thout taking any Professors or Ministers out of _Edinburg_, _Glasgow_,
or _Aberdene_, and then the rest of the Colledges, would be provided for,
as their necessity shal require: yet (in respect of the present scarcity)
it were good for the Universities to send abroad for able and approved
men, to be Professors of Divinitie, that our Ministers may be kept in
their pastoriall charge as much as may be.

Towns also wherein Colledges are, are very considerable in the matter of
transportation.

IV. Also Congregations, where Noblemen have chief residence are to be
regarded, whether planted or unplanted, and a care is to be had, that none
be admitted Ministers where Popish Noblemen reside, but such as are able
men (especially for controversies) by sight of the Presbyterie: and
moreover it is necessary, that such Minesters as dwell where Popish
Noblemen are, and are not able for controversies, that they be
transported.

V. They who desire the transportation of a Minister should be obliged to
give reasons for their desire: Neither should any Presbyterie or Assembly,
passe a sentence for transportation of any Minister, till they give
reasons for the expediencie of the same, both to him and his Congregation,
&c. to the Presbyterie whereof he is a member. If they acquiesce to the
reasons given, it is so much the better: if they doe not acquiesce, yet
the Presbyterie, or Assembly, (by giving such reasons before the passing
of their sentence) shal make it manifest, that what they doe is not _pro
arbritratu, vel imperio_ onely, but upon grounds of reason.

VI. Because there is such scarcity of Ministers having the _Iris_ tongue,
necessity requires, that when they be found in the Low-lands, they be
transported to the High-lands: providing their condition be not made
worse, but rather better by their transportation.

VII. In the point of voluntary transportation, no Minister shal transact
and agree with any Parish, to be transsported thereto, without a full
hearing of him, and his Parish, before the Presbyterie to which he belongs
in his present charge, or superiour Kirk judicatories, if need shall be.

VIII. The planting of vacant Kirks, is not to be tyed to any (either
Ministers, or Expectants) within a Presbyterie: but a free election is to
be; according to the order of our Kirk, and Lawes of our Kingdome.

IX. The chief Burghs of the Kingdome are to be desired to traine up young
men of excellent spirits for the ministery, accor