THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council , having , in pursuance of His Majesties Royal Pleasure and Commands , by the Proclamation dated at Edinburgh the ninth day of January last by-past , Discharged all Ecclesiastical Meetings in Synods , Presbyteries and Church-sessions , untill they be authorized and ordered by the Archbishops and Bishops in their respective Sees . And considering , that the Lords Archbishops and Bishops , have , all this Session of Parliament , been engaged to attend the service thereof , and now are to repair to their respective Sees , for exercising of the Government , and ordering the affairs of the Church , according to that Authority and Iurisdiction which is settled and established upon them by the Name , and for that effect , have resolved to hold their diocesian Assemblies in the Diocesses of St. Andrews , Glasgow , Edinburgh , Dunkell , Brechan and Dunblain , upon the second Tuesday of October next ; and to hold the Assemblies in the Diocesses of Galloway , Aberdeen , Murray , Ross , Caithness , Isles , Argyl and Orknay , upon the third Tuesday of the said moneth . Therefore , the Lord Commissioner his Grace , and the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council , do think fit , by open Proclamation , to make publication hereof to all persons concerned ; And to command and require , that all Parsons , Vicars , Ministers , in Burgh or Land within these respective Diocesses , do repair to the said diocesian Meetings , upon the foresaid dayes and in time coming , as they shall be required to give their concurrence in their stations , for the exercise of ministerial Duties , for the Order and Peace of the Church : With certification , That whosoever shall presume not to give their presence and dutifull attendance upon these diocesian Assemblies , and shall not concur in other Church-meetings as they shall be appointed and authorized by the respective Archbishops and Bishops , shall be holden as contemners of His Majesties Authority , and incur the censures provded in such cases . And it is hereby alwayes provided , that no Minister or Ministers , upon whitsoever cause or pretence , shall presume to keep any Ecclesiastick Meetings , who shall not submit to , and own the Ecclesiastick Government by Archbishops and Bishops ; with certification , that all such Meetings shall be holden , henceforth , as seditious . And Ordains these presents t● be printed , and published at the Mercat Crosses of the head Burghs of the Shires , that none préend ignorance .