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upon them: They designed to put him in some hole, and cover him with heather he not being able to run hard by reason of his age; he desired them to forbear a little until he prayed, where he said, “Lord, we are ever needing at thy hand; and if we had not thy command to call on thee in the day of trouble, and thy promise of answering us in the day of our distress, we wot not what would become of us: If thou hast any more work, for us in the world, allow us the lap of thy cloak this day again: And if this be the day of our going off the stage, let us win honestly off & comfortably through, and our souls will sing forth thy praises thro’ eternity, for what thou hast done to us and for us.” When ended, he ran alone a little and came quickly back, saying, ‘Lads, the bitterness of this blast is over; we will be no more troubled with them to-day.” Foot and horse came the length of Andrew Clark’s in Achengrooch, where they were covered with a dark mist: When they saw it, they roared like fleshly devils, and cried out “there is the confounded mist again! we cannot get these damned whigs pursued for it.” I had this account from the said Captain John Matthison.
35. About, this time he was in a house in the shire of Ayr (Jame Nisbet. yet living in the castle of Edinburgh. can bear witness to the truth of this) and one night he was standing before the fire, where he uttered some imprecations upon the cursed intelligencers, who had told the enemy that he was come out of Ireland. When James took him to the place where he was to rest a little James said, “The servants took notice of your imprecations upon the intelligencers.” He said, “Ye will know to-morrow, about nine o’clock, what ground I have for it; I wish thy head may be preserved, for it will be in danger for me I will take my own time, and be gone from his house.” Some time that night he went to a desart place & darned himself in a morning. The next morning, James was going at the harrows, and about eight of the clock there was a troop of the
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