Concilia Scotiae Volume 1; ecclesiae scoticanae statuta tam provincilia quam synodalia quae supersunt, MCCXXV-MDLIX - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...Dominorum Concilii et.Sessionis, voL xv. fol. 102. Bis. Regist. House.) The roll or table of the 'Contribution,' showing the amount payable by each of sixty-two Prelates,--two archbishops, eleven bishops, twentyeight abbots, thirteen priors, six prioresses, one preceptor of the Knights of St. John, one minister of the Red or Trinity Friars,--is printed in the Miscellany of the Bannatyne Club, vol. ii. pp. 51-53. 3 See below, pp. 148, 149, 167, 168, 304-306. The abuse of Mortuaries was redressed in England in 1529. Some of the Reforming clergy seem early to have scrupled at receiving them in Scot parochial clergy on the deaths of their parishioners,--and to grant every o«nerai Pro r vincial Council husbandman a lease of his tithes for a certain fixed payment.1 The JjJTSfe. advice was not followed, although it is said to have been accompanied by a menace that if it were rejected the King would compel the clergy to grant feus of the church lands at the old rents.2 James, indeed, with no favour for the Reformed doctrines, had little liking or respect for the priests of the old faith, to whom no flattery, no solicitations of Rome could reconcile him.3 It was in vain that the Apostolic The abolition or Mortuaries and commuta-tion of Tithes, said to have leen urged upon the Gene-ral Provincial Council of Edinburgh, by King James v., 1-17. Mar. 1530. land.--(Linda, of Pitecott Hiat. Scot p. '275. edit. 1749. Mr. D. Lung's Knox's Hist. Reformat. Scot voL i. pp. 521, 522.) See below, pp. 170, 171, 306. 2 This rests on the authority of a letter from Archibald sixth Earl of Angus to his brother Sir George Douglas, written from Berwick-on-Tweed, a week after the Council: 'And ye sail wcit, for other thyzanclis in to Schotland, the Clarge is sitand on in Generall Co...

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