Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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lordship pay more tlinu his due proporiion of teind duty and other l)urdeus,
iuchuling the rebuilding or repairing of tlie " Quere" of the churcli.^
Mr. Whytford, who was afterwards made bishop of Erechin, resolved to
obey the order by the king that the Service Book should be read in all the
churches, although he was advised by his friends not to do so. He went early
to the pulpit with his wife and servants, all armed with pistols, etc., and
closed the church door before many of the people liad arrived, and read the
Service Book. As soon as he a}>peared again outside, he was mobbed, and
was compelled to flee to save his life. He was afterwards deposed on
several grounds by the General Assembly.-
Thc proceedings of Lord John.stone both at the Tables and at the Assembly,
apart from the personal interest he had in the two cases now described, show
hov,- firmly he agreed with the Covenanters in their ecclesiastical procedure.
He as actively and zealously assisted them iu the measures they were com-
pelled to take in support of their principles. When forces were being raised to
meet the English army with which King Charles the First was marching against
his Scottish subjects. Lord Johnstone )aised a regiment in his own country,
and was placed in command of the Scottish garrison which was set to watch
the English at Carlisle. This garrison was apparently located at Annan, as
in the iMiglish reports during January and February 1639 Johnstone is said
to be lying ten miles from Carlisle, but that personally he had been in that
town a good deal of late viewing it from all parts.^ About this time the
Covenanters resclved to surprise and take possession of all the fortresses
throughout the country which were held by those friendly to the king. The
' Documents in Aunanflale Chaitei-cliest. Committee of Estates, Johnstone at tliis time
upon the Borders for six weeks a
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3 State Papers, Domestic, 163S-1630, liorse for fifteen days [.\ccouat in Annan-
pp. 3SG, 457. By instructions from the dale Charter-chest].