[128] Son to umquhile John Stewart, usher to his majesty.
[129] Acts of Estates, MS. Gen. Reg. House.
[130] This narration is taken from Fergusson’s Diary, as quoted in Satan’s Invisible World. We are obliged, however, for the name of the minister to Wodrow, Analecta, i. 65.
[131] Maitland Miscel., i. 439.
[132] From tradition.
[133] On the 18th of March 1647, finding that ‘the pride and insolency of excommunicate persons doeth exceedingly increase, and that the dreadful censure of excommunication is much slighted and vilipended, whereby God is much dishonoured,’ the Estates passed an act renewing the force of all previous acts against such persons, and ordaining that, after forty days, letters of horning and caption should be issued against them, to be of full force unless they can shew that they have given ‘full obedience and satisfaction to the kirk.’ The acts against papists were at the same time renewed; none such to be capable of public employment, husbands to be ‘countable for their wives’ if the ladies should reset priests, and no person to take a servant unprovided with ‘a testimonial of the soundness of their religion from the minister where they dwelt.’
[134] Register of the Presbytery of Lanark. Acts of the Scottish Parliament, MS.
[135] Records of Kirk of Scotland, p. 473.
[136] Nicoll’s Diary.
[137] Kirkton’s Hist. Church Scot., p. 64.