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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
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.
Item, We give and grant you full power to augment or diminish the said Heads and Articles, as ye think the weal of the cause shall require in all points. Sic subscribitur. John of Menteth. Andrew of Rothesse. R. Boyd. William Murray of Tulibarn. John Erskine of Dun. James Hamilton. Alexander Gordon. Alexander Argyle. Glencarne. Uchiltrie. James Haliburntoun.
Item, We give and grant you full power to augment or diminsh the said Heads and Articles, as ye think the weale of the cause shall require in all points. Sic subscribitur. Iohn of Menteth. Andrew of Rothesse. R. Boyd. William Murray of Tulibarn. Iohn Erskin of Dun. Iames Hamilton. Alexander Gordon. Alexander Argyle. Glencarne. Uchiltrie. Iames Haliburntoun.
Shortly after this Contract were our pledges delivered to Master Winter Admiral of the Navy, that came to Scotland, a man of great honesty, so far as ever we could espy in him; who were safely conveyed to Newcastle, and so the English Army by land began to assemble towards the border. Whereof the French and Queen Regent assured, they began to destroy what they could in the Towns and Country about: for the whole Victuals they carried to Leith, the Mills they brake, the Sheep, Oxen and Kine, yea the Horses of poor Labourers all made they to serve their Tyranny. And finally, they left nothing which the very enemies could have devised,1 except that they demolished not Gentlemen's houses, and burnt not the Town of Edinburgh. In which point God bridled their fury, to let his afflicted understand, That he took care for them. Before the coming of the Land Army, the French past to Glasgow, and destroyed the Country thereabout. What tyranny Marticks used upon a poor Scottish Soldier, it is fearful to hear, and yet his fact may not be omitted.2 Silver would they give none to the poor man, and they were so slow to depart out of the Town; That albeit the Drum stroke, the Ensign could not be gotten. There was a poor Crafts-man, who had bought for his Victuals a brown Loaf, and was eating a morsel of it, and was putting the rest of it into his bosom. The Tyrant came to him, and with the poor wretches own dagger first stroke him in the breast, and after threw it at him, and so the poor man staggering