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 he was in that wood all day, and at night he came to the ſaid Mr. Vernor's houſe, where ſeveral of our Scots ſufferers were; he ſaid, "Why are ye ſo diſcouraged? I know ye have got ill news of the dreadful murder of our friends in Scotland; but I will tell you good news, that unhappy, treacherous, lecherous man, who has made the Lord's people in Scotland tremble theſe years bygone, has got his laſt glut in a lordly diſh from his brother and he is lying with his tongue cold in his mouth." The news of this came not to Ireland for 24 hours thereafter. The foreſaid John Muirhead and John Waddel, and others of our Scots ſufferers, who had heard him preach the Sabbath day before concluded this was the ſhot beneath the right wing that he ſpoke of, Charles II. dying the Friday's night before.

23 After this he longed to be out of Ireland, what through the fearful apprehenſions of that diſmal day of rebellion in Ireland that came upon it four years thereafter, and that he might take part with the ſufferers of Scotland. He came near the coaſt one morning; John Muirhead came to him lying within a hedge: he ſaid, "Have ye any news, John?" John ſaid, "There is great fear of the Iriſh ariſing" He ſaid, No no, John: The time of their ariſing was not yet; but they will riſe and dreadful will it be at laſt. He was long detained waiting for a lark, not daring to go to public ports, but to ſome remote creek of the ſea-Alexander Gordon of Kinſtuir, in Galloway, had agreed with one, but Mr. Peden would not ſail the ſea with him, having ſome foreſight of what he did prove afterwards. In the beginning of Auguſt, before this Kinſtuir was relieved at Enterken path, going from Dumfries to Edinburgh, priſoner, when the news of iit [sic] cam to Ireland, our Scots ſufferers their a quaintanceacquaintance [sic] were glad of the news eſpecially that Kinſtuir had eſcaped. He ſaid, "What mean all this Kinſtuiring? There is ſome of them relieved there, that one of them is worth many of him; for all will be aſhamed of him ere all be done." Being