COW POX

This disease was proposed in the year • The General A embly had met annually from the yiar 1C"8 to 1' 45 inclusive It sometimes met without having the sanction of the kin", or without his majestv being represented in it, as is usual, by a commit sin i.fr. Not merely the Covenanter*, but Presbyterians In genera), laid it down a* a principle, that the church courts are, in matters ecclesiastical and religious, independent of civil authority, and ^responsible in it^ Accordingly,been di olvedinbv|i;33,the the royal A embly commi ioner.continuedCromwellits sittings in even1G53 aftercausedtli.-jdthe General A embly, then sitting, to be summarily dismi ed, and interdicted in meeting In future In this instance, the A embly had Implicitly to nbev. Tin. judicatory did mil again meet till after the HeTolirtlon (QaiUie,.i Letters, i). 369-70 ) [s. 313]