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Memoirs of ... W. V. and G. Brysson; written by themselves; with other Narratives illustrative of the History of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution, to which are added biographical Sketches and Notes by T. M'Crie

William Veitch · 1825 · Scanned text

155,319 words · about 10 h 53 min to read

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Author
William Veitch
Language
English
Published
1825
Length
155,319 words · about 10 h 53 min
Sections
2 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (2)
  1. Appendix about 2 min
  2. Preface about 10 h 50 min

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Appendix

. No. I. — Indictment of John Muir, late Provost of Ayr, 487 No. II. — Letter from Mr. John Carstairs to Chancellor Glencairn, ...... 491 No. III. — Letter from Mr. John Carstairs to Mr. Robert Macward, ...... 495 No. IV. — From the same to the same, . . 497 No. V. — From the same to the same, . . CONTENTS. Page 501 504 505 508 510 513 515 523 524 527 No. VI. — From Mr. Macward to Mr. John Brown, with the answer, ...... No. VII. — From the King, liberating Mr. William Veitch, No. VIII. — Representation of the Archbishop and Clergy of St. Andrews to the Privy Council, No. IX. — Declaration of Colonel Blood and his accomplices in Ireland, ..... No. X. — Rules and Ordinances by the Parliament of New Caledonia, for the good government of the Colony, . No. XI. — Extracts of Letters from Mr. Macward to Mr. Blackader and Mr. Cargill, ....

No. XII. — Extracts from the Diary of Sergeant James Nisbet, ...... No. XIII. — Letter from King William to the Privy Council, concerning Mr. Archibald Riddell and James Sinclair of Freswick, ..... No. XIV. — Letter and Receipt to George Ogilvy of Barras, concerning the Registers of the Church of Scotland, Index, MEMOIRS OF MR. WILLIAM VEITCH, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, containing A SHORT ACCOUNT OP HIS EXTRACTION AND RELATIONS ; AND OF SEVERAL REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES, AND SIN- GULAR DELIVERANCES, HE WAS TRYSTED WITH IN SCOT- LAND, ENGLAND, AND HOLLAND, WHERE HE TRAVELLED AND PREACHED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, BEING FORFEITED LIFE AND FORTUNE ; ALSO THE TIME HE PREACHED IN WHITTON MEETING-HOUSE NEAR KELSO THREE YEARS, IN THE TIME OF KING JAMES HIS LIBERTY ; AFTER THAT SETTLED FOUR YEARS IN PEEBLES; AND THEN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AT DUMFRIES : IN ALL ABOVE FIFTY YEARS.

Psal. lxvi. 16. " Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." Psal. exvi. 8. " He hath delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." Psal. lvi. 8. " Thou tellest all my wanderings, put my tears in thy bottle ; are they not in thy book ?" Psal. lvii. 1. " Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast." Psal. xxxii. 7. " Thou art my hiding-place ; thou shalt preserve me from trouble ; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance." Psal. lxxvii. 10. " I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High." Ver. 11. "I will remember the works of the Lord ; surely I will remember thy wonders of old." Psal. xlii. 6. " O my God, my soul is cast down within me : there fore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Her monites, from the hill Mizar." — The Land of Jordan is the Scotch and English ground on both sides of the Tweed : The Hermonites are the Reids. daliies : Mizar is the Carter, where 1 hardly escaped the enemies' search.

MEMOIRS OP MR. WILLIAM VEITCH, AND GEORGE RRYSSON, WRITTEN BV THEMSELVES: WITH OTHER NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE REVOLUTION. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND NOTES, BY THOMAS M'CRIE, D. D. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH: AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. M.DCCC.XXV.

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