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Rh of the Revolution: yet because he believed Episcopacy to be of Apostolic institution, he was persecuted by the Presbyterians.

Mr. Grame was summoned to appear before the Provincial Synod of Fyfe, in the year 1701: when it was alleged that he had reflected on the covenant, and that he had asserted that Christ died for all men. For these alleged crimes, he was actually deposed from the ministry by the Presbyterian Church court. This is only one, among many, of the tyrannical acts of the party at the period now under review.

Though the proposed toleration was not carried, and the state of the Episcopal Clergy was not much improved, yet they had the satisfaction of knowing, that the Queen wished to relieve them from the tyranny of the Presbyterians. The Union of England and Scotland took place, according to the Act, on the 1st of May, 1707: but the Episcopal Clergy were not affected by that important measure, which was carried as a matter of policy, though some of the Presbyterians represented it as an apostacy. The