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A61148	The history of the Church of Scotland, beginning in the year of our Lord 203 and continued to the end of the reign of King James the VI of ever blessed memory wherein are described the progress of Christianity, the persecutions and interruptions of it, the foundation of churches, the erecting of bishopricks, the building and endowing monasteries, and other religious places, the succession of bishops in their sees, the reformation of religion, and the frequent disturbances of that nation by wars, conspiracies, tumults, schisms : together with great variety of other matters, both ecclesiasticall and politicall / written by John Spotswood ...	Spottiswood, John, 1565-1639.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing S5022; ESTC R17108	916,071	584

would have followed the same as well in this matter as in others which they knew But if you and your associates should refuse the decrees of the Apostolick Sea or rather of the whole Church allowed by holy Scripture now after you have heard the same without all question you sin heavily Howbeit your fathers were holy men you must not think that a few dwelling in a corner of a remote Isle are to be preferred to the universal Church of Christ. And if Columba your Father yea and ours also if he was of Christ was mighty in miracles yet is he not to be equalled to the Prince of the holy Apostles unto whom the Lord said Thou art Peter and upon this rock will I build my Church against which the gates of hell shall not prevail and will give unto the keyes of the kingdom of heaven The King who had hearkened diligently unto all which they spake taking hold of these last words asked Colman if it was so that the Lord had spoken these words unto Peter he answered that it was truth And can you shew sayes he that the like authority was given to your Father Columba Colman answered Not. Then said the King Do both agree in this that these words were spoken to St. Peter and that the Keyes of the kingdom of heaven were given to him They answered that they did Then said he Seeing St. Peter is the dorekeeper of heaven I will follow his rule in every thing lest when I come to heavens gates the dores shall be shut against me These speeches of the King full of simplicity were seconded with the acclamations of many of the hearers and the victory adjudged to the adversaries of Colman But he nothing moved therewith retained still his opinion and would not change yet fearing that some trouble might arise if he should make longer stay in those parts he resigned his Bishoprick in which one Tuda a Scottishman succeeded who was content to submit himself to the Romane observation of Easter and to receive the Clerical tonsure but he lived not one whole year and died of the Plague Colman returning into Scotland was welcomed by his countreymen for he was in great esteem and bare no small authority both in the Church and State before he went into England as appeared in the insurrection made against King Ferqhard the Nobility having consulted to depose him from his Kingdom for the detestable cruelties he had committed by Colman his authority they were onely kept back who told them That the punishment of Kings belonged to God and that he ere it were long would take vengeanee of his wickednesse which as he foretold came to passe for the King after a few dayes being at hunting happened to be bitten by a Wolfe and falling into a feaver such a putrefaction ensued in his body that out of every part there issued abundance of lice and vermine which made him abhorred of all men Languishing in this consumption a long space and touched with a bitter remorse for his wicked life he sent for Colman to whom he expressed a great sorrow for the ill life he had led intreating the help of his prayers and to testifie his humiliation would needs be carried forth to the next fields wrapped in sackcloth where after an open confession made of his wickednesse he was absolved by Colman and shortly after yielded up the ghost The memory of this which was yet fresh in the mindes of people together with the report of his constancy for so it was interpreted did purchase unto him great love and reputation but he making short stay at home went soon after into Ireland where he built a Monastery for the English and Scots that followed him thither They not well agreeing he bought a piece of ground and founded a religious house for the English apart Bishop Lesly in his Chronicle writeth that after this he passed into Germany and having travelled through Boheme Hungary and a great part of Greece as he returned by Austria he was killed by some Pagans in those parts for this he citeth Iohannes Stabius the Historiographer of Maximilian the first But whatsoever became of him he was certainly a man of great integrity and therefore much respected of all men After this time we finde a continual declining in the Church for the decision taken in that conference of Whitby touching the controversie of Easter increased the dissension and put all out of frame they that were in place urging the rites more strictly then was convenient and others choosing rather to quit their places then to give way unto them Theodorus then Archbishop of Canterbury is blamed for exercisiug the authority of his place too peremptorily about these things and forcing the British Bishops to conform themselves Wilfrid Archbishop of York dealing in like sort with the Scottish preachers that had planted the Gospel among the English thrust them all from their places Nam optione data maluerunt loco cedere quàm Pascha Catholicum caeterósque ritus canonicos Romanae Ecclesiae recipere It being given to their option whether they would stay and admit the observation of Easter and other rites of the Church of Rome they made choice to leave their places and depart The Clergy at home became also divided for Adamannus or Adamnanus a Bishop who had been Tutor to Eugenius the sixt being sent in Ambassage to Alfrid King of Northumberland fell in such a liking of the rites he saw there used as at his return he became an earnest perswader of his countreymen to receive them and prevailed with many Yet the Monks of Iona whose governor he had sometimes been did strongly oppose others that loved not to be contentious retired themselves among whom Disybodius and Levinus are said to have been two Disybodius going into Germany lived a Monk in the Abbey of Fulden many years Adamannus whom even now I named is much commended for the care he took to keep the Picts and Scots in peace which albeit he did not effect according to his desire for they were ever making incursions one against another yet so far he prevailed as during his life no publick war arose amongst them To bind the two people in friendship he was a means to make Eugenius the seventh take to wife Spondana daughter to Granard King of Picts but she not long after being killed as she lay in bed by two Athol men that had conspired to kill the King and were mistaken in the execution the friendship contracted had almost turned into deadly enmity because of a rumour that went that she was made away by the Kings knowledge The Picts complaining of the injury done to their bloud and many of the subjects apprehending it to be the Kings own fact he was forced with some indignity to his person to plead his innocency in a Parliament called to that purpose It happened that in the mean time the murtherers were discovered and taken

gentleman had travelled in Germany and falling in familiarity with Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Francis Lamberd and other learned men was by them instructed in the knowledge of true Religion in the profession whereof he was so zealous as he was resolved to come back into his countrey and communicate the light he had received unto others At his return wheresoever he came he spared not to lay open the corruptions of the Romane Church and to shew the errours crept into Christian Religion whereunto many gave eare and a great following he had both for his learning and courteous behaviour to all sorts of people The Clergy grudging at this under colour of conference enticed him to the city of S. Andrews and when he came thither appointed Frier Alexander Campbel to keep company with him and to use the best perswasions he could to divert him from his opinions Sundry conferences they had wherein the Frier acknowledging that many things in the Church did need to be reformed and applauding his judgement in most of the points his minde was rather confirmed then in any sort weakened Thus having stayed some few dayes in the city whilest he suspected no violence to be used under night he was apprehended being in bed and carried prisoner to the Castle the next day he was presented before the Bishop accused for maintaining the Articles following 1. That the corruption of sin remains in children after their Baptism 2. That no man by the power of his free will can do any good 3. That no man is without sin so long as he liveth 4. That every true Christian may know himself to be in the state of grace 5. That a man is not justified by works but by faith onely 6. That good works make not a good man but that a good man doeth good works and that an ill man doeth ill works yet the same ill works truly repented make not an ill man 7. That Faith Hope and Charity are so linked together that he who hath one of them hath all and he that lacketh one lacketh all 8. That God is the cause of sin in this sense that he withdraweth his grace from man and grace withdrawn he cannot but sin 9. That it is a devillish Doctrine to teach that by any actuall penance remission of sin is purchased 10. That auricular Confession is not necessary to salvation 11. That there is no Purgatory 12. That the holy Patriarchs were in heaven before Christs Passion 13. That the Pope is Antichrist and that every Priest hath as much power as the Pope Being desired to expresse his minde touching these Articles he said That he held the first seven to be undoubtedly true whereunto he offered to set his hand the rest he said were disputable points but such as he could not condemne unlesse he saw better reasons then yet he had heard After some conference kept with him on each Article the whole were remitted to the judgement of the Theologues There met to this effect Master Hugh Spence Provost of S. Salvators Colledge Master Iames Waddall Parson of Flisk and Rector of the University Master Iames Simson Officiall of S. Andrews Master Thomas Ramsay professour of the holy Scriptures Master Iohn Grison Theologue and Provinciall of the Black Friers Iohn Tillidaff Warden of the Gray Friers Master Martine Balfoure and Master Iohn Spence Lawyers Sir Alexander Young Batchelar of Divinity Sir Iohn Annand Chanon of of S. Andrews Frier Alexander Campbell Prior of the Black Friers and Master Robert Bannerman Regent of the Pedagogy These men within a day or two presented their Censure of the Articles judging them all Hereticall and contrary to the faith of the Church This subscribed with all their hands and delivered to the Bishop in a solemne meeting kept in the Cathedrall Church the first of March 1527. sentence was pronounced against the young Gentleman declaring him an Heretick and giving him over in the hands of the secular power to suffer punishment due to Heresie There assisted the Bishop in that meeting Gawine Archbishop of Glasgow George Bishop of Dunkeld Iohn Bishop of Brichen and William Bishop of Dumblane Patrick Prior of S. Andrews David Abbot of Aberbrothock George Abbot of Dumfermling Alexander Abbot of Cambuskenneth Henry Abbot of Lundors and Iohn Prior of Pettenweem the Dean Subdean and Thesaurer of the Church of Glasgow with the Rectors of Stobo Areskin Carstares Goven and Glasgow All which set their hands to the sentence and to give it the greater authority whosoever were of any estimation in the University were made to subscrive the same amongst whom was the Earl of Cassels a child of thirteen years old The same day for the execution was hastened lest the King who was gone at that time in Pilgrimage to S. Duthak in Rosse should impede the proceeding he was condemned by the secular Judge and in the afternoon led to the place of his suffering which was appointed to be at the gate of S. Salvators Colledge Being come to the place he put off his Gown and gave it with his Bonnet Coat and other apparell to his servant saying This stuffe will not help in the fire yet will doe thee some good I have no more to leave thee but the ensample of my death which I pray thee keep in minde For albeit the same be bitter and painfull in mans judgement yet is it the entrance to everlasting life which none can inherit that denieth Christ before this congregation Then was he tied to the stake about it a great quantity of coal wood and other combustible matter was heaped whereof he seemed to have no fear but seriously commending his soul into the hands of God held his eyes fixed towards the heavens The Executioner firing the powder that was laid to kindle the wood his lest hand and the side of his face was a little scorched therewith yet the fire did not kindle Whereupon some were sent to the Castle to bring more powder whilest this was bringing he uttered divers comfortable speeches to them that stood by The Friers all that time molesting him with their cries bidding him convert pray to our Lady and say Salve Regina amongst them none was more troublesome then Frier Alexander Campbell who as we said kept company with him at his first coming to the City often he besought him to depart and not to vex him but when he would not cease his crying he said Wicked man thou knowest I am not an heretick and that it is the truth of God for which I now suffer so much thou diddest confesse unto me in private and thereupon I appeal thee to answer before the Iudgement seat of Christ. The powder by this time was brought and the fire kindled after which with a loud voice he was heard to say How long O Lord shall darknesse oppresse this Realm how long wilt thou suffer this tyranny of men and then closed his speeches with these words

while answered in all their names That it was not reasonable to give any spiritual benefit to an obstinate heretick condemned by the Church When Master George heard that the Sacrament was denied him being asked by the Captain of the Castle going then to breakfast if he would take a part with him he answered Very willingly and so much the rather because I perceive you to be a good Christian and a man fearing God Then turning himself to the Captain he said I beseech you in the name of God and for the love you bear to our Saviour Iesus Christ to be silent a little while till I have made a short exhortation and blessed this bread which we are to eat so that I may bid you farewell The table being covered and bread according to the custome set upon it he spake about the space of an half hour of the institution of the Supper and of our Saviours death and passion exhorting those that were present to mutual love and to the leading of an holy life such as becometh the members of Christ. Then giving thanks he brake the bread distributing to every one that was present a portion likewise having tasted the wine he delivered the cup unto them exhorting them to remember with thankfulnesse the death of our Lord Jesus in this his communion with them As to my self he said there is a more bitter potion prepared for me only because I have preached the true doctrine of Christ which bringeth salvation but pray you the Lord with me that I may take it patiently as out of his hand and so concluding with a new thanksgiving he withdrew himself to his chamber Within a little space two executioners came up unto him one of whom apparelled him in a black coat of linen the other fastened some bags of powder upon all the parts of his body and thus arrayed he was brought to an utter room where he was commanded to stay till all things were prepared A scaffold in the mean time erecting on the East part of the Castle towards the Abbey with a great tree in the middest in manner of a gibbet unto which the prisoner was to be tied and right against it was all the munition of the Castle planted if perhaps any should press by violence to take him away The fore Tower was hanged with Tapestry and rich Cushions laid for ease of the Cardinal and Prelates who were to behold that spectacle And when all things were made ready he was led forth with his hands being tied behinde his back and a number of souldiers guarding him to the place of execution As he was going forth of the Castle gate some poor creatures who were lying there did ask of him some almes for Gods sake to whom he said I have not the use of any hands wherewith I should give you almes but our merciful God who out of his abundance feedeth all men vouchsafe to give you the things which are necessary both for your bodies and for your soules Afterwards two Friers met him crying Master George pray to our Lady that she may be mediatrix for you to her sonne to whom he said Cease tempt me not my brethren Being come to the place of execution and gone up upon the scaffold he turned himself towards the people and besought them not to offend with the good word of God because of the torments they saw prepared for him desiring them withall to shew his brethren and sisters who had often heard him that the doctrine he taught was no wives fables but the true Gospel of Christ given him by the grace of God which he was sent to preach and for which he was then with a most glad heart and mind to give his life Some have falsely spoken said he that I should hold the opinion that the soules of men departed sleep after their death untill the last day but I know and believe the contrary and am assured that my soul shall this night be with my Saviour in the heavens This said he bowed his knees and having conceived a short but most pithy prayer he was tied to the stake then cried aloud O Saviour of the world have mercy upon me Father of heaven I commend my spirit into thine holy hands The executioners having kindled the fire the powder that was fastned to his body blew up The Captain of the Castle who stood near unto him perceiving that he was yet alive willed him to be of good courage and commend his soul unto God This flame said he hath scortched my body yet hath it not daunted my spirit but he who from yonder high place beholdeth us with such pride shall within few dayes lye in the same as ignominiosly as now he is seen proudly to rest himself After which words one of the tormentors drawing the cord that went about his neck stopt his breath so as he spake no more The fire increasing his body was quickly consumed unto ashes But the Cardinals malice not yet satisfied caused the same night a Proclamation to be made through the City that none should pray for the heretick under pain of the heaviest censures that could be inflicted And then the Priests triumphing did in all meetings extoll the Cardinal above the skies saying That he not regarding the Governours authority had by himself caused justice to be executed upon that heretick and kithed a most worthy Patron of the Ecclesiastical estate If the Church said they in former times had found such a Protector matters had not been reduced to the doubtfull terms wherein now they stand but long or this time by her own power and authority she had been able to maintain her self Such insolent speeches they were heard to utter in every place The Cardinal himself also seemed to be greatly pleased with that which he had done presuming it should keep all his enemies in fear yet it proved the very rock on which he and all his fortunes perished for the common sort of people exclaimed mightily against his cruelty and some of good birth and quality did openly vow that the blood of Master George Wishart should be revenged though they should give life for life of which number Iohn Lesley brother to the Earle of Rothes forbare not in all companies openly to avouch that his hand and dagger should be the Cardinals Priests Nor was he ignorant of the general hatred carried unto him and thereupon began to fortify himself with some strong alliance which he shortly after made contracting one of his base daughters to the Earle of Craford his sonne and heir The Nuptials were performed with an exceeding pomp and magnificence But he did not long enjoy the content he took in his Match for Normand Lesley sonne to the Earle of of Rothes who had followed him a long time and done him good services having moved him in the behalf of some friends that were interessed by the restitution of the

a man of noble qualities and full of courage but falling unfortunately in the slaughter of the Cardinal which he is said at his dying to have sore repented he lost himself and the expectation which was generally held of his worth The countrey notwithstanding the peace made with England was not in much better case for the Governour who was altogether ruled by the Bishop his brother going through the countrey with Iustice Courts as they call them vexed the people mightily and whereas during the warre men enjoyed the liberty of their profession a new persecution was raised which took the beginning at one Adam Wallace a simple man but very zealous in his Religion he was taken at Winton in Lothian by the Bishops direction and brought to his trial in the Church of Black Friers in Edinburgh where in presence of the Governour the Earl of Argyle great Justice of the Realme the Earles of Angus Huntley Glaincarne and divers others of the Nobility he was accused first of usurping the office of a Preacher having no lawful calling thereto next of baptizing one of his own children thirdly for denying Purgatory fourthly for maintaining that prayers made to the Saints and for the dead were meerly superstitious and fifthly for calling the Masse an idolatrous service and affirming that the bread and wine in the Sacrament of the Altar after the words of consecration remained bread and wine To the first he answered That he never judged himselfe worthy of so excellent a vocation as is the calling of a Preacher nor did he ever presume to preach onely he confessed that in some private places he did read a part of the Scripture at times and make a short exhortation thereupon to those that would hear him It being replied that he ought not to have medled with the Scriptures he said That he esteemed it the duty of every Christian to seek the knowledge of Gods word and the assurance of his own salvation which was not to be found but in the Scriptures One that stood by saying What then shall be left to the Bishops and Churchmen to do if every man should be a babler upon the Bible he answered It becomes you to speak more reverently of God and of his blessed word and if the Iudge did right he would punish you for your blasphemy But to your question I say that albeit you and I and five thousand mo would read the Bible and conferre together upon it yet we leave more to the Bishops to do then either they will do or can for we leave to them the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and the feeding of the flock which he hath redeemed by his own blood which is a burthen heavy enough neither do we them any wrong in working out our own salvation so farre as we may To the second he answered That it was as lawful for him to baptize his own childe since he could not have a true Minister as it was to Abraham to circumcise Ismael and his family To the third and fourth heads more generally he said That he never believed nor maintained any thing but that he found in the book hanging at his girdle which was the Bible in French Dutch and English And being urged to be more particular he answered That if he were disposed to speak of these matters he would require a more upright and indifferent Iudge The Earl of Huntley upon that saying he was a fool to desire another Judge then the Governour and the Bishops there present he replied That the Bishops could not be his Iudges because they were open enemies to the doctrine he professed And for the Governour he doubted if he had the knowledge to discern lies from truth and the inventions of men from the true worship of God The Iudge that he desired he said was the book of God by which if he should be convinced to have taught spoken or done in matters of Religion any thing that was repugnant to the will of God he would not refuse to die but if he tried innocent and was found not to have spoken or done any thing contrary thereto then he desired the protection of the Governour and Nobility against the Tyranny of malicious men Being enquired what he did think of the Masse he said That he had read the Bible in three languages and had never found the word Masse in them all and that the thing which was in greatest estimation with men was nothing but abomination in the sight of God Then did all the company cry out Heresie heresie let him be condemned So the poor man was sentenced to be an heretick and put in the hands of Sir Iohn Campbel of Lundie Justice deputy who having adjudged him to die sent him back to prison because the night was coming on all that night he spent in singing of Psalmes which he had learned by heart and the next day was led forth to the fire which was prepared in the Castle hill being inhibited to speak unto the people yet when he came to the place of execution he intreated the beholders Not to offend with the truth because of his sufferings saying The disciple is not above his Master and as he was proceeding the Provost of the Town who had the oversight of the execution did interrupt him saying that he would not be permitted to speak to the people whereupon having in some few words commended his soul to God he took his death most patiently The same year there arose a great contention amongst the Churchmen for saying the Pater noster upon this occasion One Richard Marshal Prior of the Black Friers at Newcastle in England had been in S. Andrews and in one of his Sermons taught that the Pater noster should be said unto God only and not unto the Saints Some Doctors of the University taking exception against his doctrine stirred up a Gray Frier called Frier Tottis to confute him and prove that the Pater noster might be said unto the Saints The Frier an audacious and ignorant fellow took the matter in hand and reading his text out of the fifth of S. Matthewes Gospel Blessed are the poor in spirit for unto them belongeth the kingdome of heaven gathered upon it that the Pater noster might be said to Saints because all the Petitions in the prayer said he appertain to the Saints for if we meet an old man in the street we will say Good morrow Father much more in our prayers may we call the Saints our Fathers and seeing we grant they are in heaven we may say to every one of them Our Father which art in heaven Then we know said he God hath made their names holy so we may say to any of the Saints Hallowed be thy name And as they are in the Kingdome of heaven so that Kingdome is theirs by possession therefore when we pray for the Kingdome of heaven we may say to any of them Thy kingdome come In