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 in that wood all day, and at night he came to the said Mr. Vernor's house, where several of our Scots sufferers were; he said. Why are ye so discouraged? I know ye've got ill news of the dreadful murder of our friends in Scotland but I will tell you good news, that unhappy, treacherous, leacherous man, who has made the Lord's people in Scotland tremble these years by gone has got his last glut in a lordly dish from his brother and he is lying with his tongue cold in his mouth. I hear news of this came not to Ireland, for 24 hours thereafter. The foresaid John Muirhead, and John Waddel and others of our Scots sufferers, who had heard him preach the sabbath day before, concluded, this was the shot beneath the right wing that he spoke of, Charles II. being dead the Friday's night before.

23. After this he longed to be out of Ireland, what thro the fearful apprehensions of that dismal day of rebellion in Ireland, that came upon it four years thereafter, and that he might take part with the sufferers of Scotland; He came near the coast one morning; John Muirhead came to him lying within a hedge; he said, Have ye any news, John? John said, There is great fear of the Irish arising: he said, No, no, the time of their rising is not yet; but they will rise, and dreadful will it be at last. He was long detained waiting for a bark not daring to go to public ports, but to some remote creek of the sea, : Alexander Gordon of Kinstuir in Galloway had agreed with one: but Mr. Peden would not sail the sea with him, Mr. Peden having something the foresight of what he did prove afterwards: in the beginning of August, before this Kinstuir was relieved at Enterken-path, going from Dumfries to Edinburgh prisoner; when the news of it came to Ireland, our Scots sufferers their acquaintance, were glad of the news, especially that Kinstuir was escaped. He said, What means all this Kinstuiring? there's some of them relieved there, that one of them is worth many of him, ye'll all be ashaned of him e'er all be done. Being in this strait, he said to Robert Wark, an old worthy christian worthy of credit, Robert, go and take such a man with you, & the first bark ye can find, compel them, for they will be like the dogs in Egypt, no one of them will move their tongue against you; accordingly Robert and his comerade found it so, and brought her to that secret place where he was. When Robert and his comerade came and told him, he was glad, and very kind & free; but he seemed to be under a cloud at that time: he said,