Session, church sessions, their influence, iii. 20. Shaftsbury, Ashley Cooper, earl of, his services at the restora- tion, iii. 500. 550. A member of the cabal, iv. 66. His memorable speech absurdly assigned as the cause of an in- surrection in Scotland, 91.
Sharp, a presbyterian clergyman, commissioned to negociate for restoring Charles on the terms of the covenant, iii. 502. Deserts the presbyterians on the offer of the primacy, iv. 5. Made archbishop of St. Andrews, and consecrated in Eng- land, 21. His violence, 22. His severity in the court of commission, 37. Cruelty after the insurrection of Pent- land, 44. An attempt on his life, 52. Discovers Mitchell the assassin, to whom, on his confession, he promises his life, 76. Instigates Mitchell's trial and execution, 77-80. His perjury on that occasion, ib. Murdered by the fanaticks, 93. His character, 94.
Solemn league and covenant with England, iii. 242. Spottiswood, archbishop of Glasgow, iii. 34. Contributes to Balmerino's disgrace, 56. Appointed an extraordinary lord of session, 57. And archbishop of St. Andrews, 58. His consecration in England, 60. Presides in the assembly of Perth, 78. Instigates Balmerino's trial, 108. Appointed chancellor, 114. At first averse to the liturgy, 119. Which he attempts to introduce, 121. Retires to England, 154. His death and character, ib.
his son, president of the court of session, assessor on Balmerino's trial, iii. 109. Removed for supposed malver- sation in office, 203. Taken and executed on Montrose's defeat at Philiphaugh, 316.
the archbishop's grandson, executed a few days after Montrose, iii. 422.
Sprewl, tortured in duke of York's presence, iv. III. Sprott, a notary, his supposed discoveries concerning the Gow- rie conspiracy, iii. 53. His execution, 54.
Squadrone Volante, or Squadrone party, when and how form- ed, iv. 311. Retains the balance in parliament, 335. Their accession to the court party, carries the union, 354. Pro- cure the dissolution of the privy council, 371.
Stair, lord viscount, (see Dalrymple,) restored to the presidency of the court of session, iv. 212. Endeavours to exclude him from the court of session, 215. Outcry of all parties against him as president, 243. Regulations of parliament directed against him, 244.
, earl of, his son, (see Dalrymple, sir John,) proscribed from office by the public hatred, iv. 322. Advises Queens- berry to persevere in the union, 341.
Start of Charles II. what, iii. 436.
Stewart, an advocate, afterwards sir James, retires to the conti- nent, iv. 127. Recalled and employed in a correspondence
with Fagel to procure the prince of Orange's consent to the repeal of the test, 183. Not the author of the prince's de- claration, 185. note.
Stirling surprised by Monro, iii. 381. The castle surrender- ed to Monk, 448.
Strachan, a distinguished sectary, defeats Montrose, iii. 417. Defeated and deserts to Cromwell, 418.
Strafford, earl of, his violence renews the war against the Scots, iii. 175. His impeachment, 189. And attainder, 195. Superintendants, their office, numbers, and jurisdiction, iii. 17. A temporary expedient, 18.
Supplicants against the canons and liturgy, iii. 124. Their numbers encreased, 127. Proclamations against them, 127– 133. Their protestation against the last proclamation, 134. Motives of their leaders, 135. See Tables, Covenant. Swinton proposes to break off the treaty of Breda, iii. 423. 547. Turns quaker at the restoration, iv. 19.
Sydserf, bishop of Galloway, iii. 128. The only surviving prelate at the restoration, iv. 21.
Tables, their institution, iii. 129. Their demands increase, 130. Project the renewal of the national covenant, 137.
Tarbet, lord, promotes the revolution, iv. 191. Accused of falsifying the records of parliament, 243. Created earl of Cromarty. See Cromarty.
Tarras, earl of, how far engaged in the Ryehouse plot, iv. 134. His evidence employed against Jerviswood his uncle, 137. Engaged in the revolution, 187.
Test, passed by the duke of York, 416. Its contradictions, 118. Explanations of the test, 119. Eighty clergymen re- sign, to avoid the test, 120. James attempts to procure its repeal, 172. Annuls the test by his dispensing powers, 177. Transportation, when the punishment was first introduced, iv.
Traquair, earl of, procures Balmerino's sentence, iii. 110. In-
timidated and obtains his pardon, 112. Unjustly suspected of connivance with the supplicants, 132. Commissioner to the assembly and parliament, 169. Letter au roi produced at court by Traquair, 176. Afraid to return to Scotland, 179. Accused as an incendiary, but preserved by the king, 197.
Treason, trials for, after death, iii. 54. Trial and condemna- tion in absence, iv. 46. New treasons introduced, 158. English laws against high treason introduced after the union, 377-
Turner, his severities, iv. 38. Surprized and unexpectedly spared by the insurgents, 41.
Tweedale, earl of, his mild administration, iv. 51. Attempts an union, 58. His opposition to Lauderdale, 67. Ap- pointed chancellor, 235. Marquis and commissioner to par- liament, 247. Displaced, 255. His death, ib.
marquis of, his son, his feeble administration, iv. 301. Dismissed, 310. His party forms the Squadrone, 311. Tythes, the revocation of, iii. 89. Opposed by a convention of estates, 91. Supported by the clergy and landholders, 94. The king's arbitration concerning them, ib. Its effects, 95.
Vane, sir Harry, the younger, sent a commissioner to Scotland, iii. 237. His artifice in framing the solemn league and co- venant, 241. Once governor of Massachusets, 281. A com- missioner to settle and unite Scotland with the English commonwealth, 449.
Union of the crowns, how accomplished, iii. 1, 2. Of the king- doms, first attempted by James VI. 9. A treaty for that purpose, 10. Obstacles to its success, 11. Postponed, 13. And abandoned by James, 14. Compulsive union with the English commonwealth, 449. Completed 459. Union at- tempted by the earl of Tweedale, iv. 58. Union proposed at the revolution by William, 202. Recommended in his last message to the house of commons, 272. Resumed and a conference held at Westminster on queen Ann's accession, 280. Act for a treaty of union with England, 312-314. Motives of statesmen for a union; of Godolphin, 318. Of the whigs, 319. The advantages proposed by an union to England, ib. To Scotland, 320. Motives of the Scottish statesmen, Queensberry and Argyle, 322. Commissioners for the treaty appointed, 324. Treaty begun at Westmin- ster, ib. An incorporating, preferred to a federal union, 325. Equalizing taxes adopted, 326. Land tax limited to a certain amount, 327. Excise on malt suspended, 328. Representation, 329. Enlarged from a thirteenth to a twelfth of the united parliament, 331. Motives of the Scottish peers in the treaty, 332. Equivalent, 333. Suspense and appre- hensions which the treaty occasioned, 336. Articles of unión introduced into parliament, 337. Universal outcry and alarm, ib. Articles of union examined in parliament, 338. Tumults on that occasion, 339. Debates on the four first articles, 341. Approved, 351. Union opposed by the clergy, 354. An act passed for the security of the church, 355. Succeeding articles of union approved, 356. Malt
tax suspended during the war, 357. Tumults, insurrections, projected, 358. Prevented by Hamilton, 359. Remaining articles ratified, and the whole transmitted to England, 362. Debates in the English parliament, 363. Articles of union exemplified in England, 364. Distribution and choice of representatives in the Scottish parliament, 365. Commence- ment and reception of the union in England, 368. In Scot- land, 369. Completed by the dissolution of the privy council of Scotland, 373. Improved by the introduction of the English laws against high treason, 376. General re- view of the principles. 378. And consequences of the union, 380. Benefits of the union at first imperceptible, 386. Afterwards immense, 388. Its effects on literature, 389. On the administration of justice, 392. Religion, 393. Its recent benefits, 395.
Universities filled by the covenant with fanatical teachers, iii. 245. Scottish universities less adapted than the English for classical literature, 479. University of Edinburgh shut up, iv. 113. English universities, their privileges invaded by James, 180.
Uxbridge, treaty of, iii. 266. Interests of each party at the treaty, 267. Its failure, 272.
Waller, sir William, his defeat, iii. 232. Pursues but repulsed by Charles, 254.
Wariston, Archibald Johnston of, an advocate employed in framing the covenant, iii. 138. Clerk to the assembly at Glasgow, 151. A commissioner in the treaty at London, 190. Appointed a lord of session, 203. Sits in Cromwell's house of peers and council of state, 486. President of the council of state, 494. Attainted after the restoration, iv. 19. Delivered up by the French court, 35. His execution and character, 36.
Welsh and Dury, two clergymen, condemned for treason and banished, iii. 27.
Westminster assembly of divines, iii. 289. Its directory for public worship, 291. Form of ordination, 292. Church government debated, 293. Confession of faith, 294. In- tolerance of the assembly, ib. Its conclusions adopted and sanctioned in Scotland by the assembly and parliament, 326. Its confession of faith confirmed after the revolution, iv. 232. Whigamere's inroad, the first insurrection and origin of the whigs, iii. 381.
William, (see Prince of Orange,) William and Mary proclaimed king and queen, iv. 208. His concern in the massacre of
Glenco, 238-242. His inattention to the affairs of Scotland, 246. Opposes the Darien company, 258. Death and cha racter of William, 272.
Wogan, his romantic expedition and premature death, iii, 455. Worcester, battle of, iii. 444.
York, siege and surrender of, iii. 250-253.
James, duke of, his arrival in Scotland, iv. 105. His administration there, 109. His character, 111. Holds a parliament, 113. Obtains an act to secure his succession, 114. And a test to disqualify the presbyterians, 116. His persecution of Argyle, 121. Shipwrecked, 128. See James.
T. Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.
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