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A29411 A Brief account of the reasons for which the three estates of Scotland forfaulted the Late King James and setled K. William and Q. Mary upon the throne, anno 1689 and some of the reasons induced them to abolish episcopacy there. 1695 (1695) Wing B4519; ESTC R25945 3,913 9

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Histories And will any Man doubt but this Honourable Meeting hath these Powers usual and requisite consolidate in them by the Peoples Election Were it not so none in Scotland could have a Right or Title to any thing he has in the Kingdom Now in our present Circumstances we are obliged by the Laws of Nature positive Laws of God Nations and our Municipal Laws to secure our selves our Religion Laws Liberties and Properties and especially seeing God by his good Providence even to a Miracle it self hath put this Opportunity in our Hands We have Power to establish such a King and Queen upon the Throne who we hope will be a Nursing Father and Mother to their Subjects and not to return back again to Egyptian Bondage to enslave our selves to these unreasonable Tax-Masters But if there be any here who for love of the Flesh-Pots or other things best pleases their Palates would do otherwise take their Course But we are not to make their Designs or Fancies our Rule or Method to follow in a matter of so great Concern After this Debate the Earl of Crawford moved that there might be no more Debates but that the Act should be put to the Vote by which Mens Inclinations would be fully known The Duke of Hamilton Praeses called for the Act to be Read and to be put to the Vote And being read Twice again and put to the Vote There were but Twenty No's of which number the seven Bishops present and the young Laird of Craichlaw who was Forfaulted for being at Bothwell Bridge Anno 1679. and pardoned by King James were eight COPY of the ACT. THE Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland Find and Declare That King James the Seventh being a professed Papist did Assume the Regal Power and Acted as King without taking the Oaths required by Law and by the Advice of wicked and evil Counsel invaded the Fundamental Constitutions of the Kingdom and altered them from a Legal limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power and hath exercised the same to the subversion of the Protestant Religion Laws and Liberties of the Nation by inverting all the Ends of Government whereby he hath Forfaulted the Right of the Crown and the Throne is become Vacant The Three Estates Voted and Declared King William and Queen Mary of England c. King and Queen of Scotland nemine contradicente were proclaimed the same Afternoon with great Solemnity and Acclamations But all the Bishops having refused to pray before the Parliament for King William and Queen Mary after several Admonitions they withdrew all but one or two And the Bishop of Dumblain one of the best of them after all Business was over being desired by the President to say Prayers the aforesaid Bishop that he might not give Offence repeated the Lord's Prayer only and no more Upon which 〈◊〉 said That People used to repeat the Lord's Prayer last of all ●●●ter other ex tempore or Common-Prayer So he judged that would be the Bishop's last Prayers there and so it was For the Estates for many Reasons Voted them out of Doors as a Grievance and unnecessary Trouble and Charge to the Nation And I am very well satisfied that these Bishops own personal Cruelty to the Presbyterians in Scotland who were forced to fly to England Ireland and Holland for their Safety and their Behaviour in the Convention were the Motives induced the Honourable Estates to abolish that Estate so sudden as they did And had these Bishops lived peaceably after their Abolition the States had provided for them during their Lives And thereafter the Estates appointed the Earl of Argile the Master of Stair and Sir James Montgomery of Skelmorlay their Commissioners to tender the Crown to King William and Queen Mary with the Instrument of Government which Their Majesties Signed and took the usual Oath accordingly By which Proceedings it is very clear the King and late Queen did not intrude themselves upon the Scots Throne but were the Choice of the People Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautem FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere is lately Published An Impartial Account of the Transactions in Scotland concerning the Earl of Broadalban Viscount and Master of Stair Glenco-Men Bishop of Galloway and Mr. Duncan Robertson In a Letter from a Friend To be Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster