If the Bischope, be his hand-wreit or personall appearance in the Assembly, will in God’s presence deny, that ever he either publickly professed, or meined in any sort to acclaime a supremacie, or to be judge to uther pastors or ministers, or ever allowit the same to have any ground in God’s word--and, if he had so done, it had been ane error, and against his conscience and knawledge: 2. If he will deny that, in the last Synodall Assemblie, he acclaimit to be judge thereto, and if he did that, in that he errit, and in his superiours behaviour and contempt of the said Synodall, and his brethren present, and craved oversicht thereof, and promisand good behaviour in tyme to come: 3. If he will promise to clame no farther nor he may justly be God’s word, and according to the late conferrence, and indevore himselfe in all behalfes to schaw himselfe in all tyme to come, ane moderat pastor, and, in so far as may be able, ane Bischop prescryvit be Paul, and to submit his life and doctrine to the judgement and censure of the Generall Assembly, without any reclamatione, provocatione, or appellatione therefrom in any tyme comeing: For his Majestie’s satisfactione, and to giue testimonie with qwhat good will we wold obey his Heines, so far as we might and ought, or in our conscience we may, and for the good hope we have of his Majestie’s favourable concurrence in building of the house of God, and for quyetness to continow in the Kirk within this realme: And because the proces of excommunicatione was led, and sentence pronouncit dureing the tyme of the Conferrence, Qwhereupon his Majestie hes taken occasione of offence, qwhilk for many good causes war convenient for to be removeit, we will forbear to examine the said proces, or to decyde qwhatsoever provocation or appellatione, or to call in doubt the legalitie of the said proces, or condemn the said Synodall; yet, for the respects forsaids, and upon good and weightie considerationes, we hold the said proces and sentence as unled, undecydit or pronuncit, and repone the said Bischop in all respects so as may concerne the said proces and sentence of excommunicatione, in the former estate he was in immediately before the same, lykeas no proces or sentence had been led nor deducit against him; provyding alwayes he observe qwhat hes been promised be him in the premisses, and behave himself dewtifully in his vocatione in all tyme comeing. Articles ordaynit be the Assemblie to be proponit and cravit of his Majestie.