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 right-thinking men, Bonshaw, got not his reward of 6000 merkes, 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 through the belly with a sword, where blood and dirt ran out. This account I had from several worthy persons, who were witness 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."

Whoso 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