[100] Archbishop Spottiswoode.
[101] The emigration of preachers and people to New England was the consequence of the persecuting measures pursued by Archbishop Laud for enforcing conformity, in the prosecution of his favourite scheme of bringing the Church of England as near to that of Rome as could consort with his own supremacy and that of his sovereign. About seventy ministers and four thousand other persons emigrated to the American continent to escape the tyranny of Laud and his agents.
[102] Blackness Castle, on the Forth, was used as a prison.
[103] In the sense of making a show of or appearing as if He would go; Luke xxiv. 28.
[104] So in his "Trial of Faith" p. 133 (published 1655).
[105] Sir W. Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of Stirling.
[106] Carleton, in Galloway (see note at Letter CLVII.), not far from Anwoth, where Mr. Fullerton, a true friend, resided.
[107] At Anwoth.
[108] Gustavus Adolphus.
[109] To whom I have given, and dare venture to give.