Rochelle. Take my best horse with you, and ride your way with my blessing." Having taken farewell of his friend, Davidson, on the 17th of April, proceeded to Kinyeancleuch, where he arrived on the same day, and communicated the tidings with which he was intrusted. Mrs. Campbell would gladly have done everything in her power to assist him on his way to England, but he was dissuaded by some of his friends from fleeing in the meantime, lest his brethren should be discouraged. On the following day she hurried off on horseback for Rusco, and "She raid that wilsome wearie way, Neir fourtie myles on Law Sunday;" the journey being rendered still more arduous from the badness of the roads. After her arrival she did all that the assiduous and affectionate ministry of woman could do to mitigate Mr. Campbell's sufferings; and though death was to all appearance near, it was comforting to her to hear him expressing his confidence of victory, and his desire to depart and to be with Christ. She had been with him only three days when death terminated his earthly course. He died in the prime of life, not having completed the forty-third year of his age; and his corpse being brought from Galloway by an honourable attendance, it was interred in the church-yard of Mauchline, on the 24th of April.1 Mrs. Campbell did not survive him two months. A few weeks after his death she went to Ayr, to reside for some time with his much esteemed and pious relative, James Bannatyne, "Thinking to live most quietly, 1 Davidson's Poem. But her appointed time on earth was also now nearly completed. She had not been long under her friend's roof when she was taken ill of a fever, and she obtained the desire which she had heartily expressed-to follow her husband if it was the will of God-having died, after a short illness, about the middle of June, also in the prime of life, being only about forty years of age. She was buried in the church-yard of Mauchline, close by Mr. Campbell. Having recorded the death and burial of both of them, Davidson, in summing up their character, says "Lang may ye seek to finde sic tway, As God there nowe hes tane away." And after expressing his doubts whether a man and woman of “such rare and heavenly qualities" were left behind in Scotland, he adds that their "away-taking" "Should make vs clearlie vnderstand, That God's just judgements are at hand, Of this maist stubborne nation : Who to God's will dois not attend, For no punition he dois send: For we may easilie considder, And that almost bot in their flowers,- Mrs. Campbell had by her husband a son and a daughter, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. Nathaniel having died young and without issue, before his parents' death, Elizabeth inherited her father's She was married about the year 1574, to Robert Camp1 This is evident from the Commissary Records of Edinburgh, MS. in her majesty's estate.1 bell, her cousin-german, the son of Hugh, the younger brother of ber father, who had obtained the lands of Mongarswood, in Kyle, 1 considerable and pleasant property, situated about half-way between Mauchline and Sorn, by marriage with a daughter of Mungo Campbell, of Brownside, and who thus became the founder of the family of Mongarswood. Upon marrying her he renounced his right to his paternal estate, carrying on the line of the Kinyeandeuch family; and Mongarswood fell into the hands of his next younger brother, who carried on the line of the Mongarswood family Davidson, on publishing his poem commemorative of her parents' worth, from which we have so largely quoted, dedicated it to this lady, who appears to have inherited her parents' spirit. In the dedication he says:-"Finding this little treatise (sister, dearly beloved in Christ) of late years amongst my other papers, which I made about twenty years and one ago, immediately after the death of your godly parents of good memory, with whom I was most dearly aquainted in Christ, by reason of the trouble I suffered in those ays for the good cause, wherein God made them chief comforters unto me, till death separated us. As I viewed it over, and read it before some godly persons of late, they were most instant with me, that I would suffer it to come to light to the stirring up of the zal of God's people amongst us, which now beginneth almost to be quenched in all estates, none excepted. To their request at length I yielded, although long unwilling, in respect of the baseness of the form of writing, which yet, at the time of the aking thereof, I thought most familiar, according to the old manher of our country, to move our people to follow the example of these godly persons according to their calling and estate. And so g yet put in good hope that it would profit, I was contented it .. eral Register House, from which we learn that "the testament dative and invenif the goods, gear, and sums of money, and debts pertaining to" her father, were adfully made and given up" by her, “their daughter and executrix,” as the "de. of the Commissary of Edinburgh, of the date the 25th April, the year 1585, at tch purports." bertson's Ayrshire Families, vol. iii., Supplement, pp. 79, 80. of Gregory Nazianzen, writing of Basil the Great after his death did not a little encourage me, it being by God's providence in my hands when I was about to write this, the sense whereof followeth : 'It is a thing of most dutiful affection to commend the memory of holy persons that are departed, especially of such as have been of most excellent virtues, whether it be by friends or strangers.' I have directed it unto you, dear sister, by name, that ye may make your profit of it in particular, for confirming you by the worthy example of your parents, in these evil and declining days, in that godly course of Christianity, wherein it hath pleased God to make you succeed unto them, no less than to the worldly heritage, proceeding rightly from them to you, after the death of their only son Nathaniel, your brother. From Edinburgh, the 24th of May, 1595. Your assured friend in Christ, "J. D." This lady lived to an advanced age, having died in 1627, as may be inferred from her son, John Campbell's being returned her heir in the lands of Kinyeancleuch, on the 20th of October that year. The lands remained in the family till towards the close of the 18th century, when they were sold to Claud Alexander, Esq., of Ballochmyle. 1 Inquisitionum Retornatarum Abbreviatio, vol. i., Ayr, No. 249. 1 ૬ ELIZABETH KNOX, WIFE OF JOHN WELSH. LIZABETH KNOX was the youngest daughter of the celebrated John Knox, by his second wife, Margaret Stewart, youngest daughter of Andrew Stewart, Lord Ochiltree, a nobleman who, under all circum stances, had proved Knox's faithful and constant friend. The marriage between Knox and this lady was contracted in March, 1564. Popish writers, unable to dissemble their malice and envy, that the man who had overthrown the Papacy in Scotland had succeeded in forming a matrimonial alliance with one of the noble houses of his country, and a house, too, allied to the royal family, represent him as actuated by the ambition of raising his family to the Scottish throne; and they attribute his success in gaining the affections of the young lady to sorcery, and the assistance of no less a personage than the devil. "To the end that his seed, being of the blood-royal, and guided by their father's spirit, might have aspired to the crown, . . . he did pursue to have alliance with the honourable house of Ochiltree of the king's majesty's own blood. Riding there with a great court, on a trim gelding, not like a prophet or an old decrepit priest, as he was, but like as he had been one of the blood-royal, with his bands of taffeta fastened with gold rings and precious stones: And as is plainly reported in the |