and all such as subscribed the Bond and
Declaratione emited by them to be suspended from the communione till
the nixt Gen. Assemb. to which there are hereby refered for further
censure, and for all others that had any accessione by counsel or
otherwise, to that rebellione, or to the King's withdrawing from his
Counsell, refers to Presbytries to try diligently in their severall
bounds these persons and the degree of their guiltiness and to
report the same, with the evidences and proofs thereof, to the nixt
meeting of this Commissione." A. Ker.--"The Waters of Sihor." Wodrow
MSS., vol. xvii. pp. 44-45.--_Ed._]

344 [James, Marquis of Montrose. After his forfeiture by the Scottish
parliament he was usually styled in their Act and proclamations
_James Graham_, and sometimes _James Graham, late Earl of Montrose_.
Bishop Guthry says (Memoirs, p. 175) that it was considered a proof
of malignancy to distinguish him and the Earl of Auly by their
titles. In a letter to Principal Baillie, 19th March 1649, Mr. Spang
mentions that he was admitted to an audience by the Prince of Orange
at the Hague. Something was said by the Prince, which led Mr. Spang
to suspect he alluded to Montrose. "I hoped," says Mr. Spang, "his
Highness did not mean of that man, whose apostasy, perjuries, and
unheard of cruelty, had made him so odious, in all our country, that
they could not hear of his name." He presently gave me to understand
he meant not him or any such, for by the comportment of our Scottish
noblemen at court now, he perceives how odious _James Graham_ must
be at home, for they will not salute or speak to him, nay, not look
where they think he is, and this I have observed with my own eyes.
Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. ii. p. 323.--_Ed._]

345 [On the 14th of December 1650, an answer was returned to Parliament,
"be the commissioners of the general assemblie to the quaere, given
in to thame be the estattis of parliament, anent the persones to be
admitted to ryse in armes, and joyne with the forces of the
kingdome, and in what capacitie, for defence thereoff aganes the
armie of sectaries, &c." (Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol.
vi. p. 554.) The Answer of the Commission, after a declaration that
it is the duty of parliament to use all