Designation of the Manse. - Form of designing Manses.
Steele v. His Parishioners
Date: 31 January 1712 Case No. No 7.
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In a suspension of a presbytery's decreet for building a manse, the Lords found as follows, viz. 1 mo, That by act 21st, Parl. 1663, the minister and tradesmen may proceed, though the heritors be absent or withdraw being cited, the minister having no other compulsitor to bring them, save an intimation from the pulpit the Lord's day preceding; but that the tradesmen, their being parishioners, will not supply that clause of the act, requiring two or three of the most discreet men in the parish to be also present to assist and judge of the tradesmens' schemes and estimates, who must be over and above the tradesmen themselves, who would be very unfit to restrict and limit their own work. 2do, They found, That the ministers, by our law, are empowered to proceed to liquidate the value and price of the manse, not exceeding L. 1000 Scots, and likewise to choose the most convenient place for its situation near the church, with a suitable glebe, with grass or foggage for his horse and cows, and also to cast and proportion the sum liquidated upon the heritors, and to name a factor or collector for uplifting and debursing it. 3tio, They found, That the rule of the cast must not be the real rent (which would put ministers to a long probation and occasion many great debates) but the valued rent extracted out of the cess-books. 4to, They found, That though some of the heritors were dead, and others had the privilege of members of Parliament, yet this would not sist process as to others.
