nd torment me eternally. In this
situation he died the same night, he appeared to the king when lying at
Linlithgow with a company of devils, and uttered these words to him, O
woe to the day that ever I knew thee or thy service; for the serving of
thee against God, against his servants and against justice, I am
adjudged to endless torment.--_Knox's history_, _Appendix to
Sp{illegible}'s relation_.
ALEX. CAMPBELL, a dominican friar, a man of wit and learning, who though
he agreed almost in every point with Patrick Hamilton, yet being more
desirous to save than hazard his life for the truth, was prevailed upon
by his friends not only to prefer a public accusation against the said
Patrick, but even when bound at the stake in the fire, over the belly of
the light of his own conscience, continually cried out, Convert,
heretic; call on our lady: say, _salve regina_, &c. to whom the martyr
said, depart from me, and trouble me not, thou messenger of Satan. But
while this friar still roared out these words with great vehemency, He
said again to him, "O thou vilest of men, thou art convinced that these
tenets which thou now condemnest, are certainly true, and didst confess
to me that they are so. I cite thee against a certain time before the
tribunal seat of Christ Jesus, &c." In a few days after, Campbel
turned quite mad, and died in Glasgow as one in despair.--_Buch. Knox's
hist. and others_.
JAMES V. son to James IV. who began to reign 1514, notwithstanding a
quick genius and inclination at first to sobriety and justice, yet soon
became corrupted with licenciousness and avarice the bane of that age;
and, being wholly under the direction of the pope and his poplings in
Scotland he turned a most violent persecutor of the professors of the
true religion, (which then began to dawn) in so much that Patrick
Hamilton, of the royal stock, behoved to suffer the flames; many others
were oppressed and banished the nation as hereticks. Nay, such was his
furious zeal, that he was heard say, that none of that sort need expect
favour at his hand, were it his own sons if guilty: and it appears he
would have been as good as his word, (from a paper or list of their
names given in by the clergy found in his pocket at his death) had not
divine providence interposed: for being pushed on to an unjust war with
the English by the advice of Oliver Sinclair and others, his army was
shamefully defeated at Solway moss, where this Oliver his general fl
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