...letter to the Edinburgh Presbytery avowed disingenuously the king's intention ' to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, without violation.' On January 1, 1661, after an interval of nine years, Parliament assembled at Edinburgh....

...others. The King's notorious letter to the Presbytery of Edinburgh came down, pledging him to maintain the government of the Church of Scotland " as it is settled by law" (August 10, 1660). This ambiguous phrase concealed the treachery of Sharp, and the duplicity of the...

...[James Gordon], The Reformed Bishop or XIX Articles Tendered by . . . A Well-wisher of the present Government of the Church of Scotland (As it is settled by Law) ([London], 1679), p. 142. upholding the existence of bishops as a distinctive order in the primitive...

...letter to the Edinburgh Presbytery avowed disingenuously the king's intention 'to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, without violation.' On January 1, 1661, after an interval of nine years, Parliament assembled at Edinburgh....

...according to their hopes and fears : " We do also resolve to protect and 1 See ante, p. 187. preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, without violation1." The events of the next twelve months were fully to elucidate the import of these...

...months after his return written to the Presbytery of Edinburgh, "We do resolve to protect and preserve the " government of the Church of Scotland as it is settled by " law"? Scotland had yet to learn what the king's word was worth and to pay dearly for the knowledge. So Burnet...