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12 first himsel get on horseback, in the middle of the night, so eager was he in pursuit of his prey, and accompanied by the governor, proceeded to Ormiston house, and avain demanded that Wishart should be delivered in. Ormiston, however still refused, and his obstinacy would have baffled the Cardinal, but for the interference of the Earl of Bothwell, who, with friendly intentions towards Wishart, offered as a neutral party, to take charge of him and on this understanding he was put into their power. Bothwell almost immediately after permitted himself to be prevailed upon to deliver his charge into the hands of the Cardinal, upon promises which were never meant to be kept, of fair dealing and mild treatment. Beaton, now in possession of his victim, returned triumphantly to St Andrews. On his arrival, he instantly sent Wishart to a loathsome dungeon, in a gloomy building called the Sea Tower, where he remained confined for eight weeks. At the expiry of that period he was brought to trial before a council, consisting of bishops, abbots, priors, grey and black friars and canons, and monks of all sorts, with the sanguinary cardinal at the head. Some days before that appointed For Wishart's trial, the Cardinal, as if in mockery or justice and legal forms, sent a summons to his dungeon demmanding his appearance before the council. Wishart, truck with the absurdity of this proceeding, addressing himself in the messenger, said, "What occasion has my lord Cardinal to summon me to answer for doctrines openly before him by whom I am bound in irons, so that he can compel me to compear when he thinks fit. It is right, he added ironically, that ye keep up old forms and ceremonies."

The trial of Wishart, if that can be called a