Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind.: Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...

XLIII. The Earl of Morton a Religious and Prudent man, who was sometimes Regent in Scotland in King James his Minority, when the King had taken the Go∣vernment into his own hand, was falsly accused, and unjustly condemned by his crafty and malicious adver∣saries; the morning before he suffered, Mr Lawson, and two or three other Ministers of Edenburgh came to vi∣sit him, asking him how he had rested that night? To whom he answered, That of a long time he had not slept more soundly, now I am, said he, at the end of my Troubles. Some nights before my Tryal I was thinking what to answer for my self, and that kept me from sleep, but this night I had no such thoughts. When he came to the Scaffold, he exhor∣ted the People to continue in the profession of the true Religion, and to maintain it to the utmost of their power, intreating them to assist him in their Prayers to God; then going couragiously to the block, he laid down his head, and cried aloud, Into thy hand O Lord I commit my Spirit, Lord Jesus receive my Soul. Which words he repeated, till his head was severed from his Shoul∣ders. A. B. Spotswood. Hist. Scotland. p. 314.