dutie
that hath oftin provin comfortable to uswards, God doeth new call us
in a speciall way by a singular peice of dispensatione, and knowing
that all quho are acquainted with God in the land will make
conscience of it, wee conceave it expedient that the quhole land be
humbled for the causses following.

"1. The continued ignorance and profanitie of the bodie of the land,
and the obstinacey and incorrigiblenes of maney, notwithstanding of
all the caires that God hath takin upon us by his word, and by his
workes of mercy and judgement, to teache us in the knowledge of his
name, and to refraine us from the eivell of our wayes.

"2. The manifest provocations of the kinges housse wiche we feare
are not throughlie repented off, nor forsaken by him to this day,
togidder with the crooked and precipitant wayes that wer takin by
sundrie of our statesmen for caring the trettey with the king.

"3. The bringing home with the king a grate maney malignants, and
indevoring to keepe some of them about him, and maney of them in the
kingdome, notwithstanding of publicke resolutions to the contrarey.

"4. The not purging of the kinges familie from malignant and profane
men, and the constituting of the samen of weill affected and godlie
persons, albeit it hathe beine oftin pressed upone the parliament
and comittee of Estaits, undertaking and promessed to be performed
by them.

"5. The leveing of a most malignant and profaine guard of horsse to
be aboute the king, quho having beine sent for to be purgit aboute 2
dayes before the defaite, were suffred to be and feight in our
armey.

"6. The exceiding grate slaknes of maney and aversnes and
untowardnes of some in the cheiffe judicatories of the kingdome and
in the armey, in guid motione and publick deuties, especially in
thesse thinges that concerne the purging of judicatories and the
armey from malignant and scandalous persons, and filling all places
of powre and trust with men of knowen integritie and trust, and of a
blamles and Christiane conversatione, togider with grate
inclinations to keepe and bring in malignants to the judicatories
and to the armey, as if the land could not be gydit and defendit
without thesse, and grate repyning and craying out against all that