History Of The Catholic Church Of Scotland Vol 3 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... DISAFFECTION OF THE PROTESTANT LORDS. 85 of the weakening of Protestant influence, is sufficiently evidenced by the statement which Moray and Lethington had themselves made to Cecil on the 13th of July in the previous year, in which they declared that even if Lennox allied himself with the most powerful person in the State, he would be unable to shake the national religion from the firm foundation on which it rested.1 The assurances given by Elizabeth do not appear to have satisfied the rebel lords; for we next find them transmitting to the English queen, through Robert Melvil, a document entitled "Informations to be given to the Queen's Majesty, in favour of the Church of Christ, now begun to be persecuted in the chief members of the same." Tytler2 has pointed out that the title of this paper was not less misleading than its contents were inaccurate, there being no persecution whatever going on in the country at the time. "The cause," so runs the document, "why our destruction is sought is, first, the zeal that we bear to the maintenance of the true religion; and, secondly, the care that we have to redress the great enormities lately crept into the public regimen of this miserable commonwealth."3 Among the adherents of Moray were the Duke The Proof Chatelherault, the Earls of Argyle, Glencairn, lords in 1 State Paper Office. Quoted by Tytler (Hist., vol. iii. p. 202). 'Hut. of Scotl, vol. iii. p. 210. 3 MS. State Paper Office. The document is dated Sept. 22, 1D65. arms and Rothes, Lords Boyd and Ochiltree, Kirkaldy tfe queen. Qf Grange, and other barons--Moray himself, of course, being the leading spirit. Extensive preparations were made on either side; and the country again witnessed, as it had already done under the rule of...