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ministers, Cruickshank, in his History, vol. i. p. 68, gives the four names here mentioned, as well as that of James Guthrie, concerning whom Jaffray next speaks; and at page 74, among the suspected persons, the same historian introduces the name of our Diarist himself. With regard to Guthrie, "He was accused," says Bishop Burnet," of accession to the remonstrance, when the King was in Scotland, and for a book he had printed, with the title of The Causes of God's wrath upon the Nation; in which, the treating with the King, the tendering him the Covenant, and admitting him to the exercise of the government were highly aggravated, as great acts of apostasy." He was executed on the 1st of the month, called June, 1661, and his head, according to the sentence passed against him by the Parliament, was affixed on the chief gate of Edinburgh. Moncrief had nearly shared the same lot, but his life was spared; yet he was declared incapable of exercising any public trust, civil or ecclesiastical, and afterward underwent much hardship and persecution. Trail was tried before the Parliament; and the next year was banished, and went to Holland.

NOTE 00.-Page 168.

"One Macquare, a hot man and considerably learned, did in his church at Glasgow openly protest against this act, as contrary to the oath of God, and so void of itself. [This was the act asserting the King's power in treaties of peace and war, in consequence of which the League and Covenant was condemned.] To protest against an act of Parliament, was treason by their law. And Middleton, [the King's Commissioner,] was resolved to make an example of him, for terrifying others. But Macquare was as stiff as he was severe, and would come to no submission. Yet he was only condemned to perpetual banishment. Upon which, he and some others who were afterwards banished, went and settled at Rotterdam." Burnet's History of his own Times, vol. i. p. 161.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND PERSECUTIONS

OF THE

PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS,

IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.

"We have heard with our ears, O God! our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." Psalms, xliv. 1.

"We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done." Psalms, lxxviii. 4.

"Great have been the mercies of our God! for which, future generations shall praise him, and children yet unborn magnify his name." Ury Record.

MEMOIRS, &c.

CHAPTER I.

1653: RISE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN SCOTLAND-THEIR FIRST MEETINGS AND MINISTERS-1662: ALEXANDER JAFFRAY AND OTHERS AT ABERDEEN JOIN THEM-MEETINGS ESTABLISHED AT INVERURY, ARDIHARRALD, AND KINMUCK— GEORGE GRAY-1663-4: IMPRISONMENT OF RICHARD RAE, GEORGE KEITH, AND PATRICK LIVINGSTON-ALEXANDER JAFFRAY SUMMONED BEFORE THE HIGH COMMISSION COURT, EXAMINED BY ARCHBISHOP SHARPE, AND FINED, &c.

In the preceding division of this Work, has been disclosed the religious Diary of an individual, whose allotment and avocations in life gave him occasion to mix freely with most classes of his fellow-men. We have now followed him in his career, nearly through the space of half a century. Thus far, then, we have been very intimately made acquainted with the character of Alexander Jaffray.

Amidst all the vicissitudes of his day, we have beheld the earnest exercise of his spirit, in a search after substantial good; he has laid open before us, in a vivid and most ingenuous manner, his longings for complete deliverance from the malady of our species; and he has described some of the steppings of his soul in its progress heavenward. We may have noticed, what great cause of humiliation he found on account of his early deviation from "the path of life;" long afterwards, also, had he to pine over the too many successful attempts of our deadly enemy. But it was within the scope of that gracious Arm of power, on which he depended, to heal all his backslidings, to bruise Satan under his feet, and fully to

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