The chief interest of the Assembly centred in the processes accusing all the bishops of various derelictions of duty, breaches of law, transgressions, and horrible vices. With great foresight the Moderator, Henderson, gravely charged the Committee who were appointed to frame the indictments to see that they proceeded ‘accurately and orderlie, and that it may be upon some sure grounds, for our proceedings with be strichted [tested] to the uttermost.’ This judicial charge itself indicates the care with which the Covenanters proceeded to their solemn trial of the hierarchy.
J. K. Hewison, The Covenanters, Vol. 1, 299.
See also:
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1638-1842