[133] The main heads of James's delinquencies were: (1) erecting schools and societies of Jesuits, &c.; (2) making papists great officers of state; (3) enforcing oaths contrary to law; (4) taxation and the maintenance of a standing army without consent of Parliament; (5) the employment of military officers as judges; (6) exorbitant fines; (7) illegal imprisonment; (8) forfeitures by obsolete laws; (9) subversion of rights of royal burghs; (10) interference with justice.
[134] In spite of the irritating interferences which provoked the indignant rhetoric of Fletcher of Saltoun, and these had reference mainly to peace and war, the maintenance of an army, and places and pensions.
[135] Party names here for the first time in strictly parliamentary history. The Resolutioners and Protestors of 1649 were religious divisions.
[136] Cf. the present writer's Map of the Parliamentary Representation of Scotland, in Mr. R. L. Poole's Historical Atlas. (No. XXVIII.)
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