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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

Papist and having an hand in the Irish Rebellion and at his Present Majesty for not punishing the Papists for Burning of London and compares him to Nebuchadnezzar for setting up a Golden Image to be Worshipped and to Saul and Uzziah for Usurping the Priests Office and to Julian the Apostate for destroying the Christian Religion pag. 9. 26 28. He also calls the Appointing the 29. of May a Profane Institution and saith That the Native issue of the Prerogative is the Establishing the Kingdom of Antichrist and an Usurpation of the Prerogative of Jesus Christ and saith That the King Erects a Papacy in himself more absurdly than the Pope did and saith That he is a stated Antichrist Pages 39 40 41 90. He Reproaches the Parliament pag. 86. saying That they made the Kings Throne the foundation of Perjury and Apostacy and pag. 87. he saith That they Blaspheme the Spirit and Work of the Lord in the Act For the Anniversary Remembrance of his Majesties Birth and Restauration and pages 2. 93 and 94 he accuses them all of horrid Apostacy and Rebellion against God and of appointing a Declaration of high Impiety to be Signed and saith They were the Rebuilders of the Kingdom of Antichrist As for the Privy-Council he calls them Murderers Pag. 123. and pag. 91. he saith That they have set the King in Christs Throne He rails at the City of Edinburgh for the Engagement they took of their Burgesses against the Rebels at Pentland Hills p. 166 167. and accuses them of Apostacy and Rebellion against God and threatens them with the Burning of London and pages 177 178. he tells them They had made a Conspiracy against the Lord and against his Annointed As for the Church-Ministers he calls them Wolves Thieves Graceless Hirelings and Plants which God never planted and saith It is the indispensable Duty of the People to drive them away and root them up page 108. The Author of the Apologetick Narration calls the Honourable Senators of the College of Justice Perjured Men and the Vilest of Men from whom no Justice can be expected and who are not worthy to be Judges among the Heathens c. and all because they have taken the Declaration against the Covenant Pages 328 329. The General-Assembly 1648. in their Supplication to the late King August 12. who was then under imprisonment hath these words It shall be your Majesties Wisdom in this as in all that hath befallen you these Years past to read the righteous hand of the Lord writing bitter things against you as for all your provocations so especially for your resisting his Work and authorizing by your Commissions the shedding the bloud of his People for which it is high time to repent that there may be no more wrath against You and Your Realms And page 58. of that Supplication they say Had your Majesty hearkened to our Counsel some years ago the bloud of many thousands that now lies upon your Throne might have been spared The Assembly and Parliament in their Declaration against Montross Printed 1649. pages 7 8 c. call him Excommunicate Traitor Viperous Brood of Satan Child of the Devil perfidious proud Atheist and Traitour though he had the Kings Commission for all that he did and was a man of as eminent Piety as Valour The Assembly of Divines at London with the Scottish Commissioners drew up a Letter in Latine and the same did the General-Assembly in Scotland which by order of the English House of Commons for so they called themselves they sent to the Belgick French Helvetian and other Reformed Churches wherein they assure them That the King made it his whole business to root out the Protestant Religion and used all means possible to reduce the Nation to Popery again I know a Gentleman who hath a Letter pretended to be written from Paris in the name of the French-Church dated June 5. 1662. wherein they call the Parliament of Scotland an ungodly Assembly a Seed of Evil Doers that gather themselves together against the Souls of the Righteous and condemn Innocent Bloud that slay the upright and breath out Blasphemies against the Heavens c. But the Style of this Letter demonstrates That it was written by some Western Fanatick and Fathered on the French Church In the Declaration of the Lords and Commons of England sent to the General-Assembly 1643. page 9. they affirm That the King and the Prelatical Party in England were in Arms for the ruining and destruction of the Protestant Religion and all the Professors thereof and in the English Ministers Letter to the Assembly page 10. they call the King and his Party a generation of Brutish Hellish Men and page 17. they affirm That the Prelatical Party are combined for the universal depression of the true Protestant Religion in Europe Naphtali pag. 117 118. saith That the Bishops are favourers and encouragers of all Profaneness Drunkenness Adultery Blasphemy and that they have heaped together in their own Persons the Dunghill of vilest Vices and transmitted the same over all the Land and the whole Fanatical Gang rail just now at the present Bishops as their Predecessors did at the Bishops 1638. Page 300. he accuses Archbishop Burnet now the most worthy Archbishop of St. Andrews of furious Zeal Pride Ambition and Contempt of his Clergy and domineering over them though he is known in both Nations to be one of the most Moderate Meek and Humble Men on the Earth and one that loves and cherishes his Clergy like a Father and as a Father is beloved and reverenced by them again He also calls the Bishop of the I●les who is a man of eminent Temperance a Glutton and the Bishop of Dunkell who was a most Pious Man and lover of true Piety in other Men an hater of Godliness and Good Men. And as for the Curates as he calls the regular Clergy he calls them in general Men void of the Fear of God Drunkards Whoremongers and what not pag. 302. And at this rate the whole Sect talks of Bishops Episcopacy the Clergy and the Church and he that can speak with most Venom and Malice against them and the King and the Duke of Lauderdale is counted the greatest Saint Mr. Andrew Cant Eldest Son of old Mr. Andrew Cant and the true inheritor of his Fathers violent Spirit was deposed by the Synod of Aberdeen from his Ministery at Banchrie for railing at the King the Queen and the Bishops not long after his Majesties Restauration He said The Maintaining of Bishops against Gods Will had tried the Kings Predecessors and if he should be so foolish as to set them up again down he should go do what he could He said That her Majesty was a Vagabond Woman compassing Sea and Land to prosecute her wicked Designs and like a true Presbyterian Cursing Meroz Wisht the Cross if not the Curse of God to accompany her Mr. Welsh as Ravill Rediv. relates

the Confidence to give this Publick Act the Lye and say as indeed they dare take the Confidence to say any thing That it was drawn up at Whitehall by the Duke of Lauderdale and sent by him to the Privy-Council of Scotland who will Publish any thing which he shall order and in any Form which he shall prescribe After the issuing out of this Proclamation the Privy-Council were very diligent in Examining the Inhabitants of Magus and many others upon Oath whose Depositions are extant in the Registers of the Privy-Council and very many were Examined also in the Sheriff-Court of Fiffe according to the tenure of this Proclamation and their Examinations are kept in the Records of that Court From whence it was made apparent that the Bloody Assassins and many others who were strongly presumed to have been Abetters and Contrivers of the Murder were notorious Fanaticks Frequenters of Field-Conventicles and Followers of Mr. Welsh and other Traiterous Intercommuned and Rebellious Preachers Nine of the Actors in this Tragedy were discovered by their Names and Sirnames which as it is fitting to set forth the horror of such a Murder I shall here set down in Letters of Blood John Balfour of Kinloch David Hackston of Rathillet George Balfour The Names of the Murderers in Gilston James Russel in Kings-kettle Robert Dingwall a Farmers Son in Caddam Andrew Guillan Weaver in Balmerinoch Alexander Henderson and Andrew Henderson Sons to John Henderson in Kilbrachmont George Fleming Son to George Fleming in Balbuthy The Depositions of the Witnesses who upon Oath proved these Persons to have been Actors in the Archbishops Murder ly upon Record as abovesaid to satisfie any who perhaps may doubt of the truth of what is here said more particularly it was deposed by one James Anderson Farmer at a Farm called Teuchits That George Balfour abovementioned came after the Murder to his Brothers House at Gilston and told him it was done and that the rest of the Murderers waited for him on Taces-Moor and that he having returned to them they went all Nine and possessed themselves of the Barn at Teuchits about Three in the Afternoon from whence they parted about Seven when all of them spoke with the said James Anderson who knew them all particularly and named them as they are above-mentioned Thus far the Discovery was made when the late Rebellion broke out on the Twenty ninth of May which forced the Privy-Council to desist from their vigorous pursuit of the Murderers and apply themselves to the Suppression of that Insurrection which carried with it the fate of the three Kingdoms and would have certainly very much shaken the Government if the Rebels had got the first Victory or could but have maintained their ground But they were no sooner Beaten and the Kingdom Resetled but the Privy-Council resumed their care in pursuing the Discovered Murderers of the Lord Primate who also had all taken Arms in the Rebellion and issued out this following Proclamation the Twentieth of September following for the Apprehension of them A PROCLAMATION Anent the Murtherers of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews and appointing Magistrates and Councils of Burghs Royal to Sign the Declaration at Michaelmas next CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Our Lovits Heraulds Macers Pursevants or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting We taking to Our Consideration how much the Protestant Religion and the Honour of this Our Ancient Kingdom are stained by that Barbarous and Horrid Assassination and Murther of the late Archbishop of St. Andrews whereof We have by several Proclamations expressed Our Abhorrency and prohibited the reset of these Murtherers whom We have excepted from Our late Gracious Pardon and Indemnity And albeit it was the Duty not only of those in Authority under Us but of all Our Subjects to use their endeavours for discovering and bringing to Justice these execrable Persons Enemies to all Humane Society yet We understand that these Murtherers and likewise divers Heritors and Ministers who were engaged in the late Rebellion and are excepted from Our Indemnity have been harboured and reset in some places of this Kingdom to the great Reproach of the Nation and Contempt of Our Authority and Laws Therefore We with advice of Our Privy-Council do Command and Charge all Sheriffs Stewarts Bayliffs of Regalities and Baylieries and their Deputes Magistrates of Burghs and others in Authority under Us to Search for Seek Take and Apprehend the Persons afternamed viz. John Balfour of Kinlock David Haxstoun of Rathillet George Balfour in Gilstoun James Russel in Kettle Robert Dingwal a Tenents Son in Caddam Andrew Guillan Webster in Balmerinoch Alexander and Andrew Hendersons Sons to John Henderson in Kilbrachmont and George Fleming Son to George Fleming in Balbuthy who did perpetrate and commit the said horrid Murther and also any Heritors and Ministers who were in the late Rebellion and any Persons who have Reset and Harboured these Murtherers and Rebells wherever they can be found within the Bounds of their respective Jurisdictions and put them in sure Ward and Firmance until they be brought to Justice And in case these Persons flee out of the Shire That they give notice thereof to the Sheriff or other Magistrate of the next Shire or Jurisdiction that they may in like manner Search for Apprehend and Secure them until they be brought to Justice With Power to the Sheriffs and other Magistrates aforesaid if they shall find cause to call to their Assistance Our Subjects within their Jurisdiction or such a number of them as they shall think fit who are hereby Required to Concur with and Assist them under all highest Pain and Charge And We expect That the Sheriffs and other Magistrates aforesaid will use exact diligence in the Premises as they will be answerable on their highest Peril And seeing by the Fifth Act of the second Session and the second Act of the third Session of Our first Parliament The Magistrates and Councils of Burghs are Ordained at and before their Admissions to the exercise of their Offices to Sign the Declaration appointed to be Signed by all Persons in Publick Trust under the Certifications therein exprest Therefore We with Advice aforesaid do Command and Require the Magistrates and Councils of the respective Burghs of this Kingdom who shall be chosen at the next ensuing Elections to Sign the foresaid Declaration as is prescribed in the said Acts and to return the Declarations so Signed by them to the Clerks of Our Privy-Council betwixt and the third Thursday of November next certifying such as shall not give Obedience that they shall be proceeded against and censured conform to the said Acts of Parliament Our Will is Herefore and We Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Market-Cross of Edinburgh and remanent Market-Crosses of the Head Burghs of the several