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officers came home seeking recruits; hearing of prisoners that were under banishment, they got gifts of them from the wicked, bloody Counsellors and carried them to these places. Then merchants, such as Gibson in Glasgow, and Malloch in Edinburgh, Pitlochie, a laird in Fife, and many others, got gifts of them (and as the old saying is, Cocks are free of other folks corn.) who transported them to Carolina. New Jersey, Jamaica. and Barbadoes, to be their slaves; but none of them made their plack a bawbee with trading in such wares: which confirms what that singular Christian, James Clarkson, merchant in Linlithgow, whom the foresaid Malloch got a gift of, with other thirteen, said, when put on shipboard in the roads at Leith, to which I was a witness, "We are the baddest wares that ever Malloch had in his packsheet; and if Malloch, or any other that trade in such wares, be not great losers, I am mistaken."
In that short time that blest Cargill had to run, he ran fast on foot, having lost several horses in his remarkable escapes. Where-ever he was called, at several times, and to different places of the land when he sat down for rest, being old and weary, he took a look of the many gentlemen's buildings, and said, Your lords, lairds, and gentlemen are making braw houses, and large parks; but they may build at leisure, it will not be long that many of them will possess their houses, which have been rests of wickedness and uncleanness: They have dipt their hands in the persecution and deep compliance, but few of them have had a fur of land to spare for the interest of Christ, and it will go a worse gate, and their inheritances will vomit out their names. The accomplishment of this saying cannot pass the observation of any who see with half an eye, being so universal: And their own sad experience can testify, that since that time, being now forty-nine years since his death, more estates of hundreds of years standing, have changed masters, than did for a hundred years before, almost in all corners of the land. Besides these lamentable holding reasons that he gave, several other reasons and occurrences have fallen out since, to bring it to pass; such as, We always hear thename
