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present, told me, that when he began to pray, ⟨the⟩ sails were all hanging straight down, but ere ⟨he⟩ ended, they were all like blown bladders. They put out the Waiters and other people and got (illegible text) very swift and safe passage.—The twenty-⟨six⟩ Scots sufferers that were with him, having provided themselves with arms, and being designed return ⟨to⟩ Scotland, there being than such a ⟨noise⟩ of killing; and the report was no greater than ⟨the⟩ deed, it being then in the heat of killing time, ⟨in⟩ the end of Febuary 1685. when at exercise in the bark, he said, ‘Lord thou knowest these lads ⟨are⟩ hot spirited, lay an arrest upon them, that then may not appear; their time is not yet; though Monmouth and Argyle be coining, they will ⟨work⟩ no deliverance.’ At that time there was no report of their coming, for they came not for ⟨ten⟩ weeks thereafter.—In the morning after they landed, he lectured before they parted, sitting upon a brae-side, where he had fearful threatening(illegible text) against Scotland saying, the time was coming that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale, and not see a reeking house, nor hear a cock crow.
28. When the day of his death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house, in the parish of Sorn, where he was born. He caused dig a cave with a saughen bush cover-
