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

[279] Vide Balfour, vol. iii., pp. 4-9.

[280] Vide p. 235. Minutes of Parliament. Acts, vol. v., p. 360.

[281] Son of the Archbishop, and President of the Session.

[282] Baillie, vol. i., p. 324.

[283] Vol. iii., p. 40.

[284] Vide Acts, vol. v., p. 370, 371, &c.

[285] Balfour, vol. iii., p. 65.

[286] The following lists of officers of state, &c., (from Balfour’s Annals, vol. iii., p. 148,) when compared with the rolls of the Assemblies in 1638 and 1639 shew, that the former of these, (and, indeed, the latter, too,) were quite as much political as ecclesiastical conventions. The lay leaders of the Tables, and in the Assemblies, were just the identical persons who had mounted on the ecclesiastical ladder to political power and place:—

“The 3 estaits of parl: hes delett out of the roll of counsellors giuen in by hes Maiesty, thesse follouing—viz., George, Marques of Huntley; Villiam, Earle of Airth and Menteth; Alexander, Earle of Linlithgow; James, Earle of Home; Patrick, Earle of Tullibardyne; Alexander, Earle of Galloway; Villiam, Earle of Dumfreis; Robert, Earle of Carnwathe. And in ther places the 3 estaits did put in Johne, Earle of Sutherland; Villiam, Earle of Louthean; Alex: Earle of Dalhousie; Johne, Lord Zester; Johne, Lord St. Claire; Johne, Lord Balmerinache; Robert, Lord Burlie.

“Acte anent the nominatione and electione of the counsellours votted and past, according to this subsequent roll:—James, Duck of Lennox and Richmond; James, Marq: of Hamilton; Archbald, Earle of Argyle; Villiam, Earle of Marishall; Johne, Earle of Sutherland; Johne, Earle of Mar; Alex: Earle of Eglintone; Johne, Earle of Cassiles; Villiam, Earle of Glencairne; James, Earle of Murray; Johne, Earle of Perth; Charles, Earle of Dumfermling; Johne, Earle of Vigtone; Johne, Earle of Kingorne; George, Earle of Seaforte; Johne, Earle of Lauderdaill; George, Earle of Kinnoule; Villiam, Earle of Louthean; Dauid, Earle of Southescke; John, Earle of Wymees; Alex: Earle of Dalhousie; James, Earle of Finlater; Alexander, Earle of Leuin; Archbald, Lo: Angus; Johne, Lo: Lindesay; Johne, Lo: Zester; Johne, Lo: St. Claire; Alex: Lo: Elphingstone; Johne, Lo: Balmerinoche; Robert, Lo: Burlie; James, Lo: Amont; Alexandʳ, Lo: Balcarras; Sʳ Robert Gordon, Vice Chamberlaine; Sʳ Patrick Hepburne of Vaughtone; Sʳ Villiam Douglas of Cauers; Sʳ Ja: Dundas of the same; Thomas Myrtone of Camwo; Sʳ Dauid Grhame of Fintrey; Sʳ John Erskyne of Dune; Sʳ Robert Grhame of Morphie; Sʳ Robert Innes of the same; Prouest of Edinbrughe for the tyme.