[113] The Book of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, i. 329, 362, &c. (Maitland Club).
[114] Ibid. i. 59.
[115] Ibid. i. 506.
[116] The Book of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, passim.
[117] "We farther give over in the hands and power of the devill the said N., to the destruction of his flesh; straitlie charging all that professe the Lord Jesus, to whose knowledge this our sentence sall come, to repute and hold the said N. accursed, and unworthie of the familiar societie of Christians; declaring unto all men that suche as hereafter, before his repentance, sall haunt or familiarlie accompanie him, are partakers of his impietie and subject to the like condemnation."—Sentence of excommunication in the First Book of Discipline.
[118] Calderwood, Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, v. 341-2 (Wodrow Society).
[119] Ibid. pp. 396-7.
[120] Cf. Presbytery Examined: an Essay on the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland since the Reformation, by the late Duke of Argyll; and the various books on Scottish Church history.
[121] The same Parliament asked the council to bring forward its evidence against Mary. If we knew all that lay behind this motion, we should probably possess a key to the problems on which so much ingenuity has been exercised. The statement, frequently quoted, that the Estates passed a solemn resolution affirming their power to depose the sovereign rests solely on the authority of Buchanan, and is directly antagonistic to the language both of the Acts and of the Scottish commissioners' protestations at York and Westminster, in which Mary is represented as abdicating of her own free will.
[122] Speech at Whitehall, 31st March, 1607.