A47584:1076
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
Book 5: THE FIFTH BOOK Of the Reformation of the CHURCH Of SCOTLAND.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now amongst the people there were divers brutes; for some alleged, That the cause of this alteration was not for Religion, but rather for hatred, envy of sudden promotion or dignity, or such worldly causes: But they that considered the progress of the matter, according as is heretofore declared, thought the principal cause to be only for Religion.
Now amongst the people there were divers brutes; for some alleadged, That the cause of this alteration was not for Religion, but rather for hatred, envie of sudden promotion or dignity, or such worldly causes: But they that considered the progresse of the matter, according as is heretofore declared, thought the principall cause to be onely for Religion.
In this mean time, the Lords past to Argyle, taking apparently little care of the trouble that was to come: Howbeit they sent into England M. Nicolas Elphinston for support, who brought some Moneys in this Country, to the sum of ten thousand pounds stirling. There came one forth of England to the Queen, who got Presence the seventh of August in Halyrud-house. He was not well, &c.
In this mean time, the Lords past to Argyle, taking apparantly little care of the trouble that was to come: Howbeit they sent into England M. Nicolas Elphinston for support, who brought some Moneys in this Countrey, to the sum of ten thousand pounds sterlin. There came one forth of England to the Queen, who got Presence the seventh of August in Halyrud-house. He was not well, &c.
About the fifteenth of August, the Lords met at Air, to wit, the Duke ⟨p. 416⟩Hamilton, the Earls Argile, Murray, Glencarne, Rothesse, the Lord Boyd, and Ochiltrie, with divers Barons and Gentlemen of Fife and Kyle, where they concluded to be in readiness with their whole Forces the four and twentieth day of August. But the King and Queen with great cerity prevented them, for their Majesties sent through Lowthian, Fife, Angus, Stratherne, Tividaile and Chiddisdaile and other Shires, making their Proclamations in this manner, That forasmuch as certain Rebels, who (under colour of Religion) intended nothing but the trouble and subversion of the Common-wealth,