A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen volume 3
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Mr John Ellis, Robert Keill, &c. Were cited. " — " My two servants, " he afterwards says, " being im- prisoned, and I threatened therewith, as also that they would seize upon my papers, and search if they contained anything offensive to the party then pre- vailing, I was necessitat to hide the manuscript, and many others, and intermit my historick remarks till the Revolution in the end of 1688, after which I be- gan some observes of our meeting of estates of parliament held in 1690-93 and 95, a...nd other occurrents forreign and domestick, briefly summed up, and drawin togither yeirly, (but not with such enlargements as I have used heir, ) and are to be found up and downe in several manuscripts besyde me, to be reviewed cum dabit otium Deus. '" When James made his well-known recommendation to the parliament of Scot- land to rescind the penal statutes against Roman catholics, Lauder joined in the debate on the appropriate answer, in a spirit of moderation, which, according to the amount of his charity, the reader may attribute to prudence, or liberality, or both united.
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