. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ng a full pardon of all past offences, enjoiningpeaceable behaviour, and commanding all stran-gers to quit Stirling on six hours notice, underpain of rebellion. Soon after, on being informedof the proceedings of the Covenanters, he said,• Now all that we have been doing these thirty SPOTTISWOOD 499 SIR ROBERT years past is thrown down at once; and fearingviolence to his person from the fury of the rabble,he retired to Newcastle. On the abolition ofepiscopacy at the celebr
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ng a full pardon of all past offences, enjoiningpeaceable behaviour, and commanding all stran-gers to quit Stirling on six hours notice, underpain of rebellion. Soon after, on being informedof the proceedings of the Covenanters, he said,• Now all that we have been doing these thirty SPOTTISWOOD 499 SIR ROBERT years past is thrown down at once; and fearingviolence to his person from the fury of the rabble,he retired to Newcastle. On the abolition ofepiscopacy at the celebrated Glasgow Assemblyof 1638, when the censure and excommunicationof the bishops came in hand, Archbishop Spottis-wood did not escape. He was charged with profaning the Sabbath, carding and diceing,riding through the country the whole day, tipplingand drinking in taverns till midnight, falsifyingthe acts of Aberdeen Assembly, lying and slan-dering the old Assembly and Covenant in hiswicked book, of adultery, incest, sacrilege, andfrequent simony. He was deposed, and decreedto be excommunicated. Of all these charges,. Archbishop Spottiswood. particularly the gravest of them, it is not veryprobable that he was guilty, but in the excite-ment of the period there was little delicacy usedin accusing an opponent. From Newcastle, wherehe remained some time, the archbishop wrote tothe king, earnestly soliciting permission to resignhis office of lord-chancellor, which had been con-fen ed on him for life by patent. Charles accept-ed his resignation, and wrote with his own hand an affectionate letter of thanks for his past ser-vices. Age, fatigue of body, and grief of mind,threw him into a fever, and on his recovery hewent to London, where he had a relapse. Duringhis illness, which was to prove his last, he re-ceived the holy communion from the archbishopof Canterbury, and was visited by many personsof distinction, and particularly by the marquisof Hamilton, the kings commissioner to the
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