Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Thomas Forrester, late Minister at Kilcarn, v. Parishioners, and the Marquis of Montrose
Date: 2 December 1692
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Mr. Thomas Forrester, late minister at Kilcarn, against his parishioners, and the Marquis of Montrose, as patron, who craved to employ the vacant stipends within the parish, on pious uses.
The Lords found it relevant to give Mr. Forrester the stipend, that he had a call to that parish by the Presbyterians, in the Episcopal times; that he served the cure there during the time he craves the stipend; conform to the 7th act 1690, establishing Presbyterian government; and that since the legal power was by act of Parliament put in the Presbyterian minister's hands, they did, by their act of synod, first declare him minister of Kilcairn, (when Kincardine was striving to have him,) and then transported him to St. Andrews.
