Chap. IV. 77e HISTORY of the. PURITANS. 563 " main with our fovereign Lord that now is, and his fucceffors." The K. Charles I, bill touching religion ratifies and approves all as and ftatutes made before, X633 about the liberty and freedom of the true kirk of God, and the religion at prefent profeffedwithin this kingdom, and ordains the fame to (land in full force as if they were particularly mentioned. The king left his native country )(zed)/ t 6th. having loft a great deal of Bp. Laud's ground in the affedions of his people, by the contempt he poured upon Scoria d. Ta the Scots clergy, and his high behaviour in favour of the englifh ceremo- Ciaren. nies. His majefty was attended throughout his whole progrefs by Laud Vol. I. bifhop of London, which fervice his lordfhip was not obliged to, and no P. 8r, 8a. doubt would have been excufed from, if the defign of introducing the englifh liturgy into Scotlandhad not been in view. He preached before the king in the royal chapel at Edinburgh, which fcarce any englifh man had ever done before, and infifled principally upon the benefit of the cere- monies of the church, which he himfelf obferved to the height. It went againft him to own the f ots prefbyters for minifters of Chrift ; taking all occafions to affront their charafter, which created a high difguft in that nation, and laid the foundation of thofe refentments that they expreffed againft him under his fufferings. When the king left Scotland, he erefted a new bifhoprick at Edinburgh; ltisregula- and about two months after Laud being then newly advanced to the pro- kmg'fhpt vince of Canterbury, framed articles for the reformation of his majefty's ;n Edírt- e, royal chapel in that city, which were fent into Scotlandunder his majefty's burgh. own hand, with a declaration, that they were intended as a pattern for all Ruthw cathedrals, chapels, and parifh churches in that kingdom. The articles paZOsd.ao6 appoint, that prayers be read twice a day in the choir, according to the << englifh liturgy, till force courfe be taken to make one that may fit the " cuf'om and conílitution of that church. That all that receive the ffcra-' " 0 ment in the chapel do it kneeling. That the dean of the chapel always "come to church in his Whites, and preach in them. That the copes .. which are confecrated to our ufe be carefully kept, and ufed at the cele- " brationofthe facrament ; and that all his majefty's officers and minifters " of flee be obliged, at lead once a year, to receive the facrament at the " royal chapel 'kneeling, foran example to the reft of the people." Thus were the liberties of the kirk of Scotland invaded by an englifh bifhop, un- der thewing of the fupremacya without confent of parliament or general affembly. The fats minifters in their pulpits preached againft the englifh hierarchy, and warned the people againft furrendering up the liberties of their kirk into the hands of a neighbouring nation, that was undermining their difcipline ; fo that when the new liturgy came to be introduced about four years after, all the people as oneman rofe up againft it. 4.0 2 The
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