| Description | Papers relating to disabilities of the Episcopal clergy, 1661-1838 and undated. Including:
Declaration by pastors and presbyters of the Episcopal Church in Scotland against "a rash and un-provoked attack recently made upon our humble church by a minister of our own communion", to the effect that the church was lacking in spiritually.
Extract from Lamont's Diary Chronicle of Fife, p.165, concerning a provincial assembly at St Andrews and other matters pertaining to the church, 1661.
Presentation by William Skinner, bishop of Aberdeen, of Reverend Charles Pressley to be pastor and minister of the chapel in Fraserburgh, 1838.
Address to the diocesan of Aberdeen by various presbyters of the diocese regarding the "feelings of surprise and regret with which we lately appraised the report of a discussion in the upper house of the Convocation of Canterbury on the subject of our civil disabilities" in which the bishops who spoke on the subject expressed a hope that the Scottish Church would relinquish the national Eucharistic office, and stated that they would not otherwise support an application to the legislature to remove the enactments which debarred clergy ordained in Scotland from English livings, undated.
Opinions by Alexander Lockhart concerning acts of Parliament with respect to the disabilities of the Episcopal clergy, on whether a clergyman could officiate in his own room, whether he might have four persons at prayers besides his family, and other points, 1748. |