Produced by Jordan, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ANDREW MELVILLE BY WILLIAM MORISON FAMOUS SCOTS: SERIES PUBLISHED BY OLIPHANT ANDERSON FERRIER EDINBVRGH AND LONDON The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Messrs. T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. Transcriber's notes: Minor typos have been corrected. Footnotes have been placed at the end of the paragraph to which they refer. Greek has been changed to Latin letters and placed in brackets. PREFATORY NOTE Let it be understood that the quotations in Scots, where the author is not mentioned, are from the Autobiography and Diary of James Melville. _March_ 1899. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY 9 CHAPTER II BIRTH--EDUCATION--YEARS ABROAD 15 CHAPTER III SERVICES TO SCOTTISH EDUCATION--PRINCIPALSHIP OF GLASGOW AND ST. ANDREWS 23 CHAPTER IV THE 'DINGING DOWN' OF THE BISHOPS--MELVILLE AND MORTON 31 CHAPTER V THE 'BIGGING UP' OF THE BISHOPS UNDER LENNOX AND ARRAN--MELVILLE'S FLIGHT TO ENGLAND 43 CHAPTER VI THE KING'S SURRENDER TO THE CHURCH 56 CHAPTER VII THE POPISH LORDS--MELVILLE AND THE KING AT FALKLAND PALACE 71 CHAPTER VIII THE KING'S GREEK GIFT TO THE CHURCH 93 CHAPTER IX MELVILLE AT HAMPTON COURT 116 CHAPTER X THE KING'S ASSEMBLIES 134 CHAPTER XI THE TOWER: SEDAN 140 ANDREW MELVILLE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY While Andrew Melville has other claims on the lasting honour of his countrymen than the part he took in securing for Scotland the ecclesiastical system which has been the most powerful factor in her history, it may be held as certain that where this service which filled his life is disesteemed, his biography, if read at all, will be read with only a languid interest. It will be our first endeavour, therefore, to show that such a prejudice in regard to our subject is mistaken and misleading. Melville, and all from first to last who joined in the Scottish resistance to Episcopacy, were persuaded that the controversy in which they were engaged was one not academic merely but vital, and that, as it was settled one way or the other, so would the people be left in a position in which they would be able to develop their religious life with freedom and effect, or in one which would incalculably cripple it. That is a contention which history has amply vindicated.