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 who urged the lawfulness of taking the bond to save their lives; and the refusal of it would be a reflection to religion, and the cause they appeared for; and throwing away their lives, for which their friends would not be able to vindieatevindicate [sic] them He prevailed with thirteen of them, whiehwhich [sic] soured in the stomachs of some of those thirteen, and lay heavy upon them both in their life and death The prisoners taken at and about Bothwel, were reckoned about fifteen hundered.

The faithful Mr John Blackader did write to these prisoners, dissuading them from that foul compliance: and some worthy persons of these prisoners, whom he wrote to said to me with tears, that they slighted his advice and swallowed the unhappy advices of these ministers who were making peace with the enemies of God, and follow their foul steps for which they would go mourning to their graves. I heard the same Mr Blackader preach his last public sermon, before his falling into the enemies hands, in the night time in the fields, in the parish of Livingston upon the side of the Muir at New-house, on the 23d of March, after Bothwel, where he lectured upon Micah iv. from the 9th verse where he asserted, that the nearer the delivery, our pains and showers would come the thiekerthicker [sic] and sorer upon us: and that we had been long in the fields, but ere we were delivered we would go down to Babylon. That either Popery would overspread this land, or be at the breaking in upon us, like an inundation of water. And preached upon that text, Let no man be moved with these afflictions for ye yourselves know, that ye are appointed thereunto. Where he insisted on what moving and shaking dispensations the Lord had exercised his people with in former ages, especially that man of God, that went to