n's life_, &c.

JOHN NISBET, factor to the arch-bishop of Glasgow, was a drunkard, a
hater of all religion and piety, and such a professed malignant wretch,
that when Mr. Cargil was brought in prisoner to Glasgow, July 1681,
looking over a stair to him in way of ridicule, cried three times over,
Will you give us one word more, (alluding to a word Mr. Cargil
sometimes used in his pathetic way of preaching). To whom Mr. Cargil
with much regret and concern, said,--"Mock not, lest your bands be made
strong. Poor man, the day is coming ere you die, that you shall desire
to have one word and shall not have it." Shortly, he was suddenly struck
by God, and his tongue three days successively swelled in his mouth, so
that he could not speak one word. Two Glasgow men made him a visit, and
desired him to commit to writing the reason of this, and if he desired
to speak; to whom he wrote, "That it was the just judgment of God, and
the saying of the minister verified on him for his mocking of him; and
if he had the whole world, he would give it for the use of his tongue
again." But that he never got, but died in great torment and seeming
horror.--_Wodrow, Walker_, &c.

J---- ELLIES, was one employed by the bloody managers about Bothwel
affair, and being a lawyer, he behoved to shew his parts in pleading
against the servants of Jesus Christ, namely, in the trial of Messrs.
Kid and King: and though he got their lives pleaded away, and his
conscience kept quiet for a little, yet shortly death did arrest him;
and then his conscience awakened; and under the horror of that, he died
in a very pitiful and shocking manner.--_History of the sufferings_, &c.

JOHN, Earl (afterwards Duke) of Lauderdale, at first set up for a prime
covenanter, and swore them more than once; and, if I mistake not, was
the same called lord Maitland ruling elder from Scotland to the
Westminster assembly, and had a principal hand in the whole management
during the second reformation period; but, falling in with Charles II.
he soon debauched him. After the restoration, he became a furious
malignant, and being one whose nature and qualifications did exactly
correspond with the king's, he complied in every thing that pleased him,
for which he heaped upon him titles, places of power, profit and
preferment, all which died with himself. He was made secretary of state,
president of the council, and commissioner to the parliament 1669, where
he got that hell-hatched act of