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 it might be with them. After that he and twenty-six of our Scots sufferers came aboard, he stood upon the deck and prayed, there being not the least wind where he made a rehearsal of times and places, when and where the Lord had heard and answered them in the day of their distress and now they were in a great strait. Waving his hand to the west, from whence he desired the wind, and said, "Lord give us a loof-full of wind: Fill the sails, Lord and give us a fresh gale, and give us a swift passage over to the bloody land, come of us what will."John Muirhead, Robert Nark and others who were present, told me, that when he began to pray, the sails were all hanging straight down; bu ere he ended they were all like blown bladders; they put out the waiters and other people, and had a very swift and safe passage. The twenty-six Scots sufferers that were with him, having provided themselves with arms and being designed to return to Scotland, there being then such a noise of killing, and indeed the din was no more than the deed, it being then in the heat of killing time, in the end of February, 1685 When at exercise in the Bark, he said, "Lord thou knowest these lads are hot spirited, lay an arrest upon them that they may not appear; their time is not yet; though Monmouth and Argyle be coming they will work no deliverance" At that time there was no report of their coming, for they came not for ten weeks thereafter. In the morning after they landed, he lectured before they parted siting on a brae side where he had fearful threatnings against Scotland, saying, the time was coming, when they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale, and not see a reeking house, nor hear a cock crow. And further said, and his soul trembled to think, what