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1638 A. Johnston Short Relation State of Kirk Scotl. sig. A2^v This was the supreme and highest Kirk judicatorie, to which was made the last appeale.

1740 Diary A. Brodie (To the Reader) p. v Their kirk-judicatories..were dissolved.

1844 T. Stephen Hist. Church Scotl. III. li. 434 No sooner was this storm over, but a tempest arose which did terrible execution; what the council had let fall, the kirk judicatories took up.

1903 D. Butler Life & Lett. R. Leighton 340 On January 9, 1662, a royal proclamation was read, declaring that Kirk judicatories, having now no power nor authority, were forbidden to meet in Synods, Presbyteries or Sessions, until they should be authorized and ordered by the bishops.

2006 J. R. Young in E. Boran & C. Gribben Enforcing Reformation in Ireland & Scotl. 154 These conditions were to apply when particular representations were made by presbyteries or other kirk judicatories concerning individual cases.