Note 255 — Miscellaneous Historical Documents. RELATIVE TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS IN SCOTLAND—1639-40.

Baillie’s Letters, vol. i., p. 195.—A great number of Baillie’s Letters, relative to the troubles in Scotland, were addressed to Mr Spang, a Scotch Presbyterian minister at Campvere in Holland; and from these and other materials, that learned person afterwards compiled a work in Latin for the information of foreigners which is thus titled:—“Rerum nuper in Regno Scotiæ gestarum Historia, seu verius Commentarius, causas, occasiones, progressus horum mottuum, breviter et perspicue proponens, simul cum synopsi concordiæ, quantum hactenus inita est.—Excerptus ex scriptis intriusque partis scitu dignissimis, quorum primaria in Latinum sermonem nunc primum fideliter translata inseruntur, &c.—Per Irinævm Philalethen, Eleutherium.—Dantisci, Anno Domini 1641.” There is a copy of this work in the Theological Library, Edinburgh.

By an Act of Assembly 1641, the Scotch church at Campvere was brought into connection with the Church of Scotland, and the Kirk Session thereof authorized to send its minister and a ruling-elder to the General Assembly. This connection continued long after, till that branch of the Scottish Church was swept away in the French revolutionary war, since which it has not been renewed, although that church has been revived.