ent 1621, he commanded the communicants to kneel, and
he himself bowed with the one knee and sat with the other. Thus he
continued to the dotage of old age, and at last died upon the stool,
easing himself; and (as worthy Mr. Welch had before foretold) without
the least sense or signs of true repentance.

---- HAMILTON, Marquis of Hamilton, for his many good services to king
James against the Presbyterian interest, was by him appointed
commissioner to the parliament 1621, on design to have the five articles
of Perth (_viz._ 1. Kneeling at the communion; 2. Private communion; 3.
Private baptism; 4. Observation of holy days; 5. Confirmation of
children) ratified: all the faithful ministers being by him discharged,
the city and the parliament guarded, that no protestations might be got
offered. Through threats and flattery he got that dismal affair
effected; but not without a notable mark of divine displeasure: for, in
that moment he arose to touch the act with the sceptre, a terrible flash
of fire came in at the window, followed with three fearful claps of
thunder, upon which the heavens became dark, and hailstones and a
terrible tempest ensued; which astonished every beholder, and made the
day afterward be called the black Saturday; because it began in the
morning with fire from earth, and ended in the evening with fire from
heaven.--And on the Monday, when the act was read at the cross of
Edinburgh, the fire and thunder again recurred.--However, the Marquis
having got the king's design partly accomplished returned to court, and
not long after, for such services, it is said, he was poisoned by the
king's principal minion the Duke of Buckingham.--_Calderwood_, &c.

JAMES STUART, son to Mary Stuart queen of Scotland, was in his youth
educated by the famous Buchanan, and brought up in the true reformed
Protestant Presbyterian religion, then established in Scotland, which
was by him more than once ratified when he was in his swaddling cloaths,
as one well observes, Christ reigned in Scotland in his minority. The
church had its various turns according to the dispositions of the
regents, the king's favourite flatterers and court-parasites; but
whenever he began to think of obtaining the crown of England, he began
to introduce Episcopacy into the church of Scotland to gain the English
nation. And though he was a habitual gross swearer, and such a master of
dissimulation, that what he exalted at one time he set himself to
destro