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[232] It may be proper to explain that Mr David _Dick_, whoso name is so often introduced as taking a part in the proceedings of these Assemblies, is the same person as Mr David _Dickson_, minister of Irvine. This abbreviation of his name appears throughout all the MS. reports we have seen, although, in the list of members, 1638, and other documents, it is given at full length. This abbreviation, we presume, has arisen from some colloquial and conventional usage at the time; but it is right to note the circumstance, in order to prevent mistakes.

[233] The “Large Declaration,” in which Henderson was vilified and depreciated.

[234] It is impossible to peruse this interesting debate without remarking how assiduously the Commissioner, and those to whom he was opposed in the argument, kept in the back ground the main objection to the Assembly exercising judicial functions—namely, that it had no legal power to do so. The Assembly 1638 had not obtained the civil sanction to give any of its proceedings, or those emanating from its instructions, any legal authority—and the declarations of the Assembly 1639, _confessedly_ by the Assembly itself, required the sanction of Parliament ere the Presbyterian Constitution could be in full and legitimate operation. It was, therefore, evidently premature and unwarrantable, to assume, at the very moment that so much anxiety was expressed for that sanction, that it already possessed that judicial character which it could not possibly derive, as an Establishment, from any other source than the supreme legislature of the country. It must be remembered that, by law, Episcopacy was still the established form of national religion; and nothing more preposterous can be conceived than the project of punishing any man merely for adhering to it.

[235] _Improbation_—a form of process in the law of Scotland, under which the testimony of a witness was challenged.

[236] Although these several Declarations are to be found in the Acts (Records, pp. 207 and 208), yet, as the terms of them formed the subject of future debates, we have inserted them here, as we find them detailed in the report of proceedings in the Folio MS.

[237] Vide Report, p. 251.

[238] Amidst the multiplicity of documents, and of authorities to which we are obliged to resort for them, we see, on looking into Rushworth, that two have been omitted, which we take the earliest opportunity of supplying. These are, a Note by Lord Lowdon, at a conference with the King, on 11th June 1639, and his Majesty’s answer thereto, on the 13th. These are important, as shewing the primary basis of the negociation. They are in the following terms:—

“MEMORANDUM.—That our desires are only the enjoying of our Religion and Liberties, according to the ecclesiastical and civil laws of his Majestys Kingdom,

“To clear, by sufficient grounds, that the particulars are such, we shall not insist to crave any point which is not so warranted. And we humbly offer all civil and temporal obedience to your Majesty which can be required or expected of Loyal Subjects.—(Signed) LOWDON.”—(Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 941.)

At the next Meeting in the King’s Camp, on the 13th, (where Henderson and Johnston were present,) the following answer, by the King, to Lowdon’s Memorandum, was produced:—

“That, whereas his Majesty, the 11th of June, received a short paper of the general grounds and limits of their humble desires, his Majesty is graceously pleased to make this answer. That, if their desires be only the enjoying of their religion and liberties, according to the ecclesiastical and civil laws of his Majestys Kingdom of Scotland, his Majesty doth not only agree to the same, but shall always protect them to the uttermost of his power; and if they shall not insist upon any thing but that is so warranted, his Majesty will most willingly and readily condescend thereunto, so that in the meantime they pay unto him that civil and temporal obedience which can be justly required and expected of Loial Subjects.—At his Majestys Camp, the 13th of June 1639.”—(Ibid., p. 942.)

We may also note that Rushworth gives all the dates more precisely than we find elsewhere. The Earl of Dunfermline went to the King’s from the Scotch Camp, on the 6th, with the petition from the Covenanters, (No. 49 of Documents, p. 225;) and Sir E. Verney returned with him, bearing the King’s answer, (No. 50, p. 226;) the “Reasons and Grounds,” &c., were produced on the 13th. The Scots deputies returned on Saturday the 15th, and again on Monday the 17th; and the treaty was signed on the 18th. On the 22d, the King left the Camp for Berwick; and, on the 24th, his army was dismissed and dissolved.—Rushworth, p. 943-946.

[239] Vide Report, p. 268.

[240] Vol. ii, p. 501.

[241] Rushworth, vol. iii, p. 955.

[242] Acts of Parliament, vol. iv., p. 285, 286. (Mr Thomson’s edition.)

[243] Rush vol. iii. p. 992, 1016, et sequen. Vide also Franklyn, p. 796, et sequen; Clarendon, and others.

[244] Vide Burnet’s Memoirs, p. 169, et sequen.

[245] Vide Documents.

[246] Minutes of Parliament, in Acts, vol. v., p. 256.

[247] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 983.

[248] Burnet, p. 163.

[249] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 984.

[250] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1037.

[251] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1210.

[252] Burnet, p. 170.

[253] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1212.

[254] Ibid., 1213.

[255] Baillie’s Letters, vol. i., p. 195.—A great number of Baillie’s Letters, relative to the troubles in Scotland, were addressed to Mr Spang, a Scotch Presbyterian minister at Campvere in Holland; and from these and other materials, that learned person afterwards compiled a work in Latin for the information of foreigners which is thus titled:—“Rerum nuper in Regno Scotiæ gestarum Historia, seu verius Commentarius, causas, occasiones, progressus horum mottuum, breviter et perspicue proponens, simul cum synopsi concordiæ, quantum hactenus inita est.—Excerptus ex scriptis intriusque partis scitu dignissimis, quorum primaria in Latinum sermonem nunc primum fideliter translata inseruntur, &c.—PER IRINÆVM PHILALETHEN, Eleutherium.—Dantisci, Anno Domini 1641.” There is a copy of this work in the Theological Library, Edinburgh.

By an Act of Assembly 1641, the Scotch church at Campvere was brought into connection with the Church of Scotland, and the Kirk Session thereof authorized to send its minister and a ruling-elder to the General Assembly. This connection continued long after, till that branch of the Scottish Church was swept away in the French revolutionary war, since which it has not been renewed, although that church has been revived.

[256] It appears fitting to embody in this collection a brief statement of the discrepancies betwixt the _English_ and the obnovious Scotch Service Books, and to point out the resemblances which the latter had to the Popish missals. For this exposition we are indebted to a kind and learned friend, who is fully master of the subject.

[257] Rushworth says it was on Thursday the 20th—Balfour, Friday the 21st.

[258] Vide Documents.

[259] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1221.

[260] Ibid, p. 1236.

[261] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1238.

[262] Vide Documents, p. 299.

[263] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1257.

[264] Ibid, p. 1276, 1277-1282.

[265] Vide Documents, p. 302.

[266] Rushworth, Baillie, _passim_.

[267] Vide Documents, p. 303.

[268] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1221.

[269] Ibid, p. 1223.

[270] Burnet, p. 174.

[271] Burnet, p. 176.

[272] Burnet, p. 177.

[273] Burnet, p. 178.

[274] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1295.

[275] Rushworth, vol. iii., p. 1306.

[276] Burnet, p. 182.

[277] Baillie, p. 298.

[278] Vide Documents.

[279] Vide Balfour, vol. iii., pp. 4-9.

[280] Vide p. 235. Minutes of Parliament. Acts, vol. v., p. 360.

[281] Son of the Archbishop, and President of the Session.

[282] Baillie, vol. i., p. 324.

[283] Vol. iii., p. 40.

[284] Vide Acts, vol. v., p. 370, 371, &c.

[285] Balfour, vol. iii., p. 65.

[286] The following lists of officers of state, &c., (from Balfour’s Annals, vol. iii., p. 148,) when compared with the rolls of the Assemblies in 1638 and 1639 shew, that the former of these, (and, indeed, the latter, too,) were quite as much political as ecclesiastical conventions. The _lay leaders_ of the Tables, and in the Assemblies, were just the identical persons who had mounted on the ecclesiastical ladder to political power and place:—

“The 3 estaits of parl: hes delett out of the roll of counsellors giuen in by hes Maiesty, thesse follouing—viz., George, Marques of Huntley; Villiam, Earle of Airth and Menteth; Alexander, Earle of Linlithgow; James, Earle of Home; Patrick, Earle of Tullibardyne; Alexander, Earle of Galloway; Villiam, Earle of Dumfreis; Robert, Earle of Carnwathe. And in ther places the 3 estaits did put in Johne, Earle of Sutherland; Villiam, Earle of Louthean; Alex: Earle of Dalhousie; Johne, Lord Zester; Johne, Lord St. Claire; Johne, Lord Balmerinache; Robert, Lord Burlie.

“Acte anent the nominatione and electione of the counsellours votted and past, according to this subsequent roll:—James, Duck of Lennox and Richmond; James, Marq: of Hamilton; Archbald, Earle of Argyle; Villiam, Earle of Marishall; Johne, Earle of Sutherland; Johne, Earle of Mar; Alex: Earle of Eglintone; Johne, Earle of Cassiles; Villiam, Earle of Glencairne; James, Earle of Murray; Johne, Earle of Perth; Charles, Earle of Dumfermling; Johne, Earle of Vigtone; Johne, Earle of Kingorne; George, Earle of Seaforte; Johne, Earle of Lauderdaill; George, Earle of Kinnoule; Villiam, Earle of Louthean; Dauid, Earle of Southescke; John, Earle of Wymees; Alex: Earle of Dalhousie; James, Earle of Finlater; Alexander, Earle of Leuin; Archbald, Lo: Angus; Johne, Lo: Lindesay; Johne, Lo: Zester; Johne, Lo: St. Claire; Alex: Lo: Elphingstone; Johne, Lo: Balmerinoche; Robert, Lo: Burlie; James, Lo: Amont; Alexandʳ, Lo: Balcarras; Sʳ Robert Gordon, Vice Chamberlaine; Sʳ Patrick Hepburne of Vaughtone; Sʳ Villiam Douglas of Cauers; Sʳ Ja: Dundas of the same; Thomas Myrtone of Camwo; Sʳ Dauid Grhame of Fintrey; Sʳ John Erskyne of Dune; Sʳ Robert Grhame of Morphie; Sʳ Robert Innes of the same; Prouest of Edinbrughe for the tyme.

“Acte anent the nominatione and electione of thesse officers of estait retained in ther places, votted and past accordinng to this ensewing roll, they all beinng includit within the roll of counsellers also, viz:—

“1. Jo: Lord London, Chancelour;

“2. Commissioners for the office of Thesaurer, 3 of them to be a coram, votted, viz.:—Chancelour, Argyle, Glencairne, Lindesay, Thʳˢ depute.

“3. Earle of Roxbrughe, Lo: Priuey Seall;

“4. Earle Lanricke, Secretarey;

“5. Mr Alex: Gibsone of Durie, Clerke Register;

“6. Sʳ Tho: Hope of Craighall, Aduocat;

“7. Sʳ Jo: Hamilton of Orbeston, Justice Clerke;

“8. Sʳ Ja: Carmichell of the same, Thʳˢ depute;

“9. Sʳ Ja: Galloway, Master of Requysts.

“Supernumerarey counsellours, so called in his Maiesties rolls, wotted and approuen by the housse, wer:—Thomas Houard, Earle of Arundaill; Philipe Herbert, Earle of Pembrock and Montgomerey; Villiam Cicill, Earle of Sarisburrey; Henrey Riche, Earle of Holland; Lord Villoughbie; Eduard, Lord Houard; Sʳ Henrey Vaine, Secretarey for England; Sʳ Johne Cooke, knight.

“Acte ament the nominatione and electione of the ordinar and extraordinar Lordes of the Session, conforme to this roll, votted and approuen by the housse:—Sʳ George Erskyne of Innerteill; Sʳ Alex: Gibsone of Durie, elder; Sʳ Androw Fletcher of Innerpepher; Sʳ James Lermonth of Balcomey; Sʳ George Halibrunton of Fodrens; Sʳ James Mackgill of Cranston-Ridell; Sʳ Johne Hope of Cragehall; Sʳ Johne Hamilton of Orbestone; Sʳ John Scott of Scottstaruett; Sir James Carmichell of the same; Sʳ Alex: Falconer of Halcartone. Thesse foure follouing, by the estaits wer putt from ther places in Sessione, for crymes lybelled aganist them:—Sʳ Rob: Spotswood, President; Sʳ Jo: Hay, Clerke Register; Sʳ Vill: Elphingstone, Justice Generall; Sʳ Patrick Nisbett of Eastbancke. And in the place of thir forsaid foure, the estaitts put in John Lesley of Neutone; Sʳ Thomas Hope of Kers; Mr Adam Hepburne of Humbie; Mr Archbald Ihonstone, Clerke of the Generall Assembley.

Extraordinarey Lordes of the Sessione, wotted and approuen by the housse this day, wer:—E. Argyle, L. Angus, L. Lindesay, L. Balmerinoche.”

[287] Hume’s History, vol. vii., pp. 5-14.

[288] Oct. 22, 1641. Rush. vol. iv., p. 399.

[289] Acts, vol v., p. 519.

[290] 50 George III., c. 89, 15th June, 1810.

[291] Burnet, p. 188. Rushworth, vol. iv., pp. 498, 501.

[292] Rushworth, vol. iv., p. 501. Neal, vol ii., p. 519.

[293] Whitelocke’s Mem., p. 57; Baillie, vol. i., p. 337; Clarendon, Guthrie, &c.

[294] Rushworth, vol. iv., pp. 373-5.

[295] Baillie, vol. 1, p. 337.

[296] The several proceedings which we have thus characterised freely but honestly, are recorded in the Acts of the General Assembly 1642, to which we have alluded.

[297] History of Scotland, vol. i., p. 245.

[298] Vide the Account of Westminster Assembly, in excerpts from Baillie’s Letters among Documents.

[299] Vide p. 362.

[300] Vide Documents, p. 362.

[301] Acts of Parl., vol. vi., pp. 107-9.

[302] Acts of Parl., vol. vi., pp. 106-7.

[303] Baillie’s Letters, vol. i, p. 373.

[304] Baillie’s Letters, vol. i., p. 392.

[305] Vide Baillie’s Letters.

[306] Cheesly, afterwards Sir John Cheesly, was Mr Henderson’s servant.

[307] Burnet, p. 196.

[308] Ibid, p. 197.

[309] Burnet, p. 198.

[310] Burnet, p. 200.

[311] Burnet, p. 203.

[312] Lanerick.

[313] Burnet, p. 205.

[314] Burnet, p. 206.

[315] Burnet, p. 210.

[316] Burnet, p. 213.

[317] Burnet, p. 215.

[318] Burnet, p. 219.

[319] Burnet, p. 221.

[320] Burnet, p. 218.

[321] Burnet, p. 225.

[322] Burnet, p. 230, and Register of Secret Council.

[323] Ibid, p. 230.

[324] Ibid, p. 231.

[325] Burnet, p. 226.

[326] Burnet, p. 231.

[327] Vide Rushworth, vol. iv., part ii., p. 499; and Clarendon, vol. ii., part i., p. 383.

[328] Vide Letter among Acts.

[329] As copies of Mr Thomson’s edition of the Acts are deposited in the office of every Sheriff-Clerk, and are accessible to all who think fit to consult them, it is not thought necessary to give more than the title and page in which several Acts, referring to the Church, may be found.

[330] Acts of Parliament, vol. v., p. 61.

[331] Ibid., p. 66, and Act of Ratification, ibid., p. 129.

[332] Vide Acts, vol. v., p. 190.

[333] Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. ii., p. 170. Clarendon State Papers, vol. ii., p. 189. Spalding, vol. ii., pp. 273; 26, 27, 28; 83, 85.

[334] Vide Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, vol. iii., p. 131. Baillie, vol. ii., p. 85

[335] Rushworth, vol. i., p. 268, 271.

[336] In order to save the necessity of frequent references to the authorities on which this brief historical sketch is given, it may be deemed sufficient to state that the facts are given chiefly from Rushworth, (Part iv., vol. i.,) in which all the documents relative to the period are to be found in the most authentic form. Whitelock’s Memorials, Baillie’s Letters, Guthrie’s Memoirs, Crawford’s Lives, and Clarendon, may also be consulted by those who desire to obtain minute and exact information with respect to the transactions of those times. We think it right to state, that throughout we have taken the documentary evidence afforded by Rushworth as our safest guide, both as to the chronology and the character of events. The works of Mr Hume and Mr Laing, in relation to those times, may be regarded rather as able historical disquisitions than histories; for the almost entire want of dates renders their narratives extremely perplexed and unsatisfactory.

[337] Vide Acts, p. 450.

[338] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 305.

[339] Ibid., p. 306.

[340] Ibid., p. 309, _et seq_.

[341] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i. 319, 320.

[342] Vide Documents.

[343] Vide Documents.

[344] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 329.

[345] Ibid.

[346] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 373.

[347] Acts of Estates, vol. vi., p. 239.

[348] Vide Documents.

[349] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 392.

[350] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 393.

[351] Acts of Estates, vol. vi., p. 240; and Rushworth, part iv., pp. 395-6.

[352] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 398.

[353] Laing, vol. i., p. 345, on the authority of Burnet.

[354] A high controversy has recently been carried on by Mr Lister, (author of a Life of Lord Clarendon,) and certain writers in the _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_, relative to the circumstances which preceded the surrender of King Charles I., by the Scottish Commissioners, into the hands of his Parliamentary antagonists. We have no intention of entering on the minutiæ of this discussion, which relates mainly to Clarendon’s historical character, and to the communications that took place through the instrumentality of Montrevil, and the documents therewith connected. There is only one point to which we shall advert, as bearing on the statements we have given in the text, namely, as regards the footing upon which the King went to the Scottish camp. Referring to the last article inculpating the King in this matter, (_Edinburgh Review_, No. cxxxix., p. 104,) we find a document, said to be Montrevil’s, quoted p. 109, dated in April, 1646, stating the conditions that had been agreed to by the Scots Commissioners, on which they were to receive him; and, among other things, it appears, “with regard to the Presbyterian government, they _desire_ his Majesty to agree with them—_as soon as he can_.” On this, a comment is made, by which this expression is converted into one of quite a different meaning—viz., that the Commissioners “told him [the King] plainly (as appears by this letter) through Montrevil, that, if he came to their army, _he must be prepared to give his assent to their Presbyterian Government_ [in England] _as speedily as he could_.” It is quite obvious, from a single glance, that the terms of the document and this interpretation of it, are very different. In the former, it is only a _desire_ that he should agree to their proposals “_as soon as he can_,” i. e., when, and if he could, make up his mind to do so; but, in the comment, this is converted into a peremptory and pointed requisition that he should do so, absolutely and _speedily_. This is scarcely a fair construction. Take the reviewer’s further statement, (p. 111,) “It is plain from this correspondence, that the Scots made no promises to the King which they did not fulfil. They engaged to assist him in his escape from Oxford—to _protect his person, which was placed in danger by the votes of the two Houses_, in case he was forced within their quarters—to treat him _with honour and respect, and not impose force on his conscience_—to admit into their camp three of his servants, &c. All this they performed, and more they refused to promise, _unless_ the King gave his consent to the establishment of the Presbyterian Church in England.” The concluding assertion assuredly is not borne out by the document founded on; and, taking the reviewer’s own statement in these particulars, it humbly appears to us to be inconsistent with itself, and with the propositions that they fulfilled the compact, and that none of the actors of that period were responsible for the events which followed, (p. 125.) If they were bound to protect his person from danger, which they knew to be impending, as here assumed—if they were to treat him with honour and respect, and not to impose force on his conscience, surely it was a breach of such pledges, when they afterwards, not only insisted absolutely on his violating his conscientious, his inflexible, and oft-repeated declaration of aversion to Presbytery as the establishment in England, but delivered him over personally to his implacable enemies, without the slightest security either for his safety or his honour. Even on the reviewer’s own shewing, they violated their pledges; and, independently of the taint which the whole proceedings of the Scottish Commissioners received from the pecuniary part of the transaction, the reviewer only aggravates the turpitude of the whole affair by admitting that, in their negotiations with the King, as to this matter, they acted clandestinely and in bad faith towards the English Parliament. This new champion of the Scottish Commissioners, like all his predecessors in the same track, has signally failed in his attempts to vindicate them from the imputations of double dealing, dissimulation, bad faith, and sordid treachery, which has been but too conclusively laid to their charge.

[355] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 448. Thurloe, vol. i., p. 89, 92. Salmanet, p. 253-4.

[356]

The fire in the cavern of Etna concealed,
Still mantles unseen in its secret recess,
At length in a volume terrific revealed,
No torrent can quench it, no bounds can repress.

BYRON.

[357] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 485.

[358] Not that they are to be heer Printed, but because they being to bee Printed severally, this act is to be prefixed to them.

[359] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 320.

[360] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 327.

[361] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 328.

[362] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 390.

[363] Vide p. 468.

[364] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 871 and 880.

[365] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 768 to 771. Acts of Estates.

[366] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 810.

[367] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 818.

[368] Ibid. p. 842.

[369] Ibid. p. 843.

[370] Ibid. p. 859.

[371] Ibid. p. 864.

[372] Ibid. p. 869.

[373] Burnet, p. 323-334. Vide also Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 946-950 _et passim_.

[374] Acts of Parliament, vol. vi., p. 290.

[375] Acts of Parliament, vol. vi., p. 292.

[376] Ibid. p. 305.

[377] Acts of Parliament, vol. vi., p. 319-322.

[378] Hist. of Church, vol. iii., p. 153.

[379] Baillie’s Letters, vol. ii., p. 286. See Documents.

[380] Acts of Parliament, vol. vi., p. 331.

[381] Acts of Parliament, vol. vi., p. 332.

[382] Burnet, p. 341, _et seq._

[383] Turner’s Memoirs, p. 53.

[384] Turner’s Memoirs, p. 56.

[385] Burnet, p. 355.

[386] Burnet, p. 348, _et seq._ Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1193-1242. Turner, p.63.

[387] The party appellation of “Whigamores,” or, briefly, “Whigs,” had its origin at this period; and the insurrection referred to was called the “Whigamores’ _Raid_” or incursion, that term being the common one for the predatory expeditions of the Borderers. This nickname being still preserved in the vocabulary of party, although there is truly none now existing that can be in any degree assimilated to the original sect, it seems proper to explain how the distinction originated. Mr Laing, in his history, (vol. i., p. 381, 2d ed. 1804,) informs us that “the expedition was termed the _Whigamores_’ inroad, from a word employed by these western peasants in driving horses; and the name transferred, in the succeeding reign, to the opponents of the court, in still preserved and cherished by the Whigs as the genuine descendants of the covenanting Scots.” And, in a foot-note, he adds—“According to others, from _whig_ or _whey_, the customary food of those peasants.”

Sir Walter Scott, in his “Tales of a Grandfather,” (Prose Works, vol. xxiv.,) says:—“This insurrection was called the Whigamores’ Raid, from the word _whig-whig_—that is, _get on, get on_, which is used by the western peasants in driving their horses—a name destined to become the distinction of a powerful party in British history.”

In Daniel Defoe’s “Memoirs of the Church of Scotland,” (printed 1717,) p. 173, speaking of the Covenanters, he says:—“This is the first time that the name of a _Whigg_ was used in the world—I mean as applied to a man or to a party of men; and these were the original primitive _Whiggs_—the name for many years being given to no other people. The word is said to be taken from a mixed drink the poor men drank in their wanderings, composed of water and sour milk.”

And Bishop Burnet, who lived nearer to the time in which the nickname was invented, gives the following explanation of it in the “History of his own Times,” (p. 26, imperial ed. 1837):—“The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year, and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west came in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that came from the north; and from a word _Whiggam_, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called _Whiggamors_; and, shorter, the _Whiggs_. Now, in that year, after the news came down of Duke Hamilton’s defeat, the Ministers animated their people to rise and march to Edinburgh; and they came up marching on the head of their parishes with an unheard-of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. The Marquis of Argyle and his party came and headed them, they being about 6,000. This was called the _Whiggamors_’ inroad; and, ever after that, all that opposed the court came, in contempt, to be called _Whiggs_; and from Scotland the word was brought into England, where it is now one of our unhappy terms of distinction.”

The following description of the Whigs, in some of their risings after the restoration of Charles II., is taken from a MS. copy of a doggrel poem, (by Cleland, it is thought,) which the editor presented some years ago to the Library of the Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh—

“It was in Januar or December,
When I did see the outlaw Whigs
Lye scattered up and down the riggs
Some had hoggers, some straw boots,
Some uncovered leggs and coots;
Some had halbards, some had durks,
Some had crooked swords, like Turks;
Some had slings, and some had flails,
Knit with eel and oxen tails;
Some had speares, some had pikes,
Some had spades which delvit dykes;
Some had guns with roustie ratches,
Some had firie peats for matches;
Some had bows, but wanted arrows,
Some had pistols without marrows;
Some the coulter of a plough,
Some syths had, men and horse to hough;
And some with a Lochaber axe
Resolved to give Dalziell his paiks;
Some had cross-bows, some were slingers,
Some had only knives and whingers;
But most of all, (believe who lists,)
Had nought to fight with but their fists:
They had no colours to display;
They wanted order and array;
Their officers and motion-teachers
Were verie few beside their preachers:
Without horse, or artilzierie pieces,
They thought to imitate the Sweeses,
When from Novarr they sallyed out,
Tremoville and brave Trivulce to rout.
For martial musique everie day
They used oft to sing and pray,
Which chears them more, when danger comes,
Than others’ trumpets and their drums.
With such provision as they had,
They were so stout, or else so madd,
As to petition once again;
And, if the issue proved vain,
They were resolved, with one accord,
To fight the battells of the Lord.”

[388] Vide Documents.

[389] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1282-1289.

[390] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1295.

[391] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1311.

[392] Vide Documents.

[393] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1338.

[394] Ibid. p. 1338-1343.

[395] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1350-1351.

[396] Ibid. p. 1352.

[397] Ibid. p. 1353.

[398] Ibid. p. 1354.

[399] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1358-61.

[400] Ibid. p. 1361.

[401] Ibid. p. 1362.

[402] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1376-80.

[403] Ibid. p. 1382-83.

[404] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1392.

[405] Acts, vol. vi., p. 337.

[406] Ibid. p. 339.

[407] Ibid. p. 341.

[408] Ibid. p. 349-50.

[409] Ibid. p. 352-6.

[410] Acts, vol. vi., p. 359-60.

[411] Vide Documents.

[412] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1426, _et seq._

[413] Acts, vol. vi., p. 362.

[414] Ibid. p. 363.

[415] Ibid. p. 364.

[416] Ibid. p. 411.

[417] Acts, vol. vi., p 451, _et seq_

[418] The annuity-tax to the six ministers in Edinburgh was first imposed by an Act on the 19th of June, 1649.

[419] Burnet, p. 575.

[420] Originals in the Register Office, Edinburgh.

[421] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1330.

[422] Rushworth, part iv., vol. ii., p. 1395, _et seq._

[423] Acts of Estates, vol. vi., p. 411.

[424] Scott’s Extracts from an Hospital Register of Perth, MS., in the Advocates’ Library, pp. 385-6.

[425] Balfour’s Annales and Lamont’s Diary. _Vide ante_, p. 587-8.

[426] Lamont’s Diary, p. 12. _Vide ante_, p. 589.

[427] Balfour’s Annales, vol. iii., pp. 410-413.

[428] Acts of Estates, vol. vi., p. 481.

[429] Ibid, p. 491.

[430] Ibid, pp. 504, 505, 506.

[431] Acts of Estates, vol. vi. p. 513.

[432] Vide Guthrie’s Waters of Sihor, _postea_, p. 619.

[433] There was a General Assembly held at Edinburgh, on 10th July, this year, for which see Lamont’s Diary, _postea_.—ED.

[434] The volume containing these is not known to be in existence.

[435] Vide ante, p. 599.

[436] Vide ante, p. 613.

[437] Vide ante, p. 604.

[438] “The Waters of Sihor, or the Lands Defectione; founded on yᵉ late Publick Resolutiones of the Comissione of the General Assembly, and of the Parliment at Perth, 1651, concerning the Imploying and Intrusting of the Malignant party in the Army and in the Judicatories, discovered and demonstrated,” 341 pages MS. in Advocate’s Library.—Wodrow MS., vol. xvii.—Rob. iii., 2.15. Such is the title of a work by James Guthrie, one of the leading _Protestors_, who made a great figure in the transactions of these times, and who was executed after the restoration of Charles II. We are not aware that this work has ever been printed, and think it right to give some specimens of the principles and practices of the Protestors, as exhibited in the writings of one of their most conspicuous leaders.

[439] Vide ante, p. 501.

[440] Vide ante, p. 600.

[441] Vide ante, p. 599-600.

[442] Vide ante, p. 599.

[443] Journal, p. 160, _et seq._

[444] Vide ante, p. _599._

[445] For the Heads of the Declaration, see p. 599, ante.

[446] Wodrow’s 8vo MSS, vol. v., in the Advocate’s Library.

[447] Most of these Documents are to be found in Wodrow’s MSS., vol. xvii., in the Advocates’ Library.

[448] Wodrow’s 4to MSS., vol. xvii., in the Advocates’ Library.

[449] Vide ante, p. 636.

[450] The General Assembly was sitting in St Andrew’s at this time, and in consequence of the success of Lambert, on the 20th, adjourned to Dundee, and, finally, was broken up. Vide Gordon’s account of it, _ante_ p. 626-631.

[451] Most of these Documents are to be found in Wodrow’s MSS., vol. xvii., in the Advocates’ Library.

[452] Vide ante, p. 649.

INDEX

TO THE

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

1638-1649.

Page

Aberdeen, pretended Assembly of 1616 at, condemned, 25

Abernethie, John, pretended Bishop of Caithness, deposed, 28

Absents from General Assembly, Act for Censuring, 476

Acknowledgement and Declaration to be subscribed by engagers in the
late unlawful war against England, 544

Act and Declaration against the Act of Parliament and Committee of
Estates, ordained to be subscribed the 10th and 12th of June,
1648, and against all new Oaths or Bands, in the Common Cause,
imposed without consent of the Church, 497

Acts of General Assembly, 1638:—Approving Registers, p. 22;
condemning Pretended Assemblies, p. 24;
against unlawful Oaths of Intrants, p. 26;
condemning the Service Book, &c., Deposing pretended Bishops, p. 26;
Declaring Episcopacy abjured, p. 28;
against the Five Articles of Perth, p. 32;
restoring Kirk-Sessions, &c., p. 34;
anent Constitutions to be revived, p. 34;
anent Censures against Deposed Ministers, p. 38;
against the Civil Places and Power of Kirkmen, p. 38;
against Printing Acts or Treatises concerning the Divisions of the
Times without warrant of Mr A. Johnston, as Clerk of Assembly
and Advocate for the Kirk, p. 39;
anent censures on scandalous and malicious persons, and refractory
Presbyteries, p. 39;
ordering Presbyteries, &c., to obtain Copies of Acts, p. 39;
concerning the renewal of the National Covenant; concerning the
subscribing of the Confession of Faith, p. 40;
concerning Yearly General Assemblies, p. 40;
ordaining a Supplication to the King, 40

Acts of General Assembly, 1639:—Ordering the Bishop of Orkney’s
Abjuration of Episcopacy to be registered; containing the causes
and remedy of the bygone evils of the Kirk, p. 204;
approving an old Register of Assembly, p. 205;
approving the Deposition of Ministers by the Committees, p. 205;
anent receiving of Deposed Ministers, p. 205;
anent Keeping the Lord’s Day, p. 206;
approving Articles and Overtures anent Printing the old Acts, for
restraining of people from passing to England to Marry, anent
expenses of Commissioners to Assembly, Session Books, Deposed
Ministers, Acts against Papists and Excommunicate Persons,
Catechism and Trial of Intrants and Ministers, p. 206;
ordaining subscription of Confession and Covenant, with Assembly’s
Declaration, p. 208;
anent Appellations, p. 208;
anent advising with Synods and Presbyteries before determination in
Novations, anent Ministers’ Catechising, and Family Exercises, 208

Acts of General Assembly, 1640:—Anent Assembly-house, p. 278;
anent Demolishing Idolatrous Monuments, p. 279;
against Witches and Charmers, p. 279;
for censuring Speakers against the Covenant, p. 279;
against Expectants refusing to subscribe the Covenant, 279

Acts of General Assembly, 1641:—Approving Overtures of Assembly at
Aberdeen for ordering Assembly House, p. 293;
anent old Ministers bruiking their Benefices, p. 293;
against sudden receiving Ministers deposed, p. 293;
approving Overtures anent Universities, p. 293;
against Impiety and Schism, p. 294;
anent Novations, p. 294;
anent Bursars and Expectants, p. 294;
against Unlawful Bands, p. 295;
anent the Kirk of Campheir, 297

Acts of General Assembly, 1642:—For bringing in of the Synod Books
yearly to the General Assemblies, p. 320;
anent the choosing of Kirk Sessions, p. 321;
approving the interpretation of an Act at Edinburgh anent Trial of
Ministers, p. 321;
anent the order for making Lists to his Majesty and other Patrons
for Presentations, the order of Trial of Expectants, and for
trying the Quality of Kirks, p. 321;
anent Lists for the Kirks in the Highlands, p. 322;
approving of Overtures for a supplication to the Council for due
execution of Acts against Papists, &c., p. 322;
anent the joining of the Presbytery of Skye to the Synod of Argyle,
p. 323;
approving Overtures and Transplantation of Ministers and Provision
of Schools, p. 326;
anent Contrary Oaths, p. 327;
approving Overtures anent Family Exercises, Catechising, keeping of
Synods and Presbyteries, &c., against Petitions, Declarations, and
suchlike, in name of Ministers, without their knowledge or
consents, p. 327;
containing the Assembly’s desires to the Lords of Council and
Conservators of Peace, p. 328;
for Lord Maitland’s presenting the Assembly’s Supplication to the
King, &c., p. 330;
appointing Commission of Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 330;
against Slandering of Ministers, p. 332;
anent ordering of Assembly House, p. 332;
for remembering, in Public Prayers, the Assembly’s desires to the
King and Parliament, and indiction of a Public Fast, p.332;
concerning certain References and Overtures on order of keeping
Assemblies, &c., transmitted to Presbyteries, 333

Acts of General Assembly, 1643:—Ordaining Overtures anent Bills, &c.,
to be given to Committees for their guidance;
for election of Professors, to be Commissioners to Assemblies, by
Presbyteries, p. 345;
for subscribing the Covenant, p. 346;
for searching Books tending to Separation, p. 346;
approving proceedings of Commissioners of last Assembly, p. 347;
against Burials, and Hanging of Honours, &c., in Kirks, p. 349;
anent Reposition of Ministers deposed by superior Judicatories,
p. 349;
against Masters who have Servants that profane the Lord’s Day,
p. 349;
for preparing the Directory for the Worship of God, p. 349;
Recommendation anent Students, &c., p. 351;
approving of the League and Covenant, respecting Lists for
Presentations, p. 353;
approving Overtures anent Witchcraft, &c., p. 354;
appointing Commission to go to Ireland, p. 354;
against Ministers haunting with excommunicate persons, p. 355;
anent an order for using civil execution against excommunicate
persons, p. 355;
appointing Commission to repair to England, p. 359;
appointing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, 359

Acts of General Assembly, 1644:—For present entry of the new erected
Presbytery at Biggar, p. 397;
concerning Declaration subscribed by Scottish Lords at Oxford,
p. 398;
against the Rebels in the North and South, p. 398;
against secret Disaffecters of the Covenant, p. 398;
for sending Ministers to the Army, p. 398;
for renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 399;
for renewing Commission to persons appointed to repair to England,
Answer to Presbytery with Army, p. 399;
concerning Bursars, Penalties in Acts of Parliament, Promise of
Marriage made by Minors, &c., p. 405;
concerning Dissenting Voices in Synods and Presbyteries, p. 406;
concerning the election of a Moderator in Provincial Assemblies,
p. 406;
for keeping the Fast in the town where the Assembly holds, 406

Acts of General Assembly, 1645:—Approving proceedings of the
Commission of the two preceding Assemblies, p. 418;
for establishing and putting in execution the Directory for the
public worship of God, p. 418;
approving Overtures for advancement of learning and good order in
Grammar Schools and Colleges, p. 419;
approving Overtures propounded for ordering of the Bursars of
Theology, and maintaining of them at the Schools of Divinity,
p. 421;
approving the opinion of the Committee for keeping the greater
uniformity in the Kirk in the practice and observation of the
Directory in some points of public worship, p. 421;
approving the propositions concerning Kirk Government, and
Ordination of Ministers, concerning a Solemn Warning to the People
and Armies, p. 422;
against Lykwakes, p. 427;
recommending to Sessions to have the Printed Acts of Assembly,
p. 427;
for censuring the observers of Yule Day, for encouragement of
Scholars to Professions in Schools, p. 427;
for restraining abuses at Pennie-Brydals, p. 427;
discharging Deposed Ministers to be reponed to their former places,
p. 427;
renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 427;
renewing Commission of persons appointed to repair to England, for
prosecuting the treaty of Uniformity in Religion 428

Acts of General Assembly, 1646:—Concerning the Registers and Acts of
Provincial Assemblies, p. 445;
concerning the public satisfaction of married persons for
Fornication committed before marriage, concerning Excommunication
of Lord Seafort, p. 445;
concerning Corruptions in Ministry, p. 446;
approving proceedings of Commission of preceding Assembly, p. 447;
for joining the Presbyteries in Orkney and Zetland to the Provincial
of Caithness, p. 447;
concerning Expectants preaching in public, p. 448;
for censuring complyers with the public enemies of this Kirk and
Kingdom, p. 448;
against loosing of ships and barks on the Lord’s day, p. 448;
anent Children sent without the kingdom; approving certain
Overtures, p. 448;
renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 449;
renewing Commission for prosecuting treaty for Uniformity in
England, p. 450;
for a public Fast before next Assembly, Recommending Presbyteries
in calling of Ministers to regard Congregations, 452

Acts of General Assembly, 1647:—Allowing half of the Ministers in the
Presbytery of Zetland, with their ruling elders, to keep the
Provincial Assembly, p. 468;
for observing the directions of the General Assembly for Secret and
Private Worship, and mutual edification, and for censuring such as
neglect Family Worship, p. 472; against such as withdraw
themselves from the Public Worship in their own congregations,
p. 474;
approving of the proceedings of the preceding Assembly’s Commission,
p. 475;
approbation of the Confession of Faith, p. 475;
for revising the Paraphrase of the Psalms, &c., p. 475;
recommending the execution of the Act of Parliament at Perth for
uplifting pecunial pains to be employed upon pious uses, and of
all Acts of Parliament made against Excommunicate Persons, p. 476;
discharging the importing, venting, or spreading of erroneous books
or papers, p. 476;
for debarring of complyers in the first class from Ecclesiastic
Office, p. 476;
for pressing and furthering the Plantation of Kirks, p. 476;
for censuring Absents from the General Assembly, p. 476;
renewing former Acts of Assembly for trial and admission of
Expectants, p. 476;
renewing Commission for prosecuting treaty of Uniformity in England,
p. 477;
renewing Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, p. 477;
concerning the hundred and eleven propositions therein mentioned,
concerning Overture on Subscription of Covenant, 479

Acts of General Assembly, 1648:—Concerning Commissions from Burghs,
p. 496;
concerning the examining of the proceedings of the Commissioners of
Assemblies, p. 496;
approving proceedings of last Assembly’s Commission, p. 496;
approving the Larger Catechism, p. 496;
against sudden admitting of Deposed Ministers to particular
congregations, p. 496;
against the Act of Parliament and Committee of Estates, ordained
to be subscribed the 10th and 12th of June, and against all new
Oaths or Bands in the Common Cause, imposed without consent of
the Church, p. 497;
approving the Shorter Catechism, p. 498;
discharging a little Catechism printed at Edinburgh, 1647, p. 498;
for censuring Ministers for their silence, and not speaking to the
corruptions of the time, p. 509;
concerning education of Highland Boys, p. 510;
explaining fifth article of Overtures, concerning Appeals past in
the Assembly, 1643, p. 510;
discharging Deposed or Suspended Ministers from any exercise of the
Ministry, or meddling with the Stipend, against a Pamphlet put
forth in name of Henderson, p. 510;
for taking the Covenant, &c., p. 511;
concerning Presbyteries maintaining of Bursars, p. 511;
for disjoining the Presbytery of Zetland from the Provincial Synod
of Orkney and Caithness, concerning Overtures for Remedy of the
Sins of the Land, p. 511;
for examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms, p. 513;
enjoining Presbyteries to enforce Acts concerning Papists, &c.,
p. 513;
for prosecuting the treaty for Uniformity in Religion in England,
p. 514;
renewing Commission for public affairs of the Kirk, p. 514;
exempting Murray, Ross, and Caithness, from the Contribution granted
to the Boys of Argyle, &c., p. 515;
concerning Provision for Ministers in Burghs, p. 515;
concerning Collection for the Poor, p. 515;
discharging Duels, p. 516;
concerning Deposed Ministers, 517

Acts of General Assembly, 1649:—Approving the Proceedings of the
preceding Assembly’s Commission, p. 542;
approving Proceedings of the Commissioners sent to the King, p. 543;
discharging Promiscuous Dancing, p. 543;
concerning the receiving of Engagers in the late Unlawful War
against England to Public Satisfaction, p. 543;
a Solemn Warning to the Members of the Kirk, p. 544;
concerning Catechising, p. 549; appointing Commission for Public
Affairs, p. 549;
concerning Election of Ministers, p. 550;
for a Collection for entertaining Highland Boys at Schools, p. 552;
appointing a Commission concerning the Trial and Punishment of
Witchcraft, &c., p. 553;
concerning Persons to be admitted as Bursars, 553

Acts of Assembly, Overture for Printing, 206

Acts of Assembly, Order to procure, 39

Acts of Assembly, Sessions recommended to have the Printed, 427

Acts of Provincial Assemblies, Act concerning, 445

Admission of Ministers by Presbyteries, anent, 34

Admission of Expectants, Acts renewed anent, 476

Appeals, Overtures on Procedure in, 333

Appeals, Explanation of fifth Article in overtures on, 510

Appellations, Act anent, 208

Approbation of the Proceedings of the Commissions of the Assembly,
p. 347, 418, 447, 475, 498, 542.

Approbation of the Commissioners sent to the King, 543

Approbation of Solemn League and Covenant, 353

Approbation of Confession of Faith, 475

Approbation of Larger Catechism, 496

Approbation of Shorter Catechism, 498

Argyle, Overtures concerning the Education of Highland Boys in the
Province of, 510

Argyle, Exemption of Murray, Ross, and Caithness, from contributions
for the Boys of, 515

Army, Act for sending Ministers to the, 388

Army, Letter to Assembly from the Presbytery with the, and Answer
thereto, 396, 399

Articles and overtures approved by Assembly anent Border Marriages,
Expenses of Commissioners, Session Books, Deposed Ministers,
Papists, &c., Catechism, and Trial of Ministers or Entrants, 206

Assemblies, Reasons for annulling the Pretended, 24, 25

Assembly, the King’s Letters to, 21, 292, 320, 345, 445.

Assembly, Letter to the King from, 355

Assembly’s desires to the King, anent Lists for Presentations, 353

Assembly’s remonstrance to the King, 1645, 429

Assembly’s supplication to the King, 1648, 515

Assembly’s supplication to Commissioner, 206

Assembly’s Commission to those that repair to England, 359

Assembly, Declaration of English Parliament to, 347

Assembly’s Answer thereto, 355

Assembly, Propositions of English Parliamentary Commissioners to, 350

Assembly and Convention, result of debates of their committees with
English Commissioners, 353

Assembly’s Letter to English Parliament, 450

Assembly’s Letter to Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
London, 451

Assembly, Letter from Presb. with Army to, 396

Assembly, Letter from Ministers in England to, and Answer, 348, 358

Assembly’s Declarations, and brotherly Exhortations to their brethren
in England, 468, 506

Assembly’s Letter to Kirk in Netherlands, 404

Assembly’s Letter to their countrymen in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and
Hungary, 478

Assembly’s Petition to Parliament, presenting their thoughts and
desires concerning the duties which the exigency of the times
requires, 1645, 420

Assembly’s Answer to paper sent from Committee of Estates, of date
July 28, 1648, 505

Assembly’s Supplication to Committee of Estates, 509

Assembly’s Answer to Committee of Estates, 496

Assembly’s Declaration, 1648, concerning the present dangers of
religion, and especially the unlawful engagement in war against
England, 498

Assembly’s Warning and Declaration concerning present dangers and
duties, 544

Assembly, Act for keeping a Fast in the town where it meets, 406

Assembly-house, Overtures anent, approved, 278, 293

Assembly-house, act anent ordering of, 332

Assemblies, General, anent, 36

Assemblies, General, Power to hold them, 40

Assemblies, General, Overtures on order of keeping, 333

Assemblies, Provincial and National, &c., restored in full
integrity, 34

Assemblies, Provincial, order of, 37

Assemblies, Provincial, Act anent election of Moderator in, 406

Assemblies, Provincial, Act concerning Registers and Acts of, 445

Assembly, Provincial, of Caithness, Presbyteries in Orkney and
Zetland, joined to, 447

Assembly, Provincial, of Caithness, Act allowing the half of the
Ministers in Presbyteries of Zetland only with their ruling elders
to keep, 468

Assembly of Divines at Westminster, Letters to the General Assembly
from, 351, 417, 495

Assembly’s, General, letters to Assembly of Divines, 357, 428, 451,
508

Ballantyne, Adam, pretended Bishop of Aberdeen, deposed, 27

Bands, unlawful, Act against, 295

Bands, Act and Declaration against, in the common cause without
consent of the Church, 497

Banns, Marriage without Proclamation of, 37

Baptism of Beggar’s Children, Desire and Overtures on, with Assembly’s
answer, 479

Benefices, Act anent old ministers bruiking, 293

Biggar, Act for entry of new-erected Presbytery of, 397

Bills, Overtures anent, 345

Bishops, Deposition of, 1638, 26 to 28

Book of Canons, &c., condemned, 26

Books tending to separation, Act for searching, 346

Books and papers, Act discharging the importing, venting, or spreading
of erroneous, 476

Bridals, Penny, Act for restraining abuses at, 427

Burghs, Provision to Ministers in, 515

Burghs, Act anent Commissions from, 496

Burials in Kirks, 37, 349

Bursars and Expectants, Overtures anent, 294

Bursars, Ordinance concerning, 405

Bursars of Theology, 421, 511, 553

Campbell, Mr Neil, pretended Bishop of Isles, deposed, 27

Campheir, (Campvere,) Act anent, 297

Canons, Book of, condemned, 26

Catechising &c., 206, 208, 209, 327, 549

Catechisms, Approbation of, 496, 498

Catechism, printed at Edinburgh, entitled “A. B. C. with the
Catechism,” Act discharging, 498

Censures ordered against scandalous persons, 39

Censuring ministers for their silence, and not speaking to the
corruptions of the times, Act anent, 509

Censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472

Censuring complyers with the public enemies of this Kirk and kingdom,
Act for, 448

Censuring absents from Assembly, Act for, 476

Children of Papists, &c., Overtures anent, 513

Children sent without the kingdom, act anent, 448

Christians in Ireland, Petitions from, 396, 345

Church of England, Letter from Ministers of, 348

Church of England, General Assembly’s answer to ministers of, 358

Civil execution against excommunicate persons, Act anent an order for
using, 355

Colleges, Overtures approved for advancement of learning and good
order in grammar schools and, 419

Collections for poor, Act concerning, 515

Collection, for Highland Boys, Act for, 552

Commission, the King’s, to Marquis of Hamilton, 1638, 21

Commission, High, condemned, 26

Commission to Ministers to go to Ireland, 331, 354

Commission for Public Affairs of the Kirk, 330, 359, 399, 427, 477,
514, 549.

Commission, Reference made to, anent persons designed to repair to
England, 359

Commission, Reference made to, for re-examining and emitting
Paraphrases of Psalms, 553

Commission to persons appointed to repair to England, for prosecuting
treaty of Uniformity in Religion, 359, 399, 428, 450, 477

Commissions from Burghs, Act concerning, 496

Commissioners, Expenses of, 206

Commissioners, Act concerning examining the proceedings of, 496

Commissioners, Act for election of Professors to be, 345

Commissioners at London, letters to, 328, 403, 430

Commissioners at London, letters from, 400, 416

Commissioners of English Parliament, Propositions of, 347, 349

Commissioners of English Parliament, Result of debates of Committees
of Convention and Assembly appointed to meet with, 353

Commissioners sent to the King, approbation of, 543

Commissioner, the King’s, declaration of, 207

Commissioner, Assembly resolves to proceed without, 278

Complyers with the public enemies of the Kirk and Kingdom, Act
against, p. 448;
for debarring from Ecclesiastic office, 476

Confession of Faith, article concerning, (1638), 37

Confession of Faith, subscription of, ordered, 40

Confession of Faith, King’s acknowledgment of craved, 40

Confession of Faith, Approbation of (1647), 475

Confession and Covenant, supplication anent, 207

Confession and Covenant, Act ordaining subscription of, with
Assembly’s Declaration, 208

Conference of Ministers, Lawyers, and Physicians, concerning
Witchcraft &c., Commission appointed by Assembly for, 553

Congregation, Act against such as withdraw themselves from Worship
in their own, 474

Congregations, Presbyterians recommended in the calling and admission
of Ministers to consider the interests of, 452

Constitutions of Church revived, (1638), 34

Corruptions in the Ministry and Remedies, 446

Corruptions of the times, Act for censuring Ministers for not
speaking to, 509

Covenant, Solemn League and, 362

Covenant, Approbation of, 353

Covenant, Act for subscribing, 346

Covenant, Act against secret disaffecters of, 398

Covenant, Censures ordered on speakers against, 279

Covenant, Act anent Expectants refusing to sign, 279

Covenant, Act for taking, at first receiving of the Lord’s Supper,
and for the receiving of it also by all Students at their first
entry to College, 511

Covenant, Overture approved representing that Students of Philosophy
at their entry and laureation, and that all other persons as they
come to age and discretion, before their first receiving the
Sacrament, be holden to subscribe, 479

Dancing, Promiscuous, Act discharging, 543

Declarations of English Parliament, 323, 347

—— —— Answers to, 324, 355

Declaration subscribed by Scottish Lords at Oxford, Act concerning,
398

Declaration of Assembly, 1648, concerning the present dangers of
Religion, &c., 498

Declaration and Brotherly Exhortation of Assembly, to their brethren
of England, 468, 506

Declaration by Assembly, of the falsehood and forgery of a Pamphlet
put forth under the name of Mr Alexander Henderson, 510

Declaration and acknowledgment, to be subscribed by engagers in the
late unlawful war against England, 544

Declaration and Warning of Assembly concerning present dangers and
duties, 544

Defection In the Ministry, Act 1595 concerning, ratified, 34

Deposed Ministers, Acts anent, 205, 349

Deposed Ministers, Act Discharging them to be reponed to their former
places, 427

Deposed Ministers, Act against their sudden Admission to Particular
Congregations, 496

Deposed Ministers, Act concerning, 517

Deposed or Suspended Ministers, Act Discharging them from any Exercise
of the Ministry, or Meddling with the Stipend, 510

Deposition and Excommunication of Spottiswood and other Pretended
Bishops, 26, 27, 28

Deposition of Ministers by Committees, approved, 205

Desires of Assembly to Lords of Council, anent Uniformity of
Kirk-government, 328

Desires of Assembly to the King for £500, 328

Desires of Assembly to the King, anent Lists for Presentations, 353

Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for preparing, 349

Directory for Public Worship of God, Act for establishing and putting
in execution, 418

Directory, Opinion of Committee of Assembly approved for keeping the
greater Uniformity in the Kirk in the Practice and Observation of
the, 421

Directory for Election of Ministers, 550

Directions of Assembly for Secret and Private Worship, and for
censuring such as neglect Family Worship, 472

Disaffecters, Secret, of Covenant, Act against, 398

Dissenting voices in Presbyteries and Synods, Act concerning, 406

Divines in England, Letters to and from Synod of, 351, 357, 401, 402,
417, 495

Divinity, Act for encouraging Scholars to study, 427

Doctrine, eight General Heads of, contained in CXI Propositions,
approved, 479

Duels, Act discharging, 516

Ecclesiastic office, Act for debarring of complyers of first class
(mentioned in Act of Assembly 1646) from, 476

Election of Moderator in Provincial Assemblies, Act anent, 406

Election of Ministers, Directory for, 550

England, Assembly’s Letter to Parliament of, 450

England, Assembly’s declarations and solemn exhortations to their
brethren of, 468, 506, 551

England, Act for prosecuting treaty for Uniformity in Religion, &c.,
in, 514

England, late Unlawful War against, Act concerning the receiving to
public satisfaction, &c., the late engagers in, 543

Enormities and corruptions in the ministry, with the remedies, 446

Episcopacy declared to have been abjured, 28

Episcopacy renounced by Grahame, Bishop of Orkney, 204

Estates, Assembly’s Supplication to Committee of, 1648, 509

Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Committee of, 496

Estates, Assembly’s Answer to Paper sent from Committee of, 505

Estates, Act and Declaration against Act of Parliament and Committee
of, 497

Erastianism, Assembly bears testimony against in Act concerning CXI
Propositions, 479

Excommunicate Persons, Act anent an order for using Civil Execution
against, 355

Excommunicate Persons, Act against Ministers haunting with, 355

Excommunicate Persons, Article (16) anent frequenting with, 37

Excommunicate Persons, Act recommending the execution of the Act of
Parliament at Perth for uplifting pecunial pains, and of all Acts
of Parliament made against, 476

Excommunicate Persons, &c., Overtures concerning, 513

Excommunication and Deposition of Bishops, 1638, 26, 27, 28

Excommunication of Earl of Seafort, 445

Execution, Civil, Act anent an order for using, against Excommunicate
Persons, 355

Expectants, &c., Overtures anent approved, 294

Expectants preaching in Public, Act anent, 448

Expectants, trial and admission of, 37, 476

Expenses of Commissioners to Assembly, 36

Fairlie, Mr James, pretended Bishop of Lismore, deposed, 27

Family Exercises, &c., Act anent, 327

Fast, Act for keeping, by congregation where the Assembly holds, 406