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58 GENEALOGIE OF THE
intrisecus autem sunt lupi rapaces. 11 His whole discourse ran against the
jesuwits, and was fashion 1 d after such a manner, that the old Roman
Catholicks were very mutch scandaliz'd thereat, and the new converts
were noways pleas 1 d therewith. That very day I was att dinner with
the jesuwits in the abbay, and foretord them what was to fall out. I was
myself ashanTd to be assistant at that discourse, knowing the foolishness
of the preacher : upon which account I return 1 d home from the abbay,
and the jesuwits, who would not rely upon what I told them, were ob-
lige to hear quietly several impertinences that regarded them. The
Chancellour himself was mightily offended att that discourse, and for my
own part, I drew very bad conjectures therout, considering what Christ
says : " 'Regnum Dei in se divisum desolabitur. 11 There arose the same
year, a difficulty anent the observing of Easter no less scandalous.
Some would have had the feast kept a week sooner to meet with the
Roman account, others were for following the Scots Almanack ; the last
prevail'd, because the priest had publish'd Sunday 14 days before, that
the following Sunday was to be reputed Palm Sunday, Dominica in Ra-
mis. All those petty difficulties were shortly after stopt by the invasion of
the Prince of Orange, who landed at England in the following Novem-
bre, with ten or twelve thousand men, to carry on the glorious design of
rescuing the three nations from Popery and slavery, and promising to
establish the religion, laws, and liberties of those kingdoms upon sutch
a sure and lasting foundation, that it should not be in the power of any
Prince for the future to introduce Popery and tyranny. This sud-
den change vex'd a little the king. Cornbury was the first that
joyn'd the Prince of Orange with a part of the armie. My Lord
Churchill, the Prince of Danemarke, and the Duke of Ormond, fol-
low'd. The King, to put a stop to what was laid to the Prince of Wales'
birth, caird, on Munday the 22d of Octobre 1688, ane extraordinarie
councell, where Queen Dowager, the Major and Aldermen of London,
the Judges, and severall others, were invited, to the number of 75 ; to
intrisecus autem sunt lupi rapaces. 11 His whole discourse ran against the
jesuwits, and was fashion 1 d after such a manner, that the old Roman
Catholicks were very mutch scandaliz'd thereat, and the new converts
were noways pleas 1 d therewith. That very day I was att dinner with
the jesuwits in the abbay, and foretord them what was to fall out. I was
myself ashanTd to be assistant at that discourse, knowing the foolishness
of the preacher : upon which account I return 1 d home from the abbay,
and the jesuwits, who would not rely upon what I told them, were ob-
lige to hear quietly several impertinences that regarded them. The
Chancellour himself was mightily offended att that discourse, and for my
own part, I drew very bad conjectures therout, considering what Christ
says : " 'Regnum Dei in se divisum desolabitur. 11 There arose the same
year, a difficulty anent the observing of Easter no less scandalous.
Some would have had the feast kept a week sooner to meet with the
Roman account, others were for following the Scots Almanack ; the last
prevail'd, because the priest had publish'd Sunday 14 days before, that
the following Sunday was to be reputed Palm Sunday, Dominica in Ra-
mis. All those petty difficulties were shortly after stopt by the invasion of
the Prince of Orange, who landed at England in the following Novem-
bre, with ten or twelve thousand men, to carry on the glorious design of
rescuing the three nations from Popery and slavery, and promising to
establish the religion, laws, and liberties of those kingdoms upon sutch
a sure and lasting foundation, that it should not be in the power of any
Prince for the future to introduce Popery and tyranny. This sud-
den change vex'd a little the king. Cornbury was the first that
joyn'd the Prince of Orange with a part of the armie. My Lord
Churchill, the Prince of Danemarke, and the Duke of Ormond, fol-
low'd. The King, to put a stop to what was laid to the Prince of Wales'
birth, caird, on Munday the 22d of Octobre 1688, ane extraordinarie
councell, where Queen Dowager, the Major and Aldermen of London,
the Judges, and severall others, were invited, to the number of 75 ; to
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| Description | By Father Richard Augustin Hay, Prior of St. Pieremont, including memoirs of his own times. Edited by James Maidment. Edinburgh : T. G. Stevenson, 1835. Contents: Introductory notice by the editor; including a list of the mss. of Father Hay now in the Library of the Faculty of advocates.--Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale.--Father Hay's memoirs of his own times.--Appendix: 1. Carta Adæ comitissæ. 2. Ane epitome or abridgement of what past at the L(ord) B<almerino> his arraignment criminall before the justice. 3. Ceremonial of burning the pope, 30th November 1689. 4. Account of John Chiesly of Dalry. 5. An account of the misfortunes of Mrs. Erskine of Grange, commonly known as Lady Grange. 6. elegy on the lamented death of Lord John Hay, marquis of Tweddel. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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