Procedure: committee formed, 28 December 1706, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the Sevinteinth day of Apryll J^aj vij^c and Six years

A1706/4/12

A1706/4/12¹

Act

Act Shutting up the meeting house at Keith

The Lords of her Majesties privie Councell takeing to ther consideration a representation made to them by the Commission of the late Generall Assembly of the Church, and in name and by warrand of the said Assembly, off severall Church irregularities and disorders, as particularly that the parish of Keith and neighbourhood therof have been long infested with persons not qualified; and disaffected usurpeing the Ministeriall function ther, And that the severall of them have been, wpon Complaints, removed, yet the abuse is Still continued, And meeting houses keept up in these bounds, not only by persons not qualified, But even Suspect of popery, and withall of no certaine residence, Doe therfor requyre and Ordaine the Shirreff of the Shyre and his deputs, as also the Justices of peace and other officiars of the law within the said bounds to Suppress and Shutt wp the said meeting house, whither keept in the said parish or neighbourhood therof, as also to Secure Such irregular and wnqualified persons as Shall presume to exerce any pairt of the Ministeriall function within the said bounds in order to their tryall and due punishment according to law, As they will be answerable upon ther perrill.