media_.--_Ed._]

103 [See his epitaph, p. 1.--_Ed._]

104 [Her name was _Mary_, or _Maria_ Simpson. The inventory of the
effects of "Mr. Hew Binning, at Govane, deceiasit in ye monith of
Sept. 1658," is given up "be Marie Sympsone, his relict, and onlie
exerix dative." (Com. Rec. Glasg.). Towards the close of her life,
Mrs. Binning became connected with the Society people. She seems to
have corresponded with the Rev. James Renwick, one of their
ministers, who, in a letter dated July 9, 1685, speaks of her as
"like to die in prison," and in another, of her having "gone to
Ireland" (Renwick's Letters, pp. 104, 179). Howie of Lochgoin, the
author of "Lives of the Scots Worthies," assures us that it is Mrs.
Binning who is alluded to by Renwick in his Letters pp. 49, 104. He
likewise quotes part of a letter written to her in 1692 by Sir
Robert Hamilton of Preston, who commanded the army of the
Covenanters at the battle of Bothwell bridge (Shields' Faithful
Contendings, pp. 486, 487). In a catalogue of the manuscripts of the
Rev. Robert Wodrow, minister of Eastwood, which is in the library of
the Faculty of Advocates vol. xxiv. folio is stated to contain "50
letters from Mrs. Binning to Mr. Ham." It is not known where this
volume is now to be found.--_Ed._]

105 ["The Rev. James Simpson was chaplain to the Lord Sinclair's
regiment. He appears to have settled in the charge of a congregation
in Ulster, perhaps at Newry, which was the headquarters of his
regiment for several years--He was still in his charge in Ireland in
1650 in which year the Rev. Hugh Binning, minister of Govan, was
married to his daughter." Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland, vol. i. pp. 369, 370.--_Ed._]

106 [What Koelman says is this that the adjoining parish to which he and
his friends went was the one in which after sermon, the marriage
ceremony was to be performed. Mrs. Binning it is probable was
residing there at the time.--_Ed._]

107 [His eloquence procured for him, according to Macward, the name of
the Scots Cicero. Along with a distinct articulation be possessed
great fluency. When he preached in Glasgow, which being the minister
of a neighbouring parish was frequently the case, he was much
admired and followed (Koelman's "Het