Upon an allegation of unsoundness of doctrine in some of his works, the General Assembly of 1640 dragged his widow, in custody of a “rote of musketiers,” from her retreat in Strathislay, to enable them to search his house for his manuscripts and letters, a year after his death. The proceedings add some circumstances of inhumanity to the old revolting cases not unknown in Scotland, where a dead man was dug out of his grave to be placed at the bar, tried and sentenced. Footnote 13: P. 288. Footnote 14: Vol. iii. p. 331. Footnote 15: _History of Scots Affairs_, vol. iii. p. 231. Footnote 16: Aberdeen, 1635. Footnote 17: Vol. iii. p. 227. Footnote 18: In the Presbytery of Aberdeen, 26th May 1642. He died in 1659, in the ninety-fifth year of his age. Footnote 19: _Life of Bishop Bedell_—Preface. Of most of these theological authors I am obliged to speak in the language of others. I have not even, in all cases, read the works which have formed their character. Footnote 20: _Dr M‘Crie’s Life of Melville_, vol. ii. p. 445. It is with hesitation that any one who has benefited by this work will express a difference of opinion from its author. But it seems to me that Dr M‘Crie has been led by his admiration for Andrew Melville to rate too highly an exercise in which he excelled. The writing of modern Latin poetry, however valuable as a part of grammatical education, has, in truth, never been an effort of imagination or fancy; and its products, when most successful, have never produced the effect of genuine poetry on the mind of the reader. Footnote 21: _History of the Rebellion_. Oxford, 1826. Vol. i. p. 145. Footnote 22: _Life of Bishop Bedell_—Preface. Footnote 23: _Delitiæ poetarum Scotorum hujus ævi illustrium_, and fifth volume of the Great Atlas—both published by John Blaeu at Amsterdam, the former in 1637, the latter in 1654. Footnote 24: _Joannis Leochaei Scoti musæ._ _Londini_, 1620. Leech was Rector of the University in 1619. Footnote 25: “Ad Senatum Aberdonensem;” “Tumulus Joannis Colissonii;” “De Abrenethæa;” “De aulæis acu-pictis D. Isabellæ Setonæ Comitissæ Laderdeliæ.” _Epigrammata Arturi Jonstoni, Scoti, Medici Regii, Abredoniæ: excudebat Edvardus Rabanus_, 1632. Footnote 26: STRACHAN’S _Panegyricus_. Among the strangers he distinguishes Parkins, an Englishman who had, the year before (1630), obtained a degree of M.D. in our University. The earliest diploma of M.D. I have seen is that which I have noted (somewhat out of place) among the academic prints, and which was granted in 1697. Footnote 27: