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44 night-thinking men. Bonſhaw, got not his reward of 6000 merks till the next year in May, the price of innocent blood, precious blood, dear blood, blood that cries both loud and long; how ſhall, or can the tyranny of ſhedding innocent blood, and defections of all ranks in thoſe days, be forgot? Shortly thereafter he came to Lanark, where he and one of his curſed comrades fell a fighting; his comrade thruſt him thro' the belly with a ſword, where blood and dirt ran out. This account I had from ſeveral worthy perſons, who were witneſſes to both the threatenings of the man of God, when he tied him hard, and to the accompliſhment thereof. Bonſhaw's laſt words were, “God damn his ſoul eternally, for he was gone." Miſchief ſhall hunt the violent man till he be ruined: Which makes good the old Scots ſaying. “Such life, ſuch end with the moſt part.”

Whoſe deſires to be further informed of the life and death of bleſt Cargill, let them peruſe the relations that are given of him by Mr. Shields in The Hind-let-Looſe, and in the Cloud of Witneſſes. His laſt teſtimony, and what he ſpake upon the ſcaffold, his marrowy ſententious letter to ſeveral priſoners when under ſentence of death, and his letter to the Gibbites in the correction-houſe, and his letter to his pariſh, yet in the hands of ſome, are to be found in the Cloud of Witneſſes.

When that bleſt ſingular Chriſtian, zealous and faithful miniſter and martyr, Mr. Cargill, was firſt apprehended and brought before the council, they were fierce and furious against him, eſpecially chancellor Rothes, but thoſe that were in council and heard what Mr. Cargill ſaid to him, and ſaw and heard what Rothes ſaid when he was dying, roaring under horror of conſcience, and his bed ſhaking, put a fright upon their ſpirits, and drew tears from their eyes, which verified what he ſaid at the Fala-hill on the Sabbath after the excommunication as before related, and made them to propoſe in council, "That