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Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

Name: Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.
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For the other, of your undertaking and promising for your parts, that
no man should bee troubled till the Assembly, and expecting the like
from us, truly I am glad I have it under your Lordships hands, for
I think there are few houres of any one day, since the indicting of
the Assemblie, that from all parts of this Kingdome, I am not vexed
with complaints of new processing of Ministers, new withholding of
Ministers stipends unprocessed, heavie complaints of Ministers of
your owne Covenant, that they are threatened, and that sharply and
bitterly, for their declaring of their griefe, in being barred of their
freedome in the election of their owne Commissioners to the Generall
Assembly, and being borne downe by the multitude of Lay voices, and
menaced because of their protesting against the same, the complaints
of Ministers Non-Covenanters and Lay-Elders Non-Covenanters, chosen by
their Sessions to assist at the election of the Commissioners from the
Presbyteries, but turned back for not having subscribed your Covenant,
and reviled with bitter words for being so pert as to come thither; Is
this the performance of promising, that no man shall be troubled till
the Assembly? These are, indeed, preparations very unfit to precede
this Assemblie, they being so unpeaceable and like to take up much
time, in discussing, at that great Meeting, the illegality of these
elections. My Lord, the truth is, I shall be as carefull to see any
wrong offered by his Majesties Commissioners (in urging his Majesties
authoritie) punished, when I shall know the offences and the offenders,
as I am heartily grieved at the proceedings of your Associats: Here
I am sure, his Maᵗⁱᵉˢ Commissioners have bin rather backward then
forward, but so have not your Lordsh: adherents bin; for they have in
very many places proclaimed your Protestation, where his Majesties
Declaration hath not beene proclaimed. I hope your Lordsh: will pardon
my unusuall prolixitie; for I confesse I am much troubled to see his
Majesties good subjects led into such misconstructions of his pious and
religious intentions towards them, This my Letter, I pray your Lordsh:
to communicate to the other Noble Lords, who subscribed that to me. To
your selfe, and them, I pray your Lordsh: commend the true respects of

  Your Lordsh:
   HAMILTOUN.

   For the Earle of Cassills.

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_Letter from the Lords Covenanters to the Commissioner._[101]

PLEASE YOUR GRACE,

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Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

Church of Scotland. General Assembly

Church of Scotland -- History -- Sources

For the other, of your undertaking and promising for your parts, that
no man should bee troubled till the Assembly, and expecting the like
from us, truly I am glad I have it under your Lordships hands, for
I think there are few houres of any one day, since the indicting of
the Assemblie, that from all parts of this Kingdome, I am not vexed
with complaints of new processing of Ministers, new withholding of
Ministers stipends unprocessed, heavie complaints of Ministers of
your owne Covenant, that they are threatened, and that sharply and
bitterly, for their declaring of their griefe, in being barred of their
freedome in the election of their owne Commissioners to the Generall
Assembly, and being borne downe by the multitude of Lay voices, and
menaced because of their protesting against the same, the complaints
of Ministers Non-Covenanters and Lay-Elders Non-Covenanters, chosen by
their Sessions to assist at the election of the Commissioners from the
Presbyteries, but turned back for not having subscribed your Covenant,
and reviled with bitter words for being so pert as to come thither; Is
this the performance of promising, that no man shall be troubled till
the Assembly? These are, indeed, preparations very unfit to precede
this Assemblie, they being so unpeaceable and like to take up much
time, in discussing, at that great Meeting, the illegality of these
elections. My Lord, the truth is, I shall be as carefull to see any
wrong offered by his Majesties Commissioners (in urging his Majesties
authoritie) punished, when I shall know the offences and the offenders,
as I am heartily grieved at the proceedings of your Associats: Here
I am sure, his Maᵗⁱᵉˢ Commissioners have bin rather backward then
forward, but so have not your Lordsh: adherents bin; for they have in
very many places proclaimed your Protestation, where his Majesties
Declaration hath not beene proclaimed. I hope your Lordsh: will pardon
my unusuall prolixitie; for I confesse I am much troubled to see his
Majesties good subjects led into such misconstructions of his pious and
religious intentions towards them, This my Letter, I pray your Lordsh:
to communicate to the other Noble Lords, who subscribed that to me. To
your selfe, and them, I pray your Lordsh: commend the true respects of

  Your Lordsh:
   HAMILTOUN.

   For the Earle of Cassills.

       *       *       *       *       *


_Letter from the Lords Covenanters to the Commissioner._[101]

PLEASE YOUR GRACE,

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

Records of the Kirk of Scotland: containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

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