udgment and Justice of God Exemplified, &c.
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_Biographia Scoticana:_

or, a
BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
of the
LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent

SCOTS WORTHIES,

Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others:
From Mr. _Patrick Hamilton_, who was born about
the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom
at _St. Andrews_, Feb. 1527, to _Mr. James Renwick_,
who was executed in the Grass-market of _Edinburgh_
Feb. 17, 1688.

TOGETHER WITH
A succinct Account of the Lives of other seven
eminent Divines, and Sir _Robert Hamilton_ of Preston,
who died about, or shortly after the Revolution.

AS ALSO,
An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the
wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most
remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland
from the Reformation to the Revolution.

Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts,
and other authenticated Writings:--The whole including a
Period of near Two Hundred Years.

By JOHN HOWIE.

The SECOND EDITION, corrected and enlarged.

_The Righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance_,
Psal. cxii. 6.

_And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her_,
Psal. lxxxvii. 5

GLASGOW:
Printed by JOHN BRYCE, and Sold at his Shop,
opposite Gibson's-Wynd, _Salt-market_.

M,DCC,LXXXI

Entered in Stationers-Hall, according to Act of Parliament.

THE PREFACE

To the IMPARTIAL READER.

The design of the following work was to collect from the best
authorities, a summary account of the lives characters and contendings
of a certain number of our more RENOWNED SCOTS WORTHIES, who for their
faithful services, ardent zeal, constancy in sufferings, and other
Christian graces and virtues, deserve a most honourable memorial in the
church of Christ;--and for which their names both have and will be
savoury to all the true lovers of our Zion, while reformation-principles
are regarded in Scotland.

But then perhaps at first view, some may be surprized to find one so
obscure appear in a work of this nature, especially when there are so
many fit hands for such an employment. But if the respect I hav