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Updated: May 29, 2025
On these Acts being proclaimed at the Cross of Edinburgh, the ministers of the city James Lawson, Walter Balcanquhal, and Robert Pont appeared and made protest against them, when Arran was so incensed by their conduct that he at once ordered their arrest, and swore he would make Lawson's head 'leap from its halse though it was as big as a haystack. More than they were in jeopardy of their lives; every man in the country who had been a pronounced friend of liberty had cause to fear.
In the inmost circle of Melville's friends were such men as Arbuthnot, Principal of Aberdeen, and Smeton, his own successor as Principal of Glasgow both, like himself, eminent in learning; David Ferguson, minister of Dunfermline, the patriarch of the Assembly, and one of the six original members of the Reformed Church; and the four ministers of Edinburgh all notable men John Durie, James Lawson, James Balfour, and Walter Balcanquhal.
Lawson, Balcanquhal, and Pont fled, with many others. A warrant had been procured by Archbishop Adamson for the apprehension of James Melville, when he made his escape by open boat to Berwick. The course of events showed that the ministers had reason for their flight.
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