[ [81] Act of Classes for purging the Judicatories and other Places of Public Trust. Act. Parl. Scot. VI. ii. 143.
[ [82] Letters and Journals, iii. 225.
[ [83] Orme’s Life of Owen, p. 128; Whitelocke, July 1650.
[ [84] Letter to the Council of State, 25th September 1650.
[ [85] Letters and Journals, iii. 291.
[ [86] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1659-1660, p. 35; Act. Parl. Scot. VI. ii. 587.
[ [87] Letters and Journals, iii. 249, 288, 357, 360, 387.
[ [88] Kirkton’s True and Secret History of the Church of Scotland (edited from the original MS. by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 1817), pp. 64, 65. In Law’s Memorialls (edited from the MS. by Mr. Sharpe in 1818) there is a passage which, if it is to be relied on, shows that during this period the course of religion had been advanced by the policy of preventing the clergy interfering so constantly in politics. “It is not to be forgotten,” Law says, “that, from the year 1652 to the year 1660, there was great good done by the preaching of the gospell in the West of Scotland, more than was observed to have been for twenty or thirty yeirs before; a great many being brought in to Christ Jesus by a saving work of conversion, which was occasioned through ministers preaching nothing all that tyme but the gospell, and had left off to preach up parliaments, armies, leagues, resolutions, and remonstrances, which was much in use before, from the year 1638 till that time 52, which occasioned a great number of hypocrytes in the Church, who, out of hope of preferment, honour, riches, and worldly credit, took on the form of godliness, but wanted the power of it.”
[ [89] History of the Union, section ii. p. 10, first edition, published in 1709. Defoe’s History of the Union was reprinted in 1712 and 1786, and again in 1787 “with an introduction, in which the consequences and probability of a like union with Ireland are considered.”
[ [90] January 1658, Carlyle’s Cromwell, Speech XVII.