Affairs as they then
stood. Yet upon Friday the 4th of October, I was, by Sir James
Balfour, lion king of arms, commanded from court, which I presently
obeyed, and about a month after imbarqued for Holland, where I
resided several years after." (Historical Discourses. Contents
folio. Lond. 1705.) The circumstances in which this zealous royalist
was placed, together with his national prejudices, may account for
his extreme credulity, in believing that the clergy of Scotland,
after the battle of Dunbar, offered up such impious prayers as he
has ascribed to them. (Id. p. 182) It was not to be expected that
Mr. Hume would neglect the opportunity which was thus afforded him
of covering with ridicule the Scottish covenanters. (See Hume's
Account of the Battle of Dunbar.) Rapin vindicates the conduct of
the Estates, in inquiring the removal from about the person of the
king, of some of his friends and attendants' men he says, "whose
principles and maxims were directly opposite to the interests of
Scotland and who were the kingdoms reputed enemies." Hist. of Eng.
vol. ii. p. 581. Lond. 1833--_Ed._]

338 ["At the nod of a prince."--_Ed._]

339 [That is, "He says, I say, he denies, I deny." It is the parasite
Gnatho that is referred to. Terence makes the shameless sycophant
proclaim his own infamy--

Quicquid dicunt, laudo, id rursum si negant, laudo id quoque
Negat quis? Nego. Ait? Aio.--_Eunuchi_ Act ii. Sc. ii.

"Whatever they say, I applaud. If again they deny that, I applaud
that too. Does any one deny a thing? I deny it. Does he affirm it? I
affirm it."--_Ed._]

340 [That is, the characteristics.--_Ed._]

341 [For an account of the origin, progress, and unsuccessful issue of
Hamilton's Engagement or the Unlawful Engagement, as it was also
called, the reader may consult Stevenson's History of the Church and
State of Scotland, book iv. chapter x., Cook's History of the Church
of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 149.--_Ed._]

342 [Old MS.--_Ed._]

343 ["Pearth Novemb. 29, 1650--The Comrs. of the Gen. Assemb. considering
the great sin and offence these men are guilty of, who have had
accessione to the late Rebellione in ye north, therefore they doe
appoint that all these persons that were actually in arms at the
late rebellione,