Chap. I. The HISTORY ofthe PURITANS. 463 was growing in the houfes, that he refolved (if poflible) to govern with- KingjamesI. out parliaments for the future. This was done by the advice of Ban- 161o. croft, and other fervile court flatterers, and was the beginning of that L°1^J mifchief (lays Wilfon) which when it came to a full ripenefs, made Hilary of fuch a bloody tin }ure in both kingdoms as never will be got out of Icing James, the bithops lawn fleeves. P. çb. From the time that king names came to the englifb throne and long Affairs of before, if we may believe Dr. Heylin, his majefly had projeaed the re- Scotland.. floring epifcopacy in the kirk of Scotland, and reducing the two kingdoms to one uniform government and difcipline; for this purpofe archbifhop Bancroft maintained a fecret correfpondence with him, and corrupted one Norton, an Englifh bookfeller at Edinburgh [in the year 1589.] to betray the Scots affairs to him, as he confef ed with tears at his examination. The many curiousarticles he employed him to fearch into are fet down in Cal- derwood's hiftory, p. 246. In the month of .7anuary 1591. his letters to Mr. Patrick1ldamfon were intercepted, wherein he advifes him, " To give Pierce, the queen of Englandmore honourable titles, and to praife the church P. 166. of England above all others. He marvelled why he came not to " England, and affuoed him he would be well accepted by my lord of " Canterbury's Grace, and well rewarded if he came." This Adamfon was afterwards excommúnicated, but repenting of what he had done againft the kirk defired abfolution ; part of his confeffion run thus, " I grant I was more bufy with fome bithops in England, in prejudice of the dif- " cipline of our kirk, partly when I was there, and partly by intelligence " fince, than became a good chriflian, much lets a faithful paftor ; " neither is there any thing that more afhameth me, than my often de- " ceiving and abufing the kirk heretofore by confeflions, fubfcriptions, " 0 and proteflations." Upon his majefly's arrival in England he took all occafions to difcover his averfion to the Scots prefbyterians, taxing them with faucinefs, ill. manners, and an implacable enmity to kingly power; he nominated bi- fhops to the thirteen Scots bifhopricks which himfelf had formerly abo= lifhed ; but their revenues being annexed to the crown, their dignities were little more than titular. In the parliament held at Perth in theyear s 6o6. his majefly obtained an ad to refìore the bithops to their tempora- lities, and to repeal the ad of annexation; by which they were reftored to their votes in parliament, and had the title of lords ofParliament, con- trary to the fenfe both of clergyand laity, as appears by the following pro- teft of the general affembly. " IN the name of Chrift, and in the name of the kirk in general, Cour ¡e o}' "` whereof the realm hath reaped comfort thisforty-fix years; alto in the Scots confr- " name /dry,.p. 19.
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