"Remonstrance,"
and the "Causes of the Lord's wrath," which was engenuously
confessed by him ("Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland," vol. vii.
p. 367.) Wodrow has collected various particulars regarding the
life, character, and subsequent sufferings, for conscience' sake, of
this pious and useful minister. ("Hist. of the Suff. of the Ch. of
Scot.", vol. i. pp. 197-200.) As he was persecuted, during the
Usurpation, for persisting in praying publicly for the king, he had
thus the singular misfortune of being punished both for his loyalty
and his supposed disloyalty. Mr. Moncrieff has had a niche assigned
to him by Howie among the _Scots Worthies_. (pp. 411-415. Dumfries,
1835.) Mr. James Guthrie, Minister at Stirling, who was imprisoned
at the same time with his friend, Mr. Moncrieff, and afterwards
executed, was accused at his trial of compiling "the Remonstrance."
This he denied, affirming he could prove, by hundreds of witnesses,
that he was at Stirling at the time, many miles distant.--See his
Defences, "Acts of the Parl. of Scot.," vol. vii. Append. p.
37.--_Ed._]

395 [The parliament of Scotland passed the _Act of Classes_ on the 23d
of January, 1649. It was entitled an Act "for purging the
Judicatories, and other places of Public trust." Those whom it
declared to be incapable of sitting in parliament, or of holding any
civil or military appointment, were divided into four classes. The
disqualification of such as, on account of their supposed greater
criminality, were placed in the first class, was to continue for
life, that of the second class for ten years; that of the third
class for five years; and that of the fourth class for one year
only, provided they gave previously sufficient evidence of their
penitence.--"Acts of the Parl. of Scots," vol. vi. p. 352.--_Ed._]

396 ["After the woful rout at Dunbar, in the first meeting at Stirling,
it was openly and vehemently pressed to have David Lesly laid aside,
as long before was designed, but covertly by the chief purgers of
the times. The man himself did as much press as any to have liberty
to demit his charge, being covered with shame and discouragement for
his late unhappiness, and irritated with Mr. James Guthrie's publick
invectives against him from the pulpit. Th