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12 and a chirurgeon came providentially to the houſe, who dreſſed his wounds.

General Dalziel came and called for James Phunton, and took him away to Kirkliſtoun: when ſet down, the curator there, (another of the Serpent's brood who inform'd him) came and accuſed him before the general, for ſhewing kindneſs to ſuch a notorious rebel, for which he was carried to Edinburgh, and caſt into priſon, where he lay three months, and paid a thouſand merks of fine.

Mr. Cargill the next Sabbath, preached at Cairnhill, betwixt Loudon and Tweeddale, in his wounds and blood; for no danger nor diſtreſs could ſtop him in going about doing good, and diſtributing food to ſo many ſtarving ſouls up and down the land, his time being ſhort, that ſo he might finiſh his courſe with joy, he preached that day upon that text, And what ſhall I more ſay, for the time would ſail me to ſpeak of Gideon and Jephthae. At night ſome ſaid to him, we think, Sir, praying and preaching go beſt with you when your danger and diſtreſs is greateſt. He ſaid, it had been ſo; and he hoped that it would be ſo, that the more that enemies and all others did thruſt that he might fall, the more ſenſibly and more diſcernibly the Lord had helped: And then, (as his ordinary was) as it had been to himſelf, repeated the following words, The Lord is my ſtrength and Song, and has become my ſalvation. That cxviii Pſalm was the laſt Pſalm he ſung on earth, which he ſang on the ſcaffold.

7thly, In the beginning of November 1680, governor Middleton being fruſtrated of his deſign at the Queensferry, and affronted by a few women, delivering the prey out of his and his ſoldiers' hands, conſulted with James Henderſon in Ferry, and laid down a hell-deep plot and trap to catch him, by forging and ſigning by different hands, in the name of Bailie Adam in Culroſs, and Robert Stark in Milns of Forth, that ſerious zealous ſolid Chriſtian, who had