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 in the water of Ayr and Clyde, than over the Highland men did. I lay in that chamber about three years ago. and the said John Richman and his wife told me that those were his words. At other times, to the same purpose, he said, O the Monzies, the Monzies, will be through the breadth and length of the South and West of Scotland! O I think I see them at our fire-sides, slaying man, wife and children! The remnant will get a brushing, but they will be driven to the wilderness again, and then sharpest hours will be last.

To the same purpose spoke the two following ministers, viz. Mr. Thomas Lundie, a godly minister in the North of Ratray. His sister, a Lady in that country, who died in the year 1683, gave the following account: That the said Mr. Lundie, after some sickness and seeming recovery again, which comforted them, one morning staying longer than ordinary in his chamber, the foresaid Lady knocked at the door; on opening it, she found him very uneasy. She asked him the reason, seeing he was now better? Whereupon, smiling, he said, Within a few hours I will be taken from you; but alas! for the day that I see coming upon Scotland! The Lord has let me see the Frenchies marching with their armies thro’ the breadth and length of the land, marching to their bridle-reins in the blood of all ranks, and that for a broken, burnt and buried covenant! But neither ye nor I will live to see it. As also, one Mr. Douglas, a godly minister in Galloway, a little before his death, seeming as slumbering in his bed, his wife and other friends Standing by, when he awakened, he seemed very much weighted, and groaned heavily, saying, Sad days for Scotland! His wife asked him, What will be the instruments? He said, The swords of foreign enemies; they will be heavy and sharp, but not long, but they will not be yet, but not long to them. But O the glorious days on the back of them, to Scotland!