Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

their functions in public.[6] The latter measures in
particular alarmed the hierarchy.
It began to be apparent that destruction
impended ever the hierarchy unless speedy,
measures were taken to avert it. But the priests
unhappily knew of only one weapon, and though
their cause had reaped small advantage from it in
the past, they were still determined to make use of
it.
They once more lighted the flames of
martyrdom. Walter Mill, parish priest of Lunan,
near Montrose, had been adjudged a heretic in the
time of Cardinal Beaten, but effecting his escape,
he preached in various parts of the country,
sometimes in private and sometimes in public. He
was tracked by the spies of Beaton's successor,
Archbishop Hamilton, and brought to trial in St.
Andrews. He appeared before the court with
tottering step and bending figure, so that all who
saw him despaired of his being able to answer the
questions about to be put to him. But when, on
being helped up into the pulpit, he began to speak,
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