Series 3 > Register of the consultations of the ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry > Volume 1

FIRST REGISTER : OVERTURES
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vaking stipends to the intrant minister upon consideration
of his necessities, or in recompence of his service during
this vacation of the kirk before his actuall admission, and
some having allowed some partes of vaking stipends
towards the supply of the necessities of the late incumbent
minister, his widow, children and family, or for some
such other pious uses, yet notwithstanding the collector
charges the heretors for these portions payed out by them
upon the destination and appoyntment of Presbytries for
such pious uses.
3. Notwithstanding by the lawes of the nation the
widow and children of the deceased minister in reward
of his service and labours falls as Ann, the whole yeires
stipend, if he died before the terme of Michaelmes, and if
he died after that terme, the stipend of that yere he died
in, and the half of the next yeir, yet all this is called for
as vaking by the collector upon some mistake, whereas
this by law is as deu to the deceased minister’s relict
children and executors, as 10 or 12 arreirs could have been
deu to them by law, if so much were resting.
4. Heretors in some places are charged to pay under
the notion of vaking stipends, the like proportions they
had payed to the deceased minister as a voluntary gift
and contribution upon particular considerations and
respects unto him, dureing his tyme of service, where
there wes no mantenance settled by law; and in other
places, where stipends are not yet established, upon the
like respects some part of the weekly collections being
allowed to the minister for help to his mantenance, where
these collections were able both to supplie that and the
necessities of the poor, the heretors there also are charged
for payment of the like yeirlie proportions as were payed
out of these collections, though these collections cannot
now afford the same, notwithstanding that in neither of
these cures the heretors can be lyable to any stipend but
that which is established by law.
5. Where there are contrarie plantations, one being
admitted minister with the consent and upon the call of
the congregation by the established Presbyterie according