Birnie, Mr William, minister of Lanark,
afterwards at Ayr, 211, 244; attends
the trial of the Ministers at Linlithgow,
456.

Bishops, their office not considered by the
Scotish Reformers of Divine appoint-
ment, 5; manner in which Bishops en-
tered their usurped office, 7; Bishops
and Archbishops to be subject to the
General Assembly, 22, 23; acts for re-
straining the power of Bishops, 30, 31;
laws concerning their election, 33; de-
lations against, ib.; report of Assembly's
Committee as to the Divine authority
of Bishops as then existing in Scotland,
33, 34; this report approved of by the
General Assembly, 35; Bishops re-
quired to take the charge of a particular
congregation, 35, 37; Acts of General
Assembly with regard to, 37, 38; office
condemned simpliciter by act of Assem-
bly, 38, 39, 347; Assembly's Cautions
as to Bishops not observed, 130; the
Cautions desired to be inserted in the
Act of Parliament to be made, confirm-
ing the Estate of Bishops, 157; Pro-
testation given in to the Lords of Articles
against the restoration of the Estate of
Bishops, 159; Act of Parliament re-
storing it, 163; the Bishops efforts to
carry forward their measures, 199;
they grow more powerful, 216; Scottish
Bishops consecrated, 234, 235; the
Bishops become more intolerant, 240;
double power possessed by, ib.; their
visitation of Kirks, 242; some of them
non resident, 326; Act of Parliament
in 1633 intended to ratify acts made in
favour of the Estate of Bishops, 338.
Bishops, three Popish, who professed the
Reformed religion, 15; had no power
to exercise jurisdiction by virtue of their
old office, 16; appointed to act as Com-
missioners in their own bounds, ib.;
complaints and proceedings against, 16,
never chosen to moderate at the Gene-
ral Assembly, 17.

Bishops of England, General Assembly's
letter to, in favour of the brethren who
were troubled on account of the sur-
plice, 19.

Bishopricks annexed to the Crown, 56.

Black, Mr David, Minister of St An-
drews, appears before the Council and
declines their authority in ecclesiastical
matters, 71, 72; this considered a com-
mon cause by the Church, 72, 75, 79;
his Declinature sent to every Pres-
bytery and numerously signed, 72;
again summoned to appear before the
Council, 73; new Declinature, 74; his
courage, wisdom, and utterance before
the Council, 75; the King wishes him
to confess an offence, which he refuses,
76; is willing to submit the matter to a
lawful ecclesiastical court, 77; the
libel against him found proven, ib.;
punishment the King intended to inflict
upon him, 78; speeches said to have
been uttered by him against the King,
ib.; is banished, 79, 90; Synod of
Fife appoint some of their number to
deal with the King to restore him to
his own place, 87; suffered to return
to St Andrews, 92; removed from
St Andrews by the Commissioners of
the Church, 95, 361; this approved of
by the Assembly at Dundee, 364.
Black, William, 248.
Black Saturday, 100.
Blackburn, Mr Archibald, minister of
Aberdeen, a member of Aberdeen As-
sembly, 128, 133, 387, 393; appears
before the Council, 138, 423; is in-
duced to confess the unlawfulness of
that Assembly, 138, 424.

Blackburn, Mr Peter, Bishop of Aber-
deen, 58, 100, 112, 116, 123, 128,
553.

Blackhall, Mr Andrew, 126.
Blyth, Mr Henry, minister of the Can-

ongate, Edinburgh, 248; committed
prisoner to the Castle of Blackness,
409; continued in prison notwithstand-
ing a warrant from the King for his re-
lease, 420; released from prison, 437.
Brodie, Mr Gilbert, a minister of Orkney,

103.

Book of Common Prayers, 243, 245.
Boyd, Mr Andrew, Bishop of Argyle,

123.

Boyd, Mr James, accepts the Bishoprick
of Glasgow, 29; Moderator of the
General Assembly, 32; delated for in-
frequency of preaching, 39; his death,
49.

Boyd, Mr Robert, admitted Principal of
the University of Edinburgh, 306; op-
position made to him by the ministers
of Edinburgh, 307.

office, ib; difference between them and
superintendents, 11; their power limit-
ed, ib.

Commissioners to the General Assembly,
law as to their number, 106.
Commisioners of the General Assembly
meet at Edinburgh, 69; charged by an
act of Privy Council to depart out of
town, 74; this charge proclaimed, which
they obey, 80; Robert Bruce refuses
farther communing with the King till
they be recalled, 82.
Commissioners, or commission appoint-
ed to sit with the King about Church
affairs, 94; the needle which drew
in Episcopacy, 94, 95, 361, 373, 383;
they petition Parliament in name of the
Kirk, that ministers may have vote in
Parliament, 96, 362; receive more am-
ple powers, 101; carry forward the
wishes of the King, 116, 117, 363, 365,
372; their usurpation complained of,
129, 130; opposed to the meeting of
Aberdeen Assembly, 131.
Communicating, or observing the Lord's
Supper in private, 252.
Comptroller, Lord. See Scoone, Lord.
Confession of Faith, first Confession rati-
fied in Parliament, 4; its doctrine con-
cerning ceremonies, 9; second Confes-
sion of Faith, subscribed by the King
and his household, 46, 347; approved
of by the General Assembly, 47; the
subscription of it enjoined, ib.; sub-
scribed in 1590, by persons of all ranks
a second time, 56; Act of the Presby-
tery of St Andrews as to subscription
of, 166; a new Confession drawn up,
243; which is intended to set aside the
old one, 245.

Constant Moderators of Presbyteries and
Synods, 164, 183, 184; the Synod of
Perth refuses to accept of a constant
Moderator, 185, 186; Act of Assembly
at Linlithgow in regard to Constant
Moderators and its adulteration, 185,
187-193, 241; opposition to them in
the Synod of Fife, 187; in the Synod
of Lothian, 188; in the Synod of Merse
and Tweeddale, ib.; and in other
Synods, ib.; attempt to settle them in
Presbyteries, 196.

Constant Platt, 94, 101, 121, 122.
Convention at Leith, claims the power of
a General Assembly, 21; appoints Com-
missioners to meet with Commissioners
of the Council, 22; proceedings of these
combined Commissioners, 22-24; Ge-

of the General Assembly.
Covenanting takes place in 1596, 66; re-
solution to engage in, 84.

Cowper, Mr William, minister of Perth,
afterwards Bishop of Galloway, 58; his
sermon before the Estates of Parliament,
158; his letter to the Bishop of Dun-
blane, 194; member of Privy Confe-
rence, 205; reports the King's approval
of the Assembly at Linlithgow, 206;
his opinion of the Assembly at Glasgow
of 1610, 232; in a sermon sets at nought
the ancient order of the Kirk, 260;
preaches in the royal chapel, 254; his
death, 238.

Craig, Mr John, 13; Moderator of the
General Assembly, 17, 22, 33, 347.
Craig, Mr Thomas, Advocate for the
Church, 149, 453, 464, 493.
Cranstoun, Mr Mitchell, minister of Cra-
mond, visits the Ministers imprisoned in
the Castle of Blackness, 455.
Cranstoun, Mr William, 188.
Cubiculars, 83, 84.
Cunningham, Daniel, 278.
Cunningham, Mr David, Bishop of Aber-
deen, endeavours to subvert the Presby-
terian government, 350; castrates the
Assembly's Register, 351.

D

Davidson, Mr John, minister of Libber-
ton and afterwards of Prestonpans,
51; effect of his exhortations, 66;
his letter to the General Assembly,
93; his opposition to Ministers voting
in Parliament, 99, 102, 103; his Pro-
testation against the lawfulness of the
Assembly at Dundee of 1597, 104,
366; which is refused to be inserted
in the Assembly's Register, 366; his
letter to the Assembly which met at
Burntisland in 1601, 118, 119; the King
refuses to grant him relief from his con-
finement, 124, 126.

by the Bishops, 426, 501; intrigue to
displace him, 501, 502, 538-544; his
trial, 568.

Dunkeld, Bishop of. See Paton, James.
Durie, John, minister of Edinburgh, 33.
Durie, Mr Robert, minister of Anstruther,

a member of Aberdeen Assembly, 133,
387, 392; goes to visit Forbes when
imprisoned, 404; compears before the
Council, 137, 407; commanded to
enter himself prisoner in the Castle
of Blackness, ib.; declines the authority
of the Council in Ecclesiastical matters,
140; put to the trial of a jury, 148;
banished, 556, 558.

Dykes, Mr John, 110, 188, 455.

E

Earls, the forefaulted, complaints of the
Kirk in reference to, 66; danger arising
from their return, 69; controversy
between the King and the ministry re-
specting them, 81, 82, 85.

Echlin, Mr Robert, minister of Inverkeith-

ing, visits the Ministers imprisoned in
Blackness, 455.

Edinburgh, Ministers of, charged by the
King and Council to depart out of Edin-
burgh, 115; their places declared vacant
by the Commissioners of the General
Assembly, 116; the King declares their
Churches must be open to all the
Bishops, 217; dispute between them
and their congregations in reference to
the celebration of the Communion at
Easter, 267; they endeavour to incense
the King against their people, 268;
complain of the deprived and silenced
Ministers entering the city, 310; sup-
plicate the King to dispense with obedi-
ence to the act of kneeling at the Lord's
Supper, 319.

Edinburgh, the people of, opposed to the
Bishops, 157; supplicate the King to
allow the Sacrament of the Supper to
be celebrated as before the Perth Arti-
cles, 319.

Edinburgh, tumult in, 355.

Election of Ministers, to be in the congre-
gation according to the First Book of
Discipline, 8; mode of trial previous
to induction, 8.

Elphingston, Alexander, Lord, 149.
Elphingston, Sir James, one of the Sena-
tors of the College of Justice. See Bal-
merinoch, Lord.

England, 300 Ministers there suspended,
deprived or excommunicated, 125.
Episcopacy ratified in England, 125.
Errol, Earl of, excommunicated and ba-
nished, 65; returns, 68; Church proce-
dure with, 90, 202, 207; is set at liber-
ty, 235.

Erskine, John, Laird of Dun, Superintend-
ent of Angus and Mearns, 6; his letter
to the Earl of Mar, 20; deprives the
Principal and Regent of Old Aberdeen
College of their offices, 14, 22; is Mo-
derator of the General Assembly, 32.
Erskine, Mr William, minister of Denino,
232, 243, 244, 281, 379.

Estate, Third, Ministers denied to be such
by the Reformers, 9; Knox's opinion, ib.
Excommunication, 36.

Excommunication. Treatise of, 13, 14.
Exhorters, 5, 12; ignorant and immoral
persons said to be admitted as, 13; their
office declared by the Assembly not to
be an ordinary ecclesiastical office, 39.

F

Fairfoul, John, minister of Dunfermline,
107; confined to Dundee on account of
his praying for the banished and impri-
soned Ministers, 217.

Fairholme, or Ferme, Mr Charles, minis-
ter of Fraserburgh, a member of Aber-
deen Assembly, 133, 387, 393; appears
before the Council, 137, 423; declines
the Council's authority in Ecclesiastical
matters, 140; refuses to acknowledge
the unlawfulness of Aberdeen Assembly,
424; imprisoned in the Castle of Down,
138, 424.

Ferguson, Mr David, Moderator of the
General Assembly, 32; his opposition to

ministers having vote in Parliament, 99.
Ferguson, Mr John, minister of Ochiltree,
cited to compear before the High Com-

mission, 278; his Declinature, 279, 280.
Ferme. See Fairholme, Charles.
Fife, Superintendent of. See Winram.
Fife, the Synod of, 138; discharged to
meet, 186; attempt to make Archbishop
Gladstanes Moderator of, 187; Grie-
vances of, given in to the General As-
sembly, 370, 371; the Ministers of the
North send commmissioners to, 379.
Fleming, John, Lord, 167; is gained over
by Spottiswood to join with him in dis-
gracing the Chancellor, 502, 513; sits
on the trial of the Chancellor, 545.