Mr Simson’s Knotty Case: Divinity, Politics, and Due Process in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland PDF
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debut.fm Page i Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM MR SIMSON’S KNOTTY CASE: Divinity, Politics, and Due Process in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland debut.fm Page ii Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas 1 Problems of Cartesianism 9 The Jena System, 1804–5: Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, Logic and Metaphysics John M. Nicholas, and John W. G.W.F. Hegel Davis Translation edited by John W. Burbidge and 2 The Development of the Idea George di Giovanni of History in Antiquity Introduction and notes by Gerald A. Press H.S. Harris 3 Claude Buffier and Thomas 10 Consent, Coercion, and Limit Reid The Medieval Origins of Two Common-Sense Parliamentary Democracy Philosophers Arthur P. Monahan Louise Marcil-Lacoste 11 Scottish Common Sense in 4 Schiller, Hegel, and Marx Germany, 1768–1800 State, Society, and the A Contribution to the History Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient of Critical Philosophy Greece Manfred Kuehn Philip J. Kain 12 Paine and Cobbett 5 John Case and Aristotelianism The Transatlantic Connection in Renaissance England David A. Wilson Charles B. Schmitt 13 Descartes and the 6 Beyond Liberty and Property Enlightenment The Process of Self- Peter A. Schouls Recognition in Eighteenth- Century Political Thought 14 Greek Scepticism J.A.W. Gunn Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient 7 John Toland: His Methods, Thought Manners, and Mind Leo Groarke Stephen H. Daniel 15 The Irony of Theology and 8 Coleridge and the Inspired the Nature of Religious Word Thought Anthony John Harding Donald Wiebe debut.fm Page iii Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM 16 Form and Transformation 24 Kierkegaard as Theologian A Study in the Philosophy of Recovering My Self Plotinus Arnold B. Come Frederic M. Schroeder 25 An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland 17 From Personal Duties The Career of Sir Archibald towards Personal Rights Alison Late Medieval and Early Michael Michie Modern Political Thought, 1300–1600 26 The Road to Egdon Heath Arthur P. Monahan The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature 18 The Main Philosophical Richard Bevis Writings and the Novel Allwill 27 Jena Romanticism and Its Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Appropriation of Jakob Translated and edited by Böhme George di Giovanni Theosophy – Hagiography – Literature 19 Kierkegaard as Humanist Paolo Mayer Discovering My Self Arnold B. Come 28 Enlightenment and Community 20 Durkheim, Morals, and Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Modernity Quest for a German Public W. Watts Miller Benjamin W. Redekop 21 The Career of Toleration 29 Jacob Burckhardt and John Locke, Jonas Proast, and the Crisis of Modernity After John R. Hinde Richard Vernon 30 The Distant Relation Time and Identity in Spanish- 22 Dialectic of Love American Fiction Platonism in Schiller’s Eoin S. Thomson Aesthetics David Pugh 31 Mr Simson’s Knotty Case Divinity, Politics, and Due 23 History and Memory in Process in Early Eighteenth- Ancient Greece Century Scotland Gordon Shrimpton Anne Skoczylas debut.fm Page iv Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM debut.fm Page v Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM MR SIMSON’S KNOTTY CASE Divinity, Politics, and Due Process in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland Anne Skoczylas McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca debut.fm Page vi Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2001 isbn 0-7735-1029-x Legal deposit third quarter 2001 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Funding has also been received from the J.B. Smallman Fund, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its activities. It also acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Skoczylas, Anne, 1938- Mr. Simson’s knotty case: divinity, politics, and due process in early eighteenth-century Scotland (McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas; 31) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-7735-1029-x 1. Simson, John, 1667-1740. 2. Church of Scotland – Doctrines – History – 18th century. 3. Church of Scotland – Discipline – History – 18th century. i. Title. ii. Series. bx9225.s46s59 2001 230′.5233′092 c00-901078-5 This book was typeset by Typo Litho Composition Inc. in 10/12 Baskerville. debut.fm Page vii Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations Used in the Notes xi 1 Introduction: Scotland after 1707 3 2 John Simson: Historiography and Significance 13 part one: simson, glasgow, and calvinism 3 My Great Unfitness for Discharging such ane Office Aright: John Simson and Glasgow University 29 4 I Profess myself only a Student: Simson as Teacher 52 5 So Unspotted a Church: Challenges to Scottish Calvinism 70 part two: simson’s first case 6 A General Inclination to Novelties in Doctrine: Letters, Negotiations, Skirmishes, 1711–1715 103 7 A Speedy Trial: Libel, Committee, Trial, 1715–1717 128 part three: simson and the struggles in scotland, 1717–1726 8 Adiew to the Piece and Unity of this place: Simson and Glasgow Politics 177 9 Further Gulps of Error: Simson and Religious Turmoil 210 part four: simson’s second case and after 10 A Crime Deeper than Crimson: From Letter to Suspension, 1726–1727 243 11 The Brink of a Rupture: Depose? Acquit? 1727–1729 288 12 Quit of him at last: Descent into Obscurity, 1729–1740 322 13 Conclusion: Scotland Transformed 341 debut.fm Page viii Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM viii Contents Appendix A: Documents re Simson’s First Case 355 Appendix B: Documents re Simson’s Second Case 362 Glossary 371 Bibliography 377 Index 399 debut.fm Page ix Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM Acknowledgments Many libraries and librarians provided me with bibliographical assis- tance, for which I am grateful. The staff in the libraries of the University of Western Ontario deserve my special thanks, with particular apprecia- tion going to David Murphy for his efforts at locating eighteenth-cen- tury material for me. I wish to thank the Church of Scotland for permission to quote from various presbytery, synod, and assembly records and manuscripts; Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, for letters in the Clerk of Penicuik Collection; the Duke of Montrose, for letters in the Montrose Muniments; and Miss P. Skelton, for correspondence in the Lawrie Papers. For giving me per- mission to quote from documents in their collections, I am also grateful to the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, the archivists of the Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre, the librarians in the Department of Spe- cial Collections, Glasgow University Library, and the librarians of Edin- burgh University Library. Permission is granted by the Director of Dr Williams’s Library to use and quote from the The Wodrow–Kenrick Cor- respondence. Quotations from the Benson Papers are reproduced by courtesy of the Director and University Librarian, the John Rylands Uni- versity Library of Manchester. While I enjoyed the advice and assistance given by many members of the History Department at the University of Western Ontario, I owe my deepest thanks to Professor Roger L. Emerson, whose expertise was my main stay in all areas of my work. His encyclopaedic knowledge of both manuscript and published sources was an invaluable bibliographical aid to my research. Through him I received further useful suggestions on unprinted sources from Professors M.A. Stewart, J. Moore, and Paul Wood, which I much appreciated. debut.fm Page x Monday, July 16, 2001 2:47 PM x Acknowledgments My husband, Henry, read, commented on, and edited my second draft, which helped me to clarify many of my ideas. I pay tribute to the consistent and generous way in which he endorsed my efforts and to the friendly moral support offered by my children. Finally, in appreciation of her influence, I dedicate this book to the memory of my mother, Frances De Vere Key, who encouraged me to study history.
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