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The History of Scotland... to the Present Time
The History of Scotland to the Present Time Author:George Buchanan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: -V and all association with every other party of professing Chris- BOOK tians. Cargil appears to have been the only minister who at- 1 tempted to reclai... more »m them; he repeatedly went to them, anil 1681- reasoned with them, but found them unconvincible. A troop of dragoons soon after surprised and took the whole ull gj"j company, who had passed about a month in the fields, at and con- Wool-hill Craigs, betwixt Lothian and Tweeddale, and car- e ried them to Edinburgh, where the men were put into the Canongate tolbooth, and the women into the house of correction; and the manner in which they were treated is one of the few acts of the then government that almost de- serves praise, though the presbyterian writers allege that the clemency shown on this occasion, originated in hatred to those who were equally anxious to disclaim all knowledge of, or connexion with, the abhorred enthusiasts. They were confined for a few months, when, after examination, his royal highness, and the lords of council, " having con- sidered the condition of these prisoners, called the 'sweet singers,' David Jamieson, John Gibb, Walter Ker, John Young, and some women, gave orders to the magistrates to liberate them, provided they give, under their hand, that they abjure the disloyal principles once owned by them, ap- Liberated, pointing such as are able to find caution to appear when called, and such as are not, to enact for themselves." On which they were liberated, and they appear to have, in ge- neral, returned to the quiet and laudable discharge of the usual duties of life. tin. Notwithstanding the opprobrium with which the memory of the Gibbites have been loaded, with the excep- tion of some wild fancies respecting the sinfulness of pur- chasing provisions, and holding intercourse with persons who...« less