Bands, Act and Declaration against, in the common cause without
consent of the Church, 497
Banns, Marriage without Proclamation of, 37
Baptism of Beggar’s Children, Desire and Overtures on, with Assembly’s
answer, 479
Benefices, Act anent old ministers bruiking, 293
Biggar, Act for entry of new-erected Presbytery of, 397
Bills, Overtures anent, 345
Bishops, Deposition of, 1638, 26 to 28
Book of Canons, &c., condemned, 26
Books tending to separation, Act for searching, 346
Books and papers, Act discharging the importing, venting, or spreading
of erroneous, 476
Bridals, Penny, Act for restraining abuses at, 427
Burghs, Provision to Ministers in, 515
Burghs, Act anent Commissions from, 496
Burials in Kirks, 37, 349
Bursars and Expectants, Overtures anent, 294
Bursars, Ordinance concerning, 405
Bursars of Theology, 421, 511, 553
Campbell, Mr Neil, pretended Bishop of Isles, deposed, 27
Campheir, (Campvere,) Act anent, 297
Canons, Book of, condemned, 26
Catechising &c., 206, 208, 209, 327, 549
Catechisms, Approbation of, 496, 498
Catechism, printed at Edinburgh, entitled “A. B. C. with the
Catechism,” Act discharging, 498
Censures ordered against scandalous persons, 39
Censuring ministers for their silence, and not speaking to the
corruptions of the times, Act anent, 509
Censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472
Censuring complyers with the public enemies of this Kirk and kingdom,
Act for, 448
Censuring absents from Assembly, Act for, 476
Children of Papists, &c., Overtures anent, 513
Children sent without the kingdom, act anent, 448
Christians in Ireland, Petitions from, 396, 345
Church of England, Letter from Ministers of, 348
Church of England, General Assembly’s answer to ministers of, 358
Civil execution against excommunicate persons, Act anent an order for
using, 355
Colleges, Overtures approved for advancement of learning and good
order in grammar schools and, 419
Collections for poor, Act concerning, 515
Collection, for Highland Boys, Act for, 552
Commission, the King’s, to Marquis of Hamilton, 1638, 21
Commission, High, condemned, 26
Commission to Ministers to go to Ireland, 331, 354
Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, 330, 359, 399, 427, 477,
514, 549.
Commission, Reference made to, anent persons designed to repair to
England, 359
Commission, Reference made to, for re-examining and emitting
Paraphrases of Psalms, 553
Commission to persons appointed to repair to England, for prosecuting
treaty of Uniformity in Religion, 359, 399, 428, 450, 477
Commissions from Burghs, Act concerning, 496
Commissioners, Expenses of, 206
Commissioners, Act concerning examining the proceedings of, 496
Commissioners, Act for election of Professors to be, 345
Commissioners at London, letters to, 328, 403, 430
Commissioners at London, letters from, 400, 416
Commissioners of English Parliament, Propositions of, 347, 349
Commissioners of English Parliament, Result of debates of Committees
of Convention and Assembly appointed to meet with, 353
Commissioners sent to the King, approbation of, 543
Commissioner, the King’s, declaration of, 207
Commissioner, Assembly resolves to proceed without, 278
Complyers with the public enemies of the Kirk and Kingdom, Act
against, p. 448;
for debarring from Ecclesiastic office, 476
Confession of Faith, article concerning, (1638), 37
Confession of Faith, subscription of, ordered, 40
Confession of Faith, King’s acknowledgment of craved, 40
Confession of Faith, Approbation of (1647), 475
Confession and Covenant, supplication anent, 207
Confession and Covenant, Act ordaining subscription of, with
Assembly’s Declaration, 208
Conference of Ministers, Lawyers, and Physicians, concerning
Witchcraft &c., Commission appointed by Assembly for, 553
Congregation, Act against such as withdraw themselves from Worship
in their own, 474
Congregations, Presbyterians recommended in the calling and admission
of Ministers to consider the interests of, 452
Constitutions of Church revived, (1638), 34
Corruptions in the Ministry and Remedies, 446
Corruptions of the times, Act for censuring Ministers for not
speaking to, 509
Covenant, Solemn League and, 362
Covenant, Approbation of, 353
Covenant, Act for subscribing, 346
Covenant, Act against secret disaffecters of, 398
Covenant, Censures ordered on speakers against, 279
Covenant, Act anent Expectants refusing to sign, 279
Covenant, Act for taking, at first receiving of the Lord’s Supper,
and for the receiving of it also by all Students at their first
entry to College, 511
Covenant, Overture approved representing that Students of Philosophy
at their entry and laureation, and that all other persons as they
come to age and discretion, before their first receiving the
Sacrament, be holden to subscribe, 479
Dancing, Promiscuous, Act discharging, 543
Declarations of English Parliament, 323, 347
—— —— Answers to, 324, 355
Declaration subscribed by Scottish Lords at Oxford, Act concerning,
398
Declaration of Assembly, 1648, concerning the present dangers of
Religion, &c., 498
Declaration and Brotherly Exhortation of Assembly, to their brethren
of England, 468, 506
Declaration by Assembly, of the falsehood and forgery of a Pamphlet
put forth under the name of Mr Alexander Henderson, 510
Declaration and acknowledgment, to be subscribed by engagers in the
late unlawful war against England, 544
Declaration and Warning of Assembly concerning present dangers and
duties, 544
Defection In the Ministry, Act 1595 concerning, ratified, 34
Deposed Ministers, Acts anent, 205, 349
Deposed Ministers, Act Discharging them to be reponed to their former
places, 427
Deposed Ministers, Act against their sudden Admission to Particular
Congregations, 496
Deposed Ministers, Act concerning, 517
Deposed or Suspended Ministers, Act Discharging them from any Exercise
of the Ministry, or Meddling with the Stipend, 510
Deposition and Excommunication of Spottiswood and other Pretended
Bishops, 26, 27, 28
Deposition of Ministers by Committees, approved, 205
Desires of Assembly to Lords of Council, anent Uniformity of
Kirk-government, 328
Desires of Assembly to the King for £500, 328
Desires of Assembly to the King, anent Lists for Presentations, 353
Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for preparing, 349
Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for establishing and putting
in execution, 418
Directory, Opinion of Committee of Assembly approved for keeping the
greater Uniformity in the Kirk in the Practice and Observation of
the, 421
Directory for Election of Ministers, 550
Directions of Assembly for Secret and Private Worship, and for
censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472
Disaffecters, Secret, of Covenant, Act against, 398
Dissenting voices in Presbyteries and Synods, Act concerning, 406
Divines in England, Letters to and from Synod of, 351, 357, 401, 402,
417, 495
Divinity, Act for encouraging Scholars to study, 427
Doctrine, eight General Heads of, contained in CXI Propositions,
approved, 479
Duels, Act discharging, 516
Ecclesiastic office, Act for debarring of complyers of first class
(mentioned in Act of Assembly 1646) from, 476
Election of Moderator in Provincial Assemblies, Act anent, 406
Election of Ministers, Directory for, 550
England, Assembly’s Letter to Parliament of, 450
England, Assembly’s declarations and solemn exhortations to their
brethren of, 468, 506, 551
England, Act for prosecuting treaty for Uniformity in Religion, &c.,
in, 514
England, late Unlawful War against, Act concerning the receiving to
public satisfaction, &c., the late engagers in, 543
Enormities and corruptions in the ministry, with the remedies, 446
Episcopacy declared to have been abjured, 28
Episcopacy renounced by Grahame, Bishop of Orkney, 204
Estates, Assembly’s Supplication to Committee of, 1648, 509
Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Committee of, 496
Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Paper sent from Committee of, 505
Estates, Act and Declaration against Act of Parliament and Committee
of, 497
Erastianism, Assembly bears testimony against in Act concerning CXI
Propositions, 479
Excommunicate Persons, Act anent an order for using Civil Execution
against, 355
Excommunicate Persons, Act against Ministers haunting with, 355
Excommunicate Persons, Article (16) anent frequenting with, 37
Excommunicate Persons, Act recommending the execution of the Act of
Parliament at Perth for uplifting pecunial pains, and of all Acts
of Parliament made against, 476
Excommunicate Persons, &c., Overtures concerning, 513
Excommunication and Deposition of Bishops, 1638, 26, 27, 28
Excommunication of Earl of Seafort, 445
Execution, Civil, Act anent an order for using, against Excommunicate
Persons, 355
Expectants, &c., Overtures anent approved, 294
Expectants preaching in Public, Act anent, 448
Expectants, trial and admission of, 37, 476
Expenses of Commissioners to Assembly, 36
Fairlie, Mr James, pretended Bishop of Lismore, deposed, 27
Family Exercises, &c., Act anent, 327
Fast, Act for keeping, by congregation where the Assembly holds, 406
Fast, &c., ordered, 332
Fast, Public, Act ordaining, 452
Fornication committed before Marriage, Act concerning public
satisfaction for, 445
Glasgow, pretended Assembly at, 1610, condemned, 24
Government of the Kirk, Act approving Propositions concerning, 422
Graham, James, (Marquis of Montrose,) Act concerning Proclamation of,
448
Grahame, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Orkney, deposed, p. 27;
renounces Episcopacy, 204
Guthry, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Murray, deposed, 27
Henderson, Mr Alexander, Assembly’s Declaration of the Falsehood and
Forgery of a Pamphlet, put forth under the name of their Reverend
Brother, after his death, 510
Highlands, Recommendation to Train Preachers for, 351
Highlands, Lists for Kirks in, 322
Highland Boys, the Education of, 510, 552
Honours &c., Act against Hanging, in Kirks, 349
Impiety and Schism, Act against, 294
Independency, Assembly’s Testimony against, in Act anent CXI
Propositions, 479
Ireland, Petition of Distressed Professors in, 345
Ireland, Commission for Ministers to go to, 331, 354
Ireland, Letter from Distressed Christians in, 396
Ireland, Commissioners at London recommended to send Directory for
Worship to, 431
Judicatories, Superior, Act anent Reposition of Ministers deposed by,
349
King’s Letters to Assembly, 21, 292, 320, 345, 443
King, Letters from Assembly to, 296, 355, 450, 563
King, Remonstrance of Assembly, 1646, to the, 429
King, Assembly’s Supplication to the, 1648, 515
Kirk, Causes and Remedy of its Bygone Evils, 204
Kirk, Opinion of the Committee for keeping the greater Uniformity in
the, 421
Kirk and Kingdom, Act against Complyers with Public Enemies of, 448
Kirk of England, Letter from some Brethren of the Ministry of the, and
Answer thereto, 348, 358
Kirk of England, Letter from Synod of Divines in, and Answer thereto,
401, 402
Kirk-Government, Act approving Propositions concerning, 422
Kirkmen, against Civil Places, &c., of, 38
Kirk Sessions and Provincial and National Assemblies restored to full
integrity, 34
Kirk Sessions, Act anent, 321
Kirk Sessions, Article (17) anent Voicing in, 37
Kirks, trying quality of &c., Act anent, 321
Kirks, Recommendation to Presbyteries anent planting, 353
Kirks, Act for pressing and furthering the Plantation of, 476
Kirks, Burial in, Acts anent, 37, 349
Kirks, incommodiously United in Corrupt Times, Overture for
Disjunction of, 479
Kirks, Particular, Visitation of, 34
Kirks, Highland, Act anent Lists for, 322
Kirks in Netherlands, Assembly’s Letter to, 404
League and Covenant, Solemn, 362
League and Covenant Solemn, Approbation of, 353
Learning, Overtures for advancement of, 419
Lindsay, Mr Patrick, pretended Archbishop of Glasgow, deposed, 26
Lindsay, Mr David, pretended Bishop of Edinburgh, deposed, 26
Lindsay, Mr Alexander, pretended Bishop of Dunkeld, deposed, 28
Linlithgow, pretended Assemblies of 1606 and 1608 at, condemned, 24
Lists, order for making, to King and Patrons, &c., 321
Lists, for Kirks in Highlands, 322
Lists for Presentations, desires of Assembly anent, 353
Lord’s Day, Act anent keeping, 206
Lord’s Day, Act against masters who have servants that profane the,
349
Lord’s Day, Act against loosing of ships and barks on, 448
Lord’s Day, anent profanation of, by markets on Saturdays and Mondays,
36
Lord’s Supper, anent its more frequent administration, 36
Lykwakes, Act against, 427
Manses and Glebes, Overtures respecting, 479
Markets on Monday and Saturday, anent, 36
Marriage, Promise of, made by Minors, 405
Marriage without proclamation of Banns, 37
Marriages, Border, 206
Married persons, Act concerning the public satisfaction of, for
ante-nuptial Fornication, 445
Masters whose servants profane the Lord’s Day, Act against, 349
Maxwell, Mr John, pretended Bishop of Ross, deposed, 26
Ministers, Trial of, 206, 321
Ministers, Ordination of, Act approving propositions concerning, 422
Ministers, Article anent conversation, admission of by Presbyteries,
&c., 34
Ministers, Directory for Election of, 550
Ministers, Presbyteries recommended to consider the interests of
particular congregations in the calling and election of, 452
Ministers, Transplantation of, &c., 326
Ministers, bruiking benefices, Act anent, 293
Ministers haunting with Excommunicate Persons, Act against, 355
Ministers, slandering of, Act anent, 332
Ministers, Act censuring, for silence, &c., 509
Ministers in Burghs, Recommendation for securing Provision to, 515
Ministers, deposed, Censures ordered against, 38
Ministers, deposed, Acts anent receiving, 205, 293
Ministers, deposed, Act anent reposition of, 349
Ministers, deposed, Act discharging them to be reponed, 427
Ministers, deposed, Act against sudden admitting of, to particular
Congregations, 496
Ministers, deposed or suspended, discharged from any Exercise of the
Ministry or meddling with the Stipend, 510
Ministers, deposed, Act concerning, 517
Ministers, to go to Ireland, Commission for, 354
Ministers, Act for sending, to the Army, 398
Ministers of England, Letter from and Answer to, 329
Ministers in Church of England, their Letter to Assembly and Answer,
348, 358
Ministers, Petition for, from Ireland, 345
Ministry, Defections in, 34
Ministry, Corruptions in Office of, &c., 34, 35
Ministry, Enormities and Corruptions observed in, with the Remedies
thereof, 446
Ministry, deposed and suspended Ministers dischargedfrom any Exercise
of the, 510
Ministry, Anent the entering of Ministers to the, 36
Ministry, Renovation of former Acts for Trial and Admission of
Expectants to the, 476
Minors, Overture concerning Promise of Marriage made by, 405
Moderator, Act anent Election of, in Synods, 406
Moderators, Article anent choice of, 34
Montrose, Marquis of, Act concerning James Graham’s Proclamation, 448
Monuments, Idolatrous, anent demolishing, 279
Netherlands, Assembly’s Letter to Kirks in, 404
Non-Communicants, &c., 322
Non-Residents, Article anent, 34
Novations, anent, 208, 294
Oaths, unlawful, of Entrants, 26
Oaths, Act anent contrary, 327
Ordinance concerning Bursars, 405
Ordinance for uplifting Penalties, 405
Ordination of Ministers, Act approving propositions concerning, 422
Overtures remitted to Presbyteries on Proceedure in Appeals,
prescription of Scandals, and keeping General Assemblies when
Presbyteries do not send the full numbers, or Members go away, 333
Overtures anent Bills, References and Appeals approved, 345
Overtures anent Witchcraft, &c., approved, 354
Overtures concerning Promise of Marriage, made by Minors, to those
with whom they have committed Fornication, 5
Overtures for correspondence by Letter among Presbyteries;
for Presbyteries appointing some to direct the Studies of Young Men
not able to furnish themselves in charges to attend the
Universities; for Universities condescending on the best Overtures
for Grammar and Philosophy; for promoting the spread of the
knowledge of God in Christ, through the Highlands and Islands;
for ordering Professors to produce Copies of their Dictates to be
revised by the Assembly;
for making Ministers’ Manses and Stipends free to the Entrants,
approved, 449
Oxford, Act concerning Declaration signed by Scottish Lords at, 398
Papists, &c., anent, 206, 322, 513
Paraphrase of Psalms, 475, 513, 553
Parliament of England, Declaration of, and Answer thereto, 323, 324
Parliament of England, Declaration of the, to the Assembly, 347
Parliament of England, Propositions of Commissioners of the, 347
Parliament of England, Result of Debates of Committees of Convention
of Estates and Assembly, appointed to meet with Commissioners of,
353
Parliament of England, Answer of Assembly to Declaration of the
Honourable House of, 355
Parliament of England, Assembly’s Letter to, 450
Parliament, Petition to, from the Assembly, 420
Parliament, Act and Declaration against Act of, June 10, 1648, 497
Parliament, Petition to, anent tithes, &c., 544
Pastors, Article anent presenting, 37
Patrons, Order for making Lists to, 321
Perth, pretended Assembly at, condemned, 25
Perth, Five Articles of, declared abjured, 32
Petitions, &c., Act anent, 327
Petition from Assembly to Parliament, concerning the duty of the
latter in the exigency of the times, (1645), 420
Piety, Directions of Assembly for cherishing, 472
Pious uses, Acts for employing penalties on, 405, 476
Plantation of Kirks, Act for furthering, 476, 478
Poor, Act concerning collections for, 515
Popery and Superstition, anent repressing, 36
Prayers, public, &c., ordered, 332
Preaching in public, Act anent Expectants, 448
Precentors, Maintenance of, 553
Presbyterial Meetings, 34
Presbyteries, Admission of Ministers by, 34
Presbyteries and parochines, Competency of, 34
Presbyteries, Recommendation to, anent Students that have the Irish
language, 351
Presbyteries, Recommendation to, anent planting Kirks, 353
Presbyteries, Act anent Dissenting Voices in, 406
Presbyteries in Orkney and Zetland joined to Provincial Synod of
Caithness, 447
Presbyteries recommended to consider the interests of Particular
Congregations in the Calling and Admission of Ministers, 452
Presbyteries, Act concerning their Maintaining of Bursars, 511
Presbyteries recommended to send opinions on matters referred to them,
431, 517
Presbytery of Skye joined to Synod of Argyle, 323
Presbytery with the Army, Letter of, to Assembly, with the Answer
thereto, 396, 399
Presbytery of Biggar, Act for entry of, 397
Presbytery of Zetland allowed to send only half of its Ministers with
their Elders to the Provincial Assembly of Caithness, 468
Presenting Pastors, Readers, &c., Act anent, 37
Presentations, Order for making Lists to Patrons for, 321
Presentations, Desires of Assembly anent Lists for, 353
Press, Act controlling the, 39
Proclamation of James Graham, Act anent, 448
Profaneness, Ecclesiastic Remedies against, 512
Professors, Act for Electing, as Commissioners, 345
Propositions from Commissioners of English Parliament, 347, 349
Propositions, Act concerning CXI, 479
Psalms brought from England, Act for revising Paraphrase of the, 475
Psalms, Paraphrase of, Act for examining, 513
Readers, Act anent presenting, 37
Rebels in North and South, Act against, 398
Recommendation to Presbyteries anent planting of Kirks, 353
Reference from Presbytery of Kirkaldy, 333
Reference from Synod of Fife, 333
Reference to Commission anent the Persons designed to repair to
England, 359
References, Overtures anent, 345
Register, Act approving an old, 205
Registers, Testimony of Com. for Trial of, (1638), 22
Registers, Act approving, (1638), 22
Registers and Acts of Provincial Assemblies, Act concerning, 445
Religion, Declaration of Assembly, 1648, anent present dangers of, 498
Religion, Act for prosecuting Treaty for Uniformity of, in England,
514
Remedies for Grevious and Common Sins of the Land in this present
time, 1648, Overtures on, approved, 511
Remonstrance of Assembly to the King, (1645), 420
Reposition of deposed Ministers, Act anent, 349
Sabbath Day, Profanation of, in Landward, for want of afternoon
service, 37
Sabbath Day, Assembly recommends to Presbyteries the Execution of old
Acts of Assembly against breach of the, 38
Sabbath Day, Profanation of the, 322
Scandals, Prescription of, overture on, 333
Schism, Act against, 294
Schism and Division, Directions of Assembly for avoiding, 472
Scholars, Act for Encouragement of, to Professions in Schools, 427
Schools, Article anent the planting of, 34
Schools, Provision of, &c., 326, 427
Schools, Overtures approved, for advancing of Learning and good Order
in, 419
Schools of Divinity, Overtures approved for ordering of the Bursars of
Theology, and maintaining them at, 421
Schools, Act for Collection for entertaining Highland Boys at, 552
Schoolmasters, Act anent presenting, 37
Schoolmasters and Precentors, recommendation for maintenance of, 553
Scriptural Songs, recommendation for translation of, into metre, 475
Scriptural Songs, Act for examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms and
other, 513
Seafort, Earl of, Excommunication of the, 445
Separation, Act for searching Books tending to, 346
Servants that profane the Lord’s Day, Act against Masters of, 349
Service Book, &c., condemned, (1638), 26
Sideserf, Mr Thomas, pretended Bishop of Galloway, deposed, 26
Sins of the Land, Overtures for Remedies of, (1648), 511
Slandering of Ministers, 332
Spottiswood, John, pretended Archbishop of St Andrew’s deposed, 26
St Andrews, Pretended Assembly at, (1617), condemned, 25
Stipend, Suspended and Deposed Ministers discharged from meddling
with, 510
Students who have the Irish language, anent, 351
Students of Philosophy, Overture anent their Signature of League and
Covenant, 479
Students at their first entry to Colleges required to take the
Covenant, 511
Superstition and Popery, anent repressing, 36
Supplications to the King, 40, 41, 209, 323
Supplications to Commissioners anent Large Declaration, 206
Supplication relative to Confession and Covenant, and Answer thereto,
207
Suspended and Deposed Ministers discharged from any Exercise of the
Ministry, &c., 510
Synod Books, Act anent, 320
Synod of Divines in England, their Letters to the Assembly, 351, 401,
417, 495
Synod of Divines in England, Answers to, 357, 402
Synod, of Orkney and Caithness, Act disjoining Presbytery of Zetland
from, 511
Synods and Presbyteries, anent advising with, 208
Synods and Presbyteries, anent keeping, &c., 327
Synods, Act anent dissenting voices in, 406
Testimonials, Overture anent, 333
Tithes &c., Assembly’s Petition to Parliament, anent, 544
Titles savouring of Popery, Art. (19) against, 37
Transplantation of Ministers, &c., 326
Trial of Expectants, Article anent, 37
Trial of Ministers, Declaratory Act anent, 321
Trial and Admission of Expectants to the University, Renovation of
former Acts for, 476
Trial of Expectants, &c., 521
Uniformity in the Kirk, Opinion of Committee on, approved, 421
Uniformity in Religion, Commission of Persons sent to England for
prosecuting Treaty of, renewed, 428, 450, 477
Uniformity in Religion in England, Act for prosecuting Treaty for, 514
Unity, Directions of Assembly for maintaining, 472
Universities, Overtures anent, approved, 293
Universities, Recommendation to, anent Students that know Irish, 351
Universities, Desires and Overtures from the Commissioners of, and the
Assemblies Answer thereto, 478
Visitation of Kirks, Schools, and Colleges, 34
Voices, Dissenting, in Synods and Presbyteries, 406
War, Declaration of Assembly, 1648, concerning the present dangers of
Religion, especially the unlawful Engagement in, 498