. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . e thought, without soldiers to protect them. The Council, having seen the folly of extreme meas-ures, undertook to call Sir James Turner to accountfor his barbarities. Turner proved, in his defence, thathe had done no more than he had been ordered by theCouncil to do; but he was deprived of his commission,and Bannatyne was sentenced to banishment from thecountry. Thus did the Council make scape goats oftheir own agents, hoping to escape well-merited was but a ruse. There was little abatement of th
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . e thought, without soldiers to protect them. The Council, having seen the folly of extreme meas-ures, undertook to call Sir James Turner to accountfor his barbarities. Turner proved, in his defence, thathe had done no more than he had been ordered by theCouncil to do; but he was deprived of his commission,and Bannatyne was sentenced to banishment from thecountry. Thus did the Council make scape goats oftheir own agents, hoping to escape well-merited was but a ruse. There was little abatement of thecruel oppression of the Covenanters. As the people refused to attend the services held bythe curates of the archbishops, laws were passed for-bidding their attendance upon meetings held by their 58 THE BLUE FLAG. pastors in the fields and glens of the mountains. Thesemeetinofs were called conventicles. Warrants wereissued for the arrest of all ministers and others whoheld conventicles, and every magistrate was to pay afine if a conventicle was held in the district under his ». ^.. A Scottish Conventicle. jurisdiction. A numher of ministers were socni ar-rested under this iniquitous law. About this time a minister named James Mitchell,who had been concerned in the late insurrection, whohad wandered about, enduring every sort of sufferingand hardship, and who had seen many of his friendsperish on the scaffold, driven to desperation, attemptedto kill Archbishop Sharp. As the Archbishop took his PERSECUTION AND RETRIBUTION. 59 seat in his carriage on a certain day, Mitchell fired onhim with a pistol, hut the hall was received in the armof the Bishop of Orkney, who was just entering thevehicle. A cry was raised that a man was killed, anda crowd rushed to the spot, hut when a counter cry wasmade that it was only a bishop, the crowd quietlydispersed. Mitchell escaped and remained undetectedfor several years. No good people approved of thisattempt on Sharps life. Sharp grew hotter th
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