is printed in small, {383} and the account of Wishart’s trial in large black letter. The date of printing is not mentioned. Those who have fixed on the year 1546 have been influenced by the occurring of this date on the title of the tragedy, which evidently refers to the time of Beatoun’s death. It is probable, however, from some expressions in the preface, as well as from other considerations, that it was printed soon after that event. Fox has embodied the whole account of Wishart’s trial in his Acts and Monuments, p. 1154‒1158, “_Ex. Histor. Impressa._” Knox has transcribed it from Fox. Historie, p. 72. Wishart had travelled on the continent. Knox, 56. Lesly, p. 458. Buchanan calls him _Sophocardius_, supposing his name to be _Wiseheart_, a mistake which has been corrected by an intelligent foreign historian, who says that the original name was _Guiscard_, a name common in France, from which country the _Wischards_ (for so Knox writes it) originally came to Scotland. Gerdesii Hist. Reformat. tom. iv. p. 314. See also Ruddiman’s _Propriorum nominum Interpretatio_, subjoined to Buchanan’s History. The following extract from the records of the city of Bristol has been obligingly sent me by Theodore Laurance, Esq. “30 Henry viij. That this yere the 15 May a Scot named George Wysard sett furth his lecture in S{t} Nicholas Church of Bristowe the most blasphemous heresy that ever was herd, openly declarying that Christs mother hath not nor coulde merite for him nor yett for us, wich heresy brought many of the commons of this towne into a greate erro{r} and dyvers of theym were persuaded by that hereticall lecture to heresy. Wherupon the said stiff necked Scot was accused by Mr John Kerne deane of the s{d} diocese        and soon aft{r} he was sent to the moost reverend father in God the archebishop of Canterbury bifore whom and others, that is to signifie, the bishops of Bathe Norwhiche and Chichester, with others, as doctors        and he bifore theym was examyned convicted and condemned in and upon the detestable heresy above mentioned, whereupon he was injoyned to bere a fagott in S{t} Nicholas church aforsaid and the parishe of the same the 13 July and in Christe church the 20 July abovesaid foll{g}, which was duely executed in the time aforsaid:”