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 496 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 67. was passed in form, and the grant of their estates con- firmed in his favour. Lady Gowrie, who had been ex- pelled from Ruthven Castle to live or die as she could, threw herself at James's feet in the street before the Tolbooth, to beg for mercy to her children. Arran thrust her away with his foot, and strode across her body as she fainted. 1 The Archbishop of St September. Andrews set about- his work, trying his strength with Protestantism. The St Andrews students howled nightly under his window, and when brought up for punishment ' bade him remember the fate of his predecessors/ John Craig, of Edinburgh, told Arran, in the King's presence, ' that men higher than he had been brought low/ Arran, answering that he would make him a true prophet, threw himself on his knees and said, ' Now am I humbled.' ' Mock as you will/ said the stern preacher, ' God will not be mocked, and will make you find it earnest when you are cast down from the horse of your pride. ' The Kirk clergy, in their hatred of lies, had a second sight that was keener than intellect. Archbishop Adamson repented at his leisure, in an old age of misery and poverty ; the Archbishop came at last to sit cowering over one side of his cabin turf-fire while his cow was at the other. 2 The lance of Douglas of Park- head avenged in due time the insolence to Craig, and Arran' s body was flung into a ruined church by the road- side to be eaten by dogs and swine. 3 The present 1 Davison to Walsingham, Au- gust 24 September 3 : MSS. Scot- land. 2 Diary of James Melville. 3 CALDEBWOOD.