This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...was framed, signed, and disseminated for signature through the kingdom. This engagement was not, like the Tables, adapted from the leaguers of France, or new in Scotland. J It, however, differed essentially and dangerously from former covenants, --not only renouncing and denouncing popery in all its branches ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...was framed, signed, and disseminated for signature through the kingdom. This engagement was not, like the Tables, adapted from the leaguers of France, or new in Scotland. J It, however, differed essentially and dangerously from former covenants, --not only renouncing and denouncing popery in all its branches with the rhetoric of pandemonium and the market-cross, but engaging farther and for the first time to stand by each other in defence of the common cause, against all per Carte, iv 2S0. r ] Nine of them were privy counsellors; divers of them were of the exchequer; Spotliswoud, archbishop of St. Andrews, was madj chancellor; and Maxwell, bishop of Rots, was fair for the treasury, and engaged in a high rivalry with the earl of Traquair, then treasurer, which tended not a little to help forward their ruin: and besides this, they began to pretend highly to the t tlis and impropriations, and had gotten one Lcar'irouth, a minister, presented abbot of Lindoris, and seemed confident to get that state of abbots, with all the revenue and power belonging to it, again restored into the hands of churchmen, designing also that, according to the rir, t institution ofthe college of justice, the half of them should be churchmen." t Neal, i. 613. Brodie, ii. 470. Carte, iv. 260. tj Transubstantiation is called " blasphemous," the mass " devilish," and the five repudiated sacraments of the church of Rome "bastards." See the covenant at full length in Kushworth, ii. 734. sons whatever. The king was not excepted from this sweeping obligation. Such a confederacy was assuredly rebellious, but not therefore unwarrantable. Signatures were daily affixed to it by thousands, through zeal, intimidation, and penalties. Such ministers...
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