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 trouble the world no more. But they cried, We will never depart till we see him. Then was he hanged out at that very window to satisfy them he was dead, and so the people departed.

Shortly after, one Adam Wallace was burned likewise; and Henry Forest suffered the same cruel death, upon account of heresy. One Walter Mill was accused for heresy, and being bid to recant, he said, I am corn, and not chaff, I will not recant the truth and being thereupon condemned to the fire, and all things made ready to that purpose, they commanded him to go to the stake. No, said he, by the laws of God I am forbidden to lay hands on myself, therefore do you put me in the fire, and you shall see my resolution. Having then made his prayer unto God, he spake thus to the people; Although I have been a great sinner, yet it is not for that, but for God's truth, contained in his Word of the Old and New Testaments, that I now suffer; and God, out of his abundant mercy, doth honour me so far, as to make me among other of his servants, seal his truth with my blood. After he had thus spoke, he was tied to the stake, and the fire being kindled, he quietly slept in the Lord; and was the last person that died for the Protestant religion in Scotland.

In the year of our Lord, 1641, there brake forth a most horrid and bloody rebellion and massacre, committed by the Irish Papists on the English, in Ireland; a nation, famous for the birth of many worthy persons; especially, that learned and religious person, James Usher, late Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland; who, amongst many other gifts and graces, was endued