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

[13] Hist. of Ch. of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 360.

[14] Balfour’s Annals, vol. ii., p. 226, et sequen.

[15] Baillie, vol. i., p. 15.

[16] Burnet’s Mem. 33; Baillie, i. 30-4; Hardwick’s State Papers, ii. 101.

[17] 3d Dec. 1557. 31st May 1559. 27th April 1560. Vide Knox.

[18] See Booke of the Universall Kirke, annis 1580-1590.

[19] Hist. of Ch. of Scot., vol. ii., p. 415.

[20] Both Mr Laing and Dr Cook say it was the 1st of March, (on the authority, perhaps, of Guthrie and Stevenson,) but Rothes’ Relation, and the minutes of the subsequent Assembly, shew that it was in February. It is much to be regretted that Burnet, Baillie, and other chroniclers, and even later historians, are not sufficiently attentive to dates; and this carelessness in chronology often occasions great perplexity, and leads to much confusion of events in their narratives.

[21] Vide these in Notes upon the Assembly 1638.

[22] 1606, 1608, 1610, 1616, 1617, 1618.