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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
C1Short title given by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 80), Sch. 2
C2This Act is listed in 12mo edition as 1689 c. 3
Wheras the Estates of this Kingdome in their Claime of Right of the Eleavinth of Apryll last declared that Prelacie and the superioritie of any office in the church above Presbyters Is and hath been a greate and unsupportable greiveance to this Nation and contrair to the inclinationes of the generalitie of the people ever since the Reformation They haveing reformed from poperie by presbyters and therfor ought to be abolished Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties with advyce and consent of the Estates of Parliament doe hereby abolish prelacie and all superioritie of any office in the church in this Kingdome above presbyters . . . F1
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1906 (c. 38)
Prelacy Act 1689