Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) / A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

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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.