230 THE CHTJRCH OF HUME 



In the " killing times " of 1 682, a Covenanter of Hume was 

 found, one Alexander Hume by name, whose last speech and 

 dying testimony may be read in Wodrow.*^ He was hanged 

 in the Grassmarket of Edinburgh, on the 29th December, with 

 the words of the Psalm XVII. and 15th verse on his lips: — 



" But as for me, I thine own face 



In righteousness will see : 

 And with thy likeness, when I wake, 



I satisfy'd shall be." 



He left a widow and five children. His example seems to 

 have fired one of his servants,** for George Dickson, who was 

 servitor to the widow of Alexander Hume, was denounced on 5th 

 May 1684, as a fugitive for bearing arms against the Govern- 

 ment. With the Revolution in 1688 came the turn of the 

 persecuted Covenanters. So in that year the Parliament 

 rescinded various fines and forfeitures, and amongst them 

 may be read the name of Alexander Home of Home. *^ 



« Wodrow's Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, Vol. ii., p. 267. 

 44 Do. App. 104. 



4» Do, App. p. 222, 



