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and were it not very just to supersede any fur- 

 ther proceeding against us until the sitting of 

 the parliament, that they may take the case into 

 their consideration, and by a clear 'plain law let us 

 know our obligations ?" 



But in another respect he was more success- 

 ful, viz. in procuring her Majesty's private bounty 

 towards them, especially to this Bishop of Edin- 

 burgh and that of Aberdeen. There was but one 

 surviving archbishop in Scotland, viz. Dr. John 

 Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, burthened 

 with age and infirmities, eleven children, and 

 great poverty. There was procured him a grant 

 of £300 per annum out of the rents of his arch- 

 bishopric during his life, and £200 per annum 

 for fifteen years more, towards the support and 

 maintenance of his children. Among the in- 

 ferior clergy he procured for Dr. Scott, the epis- 

 copal clergy's agent at court, a pension of eighty 

 guineas per annum : and did his best offices with 

 her Majesty that what remained undisposed of, 

 of the Bishop's rents should be distributed among 

 them. In short, he shewed himself in all respects 

 as tender of them as their own circumstances 

 and those of the times would permit . 



And here we may pass over to some other 

 instances of his compassion and care of poor 

 distressed Protestants, viz. those in foreign 

 parts. When he was applied to in King Wil- 



