r the Commissioners from the Presbyteries of
_Lanerk_ and _Peebles_, and all others having entresse to oppose the
desire foresaid being publickly called, and the saids Commissioners for
_Peebles_ and _Lanerk_ personally present, being at length heard in what
they could say or alledge therein: And the said the Supplication and
desire thereof, with the Alledgeances and Objections made against the
samine, being taken to consideration by the Assembly, and they therewith
being fully and ripely advised: The Assembly after removing of the
Parties, and after consideration of the premisses and voycing of the
foresaid desire, Ordaines the entrie and possession of the foresaid
Presbyterie of _Biggar_, consisting of the particular Kirks
above-mentioned, to begin now presently; And appoints and ordaines all the
Ministers and Ruling Elders of the foresaids Kirks above specified,
whereof the said Presbyterie consists, to meet and conveene as a
Presbyterie, with all convenience, at the said Kirk of _Biggar_, which is
the Place and Seat of the samine Presbyterie. And the Assembly refers to
the Commissioners to be appointed by them for the publick affairs of the
Kirk, to determinn to what Synod the said new erected Presbyterie shall be
subordinate; As also to prescribe the order and solemnities that shall be
necessar for entring and possessing the Ministers and Elders in the said
Presbyterie.

_Junii_ 3. 1644 Sess.

_Act concerning the Declaration subscribed by the Scottish Lords at_
Oxford.

The Generall Assembly having received a Copy of a Declaration, made and
subscribed at _Oxford_, sent unto them from the honourable Convention of
Estates, and having seriously considered the tenour thereof, doth finde
the same to be a perfidious Band and unnaturall confederacy, to bring this
Kirk and Kingdome to confusion; and to be full of blasphemies against the
late solemne League and Covenant of the three Kingdomes, of vile
aspersions of Treason, Rebellion and Sedition, most falsly and impudently
imputed to the Estates and the most faithfull and loyall Subjects of these
Kingdomes, And seeing it is incumbent to the Assembly to take notice
thereof, and to stop the course of these malicious intentions, in so farre
as concernes them, Declare that the subscribers of this or the like
Declaration or Band, or any that have been accessory to the framing, or
that has been, or shall be accessory to the execution thereof, deserve the
highest c