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10 brother the Duke of York being a ſworn vaſſal of Antichriſt, and longing to be at the throne, that he might be more active in all miſchief, made them all conſpire to give him a doſe, and ſend him off. The aforeſaid friends at London ſaid to me, That it was commonly reported, that when he found the poiſon working upon him, he ſat up in his bed, having one of his many whores in bed with him, as was his ordinary, and took a ſnuff; and it being poiſoned alſo, he fell a roaring, and ſaid, “O madman that I have been, that have murdered my beſt ſubjects and baniſhed my ſon the Duke of Monmouth, and committed myſelf to the hand of murderers!"

6thly, After that excommunication in the Torwood, the full account whereof is to be found in the Hind let Looſe, written by famous Mr. Shields: After this, there was a price of 6000 merks ſet upon his head, for any to catch him quick or dead. The violent avowed enemies were ſtill in ſearch for him before this, but more after, who, to gain the prize, had curſt Doeg-like intelligencers every where lying-in-wait to betray him into their hands; notwithſtanding, he was remarkably preſerved, and many times narrowly eſcaped their hands, until his work was done and his hour come; and then ſuddenly and ſurpriſingly was catched, as afterwards I ſhall make plain.

Beſides the narrow eſcapes mentioned in the relation given of him in the Cloud of Witneſſes, there were other four as follows, 1. His horſe was ſhot beneath him at Linlithgow bridge, and he very narrowly eſcaped their bloody hands. 2. At Loudon-hill, which is before me to give an account of. 3. At the Queensferry, June 3d 1680 ; when he, with Henry Hall of Haughhead, that worthy Chriſtian Gentleman, were upon their way from Borrowſtounneſs to the Queensferry, theſe two ſons of Belial, the curates of Borrowſtounneſs and Carriden, walking upon the ſea-ſide, knew Mr. Cargill, and went in haſte to