ich he soon became stupid, and died in great
torment. This was the end of one of those who had brought the church of
Scotland on her knees by prelacy.--_Wodrow._

ROBERT MILNE, bailie (or according to some provost) sometime of
Linlithgow, swore the covenants with uplifted hands; but soon after the
restoration, to shew his loyalty, did in a most contemptuous manner burn
the said covenants, the causes of wrath, lex rex, western remonstrance,
with several other acts of church and state at the Cross, and to grace
the solemnity, French and Spanish wine was distributed most liberally,
wherein the King's and Queen's healths were drunken. But this vile
Pageantry, similar to Balthazzers quaffing in the holy vessels, did not
pass long without a note of observation, for though Milne had scraped
together much riches, yet, in a short time, he became an insolvent
bankrupt, and was forced to flee to the Abbey; after which he became
distracted, and died in great misery at Holyrood-house.--_Wodrow._

---- MAXWELL of Blackston rose with Caldwall, Kersland and some others
of the Renfrew gentlemen, who intended to join Col. Wallace, and that
handful who rose 1666; but being by Dalziel prevented from joining them,
was obliged to disperse; and, though Blackston was a _socius criminis_,
(had it been a crime,) yet to save his estate and neck, he went first to
the arch-bishop, then to the council, and accused and informed against
the rest: and, though he thus purchased his liberty, he had nothing
afterwards to boast of; for these gentlemen mostly got honourably off
the stage; whereas after that he never had a day to do well, (as himself
was obliged to confess) every thing in providence went cross to him,
till reduced, and then he took a resolution to go to Carolina: but in
this he was disappointed also; for he died at sea in no comfortable
manner; and was turned into the fluid ocean as a victim for fishes to
feed upon.--_Wodrow._

DAVID M'BRYAR, an heritor in Irongray parish, was chosen a commissioner
of the burgh for Middleton's parliament, in which he intended to have
charged his minister Mr. Welch with treason. After which he became a
cruel persecutor; nor was he less remarkable in that country for a
wicked and villainous practice, than for his furious rage against the
godly; but in a short time he became insolvent, and for fear of caption
was obliged to skulk privately among his tenants. In the mean time, one
Gordon, a north country man o