Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae - Injunctions to the Commissars of Edinburgh : 1565/8/11

Incipit:

  • Ye are be vertew of your [and then:] commissione to deside and judge in causes concerning benefices and teynds

Explicit:

  • bischops\ and\ archbischops\ the\

Ordo iudiciarius Scotiae - Injunctions to the Commissars of Edinburgh : 1565/8/11

No. of pages: Flyleaves i verso - iv recto:

Rubric: Instructions and rules sett downe and appoynted be the reverend fathers archbischops and bischops in Scotland to the Commissaires clerke, procurator fiscalles and uther members of cort of the haille eclesiasticall judicatories, haveing commissione from the said reverend fathers. 11 August 1565

Incipit:

  • Ye are be vertew of your commissione to deside and judge in causes concerning benefices and teynds, in matters of scandell, confirmatione of testaments grit and small, within yearbounds all causes testamentar and in all uther matters quhairin oath of pairtie is requyred, if the same doth not exceed not[!] ii.c. libras, and in all uther actiones of widdows and poore orphanes, not exceeding 20 libras, and in all uther causes quhairin the parties submitts themselfes to zour jurisdictione

Explicit:

  • Injunctiones to the Clerke. Yow shall have tuo register books ... quhilk are to be settled be the archbischops and bischops