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187:. It also contained a programme of parish-based reformation that would use the resources of the old church to pay a network of ministers, a parish based school system, university education and arrangements for poor relief. However, the proposal for the use of church wealth were rejected and under an Act of Council, which kept two-thirds in the hands of its existing owners and even the remaining third had to be shared with the Crown. The result was an abandonment of the educational programme, ministers remained poorly paid and the church was underfunded. 156:, to produce a revised version. While Knox, Spottiswood and Willock were long committed Protestants, Windram, Douglas and Row had until recently been pillars of the Catholic establishment and the composition of the committee may have been intended as a compromise. However, the members worked well together and produced a radical plan for church reform. The result of the delay was that the document, known as the 548: 117:
was made punishable by a series of penalties (ultimately death) and Papal jurisdiction in Scotland was repudiated. The Queen declined to endorse the acts that Parliament had passed and the new kirk existed in a state of legal uncertainty.
105:), and on 24 August it passed three Acts that abolished the old faith in Scotland. Under these, all previous acts not in conformity with the Reformed Confession were annulled; the sacraments were reduced to two ( 217:
in May 1573. In 1578 a Second Book of Discipline was adopted, which was much more clearly Presbyterian in outlook. It placed church supervision fully in the hands of groups of elected church leaders, in
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on the Geneva model, but the lack of funds meant its programme of clerical organisation and education was largely abandoned. The second book was adopted after the forced abdication of
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in May 1568, by forces loyal to the King's Party, led by Moray, she took refuge in England, leaving her son in their hands. In Scotland the King's Party fought a
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and was much more clearly Presbyterian in outlook. It placed church supervision fully in the hands of groups of elected church leaders in
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on behalf of the king against his mother's supporters, which ended, after English intervention, with the surrender of
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was not considered by the full parliament, but a thinly attended convention of nobles and about 30
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In July 1567, Mary was forced to abdicate in favour of her 13-month-old son
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The Reformation in Scotland : causes, characteristics, consequences
101:, on 17 August, Parliament approved a Reformed Confession of Faith (the 106: 113:) to be performed by reformed preachers alone; the celebration of the 223: 184: 161: 491: 132:, that they had commissioned and which was largely the work of 455:
Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost
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The full text of the First and Second Books of Discipline
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who was in France and the defeat of French forces at the
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The Lords had intended for the parliament to consider a
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Wright, 1: 247:Scotland Re-Formed, 1488–1587 167:The book set out a system of 42:The Second Book of Discipline 36:The First Book of Discipline 419:Mackie, Lenman and Parker, 650: 544: 378:(London: Pimlico, 1992), 291:(London: Penguin, 1991), 192:Second Book of Discipline 87:Lords of the Congregation 53:. It set out a system of 614:16th century in Scotland 524:First Book of Discipline 158:First Book of Discipline 123:First Book of Discipline 376:Scotland: A New History 518:The Six Johns of the 434:King James VI & I 421:A History of Scotland 289:A History of Scotland 629:Scottish Reformation 85:, the reform-minded 79:Mary, Queen of Scots 47:Scottish Reformation 130:Book of Reformation 99:Treaty of Edinburgh 91:Scottish Parliament 59:Mary Queen of Scots 55:Presbyterian polity 619:Church of Scotland 331:Fleming, David Hay 207:Battle of Langside 31:Church of Scotland 22:Book of Discipline 591: 590: 423:, pp. 154–5. 245:J. E. A. 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ecclesiastical
Church of Scotland
Scottish Reformation
John Knox
Presbyterian polity
Mary Queen of Scots
presbyteries
Mary of Guise
Mary, Queen of Scots
Siege of Leith
Lords of the Congregation
Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
Treaty of Edinburgh
Scots Confession
Baptism
Communion
Mass
John Knox
John Winram
John Spottiswood
John Willock
John Douglas
John Row
lairds
church order
superintendents
ministers
elders
deacons

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