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The first indulgence was issued by Charles II. and his council in June, 1669. It was proclaimed as flowing directly from the royal supremacy. The power was granted to the persecuting Council, at their discretion, to appoint certain of the outed ministers to vacant parishes, on ensnaring conditions.
It was calculated that they lost one half of their army on that disastrous night-march. Next night they reached the village of Colinton, four miles from Edinburgh, where they halted for the last time. Wodrow, pp. 19, 20. "A Hind Let Loose," p. 123. Turner, p. 163. Turner, p. 198. Ibid. p. 167. Wodrow, p. 29. Turner, Wodrow, and "Church History" by James Kirkton, an outed minister of the period.
When the tenant sued his lord for having unjustly outed him of his lease, the damages which he recovered were by no means equivalent to the possession of the land. Such causes, therefore, for some time, went all to the court of chancery, to the no small loss of the courts of law.
The Adam's apple in his thin throat worked up above the collar of the grey flannel Hospital jacket. "I I outed 'im!" said W. Keyse. "O' course you did, deer." Her heart thrilled with pride in her hero. "An' serve 'im glad the narsty, blood-thirsty, murderin' " He interrupted: "'Old 'ard! Wait till you knows 'oo it was." He gulped, and the Adam's apple jerked in the old way.
He had his eyes on Jones, and evidently considered him, for some occult reason, of the same way of political thinking as himself, and he addressed him in that impersonal way in which one addresses an audience. "They've downed and outed the House o' Lords, an' now they're scraggin' the Welsh Church, after that they'll go for the Landed Prepriotor and finish him.
Coates, who was not an ill-natured, though a very ill-bred woman, observing the terrible alarm into which she had thrown me by her intelligence, declared she was quite sorry she had outed with the news so sudden upon me. Mrs.
'Perfectly, I says, 'but would it at all soothe you to know that in such a case the chances o' your being killed are precisely equivalent to the chances o' me being outed. 'Why, no, he says, 'I'm almost afraid that 'ud be a temptation,
I could stan' such fly-flappin' all day. 'Twas this here press that cracked my pate for me, and thou art a looky man to be able to boast as thou hast outed me. And now I'd be obliged to thee if thou wilt give me t' wife's medicine." Montgomery gladly made it up and handed it to the miner. "You are weak still," said he. "Won't you stay awhile and rest?"
The EX-PREMIER scouted the notion that the new plan of voting would fill the House with freaks and faddists, a class from which, he hinted, it is not, even under present conditions, entirely immune. But the majority evidently felt that there could not be much amiss with a system which had returned such wise and patriotic persons as themselves to Parliament, and they outed P. R. by 201 to 169.
It was little to be wondered at, from this account, that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners' names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.
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