MSS. in the Life, by Orme, published in 1830.]

[Footnote 281: Baxter MS. cited by Orme.]

[Footnote 282: Act Parl. Car. II. March 29,1661, Jac. VII. April 28,
1685, and May 13, 1685.]

[Footnote 283: Act Parl. Jac. VII. May 8, 1685, Observator, June 20,
1685; Lestrange evidently wished to see the precedent followed in
England.]

[Footnote 284: His own words reported by himself. Life of James the
Second, i. 666. Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 285: Act Parl. Car. II. August 31, 1681.]

[Footnote 286: Burnet, i. 583; Wodrow, III. v. 2. Unfortunately the Acta
of the Scottish Privy Council during almost the whole administration of
the Duke of York are wanting. (1848.) This assertion has been met by a
direct contradiction. But the fact is exactly as I have stated it. There
is in he Acta of the Scottish Privy Council a hiatus extending from
August 1678 to August 1682. The Duke of York began to reside in Scotland
in December 1679. He left Scotland, never to return in May 1682.
(1857.)]

[Footnote 287: Wodrow, III. ix. 6.]

[Footnote 288: Wodrow, III. ix. 6. The editor of the Oxford edition of
Burnet attempts to excuse this act by alleging that Claverhouse was then
employed to intercept all communication between Argyle and Monmouth,
and by supposing that John Brown may have been detected in conveying
intelligence between the rebel camps. Unfortunately for this hypothesis
John Brown was shot on the first of May, when both Argyle and Monmouth
were in Holland, and when there was no insurrection in any part of our
island.]

[Footnote 289: Wodrow, III. ix, 6.]

[Footnote 290: Wodrow, III. ix. 6. It has been confidently asserted, by
persons who have not taken the trouble to look at the authority to which
I have referred, that I have grossly calumniated these unfortunate
men; that I do not understand the Calvinistic theology; and that it is
impossible that members of the Church of Scotland can have refused to
pray for any man on the ground that he was not one of the elect.----
I can only refer to the narrative which Wodrow has inserted in his
history, and which he justly calls plain and natural. That narrative
is signed by two eyewitnesses, and Wodrow, before he published it,
submitted it to a third eyewitness, who pronounced it strictly accurate.
From that narrative I will extract the only words which bear on
the point in question: "When all the three were taken, the officers
consulted among themselves, and, withdrawing to the w