the Rebels the publike
Enemies of this Kirk and Kingdom: And judging it a dutie incumbent to them
to bring such notorious Offenders to publike satisfaction, that the Wrath
of God may be averted, and the publike scandal removed; Do therefore
Require, Decern, and Ordain, that such as after lawfull tryall shall be
found to have been in actuall Rebellion and to have carried charge with
the Rebels, To have accepted Commissions for raising Horse or Foot unto
them, To have been seducers of others to joyn in that Rebellion, To be the
Penners or contrivers of _James Grahames_ Proclamation for indicting a
pretended Parliament, or of any other his Proclamations or Declarations,
To have beene prime Instruments in causing publish the said Proclamations
and Declarations; That all and every one of such offenders shal humbly
acknowledge their offence upon their knees, first before the Presbyterie,
and thereafter before the Congregation upon a Sabbath, in some place
before the Pulpit; And in the mean time that they be suspended from the
Lords Supper: And in case they do not satisfie in manner foresaid, that
they be processed with Excommunication. And likewise Ordains; that such as
shall be found to have procured Protections from the Rebels, To have
execute their orders, To have invited them to their houses, To have given
them intelligence, To have drunk _James Grahames_ health or to be guilty
of any other such grose degrees of complyance, shall acknowledge their
offences publikely before the Congregation, and be suspended from the
Communion, and while they doe the same. And further Decernes and Ordains,
that all persons in any Ecclesiastick office guilty of any degrees of
complyance before mentioned, shall be suspended from their office & all
exercise thereof, for such time as the quality of the offence and
condition of the offenders shall be found to deserve; And the Assembly
hereby declares than Presbyteries have a latitude and liberty to agreadge
the censures above specified, according to the degrees and circumstances
of the offences; And gives in like maner the same latitude and liberty to
the Commissioners of this Assembly for publike affairs, who have also
power to try and censure the offenders in manner above exprest, and to
take account of the diligence of Presbyteries thereintill.

_Act concerning_ James Grahams _Proclamation._

The General Assembly having considered a copie of a Proclamation published
by order of that e