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and made warden of that prison wherein he had been so long confined, but through infirmity and bad treatment he did not long survive, being then seventy two years of age. See this more at length in Stevenson's history, vol. 30, page 948. [54] Livingston's memorable characters, page 74. [55] By the calculation of Mr. Livingston's account he behoved to be only 75 years of age; but Mr Calderwood makes him 77; and says he had an honourable burial, being accompanied with four or five thousand people to the grave. Vide his history, page 818. [56] Mr. Blair says, that he told him, that for three years he durst not say, my God, and that his conscience smote him for the same.--Blair's memoirs, page 39. [57] About this time the king created one marquis, ten earls, two viscounts and eight lords, and while he was in Scotland he dubbed fifty-four knights on different occasions. See Crawford's peerage, &c. [58] This minister is supposed to have been Mr. Rutherford, who was by some said to be the author of that pamphlet, intitled, The last and heavenly speech, &c. of John Viscount of Kenmuir. [59] It would appear from the date of the last of Mr. Rutherford's letters to this noble lady, that she lived till or a little after the restoration. [60] Mr. Livingston in his memorable Characteristicks, last edition. [61] See Stevenson's history of church and state, vol. II. page 234. [62] Bailey's letters, &c. page 587. [63] See these articles in the history of church and state, vol. II. p. 745. and the civil wars of Great Britain, p. 20, &c. [64] At that time the assembly sat in king Henry VIII's chapel, and when the weather grew cooler, in Jerusalem chamber, a spacious room in Westminster abbey. The prolocutor, Dr. Twisse, had a chair set at the upper hand, a foot higher than the earth; before it stood two chairs for Dr. Burgess and Mr. White assessors: before these stood a table where Mr. Byfield and Mr. Roborough, the two scribes sat; upon the prolocutor's right hand sat the Scots commissioners; on the left hand the English divines to the number of about 118, whereof about two thirds only attended close. They met every day of the week, except Saturday, six or seven hours at a time, and began and ended with prayer. [65] Such as the author of the appendix to Spotswood's history, and others. [66] Mr. Henderson's monument was afterwards repaired, as it now stands intire a little to the westward of the church. On o
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