Spottiswoode Miscellany

Author : James Maidment
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332609048
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Spottiswoode Miscellany, Vol. 2 written by James Maidment and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spottiswoode Miscellany, Vol. 2: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts, Illustrative Chiefly of the Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland In the preparing for the press the Second Volume of the Spottiswoode Miscellany, it has been the endeayour of the Editor to select such Papers as, independently of intrinsic worth or curiosity, might be acceptable to the general reader. As introductory remarks have been prefixed to most of the Articles comprehended in the volume, recapitulation is unnecessary. But the Editor may here take the opportunity of mentioning, that the "Account of the Sufferings of the Episcopal Clergy" is only one amongst a great mass of papers shewing the depressed state of the Church before and after the Union. Government, so long as the arrangements for the junction of the two kingdoms were in progress, did not choose to embroil itself with the Presbyterian ministers, and much was overlooked for the sake of "expediency" that would have not otherwise passed unnoticed. When the Union was effected the case was altered, and the oppressive proceedings adopted at the instigation of the Presbytery - though nominally by the Magistrates of Edinburgh - against the Rev. James Greenshields, an Episcopal clergyman regularly ordained by James Ramsay, Bishop of Boss, in 1694, although sanctioned by the Court of Session, were quashed by the House of Peers to the infinite dismay of the persecutors. That the Government took every method of conciliating the Presbyterian party, and getting it to lend its aid to the Union, is undoubted. The Mowing extract from a letter by Wodrow to his father, the Reverend "Mr James Wodrow, Professor of Divinity in the Colledge of Glasgow" - contains curious evidence on the subject: - "This comes only to tell you that we came all safe here, blessed be God, on Wensday night late; my lady is very much indisposed, but nothing the worse of her journey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.