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Rh and now perſuaded I'll die a violent death, in the ſame ſpot where he died.

However, Argyle got together above 1500 men, and expected a great many more would have joined him, in order to oppoſe the King and Council in their bloody cruelties carried on in theſe days, but he was diſappointed, and after ſeveral unſucceſsful attempts without ever coming to any total action, and his officers differing among themſelves, the moſt of his men deſerted, and finding it impracticable to do any thing to purpoſe, he diſmiſſed the whole, and put himſelf in diſguiſe, but was ſoon taken by a few militia at the water of Inchinnan. He was carried to Edinburgh with a ſtrong guard, and by order of the Council carried up the ſtreet with his hands tied behind his back, and bare headed, the hangman going before him, and lodged in the caſtle: And in order to make quick work, the ſentence that was paſſed againſt him 1681, three years before, for his explication of the teſt, was put in execution without bringing him to any further trial. While in the caſtle he had theſe remakable expreſſions in converſation with a dear friend. “My groſs compliances are now ſad and grievous to me: for theſe the Lord would not honour me to be inſtrumental in his work, but I deſire to die in the faith of a deliverance to his church and people, and tho' I will not take upon me to be a prophet, yet having ſtrong impreſſions thereof upon my ſpirit, I doubt not but her deliverance will come very ſuddenly, and I hope it ſhall be well. It is true, my family is low, and I have nothing to leave them; but if they ſeek God they will be wonderfully ſeen to and provided for; and if they do not, I care not what come of them. I fear ſome have eyed me too much as an inſtrument. Lean not to the arm of fleſh.” The day of his execution (30th June 1685.) his Lordſhip dined with grave and becoming chearfulneſs; and being uſed to ſleep a little after meat, he retired to the cloſet, and laid himſelf down on