Robertson had hoped that Craighall would have been at the church meeting that day. There is nothing wrong with the life and doctrine of the parish minister, but "he hes not a few enemies yt waits his halting; for anie miscariadg in his conversatione, it hes not been soo much scandalous as imprudent." In other men his failings would be petty. In Robertson's opinion if Craighall were to speak out forcibly in his defence at a Kirk Session meeting, that would be the end of the affair. He would effectively stop the mouths of "misinformed or malitius gainsayers."