The History of the Kirk of Scotland, Volume 6

David Calderwood

Wodrow Society, 1845 - Presbyterianism

Contents

• General Assembly: 1
• East Kirk enlarged: 27
• Thanksgiving at the Cross of Edinburgh for the kings delivery: 45
• Mr Patrick Galloways discourse: 57
• His deposition: 66
• Commissioners from Synods summoned by the king: 76
• The king congratulated at Glasgow: 82
• Mr R Bruces answer: 88
• The Earl of Mars answer: 94
• Mr R Bruces letter to the king: 97
• A meeting of ministers of both parties: 103
• Accident to the king on returning from the Assembly: 106
• Mr John Davidson warded: 126
• Mr W Balcangual returns to his ministry: 135
• Mr R Bruces answer: 141
• Mr J Melvills letter to the Synod of Fife: 149
• Mr A Melvill confined: 157
• Mr R Bruce urged to conform to the act: 188
• 1603: 194
• Mr R Bruces answer: 200
• Their declaration against Mr It Bruce: 205
• The Presbytery of Edinburghs letter to Mr J Davidson: 211
• rapists Formalists and sincere Professors have good hopes: 220
• The kings answer to M de la Font: 228
• A conspiracy discovered: 234
• 1604: 241
• Mr J Melvills articles to the Presbytery of Edinburgh: 247
• Mr W Balcanqual accused: 257
• The advice of the Synod of Fife given to the commissioners of: 259
• The Synod of Aberdeen: 268
• 1605: 274
• Mr J Forbes chosen moderator: 280
• Documents taken of obedience to the charge: 286
• The warded brethren cited before the council: 292
• Mr J Melvills apology for the warded ministers: 297
• Their warrant from the laws of the realm: 304
• Their warrant from the custom and constitution of our kirk: 311
• The warded ministers apology: 322
• The councils letter to the Presbytery of St Andrews: 333
• The warded ministers summoned before the council: 342
• Their answer to the libel: 354
• The kings speech in the parliament of England: 367
• 1606: 374
• The trial of the assise: 387
• Mr J Melvills letter to the Synod of Fife: 393
• A letter from the imprisoned to their brethren: 401
• A declaration of the council: 419
• A faithful report of proceedings concerning the Assembly at Aber: 437
• The proceedings against the prisoners in Blackness as penned: 452
• Eight ministers sent for to court: 477
• Animadversions on it: 484
• Protestation against bishops: 493
• Act concerning the royal prerogative: 495
• Reasons against the erection of bishops penned by another: 535
• The supplication: 548
• The ministers sent for to court advise with their presbyteries: 556
• A letter of the imprisoned to the king: 563
• Another conference 57 1: 571
• Mr J Melvill urged to subscribe the information of the imprisoned: 578
• A proclamation against Papists: 585
• The pestilence spreading: 591
• Three of them called before the council of England: 597
• A faithful report of the proceedings of the convention at Linlith: 604
• Another report: 610
• The forgeries and mysteries of this act: 624
• Christmas kept by Dunbar and the Chancellor: 630
• The councils letter to the Bishop of Durham: 636
• A conference between the Archbishop of Canterbury Mr J Mel: 641
• The commissioner quarrels with the ministers of the synod: 647
• They protest and dissolve the meeting: 653
• The Presbytery of Perth accept their moderator: 659
• Mr J Dykes letter to Mr J Melvill: 666
• The fifth of August kept: 672
• The Synod of Fife: 674
• A priest made a spectacle: 680
• Maxwell and Makoneill break ward: 686
• His answer: 700
• The craft and violence of the visitors: 706
• They are put to the horn: 712
• Their reasons: 718
• Mr J Melvills letter to the conference: 720
• Humes letter to Mr James Law: 726
• Mr J Melvill refuses conference with the Bishop of Glasgow: 732
• Instructions to the commissioners of the ensuing General Assembly 73: 739
• A confutation of it by Mr A Melvill: 745
• The General Assembly held at Linlithgow: 751
• Huntlys offer rejected: 759
• Overtures for remedying them: 765
• Acts for reconciliation: 772
• Mr J Melvills judgment of the Assembly: 778
• Mr W Scotts letter to Mr J Melvill: 785
• Secretary Elphinstons trial in England: 789
• Another letter: 795
• The sum of the council of Englands proceedings: 803
• His justification: 811
• The sum of the declaration subscribed by him: 817
• Secretary Elphinston warded in Falkland: 825

Bibliographic information

• Title: The History of the Kirk of Scotland, Volume 6; Volume 5 of Publications, Edinburgh Wodrow Society; The History of the Kirk of Scotland, David Calderwood; Issue 5 of Verso of: The Wodrow society ... Publication[s] of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed church of Scotland; Issue 5 of Wodrow society, Edinburgh. [Publ
• Author: David Calderwood
• Editor: Thomas Thomson
• Publisher: Wodrow Society, 1845
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Aug 7, 2008