FN 415 Burnett, ii, 123.; Carstairs Papers.

FN 416 Register of the Actings or Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland held at Edinburgh, Jan. 15. 1692, collected and extracted from the Records by the Clerk thereof.  This interesting record was printed for the first time in 1852.

FN 417 Act.  Parl.  Scot., June 12. 1693.

FN 418 Ibid.  June 15. 1693.

FN 419 The editor of the Carstairs Papers was evidently very desirous, from whatever motive, to disguise this most certain and obvious truth.  He has therefore prefixed to some of Johnstone’s letters descriptions which may possibly impose on careless readers.  For example Johnstone wrote to Carstairs on the 18th of April, before it was known that the session would be a quiet one, “All arts have been used and will be used to embroil matters.”  The editor’s account of the contents of this letter is as follows

“Arts used to embroil matters with reference to the affair of Glencoe.”  Again, Johnstone, in a letter written some weeks later, complained that the liberality and obsequiousness of the Estates had not been duly appreciated.  “Nothing,” he says, “is to be done to gratify the Parliament, I mean that they would have reckoned a gratification.”  The editor’s account of the contents of this letter is as follows:  “Complains that the Parliament is not to be gratified by an inquiry into the massacre of Glencoe.”

FN 420 Life of James, ii. 479.

FN 421 Hamilton’s Zeneyde.

FN 422 A View of the Court of St. Germains from the Year 1690 to 1695, 1696; Ratio Ultima, 1697.  In the Nairne Papers is a letter in which the nonjuring bishops are ordered to send a Protestant divine to Saint Germains.  This letter was speedily followed by another letter revoking the order.  Both letters will he found in Macpherson’s collection.  They both bear date Oct. 16. 1693.  I suppose that the first letter was dated according to the New Style and the letter of revocation according to the Old Style.

FN 423 Ratio Ultima, 1697; History of the late Parliament, 1699.

FN 424 View of the Court of Saint Germains from 1690 to 1695.  That Dunfermline was grossly ill used is plain even from the Memoirs of Dundee, 1714.

FN 425 So early as the year 1690, that conclave of the leading Jacobites which gave Preston his instructions made a strong representation to James on this subject.  “He must overrule the bigotry of Saint Germains; and dispose their minds to think of those methods that are more likely to gain the nation.  For there is one silly thing or another daily done there, that comes to our notice here which prolongs what they so passionately desire.”  See also A Short and True Relation of Intrigues transacted both at Home and Abroad to restore the late King James, 1694.