James in Scotland (1679) [ Practices ]
… him, which a party of them affixed to the cross of Dumfries, a town near the west border. They also taught that it was lawful for any to kill him, and that all his party, chiefly those who were episcopal, by adhering to him, had forfeited their lives; so that it was lawful to kill them likewise. The guards fell upon a party of them whom they found in arms, where Cameron, one of their … then very little considered, but now was much followed, to the great reproach of the nation." … Scotland … Religion … Law … Taken from Gilbert Burnet, Burnet's History of my own time [1734]; a new edition, based on that of M. J. Routh, …
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