Minuts of the last sederunt read.
Representation and petition of the commission of the general assembly of this church, representing the increase of popery, profanity and other irregularities, and craving the same may be restrained and that the succession to the crown may be established in the Protestant line, read, and remitted to the committee for examining the calculation of the equivalent to consider of proper methods for suppressing popery, profanity and other irregularities, and for execution of the laws already made, and to consider what laws may be further necessary for the effectual suppressing thereof and suppressing† the same.