Judgement of God

m JOHN CAMERON, sometime Bishop of Glasgow, was a most wicked wretch; he not only committed many acts of avarice and cruelty upon the poor people of his diocese, but also encouraged those in place and power to do the like: so that he became the author of almost all the mischief in that part of the country. But in this he did not long escape the just judgement of God ; for, in the night before (what they call) Christmas-day 1446, as he lay in his own house in Lockwood, about seven miles from Glasgow, he seemed to hear an audible voice summoning him to appear before Christ's tribunal, to give an account of his doings. He got up frighted, and called for his .servant, to bring a light, and sit by him : he himself took a book, and began to read; but the voice was heard a second time, louder, which struck all his servants with horror. His servant being gone, the voice called a third time, more terrible than before; at which the Bishop was heard give a groan, and so was found dead in his bed, with his tongue hanging out of his mouth; and so came to an end deserving of such a life.—Buchanan andSpotttpwood's Histories.