f Religion, whereunto His Majesties Commissioner promised his
best endeavours and assistance. Therefore the Assembly doth most earnestly
recommend to His Majesties Commissioner to represent to His Majestie, with
his best assistance, the humble and necessary desires of the whole
Assembly, that His Majestie will be graciously pleased to command that
Signator, already signed by His Royall hand (or to signe another of the
samine tenor, whereof they deliver the just double to his Maj Commissioner
for that effect) to be sent to this Kingdom, and delivered to the
Commissioners from this Assembly, who are to sit at _Edinburgh_, or to the
Procurator of the Kirk, whereby his Majestie shall more and more oblige
this whole Kirk to pray for a blessing from Heaven upon His Royal Person
and Government.

Sess. 11. Aug. 5. 1642.

_The Assemblies Letter to the Commissioners of this Kingdom at_ London.

_Right Honourable_,

We have received your Lordships Letter, with the Declaration of the
Parliament of _England_, and have sent this Noble bearer to His Majesty
with our humble Supplication, and to your Lordships with our Answer
earnestly desiring Unity of Religion, and Uniformity of Kirk-government,
to be presented by your Lordships, and this Noble bearer to the Honourable
Houses of Parliament. Your Lordships will perceive by the inclosed Copies,
and by our desires to His Majesties honourable Privie Councel and
Commissioners for the conservation of the Peace, to joyn their best
endeavours with his Majestie and the Parliament, and their directions to
your Lordships, by our leaving a Commission behinde us, to concur with
them in all Ecclesiastick wayes, and by our appointing publike Prayers,
and a solemn Fast through this Kirk, for the furtherance of this great
work of Reformation, and continuance of the common Peace, that this Unity
in Religion and uniformity of Kirk-government is the chiefest of our
desires, prayers and cares: Where unto as we have been encouraged by the
faithful labors of the Commissioners of this Kingdom in the late Treaty,
and continued and renewed by your Lordships; so we are assured, that your
Lordships will omit no lawful mean, argument, or occasion of seconding the
same there, And advertising our Commissioners at _Edinburgh_, wherein they
may further concur with your Lordships, for the furtherance of the Work,
which tends so much to the glory of God, advancement of Christs Kingdom,
increase of the ho