Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , when even theLord Advocate and the Secretaryof State opposed it. Both weredismissed from office. The ob-noxious exciseman was to comenow nearer than ever to mensbusiness and bosoms. Li Glas-gow, Campbell of Shawfield wasspecially unpopular for his sup-port of Hay in securing the mob sacked his town house(1725) in the Saltmarket Theriot was suppressed by the troopsof Wade, not without f
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , when even theLord Advocate and the Secretaryof State opposed it. Both weredismissed from office. The ob-noxious exciseman was to comenow nearer than ever to mensbusiness and bosoms. Li Glas-gow, Campbell of Shawfield wasspecially unpopular for his sup-port of Hay in securing the mob sacked his town house(1725) in the Saltmarket Theriot was suppressed by the troopsof Wade, not without foreshadowed the better known•Porteous riot of 1736, of some ofthe incidents of which Alexander Carlyle, then a student inEdinburgh, gives a graphic account. In default of popular representation in Parliament, a goodsubstitute was found in the annual Assembly of the Kirk, Avherewere fought out the battles of the Argathelian, or Argyll jDarty,and the Squadrone, or independent Whig opposition, whodetested Walpole and repression. The toleration of Episcopacyand the odious Abjuration Oath sowed the seeds of dissension,for they brought the Church into conflict with that fertile stirrer. THE PORTEOUS RIOT. ( The Clergifs Plea of Conscience, 1737.) Rise ofBissent. Religionin theCountry. 212 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. [1714 iij) of trouble, the Ciesar of the State. The immediate result?was the Reforiued or Caineronian Church, the hero of whichwas Macniillan, minister of Bahiiaghie, in Kirkcudbright. Thedramatic scene of the inauguration of the movement was agreen knoll above Douglas in that upper Ward of Lanark-shire, whose bleak moors were full of memories of the Per-secution. The restoration of lay patronage about tlie sametime was also a fruitful source of heart-burning, and producedthe Original Secession of 1733, under the leadership of EbenezerErskine. The real cause of this movement, however, was amore searching schism now developing itself within the Churchitself, and precisely analog
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