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

196 THE REGISTER OF CONSULTATIONS
to the order of this Kirk, yet upon some misinformations
orders are given in behalf of such persons as are not ad¬
mitted ministers in an orderly way but contrarie to the
mynd of congregations and Presbytries, that they may
receive the stipend, and so the heretors are compelled to
intertaine one whom they doe not own as their minister,
and he who is their lawfull minister has no maintenance
at all.
Ffor remedie of all which is humbly desired.
1. That the collectors be discharged to insist in any
charge of horning for the stipends of these yeires conferred
upon the intrant minister by the Presbytrie’s Act of ad¬
mission and collation, and that these yeires’ stipends be
declared not to be vaking (as indeed they are not), but to
belong to the intrant, and that he be warranted to receive
the same according to the law of the land.
2. That what Presbytries have destinat with consent
of the heretors to pious uses according to the power they
have by law, may be allowed, and the collectors inhibit
to charge for the same as vaking.
3. That the Ann, that is, what by our law and constant
practice is dew to the relict and children of the deceased
minister, may be declared free and not to be charged for
as a vaking stipend.
4. That heretors under the notion of vaking stipends
be not charged for anything but what is truelie vaking
of the stipend and maintenance ; modified and established
by law, and not for any temporarie and voluntarie gift
or allowance intended only for the preceeding minister
endureing his service.
5. That in contrarie plantations, the minister whose
collation and ordination or admission are allowed by the
ordinarie established judicatures of this Kirk, and he
only, may be warranted to receive the established stipend
and maintenance from the time of his admission.
And in the interim, untill the Honorable Councill shall
take tyme to consider hereof, that they may be pleased to
give order to the Collectors of Vaking Stipends to forbear
further execution for these vaking stipends, untill these