Spottiswoode Society > History of the affairs of the Church and State of Scotland from the beginning of the reformation to the year 1568 > Volume 1

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Scotland, John Lord of Lindsey, 1 John Lord of Erskine, 2
George Lord of Seton, 3 James Hamilton of Finwart, 4 Walter
Lord of Saint John, 5 Mr James Fowlis of Colington, (i Clerk
to the King's Register ; with divers other Lords, Barons, and
honest persons, being called and desired together for wit-
nesses that he did hold, publish, and openly teach these
errours following : —
Article I. That our Holy Father the Pope, as Christ's
Vicar, hath not, neither can exercise, greater authoritie over
Christians here on earth than any other Bishop or Prelate.
Article II. That Indulgences and Pardons granted by
our supreme Head the Pope are of no force, strength, or
effect, but tend only to the abuse of the people, and the de-
ceiving of their souls.
Article III. That the Pope is an open user of simony,
daily selling the gifts of the Spiritualities, and that it is law-
full for all Bishops to be coupled and joyned in matrimonie.
Article IV. That all those Heresies, commonly called
the Heresies of England, or at the least the greater or most
part of them, are to be now presently understood and knoun
by the English men to be of themselves good and just, and
to be observed of all faithfull Christians, as most true and
conformable to the Law of God ; and that he had persuaded
many persons to embrace the said Heresies.
Article V. That the Scottish Nation and their clergy
1 [John Lindsay, fifth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, one of whose
daughters, named Isabel, married Norman Leslie, one of the murderers
of Cardinal Beaton ; and another of whose daughters, named Margaret,
married David Beaton of Melgnnd in Forfarshire, an illegitimate son of
the Cardinal.— E.]
2 [John Erskine, fourth Lord Erskine, and fifth Earl of Mar of the
Family of Erskine. — E.]
3 [George, fifth Lord Set on, father of the first Earl of Dunfermline, and
grandfather of the first Earl of Winton. — E.]
4 [Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, a well known personage. — E.]
5 LSir Walter Lindsay, Preceptor of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
in Scotland, who inaugurated Sir James Sandilands of Calder, afterwards
the first Lord Torphichen, as his future successor. It is, however, stated
in the Peerage account of the Torphichen Family, that Sir Walter
Lindsay died in 1538, nearly two years before this prosecution of Sir John
Borthwick.— E.J
6 [Also designated Sir JoJi n FovMs of Colinton, near Edinburgh. Beatson's
Political Index, vol. iii. p. 98.— E.]
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