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 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 let us have a swift passage over to the bloody land, come of us what will. John Muirhead, Robert Wark, and others, who were present, told me, that when he began to pray, the sails were all hanging straight down, but, before he ended, they were all like blown bladders; then they put out the waiters and other people, and got 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 greater than the deed it being then in the heat of killing time, in the end of February, 1385. When at exercise in the Bark, be said, Lord thou knowest that there lads are hot-spirited, lay an arrest upon them, that they may not appear; their time is not yet; tho’ Monmouth and Argyle becoming, they will work no deliveranceAt 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; sitting upon a braeside; where he had fearful threatnings against Scotland, saying, the time was coming, that they might travel many miles to Galloway and Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale and not see a reeking house, nor hear a cock craw. And further said, that his soul trembled to think what would become of the indulged, back-slidden and upsitten ministers of Scotland; for none of them should ever be honoured to put a right pin in the Lord’s tabernacle nor assert Christ’s kingly prerogative, as king and head of his church. To the same purpose said the worthy and never-to-be-forgotten Mr Donald Cargill, within eight hours of his martyrdom, that he feared, tho’ there were not another