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 After his return from Holland, where he received to the exercise of the ministry be went to  of those outed ministers inviting and pressing them, to come out and preach in the fields, as they had  before the overthrow at Bothwell; but the  being then very hot against all such as had not  the indulgence and indemnity, they refused to  upon that hazard; Wherefore notwithstanding such  discouragements from the possessed friends, and  persecution by the declared enemies of the  he adventured upon all hazard to preach publicly in  fields, in order to discharge the dispensation of the gospel, which the Lord hath entrusted him with; And continued so doing till he sealed that cause and testiment with his blood: being, after some valiant resistance  his own defence, killed by a party of soldiers, under  command of Earl Hall, and his head and hands cut  by one Robert Murray, were brought and laid  the council, who ordered them to be placed upon  Netherbow port of Edinburgh.