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 foresaid James Kay and Robert Punton, a known public man worthy of all credit who was also under the same sentence, who lievd in the parish of Dalmony near Queensferry.

9 When they arrived at London, the skipper, who received hem at Leith, was to carry them no further; the skipper who was to receive them there and carry them to Virginia, came to see them, they being represented to him as thieves, robbers an evil-doers; but when he found they were all grave Christian men, banished for Presbyterian principles he said he would sail the sea with none such. nIn [sic] this confusion, that the one skipper would not receive them and the other would keep them no longer, being expensive to maintain then they were all set at liberty. Others reported that both skippers got compliments from friends at London; however, it is certain they were safely set free, without any imposi ionimposition [sic] of bonds or oaths; and friends at London and in their way homewards through England, shewed much kindness unto them.

10. That dismal day, June 22d 1679 at Bothwel-bridge, that the Lord's people fell, and fled before the enemy he was forty miles distant, near the border, and kept himself retired until the middle of the day, that some friends said to him, 'Sir, the people are waiting for sermon." He said. "Let the people go to their prayers: for me I neither can nor will preach any this day. for our friends are fallen, before the enemy at Hamilton; and they are hanging and hashing them down and their blood is running like water."

11. After this, he was preaching in Galloway in the forenoon, he prayed earnestly for the prisoners taken at and about Bothwel; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them, he halted and said, "Our friends at Edinburgh, the