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( 55 ) and explained in the Year 1638, and thereafter) and the other entituled A Solemn League and Covenant, were and are in themſelves unlawful Oaths, and were taken by and impoſed upon the Subjects of this Kingdom, againſt the fun- damental Laws and Liberties of the ſame : And that there lyeth no obligation upon me, or any of the Subjects, front the said Oaths, or either of them, ta endeavour any Change or Alteration of the Government, either in Church or State, as it is now eſtabliſhed by the Laws of the Kingdom.

ABSTRACTS from the Hiſtory of the Suffer- ings of the Author of the above Sermon, and of Mr. Matthew MacKaile, his Father, Miniſter at Bothwel, in the Presbytery of Hamilton.

Nov. 6th 1662, the Privy Council begin a Proceſs a- gainſt Sir James Stewart, late Provoſt of Edinburgh, and his Son, upon a moſt groundleſs and malicious Informati- on, which, when dipped into, came to nothing: How- ever, I ſhall inſert what I find of it in the Regiſters, as a Specimen of the Trouble Gentlemen were now brought to, who were Presbyterians, and Favourers of them. Infor- mation being given, That Mr. Hew MacKaile, Chaplain to Sir James Stuart of Kirkfield, did of late, in a Sermon preached in one of the Kirks in Edinburgh, moſt malici- ouſly inveigh againſt and abuſe his Sacred Majeſty, and the preſent Government in Church and State, to the great Offence of God, and Stumbling of the People; and that the ſaid Sir James Stewart, and Walter Stewart his ſe- cond Son, were preſent when the ſaid Sermon was preach- ed, at leaſt were certainly informed thereof; yet, notwith- ſtanding thereof, did entertain him in their family: As alſo, that the ſaid Walter Stewart has emitted ſome Speeches tending towards Sedition, eſpecially that, within theſe few Weeks, he, at the Smithy of, upon the Occaſion of