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Rh his great ſhare of the tyranny of that time, and other honeſt leading men in the ſhire or Fife, for Henderſon to come to Edinburgh, and make all ſearch for Mr. Cargill, to call him over to Fife to preach at the hill of Baith: Accordingly he found him in the WeſtBow, in a chamber that the foreſaid Robert Stark had taken for his children at School; two of them are yet alive in Edinburgh, worthy of credit, who will aſſert the truth of this. Mr. Cargill was very willing to anſwer the call: ſome preſent obſerved that Henderſon was either drunk or confuſed, which made them jealous of treachery. Henderſon propoſed, that he would go before, and have a Boat ready at the Ferry againſt they came and, that he might know them, deſired to ſee Mr. Cargill's clothes. And Mr. Skeen and Mr. Borg being in the room with him, in the meantime he had Middleton's Soldiers lying in diſguiſe for him at Mutton-hole, three miles from Edinburgh, the high way, to the Ferry: there was an Ale-houſe upon the ſouth-ſide, and a park dyke upon the north-ſide, and no eviting them. Mr. Skeen, Archibald Steward, and Mrs. Moor, and Marion Harvie took the way upon foot, Mr. Cargill, and Mr. Boig being to follow upon horſes. When they came to the place, the Soldiers griped them; in the confuſion Mrs. Moor eſcaped and went quickly back, and ſtopt Mr. Cargill, and Mr. Boig, who fled back to Edinburgh again, the priſoners were brought alſo to Edinburgh, Mr. Skeen, and Archibald Stewart were executed at the croſs of Edinburgh, Dec. 1. 1680. and Marion Harvie, with Iſabel Alliſon, were executed in the Graſsmarket, January 26. 1681. However, Henderſon got the price of blood, and bought or built a paſſage-boat, which he called Katherine; but many feared to croſs the water in her. Henderſon after this turned miſerable and contemptible in the eyes of all well thinking men, and, ſome affirm, he died curling, after he got that reward for treachery and the price of blood.