The history of the affairs of church and state in Scotland : from the beginning of the Reformation in the reign of King James Vto the retreat of Queen Mary into England, anno 1568 : taken from the public records and other authentic vouchers . NING SOME SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TIME OFTHE PARLIAMENT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 15G0. S in the transactions of the Parliament in themonth of Augustl560,1 found myself obligedto intermix so much of ecclesiastical mattersas came to be treated in that meeting; so,now that I am to enter upon a regular de-claration of these same affairs through the follow
The history of the affairs of church and state in Scotland : from the beginning of the Reformation in the reign of King James Vto the retreat of Queen Mary into England, anno 1568 : taken from the public records and other authentic vouchers . NING SOME SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TIME OFTHE PARLIAMENT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 15G0. S in the transactions of the Parliament in themonth of Augustl560,1 found myself obligedto intermix so much of ecclesiastical mattersas came to be treated in that meeting; so,now that I am to enter upon a regular de-claration of these same affairs through the following sevenor eight years, whereof 1 have already narrated the CivilPart, I judge it altogether proper to impart to my readerssome farther original information relating to the posture ofChurchmen and Church matters in and about the time ofthat Parliament. It has been already seen that John Monluc, Bishop ofValence, was one of our Sovereigns Plenipotentiaries atcomposing the differences immediately preceding the pre-tended Parliament in the year 1560. This Monluc, itappears, was the person chiefly trusted by our ScottishPrelates at that time ; to him they communicated theirgrievances, and through him they proposed to obtain a VOL. III. 1. /T-^ 2 THE HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRS [1560. relief from such hardships as they judged themselves to bebrought under. But what small service that French Pre-late 1 did to those of this nation who put so much confidencein him, may be pretty well perceived by the tenor of theArticles of Agreement formerly set down. Follows a Memorandum,^ without date or title, written entirelyin the hand-ioriting of the Archbishop of St Andreios(Hamilton) ; hut the tenor of it loill necessarily determineits date. Memorandum.—To resaif the Artickilis, togydder withthis particular Artickil, quhilk we desire to be maid maircleir be the Bischop of Valence ; and gif he nocht do ithimself, to interprete thame, and putt away all obscuri-tie, that he wald communicat the heid
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