The Generall Assembly of the Kirk, in ane voyce, giues full power and commission to Mrs James Lawsone, John Craig, Robert Pont, David Lyndsay, John Braid, and John Durie, to pass to the King’s Majestie, and schaw unto his Heines, That concernyng the Articles he sent be his Majestie’s Master of Requests, to have been answerit be the Kirk, being so weightie and important, a pairt of them also appearand to be obscure and captious, they could not presently resolve thereupon: nottheless, for the better resolving thereof, they have ordained certaine brethren to conferr thereupone qwhill the next Generall Assemblie, quhilk they have appoyntit shorter to that effect: Farther, lamentablie to deplore unto his Grace, qwherin the jurisdictioune of the Kirk is and hes been heavilie hurt and prejudgit, and namely be the letters dischargeand the Presbytries to proceed against Mr Robert Montgomrie; charges of horning used against the haill Kirk of Scotland, be the decreit and sentence of the Secret Counsell, finding them judges in the actione of Mr Robert Montgomrie;--missives sent to gentlemen to assist to the placeing of him in the pulpit of Glasgow, against the will of the Kirk;--giving of benefices, _pleno jure_, and of all Abbacies in heritage: and, with all humilitie, dew reverence and gentleness that appertaynes, to exhort his Majestie to the reforming heirof, and maintaining of the jurisdictione gine be God unto his Kirk, as also to giue admonitione unto the Duke’s Grace, Earles of Arrane and Gowrie, in the premises, and what they doe herein, to report to the next Assemblie. Ordaynes the particular Elderschips to haue ane copie of the Articles sent be the King’s Majestie, that they may be better resolvit to giue advise by their answer thereto at the next Assembly. Anent the corruptione of burialls in the citie of St Androis; the Kirk ordayns Mr Patrick Adamsone to put the commissioune gine to him in the last Assemblie thereanent, to dew executione in all poynts, after the tenor thereof, under the paine of disobedience. Ordaynes Mr Craig to lay an order for collecting the Acts of the Kirk, betwixt and the next Assemblie. The Assemblie nominats brethren in all pairts of the countrie for erecting of the Presbytries where the same as yet are not erectit. Articles to certaine doubts proponit concerning the Presbytries. 1. That the Moderator may continow from the Assemblie Synodall to the next Synodall: his electione to be, be the particular Presbytrie. 2. That the number of such as are associat to the Elderschip for discipline and correctione of manners, that are not Pastors nor Doctors, who travelleth not in the word, be not in equall number with wthers, but fewer; the proportione as the necessitie of the Elderschip craves.