History of ScotlandMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1885 - Scotland |
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Page 24 - Christ against the barbarians, and instructed all priests to lead their parishioners with crosses, banners and saints' relics to the meeting-place of the magnates. There he had a standard made as the emblem of resistance. It consisted of a ship's mast mounted on a carriage, adorned with the banners of St Peter of York, St John of Beverley, and St Wilfred of Ripon, and surmounted by a silver pyx containing the Body of Christ.
Page 142 - ... was agreed to in the year 1654. It was then settled that Scotland should be represented by thirty members in the English Parliament. Free trade was established between the two countries. Great changes were also made in the Church Government. The assembly was closed, and the power of the Church Courts was done away with. The country was divided into five districts, and the care of providing ministers to the different parishes was laid upon a certain number of ministers to be chosen from these...
Page 174 - Scotland," deals practically with the seventeenth century epoch, the period between the union of the Crowns and the union of the Parliaments.
Page 195 - That it is a fundamental law of the Church that no pastor shall be intruded into any congregation contrary to the will of the people ; and in order that the principle may be carried into full effect, the General Assembly, with the consent of a majority of the Presbyteries of this church, do declare, enact, and ordain that it shall be an instruction to Presbyteries that if...
Page 143 - ... be chosen from these districts. In order to improve the state of the people all feudal dues were taken away. A fixed rent in money was substituted for all the services and restrictions to which the land had hitherto been liable. The Highlands were kept in order by the founding of garrisoned forts. The Protector, whose conquest had made Scotland prosperous, died September 3, 1658. His son Richard succeeded him in office, but he was not strong enough to keep order, as his father had done. A time...
Page 142 - Cromwell, now Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, set to work to carry out Edward the First's idea of a union of England and Scotland. This union was agreed to in the year 1654. It was then settled that Scotland should be represented by thirty members in the English Parliament. Free trade was established between the two countries. Great changes were also made in the Church Government. The assembly was...