| Description | Typewritten transcripts of documents relating to the persecution of the Episcopal Church in Scotland during the eighteenth century. Including:
Petition to Queen Anne by "the heritor's of the reformed religion, elders and other in dwellers of the parish of Cabrach lying within the diocese of Aberdeen", requesting her to "suspend the violent proceedings" against the young man they had chosen as minister, undated;
"Humble address of the poor farmers and others of the Episcopal Communion in and about (blank) to the quality and gentry of these parts", protesting against interference in their "enjoyment" of religion and worship", undated;
Obligation by the Presbytery of Deer of Mr Moor at Fraserburgh concerning the fact that "during the late confusion" of 1716 he had entered into some piece of conduct which might expose him to the cognisance of the Presbytery of Deer: whereby he undertook not to "preach or exercise any part of the ministry" within the bounds of the Presbytery "so long as the Lord should continue the legal establishment of the Presbyterian government within that part of the kingdom of Great Britain", undated;
Acknowledgement by David Guthrie and others (whose subscriptions are annexed) of their receipt of £1 sterling from the Right Reverend Sir John Alexander "as our proportion of an English benefaction to the suffering clergy of the Church of Scotland" dated at Restenot, 22nd August 1750;
Letter from John Alexander, priest of Kildrummy, to his wife written from "Edinburgh from our prison in the Winton House in the Canongate, April 19th 1716", giving an account of his imprisonment;
Transcripts of Kildrummy papers, 1680-1717, concerning the career of John Alexander;
"A true narrative of Captain Andrew Wood's conversion to the true church". |