The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

But it shall be lawful to them to dispose or sell Wards of Marriages, or other casualties, or any other things whatsoever they be, pertaining to their Offices, without advice and consent of the said Council, to the effect that the Council may know that all things be done to the profit of the King and Queen: And yet they will not bind or astraint the King or Queen to this Article, that they may not give when they think expedient. Item, They accorded, That in the first Convention and Parliament of the States of this Realm, there shall be Constituted, Ordained, and Established, an Act of Oblivion, which afterwards shall be confirmed by the Kings and Queens Majesties, by the which the remembrance of bearing Armour, and other things which have been done shall be buried and forgotten, from the sixth day of the month of March, in the year of our Lord God 1558 years: And by the same Act, they which have contravened the Laws of the Realm, shall be excused, and free of all pains contained therein, even so as if it had never been contravened. Providing, That the Privilege of the said Act be not extended to them which the States of the Realm shall judge unworthy thereof. Item, It is agreed and concluded, That in the said Convention or Parliament, the States of the Realm, as the Custom is, and ordinarily is required, shall be called; in the which all they that have used to convene and to be present, may come without all fear or force done, or to be done to them by any person; so that the said States shall oblige them. That where in time coming any Sedition, or gathering of men of War shall happen to be without command of the Council, being of the number of twelve, the Realm and Country shall repute the causers thereof, and they that convene, as Rebels, and shall pursue them as such like, that they may be punished by the Laws of the Realm, so that the K. and Q. shall not be compelled in time coming to send any men of War strangers in these parts, for obtaining due obedience of their subjects. ⟨p. 249⟩Item, They Offered, Accorded, and Agreed, That there shall be a general peace and reconciliation amongst all Lords and subjects of this Realm, so that they that are called of the Congregation, and they which are not of the same, shall lay no reproach to others for the things which are done from the said sixth day of March, 1558.

But it shall be lawfull to them to dispose or sell Wards of Marriages, or other casualties, or any other things whatsoever they be, pertaining to their Offices, without advice and consent of the said Councell, to the effect that the Councell may know that all things be done to the profit of the King and Queen: And yet they will not binde or astraint the King or Queen to this Article, that they may not give when they think expedient. Item, They accorded, That in the first Convention and Parliament of the States of this Realme, there shall be Constituted, Ordained, and Established, an Act of Oblivion, which afterwards shall be confirmed by the Kings and Queens Majesties, by the which the remembrance of bearing Armour, and other things which have been done shall be buried and forgotten, from the sixth day of the moneth of March, in the yeer of our Lord God 1558 yeers: And by the same Act, they which have contravened the Laws of the Realme, shall be excused, and free of all pains contained therein, even so as if it had never been contravened. Providing, That the Priviledge of the said Act be not extended to them which the States of the Realme shall judge unworthy thereof. Item, It is agreed and concluded, That in the said Convention or Parliament, the States of the Realme, as the Custome is, and ordinarily is required, shall be called; in the which all they that have used to convene and to be present, may come without all fear or force done, or to be done to them by any person; so that the said States shall oblige them. That where in time coming any Sedition, or gathering of men of War shall happen to be without command of the Councell, being of the number of twelve, the Realme and Countrey shall repute the causers thereof, and they that convene, as Rebells, and shall pursue them as such like, that they may be punished by the Laws of the Realm, so that the K. and Q. shall not be compelled in time coming to send any men of War strangers in these parts, for obtaining due obedience of their subjects.