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plesour."* Through the intercession of the Queen, he
was liberated and restored to his archiepiscopate. He
had formerly sentenced to the stake, for alleged heresy,
Adam Wallace and Walter Mill ; he now proceeded to
endow a heritable executioner,t in the hope that, on
a revolution of affairs, he might be enabled to wreak
summary vengeance upon his adversaries. But his
hopes perished with the defeat of Queen Mary at the
battle of Langside. He was then seized, and, at the
instance of the Regent Lennox, ignominiously hanged.
For baptizing and marrying " in the fashion of the
Papistry," Sir James Arthur, | a Romish priest, was tried
before the Justiciary Court on the 17th March, 1562 ;
he was "fylit," or convicted, but his punishment was
left to the discretion of the Regent. John Knox relates
that, in April, 1565, Sir John Carvet, a priest, having
celebrated mass at Easter, was seized at Edinburgh.
He was conducted to the Tolbooth, and being invested
in his canonicals, was carried to the market cross, to
which he was attached with ropes. He was kept for an
* Pitcairn's "Criminal Trials," vol. i., pp. 427 — 430. Edinburgh,
1833. 4to.
f Archbishop Hamilton possessed the singular distinction of consti-
tuting the only hereditary executioner in the kingdom. In 1565, five
years after the Eeformation, he had the boldness to appoint a family
named Wann hereditary clnnjysters in the regality of St. Andrews.
To the office so constituted, he granted from the property of his see
four acres of land, situated near Gair Bridge, on the river Eden, toge-
ther with the right of pasturing two horses and four cows on the
neighbouring farm of Kincaple.
X Before the Eeformation monks were entitled " Dene," or Dean,
and secular clergy had " Schir," or Sir, prefixed to their names. Those
who had attained the academical degree of M.A. were styled " Master.''
The last designation was afterwards bestowed on the ministers of the
Presbyterian Church, whether they had graduated or not.