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The resolutioners and the Scottish nobility in the early months of 1660

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Julia Buckroyd
Julia Buckroyd*
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University of Cambridge
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One of the difficulties in the way of understanding the establishment of episcopacy in Scotland which followed upon the restoration of Charles II, is that of accounting for the apparent willingness on the part of the politically active nobility to co-operate in such a change, when that nobility had previously taken a leading part in abolishing episcopacy and setting up presbytery. Some light can, I believe, be thrown on this problem by considering the relations between the resolutioner ministers and the Scottish nobility in the early months of 1660. In particular I should like to consider the correspondence between Robert Douglas and the earls of Crawford, Lauderdale, Glencairn and Rothes. An examination of the letters reveals, it seems to me, a disposition on the part of the resolutioners to perpetuate ministerial control and direction of the nobility. This attitude may well have prompted an answering disposition on the part of the nobility to take back into their own hands as quickly as possible the conduct of political and religious negotiations in order to reduce ministerial pretensions to the direction of public affairs.

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Research Article
Information
Studies in Church History , Volume 12: Church Society and Politics , 1975 , pp. 245 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1975

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References

1 By far the best analysis of this subject is Davies, G. and Hardacre, P., ‘The Restoration of the Scottish Episcopacy, 1660-1661’,JBS, 1, ii, (1962) pp 32–51 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The only major study of this period is Stevenson, D., The Scottish Revolution, 1611-1644 (Newton Abbot 1973)Google Scholar.

3 Registers of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh, ed Stephen, W., 2 vols (Edinburgh 1921, 1930) 2, pp 35-6Google Scholar, 37-8, 98, 151. Laitderdale Papers, [ed Airy, Osmund], 3 vols (London 1884-5) 1, pp 285-9Google Scholar.

4 G[lasgow] University] L[ibrary] MS Gen 210 p 7.

5 Ibid p 11.

6 Ibid p 14.

7 Ibid p 16.

8 Ibid p 18.

9 Ibid p 20.

10 Ibid pp 24, 22.

11 Ibid pp 61, 63, 65, 75. 80, 82, 84.

12 Ibid p 30.

13 Ibid p 31.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid pp 53-4, 77-8.

18 Ibid p 59.

19 Ibid p 83.

20 Ibid.

21 Lauderdale Papers, passim.

22 GUL MS Gen 210 p 99.

23 Davies, G., The Restoration of Charles II (London 1955) p 231 Google Scholar.