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A50800	An appendix to the history of the Church of Scotland containing the succession of the archbishops and bishops in their several sees from the reformation of the religion until the year 1676, as also the several orders of monks and friers &c. in Scotland before the Reformation : with the foundation of the universities and colledges, their benefactours, principals, professours of divinity and present masters : and an account of the government, laws and constitution of the Kingdom.	Middleton, Thomas, 17th cent.	1677 (1677)	Wing M1990; ESTC R29541	55,302	57

Power of Calling Adjourning Prorogation is not in our Law and Dissolving of Parliaments the giving the Votes of Parliament the Authority of Laws the executing of the Law and the pardoning of Offences are clearly and onely in the Crown But to these other great Additions have been made in the two Parliaments held since His MAJESTIE' 's Restauration For whereas the Supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs was always in the Crown since the Reformation yet in the Reign of King James the Sixth the Power of the General Assembly was raised very high by Law which was the chief foundation of the late Troubles it being pretended that it was contrary to Law for the King to introduce any thing into the Church without the consent of a General Assembly It was therefore enacted in Parliament That the External Government and Polity of the Church was wholly in the King's power and that his Orders sent to the Privy Council and published by them about all Ecclesiastical matters Meetings and Persons were to be obeyed by the Subjects any Law or Practice to the contrary notwithstanding So that in all matters that relate to the Chuch-Government the King's Power is absolute The Second Point is about the Militia By the ancient Laws of Scotland all the King's Subjects were to assist him in his Wars Upon which a great enlargement of the King's Prerogative was grafted of late by two Acts of Parliament the Kingdom of Scotland offering to the King to raise and arm Twenty thoussand Foot and Two thousand Horse and to furnish them with forty days Provision to march into any of His Majestie 's Dominions of Scotland England or Ireland for suppressing any Foreign Invasion Intestine Trouble or Insurrection or for any other Service wherein His Majestie 's Honour Authority or Greatness may be concerned And these Forces by another Act are to give due Obedience to all such Directions as they shall receive from His Majestie 's Privie Council A Third Point is the Ordering and disposing of Trade with Forein Nations and the laying of Restraints and Impositions upon Forein imported Commodities which is declared a Prerogative of the Crown With these Sacred Rights is the Crown of Scotland cloathed The King's Revenue consisted anciently most in the Crown-Lands which could not be alienated but by Act of Parliament and in the Wards and Marriages of the Vassals of the Crown But most of these have been of late years given away and most of the Tenures of Lands are changed although there has been no general Law for taking away the Wards The Revenue is now raised out of the Customes and the Excise The last is given to this King for life but the former is in the Crown for ever The rest is raised out of what remains of the Crown-Lands and the Wards The Persons nearest in bloud to the King are first all the Issue of King James and King Charles which are so well known to every one that they need not be repeated Next to them are all that are descended from the Daughter of King James the Second since whom till the Queen of Bohemia no Collateral Branch sprung from the Royal Family of whom any Issue remains who was married to James Lord Hamilton and had issue first James created Earl of Arran whose Son was the Duke of Chastelberault from whom by two Sons and two Daughters are descended the Families of Hamilton and Abercorn and the Families of Huntly and Launderdail And by an Act of Parliament signed by all the Three Estates the Original whereof is yet extant in the Reign of Queen Mary the Duke of Chastelberault's Family is declared next the Queen and her Issue the rightfull Heir of the Crown The Sister of King James the Third bare likewise to the Lord Hamilton a Daughter married to the Earl of Lennox from whom descended the Family of Lennox There is no other Branch of the Royal Family since it was in the Line of the Stewarts except the Earl of Cassils his Family whose Ancestour the Lord Kennedy married King James the First 's Sister from which Mariage that Family is descended And so much of the Royal Family The Chief and Supreme Court is the High Court of Parliament which is made up of Three Estates The First is the Ecclesiastical that of old consisted of the Bishops and Mitered Abbots but since the Reformation consists onely of Archbishops and Bishops The Second Estate is the Nobility who were anciently divided into the Greater Barons and the Lesser for every man that holds Lands of the Crown with a Privilege of holding a Court much like the Lord of a Manour in England is called a Baron and all were obliged to appear personally in Parliament for Proxies were never allowed by the Law of Scotland and give the King Counsel This proved a very heavy burthen to the small Barons upon which they desired to be excused from their attendance in Parliament and this was granted to them as a favour in King James the First 's reign And though by that Act they might have sent two or three or more to represent them from every Shire yet they made no use of that for above 150 years but King James the Sixth to balance the Nobility got them restored to that Right so that ever since there are two sent from every Shire who are Commissioners for the Shires The Third Estate is the Burroughs every one of which chuseth one Commissioner onely the City of Edinburgh as the Metropolis chuseth two The Parliament is summoned by Proclamation made at the Head-Burrough of every Shire 40 days before they meet upon which the Shires and Burroughs meet about their Elections Every man that holds Lands of the Crown that in the Rolls of the Taxation the ancient Name of Subsidies or Assessments are valued at 40 shillings Scotish mony of Taxation to the King which will be in real value about Ten pounds Sterling a year is an Electour and may be Elected so he be rightly vested in the Land or according to the Scotish terms infeoft and seised and be not at the King's Horn that is under an Outlawry The Electours subscribe the Commissions they give and so their Commissioner is returned and if there be cross Elections the Parliament is the onely Judge In the Burroughs the Common-Council of the Town makes the Election When the day comes in which the Parliament is to be held the Regalia the Crown Sceptre and the Sword of State which are kept in the Castle of Edinburgh are brought down in State to the King's Palace and are to be carried by three of the ancientest Earls that are upon the place bare-headed before the King or His Commissioner In the great Court before the King's Palace all the Members of Parliament do mount on Horseback with Foot-cloaths c. The Burgesses ride first the Commissioners of the Shires next then the Lords Viscounts and Earls in their Robes the last of whom do carry the

Irwing 7. Bamff The Trinity Friers or Mathurins follow These were also called Robertines and De Redemptione Captivorum whose work was to beg mony of well-disposed people for Ransoming of Christian Captives from the Slavery of the Turks These Friers had their Houses At 1. Falle 2. Houstoun 3. Dornoch 4. Cromarty 5. Scotland-well 6. Aberdene 7. Peeblis I can give no account concerning the several Orders of NVNS in Scotland Their Convents were 1. The Priory of North-Berwick in Lothian founded by Duncan Earl of Fife 2. The Priory of Haddington in Lothian founded by Ada Countess of Northumberland Wife to Prince Henry onely Son of King David the First 3. The Priory of Saint Bothans in Lammer-moor founded by Christiana Countess of March 4. The Priory of Manuel in Lothian founded by King Malcolme the Fourth 5. The Priory of Coldstream in Mers founded by the Countess of March 6. The Priory of Ecclis in Mers founded by King David the First The Gray Sisters had their Houses At 1. Dundee 2. Aberdene 3. Sheens near Edinburgh What kind of Monks were in the following Monasteries I have not as yet learned 1. The Monastery of Abernethy in Strath-Jerne founded by Caranachus the King of the Picts 2. The Monastery of Saint Andrew de beugh founded by King Constantine the Second 3. The Abbey of Soutre in Lothian founded by King Malcolm the Fourth 4. The Priory of Cannabie in Eskdail 5. The Priory of Star-inch in Lewis founded by Maclewid Baron of Lewis 6. The Priory of Rowadill in Harrigh founded by Maclewid Baron of Harrigh 7. The Priory of Inchmahomo in Perth-shire 8. The Monastery of Elbottle a Cell belonging to South Berwick 9. The Priory of Gulane in Lothian a Cell belonging to South Berwick founded by King David the First 10. The Priory of Aberdowr in Fife Thus much concerning Monks and Friers BEsides the Convents of Regulars there were Colledges erected for SECVLAR PRIESTS and amply endowed with Revenues The chief person of the Colledge of Secular Canons was called the Provost and the Colledge it self the Provostry Let us take a view of them 1. The Colledge of Bothwell in Clidisdail founded by Archbald the First Earl of Douglas It was before a Cloister of Nuns 2. The Colledge of Linclowden in Nithisdail founded by the same Archbald 3. The Colledge of Bothans in Lothian founded by William Hay Baron of Yester 4. The Provostry of Minniboll in Carrict founded by Sir Gilbert Kennedy Knight 5. The Colledge of Dumbar in Lothian founded by George Earl of March 6. The Colledge of Carnwath in Clidisdail founded by Thomas Lord Summervile 7. The Colledge of Methuen in Strath-Jerne founded by Walter Stewart Earl of Athol 8. The Provostry of Dalkeith in Lothian founded by James Douglas the second Earl of Morton 9. The Provostry of Fowlis in Angus founded by Andrew Gray of Fowlis 10. The Colledge of Kilmund in Cowal founded by Sir Duncan Campbell Knight 11. The Provostry of Dirlton in Lothian founded by Sir Walter Haliburton of Dirlton 12. The Colledge of Rosseline in Lothian founded by William Sinclair Earl of Orkney 13. The Provostry of Dunglas in Mers founded by Alexander Hume Lord Hume 14. The King's Colledge of Striveling founded by King James the Third 15. Trinity Colledge in Edinburgh founded by Mary Widow of King James the Second 16. The Provostry of Restalrig in Lothian founded by King James the Fourth 17. The Provostry of Seaton in Lothian founded by the Lord Seaton 18. The Provostry of Costorphine in Lothian founded by the Baron of Costorphine Forrester 19. The Colledge of Creighton in Lothian founded by the Earl of Bothwell Hepburn 20. The Provostry of Sempill in Ranfrew-shire founded by the Lord Sempill 21. The Colledge of Kilmawers in Cunninghame founded by the Earl of Glencarn 22. The Colledge of Hamilton in Clidisdail founded by the Lord Hamilton 23. The Colledge of Dumbarton in Lennox founded by one of the Countesses of Lennox 24. The Provostry of Tillibarden in Strath-Jerne founded by the Baron of Tillibarden Murray 25. The Provostry of Tayne in Ross founded by King James the Fourth 26. The Provostry of Abernethie in Strath-Jerne founded by one of the Earls of Douglas The chief Church in great Towns was a Collegiate-Church as Saint Giles in Edinburgh c. LAST of all follow the KNIGHTS TEMPLARS This Order was instituted by Pope Gelasius about the year of our Lord 1120. Their Office and Vow was to defend the Temple and the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem to entertain Christian Strangers that came thither for Devotion and to guard them in safety when they went to visit the places of the Holy Land Their Habit was a White Cloak with a Red Cross and a Sword girt about them They were suppressed by Pope Clemens the Fifth about the year 1310. and their Lands were by a General Council held at Vienna conferr'd on the Knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem called also Joannites and after Knights of the Rhodes and lastly of Malta where they live at this day The Templars and their Successours spoken of before had onely one House in Scotland which was the Hospital of Saint Germans in Lothian This House was dissolved Anno 1494. and the greatest part of its Revenues by King James the Fourth conferr'd upon the King's Colledge of Aberdene then newly founded by Bishop William Elphingston Though I cannot give an account in what year every particular Monastery in Scotland was founded yet their general Dissolution was about the year 1560. There was also a Convent of Red Friers at the mouth of Teviot near Kelso but by whom built I cannot learn CHAP. III. The UNIVERSITIES of SCOTLAND THere are four Universities in Scotland SAINT ANDREWS GLASGOW ABERDENE EDINBVRGH The Vniversitie of SAINT ANDREWS WAS founded by Bishop Henry Wardlaw Anno Christi 1412. It is endowed with very ample Privileges The Archbishops of Saint Andrews are perpetual Chancellours thereof The Rectour is chosen yearly and by the Statutes of the Universitie he ought to be one of the three Principals His Power is the same with that of the Vice-chancellour of Oxford or Cambridge There are in this Universitie three Colledges viz. SAINT SALVATOR'S SAINT LEONARD'S NEW COLLEDGE SAINT SALVATOR'S Colledge James Kennedy Bishop of Saint Andrews founded this Colledge built the Edifice furnished it with costly Ornaments and provided sufficient Revenues for the maintenance of the Masters and Professours Persons endowed at the Foundation were A Doctour A Bachelour A Licenciate of Divinitie Four Professours of Philosophy who are called Regents Eight poor Scholars called Bursars Benefactours I can give little or no account of the Benefactours The Earl of Cassils hath founded a Professour of Humanitie to teach the Latin tongue George Martyn cieled the great Hall Present Professours George Weemis Doctour of Divinity Provost James Rymer Professours of Philosophy George Thomson Professours of Philosophy Edward Thomson Professours of Philosophy James Strachan Professours of Philosophy The Arms of Saint Salvator's