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, Febru-
ary 1527, to Mr. JAMES RENWICK, who was executed in the
Grassmarket of Edinburgh, February 17th, 1688.

TOGETHER WITH

A Succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Di-
vines, 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 Wick-
ed Lives and Miserable Deaths of some of the most Remark-
able Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland, from
the Reformation to the Revolution.

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.

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