ds
have recommended the care of two of his harlots (one of whom being in
bed beyond him, his queen being elsewhere) to the care of his brother.
And so, having drunk his death in a popish potion, he died unlamented.
For his character, in all respects in nature, feature and manners, he
resembled the tyrant Tiberius; and for all the numerous brood of
bastards begot on other men's wives, he died a childless poltroon,
having no legitimate heir to succeed him of his own body, according to
the divine malediction, _Write this man childless: for no man of his
seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling any more
in Judah._

THOMAS DALZIEL of Binns, a man natively fierce and rude, but more so
from his being brought up in the Muscovy service, where he had seen
little else than tyranny and slavery: Nay, it is said, that he had there
so learned the arts of divilish sophistry, that he sometimes beguiled
the devil, or rather his master suffered himself to be outwitted by
him[279]. However he behoved to return and have a share of the
persecuting work; and after murdering a number of the Lord's witnesses
at Pentland, he came west to Kilmarnock, where he committed many unheard
of cruelties; instance, his putting a woman in the thieves hole there,
in the Dean amongst toads and other venomous creatures, where her
shrieks were heard at a distance, but none durst help her, and all
because a man pursued ran through her house: and also his shooting one
Findlay at a post without the least crime or shadow of law; with the
many cruelties exercised upon the country after Bothwel; for these and
his uncleanness and contempt of marriage from his youth, drunkenness,
atheistical and irreligious conversation, he was another of these
excommunicated at Torwood. After which he waited sometime on the council
at Edinburgh to assist them in the persecuting work there, till the year
1685, that one William Hannah was brought before the council, and, when
pleading, he was too old to banish, Dalziel told him roughly, he was not
too old to hang: he would hang well enough. This was among the last of
his public maneuvres: For that same day August 22d, when at his beloved
exercise, drinking wine, while the cup was at his head, he fell down
(being in perfect health) and expired.--_Wodrow, Hind let loose,
Naphtali_, &c.

GEORGE CHARTERS, sometime a kind of factor to the duke of Queensberry,
in imitation of his master was such an assiduous persecutor