Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

Andrews, a young man of quick parts and candid
mind, but enthralled by the scholasticism of the
age, and all on the side of Rome. His name was
Alane, or Alesius -- a native of Edinburgh. This
young canon burned to cross swords with the
heretic whose presence had caused no little stir in
the university and monasteries of the ancient city
of St. Andrew. He obtained his wish, for Hamilton
was ready to receive all, whether they came to
inquire or to dispute. The Sword of the Spirit, at
almost the first stroke, pierced the scholastic armor
in which Alesius had encased himself, and he
dropped his sword to the man whom he had been
so confident of vanquishing.
There came yet another, also eager to do battle
for the Church -- Alexander Campbell, Prior of the
Dominicans -- a man of excellent learning and
good disposition. The archbishop, feeling the risks
of bringing such a man as Hamilton to the stake,
ordered Prior Campbell to wait on him, and spare
no means of bringing back the noble heretic to the
faith of the Church. The matter promised at first to
have just the opposite ending.
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