249-250; Godwin, IV.
462-3.] Under this government Scotland was now very tranquil and tolerably prosperous.

True, almost all the old poppy-heads or thistle-heads, the native nobles and notables, were gone.

Those of them who had been taken at Worcester, or had been sent out of Scotland as prisoners about the same time by Monk, were still, for the most part, in durance in England; others were in foreign exile; the few that remained in Scotland, such as Argyle, Loudoun, Lothian, the Marquis of Douglas, and his son Angus, were out of sight in their country-houses, utterly broken by private debts or fines and forfeitures, and in very low esteem.

Then, among many Scots of good status throughout the community, there were complaints and grumblings on account of the taxes for the support of the English Army, or on account of loss of posts and chances by the admission of Englishmen to the same, or by the promotion of such other Scots as the English saw fit to favour, Incidents of this kind, much noted at the time, had been the ejection of some Professors from the Universities by the English Visitors in 1653, and the appointments by the same visitors of men of their own choice to University posts--e.g.

Mr.Robert Leighton, minister of Newbattle, to the Principalship of Edinburgh University, and Mr.Patrick Gillespie to that of the University of Glasgow.