e of the Kirk. Thirdly, That they should not
agree to resolve or conclude any question, article, or mater whatsoever,
the decision whereof is pertinent, and proper to a free generall Assembly.
Fourthly, If any thing be concluded contrary thereunto, that they protest
against it. These limitations are clear by the Presbyterie books.

V. The acts of this meeting were not insert in the book of Assemblies, as
is evident by the register.

VI. The next pretended Assembly at _Linlithgow_, 1608, doth acknowledge
the Assembly, Whereof _Master Patrick Galloway_ was Moderatour, to have
been the last immediate Assembly, preceding it selfe: and that Assembly
whereof he was moderatour, was the Assembly holden at _Halyroodhouse_,
1602. So they did not acknowledge that meeting at _Linlithgow_, 1606. for
any Assembly at all. This is clear by the registers of the Assembly, 1608,
in the entrie thereof.

_Reasons for annulling the pretended Assembly at_ Linlithgow, 1608.

I. Manie of the voters in that pretended Assembly had no lawfull
commission from the Kirk, to wit, 42 Noble men, officers of state,
councellours, and Barrons, also the Bishops, contrare to the act of
_Dundie_, 1597. And one of their caveats, the Noble men, were as
commissioners from the King, the Bishops had no commission at all from the
Presbyterie, for every Presbyterie out of which they came, had their full
number of Commissioners beside them, as the register of the Assembly
beareth.

II. In a lawfull Assembly there should be none but Commissioners from
Presbyteries, Burghs, and Universities, and but three ministers at most,
with one Elder, Commissioners from every Presbyterie, according to the act
made at _Dundie_, 1597. But in that pretended Assembly, there were foure
ministers from the severall Presbyteries, of _Edinburgh_, and _Cowper_,
five from the Presbyteries of _Arbroth_, as the roll of the said pretended
Assembly beareth, whereas there were no ruling Elders sent from
Presbyteries, according to the book of policie and act of _Dundie_.

_Reasons for annulling the pretended Assembly at_ Glasgow, 1610.

I. The Commission of the pretended Commissioners to the meeting was null.
1. Because the election of them was not free, seeing they were nominate by
the Kings Letters, as the Presbyterie books of _Edinburgh, Perth_, and
_Hadingtoun_ declare. And the Bishop of St. _Andrews_ in his letter to
some Presbyteries required them to send such commissioners