cause; and upon complaint made and verified, of any seditious discourse or expressions in the pulpit, or elsewhere, uttered by any of these ministers, you are immediately to turn them out, and further punish them according to law and the degree of the offence. That such of the outed ministers who have behaved peaceably and orderly, and are not re-entered, or presented, as aforesaid, have allowed to them four hundred merks Scots yearly, out of the vacant churches, for their maintenance, till they be provided of churches; and that even such who shall give assurance to live so for the future, be allowed the same yearly maintenance. And, seeing, by these orders, we have taken away all pretences for conventicles, and provided for the wants of such as are and will be peaceable; if any shall hereafter be found to preach without authority, or keep conventicles, our express pleasure is, that you proceed with all severity against the preachers and hearers as seditious persons, and contemners of our authority. So leaving the management of these orders to your prudence, and recommending them to your care, we bid you farewell. By his Majesty's command.-LAUDERDALE.-Given at our Court at Whitehall, June 7th, 1669."

The Second Indulgence was granted September 3, 1672. In it a great number of indulged ministers are mentioned, and the parishes to which they were confined, but it is long and uninteresting. There are six parishes mentioned in it which have disappeared from the map of Scotland, their names are Culton and Dalganie, in the presbytery of Ayr; Barwell, Burghton, Maclue, and Garne, it is not said in what presbyteries. The Third Indulgence was obtained by the Duke of Monmouth, June 29, 1679. On it we offer no particulars, several clergymen are also mentioned, but their names would not be interesting to our readers.

Historical Notice of some of the Principal Events connected with Scotland from the beginning to the end of the Stuart Dynasty.

THE life of Mr Brown, extending between 1609 and 1679 or thereby, it seemed essentially necessary to take a bird's-eye view of the most material public transactions during that period, at least to illustrate some matters that occurred during his eventful life; it seemed also necessary to take in the whole life of James, and consequently the greater part of that of his mother; and, on the other hand, to continue the abridgement from the birth of Mary, to the end of the Stuart dynasty, thus

showing the whole that preceded the life of Mr Brown that could have any influence upon the public troubles during Mr Brown's life, and all the consequences of the arbitrary proceedings, till the race that employed them was swept away. Before doing so, it may be proper, however, merely to mention the names of the kings that preceded her.

Robert II., the first of the Stuart dynasty, began to reign in 1370, and died at Dundonald April 19, 1390. Robert III., after his brother had starved his eldest son to death at Falkland, and his second son had been taken and detained by the King of England, died at Rothsay, of hunger and grief, April 1, 1406. Robert his brother, who had starved his son, was appointed Governor, and died Sept. 3, 1420. Murdo, his son, succeeded him as Governor. James I. was ransomed from the English in 1423, and began to reign in 1424. He was murdered in the convent of the Dominicans at Perth, Feb. 20, 1437. James II. was killed by the explosion of a cannon at Roxburgh Castle in Sept. 1460. James III. was slain in battle near Stirling, June, 1648. James IV., who built the Palace of Holyrood, was slain at Flodden, with the greater part of his nobility, and above five thousand of his commonalty, Sept. 9, 1513.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was born at Linlithgow, December 8, 1542. Her father, James V., died of a broken heart, at Falkland, five days after the birth of his daughter. Having previously lost both his sons, and hearing upon his death bed that his queen was delivered, he inquired whether it was a male or female; being told it was the latter, he exclaimed, "It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass! Henry will make it his either by marriage or by arms !" * Mary was crowned at Stirling, Sunday,

• When Henry VIII. could not drive a marriage between his excellent son Edward VI. and Scotland's beautiful but misguided Mary, he transmitted through a dispatch of the privy council to the Earl of Hertford the following horrible instructions, on the 10th of April, 1544. After observing that the grand attempt on Scotland was delayed for a season, they command him in the meantime to make an inroad into Scotland-"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 out of hand, and without long tarrying, to beat down and overthrow the

Sept. 9, 1543, by Cardinal Beaton. The Queen's nurse was Janet Sinclair, spouse of John Kemp of Troner, of the burgh of Haddington; her governors were John Lord Erskine, and Alexander Lord Livingston; her preceptors were John Erskine, prior of Inchmahome, and Alexander Scott, parson of Balmaclellan; her companions, four Marys, Livingston, Fleming, Seton, and Beaton, of the same age, and most respectable families. James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, next heir to the crown, was made regent of the kingdom. Cardinal Beaton was killed May 29, 1546. He succeeded his uncle, James Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews, (who burned Patrick Hamilton,) in 1539. The Castle of St. Andrews surrendered July 1547. The battle of Pinkie or Mussleburgh was fought, Sept. 10, 1547, between the Earl of Hertford, Protector of England during the minority of Edward VI., who succeeded his father Henry VIII., Jan. 28, 1546, and the Earl of Arran. The Scots had 10,000 killed, and many even of the nobility taken prisoners. Hertford plundered Leith and the villages adjoining during four days, and then returned. Henry VIII. was exceedingly set upon a marriage between Edward VI. and Mary; it might have been well, humanly speaking, if the match had taken place, and Edward had Castle, sack Holyrood House, and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye conveniently can; sack Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword without exception, when any resistance shall be made against you; and this done, pass over to the Fife land, and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto ye may reach conveniently, not forgetting amongst all the rest, so to spoil and turn upside down the cardinal's town of St. Andrews, as the upper stone may be the nether, and not one stick stand by another, sparing no creature alive within the same, especially such as either in friendship or blood be allied to the Cardinal." About this time he sent a fleet and army into the Frith of Forth which landed, and, finding no opposition, burnt the capital of Scotland and its sea-port, and plundered the country around. Sir Ralph Evers and Sir Brian Latoun were at the sametime employed in making inroads on the Border, which were of the fiercest and most wasteful description. In one foray they numbered 192 towers or houses of defence, burnt or razed; 403 Scots slain, and 816 made prisoners; 10,386 cattle; 23,492 sheep; 1296 horses, and 850 bolls of corn driven away as spoil. Another list gives an account of the destruction of seven monasteries or religious houses; 16 castles or towers; 15 market towns; 243 villages; 13 mills, and 3 hospitals, all pulled down or burnt.

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lived to unite and reign over both the kingdoms. tyrannical father, however, urged the match so incessantly and eagerly, either to subdue the country or gratify his uncontrollable wilfulness, that Sir George Douglas, Henry's chief advocate, only ventured to recommend acquiescence in the king's proposal as a means of gaining time. He told the Scottish nobles of a certain king, who was so fond of an ass that he insisted his chief physician should teach the animal to speak, upon pain of being himself put to death. The physician consented to undertake the case, but gave the king to understand that it would be ten years before the operation of his medicines could take effect. The king permitted him to set to work immediately. One of the physician's friends seeing him busy about the animal, expressed his wonder that so wise a man should undertake what was contrary to nature, to which the physician replied, "Do you not see I have gained ten years' advantage? If I had refused the king's orders, I must have been instantly put to death; but as it is, I have the advantage of a long delay, during which the king may die, the ass may die, or I may die myself. In either of the three cases I am free from my trouble." Even so, said Sir George Douglas; if we agree to this treaty, we avoid a bloody and destructive war, and have a long period before us, during which the king of England, his son Prince Edward, or the infant Queen Mary, may one of them die, so that the treaty will be broken off."

Mary, in her fifth year sailed from Dunbarton Castle to France in July, and arrived at Brest, August 13, 1548. The Queen Dowager sailed for France in Sept. 1550, to get Arran the Governor superseded; he resigned, and she was constituted Regent, April 12, 1554. Mary was married to Francis II. on Sunday 24th April, 1558. He mounted the throne July 10, 1559. John Knox landed at Leith, May 2, 1559. Paul Methven, John Christison, William Harlow, and John Willock, were summoned by the Queen Regent to stand trial at Stirling, May 10, 1559, for usurping the ministerial office, and exciting sedition among the people. The Queen Regent died on the 10th of June following. On the 25th of the same month, the Reformers took possession of Perth. They burnt the Abbeys of Scoon, Stirling, Linlithgow, and Edinburgh. They assembled again at Stirling, September 10, 1559. The English fleet sent by Elizabeth to assist the Reformers, cast anchor before Leith, Jan. 1560. On July 5, 1560, the Reformers having got the mastery, Leith was evacuated,

its fortifications demolished, and the French troops were driven out of Scotland. The Convention assembled at Edinburgh, Aug. 1, 1560, and ratified the Confession of Faith then professed, and completed the Reformation. John Knox was settled a Minister of Edinburgh, Aug. 1560. The first meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was held at Edinburgh, December 20, 1560. It consisted of 40 members only, six of whom were ministers. Seven meetings of Assembly were held without a moderator, and there was no commissioner for 20 years after the Reformation; and at present they seem gradually paving the way for his presence not being necessary, by his frequent and long absence from the Assembly. Francis II. died December 5, 1560, and Mary was left a widow without issue, at the age of 18. She left Paris for Scotland July 21, and landed at Leith Aug. 19, 1561. On Aug. 11, 1562, the Queen began her journey to the North. Inverness Castle surrendered, Sept. 11, and Lord Gordon was hanged. The Earl of Moray, with about 2000 men attacked the Earl of Huntly with about 500, at Corrachie, about 12 miles from Aberdeen; Huntly had about 120 killed-Murray lost many horses, but no men. Mary slept at Dunnoter Nov. 5, from thence she came to Montrose, and to Dundee on the 12th, and arrived at Edinburgh, Nov. 21, 1562. Mary was crowned on the day Parliament assembled, May 26, 1563. The Queen endeavoured to get John Knox banished, Jan. 1564. The Parliament met Dec. 2, 1564, and made the attending on mass, except in the Queen's chapel, punishable with the loss of goods, lands, and life. They passed an act for the security of the kirk lands, which had been settled in 1558. "In the buik of the kirk of the Canagait, the 21st July A.D. 1565, the which day John Brand, mynister, presented to the kirk ane writing-written by the JusticeClerk's hand, desyring the kirk of the Canagait, and mynister therof, to proclaime Harie Duke of Albayne Erle of Rosse, on the one part, and Marie, be the grace of God, Queene of Scottis, Soveraine, on the other part. The which the kirk ordainis the mynister to do, with invocation of the name of God." On Sunday, the 29th July, at six o'clock in the morning, the Queen and Albany were married in the chapel of Holyrood-House, by Henry Sinclair, the Dean of Restalrig, and President of the Court of Session. It may be proper here to state the genealogy of the parties. The two roses, the symbols of the families of York and Lancaster, were conjoined by the marriage of Henry VII. with Elizabeth of York. Of this