The miscellany of the Wodrow Society: containing tracts and original letters, chiefly relating to the ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Notes:
Vol. i.
Editor:
Selected and edited by David Laing.
Contents:
The Confession of Faith of the churches of Switzerland; translated from the Latin, by George Wishart, 1536. [From London c. 1548 edition. The date 1536 is that of the original confession. Also printed in 11.11.]
Certamen cum Lutheranis, Saxoniae habitum, per Jacobum Melvil, Scotum. [From the Bologna 1530 edition.]
A historie of the estate of Scotland from July MDLVIII to April MDLX. [Ms. dated 1663, but the date of composition is unknown.]
Ane compendius tractive. By Mr Quintin Kennedy, abbot of Crossraguell. MDLVIII. [From Edinburgh 1558 edition.]
Ane answer to the compendius tractive of Mr Quintine Kennedy, abbot of Crossraguell, by John Davidson. MDLXIII. [From Edinburgh 1563 edition.]
Letter from the abbot of Crossraguell to James, Archbishop of Glasgow; together with the correspondence of the abbot and John Willock. MDLIX.
Letters to Robert Campbell of Kinyeancleuch, Ayrshire, MDLXIV-MDLXXIV.
The forme and maner of buriall used in the kirk of Montrois. [Late 16th century.]
Roberti Pontani parvus catechismus. MDLXXIII. [From St Andrews 1573 edition.]
Register of ministers and readers in the Kirk of Scotland. From the book of the assignation of stipends. MDLXXIV. [Abstract.]
The supplication of the General Assembly to the Regent Earl of Morton, April MDLXXVIII. [On presentation of the Second Book of Discipline.]
The presbytery of Hadington's subscription to the Second Book of Discipline, 30th September MDXCI.
Act of presbytery, appointing two ministers to attend the lords at Falkirk. August MDLXXVIII. [By the presbytery of Edinburgh; the lords were those opposed to the Regent Morton.]
Letters and papers of Mr James Carmichael, minister of Haddington. MDLXXXIV-MDLXXXVI.
An account of the death and funeral of Mr James Lawson, minister of Edinburgh. MDLXXXIV. [Lawson d. 12 October 1584 in London.]
Visitations of the kirk of Holyroodhouse, by the presbytery of Edinburgh, MDLXXXIII-MDXCVIII. [1583, 1588, 1593, 1596, 1598. Also an act of the Privy Council, 13 Sept. 1672.]
Vindication of the Church of Scotland, in reply to Dr Bancroft's sermon, at Paul's Cross, London, MDLXXXIX. [Reprint of John Davidson's D. Bancrofts rashnes in rayling against the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh 1590. Also extracts from Bancroft's sermon, 9 Feb. 1589, and miscellaneous docs.]
Ane forme of sindrie materis to be usit in the elderschip. MDLXXXIX-MDXCII. [Late 16th century ms. collection of forms, from papers of presbytery of Haddington. Also prayers and graces by John Davidson, minister of Prestonpans.]
Letters of Mr John Welsch to Robert Boyd of Trochrig. MDCVII-MDCXIX. [Partly French.]
Ane afold admonitioun to the ministerie of Scotland. By Mr Alexander Hume, minister of Logie. MDCIX. [Written 1608 or 1609. For other editions see 6.44 and 31.23.]
The forme and maner of ordaining ministers, and of consecrating archbishops and bishops, used in the Church of Scotland. [From Edinburgh 1620 edition.]