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148 THE HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRS [1550.
uncertain ; wherefore it was judged best for them to wink at
many things, until they should see farther about them. This
relaxation brought many persons over to the new doctrines,
and dissenters increased daily. Upon which account, when
the war was ended, the clergy began to look more narrowly
into their own affairs.
There was one Adam Wallace, a simple but very zealous
man for the new doctrines, who, together with his wife
Beatrix Livingston, used to be much in company with the
Lady Ormiston, and to instruct that lady's children during
the absence of her husband. 1 It is likely enough that the
catechising of these, and perhaps also of other children, in
the new forms, had made the man to be more taken notice
of than otherwise he would have been. So he was taken at
Winton in East Lothian by the Lord Primate's direction, and
brought upon his trial in the church of the Black Friars in
Edinburgh, where, in presence of the Governor, the Earl of
Argyll, Great Justice of the realm, the Earls of Angus,
Huntly, and Glencairn, and divers others of the Nobility and
Prelates, he was accused by Mr John Lauder 2 of several
Articles which may be seen in Knox's and Spottiswood's
Histories, and in Fox's Martyrology ; and being found guilty,
was the next day 3 burnt on the Castlehill of Edinburgh.
They say he was inhibited to speak to the people at his
execution, yet they tell us that he entreated them not to
be offended at the truth because of his suffering, saying —
" The disciple is not above his master ;" and in a few words
more, commending his soul to God, he took his death most
patiently. 4
Sometime after this, viz. the 26th of January 1551-2,
1 John Cockburn, Laird of Ormiston, was forfeited 14th December
1548, for going into England, and bringing the Lord Grey of that nation
into Scotland in the spring of the year 1547-8.
2 He was Archdean of Teviotdale, and a Notar Publick, and probably
was brother to Mr Henry Lauder, Queen's Advocate for the time.
3 Fox, in his Kalendar, places this execution on the 12th of October
1551 ; yet in the body of his History he tells, that he had his accounts there-
of ex testimoniis et Uteris e Scotiapetitis, anno 1550. There must be an error
in the print.
4 [This was the first public act of Archbishop Hamilton after his eleva-
tion to the Primacy of St Andrews. It is evident that the poor man was
unworthy of notice from his obscurity, and the weakness of his intellect.
Among the charges against him were those of assuming the office of