heir seed from amongst the children of
men_[275].--_Calderwood_, _Stevenson_, &c.

JOHN LOGIE student in the university of Aberdeen, was such a malignant
enemy to the work of reformation and the national covenant, that when
commissioners were sent from Edinburgh there in the year 1638, in order
to reconcile them to the covenant, while Mr. Henderson was preaching
in the earl Marshal's closs for that purpose, he threw clods at them
with great scorn and mockery. But in a few days, he killed one Nicol
Ferrie a boy, because the boy's father had beat him for stealing
his pease; and tho' he escaped justice for a time, yet he was again
apprehended and executed in the year 1644. Such was the consequence
of disturbing the worship of God and mocking the ambassadors of Jesus
Christ.--_Stevenson_, &c.

CHARLES I. succeeded his father James VI. and exactly trod in the same
steps, and with no better success. He grasped at the prerogative; and to
establish absolute power, prelacy, superstition and Arminianism seemed
his principal aim.--In England he infringed the liberties of parliament,
and by his marriage the nations became pestered with papists: in
Scotland he pressed Perth articles, the service book, and then, by
Laud's direction, the book of canons which he and the rest of the
bishops had compiled for them about 1637, contrary to his
coronation-oath taken at Edinburgh 1633. But in these he was repulsed by
the Scots covenanters 1639 and 1640.--Again, when he was confirming all
oaths, promises, subscriptions and laws for establishing the reformation
in the Scots parliament 1641, in the mean time, he was encouraging his
Irish cut-throats to murder betwixt two or three hundred thousand
innocent Protestants in Ireland, the letters that he had sent for that
purpose being produced afterward. After his return to England, matters
became still worse betwixt him and the English parliament; so that both
parties took the field, in which by his means a sea of innocent blood
was spilt, the Scots assisting the parliament as bound by the Solemn
League, that he might overturn the covenanted interest in that land.
Notwithstanding all his solemn engagements, oaths and confirmations of
acts of parliament, by his direction, Montrose was sent down from court
to raise an insurrection in the Highlands; by whom the bloody Irish were
invited over, whereby in a few years many thousands of the covenanters
his best subjects were killed.--But all his bloody sc