The Duke of Lennox answerit to the breither that was sent to him concernyng the mayntayning of Mr Robert Montgomrie, was first a interrogator,--Whither the King or the Kirk were superiors? And, thereafter, that he had command of the King to maintayne him, and of his Counsellors; and, qwhill he were contramandit be him, he wald not remove him. The Kirk having considerit his answer, Ordaynes the brethren of the ministrie that gangs in commissione to Perth, as they sie occasione there, and the grieff not remedied, touching his maintaining of the said Mr Robert, To proceid and appoynt speciall men, that sall proceed farther against him with the censures of the Kirk, according to the acts of the Generall Assemblie, to qwham the Kirk gives their full power to that effect. The Generall Assembly, in ane voyce, Gives their full power and commissione to the Right Honourable and their belovit breither John Erskine of Dune, the ministers of the King’s Majestie’s houss, Mrs Robert Pont, James Lawsone, Thomas Smetoune, Andrew Hay, David Lyndsay, Andrew Polwart, Peter Blackurne, Patrick Galloway, William Chrystesone, David Fargysone, Andrew Melvill, Thomas Buchanan, John Braid, Patrick Gillespie, John Porterfield, ministers, and Mr Andrew Melvill, to repare towards the King’s Majestie and Councill to be conveint at Perth, the saxt day of July nixt, and there, with all dew obedience, reverence, and submissione, present to his Heines and Nobilitie the speciall greives of the Kirk, conceavit and gine to them in wreit; and in their behalfs, lament, deplore, and regraite the same unto his Majestie and Councill; craving, in the name and fear of the Eternall God, the same and every ane of them to be repairit and redrest, to the glory of God, and wellfare of his Majestie, and comfort of his Kirk: And thereupon, if need be, with humilitie to conferr, informe, and reasone; and qwhat herein beis done, to report to the nixt Assemblie:--firme and stable haldand and for to hald whatsoever their brethren in the premisses righteously does. Sessio 7. The tenor of the Grieves of the Kirk, above specified: