The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Search was made for the doers, but none could be deprehended: For the brethren assembled themselves in such sort, in companies, singing Psalms, and praising God, that the proudest of the enemies were astonished. This Tragedy of Saint Giles was so terrible to some Papists, that Durie, sometimes called for his filthiness Abbot Stottikin, and then entitled, Bishop of Galloway, left his Riming,¹ wherewith he was accustomed, and departed this life even as he had lived. For the Articles of his belief were. I refer. Decarte you. Ha, ha, the four Kings and all made. The devil go with it; It is but a varlet. From France we thought to have gotten a Ruby; And yet is he nothing but a Cahoobie. ²With such Faith and such Prayers departed out of this life that enemy of God, who had vowed and plainly said,³ That in despite of God, so long as they that then were Prelates lived, should that Word (called the Gospel) never be Preached within this Realm. After him followed that belly-God Master David Panter, called, Bishop of Ross, even with the like documents,⁴ except that he departed eating and drinking, which, together with the rest that thereupon depended, was the pastime of his life. The most part of the Lords that were in France at the Queens Marriage▪ although that they got their leave from the Court, yet they forgot to return to Scotland. For whether it was by an Italian Posset, or French Figs, or by the Pottage of their Apothecary (he was a French-man) there departed from this life, the Earl of Cassiles, the Earl of Rothesse, Lord Fleming, and the Bishop of Orkney, ⁵whose end was even according to his life: For after that he was driven back by a contrarious wind, and forced to land again at Deep, perceiving his sickness to increase, he caused to make his bed betwixt his two coffers (some said upon them) such was his God, the gold that therein was enclosed, that he could not depart therefrom, so long as memory would serve him. The Lord James, then Prior of S. Andrews, had (by all appearance) licked of the same broth that dispatched the rest, for thereof to his death, his stomach doth testify. But God preserved for a better purpose. This same Lord James, after Earle of Murray, and the said Bishop were commonly at debate in matters of Religion; and therefore the said Lord, hearing of the Bishops disease, came to visit him: