removed by publike confession according to the order of this Kirk;
Therefore for remedie thereof do Ordain, That all Married persons under
publike scandall of Fornication, committed before their Marriage (although
the scandall thereof hath not appeared before the Marriage) shall satisfie
publikely for that sin committed before their Marriage, their being in the
estate of Marriage notwithstanding, And that in the same manner as they
should have done if they were not Maried.

_13. Junii 1646. Antemeridiem._ Sess. 10.

_Ordinance for Excommunication of the Earle of Seafort._

The Generall Assembly having taken to their serious consideration, that
perfidious Band made and contrived lately in the North, under the name of
_An humble Remonstrance_, against our Nationall Covenant, and the League
and Covenant of the three Kingdoms; Which tendeth to the making of
division and fomenting of Jealousie within this and between both Kingdoms,
to the prolonging of these unnaturall Warrs, to the impeding of the
intended Uniformity in Religion, and to the subversion of all the happie
ends of our covenants: And finding that _George_ Earle of Seafort hes not
only most perfidiously himself subscribed the said wicked Band, contrary
to his solemne Oaths in the Covenants aforesaid, and most arrogantly,
owned the same under his owne hand writing in his letters to the Committee
of Estates, and to the Commissioners of the preceding Assemblie; But also
hes seduced and threatned others to subscribe that divisive Band, and to
joyne with him in prosecution of his treacherous and wicked designes,
therein masked with the pretences of Religion and libertie; boasting also
the pursuance of that his Remonstrance against all deadly the opposers
thereof, whether King or Parliament. And having also considered another
wicked and treacherous Band of Union which the said Earle formerly entred
into with that excommunicate Rebell _James Grahame_, after the sentence of
forfalture and the dreadfull sentence of excommunication were pronounced
against him, Oblieging himself therein under solomne Oaths to joyne with
that forfaulted Rebell against this Kirk and Kingdome, and to oppose all
their publike resolutions for pursuance of the happie ends of our said
Covenants. All which, with his vile reproachfull aspersions and most false
calumnies against this Kirk and State, and their publike and lawfull
endeavours and resolutions, with his other wicked and perfi