Chiefly in its Ecclesiastical Aspect

BY

M. G. J. KINLOCH

VOL. II.

FROM THE FALL OF THE OLD HIERARCHY UNTIL

THE DEATH OF JAMES VI.

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INDEX TO FIRST AND SECOND VOLUMES

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IX. CARBERRY HILL, LOCHLEVEN, LANGSIDE, AND

XVI. THE LAST YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY,

AND THE FIRST OF THE SEVENTEENTH,

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XVII. THE UNION OF THE CROWNS,

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XVIII. THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE REIGN OF

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HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.

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CHAPTER I.

THE OLD RELIGION.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burnt up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste."-Isaiah lxiv. 10, 11.

THE Convention of the Estates of Scotland which met in Edinburgh in August 1560, marks a critical era in the national history. When the Three Estates met on the 1st of August, Catholicism was the religion of the country; when the Three Estates rose on the 24th of the same month, the Catholic hierarchy was abolished by law, and the Confession of Faith, drawn up by the leaders of the new opinions as a summary of their doctrines, was formally ratified, and was received as the established creed.

The country was thus in the extremities of its ecclesiastical revolution. By the stirring events that have been enacted, there has been a rude separation from the past and from the brotherhood of Christendom; the seamless vesture of Christ has been torn, and vast numbers of the Scottish nation, forsaking the paths which for eleven hundred years had been smoothed by the feet of their fathers, have started, pioneered by wild guides, on strange and unhallowed wanderings.

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