wholly given to sensual
pleasure, he was easily deceived: the queen decoyed him to Edinburgh,
where she and Bothwel laid a plan for his life wherein Bothwel was to be
the aggressor. In prosecution of which, he with some others entered the
king's lodging in the night, and while he was asleep strangled him and
one of his servants, and drew him out at a little gate they had made
through the wall of the city, and left his naked body lying, and so,
like another Johoiakim, who burnt the roll, was _cast without the gates
of Jerusalem_.

JOHN HAMILTON was, by his brother the regent, after the cardinal's death
made arch-bishop of St. Andrew's. He exactly trod in the footsteps of
his predecessors; and that not only in uncleanness, taking men's wives
from them for his concubines, (as the popish clergy must not be married)
but was also a violent oppressor and persecutor of Christ's gospel in
his mystical members. Adam Wallace and Walter Mill were by his direction
committed to the flames. Again, when Mr. Knox went with the lords to
preach at St. Andrew's, he raised 100 spear-men to oppose him. He had a
hand in most of the bloody projects, in the queen regent's management.
In her daughter Mary's reign, she followed the same course. He had a
hand in Henry Stuart's death, and was afterward one of the conspirators
of the the death of the good regent the earl of Murray; but the reformed
getting the ascendent, he was obliged to flee to the castle of
Dumbarton, and was there taken, when it was taken by the regent earl of
Marr, and for his former misdemeanours, was hanged up by the neck like a
dog at Stirling, about the year 1572.

WILLIAM MAITLAND, commonly called in history, young Lethington, though a
man of no small parts or erudition, yet became sadly corrupted by the
court. He was made secretary to queen Mary, and with her became a prime
agent against the reformation. He oftentimes disputed with Mr. Knox, and
at last gave in a charge of treason against him on account of religion.
And one time, he was so chagrined at the preachers of the gospel,
namely Mr. Craig, that he gave himself to the devil, if after that day
he should care what became of Christ's ministers, let them blow as hard
as they would. He had a prime hand in the queen's marriage with Darnly,
and against the lords who professed the reformed religion. After the
queen fled to England, he was the principal manager of all the popish
plots and tragical disasters that for some