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198:. 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. 167:, 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 559: 128:
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.
116:), 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 ( 228:
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
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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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MacDonald, eds, 88:, who ruled on behalf of her daughter 502: 447:(London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963), 56:(1578), drawn up and printed in the 24: 411:Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith 36:refers to two works regulative of 27:Ecclesiastical books by John Knox 25: 656: 482: 468:(Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001), 557: 495: (archived 14 November 2019) 321:Parliament in Context, 1235–1707 214:James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray 437: 368:(Yale University Press, 2015), 409:D. K. McKim and D. F. Wright, 358: 313: 13: 1: 258:Scotland Re-Formed, 1488–1587 178:The book set out a system of 79: 53:The Second Book of Discipline 47:The First Book of Discipline 7: 430:Mackie, Lenman and Parker, 10: 661: 566: 555: 541: 389:(London: Pimlico, 1992), 302:(London: Penguin, 1991), 203:Second Book of Discipline 98:Lords of the Congregation 64:. 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Index

Second Book of Discipline
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

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