8o6 7he HISTORy of the PuRITANS: VoL. u~ King was made a neceflary article of the new fettlement. The epifcopal parWilliam t r 1 d f GJ•f: k' TH'f''' k h and queen y tent _t le ean o a 1 g-ow to 111g ,..,.. z aam, to now is intentions Mary. concernmg them, who anfwered he would do all he could to preferve them z689. confifl:ent with afull toleration to tbe .presb;·terians, provided they con~ ~J cut·red in the new eftablilbment ; but if they opppofed it, he Jbould not enter into a war for their fakes. The bilbops, inilead of fubrnitting to the revolution, refolved unanimoufly to adhere firmly to king James, and declared in a body, wi th fo much zeal again it the new fettlement, that it was not poffible for the king to fupport them. The clergy fent for kincr James into Scotland, and the earl of Dundee collected fome thou~ fands of highlanders' to make a ftand, but general Mackay, who was fent with a body of forces to difperfe them, routed them at a place called Gillicr~nky, and killed the ~arl of Dw:dee upon th~ fp~t. So that epij~ copacy 111 Scotland fell a facnfice to the mtereft of kmg James. Cr·tates difBut though it was impoflible to f1op the torrent of the .fcots peoples affetlion to zeal for prefbytery ; and though the king had only prefbyterians on his the governfide in that kingdom, yet the fuffering it to take place, encreafed the dif– R~~~er, P· affection of the wglijh clergy. Reports of the king's diflike of the bie29· rarcby were fpread with grt'at induflry; the leading men of both uniAnd to tht englifh dif· fent ers, verfities were poiieffed with it (lays Burnet); though the king had join– ed in communion with the church, and took the facrament according to law. It was given out, that men zealous for the church were neglected, and that thofc who were ind ifferent to the ceremonies were promoted. His majefty promifed the flots clergy to moderate matters in their fav:mr, and lord Melvil, fecretary of fiate , engaged very folemnly to the fame pur-· pofe; but when the presbyterians threatened to defert the court, if they were deferted by them, Melvil thought it the king's interefi to fecure them in !all events, which could not be done, but by abandoning the mi– nifiers of the epifcopal perfitajion. Such therefore as refufed to read the proclamation of king William and queen Mary by the prefixed day, were deprived of their livings ; which being publilbed up and down England, and much aggravated, raifed the averfion of the friends of the chu rch againfi the prefbyterians [o high (fays bilhop Burnet), that they began to repent their having granted a toleration to a party, who where they pre– vailed, fhewed fo much fury againfi thofe of the epifcopal pe~fitajion. It ought however to be remembered, that this was a government cqfe, that the fate of the revolution in that kingdoin depended upon it; and that the bilbops and epifcopal clergy, almo!t to a man, were determined jacobites, and refufed to take the oaths to king Vv'ILLIAM and queen M AR Y. Befides, what reafon had the flots prefbyterians to truft the epifcopal clergy, when it was in their power to do themfelves juftice? Had they not deceived them out of their difcipline in 1662, and perfecuted them cruelly
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