That 3^our Pet-^ are too sencebly touch^ with the disadvantages they lye under from the Misfortunes of their want of his Pastoral care ouer them whose Exemplary Piety and Instruction for upwards of fourteen years haue rendred him exceedingly estimable to all wlio knows him and which cant but be acknowledged even by those who are now the occasion of your Pefs giving Your Excellency this Trouble and, who side with his assistant M^" Moulinar, from whom both as a Brother and a Christian better offices might haue been expected then to haue found him the Pen man of such Instrument which are the Present motive of all our troubles that your Pef^ begg leiuve to [say] to your Excellency that (if occasion should require) they can make appear to your Excellency that the first right to the ministry of the said Church, and euen to the Church itself is wholy lodged in the said M^" Rou as well as from the call of the said Consistory by the Act of General Assembly as by the Majority of the members of the said Church as appears by the Acts of opposition and protestation made in that behalf whereof a Copy is hereunto annexed.

That in order to put an End to these vnhappy Differences and that your Pefs may Enjoy those Spiritual Comforts they haue hitherto received from the Doctrine of the said M^ Rou your Peti^s apply to your Excellency for relief in the premises and --

Therefore they most humbly pray your Excellency In your