[84] The Memoirs of Bishop Guthry 9.
[85] From the report of the King-at-arms. Aiton, Life of Henderson, 129, 137.
[86] ‘La quelle (it is said in an instruction of 1640) en rigueur et cruauté surpasse l’inquisition d’Espagne, car en cette nouvelle cour les evesques seuls commandoient à la baguette, avec un pouvoir absolu—à l’encontre de toutes sortes de personnes, de quelque condition et qualité qu’elles fussent’ Russel, Life of Spottiswood xliii.
[87] Baillie, Jan. 1637. ‘The last year (1636) our bishops guided all our estate, and became very terrible to our whole country.’ A later petition (1638) of the Scottish Privy Council complains of ‘the illimited power which the lords of the clergie in this kingdom have of late assumed—its unwarranted power.’
[88] Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall—ratified by H. Maj. royal warrant—and ordained to be observed: Aberdene, 1636. Cp. Collier, Eccl. Hist. ii. 762.
[89] Account of the riots on Sunday, July 23, 1637. From Wodrow’s Life of Lindsay, in Aiton, App. I.
[90] The Clergie’s report about the Service-book. Apud Edr. 29 Julii, 1637.
[91] Supplication of certain ministers of Fyffe, and Information given to several counsellers, in Baillie, App. i. 400.
[92] A relation of proceedings concerning the affairs of the King of Scotland from Aug. 1637 to July 1638, by John Earl of Rothes.