nicated by the general assembly. He went abroad
and there remained till the year 1650, that when the treaty was on the
very anvil with Charles II. he received another commission from him to
raise a new insurrection in the north, but was defeated by colonels
Strahan, Ker, and Halkel, and afterwards taken in the laird of Ason's
ground, and brought to Endluish, where he was condemned to be hanged on
a gallows thirty feet high two hours, and then quartered, and his legs
and arms hung up in the public places of the kingdom, May 21st, 1650.
Mr. Blair and some other ministers were sent to him to use means to
persuade him to repentance for his former apostate and bloody life, but
by no means could they persuade this truculent tyrant and traitor to his
country to repent. He excused himself, and died under the censure of the
church, obstinate and utterly impenitent.--_Montrose, Guthrie, and
Blair._

WILLIAM MONRO, a kind of gentleman in the parish of Killern, was a hater
of God and every thing religious; for while Mr. Hog was minister there
sometime before the restoration, a gentleman in the parish having one of
his family dead, intended to bury in the church; but, this being
contrary to an act of the general assembly, Mr. Hog refused it. But
Monro, being a brisk hectoring fellow, promised to make their way good
in spite of all opposition. Accordingly, when they came to the church
door, Mr. Hog opposed them: whereupon Monro laid hands on him to pull
him from the door; but Mr. Hog, being able both of body and mind,
wrested the keys from the assailant, telling him, that if he was to
repel force by force, perhaps he would find himself no gainer: withal,
telling the people, that that man had grieved the Spirit of God, and
that they should either see his speedy repentance, or then a singular
judgment upon him. He went on in his wicked courses a few months, till
in one of his drunken revels, he attacked a mean man, and threw him in
the fire. The poor man in this extremity drew out the wretch's own
sword, and thrust it through his belly; on which his bowels came out,
and so he expired in a miserable condition.--_Memoirs of the life of Mr.
Hog._

JOHN, Earl of Middleton, at first lifted arms with the covenanters, and
had a share of the victory of the Gordons at the bridge of Dee. Yea, he
was so zealous in that profession, that one time having sworn the
covenants, he said to some gentlemen present, that it was the
pleasantest day he eve