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14 THE SYNOD OF FIFE. April 1611.
of the Minifterie as SefRoune, fall, vpou tbair folemne oath, declair
quhat thei know ether of the faft. itfelfe, or of any dealing betuix the
parties for fuppreffing the veritie : quhilk being done, and no light gottin,
Mr. Jhone wes ordained prefentlie to purge him felf be his oath. And
becaus he refuifed to do the fame, thairfoir it wes ftatute and ordained,
that if, vpon Frjday the npiteinth day of this inftant, he prefent not him
felf befoir the brethren of the Exerceis of Arbroth, and declair his refolu-
tioune, and offer to purge him felf be oath conceptis verbis, as is after
fett downe, then as now, and now as then, he falbe fufpendit from his miniftrie.
Tenor Juramenti. — I, Mr. Jhone Gardine, minifter at Barrie, fweir
folemnlie befoir God everlafting, and as I fall anfwer to my Saviour Jefus
at the gryt day of Judgment, I declair by my gryt oath, that I had never
carnall deall with Elfpat Balfour, relift of vmquhile Jhone Clerk in Baf-
kellie, at any tyme lince the deceis of her faid vmquhile hufband befoir
this prefent hour : Sa faiflf me God if I fpeak the veritie, and condemne
me for ever if I conceill the truth, or fpeik ane lie.
Quhilk oath, if the faid Mr. Jhone fall willinglie offer, then and in that
cais, the moderator of the Exerceis of Arbroth is ordained, on the Saboth
follo-wing, to pas to the kirk of Barrie, and after doftrine propoundit be
him felf in the foirnoone, to accept the oath in maner above fpecified, and
thairvpon the faiil ^Nlr. Jhone to be abfolved ; but failzeing of the faid
Mr. Jhone his offer, as is above expreimit, the decreitt of fufpenfioune to
Hand, as faid is.
At Forfar the 16 day of Apryl 1611.
Plantatioune of Dunlappie. — Mr. Georg Donaldfone, minifter at Lochlie.
admitted minifter to the kirk of Dunlappie, being prefented be Hepburn
of Waughtoune, vndowted patrone of the faid kirk.
EreSiiomie of Exerceis at Forfar. — ^The foirfaid day, according to ane
ordinans and conclufioune of the Diocefian Synode, holdin at St. Androis
in the moneth of Apryl laftbypaft, the faid ryght reverend father, ^vith
advys foirfaid, finding it verie necefTar that ane Exerceis be had within the
burgh of Forfar, ali'weill for the eas of the brethren of the miniftrie quho