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GENERAL STATUTES OF 1559
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God’s glory and the salvation of children, parents of children
shall be notified to bring them or have them brought to their
own parish churches, and presented to the vicar, curate, or
other priest, the lawful minister of that sacrament, and that
before the expiry of the fifteen days immediately following
such notification, under pain of the greater excommunication.
Furthermore, the present synod forbids any children hereafter
to be baptized by any but priests, and that according to the
accepted form of the church, save in the article of death,
under pain of the greater excommunication pronounced as
well against the father as the mother, as also against the
ministers, the godfathers and godmothers, and on pain of thei
other penalties enacted by law.
(294) The sacraments of the eucharist and of marriage shall
not be ministered save according to the accustomed
form instituted by the church.
This present synod likewise forbids any one hereafter to
dare to minister the sacraments of the eucharist or of mar¬
riage, or to receive the same, unless according to the wonted
and accustomed form of the church, which has hitherto been
duly observed and been customary for priests to celebrate;
and that under pain of the greater excommunication inflicted
on both ministers and celebrants, and also on the receivers of
the same.
At the church of the Dominican friars, in the provincial
council of this realm of Scotland, begun, as above men¬
tioned, and to be ended,1 or [having been] ended, on the
tenth day of the month of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand five hundred and fifty-nine.
(295) Notification or intimation of the future provincial
council next to come.
This present synod gives notice and intimation to the most
reverend the archbishops, their suffragan bishops, the abbots,
1 At the beginning (see Statute 259, p. 161), the alternative ‘to be ended’
is not given. The council was designed to go on to the 10th April: when
this note was written, it had practically ended.
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God’s glory and the salvation of children, parents of children
shall be notified to bring them or have them brought to their
own parish churches, and presented to the vicar, curate, or
other priest, the lawful minister of that sacrament, and that
before the expiry of the fifteen days immediately following
such notification, under pain of the greater excommunication.
Furthermore, the present synod forbids any children hereafter
to be baptized by any but priests, and that according to the
accepted form of the church, save in the article of death,
under pain of the greater excommunication pronounced as
well against the father as the mother, as also against the
ministers, the godfathers and godmothers, and on pain of thei
other penalties enacted by law.
(294) The sacraments of the eucharist and of marriage shall
not be ministered save according to the accustomed
form instituted by the church.
This present synod likewise forbids any one hereafter to
dare to minister the sacraments of the eucharist or of mar¬
riage, or to receive the same, unless according to the wonted
and accustomed form of the church, which has hitherto been
duly observed and been customary for priests to celebrate;
and that under pain of the greater excommunication inflicted
on both ministers and celebrants, and also on the receivers of
the same.
At the church of the Dominican friars, in the provincial
council of this realm of Scotland, begun, as above men¬
tioned, and to be ended,1 or [having been] ended, on the
tenth day of the month of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand five hundred and fifty-nine.
(295) Notification or intimation of the future provincial
council next to come.
This present synod gives notice and intimation to the most
reverend the archbishops, their suffragan bishops, the abbots,
1 At the beginning (see Statute 259, p. 161), the alternative ‘to be ended’
is not given. The council was designed to go on to the 10th April: when
this note was written, it had practically ended.
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