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19 not to be found but in the scriptures." One of his haughty judges now asked, "What then shall be left to the bishops and churchmen to do if every man shall become a babbler upon the Bible?" Wallace replied, "It becomes you to speak more reverently of God and of his blessed word, though you and I, and five thousand more, would read the Bible and confer together upon it, yet we would leave more to the bishops to do than either they will or can do; for we leave to them the preaching of the gospel of Christ, and the feeding of the fuck which he hath redeemed by his own blood, which is burden heavy enough; neither do we them any wrong in working out our own salvation.". As a natural consequence of such an investigation as this in these days, Wallace was condemned to death. The superintendence of the execution was committed to the Lord Provost, who would not permit him to address the people. He died with all the fortitude and resignation be oming a martyr to the sacred truths of religion.

Mylne was apprehended by Sir Hugh Currie ind Sir George Strachan, emissaries of the bishop f St. Andrews, while warming himself by the fire 5 a poor man's house in Dysart, and while in the ct of instructing his hostess in her duty towards er children in bringing them up in the fear of God. He was conveyed to St. Andrews, and en- red into the presence of the bishops who lost time in convening a number of abbots and her churchmen in the abbey church, which was enerally made the scene of such proceedings, in der to his trial. "The council having assembled, e Maltman, a friar, agreeably to the usual prac- e on these occasion, opened the business of this clesiastical court by a sermon, in which he enlo- sed the Catholic church, anathematized its enc-