as the King had
nominate: assuring them, that none other would be accepted. This the
Bishops letter registered in the Presbyterie books of _Hadingtoun_ doth
cleare. 2. And whereas there were no ruling Elders sent from the
Presbyteries to that pretended Assembly, as the roll of Commissioners
sheweth; yet there were moe ministers from undue severall Presbyteries
then three, as five from _Brechen_, five from _Arbroth_, five from
_Kirkenbright_, seven from the Presbytery of _Argyl_, foure from the
Presbyterie of _Cowper_, foure from _Linlithgow_, foure from _Pasley_,
foure from _Hammilton_, foure from _Drumfreis_, foure from _Dunkell_: as
the register of that Assembly beareth.

II. There where thirtie voters of Noble men and Barrons, beside the
pretended Bishops, who had no commission from any Presbyterie. In the
fourth Session of this pretended Assembly it is plainly said, That the
Noble men and Barrons came to it by the Kings direction.

III. The voting of the commissioners was not free: for by the Kings Letter
to the Assembly they were threatned, and it was declared that their
content was not needfull to any act to be made there: The King might doe
it by his own power, yet they were allured to vote by a promise that their
good service in so doing should be remembred and rewarded thereafter.

IV. The principall acts which were made, were set down _verbatim_ in the
privie conference, which chiefly consisted of the Kings Commissioners and
pretended Bishops, and only read to be ratified in the Assembly.

V. Sundrie ministers then present, doe now declare, that they knew the
ministers who voted the wrong way, to have received their present reward,
and that money was largely dealt unto them.

_Reasons for annulling the pretended Assembly at_ Aberdene, 1616.

I. There was no election of a Moderatour: but that place usurped by the
pretended Bishop of Saint _Andrews_, as the Register beareth.

II. The indiction of that pretended Assembly was but twentie dayes before
the holding of it: so that the Presbyteries and burghes could not be
prepared for sending their commissioners: which caused the absence of many
Presbyteries and fourtie foure Burghes.

III. There were twentie five noble-men, and gentle-men voters without
commission from the Kirk. Ma. _William Struthers_ voted for the
Presbyterie of _Edinburgh_, yet had no commission there-from. The
commission being given by that Presbyterie to other three, as the said
C