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Rh Middleton governor of Blackneſs, and informed him. He ordered his ſoldiers to come after him; he followed hard to the Ferry and got notice where they lighted, came in, and pretended great kindneſs, preſſing them to take a glaſs of wine, until his men came up; then drew his ſword, ſaying, they were his priſoners. Haughhead drew his ſword to defend themſelves. The women in the town gathered; one of them gript langhhead to ſave him. One Thomas George, a waiter there, behind his back, ſtruck him on the lead with the dog head of his carabin, and broke his ſkull. The women carried him off, and ſome of them ſupported him to Echlen, near half a mile, to the houſe of Robert Phunton, my brother-in-law, who was baniſhed with Mr. Peder. The houſe of Binns being near Thomas Dalziel's dwelling-place, that bloody tyrant, who was general to the forces twenty years) and he having got notice, came in great haſte and fury, threatening great ruin to that family for taking in the rebel; and carried him back to the Ferry, and kept him all night. There is an old Chriſtian woman (yet alive) who waited upon him all night, which was a weary night, he not being able to ſpeak to her, paſſing all his brains at his noſtrils, and died to-morrow by the way going to Edinburgh. None can give an account how they diſpoſed of his corpſe.

Mr. Cargill in that confuſion eſcaped being forely wounded, and crept into ſome ſecret place in the ſouth ſide of the town. A very ordinary woman found him lying bleeding, took her head-clothes and tied up the wounds in his head, and conducted him to James Phunton's in Carlowrie; he being a ſtranger, and knew not who were friends or foes; for which he ſaid, he was many times obliged to pray for that woman. Some ſay, after that there was a change upon her to the better. He lay in that barn till night, and then was conducted to ſome friend's houſe. Mrs. Phunton gave him ſome warm milk;