... its hold on the district. The Baldovy family itself had been identified with the Reformed movement from the beginning. Melville's eldest brother, ...
... way two days were spent in Stirling, where the King, then a boy of nine, was residing and the Melvilles saw him and were much struck with his precocity ...
... its gates had to be closed for lack of students so that when he entered on the Principalship he actually constituted the whole Senatus in his own person. ...
... so to speak, of the Civil Service. The first Assembly in which Melville sat met in Edinburgh in March 1575. Parliament had just appointed a committee ...
... Court. He had a brief and inglorious career in Scotland. He had no sooner joined the King's Council than he became the master of its policy, being ...
... at that time that they felt a 'cauld heavie lumpe' lying on their hearts. The ministers of Edinburgh showed their characteristic spirit in this crisis, ...
... larger cities. Edinburgh was so desolated, that when James Melville and others of the banished ministers passed through the streets on their return ...
... weight in the Council of the King. Of good family, second son of the Laird of Airth, he had studied for the Bar and then abandoned it for the Church. ...
... shared the indignation and alarm in the matter which were expressed by the ministers. One day, in the very year after the Armada, as James was in ...
... urged that the army should advance into Huntly's territory and overthrow his chief stronghold, the castle of Strathbogie. The King could better afford ...
... can imagine the shock of alarm with which in these circumstances the nation heard that the Earl of Huntly and his associates had returned to Scotland, ...
... be with your Majestie in privat, and the treuthe is yie ar brought in extream danger bathe of your lyff and croun, and with yow the countrey and Kirk ...
... pulpit authorising magistrates to apprehend any preachers who might be found so doing, and declaring the King to have the power of discharging ministers ...
... fear of his opposition. 'I will not hear a word on that head,' James burst forth.-'Then,' said Davidson, 'we must crave help of Him that will hear ...
... rather than preached upon it. The last of the series of the discourses was the most candid, and pointed most directly to the object at which they were ...
... of telling him the truth. The subject of conference was, as we have said, the conduct of the ministers who had held the Assembly in Aberdeen. The ...
... by this parting shot of Melville's than by anything that had happened at the interview. [Footnote 27: Ambassades de M. de la Boderie, quoted ...
... scenes of violence took place at the meetings, of these courts through the attempt made by the King's Commissioner to force the adoption of the Acts ...
... for I am now become pleased with old age, although I have lived so long as to see some things which I could wish never to have seen. I try daily ...
... hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.' His uncle's grief found its only solace in the thought that he ...