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 loy- PARLIAMENTUM PRIMUM JACOBI aUlNTl, Dei Gratia Scotcrum Regis IlluftriJJimi, tentum & inchoatum apud Edinburgh , die Jovis , duode- cimo die Men fis Juiii, t^Auw Tsomiui , CMilleJimc QntH»ente[tmo, decmo-quinto", per illufirem tS magnificum pincipem , Johannem T)ucem Albams &c. Tradifti c Do?niiii nojlri hegis & Regni tutor em & gubernatorem , una cum Traelatis , Barouibm , Troceribus , & Burqcrv.m Com- mijfariis in fpeciali Commijfione contentis , © ibidem per left is , in difto "Parliament o^ongrcgatis, tres Regni flatus reprefentantibus ®c. Quo die jeftis vocatls , curia affirmata abfentes patent in Rotulis. i . Of the freedome of ha lie Kirk. N The firft it is ftatute , that the freedomes , priviledges, andimmuni- iesofhalieKirk, and uthers Spiritual perfones, be obferved and keiped in honour and worfhip , in the time of our Soveraine Lord , and my Lord Governour, that now is, asithesbeneintimesby-gane. z . The maifler or mainteiner ofane thief, fuld deliver him to the /|§v.v^ J. j W£z^ partie, or exhibite him before the Judge. Ofthieft-bute. The A/Wro^l j/ fnttftfiZQ wrangeous accufer, pajis tenpoundes. ITEM, Becaufe the crime of thieft and ftouth-iiefe, is fa commounlie ufedamang the Kingis Lieges, and for ftanching of the famin, It is ftatute and ordained in this prefent Parliament: 1 hat quhair ony of the Kings Lieges is plainteous, or compleenis upon a thiete that hes reft or ftollen his geare, or his mennis , and is in fervice or obeyfance of onie man , and fchawis the famin to the man, that he is in fervice with, and wauld attach him to the Law for the fame : this man, that this thief or riever is in fervice with , or finds him with him , or under his obeyfance , fall be halden and oblilhed , to pro- duce and bring him to the Law, before the Juftice , Schireffes, or ony uthers, that hes cognition to do Juftice upon fik perfons, committers of fik crimes , at daies and places affixed to them to underly the famin : or elfe fall deliver the faidthiefe or riever, to the compleener, to be brocht to the Law, and Juftified, asfaid is. And gif his maifter or fufteiner of this thiefe or riever, refufis to do the famin , he fall be halden airt and partaker of his evill deedes, and fall be accufed therefore, as the prjncipall thiefe or riever , and als fall reftore, and fatisfie to the compleener the gudes reft or ftollen fra him : And gif this compleener, after that he have ttached this thiefe, or delivered him, as faid is, wald concord with the faid thief, and take thieft-bute , ,«id put him fra die Law: In that cafe, he fall underly the Law, and be accufed therefore, as principal thiefe Dr riever. And gif he attachis and accufis him of the faide thieft or riefe, and beis foundin innocent thereof: The faid compleener fall be halden and oblifhed to give to the faid man, that he fclanders innocently, ten sound for amendis of the faid fclander. N I S. s % THE