he free and open rebuke of sin in the
pulpit, maintained the bishops and pressed his own injunctions and
conformity with England; and had without question stayed the work of
God, had not God stirred up a faction of the nobility against him." For
first, the king took upon him the regency: then he was accused of the
late king's murder. He had amassed great sums of money together; but it
was partly embezzled by his friends, and partly conveyed away in barrels
and hid; So that when brought to Edinburgh, he had to borrow twenty
shillings for the poor. Thus having lost both his friends and his money,
which might have procured him friends, he was condemned and executed at
Edinburgh, June 2d, 1581. And so, for advancing the king's authority and
supremacy over the church and introducing bishops into it, he was by him
and them but poorly rewarded.--_Calderwood and Fulfilling of the
Scriptures._

JAMES STUART, son to the lord Ochiltree, was from a single centinel
advanced to a captain in king James's minority; but, becoming still
greater at court, he assumed unto himself the title of earl of Arran. He
became the king's only favourite, and was by him advanced unto the helm
of affairs; and then he set himself to ruin the church of God: for
first, he got the king's supremacy in all causes civil and
ecclesiastick, asserted by parliament; and then he got a set of wicked
and profane bishops, like himself, again reinstated in the church. In a
word, this ambitious, covetous, bloody, seditious Cataline, and scorner
of religion and enemy to the commonwealth was the author of all the
broils and disorders in church and state from 1680 to 1685; and would
have done more (being now made chancellor and captain of the castle of
Edinburgh) had not the Lord, by his own immediate hand of providence,
interposed in behalf of his church; for, first, being disgraced at
court, while on the pinnacle of dignity, he was tumbled down unto his
first original: then taking a tour through Kyle, came near Douglas, and
was at last set upon by James Douglas (afterward lord Fotherald) in the
valley of Catslaks, in revenge for his accusation of his friend the earl
of Morton, and thrown from his horse, and killed with a spear, and his
body left lying exposed to be devoured of dogs upon the king's high
way.--_Calderwood, Spotiswood, and Melvil's memoirs._

MARY STUART daughter to James V. first married the dauphin of France,
and after his death returned home, and took