Transcriber’s Notes: Italic text is marked _thus_. The original accentuation, and spelling has been retained. Hyphenation has been made consistent as far as possible. DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND From the Reformation to the Revolution. BY ROBERT CHAMBERS, F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Sc., &c. SECOND EDITION. VOLUME II. [Illustration: Dunnottar Castle.] W. & R. CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. MDCCCLIX. Edinburgh: Printed by W. and R. Chambers. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE REIGN OF CHARLES I.: 1625-1637, 1 REIGN OF CHARLES I.: 1637-1649, 105 INTERREGNUM: 1649-1660, 174 REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1660-1673, 255 REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1673-1685, 349 REIGN OF JAMES VII.: 1685-1688, 469 GENERAL INDEX, 503 Illustrations. VOL. II. _Frontispiece Vignette._--DUNNOTTAR CASTLE. PAGE BOG AN GICHT CASTLE, 46 HOLYROOD PALACE, AS BEFORE THE FIRE OF 1650, 205 MONS MEG, 468 THE JOUGS--AT DUDDINGSTON CHURCH, 501 HALF-GLAZED WINDOW OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 524 DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. REIGN OF CHARLES I.: 1625-1637. James I. was peaceably succeeded on the throne by his son Charles I., then in the twenty-fifth year of his age. The administration of Scottish affairs continued to be conducted by the Privy Council in Edinburgh. For the endowment of the Episcopal Church now established, the king (1625) attempted a revocation of the church-lands from the lay nobles and others into whose hands they had fallen; but this excited so strong a spirit of resistance, that he was obliged to give it up. He ended by issuing (1627) a commission to receive the surrender of impropriated tithes and benefices, and out of these, and the superiorities of the church-lands, to increase the provisions of the clergy. These proceedings, though legal, were unpopular. The nobles, alarmed for their property, began to lean towards the middle and humbler classes, who objected to a hierarchy on religious grounds solely. While all was smooth on the surface, while the lords of the Privy Council were full of expressions of servile obedience, while they, as well as all judges and magistrates, gave most loyal and regular attendance at church, and duly knelt at the communion--a strong spirit of discontent ran through society. The more zealous Presbyterians formed the habit of meeting in private houses for prayer and worship. They beheld with apprehension the tendency to medieval ceremonies which Charles, and his favourite councillor, Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, were manifesting in England. That leaning to Arminianism which the English Church was also accused of--modifying