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( 52) did the commiſſioners of the State make any application to the king, by a ſubſcribed paper about, that article of their inſtructions, till two days after he was landed in Scotland at the Bogue of Geigh, at which time they were all in the country; and at this time did Caſſils to my obſervation, give ſome evidence of declining; for from the very time that theſe laſt inſtructions came, he did always declare himſelf diſatisfied, that the parliament ſhould have controuled any thing of their proceedings in the treaty, till they had been preſent to anſwer for themſelves. After we had landed I drew behind, and left the king and the court, and never did ſee him again but one blink in Dundee as I was coming homeward. After we were come to Edinburgh the general aſſembly being ſitting, and Mr. Hutchiſon and I being deſired to make relation to the aſſembly, of the proceedings of the treaty, we firſt committed what we had drawn up to ſome miniſters in private, and told them of the king’s kneeling at the communion, and of the paper which we had given him thereabout, and ſome of thoſe things above mention’d; but they deſired us to forbear the mentioning of that paper in the aſſembly, or any thing that might tend to make the king or his way odious, in the entry of his government; and we at their deſire did forbear.

The while I was in Holland, my wife riding by the miln of Nether Ancrum, through the unſkilfulneſs of the ſervant that rode before her, fell in the miln-dam, and was carried down the troughs, till with her body ſhe ſtopped the outer wheel then faſt going. Providence ſo ordered, that the wheel wanting one of the awes, and juſt over-againſt that part of the wheel which wanted thſt piece of timber, her body was drawn down and ſo ſtopped the going of the miln, and continued in that caſe, the water ſtill falling about her, till a gentleman who ſaw her, and was about half a quarter of a mile diſtant, came running, and cauſed the people to go within the miln, and turn the outer wheel back, and ſo got her out and carried her home. She was all bruiſed, and on the third day a ſore fever ſeized her, yet it pleaſed the Lord that ſhe recovered, and wrote to me to Holland, that ſhe thought ſhe was therein an emblem of what our treaty