Transcriber's Notes
In the original text, Scottish names, such as M'Clelland or M'Kail, sometimes use a regular apostrophe and sometimes a reversed apostrophe. In this transcription, the ASCII apostrophe character (') has been used throughout.
Missing quotation marks and other minor punctuation errors and inconsistencies such as differing hyphenations of words have been silently corrected.
Missing or poorly printed letters in words have been silently supplied.
Illegible text that could not be supplied from other sources is marked {illegible}.
There is an error in page numbering: the page following 336 is numbered 347.
Where a word differs from modern spelling, but is consistent within the text, e.g. atchievement, the original spelling is retained. Other typographical errors have been corrected, particularly where there is inconsistency within the text. A detailed list of these changes (including those described in the Errata) can be found at the [end] of the text.
CONTENTS
[Biographia Scoticana]
[The Preface]
[The Introduction]
[The Lives and Characters of the Scots Worthies]
[Contents]
[Errata]
[Footnotes to Biographia Scoticana]
[The Judgment and Justice of God Exemplified, &c.]
[Footnotes to The Judgment and Justice of God Exemplified]
[The Subscribers]
[Transcriber's Notes]
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