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Liddel, near Tinto, went out to spend the Sabbath morning by himself: and seeing the people all passing by, he inquired the reason; which being told, he rose and followed them five miles. The morning being told, he rose and followed them five miles. The morning being warm, (about the 1st of June,) and the heights steep, he was very much fatigued before he got to the place, where a man gave him a drink of water out of his bonnet, and another between sermons; this being the best entertainment he got that day, for he had tasted nothing in the morning. Here he lectured on the 6th of Isaiah, and preached on these words, 'Be not high minded, but fear, &c.' From thence he went to Fyfe, and baptized many children, and preached one day at Daven common, and then returned to the Benrybridge in Cambusnethan, where he received a call from the hands of two men, to come back to Galloway, but got it not answered.
Mr Cargill in that short time, had run very fast towards his end, which now hastens apace. Having left the Benry-bridge, he preached one day at Auchingilloch, and then came to preach his last sermon on Dunsyre common, between Clydesdale and Lothian, upon the text Isaiah xxvi. 20, "Come my people and enter into your chambers, &c."
Some time that night, through the persnasion of Mr Smith and Mr Boig, he went with the Lady of St. John's Kirk, as far as Covington Mill, to the house of one Andrew Fisher. In the meantime, James Irvine of Bonshaw, having got a general commission, marched with a party of dragoons from
