Series 5 > Religious Controversy in Scotland 1625-1639

HISTORIE OF CHURCH AND STATE
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diction, within that our Realme, to see and procure, (so much as in them lyeth) all and
everie of the same Canons, Orders, and Constitutions, to be in all poynts duelie observed;
not sparinge to execute the Penalties in them severallie mentioned, upon anie that shall
willinglie and wilfullie breake, or neglect to observe the same, as they tender the Honour of
God, the Peace of the Church [kirke], the Tranquillitie of the Kingdome, and their Service
and DuetietoUs their King and Soveraygne. Given at Our Manor of Greenwich, the 23 of
May 1635."4
This for the Booke of Cannons cruel and tyranicall, and which, as you have hearde,
a dore left open to all poperie to enter in. But the verie bodie of poperie was
next brought in, to witt, that Booke of Service, which in effect was nothing but ane
English masse, and divers of our preachers undertooke to shew in it all the
substantial! partes of the masse and accordinghe did at the gennerall assembly in
Glasgow make good there undertakeinge.A Parallel [was]
written by a preacher among us, comparing all and every particular portion of the Masse, as
they are cleared by Innocent, Durand, Walfrid, Berno, and the rest of the the old Liturgick
Rationalists, with the parts of our Liturgie, as they may bee cleared by the late writs of the
Canterburians, which ends not, till all the parts great and small of the Masse bee demonstrat
in our Book either formally, in so many words, as the most considerable are, and that in the
very popish sense, If you will joine to our book the Canterburian commentars: or virtually
a necessity being laid upon us, upon the same grounds which perswads to embrace what in
those books is formally expressed, to embrace also what of the Masse is omitted, whensoever
it shall bee their pleasure in a new edition to adde it.115
And albeit there was in the English lyturgie divers corruptions which honnest
men in that kirke perceaved and required to be ammendit, butt yett our liturgie
is in severall parts changed from the English to the worse. Mr Bailie, in his fore-
named booke, hath made this so cleere that no just opposition can be made to
the contrare,pp. 97-9 .This goodly peice in StAndroes,chanrie of Rosse, Buchan
and other some parts was practised, and alwayes preparitive for receiveinge it in
Edinburgh was used. Sir John Hay (a man for the king, none doubts) was made
proveist,and he with helpe oftowne councell, of which some were for him, [23]
would be able (thought they) to make it be receaved there, but it proved other¬
wise.116
The Tumult in Edinburgh for the New Liturgy
The bishopp of Edinburgh Mr David Lindsay gave order in July 1637 that all
the ministers within the citie should reade the service booke in there severall
parishes’ kirkes; he, with his deane Mr James Hannay, came to Saint Giles Kirke
114 I have corrected and, where necessary, expanded the quotation from Canons, 5-6. Square brack¬
ets indicate the usage of the author of the Historic.
115 This is a direct quotation from Baillie, LadensiumAutokatakrisis, 95, referring to his own Parallel.
116 Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1626-1641,ed. M. Wood (Edinburgh, 1936), pp.
xvi-xvii, 194,196; Mullan,‘Arminianism’, 25.