Miscellany of the Maitland Club: Consisting of Original Papers and Other Documents Illustrative of the History and Literature of Scotland...

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Page 100 - ... so to spoil and turn upside down the cardinal's town of St Andrew's, as the upper stone may be the nether, and not one stick stand by another, sparing no creature alive within the same, specially such as either in friendship or blood be allied to the cardinal.
Page 219 - Act, Declaration and Testimony for the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the Church of Scotland agreeable to the Word of God.
Page 99 - there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lighted upon it, for their falsehood and disloyalty. Do what you can...
Page 4 - JAMES SMITH, ESQ. JOHN SMITH, ESQ., LL.D., [SECRETARY.] WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. WILLIAM SMYTHE, ESQ. MOSES STEVEN, ESQ. DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ.
Page 103 - Highness's army shall be, by the grace of God, entered into Scotland, and ready to return again before his Highness can send down to them and they send again, and have answer for a conclusion in this matter, his Highness thinks the time too short to commune any further in it after this sort. But if they mind effectually to burn and destroy as they have offered, at his Majesty's army being in Scotland, and for their true and upright dealings with his Majesty therein will lay in hostages, his Highness...
Page 2 - ANDREW MACGEORGE, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACGRIGOR, ESQ. GEORGE MACINTOSH, ESQ. JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE, ESQ. ROBERT MACLACHLAN, ESQ. ARCHIBALD MACLELLAN, ESQ. ALEXANDER MACNEILL, ESQ. JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ. THOMAS...
Page 218 - ... leave to meet and serve God after their own way and manner, be it in private houses, chapels or places purposely hired or built for that use, so that they take care that nothing be preached or taught among them which may any ways tend to alienate the hearts of our people from us or our government...
Page 2 - JAMES HUNTER, ESQ. THE HONOURABLE JAMES IVORY LORD IVORY. JOHN CLARK KENNEDY, ESQ. JOHN KERR, ESQ. ROBERT ALEXANDER KIDSTON, ESQ.

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