Religion & morality > Last publick sermon, being a faithful and free one, preached by Mr. Hugh Mackaile ... upon the Sabbath immediately preceeding that 8th of September 1662, the day affixed for the removing of the ministers of Edinburgh from their kirks

Upon Wetlnejilay, Decern. lath, the Juft ices being fet,
theAtteftation of the two Doflors anti Ghirurgeons above-
mentioned is produced for Mr. Hew MacKaile, and other
three of the Prifoners indidted, and their Excufe proponed
thereupon : But the Juftices finding, that the Atleilation,.
not bearing Soul and Conference, did not agree to the War-'
rant and Order given by the Council, and that the Phyft-
cians, being called, did refufe, upon Point of Privilege, to,
redlify it in thefe Terms, although they declared, that the
Truth thereof was fuch, as they might fafely confirm it
by Oath, they do only fuperlede their Procedure againd*
Mr. Hew, and other two contained in the Atteftation, urn"
til To-morrow •, and ordain John Neilfon of Corfack, tho’ •
alfo contained in the Atteftation, in refpetft the fame ns to"
his Part was not relevant, and the other four, to be brought ’
to tire Bar, who, accordingly being brought, were that Day '
fentenced to be hanged on Friday thereafter.
Thurfday, December 13th, the Juftice Court, being let,'
adjourns until Tuefday thereafter, and ordains Mr. Hew,
and the other two, to be peremptorily fifted that Day be-_
fore the down-fitting of the Court. This Afternoon, having,
obtained his Reprival, in the Thoughts of his dubious Con¬
dition, he compofed the Lines following :
Vita: ergo innumeris cur a rum error!bus a Ha,
Claufula conjimilis per breve finit iter.
Dijlrahor ambigui dubio difer'mine futi :
Aeger enirr. jaceo ; frn revalefco, cado. . ‘
Saturday, Decern. 8th, his Brother Mr. Matthew goes
from Edinburgh to Glafgow, with a Letter from the Lady
Marquis of Douglas, and another from the Dutchefs of
Hamilton, to the Lord Commiflioner, in his favours, but'
both proved ineffectual.
Likeas his Coufm Mr. Matthew Mackaile (afterwards
Doctor of Medicine in Aberdeen) carried another Letter,
from the Lady Marquis of Douglas, to the Archbiftiop of
St*