Records of the Kirk of Scotland / containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

[3] “History of his Own Times,” p. 11 of imperial edition, 1837.

[4] Acts, 1637.

[5] Acts, 1633, c. 3.

[6] 1634.

[7] November 1635.

[8] Burnet, pp. 11-14. Burnet’s account of these several proceedings, confirmed as it is by authentic records, seems entitled to the fullest credit; for it is taken from documents in his hands, which enabled him to give a genuine and unvarnished statement of the most minute particulars.

[9] See Neale’s “History of the Puritans,” a work of great research and value.

[10] Clarendon, Baillie, Spottiswood, Burnet, Row, Guthrie, Calderwood, Kirkton, Melville; and, more recently, Hume, Laing, Cook, M‘Crie, Aiton, &c.

[11] First Book of Discipline, c. iv. § 14; c.v. § 5.

[12] 1616.