[70] For these authentic particulars of Gilderoy’s fate, we are indebted to the extracts from the Privy Council Record printed in the Appendix to the Spalding Club edition of Spalding’s Troubles.
[71] Act of Privy Council, quoted in Blackwood’s Magazine, i. 66.
[72] ‘... many mouths were there opened to the bishop’s disgrace. “False Antichristian!” “Wolf!” “Beastly belly-god!” and “Crafty fox!” were the best epithets and titles of dignity given him. The dean was mightily upbraided. Some cried: “He’s a son of a witch’s breeding and the de’il’s get. Nae halesome water can come forth from such a polluted fountain!” Others cried: “Ill-hanged thief, if at that time thou went’st to court, thou had been well hanged, thou hadst not been here to be a pest to God’s church this day!” One did cast a stool at him, intending to have given him a ticket of remembrance; but jouking became his safeguard at that time.’—Brief and True Relation of the Broil, &c., printed in App. to Rothes’s Relation, 1830.
[73] See Vol. I. p. 545.
[74] Rothes’s Relation of Proceedings Concerning the Affairs of the Kirk.
[75] Become fusty.
[76] Inundation.
[77] Clarendon’s Life, ii. 333.
[78] Whitelock’s Memorials, 485.
[79] Gordon of Rothiemay’s Hist. Scots Affairs from 1637 to 1641. Spalding Club, vol. i. 57.