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 opened up himself which perfumed the room. She came quickly back to her husband, and said, I am persuaded this is Argyle. He said, I am of the same mind; but you are oft-times o'er plain in your discourse. She said, no, no; 'tis good speaking to him now in the day of his distress; if we were once sent down to dinner, I shall use more freedom. In the time thereof they came to speak of his escape again, she took the occasion, and told all the ill things she heard about him. He said, Argyle will not free himself many of these things; but he is not so guilty of them  all as the world reports him to be. After this, Mr. Veitch told them, that it was Argyle, and that resolved for London. He then put himself in another dress, but could not have a fine horse. Mr Bitleston gifted him his gelding, and sent his son John to convoy them, who gave me this account when he returned. Argyle gave him a little purse and thirty guineas in it: When he came to his father he gave the purse to him: His father said, Johnnie, if I had known this you, should not have gone your foot-length them: There's more here than my horse is worth, Mr Veitch conveyed him to London When Mr Veitch parted with him, he said to him, Give  love and service to all friends where we have been especially, to my free communing landlady Mr. Bitleston. From that he went to Holland, and abroad to the middle of May 1685. and then to Inverary with, some men and many notable arms, Monmouth came to England that same summer.

After Argyle landed, one morning walking at water-side very sad, Mr. Thomas Urquhart, who suffered in the Grass-market that same summer, came  him, and said, I am sorry to see your lordship  melancholy! He said, how can I be otherwise? I few coming to our assistance, I am persuaded I will be called Infatuate Argyle; but all that does  trouble me so much as that unhappy wicked vote  gave against that good man and minister, Mr.