The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

This spoken, and the Elders and the Deacons dimitted, he called the two Preachers unto him, and said, There is one thing that grieveth me exceedingly; You have sometimes seen the courage and constancy of the Laird of Grange in the cause of God; and that most unhappy man hath cast himself away: I will pray you two to take the pains to go unto him, and say, from me, That unless he forsake that wicked course wherein he is entered, neither shall the Rock in which he confideth defend him, nor the carnal wisdom of that man whom he counteth half a god (this was young Lethington) yield him help; but shamefully he shall be pulled out of that nest, and his carcass hung before the Sun (meaning the Castle he did keep against the Kings Authority: And so it fell out the year next following; for the Castle was taken, and he was publicly hanged, and his body hung before the Sun) The soul of that man is dear unto me; and, if it be possible, I could fain have him to be saved. They went, as he had desired, and conferred a long space with Grange; but with no persuasion could he be diverted from his course: Which being reported, he took most heavily. Yet Grange, at his death, did express serious repentance for his sins.

This spoken, and the Elders and the Deacons dimitted, he called the two Preachers unto him, and said, There is one thing that grieveth me exceedingly; You have sometimes seen the courage and constancy of the Laird of Grange in the cause of God; and that most unhappy man hath cast himself away: I will pray you two to take the pains to go unto him, and say, from me, That unlesse he forsake that wicked course wherein he is entred, neither shall the Rock in which he confideth defend him, nor the carnall wisedom of that man whom he counteth half a god (this was young Lethington) yeeld him help; but shamefully he shall be pulled out of that nest, and his carkase hung before the Sun (meaning the Castle he did keep against the Kings Authority: And so it fell out the yeer next following; for the Castle was taken, and he was publikely hanged, and his body hung before the Sun) The soul of that man is dear unto me; and, if it be possible, I could fain have him to be saved. They went, as he had desired, and conferred a long space with Grange; but with no perswasion could he be diverted from his course: Which being reported, he took most heavily. Yet Grange, at his death, did expresse serious repentance for his sins.