e bishop of
Murray, and five doctors and ministers in Edinburgh, where (in the
virtue of his metropolitan capacity) he deposed him from the exercise of
any part of his pastoral office, and deprived him of all benefits that
might accrue to him thereby, since the time of his wilful desertion;
with certification, if he should transgress therein, the sentence of
excommunication should pass against him. He was thereupon remanded back
to prison; and though the town of Inverness wrote, earnestly soliciting
him to make some compliance, that they might be favoured with his
return, yet he valiantly withstood their intreaties, and by his answer
dated July 1688. He dissuaded them from insisting on his return, as what
he assured them would never happen, and condemns himself in the
strongest manner for his adherence to prelacy, declaring against it in
the most express way, as anti-scriptural as well as tyrannical. His
confinement and the fatigue of his journey, having given such a shock to
his constitution, as his life was in danger, Sir Robert Gordon of
Gordonstoun, and Dun. Forbes of Culloden offered a bail bond for 10,000
merks to the earl of Perth, then chancellor, that they would present him
when called upon, providing he was set at liberty; but he utterly
refused to set him at liberty, though he was in a very languishing
condition in the tolbooth; where he remained till Perth run away, and
that the Edinburgh mob set the prisoners at liberty. After this he
continued in the suburbs of Edinburgh, till in the month of Feb. 1689.
he joyfully finished his course in the Lord, being in the 33d year of
his age. Some days before, news came that the parliament of England had
settled the crown on king William, who put an end to those bloody times,
and that tyrannical government.

Mr. MacBean without all doubt was a man, both pious and learned,
although at first brought up in the prelatical persuasion, and when near
his death frequently compared himself in this particular to Moses, who
from mount Pisgah saw the land of promise, but for his sinful
compliance, as he always called it, would not be allowed to enter
therein, having some time before his death, a firm belief of the amazing
deliverance which the church and nation soon met with, and left his
mortal life rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.

_The Life of Mr. THOMAS HOG._

Mr. Thomas Hog was born in the beginning of the year 1628, in the burgh
of Tain, in the county of Ro