James in Scotland (1679) [ Practices ]
… upon them than was expected! He was advised to hold a parliament there in summer 82, and to take the character of the king's commissioner upon him. A strange spirit of fury had broke loose on some of the presbyterians, called the … and was then very little considered, but now was much followed, to the great reproach of the nation. These held that the king had lost the right to the crown by his breaking the covenant, which he had sworn at his coronation so they said he was their king no more, and by a formal …
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