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one word to say though you would.' This also came quickly to pass; for, not many days after, he fell suddenly ill, and for three days his tongue swelled, and though he was most earnest to speak, yet he could not command one word, and died in great torment, and seeming terror.
From Glasgow they were taken to Edinburgh, and July 15th, were brought before the Council. Chancellor Rothes (being one of those whom he excommunicated at Torwood) raged against him, threatening him with torture and a violent death. To whom he said, 'My Lord Rothes, forbear to threaten me, for die what death I will, your eyes shall not see it. Which accordingly came to pass; for he died the morning of that day, in the afternoon of which Mr Cargill was executed.
When before the Council, he was asked if he acknowledged the King's authority, &c, he answered as the magistrates authority is now established by act of parliament, and explanatory act, that he denied the same. Being also examined anent the excommunication at Torwood, he declined to answer, as being an ecclesiastical matter, and they a civil judicatory. He owned the lawfulness of defensive arms, in cases of necessity, and denied that those who rose at Bothwell, &c., were rebels: and being interrogated anent the Sanquhar declaration, he declined to give his judgment until he had more time to consider the contents thereof. He further declared, he could not give his sense of the killing of the Bishop; but that the Lord's giving a call to a private man to kill, he might do it lawfully; and gave the instances of
