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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47584	The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Buchanan, David, 1595?-1652?	1644 (1644)	Wing K738; ESTC R12446	740,135	656

Chanters sub-Chanters Provests Parsons and Vicars and other Beneficed men whatsoever their Chamberlains and Factors personally or at their dwelling places or at the Parish Churches where they should remain To exhibite and produce before the Queens Majesty and Lords aforesaid before the said 24 day of Ianuary next coming the just and true Rentals of the values and rents of their Benefices to the effect aforesaid And to chare the Prelats and the other Beneficed men on the other side of the Water in manner aforesaid to exhibite and produce the just and true Rentals of their Benefices before the Queens Majesty and Lords aforesaid the said 10 of February to the effect aforesaid with certification to them That if any fails to appeare the Queens Majesties and Councels wills are That they should be proceeded against here as the matter requires And likewise to charge the whole Superintendents Ministers Elders and Deacons of the principall Towns and Shires of this Realm to give in before the Queens Majesty and Lords of the Councell aforesaid before the said 24 of Ianuary next coming a formall and sufficient Roll and Memoriall what may be sufficient and reasonable to sustain Ministry and whole Ministers of this Realme that her Majesty and Lords of the Councell aforesaid may rightly and diligently weigh and consider what necessary support is required to be taken yeerly of the fruits of the said Benefices by her Majesties own yearly Rent to entertain and set forward the common affairs of this Realme against the said 24 day of Ianuary next coming that it may be proceeded in the said matter all parties satisfied and the whole Countrey and Lieges thereof set in quietnesse Apud Linlithgow 24 Ianuarii c. FOrasmuch as the Queens Majesty with the advice of the Lords of her Secret Councell directed her Letters commanding all and sundry Arch-bishops Bishops Abbots c. and all other Beneficed men their Factors Farmors Takesmen to appear before her Highnesse and Lords aforesaid at Edinburgh or where it should happen them to be for the time so many as dwells upon this side of the water before the 24 day of Ianuary instant and them that dwells beyond the water the 10 of February next coming that the just value of their Benefices might be knowne so that hereafter her Highnesse may take order for the Sustentation of the Ministry of the Church and the publike businesse of the Realme And because the Queens Majesty is presently busied with other affairs and may not her self attend upon the receipt of the said Rent therefore her Highnesse hath given and granted and by these Presents gives and grants full power and Commission to Master Iames Mackgill of Rankellor nether Clerk of the Register Sir Iohn Ballenden of Archnenell Knight Justice Clerk to the Treasurer Secretary of State Advocate of the Crowne and Laird of Pittarrow to call before them within the City of Edinburgh all and sundry Prelates and Beneficed men which are charged by vertue of the said Letters now presently being in Edinburgh or shall happen hereafter to repair thereto their Factors or Farmers and there enquire of them the Rentalls of their Benefices and receive the same from them to the effect aforesaid And likewise that the said Commissioners cause warne all Seperintendents Over-seers Ministers Elders and Deacons to give unto them the names of all the Ministers of this Realme that the just Calculation being made and considered by the said Commissioners of the value of the said Benefices they may report the same unto the Queens Majesty that her Highnesse may take order herein according to the just Tenour of the first Ordinance made thereupon Apud Edinburgh 12 February 1561. FOrasmuch as by Statute and Ordinance made by the Queens Majesty and Lords of the Secret Councell and her Highnesse Letters directed thereupon all and sundry Archbishops Bishops Abbots c. and other Beneficed men were charged to produce the Rentalls of their Benefices before her Majesty and Lords aforesaid in manner following that is to say The said Beneficed men dwelling on this side of the Water before the four and twentieth of Ianuary last past And on the other side of the Water before the tenth of February instant to the effect that order might be taken therin to conform to the Ordinance With certification to them that if they fayled the Queens Majestie and Counsell aforesaid would take order therein as the same Ordinance bears Notwithstanding of the which the Queens Majestie and Counsell and others appointed for receiving of the said Rentalls have continually since the said 24 of Ianuary aforesaid waited upon the receiving of them yet a very small number of them have produced their Rentalls thereby not onely contemning her Majesties Ordinance and Proclamation aforesaid but also her selfe and her Authoritie as they were Princes and not Subjects expresse against Equitie Reason and Justice For remedy whereof the Queene Majestie ordains with advice of the Lords of her secret Councill That Factors Chamerlains or Stewards bee appointed to intromett gather uplist and receive to our Soveraign Ladies use all and sundry mailles tythes or tiends farmes rents provents emoluments fruits profits and due tyes of whatsoever benefices whereof the Rentalls are not produced conforme to the said Ordinance And if any Retalls already produced bears not the just value but is Fraudulently made to intromet and uptake as much of the profits and fruits of the said benefices as are omitted forth of the said Rentalls and the In-givers of the Rentalls and Professors of the Benefices thereof shall never have action to claime crave or receive from the Tenants and Occupiers further then is contained in the same Rentals already produced by them and the Tenants and Possessors shall be holden to pay no more than is contained in the same Rentalls already produced as aforesaid And the said Chamerlains and Factors to be appointed by the Queenes Majestie shall have sufficient power to intromitt and uptake the fruits and profits aforesaid in such fulnesse as if speciall Letters of Factory and Chamerlancie were granted to them thereupon and ordains the Lords of the Session to direct forth Letters at the said Factors and Chamerlaines instancies either of horning or poynding as shall be thought expedient for causing of them to bee answered of fruits of the said Benefices to be forth-commanded to the Queenes Majesties behalf and use while further order be taken therein Apud Edinburge 15. February 1561. FOr as much as the Queenes Majestie by the advice of the Lords of her secret Councell and others divers of the Nobility had of before the two and twentieth day of December last past ordained that if the fourth part of the fruits and Rents of all the Benefices within this Realme were not sufficient for the Supporting of her Majesties present wants and the particular Charges under-written necessary to be borne for the weale of the Countrey than the third of the said fruits more or lesse should be taken

passed the water of Levin ever keeping the Coast by reason of their Ships and Victualls as said is about noon they espied Ships which were seen that morning by us that were upon the land but were not known Monsieur Dosell affirmed them to be French Ships and so the Souldiers triumphed shot their Volley for a salve and marched forward to Kingcraig fearing no resistance But shortly after the English Ships met with Captain Culen and seized upon him and his Ships which made them a little to muse Then suddenly came M. Alexander Woode who had been upon the Admirall and assured Monsieur Dosell that they were English men and that they were the forwarners of a greater number that followed who were sent for support of the Congregation There might have been seen pulling of beards for anger and might have been heard such despight as cruell men use to spue forth when God bridleth their fury Wearinesse and the night constrained them to lodge there They supped scarcely because their Ships were taken in the which were their victualls and Ordnance which they intended to have placed in Saint Andrews They themselves durst not stray abroad to seek and the Laird of Wemes carriages which likewise was coming with furnishing unto them were stayed And therefore betimes in the morning they retired towards Kinghorne and made more expedition in one day in returning then they did in two in marching forward The storm which had continued neer the space of a moneth brake in the time of their returning whereby many thought that they should have been stayed till that reasonable company might have been assembled to have foughten with them And for that purpose did William Kirkcaldie cut the Bridge of Tullibody But the French expert enough in such feats took down the Roof of a Parish Church and made a Bridge over the same water called Donane and so they escaped and went to Sterlin and thereafter to Leith yet in their returne they lost divers amongst whom there was one whose miserable end we may rehearse As the French spoyled the Countrey in their returning one Captaine or Souldier we cannot tell but he had a red Cloke and a gilt Murriow entred upon a poor woman that dwelt in the white side and began to spoyle The poore woman offered unto him such bread as she had ready prepared But he in no wise therewith content would have the Meale and a little salt Beef which the poore woman had to sustain her owne life and the lives of her poor children neither could tears nor pitifull words mitigate the mercilesse man but he would have whatsoever he might carry The poore woman perceiving him so bent and that he stooped downe in her Tub for the taking forth of such stuffe as was within it first coped and turned up his heels so that his head went downe And thereafter whether by her self or if any other company come to help her but there he ended his unhappy life God so punishing his cruell heart who could not spare a miserable woman in that extremity Let all such Souldiers receive such reward O Lord seeing that thou onely art the revenger of the oppressed And now because that from this time forward frequent mention will be made of the comfortable support that we in our greatest extremity received by Gods providence from our neighbours of England we thinke it expedient simply to declare by what instruments that matter was first moved and by what means it came to passe that the Queen and Councel of England shewed themselves so favourable unto us As Iohn Knox had fore-warned us by his Letters from Geneva of all dangers that he foresaw to ensue our enterprise so when he came to Deipe mindefull of the same and resolving with himself what remedy God would please to offer he took boldnesse to write to Sir William Cecil Secretary of State in England with whom the said Iohn had been before familiarly acquainted intending thereby to renew acquaintance and so to open further of his minde The tenor of his first Letter follows The spirit of Iudgement Wisedome and Sanctification I wish unto you by Iesus Christ. AS I have no pleasure with long writing to trouble you Right Honorable whose minde I know to be taken up with most grave matters so I minde not greatly to labor by long Preface to conciliate your favors which I suppose I have already howsoever rumors brute the contrary as the favour it becometh one member of Christs Body to have of another The contents therfore of my present Letter shall be absolved in 2 points In the former I purpose to discharge in few words my conscience towards you And in the other sum what must I speak for my own defence and in defence of that poor Flock of late assembled in the most godly reformed Church and City of the world Geneva To you Sir I say that as from God you have received life wisdom honours and the present estate in the which you now stand so ought you wholly to apply the same to the advancement of his glory who onely is the author of life the fountain of wisdom and who most assuredly doth and wil honor glorifie them that with simple hearts do glorifie him which alas in times past you have not done but being overcome with common iniquity you have followed the world in the way of perdition for to the suppressing of Christs true Evangel to the erecting of Idolatry and to the shedding of the blood of Gods most deare Children Have you by silence consented and subscribed this your most horrible defection from the knowne Trueth and once professed hath God to this day mercifully spared Yea to mans judgement he hath utterly forgotten and pardoned the same He hath not dealt with you as he hath done with others of like knowledge whom in his anger but yet most justly according to their deserts he did shortly strike after their desertion But you guilty in the same offences hath he fostered and preserved as it were in his owne bosome during the time of that most miserable thraldome of that professed enemy of God mischievous Mary And now hath set you at such liberty as the fury of Gods enemies cannot hurt you except that willingly against his honour you take pleasure to conspire with them As this benefit which you have received is great so must Gods Justice require of you a thankfull heart For seeing that his Mercie hath spared you being Traitour to his Majestie Seeing further That amongst your enemies he hath preserved you And last seeing although worthy of hell he hath promoted you to honour and dignity of you must he require because he is just earnest repentance for your former defection and heart mindfull of his mercifull providence and a will so ready to advance his glory That evidently it may appeare that in vaine you have not received these graces of God to performance whereof of necessity it is That