Volume 1
Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers.
- Robert Chambers
- Date:
- 1858-1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic annals of Scotland : from the reformation to the revolution / by Robert Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1624. 1626. Mab. Mab. 30. a little book entitled Sidus Celeste, and he experienced some of James’s good-natured patronage in consequence. In June 1620, Esther is found addressing the king in behalf of this son, who, having completed a school-course, ' would gladly follow theology.’ But ^ as Daedalus was not able to free himself of his imprisonment in the isle Greta hut by the help of wings made of pens and wax, even so my son is not able to free himself of inability to effectuate this his affection, but by the wings of your majesty’s letter, composed by pen and w'ax, through which he may wing his flight happily to some fellowship, either in Cambridge or Oxford, as occasion sail fall out.’ If so far favoured by his majesty, ^ I may have my tossed mind relieved of the great care I have pei'petually for this said youth.’—An. Scot. Ballard states, on the authority of a memorandum of Hearne, the antiquary, that Esther Inglis was married to a Scotsman, named Bai’tholomew Kello, and had a son, named Samuel Kello, who was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, and was afterwards minister at Speckshall, in Suflblk. 'At this time arose great discontentment betwixt the provost, bailies, and council of Edinburgh, and their ministers, because the ministers had procured the king’s letter and direction to the magistrates and council, for augmentation of their yearly stipends. They were not content with twelve hundred merks for every one, beside their house mail [rent], which was more than their predecessors, worthier than they, had, but importunately craved two thousand. The people,’ says the zealous Presbyterian historian, 'detested them for their ambition, their avarice, and malice at honest and godly professors. They were well fingerfed in other men’s houses, howbeit they had sufficient to maintain them at home.’—Cal. In June 1626, Charles I. enjoined the magistrates to give each of their ministers £100 sterling of yearly stipend, -with a free house.—Bal. The news of the death of King James—which occurred on the 27th of March—reached Edinburgh ou the 30th, at the outbreak of a storm of extraordinary violence which raged along the whole coast, destroying much shipping, and throwing down several harbours. ' The water raise above the harbour of Leith, and ran into the houses of the town; yea, the boats and barks within the same floated so above the shore, that some of them were cast away](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24886658_0001_0568.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
