cording to
a wicked imprecation often used by him in his ordinary discourse, that
if such a thing were not so, he wished his heart might be driven out of
his body.--_Wodrow._

MR. JAMES HAMILTON, brother to lord Belhaven, but of the clerical order.
Before the 1638 assembly, he had received episcopal ordination; but upon
the turn of affairs then, he became a zealous covenanter; and being
settled minister at Cambusnethen, such was his zeal, that he not only
bound his people to these covenants, but excommunicated all from the
tables, who were not true to them, using Nehemiah's form, shaking the
lap of his gown, saying, _So let God shake out every man_, &c. But how
he himself kept them, the sequel will declare. For his cunning, time
serving temper made him too volatile for a presbyterian; for no sooner
did prelacy again get the ascendant after the restoration, then he got
himself into the leet of bishops, and must needs up to London to be
consecrated. The bishoprick of Galloway came to his share; and then he
began to shew his teeth against the covenanters, and procured letters
from the council against several of the field preachers: and having got
Sir Thomas Turner south for that purpose, he oftimes hunted him out
beyond his intention unto many outrageous oppressions, though Turner was
one like himself every way qualified for such exercises. Thus he
continued for about 12 years, till at last he was called before the
supreme tribunal to answer for his perfidy, apostacy, treachery and
cruelty by a death suitable and similar unto such a life. The
circumstances of which for want of certain information I am not able to
relate at present[277].

MR. ANDREW HONYMAN, son to a baker who dedicated more than one cake to
the muses; for all his four sons were scholars. Mr. Andrew, the eldest,
was first minister at Ferry-parton, then transported to St. Andrew's,
and being zealously affected to presbyterian church-government, and one
of good parts, he was employed by the presbytery to draw up a testimony
for the same about 1661. Nay, such was his zeal, that he said, if ever
he spoke or acted otherwise, he was content to be reckoned a man of a
prostitute conscience; and that, if he accepted a bishoprick, he wished
he might worry on it. But on an interview with Sharp at Balmany Whins,
he first got the arch-deanry of St. Andrew's, and then the bishoprick of
Orkney; and having alway run greedily after the error of Balaam, from a
zealous cove