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of Scotland, and spare a remnant, and not make a full end in the day of his anger: And when he was off his knees, he walked up and down the chamber, crying out, Oh! the monzies, the French monzies! See how they run! How long will they run? Lord, cut their houghs and stay their running. Thus he continued all night, some times on his knees, and some times walking: In the morning they enquired what he meant by the monzies? He said, O sirs! ye will have a dreadful day by the French monzies, and a set of wicked men in these land, who will take part with them: The West of Scotland will pay dear for it! They will run thicker on the water of Ayr and Clyde, than ever the Highlandmen did. I lay in that chamber about three years ago, and the said John Richman and his wife told me that theſe were his words. At other times, to the same purpose, saying, O! the monzies, the monzies will be through the breadth and length of the South and West of Scotland! O! I think I see them at our fire-sides, slaying man, wife and children. The remnant will get a breathing; but they will be driven to the wilderness again, and their sharpest hours will be last. To the same purpose spoke the two following ministers, Mr. Thomas Lundie; a godly minister in the North of Rotray. His sister, a lady in that country, who died in the year 1683, gave the following account: That the said Mr. Lundie, after some sickness and seeming recovery again, which comforted them, one morning staying longer than ordinary in his chamber, the foresaid lady knocked at his chamber-door; on opening it, found him more than ordinary weighted: Che asked him the reason, seeing he was now better? Whereupon, smiling, he said, Within a few hours I will be taken from you! But, alas! for the day that I see coming upon Scotland; the Lord has letten me see the Frenches marching with their armies through the breadth and length of the land, marching to their bridle-reins in the blood of all ranks, and that for a broken, burnt and buried covenant! But neither ye nor I will live to see it. As also, one Mr. Douglas, a godly
