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The history of the affaires of Scotland from the restauration of King Charles the 2d. in the year 1660, and of the late great revolution in that kingdom : with a particular account of the extraordinary occurrences which hapned thereupon, and the transactions of the convention and Parliament to Midsomer, 1690 : with a full account of the settling of the church government there, together with the act at large for the establishing of it.
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him very uncivilly giving him very opprobrious Language and taxing him with the beggarly appearance of him and his Men whereupon Keil being provok't with a lusty Cane he had in his hand struck Lendal to the ground whereupon some other inferiour Officers made up and laying hold of Kiel they presently made him prisoner and carried him forthwith to the Main-Guard Keil being a man well known and belov'd in the Town had hundreds of the Mobile presently resorting with sticks and staves and threatning to pull down the Guard-house unless they did presently release Keil in the mean time comes up a Magistrate of the town and immediately got Keil releas'd but the Gentlemen Mobs blood being up they would not be satisfied without doing some injury to the Guard which occasioned the Souldiers to stand to their Arms and to threaten extremity to any that would dare to approach all this however would not serve but pressing on with vigorous insolence on them the Centinels were obliged to defend themselves and hapned to kill two of the daring Fellows and wounded others the Magistrates hereupon went up to the Guard and prevailed with them to go in and keep themselves close and in the mean time got two or three Companies of the Earl of Levens Regiment who were quartered in the Cannongate to come up and immediately shutting the City Gates they in a little time clear'd the streets and drove the Sparks into their Houses without further harm though they were obliged to keep Guards in many parts of the City for that Night for fear of a relapse The Captains are both of them confin'd and 't is believed he that gave the first provocation will be severely punished The Earl of Pearth had been long a Prisoner in the Castle of sterling for his high misdemeanours in the last Reign together for his disaffection to the present establishment and but now by the representation of the Earl of Crawford it was mediated that he might have his liberty provided he would procure the coming back and safe return of the young Lord Drummond his Son the Earl of Wigtown and his brother who during the Guardianship of him the said Earl of Pearth and the Earl of Melfort were sent over Seas by their especial order on purpose to be bred up in the Romish superstition and that the Earl of Pearth should give allowable security to do so as also for his peaceable behaviour without plotting or conspiring against the present Government And now at last the long expected Act for settling of the Church Government came to be passed and touch'd with the Scepter Which is at large as followeth An Act Ratifying the Confession of Faith and Settling Presbyterian Church-Government in Scotland In a Parliament at Edinburgh the 7th of June 1690. OUR Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and Three Estates of Parliament Conceiving it to be their bound Duty after the great Deliverance that God hath lately wrought for this Church and Kingdom As first To settle and secure therein the true Protestant Religion according to the truth of Gods Word as it hath of a long time been professed within this Land as also the Government of Christ's Church within this Nation agreeable to the Word of God and most condusive to the advancement of true Piety and Godliness and the Establishing of Peace and Tranquillity within this Realm And that by an Article of the Claim of Right it is Declared That Prelacy and the Superiority of any Office in the Church above Presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable Grievance and Trouble to this Nation and contrary to the Inclinations of the generality of the People ever since the Reformation they having Reformed from Popery by Presbyters and therefore ought to be abolished Likewise by an Act of the last Sessions of this Parliament Prelacy is Abolished Therefore their Majesties with the Advice and Consent of the said three Estates do hereby Revive Ratifie and perpetually Confirm all Laws Statutes and Acts of Parliament made against Popery and Papists and for the Maintainance and Preservation of the true Reformed protestant Religion and for the true Church of Christ within this Kingdom in so far as they confirm the same or are made in favour thereof Likewise they by these presents Ratify and Establish the Confession of Faith now read in their presence and Voted and Aproved by them as the Publick and a vowed Confession of this Church containing the sum and substance of the Doctrine of the Reformed Churches which confession of Faith is subjoyned to this present Act. As also they do Establish Ratify and Confirm the Presbyterian Church-Government and Discipline That is to say the Government of the Church by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Provincial Synods and General Assemblies Ratified and established by the 114 Act Ja. 6. Parl. 12. Anno 1592. Intituled Ratification of the Liberty of the true Kirk c. And thereafter received by the General consent of this Nation to be the only Government of Christs Church within this Kingdom Reviving Renewing and confirming the foresaid Act of Parliament in the whole Heads thereof except that part of it relating to Patronages which is hereafter to be taking into Consideration And Rescining Annulling and making void the Acts of Parliament following Act anent Restitution of Bishops Ja. 6. Par. 18. Cap. 2. Act Ratifying the Acts of the Assembly 1610. Ja. 6. Par. 21. Cap. 1. Act anent the Election of Arch-Bishops and Bishops Ja. 6. Par. 22. Cap. 1. Act Intituled Ratification of the five Articles of the General Assembly at Pearth Jam. 6. Par. 23. Cha. 1 Act Intituled For the Restitution and Re-stablishment of the antient Government of the Church by Arch-Bishops and Bishops Cha. 2. Par. 1. Sess 2. Act 1st Act anent the Constitution of a National Synod Ch. 2. Par. 1. Sess 3. Act 5. Act against such as refuse to Depone against Delinquents Charles 2. Par. 2. Sess 2. Act Intituled Act Acknowledging and an Asserting the Right of Succession to the Imperial Crown of Scotland Ch. 2. Par. 3. Act. 2. Act Intituled Act anent Religion and the Test Ch. 2. Par. 3. Act. 6. With all other Acts Laws Statues Ordinances and Proclamations and that in so far allenary as the said Acts and others generally and particularly above-mentioned are contrary or prejudicial to inconsistent with or derogatory from the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Government now Established and Allowing and declaring That the Church Government be Established in the hands of and exercised by these Prebyterian Ministers who were Outed since the first of January 1661. for Nonconformity to Prelacy or not complying with the Courses of the Time and are now Restored by the late Act of Parliament and such Ministers and Elders only as they have admitted or received or shall hereafter admit or receive And also that all the said Presbyterian Ministers have and shall have Right to the Maintenance Rights and other Priviledges by Law provided to the
THE HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRES OF SCOTLAND FROM The Restauration of King Charles the 2d in the year 1660. And of the late great Revolution in that Kingdom WITH A particular account of the Extraordinary Occurrences which hapned thereupon and the Transactions of the CONVENTION and PARLIAMENT to Midsomer 1690. With a full Account of the Settling of the Church Government there Together with the Act at Large for the Establishing of it Licensed and Entred according to Order LONDON Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleet-street 1690. TO THE Right Honourable JANE Countess of SUTHERLAND Madam IT was the Custom in former Ages when Offerings were made to various Deities that the Adorer made choice of that same Numen to which he thought his Oblation would be most Grateful The same reason encourages this Address to your Ladiship in hopes the Subject of it will be acceptable to a Personage so eminently fam'd for being so highly concerned in the late Miraculous Revolution and your assisting the Deliverance of these Oppressed Nations To you therefore Madam this Compendium appeals as an accomplished judge of Truth where ' ere you find it or in what ever dress 'T is true Madam the Present is but inconsiderable as is the Quality of the Presenter But Persons in your Station look down as well as upward Which if your Ladiship shall vouchsafe to do with an Eye of favour upon this unworthy Offering it is the chief Happiness aspir'd to by Madam Your Ladyships most faithful and most Humble Servant T. S. TO THE READER PRovidence over-rules all Things but never any Act of Providence so strange and so surprizing as the great Revolution that so lately happened in the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland A Revolution not to be parallel'd in History but seasonable to the British Monarchy the Glory whereof was almost brought to Ruine and Destruction Nor was it to be admired that the desire of such a Change should reach so far as Scotland where the causes were the same and the cries of Oppressions were no less loud then in England For it is too evident that all the Laws Priviledges and Rights of the Kingdom of Scotland had under the late Raigns been not onely encroached upon but subverted and Overthrown In regard that by the gradual enlargements of the Prerogative beyond what was allow'd by the Laws of the Constitution and the Statutes of the Realm the Legal and Regular Monarchy of the Nation was swell'd into an Arbitrary and Despotic Power So that all the Franchises and Rights which by Original Contracts and Subsequent Laws were reserved unto the People were either overthrown or precariously enjoy'd No wonder then it was that as well the Scots and the English sought for speedy Redress and to be freed as well from Spiritual Bondage as Temporal Slavery Which at length they obtained by the auspicious Conduct and Generous Advance of his Present Majesty to their Relief A Story certainly that cannot be otherwise then most grateful to Posterity as being accompanied with such Variety of circumstances such unparallel'd Success and the General Advantage of all Europe It was no easie Thing to reduce into Order a Chaos of Government so dismally mangled and confus'd which being so great a Work and brought to so much Perfection in so short a Time as it shews the Extraordinary Zeal and Prudence of the Artificers so did it no less magnifie the Influences that govern'd and directed all their Actions Insomuch that it may be said of the Most Illustrious King WILLIAM what Suetonius says of the Famous and Best of the Roman Emperours Vespasian Rebellione Trium Principum et caede incertum et quari vagum Imperium suscepit firmavitque Gens Nassovia Popery and Idolatry now droop and the Protestant Religion enjoys a general Freedom under a truly Protestant Defender Vnder whose Auspicious Government soon might these two Nations be happy had we not so many Disturbers of Israel amongst us though it was not well known what they repined and grumbled at till this late detection of complicated Conspiracy for the Restoration of Popery and Tyranny In short there has already an accompt been given of our deliverance in England This is a Prospect of the same Deliverance in Scotland the one no less conducible to be known then the Other especially to those who are desirous to observe the Coherences and Concatenations of Providence I will not say it is a structure embellished with the flourishes of Eloquence as being only designed for plainness and exactness wherein I may he bold to say that diligence has been observed as to compile it in the best manner and method that the Truth of Collection could any way claim as due to it And being laid upon so solid a foundation however it fares of it self it may serve to give Light to politer Pens when they shall be at leisure to be more accurate Though there is no question to be made but that many will be as willing to see the naked Rasters of a History as to view the covered Frame though Japanned over never so curiously The History of the Affairs and late Revolution in Scotland from the Year 1660. to this present Year 1690. WHEN Charles II. was restored in the Year 1660. to his ancient Dominions from which he had been for some time kept out by the Civil Wars the Joy was no less cordial and universal in Scotland then in England And it may be said the extraordinary favour of Heaven did so second the Constancy of the Scottish Nation 's Love to a Prince so long wish'd for that their great Persuasions of his singular Endowments without regard to the wary Cautions of scrupulous Prudence were the only measures of their Concessions They established his Prerogative to be absolute and uncontroulable in the choice of all Officers of State Counsellors and Judges and in and over all matters of Peace War Leagues Conventions and Parliaments with a distinct Exclusion of all Exceptions They added to his Revenue above double of what he formerly possessed They declared his ordering and disposal of Trade with Foreign Nations and the laying Restraints and Impositions upon Foreign Imported Commodities to belong to his Majesty and his Successors as an undoubted Prerogative of the Crown And that it might appear that they placed the Security of all their Interests more in the confidence of His Majesties Goodness than on the firmest provision of their best Laws tho' the Parliament in 1641. was held by King Charles I. then present in person and many Acts were there pass'd and subscribed by him for the setling their Religion and Liberties with all the Authority of Judgment that long and well-weigh'd Experience could furnish yet because their Luster seemed to be somewhat eclipsed by the harsh remembrance of some previous Contentions wherein it was their misfortune to have His Majesty differing from them at one blow they annull'd that Parliament and without any other reason