Ane Act dischargeing all jurisdictionis and judgementis,
not approuit be Parliament, and all Assembleis and
Conventionis, without our Souerane Lordis speciall licence and
commandement.[38]--Act 1584, c. 4.
Forsamekle as in the trublous tymis, during thir xxiiij zeris bypast,
syndrie formis of jugementis and jurisdictionis, alsweil in Spiritual
as Temporal causes, ar entrit in the practis and custome, quhairby
the Kingis Majesties subjectis ar oftymis convocat and assemblit
togidder, and panis alsweil civill and pecuniall, as Ecclesiasticall,
inioinit unto thame; proces led and deduceit; sentences and decreitis
gevin, and the same put in executioun: Na sik ordour as zit being
allowit of, and approuit be his Majestie, and his thrie Estatis in
Parliament, contrare the custome obseruit in onie other Christiane
Kingdome, or weill governit commoun weill; and to the diminissing of
the force and power of his Hienes awin lawis, be the quhilkis his
Majesties subjectis aucht to be rewlit; and speciallie his Hienes
and his Estatis, considering that in the saidis assembleis, certane
his subjectis have takin upon thame to justifie, and auctorize the
fact perpetrate aganis his Hienes persoun and Estate at Ruthven,
and prosecutit thairefter, quhill his Majestie, at Goddis pleasour,
recoverit his libertie, having, in thair pretentit maner, maid
actes thairupoun, kepis the same in Register, and as zit seimis to
allow the said attemptat, althoucht now publictlie condemnit be his
Hienes and Estatis as treasounable, nane of the authoris thairof
having cravit his Hienes pardone thairfoir. For remeid quhairof, in
tyme cumming, swa that according to the lovable act of his darrest
Guidsir, King James the Ferd, of worthie memorie, all his Hienes
liegeis (being under his obeissance) man be rewlit be his awin lawis,
and the commoun lawis of this Realme, and be nane uther lawis: Our
Soverane Lord, and his thrie Estatis, assemblit in this present
Parliament, dischargeis all jugements and jurisdictionis, Spirituall
or Temporall, accustomat to be usit and execute, upoun ony of his
Hienes subjectis, quhilkis ar not approvit be his Hienes, and his
saidis thrie Estatis, convenit in Parliament: and decernis the
same to ceis in tyme cumming, quhill the ordour thereof be first
sene and considerit be [his Hienes, and his saidis thrie] Estatis
[convenit] in Parliament, and be allowit and ratifeit be thame:
Certefeing thame, that sall proceid in using and exerceing of the
saidis jugementis and jurisdictionis, or in obeying of the same, not
being allowit, and ratifeit, as said is, They sallbe repute, haldin,
callit, persewit, and punissit as usurparis, and conteminaris of his
Hienes auctoritie, in exemple of utheris. And als it is statute and
ordainit, be our said Soverane Lord, and his thrie Estatis, that
nane of his Hienes subjectis, of qwhatsumever qualitie, estate, or
functioun they be of, Spirituall or Temporall, presume or tak upoun
hand, to convocat, convene, or assemble thameselflis togidder, for
halding of councellis, conventionis, or assembleis, to treat, consult
and determinat in ony matter of Estate, Civill or Ecclesiasticall,
(except in the ordinare judgementis) without his Majesties speciall
commandement, expres licence, had and obtenit to that effect, under
the panis ordinit be the lawis and actis of Parliament, aganis sic as
unlawfullie convocatis the Kingis lieges.