Ecclesiastical representation in parliament in post-reformation Scotland: The two kingdoms theory in practice

Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-61

  MacDonald, Alan R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449155155     PISSN: 00220469     EISSN: 14697637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022046998008458     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. J. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian religion (1536 edn), trans. F. L. Battles, London 1986, 184
2. Miscellany of the Spalding Club, ed. J. Stuart, iv, Aberdeen 1849, 88-92
3. The first book of discipline, ed. J. K. Cameron, Edinburgh 1972, 62-3, 67
4. Melville, Diary, 370
5. F. Lyall, Of presbyters and kings: Church and State in the law of Scotland, Aberdeen 1990, 17
6. D. G. Mullan, Episcopacy in Scotland: the history of an idea 1560-1638, Edinburgh 1986, 63-4
7. G. Donaldson, 'Church and community', in his Scottish church history, Edinburgh 1985, 235
8. J. Kirk, 'Minister and magistrate', in his Patterns of reform: continuity and change in the Reformation Kirk, Edinburgh 1989, 242-3, 245-9
9. M. A. R. Graves, The Tudor parliaments: crown, lords and commons, 1485-1603, London 1985, 69
10. J. Loach, Parliament under the Tudors, Oxford 1991, 21
11. The 'Basilikon Doron' of James VI, ed. J. Craigie (Scottish Texts Society, 1944-50), i. 74
12. APS ii. 546-8; iii. 3-4, 129, 373-4
13. G. Donaldson, 'The example of Denmark in the Scottish Reformation', in Scottish church history, 60-70
14. Idem, The Scottish Reformation, Cambridge 1960, ch. v
15. BUK i. 210
16. G. R. Hewitt, Scotland under Morton, 1572-1580, Edinburgh 1982, ch. vi
17. G. Donaldson, Scotland: James V - James VII, Edinburgh 1971, 167-8, 197
18. M. Lynch, Scotland: a new history, London 1991, 227-30
19. BUK ii. 405, 414-15, 488-512
20. Second book of discipline, 51, 128-9, 241, 244. From 1578 onwards the general assembly sought unsuccessfully to obtain legislative approval of the Second book of discipline
21. Hewitt, Scotland under Morton, 103, 106
22. Watt, Fasti, 150-1
23. Calderwood, History, iii. 577
24. Spottiswoode, History, ii. 281-4
25. Calderwood, History, iv. 63
26. Calderwood, History, iv. 4.51-12
27. 'The heads of the conference', CSP Scot., viii, no. 276
28. 'The state of Scotland', Nov. 1586, ibid. ix, no. 164
29. W. C. Dickinson, Scotland from the earliest times to 1603, 2nd edn, rev. and ed. A. A. M. Duncan, Oxford 1977, 347
30. Donaldson, Scotland: James V - James VII, 198
31. K. M. Brown, Kingdom or province? Scotland and the regal union 1603-1707, London 1992, 91
32. APS iii. 428
33. Anon. to Walsingham, Jan. 1588, CSP Scot., ix, no. 435
34. RPC iv. 388
35. The records of the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, ed. J. Kirk (Stair Society, 1977), 18
36. Calderwood, History, v. 156-7
37. M. Lee, John Maitland of Thirlestane and the foundation of the Stewart despotism in Scotland, Princeton 1959, 248-50
38. The 'traditional' view of the act as primarily a presbyterian 'victory' is still to be seen: J. Kirk, 'From Reformation to Revolution', in J. Wormald (ed.), Scotland revisited, London 1991, 90-1
39. Bowes to Burghley, 6 June, 6 Aug. 1592, CSP Scot., x, nos 691, 733. See also PRO, SP52/4g no. 3 which contains details not calendared
40. Bowes to Burghley, 16 Feb. 1593, ibid. xi, no. 30; APS iv. 44
41. E. E. MacQueen, 'The general assembly of the Kirk as a rival or parliament', unpubl. PhD diss. St Andrews 1927, esp. ch. i
42. APS iv. 46
43. Calderwood, History, v. 325; BUK iii. 837; Robert Cecil to Lord Zouche, 1 Feb. 1594, and 'News from Aberdeen', 8 Nov. 1594, CSP Scot., xi, nos 275, 401
44. Aston to Hudson, 30 May 1594, ibid. xi, no. 272
45. Aston to Bowes, 28 Nov. 1595, and Dr McCartney to Bowes, 4/5 Dec. 1595, ibid. xii. nos 70, 80
46. Aston to Bowes, 18 Jan. 1596, ibid. xii, no. 110
47. BUK iii. 875
48. E. I. O'Brien, 'The Scottish parliament in the 15th and 16th centuries', unpubl. PhD diss. Glasgow 1980, 227 n. 35
49. Melville, Diary, 343-5; BUK iii. 882, 886
50. See I. B. Cowan and D. E. Easson, Medieval religious houses: Scotland, London 1976, passim
51. Bowes to Burghley, 28 June 1596, CSP Scot xii. no. 212
52. For a more detailed account of the events of the last few months of 1596 see A. R. MacDonald, 'Ecclesiastical politics in Scotland: 1586-1610', unpubl. PhD diss. Edinburgh 1995, 113-17
53. O'Brien, 'The Scottish parliament in the 15th and 16th centuries', 222
54. Nicolson to Cecil, 23 Dec. 1597, 25 Feb. 1598, CSP Scot., xiii, pt I, nos 109, 126
55. Spottiswoode, History, iii. 68-9
56. See Cowan and Easson, Medieval religious houses
57. James VI to Lord Hamilton, 21 Dec. 1597, SRO, Hamilton MS, GD406/1/60
58. The 'Basilikon Doron' of James VI, i. 74-5
59. Nicolson to Cecil, 8 May 1599, CSP Scot., xiii, pt I, no. 372; Calderwood, History, v. 738
60. The second book of discipline, 202-4
61. Kirk, 'Minister and magistrate', 232-3
62. Donaldson, 'Church and community', 221, 225-6
63. Nicolson to Cecil, 26 Jan. 1600, CSP Scot., xiii, pt I, no. 493
64. Melville, Diary, 469, 537
65. Calderwood, History, vi. 2-7
66. M. Lee, 'James VI and the revival of episcopacy in Scotland: 1596-1600', Church History xliii (1974), 63
67. 'The ryseing and usurpation of our pretended bishops', 14; Nicolson to Cecil, 25 Mar. 1600, CSP Scot., xiii, pt II, no. 503
68. F. Shriver, 'Hampton Court revisited: James I and the Puritans', this JOURNAL xxxiii (1982), 53
69. K. Fincham and P. Lake, 'The ecclesiastical policy of James I', Journal of British Studies xxiv (1985), 180
70. Lee, 'James VI and the revival of episcopacy', 52
71. Lee, John Maitland of Thirlestane, 293