Parl. 1567. or refuses the participation of the Sacraments as they are now administred are no members of the Kirk of Scotland It. By the 8 Act 1 Parl. Jac. 6. 1567. It is declared that the increase of vertue and Suppressing Idolatry craves that the Prince and People be of one perfect Religion which is now of Gods mercy presently professed within this Realm Therefore it is Statute and ordained that all Kings Princes or Magistrates whatsoever holding their places which hereafter in any time shall happen to Reign and bear rule over this Realm at the time of their Coronation and receipt of ther Princely Authority make their faithfull promise by Oath that during their lives they shall serve God according to the true Religion and maintain it and the right administration of the Sacraments now received and Preached within this Realm and shall abolish and gainstand all false Religion contrary to the same c. It. By the 25 Act 2 Parl. Ja. 6. 1571. all the above mentioned Acts are ratified It. By the 45 Act 3 Parl. Ja. 6. 1572. the above noted 6 Act 1 Parl. Ja. 6. is ratified and it is further enacted that all suspect and relapse Papists be warned according to the Order of the Kirk and if they be forth of the Realm on threescore dayes to recant their Papistical errors give the Confession of their Faith according to the Form appointed and approved in Parliament under the pain of Excommunication and it is further declared that all obstinate relapse persons who have returned to their Errors after professing the true Religion are and shall be repute and esteemed Infamous and unable to sit or stand in Judgment pursue bear Office nor be admitted as Witnesses or Assizers against any professing the true Religion which being alledged be sufficient to decline them from Office c. It. By the 27 Act Parl. 3. Jam. 6. 1572. It is declared that the true Religion and the Kings Authority are so joyned as the hurt of the one is common to both and therefore Statutes that none shall be repute Loyall Subjects but be punishable as Rebellers and gainstanders of the same who shall not give Confession and make profession of the true Religion and that none that hath made defection therefrom be readmitted to the Kings mercy but such as give of new the Confession of their Faith and promise to continue in the profession of the true Religion and maintain it and the Preachers and professors of it against whatsoever enemies and gainstanders and Namely against whatsoever Nation Estate or degree they be that assist to set forward or execute the Decrees of the Cruel Councill of Trent It. By the 61 Act of the 5 Parliament of Jac. 6. the King being of perfect Age all the before mentioned Acts are ratified It. By the 68 Act of the 6 Parliament of Jac. 6. all the before mentioned Acts are ratified It. By the 99 Act of the 7 Parl. of James 6. all the foregoing Acts are Ratified It. By the 106 Act of the 7 Parliament of James 6. it is statute That none of the Kings Subjects or Strangers excepting Ambassadors Messengers or Merchants Adversaries to the true Religion or that hath declined therefrom return to the Realm or remain therein except within forty days they give Confession of their Faith and subscribe the Articles of the true Religion and that in the Interim none of them Repair to the Kings presence Palace or dwelling House nor remain longer than three hours within seven miles of them and whoever fails herein shall be imprison'd untill they find Surety that they shall either Recant their Errors and profess the true Religion or depart forth of the Realm within 15 days thereafter and that in the mean time they shall do nothing for the promoting the Popish Errours It. By the 23 Act 10 Parl. Jac. 6. all the foregoing Acts are ratified after the Kings perfect age of 21 years It. By the 114 Act 12 Parl. of Jac. 6. all the foregoing Acts are ratified and several priviledges granted to the Kirk It. By the 120 Act 12 Parliament Jac. 6. It is declared that the saying of Masses recepting of Jesuits Seminary Priests and trafficquing Papists doth Inferre the pain of Treason It. By the 164 Act of the 13 Parl. of Ja. 6. It is statute that whatever person says Mass or Recepts or entertains for three nights at several times or together excommunicate Jesuites or Trafficquing Papists shall lose his Escheat for the first fault for the second time shall Amit their Life-rent right of their whole Estate and for the third time shall incurre the pain of Treason It. By the 193 Act of the 14 Parl. of Ja. 6. It is statute that all wilfull hearers of Mass and Concealers of it be execute to death It. By the 8 Act of the first Parl. of Char. 2. 1661. It is statute that none of his Majesties Subjects of what quality or degree soever hear Mass supply entertain furnish meat or drink nor keep any Intelligence or Correspondence with Priests Jesuits or Trafficquing Papists under the pains