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Bishop; but that the seriptures say, upon the Lord's giving a call to a private man to kill, he might do it lawfully; and gave the instances of Jael and Phinehas. These were the most material points on whieh he was examined.
While he was in prison, a gentlewoman who eame to visit him, told him, weeping, "That these Heaven daring enemies were contriving, a most violent death for him; some, a barrel with pikes to roll him in; others an iron-chair, red-hot, to roll him in," &e. But he said, 'Let you nor none of the Lord's people be troubled for these things, for all that they will get liberty to do to me, will be to knit me up, cut me down, and ehop off my old head, and then fare them well; they have done with me, and with them for ever."
He was again before the Council on the 19th, but refusing to answer their questions, exeept anent the excommunication. There was some motion made to spare him, as he was an old man, and send him prisoner to the Bass during life; which motion buing put to a vote, was, by the casting vote of the Earl of Rothes, rejeeted; who doomed him to the gallows, there to die like a traitor.
Upon the 26th he was brought before the justiciary, and indicted in common form. His confession being produced in evidenee against him, he was brought in guilty of high treason, and eondemned, with the rest, to be hanged at the cross of Edinburgh, and his head placed on the Nether Bow. When they eame to these words in his indictment, viz. having cast of all fear of
