To whome, by these Presentes, wee giue our full Power, and expresse Mandate, to present the same in or at the sayde Assemblie, or where else, it shall bee necessarie to bee vsed; with all submission, and obedience, due to our Gracious Soveraygne, and his Majesties High Commissioner. And vpon the presenting and vsing thereof, Acts and Instrumentes to craue, and all other thinges to doe, that necessarilie are requyred in such Cases: firme and stable holding, or for to holde, what hee, or anie of them, shall lawfullie doe in the Premisses.
In witnesse where-of, as wee are readie with our Blood, so with our Hand, wee haue subscrybed these Presentes, at the Palace of Holierood-Hovse, New-castle, and Glasgow, the 16, 17, and 20 dayes of November, Anno 1638.
Et sic subscribitur.
Jo: Sᵗⁱ Andreæ Arch. [Jo. Spottiswood.]
Pa: Glasgow. [Patrick Lindsay.]
Da: Edinburgen. [David Lindsay.]
Tho: Gallovidien. [Thom. Sydserfe.]
Jo: Rossen. [John Maxwell.]
Walterus Brechinen. [Walter Whitfoord.]
86. His Majesty’s Observations upon the draft copy of the Declinator.[111]
Charles R.
I. The second reason to be advised with my Lord Commissioner, whether or not it be safe at this time to except against the Form of the Publication of the Indiction of the Assembly.
II. The third is a very good reason against the Proceeding of the Assembly, but will not infer a Nullity.
III. In all the reasons where the Assembly is called a pretended Assembly, it is His Majesties Pleasure, that the word pretended be deleted out of the Copy shewed to His Majesty.