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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19872	A faithfull report of proceedings anent the assemblie of ministers at Abirdeen vpon Twesday 2. Iuly 1605		1606 (1606)	STC 63; ESTC S113262	10,006	34

Nicholsone ordinarie Clerke to the Assembly to remaine with them and to do his office He refused til he sould see how the issue of their doings sould content the Laird of Lowreston and so but first desiring and obtayning dispensation for his absence he likewise remooved himselfe The Assembly proceedes having put in lytes Maister Robert Durie Ma. Iohn Munro and Ma. Iohn Forbes who were in ele●●●on with generall consent choose Mai. Io●● Forbes Moderator and the rather because they were willing to respect the Laird of Lowstones nominatiō and after prayer made by the new Moderator they did choose M. Iohn Sharp Clerk for that time After this election the Letter missiue was read and the iudgement of the Assemblie craved The letter consisted of two pointes first that the Assembly sould be presently dissolved and secondly that no new diet sould be appointed till his Maiestie were acquainted therewith And yet it was agreed betweene the Lord Chancellor and Mai. Iohn Forbes in Edinburgh before the Ministers met in their Assembly at Abirdeen that the Ministers sould meet and vpon request of the Councell having fenced their Assembly continue the intreating of all things to a new day The Assembly yeelded to the former But for reasons before mentioned thought it needfull to appoint a new diet if the Laird of Lowreston would not but if he would they agreed to consent thereto were the day appointed long or short They sent desired his presence The Moderator declared to him the iudgement of the Assembly he approved the former part of their conclusion but refused to designe any time long or short Albeit the Assembly assured him that vpon the reverent respect they had to satisfie his Ma. desire they would bee al 's readie afterward to cōtinue to a certen day if his Ma. sould require the same After long reasoning was brought to consider the necessitie of continuing the Assembly to a certaine time and the rather because as hee him selfe did there openly report it was thought they sould never haue Assembly againe but yet would not agree therevnto because as he affirmed he had no warrant so to do He therefore againe did voluntarily remooue him selfe though he was desired to stay giving the second time the same cause of sic remooving him selfe which hee gaue before Presently after The intreating of the affairs of the Assembly were continued to the 〈◊〉 Twesday of September then next following a Abirdeen intimation ordained to be made in all Presbyteries according to the order custome observed in sic cases Which being done the Assembly readie to dissolue the Laird of Lawreston returned of him selfe for the doores were neuer shut and protested that he did not acknowledge their meeting for a lawfull Assemblie from the beginning Because of the absence of M. Patrik Galloway Moderator of the former general Assembly of the ordinary clerk Here it is to be noted that the number of Ministers assembled was not thē excepted against To the protestatiō the Moderator in name of the rest answered that the reasons thereof notwithstāding it behoved the Assembly to be lawful Because of the warrant 1. of Gods word 2. Lawes of the Realme 3. continuall practise of the Kirk since the yeere of our Lord 1560. But most clearly set donn in the book of discipline established in this Lande at his Ma. owne desire publickly made to the General Assembly holdē at Glasgo 1581. where n the 7. ca. art 3. 4. it is thus written All ecclesiasticall Assemblies haue power to convene together for treating of things cōcerning the church p rtaining to their charges They haue power to appoint times and places to that effect one Assembly to appoint diet time and place of another 4. The subscription and oath of the King and all his subiects 5. The said letter of the Commissioners from Perth and. 6. Presidents in the Register of the Assembly of choosing a new Moderator in absence of the old and a clerke for the time in place of th' ordinarie In meane time the Lord of Lowreston caused Iohn Wisheart messinger to charge the Assembly with letters of Horning to suffer the same to desert and gave a subscribed copie to the Moderator in name of the Assembly The reasons whereof were these 1. That his Ma. had signified that he could not be resolved anent a general Assembly till the Parliament was past 2. That this Assembly was without his knowledge consent Therevnto Obediēce was given instantly the Moderator craving a certificat of the same vnder the hand of the messinger who was also a publike Notarie but he refusing The Ministers after the dissolving of the Assemblie with prayer by the Moderator went presently to the cōmon Clerkes chamber of Abirdeen tooke instruments of their obedience to the said charge Which was t'honly charge that ever they heard of first or last by publick or private intimation or knowledge whatsoever as they protested vpon their salvation in their Apologie send afterward to his Maiestie Of this charge no mention was made to the Lords of the secret Coūcel but another was alleadged to haue ben giuen by vertue of the same letters on Monday the first of Iuly by open proclamatiō at the mercat crosse of Abirdeen Whereas in trueth there was no sic thing don For then the Laird of Lowreston would haue intimated the same whē he delivered the said letter missiue not haue said that he might haue charged them if he would Againe it can be proved that from the first comming of the Laird of Lowreston and his servants into Abirdeen to eight houres in the night there were cōtinually about the mercat crosse walking sundrie honest men who heard of no sic matter Moreouer if the indorsement of the said supposed charge were true to wit that it was executed before 2. witnesses both servantes to the Laird of Lowreston betweene 7. and 8. houres at night yet it was to no purpose Because it was not executed in the morning betweene eight and 12. houre at noone before famous witnesses according to an act of Parleament 1587. Vpon Thursday and Friday following 〈◊〉 reason of the error of the Commissioners Letter aforesaid came to Abirdeen Mai. Iohn Welsh Mai. Nathaniel Inglis Ma. Iames Greig Ma. Iohn ȝoung Ma. Thomas Abirnethie Ma. Archibald Symson Ma. Nathaniel Harlaw M. Abraham Henderson and Iohn Rosse who finding the Assembly dissolved and having received a subscribed copie of the proceedings thereof went to the place where the Assembly was holden and for the discharge of their Commission tooke instruments vnder the handes of two Notaries that they were come to haue kept the said Assembly and that they did ratifie all the proceedings thereof in their own names in the names of the Presbyteries who sent them After which proceedings the 24. of Iuli Mai. Iohn Forbes being in Edinburgh of purpose to satisfie the Lords of Councell anent the alleadged disobedience to his Maiesties charge was send