ed
and was taken: upon which, James fell into a delirium, still crying out,
O fled Oliver: is Oliver taken? After visiting some of his mistresses,
he went to Falkland, (after he had had some frightful dreams at
Linlithgow) and hearing the queen was delivered of a daughter, he broke
forth unto this desperate expression, "The devil go with it, it came
with a woman, and will go with a woman, &c." But still his continued
cry was, Is Oliver taken, &c. till cardinal Beaton came, whose
intrigues with the queen were before known, and by whose direction it
was supposed the king received a dose, of which he soon expired in that
situation, 1542.--_Buch. Knox_, &c.

DAVID PANTHER, bishop of Galloway, was a violent enemy to the gospel.
For advancing the queen regent's interest he got an abbey in France. He
would by no means admit of a disputation with any of the reformed; but
recommended fire and sword for the only defence of the catholic
religion. "Our victory (said he) stands neither in God nor his word, but
in our own wills, otherwise we will no more be found the men we are
called, than the devil will be approved to be God, &c." Amongst other
extravagances, he became a notable Epicurean, eating and drinking
becoming the only pastime of his life, and in that excess, he at last
fell down and expired.--_Knox_, &c.

---- DURY, a fowl of the same nest, was, for his filthy course of life,
called Abbot Stottikin. But being a furious papist, he obtained the see
of Galloway, and became such a persecutor of the reformation, that he
roundly vowed, that, in despite of God, as long as they prelates lived,
that word called GOSPEL should never be preached in this realm. But his
boasting lasted not long; for being suddenly seized by death, the
articles of his belief or dying words were, "Decarte, you, ha, ha. The
four kings and all made, the devil go with: it is but a varlet from
France; we thought to have got a ruby, but we got nothing but a
cohoobie." And so this filthy enemy of God ended his life.--_Knox_, &c.

DAVID BEATON was made arch-bishop of St. Andrews, and by the pope,
cardinal of Scotland. But, being a man of a strange nature and cruel
disposition, he set himself to crush the professors of the reformed
religion with fire and faggot. Captain Bothwick was by his influence
accused, but fled to England: four men by his direction were burnt on
the Castle-hill of Edinburgh 1538; as were Russel and Kennedy the year
after. Thus he continu