[11] The failure of the Duke of Buckingham’s army to relieve Rochelle, and its shameful retreat from the Isle of Ré.
[12] Stevenson’s History of the Church of Scotland quoting a contemporary history which he supposes to have been written by one who was minister of Carlaverock or Ruthwell.
[13] Sir John is described in other entries as keeping priests in his house of Caddell, and there setting the law at defiance.
[14] Row’s Hist. Church of Scot., p. 348.
[15] Stevenson, quoting Historical Collections.
[16] Privy Council Record. Book of Adjournal.
[17] In June 1569, the Regent Moray reported to the General Assembly of the church a case which had puzzled him on a justiciary visit to Elgin. It was that of one Nicol Sutherland in Forres, who was convicted by an assize of incest with a woman who had been the paramour of his mother’s brother. The regent hesitated about considering this crime as rightly named, and wished the decision of the assembly on the point. The reverend assembly had no hesitation in pronouncing in the affirmative. Nicol would consequently be hanged.—B. U. K.
In August 1626, William Hamilton of Cultes was under discipline in the presbytery of Lanark for his incestuous marriage with his good dame’s brother’s wife—that is, we presume, the widow of his step-mother or step-grandmother’s brother.—R. P. L.
[18] In the General Assembly of 1565, the church found that the marriage of cousins was not forbidden in Scripture; but seeing that it had been attended with inconveniences, desired that the matter should be settled by the civil magistrate.—B. U. K.
[19] Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 641.