about to solemnize his daughter's marriage with Lord Walden in a magnificent manner. A writer in the 66 Biographia Scoticana, or Scots Worthies," imputes this circumstance to the judgment of heaven, while Sir John Scott, in his political epitome of slander, ascribes it to some poisoned sugar-tablets, which were given him by Secretary Cecil, for expelling the cold.* "His body," says Crawfurd," being embalmed, and put into a coffin of lead, was sent down to Scotland, and with great solemnity interred in the collegiate church of Dunbar, where his executors erected a very noble and magnificent monument of various coloured marble, with a statue as large as life.” The monument is twelve feet broad at the base, and twenty-six feet in height. Above the pedestal, Lord Dunbar is represented, kneeling on a cushion, in the attitude of prayer, with a bible open before him. He is clad in armour, which is seen under his knight's robes, and on his left arm is the badge of the order of the garter,-head uncovered. Two knights in armour stand on each side as supporters. The figure on the right bears a shield, emblazoned Be this as it may, the earl of Dunbar, like the generality of courtiers, was well versed in Machiavellism. Andrew Melville, the celebrated scholar, seems to have been duped by him. When a prisoner in the Tower for non-conformity, he says, in a letter to his nephew: "Through the kind offices of Sempill, I now enjoy more healthful air, though still confined in the Tower. I am put in hopes that I shall have greater liberty within a month or two on the return of sine quo nihil; (Earl of D.) You know whom I mean. Your friend, forsooth, who did not even deign to salute you lately. Sure you admire the prudence and caution of the hero." with three parrots, and at his feet are a sword, halbert, helmet and mace; while the figure on the left has a shield with a white lion rampant, on a green field, and at his right foot a lion's head and battle-axe; and on the left a gauntlet. Immediately beneath the arch of the niche, the following inscription is cut on a tablet of black marble: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF THE REIGHT OF HIS MATTE. MOST HOBle. privie cOVNSELL, OF LANNVARY, MDCXI. Above the knights in armour, are two female figures; the one represents Justice, and the other Wisdom in the person of Minerva with her owl. Betwixt these figures, and immediately above the cupola, Fame, in the form of a cherub, sounds her trumpet; while, on the opposite side, Peace, with her olive wand, sheds a laurel wreath on his lordship. Above the last figures, in the centre of the pediment, the arms of Home are quartered; viz. a lion rampant on a green field in the first and fourth quarters, (Home ;) in the second quarter three parrots, (as representative of the family of Pepdie of Dunglas ;) and, in the third quarter three green escutcheons, in a silver field, (as representative of Hay of Broxmouth.) The shield is adorned with a helmet, and is supported by two lions seiant, with a tree at their backs; and for crest a horse's head and neck. Immediately beneath the monument is the vault, where the body is deposited in a leaden coffin. CHAPTER IT. The Ministers of Dunbar.-The Schools, &c. COLUMBA DUNBAR, a descendant of the earls of Moray, was dean of the church of Dunbar in 1411. He is designated, Decanus ecclesiæ collegiatæ de Dunbar, penultimo Februarii 1411, when he was promoted to the see of Moray. He was bishop of that place in 1429; and in 1433, a safe-conduct was granted him by the king of England, to pass through his dominions on his way to Rome, with thirty servants in his retinue; and again, on the 10th May, 1434, he was permitted to return when on his way to attend the council of Basil. Columba died, in his castle of Spynie, in 1435, and was buried in the isle of St Thomas the Martyr (Becket).* JOHN MANDERSTON was canon of the college church of Dunbar in 1567, and was one of those appointed by the archbishop of St Andrew's, to attend the court on a divorce sued for by Lady Jean Gordon against the earl of Bothwell, whilst Queen Mary was detained at Dunbar. In 1566, the queen presented GEORGE HOME, son to George Home, the laird of Broxmouth, to be parson of Pinkerton. In 1569, he was translated to be Spotswood's MS.-Keith's Catalogue. rector of Dunbar, which he afterwards resigned in favour of JASPER HOME of Lawfield. ANDREW SIMPSON appears to have been the first minister of Dunbar after the Reformation. He was originally master of the school of Perth, where he taught Latin with much success. He had sometimes under his charge 300 boys, many of them sons of the principal nobility. He left Perth at the Reformation in 1560, and became minister of Dunning and Cargill, from which he was translated, in 1564, to Dunbar, where he sustained the double office of master of the grammar-school and minister of the parish, which was not an uncommon circumstance at that period. He was the author of Latin Rudiments, which were taught in the schools till the time of Ruddiman, and were much esteemed by that excellent scholar. It does not appear that this venerable person understood the Greek language; but he was careful that his son Patrick should not labour under the same defect, He was sent to the University of Cambridge, where he made great proficiency, and after his return to Scotland, taught Greek at Spot, near Dunbar. The conversion of Mr Simpson to the reformed faith, is as * Andrew Simspon had five sons, who, like their father, distinguished themselves in asserting the rights of the presbyterian church against the lordly encroachments of prelacy. In 1564, when there was an express charge given by the king to the clergy, either to ac› knowledge Adamson as archbishop of St Andrews, or loss their benefices, Patrick Simpson, opposed the order with all his power, although the archbishop was his uncle by the mother's side. He was one of the forty-two ministers who signed a protest against the proceedings of the parliament at Perth, and with his own hands delivered it to the earl of Dunbar.-See Biographia Scoticana. cribed to the influence of Sir David Lindsay's poems, in alienating the pupils and their master from po pery.* In 1570, Mr Simpson was called to attend the Rev. John Kello, minister of Spot, in his sickness, who was shortly after convicted, and executed for the unnatural murder of his wife. This unhappy person having related a remarkable dream he had had to Mr Simpson, the latter had no hesitation in applying to him the language of Nathan unto David,— Thou art the man! This struck so deep into the culprit's heart, that he made instant confession; and, when on the scaffold, he ascribed the disclosure of this horrible deed, to the soul-piercing discernment of this pious priest, in these memorable words: "Ther was not small support in the mouth of some faythfull brethren, to bring me to this confessione of my awin offence. Bot, above all, Mr Andro Symsone, minister of Dumbar, did so lyvlie rype foorth the inward cogitationes of my hert, and discover my -mynd so planelie, that I persuaded myself God spak in him; and besydis vtheris notable coniecturies which he trulie dedvced befoir my eyes, he remembrit me of ane dreame, which in my grit seikness did appearandlie present the self........ at this tyme did God move my hart to acknowledge the horror of my awin offence, and how far Sathan had obteinit victorie ower me."+ M'Crie's Life of Knox. + Bannatyne's Trans. Scot.-Mr John Kello was libelled in the indictment, as "committeer of the murthour of vmqle Margret |