her ill health : yet ftill preferves a likenefs to that portrait. I Wli
told here that lhe fent this pidture, together with a ring, a wH
before her execution, to the reprefentative of the Hamilton family,
as an acknowlegement of gratitude for their fufferings in her
caufe.
Earl Morton, Regent of Scotland: a nobleman of vail but abufed
abilities; rapacious, licentious, unprincipled; reftrained by no
confideration from gaining his point; intrepid till the laft hour of
his.being, when he fell on the fcaffold with thofe penitential
horrors * that the enormous wickednefs o f his pail life did naturally
infpire.
The rough reformer, "John Knox; a fevere reprover of the former,
The Earl, at the funeral o f Knox, in a few words delivered this honorable
teilimony of his ipirit: “ There lies he who never feared die
“ face o f man.”
Alexander Henderfon: a vain, infolent and bufy miniiler during the
troubles o f Charles I. who was deputed by his brethren to perfuale
his Majeily to extirpate epifcopacy out of Scotland : but the King,
an equal bigot, and better cafuiit, filenced his arguments ; and Het-
derfon, chagrined with his ill fuccefs, retired, and died of a broket
heart.
A head o f Hobbs (as a contrail to the two former) with ihort thin
grey hair.
Lord Belhaven, author of the famous fpeech againil the union.
Philip II. a full length, with a itrange figure of Fame bowing>!■
his feet, with a label, and this motto, Pro merente adfto.
• Spotfrmtii 314« Lives of the DouglaJ/it, 356.
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I Two half-lengths, in black, one with a fiddle in his hand, the
Ither in a grotefque attitude, both with the fame countenances,
lood but fwarthy; miilakenly called David Rizzo’s, but I could not
l e a rn ' th a t there was any portrait of that unfortunate man.
I i r r e f i f t ible beauty brings up the rear, in form of Mifs Mary
m0tt a full length, in white fattin ; a moil elegant figure: and
thus concludes the lift with what is more powerful than all that has
■ reced ed ; than the arms o f the warrior, the art o f the politician
the admonitions o f the churchman, or the wifdom of the
philofopher.
■ About a mile from the houfe, on an eminence, above a deep
« ooded glen, with the Avon at the bottom, is Chatelherault, fo called
from the eftate the family once pofiefied in France: is an elegant
banqueting-houfe, with a dog-kennel, gardens, & c. and commands
a fine view. The park is now much inclofed; but I am told there
are ftill in it a few of the wild cattle o f the fame kind with thofe I
faw atdDrwmlanrig.
I Continue my journey : crofs the Clyde at Bothwell bridge, noted Bo thwe l l
BRIDGE for the defeat of a fmall army o f enthufiafls, in 1679, near the-
place, by the Duke of Monmouth, who diftinguifhed himfelf that
day more by his. humanity, than his condudt; but it is probable
he difliked a fervice againil men to whofe religious principles he
had no averfion : he might likewife aim at future popularity in the-
country.
I Bothwell church was collegiate, founded by Archibald the grim, C h u r c h ,
■arlof Douglas, in 1398, for a provoil and eight prebendaries. The
soutfide is faid to be incrufled with a thin coat of ftone, but I confefs
it efcaped my notice. In it are interred the founder and his lady,
daughter