beggars want baptisme, Themselves also living in great vilenesse,
and therefore desire that some remedie may be provided for these abuses.

_The Assembly doth seriously recommend to Presbyteries to consider of the
best remedies, and to report their opinions to the next Assembly._

That all Students of Philosophie at their entry and at their Lawreation,
bee holden to subscribe the League and Covenant and be urged thereto, and
all other Persons as they come to age and discretion before their first
receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.

_The Assembly approves this Overture._

Whereas divers Ministers want Mansses and Gleebs, and others have their
Gleeb so divided in parcells, or lying so Farre from their Charges the
Ministers are thereby much prejudged; We desire that this Generall
Assembly will recommend it to bee helped by the Parliament, or Committee
for planting of Kirks, in the best manner that their Lordships can advise.

Whereas divers Kirks were incommodiously united in corrupt times, we
desire that the same be now dismembered and adjoyned to other Kirks, or
erected in Kirks by themselves alone, and when the present incumbents
agrees thereto, we desire the same to bee recommend to the Parliament and
Committee for plantation of Kirks, Provided alwayes, that the present
Ministers who have laboured and indured the heat of day, may enjoy the
benefit of such parcells as are taken from them during their life.

_The Assembly doth approve these two Articles, and Recommends to the
Commissioners for publike Affaires to assist any interested in the
particulars for prosecuting the same before the Honourable Estates of
Parliament, or the Commission appointed by them for plantation of Kirks._

The Generall Assembly, Doe yet againe recommend to Presbyteries and
Provinciall Assemblies, to consider all matters formerly referred unto
them by preceding Assemblies, and desires that their opinions concerning
the same, be reported in writ to the next Generall Assembly.

_It is this day appointed, that the next Generall Assembly shall meet at_
Edinburgh _the second Wednesday of July 1648._

A. Ker.

THE GENERALL ASSEMBLY, AT _EDINBURGH_.

Iuly 12. 1648. _Post meridiem,_ Sess. 1.

_The Letter from the Synod of Divines in_ England _to the Generall
Assembly._

_Right Honourable, right Reverend, and dearly beloved brethen in_ JESUS
CHRIST,

As we have great cause to blesse God for the brotherly Unio