King Soloman, (for they, instead of ther former names, take names out of the Old Teftament, as Abram, &c.): [And fuch as have] husbands, not of ther oune opinion, they are fo far from converfing with them that they will not fuffer them to touch them, and if any doe, they wash the place as having contracted impurity, like the Jewish ceremoniall uncleanneffe, with 100 fuch fopperies. See the following page.

In the end of Februar 1681, we heard that of 4 lyons in the tower 3 of them dyed, and the lyon remaining was that which was defigned the Duke of York's lyon, wheiron every on made ther obferve. As to the age of lions, fee Plinius' Natural Hiftorie, lib. cap. Some of the pamphlets printed against the Duke of Monmouth, in mockery defired him to go and give a demonstration of the legittimatnes of this birth, by approaching the lyons in the tower, who certainly would lick the hand of a prince of the blood royal, and would stoop to on who had the lyon on his fyde from his birth, and offer no violence. And why might not he try this experiment as weell as his fifter, Madam Fanfhaw, [who] had cured on of the Kings evill, by touching and ufing the words which his Majefty does.

ij Martij 1681. Ther ware 3 perfons hanged at the Graffemarkat of P. 15. Edinburgh, for difouning the King's authority, and adhæring to Cargil's covenant, declaration, and excommunication, and thinking it lawfull to kill the King and his Judges. See the præceeding page anent theffe from Borrowftounenefs. Ther names ware Gogar, Millar, and Sangfter; if they would but have acknowledged his Majeftie, they would have been pardoned; yea, when they ware upon the fcaffold, the Earle of Rofcommons, by a privy warrand from the Duke of York, came and offered them ther lives, if they would but fay, God fave the King; but they refused to doe it, tho Daniel wishes Nebuchadnezar and Darius, heathen kings, to live for ever. See the chapter of the book of Baruch, v. ij. wher the Jews in ther captivity pray for the peace and profperity of the kings of Babylon ; and it is undoubtedly every Chriftians duety to pray for all Kings, 1

Timothy, 2 chapter, v. 1 and 2. To refuse the pardoning ther enemies was to dy in much malice and unmortified rankor, as appears by Gogar's printed fpeach. Yet fome thought it fad to dispatch men away to the other world in fuch a fpirituall madneffe and religious melancoly, who rushed upon death and ware wain of suffering, and from whose boldnesse in dying (as if it had come from the immediate divine affiftance) other fimple peeple, as Hydra's head, and Cadmus teeth fowen, ware profelyted, at leist ware hardened and confirmed in ther error; and that it would have been better to have kept them in bonds as madmen, or to have employed phyfitians to use ther skill upon them as on hypocondriack perfones. Nam furiofus homicida non eft morte plectendus fatis enim ipfo furore mul&atur, c. 14. D. de officio præfidis. About 8 dayes before this, they had ftollen away 2 of the heads, which ftood on the West Port of Edinburgh, viz.: Stewart's and Potter's; the criminal Lords, to supply that want, ordained 2 of thir criminall's heads to be ftruck off and to be affixed in ther place. Ther was a 4th condemned with them for these fame principles, called Murray, but he was prevailled on to give in a petition to the Privy Councell difouning the doctrine of killing Kings, or rifing in armes against them, (only he qualified it with this exception, unleffe it was in felfe defence,) and acknowledged the King fupreame in all civill matters, but not in ecclefiafticks, which, tho contrare to law, yet fo far prevailled as to obtaine a reprivall to him of his life. Vide infra, more of thir people, page 25.

Against defending the true religion with armes, fee ane excellent citation from Lactantius, libro 5 Divinarum Inftitut., de Jufticiâ, cap. 20; adduced by Camerarius, tomo 1 Meditationum Hiftoricarum, cap. 40, pa. 179. See anent this more alibi, from Tertullian, Grotius, &c. in a 4to manufcript, marked A 1. page 91. As to the praying for ufurping powers, fee Gee's right of Magiftracy, who thinks it unlawful, and answers thir texts, page 304 and 334.

13 Martij 1681. Dyed fuddenly at Edinburgh, Dr. Archbald Turner, on of the minifters ther, a man of a ready wit and good parts. He was buried, at his oune defire, under the elder's desk, in his oune parish church, called the Old Kirk, (which fome thought fuperftitious), and his comerad, Mr. John Robertfon preached his funeral fermon. The Toune Councell advanced Mr. Alexander Ramfay, on of ther 2d minifters, unto his place; and in roume of Mr. Ramfay they called back to officiat as 2d minifter in the Greyfriers Church, Mr. Alexander Malcolme, minifter at Newbottle, who had been once a minifter of Edinburgh before.

Supra page 12, we fee the King calls a new Parliament to meet at P. 16. Oxford the 21 of March; accordingly they conveen that day, most of the elections and members being the fame who served in former Parliaments; the wholle number of the house, (as I faw by the lift,) being 513, and of which ther ware 404-405 that ware members of the former, and re-elected of new, fo that ther ware 108-9 changed, and even few of thir ware on the Court's fyde. See the King's fpeech to them, apud me, in print; it is spoken in a very free dialect. The Houfe of Commons re-elect the fame perfone to be ther speaker, who was ther mouth in the former Parliament, viz. Mr. William Williams, (vide fup. page 2,) who told the King in his fpeech to him, that the Commons of England, to give a demonftration they ware not for changes, had re-elected him for ther Speaker, which was ambiguous, (like the canons of the fynod of Trent, made to please both parties,) ather to answer the King's defire, that no change be made in the laws of Church and State, or to tell they mind not to change ther principles nor actings they had in the laft Parliament which fate at Westminster. The King all alongst, in his fpeach, never calls it the Proteftant religion, but the religion in generall in oppofition to Poperie, which he mentions as alfo the configning the governement in Proteftant hands in caife of a Popish fucceffor. After the præliminaries ware over, they fall to examine why the Bill refchinding the firft A&t made in the 35 year of Q. Elizabeth against

Proteftant diffenters (which in the last Parliament was paffed both the Houses) was not, before the prorogation and diffolution, prefented to his Majesty, that it might have obtained the royall affent; yet, in fine of that act it appears to be only temporarie and expired, and acts reviving it fince are of the fame nature. It was ane A& taking of the edge of the pænal ftatutes against non-conformifts, being a comprehenfion and toleration to Presbyterians, Independents, and Anabaptists, (and some say to Quakers, Arminians, Socinians, &c.,) but excluded all Papists, and intended to banish the principall Papifts, under which generality the D. of Y. would alfo fall. It is obferveable, almost none of the English nobility (even of the King's party), and few of ther gentry, came to vifit the D. of York during his abode in Scotland, for fear of offending the other faction; only it was reported, Roger L'Eftrange, the licencer of the preffe, was heir with the Duke incognito; but on Shaftsburie's imprisonment, fundrie then came to see the Duke, as Sir Jofeph Williamfon, &c.

Advertisement was alfo given to the Members of Parliament, and ther attendants, to take heed to ther pockets, for it was defigned to drop treafonable papers in them at Oxford, that therupon they might ground false accufations against them. It was made out by probation against Gaven, the Jefuit, who had fuffered for the plot about 2 years ago, that tho he dyed obtefting his innocence, (fee the Animadverfions on the Viscount Stafford's speach on the scaffold, in my 4to manuscript, marked A 3, page 22,) yet he had affirmed to a gentlewoman, the Quean might lawfully kill the King, because he had difloyally abused her bed with adultery.

The Commons fent up ane impeachment to the Lords of Edward Fitzharris, as guilty of the Popish plot of murdering the King; the Peers, by plurality, rejected it, becaufe, before ther doune fitting, he was standing alreadie indyted before the Lord Chief Juftice. Monmouth, and 18 other Lords, gave in a protestation, in writ, fubfcryved by them, fhowing this was Denegare jufticiam Populo Anglicano. The houfe referred them to

profecute him at the common courts of juftice, wher his accufation was already depending. I have feen his depofition and narrative in print, taken before Clayton and Treby; wheirin he confirmes T. Oat's dif covery of the defign of introducing Popery and arbitrary power into England, and killing his Majefty as the readieft means for it; and that the Marquis de Montecuculi, the Duke of Modena's embaffador, offered him 10,000lb. fterling to kill the King; and he declining it, the Marquis told him, that the Dutcheffe Mazarini understood the art of poisoning, and it was eafy to dispatch the King by a pouder, when he should come to fee her; and that the Duke of Y. knew of this defigne; and that a Priest told him he was on of them who had murdered Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, and which was confulted at Windfor, &c.

In this Parliament, a motion was made in the Commons' house, by the King's party, as ane expedient inftead of the bill of feclufion of the D. of York, that in caife of a Popish fucceffor, (who should retain the title of King,) the nixt air of the croun, being Proteftant, fhould be Regent of the realme, and adminiftrat till religion war fully fecured. This motion was hudibrazed by the country partie; for what if the Regent ware a child, then the regent behooved to have a Protector alfo. And when the King's late army was up, the most part of all the officers ware Popish, as thoffe whom his Majefty trusted most.

In regard the King, in his speach, had reflected on the last House of Commons, this House ware intending to paffe a vote vindicating, approving, and justifyieng all that the last had done. This, and the want of hopes and expectation of any supplie or other good from this Parliament, moved his Majefty, on the 28 of March, that fame day 8 dayes they fate doune, to diffolve them, without mentioning the calling any new one; this being the third, fince he had difbanded, at the Earle of Danbie's defire, (which did not fecure him ather), the Long Parliament, which, though become trouble- P. 17. fome, yet was far more for his Majefties intereft than any that have fuc

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