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 linchie; and, ſeeing no appearance of entering into the miniſtry in Scotland, he went thither, and got an unanimous call from that pariſh. Here he laboured with the utmoſt aſſiduity among that people, who were both rude and profane before that, and they became the moſt experienced Chriſtians in that country. But he was not above a year there until the Biſhop of Down ſuſpended him and Mr. Blair for non-conformity. They remained depoſed until May 1632, when, by the interceſſion of Lord Caſtle-Stuart, a warrant was granted them from the king to be reſtored.

After this he was married to the eldeſt daughter of Bartholomew Fleming, merchant in Edinburgh, who was then in Ireland. In Nov. 1635, he was again depoſed by the Biſhop of Down; and a little after, by his orders, excommunicated by one Mr. Melvil, miniſter of Down. This winter, finding no appearance of liberty, either to miniſters or profeſſors, from the bondage of the prelates, he, with others of the depoſed miniſters, took a reſolution to go to New England. Upon which they built a ſhip for the purpoſe; and when all things were ready, they, about the 9th of September looſed from Lochfergus; but