[104] Apologetical relation, § v. page 83.
[105] See these protestations in Wodrow's church-history, vol. I. p. 58 & 59.
[106] This unjust sentence was pronounced in the high church of Glasgow by Mr. John Carstairs, who prefaced Mr. Durham's posthumous works some of which are supposed to be vitiated by him especially his treatise on scandal.
[107] See this paper called the humble petition in Crookshank's history, vol. I. p. 64.
[108] Wodrow's history, vol. I. p. 61.
[109] History of his own times, page 127.
[110] Mr. Alexander Hamilton, when a student at the college of Edinburgh, at the hazard of his life, took down Mr. Guthrie's head and buried it, after it had stood a spectacle for twenty seven years; and it is observable that the very same person afterward succeeded him at Stirling, where he was minister for twelve years.
[111] He was crowned on the 8th of June by Spotswood arch-bishop of St. Andrews, assisted by the bishops of Rose and Murray, Laud then bishop of London had the direction of the ceremony. He preached in the chapel royal, and insisted upon the benefit of conformity, and the reverence due to the ceremonies of the church &c. But this discourse was far from being to the gust of the people. See Stevenson's history, Vol. I. Bennet's memorial, page 178.
[112] Vide Bailie's Letters, Vol. I. page 69.
[113] History of the Stuarts, Vol. I. page 140.