Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple.
- Smith, John, of the Inner Temple
- Date:
- [1798]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![godly fad? and words of • James (z) Melvil” were printed on the margin of the’page; but the fabfequent Editors retrenched (a) them. A very fingular account of the murder in queftion, and extremely different from that given by all his other biographers, (b) Knox, Buchanan, the Prefident De Though, Spotfwood, (c) Hume, Robert- fon, Pennant, and Doftor Towers, the original in Latin, written by (d) Dempfter, the Scotch Biographer and Hiftorian, is preferved by Doc- tor (V) M4Kenzie, a tranflation of which follows : This eminent Prelate, was firangled in his chamber, by heretic cut- throats, the chief of whom was named Leflie, who p d into the mouth of the deceafed, and equipping the dead body with the Car- dinal’s enfigns, hung it upon the wall, and treated it with much fa- criligious contumely, for which God was. afterwards pleafed to re- fen t by a proper punifliment, for all the wicked murderers came to untimely ends, and Leflie was thrown from his horfe and killed, and the horfe p -d (f) in his mouth, as he fell, which was a memorable inflance, and certainly fhewed a degree of judgment in the Divine vengeance; Edward Hall, Book VIII. on the union of the two fa- milies. James Auguflus de Thou, endeavoured, in the year following to vindicate the murderous aft, in the third Book of the “ liiflory of kis own Times” but in vain, for Beaton the Cardinal fufferecl martyrdom; the blood of the flain on the (tones of the (h) window^ could never be wafhed off or defaced. Though the year, the day of the month, and even the day of the week, on which Be aton was (tabbed to the heart, are all minutely mentioned ; yet the exaht time of his death, does not feem, by any means, to be precifely afcertained, by any of the numerous au- thors, (z) Knox calls James Melvill, [Hist. Reform. 65] a man most gentle, and most modest. Hume IV. 29S, n. M‘Kenzie, III. 25, calc. (a) Hume IV. 298, 299, n. C) Hist. Reform. 71. M‘Kenzie, III. 23. n. (0 nib. II. 83. M‘Kenzie, III. 23, n. Id. 24.. Archbishop of Saint Andrews. Beats. P. I. II. 30. and Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Id. 60. (d) Lib. II. 88. M‘Kenzie, III. 19. n. (e) Lives of Scots Writers, III. 28, calc. (D M‘Kenzie, III, 29,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28760955_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
