the rest of the ruffians by this time having furrounded the carriage, tore the Archbishop from it, then, dragging him to a small diftance, they poured their fhot into him, and pierced him with many wounds, leaving him to expire in the arms of his distracted daughter. He was conveyed to his own palace, and buried with all pomp due to his exalted station*. His merciless affaffins skulked about the country, the chief of whom was afterwards taken in battle, and, being tried as a traitor and murderer, fuffered the death due to his crimes; for, notwithstanding his exprefsly denying the authority of the King, the court, the judges, and the jury, he was tried, found guilty, condemned, and executed on the fame day; and his quarters were fent to the chief towns as monuments of divine vengeance t. On the death of Sharp, Epifcopacy declined apace, and Arthur Rofs, who died on the 13th of January 1704, was the laft dignitary of the ancient fee of St. Andrews t. See the order of his Grace's funeral, in the Appendix to Arnot's Hiftory of Edinburgh, p. 608. The monument of Archbishop Sharp, in the church of St. Nicholas, is of white marble, executed in a poor ftyle, it is confeffed, yet for the time at which it was erected not altogether devoid of merit. The church was lately rebuilt, at an expence of about three thousand pounds fterling, befides one thousand thrown away in a law-fuit between the town of St. Andrews and the proprietors of the parish of St. Nicholas. + See Swift's Crichton's Mem. ; Woodrow's Hift. vol ii. p. 142. and Hind let Loose, P. 197. The Revolution of 1688 deprived him and the reft of the Scotifh Bishops of their revenues. See Keith, p. 27. Printed by A. Strahan, END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. |