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 James, John Muirhead, and others of our Scot sufferers, who were present gave me these accounts

29. Shortly after they landed from Ireland in Galloway the enemy got notice, they being then in garrisons, foot and horse, and it being killing-time the alarm came to them in a morning that f otfoot [sic] and horse, were coming upon them the foresaid John Muirhead being struck with a voilentviolent [sic] pain in his forehead, they started up to run for it: He said, "Pray, stay, lads let us pray for old John ere we go." He stood up and said "Lord we hear tell that thy enemies and ours are coming upon us, and thou hast laid thy affliction on old John: have pity on him Lord, for his enemies will have none, his blood will run where he lies! spare him at this time, we know not if he be ready to die. And, as John told me with tears in his eyes, the pain in his head, and the indisposition his body quite left him, and he started up and ran with the rest. The enemies seeing them pursued them hard, sometimes the horses, and sometimes the foot being near them: mossy boggish ground did cast about the horses. After they had run some considerable way, they got some little height between the enemy and them; he stood still and said, "Let us pray here; for if the Lord hear not our prayers, and save us, we are dead men, and our blood will run like water: If we die, let the enemy kill us, let our blood fill up their cup, that the day  vengeance that is coming on them may be hastened." Then he began and said, "Lord, it thy enemies days, hour, and power; they may not be idle, but hast thou no other work for them but to send them alter us? Send them after them to whom thou wilt give strength to flee, for our strength is gone; twine then about