cts, and for terrour to all the
enemies of your Majesties honour and our happinesse: and if any act hath
proceeded from us, so farre as our understanding could reach, and humane
infirmitie would suffer which being duely examined according to the
grounds laid by your Majesties Father, of everlasting memory, and our
religious Progenitours, and which Religion did forbid us to infringe,
shall merit the anger and indignation, wherewith wee are so often
threatned: But on the contrare, having sincerely sought the glorie of GOD,
the good of Religion, your Majesties honour, the censure of impietie, and
of men who had sold themselves to wickednesse, and the reestablishment of
the right constitution and government of this Kirk, farre from the
smallest appearance of wronging any other reformed Kirk, we humbly beg,
and certainly expect, that from the bright beames of your Majesties
countenance shining on this your Majesties own Kingdome and people, all
our stormes shall bee changed in a comfortable calme, and sweet Sun-shine,
and that your Majesties ratification in the ensuing Parliament, graciously
indicted by your Majesties Proclamation to bee keeped in _May_, shall
setle us in such a firmnesse, and stabilitie in our Religion, as shall
adde a further lustre unto your Majesties glorious Diadem, and make us a
blessed people under your Majesties long and prosperous reigne; which we
beseech him who hath directed us in our affaires, and by whom Kings
reigne, to grant unto your Majestie, to the admiration of all the world,
the astonishment of your enemies, and comfort of the godly.

_Collected, visied, and extracted forth of the Register of the acts of the
Assembly by me_ Mr A. Jhonston _Clerk thereto, under my signe and
subscription manuall._

_Edinburgh, the 12. of Jan. 1639._

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AT EDINBURGH, 1639.

Sess. 8. August 17. 1639.

_Master_ George Grahame _his renouncing and abjuring of Episcopacie._

_The which day was given into the Assembly, direct from_ Master George
Grahame, _sometimes pretended Bishop of_ Orknay, _an abjuration of
Episcopacie, subscribed with his hand, which was publickly read in
audience of the Assembly; and thereafter they ordained the same to be
registrat in the assembly Books_ ad perpetuam rei memoriam, _whereof the
tenor follows._

To all and sundry whom it effects, to whose knowledge these presents shall
come, specially to the reverend and honourable Members of