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 Learmont, and your perfidious betraying of the church of Scotland. These crimes, added he, and that blood, cry with a loud voice to heaven for vengeance, and we are this day to executeitexecute it [sic].

And again he desired him to come cut, and prepare for death, judgment, and eternity. The bishop still refused, and cried for mercy, offering him money, The captain said, Thy money perish with the: and told him, that he allowed him time to pray, and commanded him again to come out.

The bishop still refused. One of them at a distance cried our, Seeing there have been so many lives unjustly taken by him, for which there is not the least sign of repentance, we will not be innocent, if any more be taken that way.

Then one of them fired a pistol at him in the coach, which did not touch him, and another wounded him with a sword, at which he cried out, Fy, fy, I'm gone; but the wound was not mortal. At last, when he found that they would force him out of the coach, he thought proper to come out. But by no means could they persuade him to pray, which much surprised them.

Then they discharged a power of shot upon him, which made him fall back, so that he lay as dead.

But one of them giving him a prick with his sword, he raised up himself. Then being apprehensive, that shooting would not do, the commander ordered them to draw their swords, upon which he made the most hideous and terrible