ience he made his exit, August 1609.--_Calderwood_, &c.

GEORGE HUME, Earl of Dumbar, one of king James's creatures, and the only
instrument (I may say) used by him at that time to overturn the
Presbyterian form of church-government and discipline, and introduce
prelacy into Scotland: for which purpose he was by him sent as
commissioner to both the general assemblies 1608 and 1610. He brought
some English doctors to persuade, a strong guard to intimidate the
faithful, and money to bribe those of a contrary disposition; which he
distributed to these mercenary creatures for their votes. He so far
succeeded, as to get a new set of bishops erected, and then returned to
England, where, with the wages of iniquity, he built a sumptuous palace
at Berwick. When he intended to keep St. George's day, and solemnize his
daughter's marriage with Lord Walden, the Lord pulled him down from the
height of all his honours by a sudden and surprizing death. _That day
his thoughts perish_, and with the builder of Jericho, for all his
acquisitions in Scotland and England, in a short time there was not a
foot breadth of land left of it to his posterity.--_Calderwood_,
_Fulfilling of the Scriptures_, &c.

MR. GEORGE GLADSTONE, at first, was such a zealous Presbyterian, that he
vowed he should never be bishop of St. Andrews, because they were hated
and came all to untimely ends. But his motives not being good, he
returned from court 1605, with a presentation to the very same
bishoprick. Again, when called up to court next year, to assist the king
against the faithful Scottish ministers, he was adjured by his brethren
of the ministry in the presbytery of St. Andrews, that as he should be
answerable to God, he should do nothing to the prejudice of the church
of God; he took God to witness, it should be so. But they soon found the
contrary to their sad experience; for he not only became a cruel enemy
to his brethren who continued faithful, but also a lazy time-serving
hireling, oftimes loitering upon his bed in the very time of
sermon.--Instance, being one time on his bed in time of the afternoon
sermon, both he and the congregation were alarmed with the cry of
_Murder_, his sister's son in the house having killed his cook with a
dagger, as he was making ready his supper.--At this rate he continued
till 1615, that he was seized with a fearful and strange disease, (which
historians forbear to name) and what was worse, with obstinate and
senseless s