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 R. DONALD CARGILL was the eldeſt ſort of a ſingular Godly gentleman, and heritor in the pariſh of Rattery, ſome miles from Dunkeld. After he had paſſed his courſes of learning at Aberdeen, he was eſtabliſhed miniſter in the Barony pariſh of Glaſgow, before and at the unhappy reſtoration of Charles IId. May 29th, 1660; and was publicly murdered at the croſs of Edinburgh, July 27th, 1681, before many witneſſes, in that never to be forgotten, unheard of twenty-eight years of reigning tyrants, and raging tyranny of prelatical proteſtants upon Preſbyterian proteſtants.

It is a loſs that I cannot give an account how long he was fixed miniſter in the foreſaid pariſh ; only it is certain, it was before and at the unhappy reſtoration, when Hell, Rome, and all their proſelytes and favourites, had their invention upon the rack, in their wicked crafty counſels, how to ſtop and overturn our