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41 who were witnesses to both the threatnings of the man of God, when he tied him hard, and to the accomplishment thereof. Bonshaw's last words were, "God damn his soul eternally, for he was gone." Mischief shall hunt the violent man till he be ruined. What makes good the old Scots saying, "Such life, such end."

Whose desires to he further informed of the life and death of blest Mr. Cargill, may peruse the relations that are given of him by Mr. Shiels in the Hind Let Loose, and in the Cloud of Witnesses. His last testimony, and what he spake upon the scaffold, his narrowy sententious letter to several prisoners when under sentence of death, his letter to the Gibbites in the correction-house, and his letter to his parish, yet in the hands of some are to be found in the Cloud of Witnesses.

When that blest singular Christian, zealous and faithful minister and martyr, Mr. Cargill, was first apprehended and brought before the Council they were fierce and furious against him especially Chancellor Rothes; but those that were in Council, and heard what Mr. Cargill said to him, and saw and heard what Rothes said when he was flying, roaring under horror of conscience and his bed shaking, put a fright upon their spirits, and drew tears from their eyes; which verified what he said at the Fala-hill on the Sabbath after the Excommunication, as before related, and made them to propose in Council, That as he was old, and had done all the ill that he would do, to let him go to the Bass, and be prisoner there during life. It was put to the vote, and Argyle said, "Let him go to the gallows, and die like a traitor."—Which cast the vote upon him to die.

The Parliament sat down the day following, July 28th, 1681. which framed the cursed Pest, with seven contradictory oaths in which Argyle took with explication. This did not satisfy the Duke of York and others, looking upon him with an ill eye, because of his father being active in our reformation. He was immediately clapt up prisoner in the Castle, out of which he escaped the 30th D 3