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A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland
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Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; Meldrum, George, 1635?-1709.
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no ease of Burden or redress of Laws And this obliged them to send up an Address to K. William subscrib'd by the greatest part of the Members of Parliament of Scotland representing to him the Grievances which they wanted to be redress'd in the present Parliament This Address was deliver'd to him by the Earl of Annandale the Lord Rosse and Sir James Montgomery of Skelmurly at Hampton Court the 15th day of October 1689. They were much dissatisfy'd with the Ministers of State whom King William had received into his Councils and Service alledging that he had made choice of those very Men who had been the Instruments of K. James ' Miseries and Ruine by advising him to these Courses that had robb'd him of the Hearts of his Subjects It was these Ministers whom they blam'd as the Authors of all the Differences that had arisen betwixt K. William and his Parliament in Scotland they thought his delaying to gratifie their Desires proceeded merely from the sinister Misrepresentations given him of their Demands as illegal and as Encroachments upon the Royal Authority And therefore to justifie their Actions they publish'd this Treatise and their Address to King William to shew that what they desired therein was agreeable to all the Rules of Law Religion and Policy The Author has inserted at large the several contested Votes of Parliament to which K. William had refused his assent and he endeavours to demonstrate the Legality Reasonableness and Necessity of them by proving them to be in all Points agreeable to the antient Laws and Customs of that Nation This has produced us another Discourse on the same Subject in answer to the former It is call'd An Account of the Affairs of Scotland in relation to their Religious and Civil Rights Here our Author undertakes to satisfie the World that K. William had offer'd to the Parliament in Scotland all the Satisfaction and Redress of their Grievances that reasonable Men could expect and that the true Source and Fountain whence proceeded all the Complaints of the discontented Party was that some of their Number were not advanc'd to such honourable and advantageous Posts of the State as they thought they had merited by their Zeal for K. William and the eminent Services they had done him in advancing his Interest in that Kingdom And to evince what he undertakes he has set down at length the Grievances themselves and the Redress offer'd them by King William in his Instructions to his Commissioner and makes some Reflections on both If you encline to search any further into the History of these Debates betwixt K. William and his Parliament you may consult the Treatises themselves to which I refer you I suppose you may have heard how active and diligent the Presbyterians in Scotland have been ever since this late Revolution to exclaim against the Injustice and Severity of the former Reigns and particularly that of K. Charles II. under whose Administration we enjoyed so much Peace and Tranquillity whom they charge with Tyranny and Oppression Cruelty and Persecution against them and their Adherents and reproach his Ministers of State as Subverters of the Laws of the Kingdom and Betrayers of the Liberties and Property of the Subject The bad Impression which these Clamours made upon Strangers that were ignorant of these Transactions obliged Sir Geo. Mackenzie who had been Advocate to K. Charles II. and was principally aim'd at in many of the Reflections cast upon the Government and its Ministers to vindicate his Majesty K. Charles and his Ministers of State from these Calumnies and Aspersions so unjustly thrown upon them And this he has very fully and satisfactorily done in a Discourse publish'd after his Death and called A Vindication of the Government in Scotland during the Reign of K. Charles II against Misrepresentations made in several scandalous Pamphlets To which is added The Method of proceeding against Criminals as also some of the Phanatical Covenants as they were printed and published by themselves in that Reign By Sir George Maekenzie late Lord Advocate there In this Treatise we have a short Narrative of the Proceedings of that Government in relation to the Presbyterian Dissenters which alone is sufficient to undeceive Persons that have been imposed upon by Misrepresentations and to confute all the malicious Calumnies raised against the Government For when we consider the frequent Rebellions and Commotions which the Presbyterians raised during the Reign of King Charles II. we shall soon find that those Acts of the Government which they tax with the greatest Severity savour of nothing but Mildness and Lenity and that the Government proceeded by the slowest steps imaginable to punish those who openly own'd their Designs of subverting the Monarchy The Authour has collected all the Objections and Instances of pretended Cruelty against the Government which the Malice of its Enemies could contrive and has answer'd them beyond the possibility of a Reply The Publisher has subjoyned a Collection of original Papers publish'd by themselves which contain an Account of their avowed Principles and Practices and from thence you may easily judg how consistent it is with the Security of any Government to suffer the Propagation of such wicked and seditious Principles But I think you cannot have a more impartial and true Account of their Principles nor a fuller Vindication of the Proceedings of the Government against this rebellious Party than from a Book lately publish'd under this Title The History of Scotch Presbytery being an Epitome of the Hind let loose by Mr. Shields With a Preface by a Presbyter of the Church of Scotland It is Epitome of a larger Book published by Mr. Alexander Shields one of their most eminent Preachers and a zealous Defender of the good old Cause Here we have a true Description of the Temper and Genius of the whole Party and it discovers the true Spirit of the Presbyterian Gospel There is none of them that bâ—tter understands the true Tenets of the Presbyterians nor is more consequential to their Principles for he fairly sets down their Doctrines and Opinions and disowns none of the most absurd and pernicious Consequences that naturally flow from them He gives us an Historical Account of their many Insurrections and Rebellions against the Civil Government and very frankly owns and justifies them all together with several of their barbarous Murders committed upon the Archbishop of S. Andrews and some others so that by a slight view of this Book you may easily judg whether any Government of whatever species can subsist where such Principles and Doctrines are suffer'd to be propagated among the Subjects And now Sir I have satisfied your desire as fully as possibly I could I have given you an exact Account of the most if not all the considerable Treatises that have been Printed with respect to the present Persecution of the Church of Scotland and that you may be the better able to judge of the truth and certainty of it I have set down the
concerning his barbarous Usage by the Rabble I Master Gilbert Muschet Minister at Cumbernauld do by these presents declare That whereas I was orderly presented to the Church at Cumbernauld by John Earl of Wigtone and received Ordination and Collation from Alexander late Archbishop of St. Andrews then Lord Archbishop of Glasgow and continued there these Twenty Three Years in the Function of the Ministry Yet nevertheless I have been of late excluded and expell'd by the Rabble both from the Church and from my Manse and Glebe and I my self and my Wife have been in great danger of our Lives having been hurt and wounded by my own Parishioners and their Associates Follow the particular Wrongs done me by the Rabble and the Parties and Witnesses if I could have a hearing On Christmas day 1688. They took away all my Books together with my Papers to burn them at the Trone The Parties were James Mochrie Rob. Allan John Kirkwood John Anderson James Rae James John and Alexander Neilsons by order as they alledg'd from John Carmichael Chamberlaine James Carmichael his Son and James Fleyming Ground Officer Witnesses were Fergus Lugie Hary Logy John Baird and Robert Boyd Younger In January 1689. They made me by their Threatnings give back Four Petty Poynds to the value of ten or twelve Pounds Scotch that were long ago obtained in a fair legal way by a Decree before the Sheriff for payment to the Reader and Beddal The Parties were Ja. Brounlees John Ballach John Russel of Catecraig and Tho. Smellie Witnesses Fergus Lugie Will. Cassils Ja. Starke and their two Wives and Robert Stark Kirk-Officer February 4th They excluded me from the Church and sacrilegiously robb'd and took away the Key of the Church Door together with the Vtensils of the Church They likewise broke open the Doors of my House with a great Hammer rent my Gown and burnt it and laid violent hands upon my self and my Wife and the Kirk Officer Parties Ja. Bailzie Ja. Mochrie Rob. Angus Ja. Bresh Alexander Harvy Ja. Thomson Ja. Rae John Gillespie Younger Agnes Mochrie and Agnes Steil Witnesses John Davy Rob. Stirling Tho. Buchanan and John Steil March 7. They came out with Staves and Battoons and stop'd my Plough after I had till'd near Three Acres thereof and threatned to beat the Ploughmen to cut the Horse Legs and Plough-tackling if they did not desist Parties Robert Stirling Marion Lamb Agnes Mochrie Margaret Moorhead Margaret Miller Jean Miller Margaret Davy and Ja. Buchanan Witnesses John Watson David Macklay William Cassils Younger James Machany Margaret Colen and Mary Stark April 30. They took possession of my Glebe being Seven Acres and a half of Land for the use of the Meeting-House Preacher they till'd the rest of it and thereafter did sow and harrow it all except one ridg which I had caused sow and harrow before Parties Robert Boyd Ja. Russel Ja. Gilmore John Anderson John Young James Mochrie William Cassils and Ja. Rae And tho Eight of them had promised to pay me for what I had tilled and sown thereof yet they never performed the same Witnesses John Carmichael James Carmichael James Davie and Ja. Jarvey April 21. They violently by force of Arms stopp'd my entry into the Church in order to read the Convention's Proclamation and threw the Proclamation in the Ditch and carried me Prisoner to the Town Parties Ja. Rae and John Greenlees armed their Associates John Kirkwood William Cassils Ja. Mochrie Robert Allan James Thomson John Anderson John Smith James Buchanan and Tho. Dinn Witnesses Rob. Bresh James Machany John Stark Robert Alexander and John Ewans Hugh Templeton with divers others April 28. The entred the Meeting-House Preacher into the Church by force of Arms tho he never read the Convention's Proclamation nor obey'd the tenour of it then or since Parties Ja. Mochrie John Kirkwood William Cassils Ja. Thomson Ja. Rae John Greenlees Thomas Dinn John Smith Ja. Anderson Ja. Renie John Gillespie Witnesses Ja. Russel John Young John Stirling with divers others May 2. They broke open the Windows of my House robbing me of several things to a considerable value and charged me to remove the rest of my Furniture within Twenty four Hours otherwise they would throw it into the Stone-Quarry Parties Ja. Mochrie Ja. Rae Ja. Gilmore Younger and Ja. Buchanan with others Witnesses Jo. Kirkwood Ja. Neilson John Gillespie and Ja. Buchanan May 3. They again after opprobrious Language haled me Prisoner to the Newtoun commanding me to deliver up the Key of the Manse and three of them broke two of the Doors in my own House within the Newtoun of Cumbernauld beating my Wife Parties Ja. Mochrie Ja. Rae and James Buchanan the first of these searched narrowly for me in my own Chamber threatning to kill me where I narrowly escaped and he thereafter pursued me upon the King's High-way Associates to the said Three Persons were John Gillespy Younger Ja. Gilmore Younger and James Renie together with John Kirkwood William Cassils and James Thomson John Anderson John Greenlees and John Smith Witnesses John Young Hary Luggie Ja. Barrie Hugh Templetone and others at a publick Wedding May 20. Mr. Michael Robb the Meeting-House Preacher extruded me from the Glebe as the Rabble did from the Manse and caused his Servant to beat the Kirk-Officer when he was shearing a little Grass for my Horse when he was taken away by the command of one Lieutenant Haddo who took him along to the South and West Countries twenty days upon pretence of a commanded Party Witnesses John Stirling John Bennie John and Tho. Buchanans Jo. Cowie Robert Stark Alexander Robert and John Ewans July 28. After ringing the first Bell I entered the Church and read the Convention's Proclamation before an English Captain and Cornet and John Carmichael Chamberlain and having thereafter offered to preach in the Forenoon and to obey the tenour of the said Proclamation I was stopped by James Rae and William Cassils the last whereof laid violent hands upon me in that sacred place and hurled me by the Shoulders through the Church Isle and thrust me out at the Door tearing my Coat and my Gown Witnesses Ja. Robb James Neilson John Gillespy Younger James John and Tho. Buchanans and Ja. Renie August 6. They caused Home of Nineholes Troop eat a whole Night the Grass of that Meadow which I paid Duty for to the Earl of Wigtone the Hay thereof being worth Ten Marks Scotch was quite destroy'd and they caus'd Captain Morton's Horse eat a considerable quantity of my Corn of that Land I pay for yearly Parties John Carmichael who quartered the said Troop Mr. Robb and John Cuy his Servant who put them from the Glebe to eat my Meadow Witnesses John and Thomas Buchanans Alexander and John Ewans September 20. They pursued me upon the High-way as I was convoying a Cousin of my own alledging that he and I had taken down the Bell. They hurled us back Prisoners to the Town and James Rae ran at