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 Middleton, governor of Blackness, and informed him. He ordered his soldiers to come after him; he followed hard to the ferry and got notice where they lighted, came in, and pretended great kindness, pressing them to take a glass of wine, until his men came up; then drew his sword, saying, they were his prisoners. Haughhead drew his sword to defend themselves The women in the town gathered; one of them gript Haughhead to save him. One Thomas George, a waiter there, behind his back, struck him on the head with the doghead of his carabin, and broke his skull. The woman carried him off and some of them supported him to Echlen, near half a mile, to the house of Robert Phunton, my brother in-law, who was banished with Mr. Peden. The house of Binns being near Thomas Dalziel's dwelling-place, (that bloody tyrant, who was general to the forces twenty years) and he having got notice, came in great haste and fury, threatening great ruin to that family for taking in the rebel; and carried him back to the Ferry, and kept him all night. There is an old Christian woman (yet alive) who waited upon him all night, which was a weary night, he not being able to speak to her, passing all his brains at his nostrils, and died to-morrow by the way going to Edinburgh. None can give an account how they disposed of his corpse.

Mr, Cargill in that confusion escaped being forcefully wounded, and crept into some secret place in the south side of the town A very ordinary woman found him lying bleeding, took her head-clothes and tied up the wounds in his head, and conducted him to James Phunton's in Carlowrie; he being a stranger, and knew not who were friends or foes; for which he said, he was many times obliged to pray for that woman Some say, after that there was a change upon her to the better. He lay in that barn till night, and then was conducted to some friend's house. Mrs. Phunton gave him some warm milk;