The nobles made the choice from the bishops, the bishops from the nobles, and the elected sixteen from the barons and burghers.

The twenty-four were all thus episcopally minded: they drew up the bills, and the bills were voted on without debate.

The grant of supply made in these circumstances was liberal, and James's ecclesiastical legislation, including the sanction of the "rags of Rome" worn by the bishops, was ratified.

Remonstrances from the ministers of the old Kirk party were disregarded; and--the thin end of the wedge--the English Liturgy was introduced in the Royal Chapel of Holyrood and in that of St Salvator's College, St Andrews, where it has been read once, on a funeral occasion, in recent years.
In 1634-35, on the information of Archbishop Spottiswoode, Lord Balmerino was tried for treason because he possessed a supplication or petition which the Lords of the minority, in the late Parliament, had drawn up but had not presented.

He was found guilty, but spared: the proceeding showed of what nature the bishops were, and alienated and alarmed the populace and the nobles and gentry.