IV. From the power of those ministers who were present. Their Presbyteries did limitate them: First, That they should give no suffrages in that meeting as a generall Assembly. Secondly, That they agree to nothing that may any wayes be prejudiciall to the acts of the generall Assemblies, or to the established discipline of the Kirk. Thirdly, That they should not agree to resolve or conclude any question, article, or mater whatsoever, the decision whereof is pertinent, and proper to a free generall Assembly. Fourthly, If any thing be concluded contrary thereunto, that they protest against it. These limitations are clear by the Presbyterie books. V. The acts of this meeting were not insert in the book of Assemblies, as is evident by the register. VI. The next pretended Assembly at _Linlithgow_, 1608, doth acknowledge the Assembly, Whereof _Master Patrick Galloway_ was Moderatour, to have been the last immediate Assembly, preceding it selfe: and that Assembly whereof he was moderatour, was the Assembly holden at _Halyroodhouse_, 1602. So they did not acknowledge that meeting at _Linlithgow_, 1606. for any Assembly at all. This is clear by the registers of the Assembly, 1608, in the entrie thereof. _Reasons for annulling the pretended Assembly at_ Linlithgow, 1608. I. Manie of the voters in that pretended Assembly had no lawfull commission from the Kirk, to wit, 42 Noble men, officers of state, councellours, and Barrons, also the Bishops, contrare to the act of _Dundie_, 1597. And one of their caveats, the Noble men, were as commissioners from the King, the Bishops had no commission at all from the Presbyterie, for every Presbyterie out of which they came, had their full number of Commissioners beside them, as the register of the Assembly beareth. II. In a lawfull Assembly there should be none but Commissioners from Presbyteries, Burghs, and Universities, and but three ministers at most, with one Elder, Commissioners from every Presbyterie, according to the act made at _Dundie_, 1597. But in that pretended Assembly, there were foure ministers from the severall Presbyteries, of _Edinburgh_, and _Cowper_, five from the Presbyteries of _Arbroth_, as the roll of the said pretended Assembly beareth, whereas there were no ruling Elders sent from Presbyteries, according to the book of policie and act of _Dundie_. _Reasons for annulling the pretended Assembly at_ Glasgow, 1610.