It will please your Majestie to take some substantive order how the countrie may, without delay, be purgit of the pestiferous sect of Jesuites, speciallie of such as for the friendschip in the North is hichlie authorized; who, although they have been summoned to underly the law, and assiste summond to that effect, yet their non-compeirance dispensed with, they friely ganging through the countrie, meining nothing less then to depart, and Jesuites furth of the South and furth of France repairing of new to them. _Item_, That seing papistry abounds in the North, be reason of the state of qualified ministers therein, for lake of sufficient provisione and stipends, that therefore assignationes be made unto them conformable unto the ministrie of the South, and that the thrids there be not assignit to the Kirks of the South, qwhill their owne Kirks be provydit sufficiently, and such as wtherwayes hes been disponit may be dischargit. _Item_, That judges may be appoyntit in all schyres for executione of the acts of Parliament, made against the breakers of the Sabbath, adulterers, and such open transgressors of God’s law. _Item_, That in chiefe borrows-townes, there be teaching ordinare four tymes in the week, besyde the discipline, visitatione of the seik, ordinare to pastors and wthers charges; that two ministers be appoyntit to such townes. 5. That order be taken how the Colledge Kirks may be servit. 6. That order may be taken for Manses and Gleibs to ministers makand residence at Abbay Kirks, as also such as hes or shall have manses and gleibs, may have their necessars thereto,--such as fewall and pastorage, with feall and deviot, such as was wont to be of old. 7. That all gifts of benefices having the cure of sawles annexit to them, disponit be his Heines _pleno jure_, and not qualified persones presentit to them with ordinar tryall and collatione following thereupone, may be declared, according to the king’s lawes alreadie made, null; and that his Heines will giue new presentationes thereupon to qualified persones, and the nullitie of the former gift to be discussit alsweill be way of exceptione as actione. 8. That all presentationes or gifts of benefices of cure less nor prelacies, disponit alsweill be his Majestie as a lawit patrone wtherwayes then to qualified ministers, or in any extrordinary forme not allowable to the commone law of the municipall lawes of this realme, and forme observit in the Reformit Kirk of the same, since his Majestie’s coronatione, may be annullit, and new presentations grantit to qualified ministers--admitting the nullitie to be discussed, alsweill be the way of exceptione as actione.