[334] Vide Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, vol. iii., p. 131. Baillie, vol. ii., p. 85
[335] Rushworth, vol. i., p. 268, 271.
[336] In order to save the necessity of frequent references to the authorities on which this brief historical sketch is given, it may be deemed sufficient to state that the facts are given chiefly from Rushworth, (Part iv., vol. i.,) in which all the documents relative to the period are to be found in the most authentic form. Whitelock’s Memorials, Baillie’s Letters, Guthrie’s Memoirs, Crawford’s Lives, and Clarendon, may also be consulted by those who desire to obtain minute and exact information with respect to the transactions of those times. We think it right to state, that throughout we have taken the documentary evidence afforded by Rushworth as our safest guide, both as to the chronology and the character of events. The works of Mr Hume and Mr Laing, in relation to those times, may be regarded rather as able historical disquisitions than histories; for the almost entire want of dates renders their narratives extremely perplexed and unsatisfactory.
[337] Vide Acts, p. 450.
[338] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i., p. 305.
[339] Ibid., p. 306.
[340] Ibid., p. 309, et seq.
[341] Rushworth, part iv., vol. i. 319, 320.
[342] Vide Documents.
[343] Vide Documents.