Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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of life he thought incumbent upon him ;
spending and bestowing his service, and for
the benefit of all he could be helpful to,
especially the Church of Christ : to visit
which, in those parts, A.D. 1676, he went,
by the way of London, to Holland and Ger-
many, and came back the same way : where
hearing of his father and friends' imprison-
ment at Aberdeen, he presented the follow-
ing Address, in their behalf, to King Charles
the lid :—
The Stale of the Case of the People called
Quakers, in Scotland, presented unto the
King's consideration*
u The Council of Scotland having, about three
months ago, emitted a declaration to reinforce former
Acts of Parliament against Conventicles, and recom-
mended the execution of them, because of the abuse
several persons had made of the King's indulgence,
as the said declaration intimates.
" Some inferior Magistrates have taken occasion
thereby to imprison many of them ; and some Deputies
of the Council have stretched the laws against Con-