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 that the atchbishoparchbishop [sic]'s coach was at Ceres, and in a little would come that way.

This much surprised them, that, when they were just parting & giving over their search for the servant, the master should come in the way, even their arch enemy, and source of all their miseries.

Upon which cue of them said, it seems, He is now delivered into our hands, and preposed to embrace this opportunity for cutting him off, andand that one should have the command of the rest for that purpose. Mr Hackstoun of Rathillet being preseutpresent [sic], this burden was laid on him; but he opposed the motion, and would have no hand in what followed, whether because it was a matter of blood, as to which he was not dear in his own mind, as our author affirms, or if, others alledge, it was because that he having received personal injuries from the archbishop, it might be thought that he did it in revenge, we cannot certainly say.

By this time, they were come to a little village called Magus, where they discovered the bishop's coach. One of them on a swift horse, rode up to see if Sharp was in it. The bishop observing him cried out to the coachman to drive on. The gentleman hearing this threw off his cloke and pursued him at full speed, as likewise did the rest, only Rathillat kept at a difrance, and did not at all engage in the action. While they were thus pursuing in Magus muir, Wallace, one of the bishop's, turned upon him and cock'd his piece, some of them coming up soon dismounted and disarmed him: and as the coach was driving furiously away, they fired their muskets, but could not stop it, till the person on the swift horse came up to the coach, crying out, Judas, be taken.