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( 48 ) waggons to Torbay, the ſea being full, we ſent two on foot to Torbay to meet the lords, if they ſhould come thither before we came at them, to deſire them not to go aboard, till we ſhould come to them. For we were afraid that after theſe letters, (altho’ the wind was contrary) both the king and lords, and the malignants, who ſhould have ſtaid behind, ſhould make haſte to go aboard before any more treaty. We ourſelves behoved to go about by the Hague, and rode all night, and coming to Unslidyke about break of day, or a little after, found that the king and all were gone. We followed ſo faſt as we could to Torbay, but all were gone aboard; the two that we had ſent met the lords, and ſpoke as we had deſired them; but they ſaid Lothian would needs go aboard with the king, and drew Caſſils along with him. When we were ſtanding amaſed on the ſhore, one Mr. Webſter of Amſterdam comes to go aboard, and warn the king, that the parliament of England had twenty two ſhips at ſea to wait for him. He going aboard in a boat, Libbertoun without more ado, runs to the boat to go aboard to the reſt, and after him Sir John Smith upon his call, in the ſame boat. Brody, Mr. Jaffray, and we three miniſters ſtaid. Some of us may ſay, we never ſaw a heavier day than that Sabbath was. After prayer together and apart, when we were conſulting what to do, Mr. James Wood’s opinion was to go aboard; ſaying that it was a pity that the king and my lord Caſſils ſhould be there and none to preach to them. Brody, and Alexander Jaffray ſaid, it were to have been wiſhed that they had ſtaid aſhore, but now as matters ſtood, it was beſt to go aboard and diſcharge their truth, in the laſt inſtructions from the parliament; Mr. George Hutchiſon inclined to the ſame. For my part I told, I had no light, nor inclination to go aboard: I thought both in regard of the profane malignant company, and in regard how matters ſtood in the treaty, we were taking along the plague of God to Scotland, and I ſhould not deſire to go along, but would go back to Rotterdam, and come with the firſt conveniency. Here at Mr. Hutchiſon ſaid he would go back with me, and not let it be ſaid, that I was left alone in a ſtrange country. I