In 1610, the provincial synod of Zeeland received gravamina from four of its classes--Classis Walcheren, Classis Schouwen, Classis South-Beveland, and Classis Tholen. Each classis had a long list of gravamina. Classis Walcheren registered the most gravamina, twenty-five, and Classis South-Beveland had the fewest gravamina with only seven. Classis Schouwen and Classis Tholen had fourteen and fifteen gravamina, respectively. Within the Dutch Reformed church structure, gravamina addressed to the provincial synods contained complaints that the lower ecclesiastical bodies could not fully address or solve. Within these gravamina addressed to the provincial synod of Zeeland in 1610 are a variety of complaints, but a number of them, at least one-third, refer in some way to confessional disputes, religious conflict, or Sabbath observance.

These concerns often progress from one to another in a logical progression, a progression that, even if the entries are grouped together in the records, is also evidenced by the quick succession of entries. For example, Classis Tholen's seventh gravamen inquires about how to best educate the “baptized children of Christians” in the “foundation of the Christian faith.” The entry suggests that a shorter catechism might be of use and notes the importance of catechism lessons each Sunday afternoon. The following gravamen, the eighth, moves from education on the Sabbath to the petition for a placard to be issued regarding proper Sabbath observance because “in all villages there is great desecration of the holy Sabbath.”