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Bloody Sir George M'Kenzie died at London with all the passages of his body running blood. 7. General Thomas Dalziel of Binns died with a glass of wine at his mouth in perfect health: but a more particular account of these afterwards.

5thly, I gave an account in the life and death of Mr. Cameron, that upon the 5th day of July 1680, they preached together at the Kiprig in Clydesdale; which twas Mr. Cameron's last Sabbath, and were to meet and preach at Craigmad in Stirlingshire the first Sabbath of August, but Mr. Cameron's blood and others ran like water on the 22d of July: Mr. Cargill preached upon the 25th in the parish of Shots, upon that text, "Know you not that there is a great man and Prince fallen in our Israel." He preached upon the first day of August at Craigmad, and lectured upon the 22d chapter of Jeremiah, and ran the parallel in so many particulars betwixt Coniah and Charles IId. and in the end said if that unhappy man upon the throne of Britain shall die the ordinary death of men, and get the honour of the Burial of kings, and if he shall have any to succeed him lawfully begotten, then God never sent me, nor spoke by me. The old pious praying Mr Reid, late minister in Lochrutton in Galloway, Mr. Shields and George Lapsly, who lived and died at the Bowhead, heard him utter these expressions: They were all at London in the time that he was poisoned, who made all search to know when, where, or how he was buried, but could never find it out, being buried clandestinely; and all know that he had none to succeed him, although many said, and some write, That if all the women he lay with in adultery and fornication had conceived and brought forth, his offspring would have been as the stars in the firmament, spending his time only with wine and women, unconcerned about either heaven or hell, and easy about and religion. Not driving on Rome's interest, as they expected, and he engaged when abroad with the Popish Princes; his