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a goodly company in Scotland, that he is learning to say their lesson off the book; and they are brave scholars: But ere long he will try some of you with it also. He will say, Come out thou man in Armah, and thou man in Benburb, and say your lesson off the book." The Bishop of Armah (whereof the great Mr. Usher was formerly Bishop) and his underling was so enraged against the said John that he rode twenty miles to Dublin, to get an order of Caption from the Lord Lieutenant there, for apprehending the said John, and also George Fleeming in Benburb, which he easily obtained; and came quickly back, and was in such haste to deliver his order, that upon horseback he called for the chief magistrate: When delivering his commission, his horse cast up his head and gave him such a stroke on the breast, that he died on the 4th. or 5th. day thereafter. George Fleeming went out of the way, who was father to the late Mrs Fleeming, that Christian motherly woman, who kept a school in the Castle-hill, and died there. The aforesaid John was immediately put in prison: His wife and other friends came to visit him; his wife said, "Now, my dear, learn to say your lesson off the book." He answered, "I am much obliged to you for your kindness, that minds me of that note." The Jaylor at night, said, "John, you are called an honest man, if you will promis to return to morrow, I will let you home to your bed." John said, "That I will not do." The Keeper said, "Will you run for it?" He said, "No, no; I have done no ill thing that needs make me either afraid nor ashamed. Well, said the Keeper, go home to your bed, and I will send a servant for you the morrow's morning. When he went home, at family-worship he ſang these lines in the 109th Psalm,
Few be his days, and in his room
His charge another take, &c.
