Note 108 — Chapter VII · ATTEMPTS AT AN ACCOMMODATION. INDEPENDENT ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH.

Note on the private articles: Baillie i. 469. Guthrie’s assertion goes somewhat further: ‘For the ruling elders, as there was but one from each presbytery, so they enjoined that he should be a well-affected nobleman, and failing there a well-affected gentleman; whereby it came to pass that all the noblemen who were furious in the cause were elected either in one presbytery or in the other.’ (p. 46.)