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Transcriber's note:
Numbering of headings and subheadings were left as they were in the
original. Spelling of many words vary in the text; for example,
expressly/expresly, abbreviation for Matthew as Mat. and Matt.,
Dumfermline/Dunfermline.
Page 82--supplied the word "year" "For resistance of superior powers, we
have in this period, first the practice of some noblemen at Ruthven, in
the 1582. who took the King, ..."
Long "f" characters were replaced with the standard English "s"; the
"ct" ligature was replaced with "ct".