BY
THE
COMMISSIONERS
For
Visiting
and
Regulating
the
Vniversities
,
and
other
Affairs
,
relating
to
the
Ministery
in
SCOTLAND
.
THE
Commissioners
of
Parliament
of
the
Common-wealth
of
England
,
(
being
carefull
to
promote
Piety
and
Learning
,
and
to
settle
a
godly
and
peaceable
Ministery
through
this
Nation
,
who
may
make
it
their
onely
work
,
sincerely
to
preach
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ
)
Have
Constituted
and
Appointed
Richard
Dean
Esquier
,
Major-Generall
of
the
Army
,
George
Fenwick
,
George
Smyth
,
John
March
,
Andrew
Owen
,
Edward
Mosley
,
Richard
Saltingstall
,
Samuel
Disbrowe
,
and
Edmund
Syler
Esquiers
,
or
any
three
,
or
more
of
them
,
to
be
Visiters
of
the
Universities
,
Colledges
,
and
Schools
of
Learning
in
Scotland
;
By
vertue
whereof
,
they
do
hereby
Declare
and
Publish
,
That
they
intend
(
Godwilling
)
in
convenient
time
,
to
alter
and
abolish
all
such
Lawes
in
the
same
,
as
shall
be
found
inconsistent
with
the
Government
of
the
Common-wealth
of
England
,
or
the
Union
and
Incorporation
of
England
and
Scotland
,
and
to
frame
and
make
others
in
their
room
.
And
they
do
hereby
Declare
,
That
all
Acts
and
Proceedings
,
since
the
fourth
day
of
February
last
,
made
and
done
by
any
Persons
,
pretending
to
have
power
of
Visitation
in
the
same
;
are
,
and
shall
be
null
and
void
:
And
that
they
will
remove
out
of
them
,
such
Person
or
Persons
,
as
shall
be
found
scandalous
in
their
lives
and
conversations
,
or
that
shall
oppose
the
Authority
of
the
Common-wealth
of
England
,
exercised
in
Scotland
,
and
place
others
more
fitly
qualified
in
their
rooms
.
And
further
,
they
shall
and
will
remove
all
and
every
Minister
and
Ministers
,
through
this
Nation
,
from
his
and
their
Place
and
Places
,
that
shall
be
found
scandalous
in
his
and
their
life
and
conversation
,
and
take
care
,
that
other
fit
Persons
be
put
in
his
and
their
Place
and
Places
;
and
in
all
other
Places
,
that
are
,
or
shall
be
vacant
:
And
shall
also
hear
and
determine
all
Causes
,
relating
to
the
Maintenance
of
the
Ministers
,
or
others
,
as
aforesaid
.
And
they
do
hereby
further
Declare
,
That
for
the
better
executing
their
Power
,
according
to
their
Commission
,
They
intend
(
Godwilling
)
to
sit
on
Monday
the
seventh
of
this
instant
June
,
at
Edinburgh
,
in
the
Parliament-House
there
,
and
to
continue
their
sitting
every
Monday
fortnight
following
;
where
they
shall
be
ready
to
receive
all
Complaints
,
and
to
hear
and
determine
all
Causes
concerning
the
Premisses
:
Of
which
,
they
desire
all
good
People
of
this
Land
to
take
notice
.
Given
under
our
Hands
at
Edinburgh
,
this
fourth
day
of
June
,
1652.
-
Geor.
Smyth
.
-
Sa.
Disbrowe
.
-
Ed.
Syler
.
-
A.
Owen
.
-
Jo.
March
.
-
Edw.
Mosley
.