Paroch

Dear Friends, Ye know by the Laws of the Land we were put unto a neceſſity either to comply with Episcopacy contrary to out covenanted Ingagements, or to be no more permitted to Labour amongſt you, being by an Act of the Council baniſhed out of the Paroch and Presbytery[…]

"The next statute is that of 1663, c. 16, Dear which proceeds on the recital of the 'seventh act of the sixth parliament Of his Majestie's royall grandfather, King James the Sixth of happy memory, ordaining the names of the poor of ilk paroch, and such as must be necessarily sustained by alms, to be taken up, and to tax and stint the persons with in the paroch[…]

[…]libertie to them of preaching in the paroch kirkes and receaveing their partes of the stipends, and particularly the persons underwrytten were appointed to repair to and be confyned to the particular paroches after specifeit[…]