“ After this, he was preaching in Galloway-in the forenoon, he prayed earnestly for the prisoners taken at and about Bothwel; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them he halted and said, 'Our friends at Edinburgh, the prisoners, have done something to save their lives that shall not do with them, for the sea-billows shall be many of their winding sheets: and the few of them that escape, shall not be useful to God in their generation.' Which was sadly verified thereafter. ”

“ That God shall make Scotland a desolation. 2. There shall be a remnant in the land, whom God should spare and hide. 3. They should lie in holes and caves of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink: And when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk for stumbling on the dead corpses. ”

“ And said, The Lord rebuke, give repentance and forgiveness to these ministers that persuaded these prisoners to take that bond. For their perishing by sea was more moving and shocking to him, than if some thousands of them had been slain in the field. He was thereafter taken, the 6th of April, by Major Johnston, in Edinburgh, and detained prisoner in the Bass where he died. As the interest of Christ lay near his heart through his life, amongst the last words he said, The Lord will defend his own cause. ”

“ That which the greatest part of these prisoners did, was the taking of that bond, commonly called the Black Bond, after Bothwel, wherein they acknowledged their appearance in arms, for the defence of the gospel and their own lives to be rebellion; and engaged themselves never to make any more opposition: upon the doing of which, these perfidious enemies promised them life and liberty. This with cursed and subtle arguments and advices of ministers, who went into the New Yard, where they were prisoners, particularly Mr Hugh Kennedy, Mr William Chrichton, Edward Jamieson, and Mr George Johnston ”

“ In that short time he was in Ireland, the Governor required of all Presbyterian ministers that were in Ireland, that they should give it under their hand, that they had no accession to the late rebellion at Bothwel-bridge, in Scotland, and that they did not approve of it; which the most part did and sent Mr Thomas Gowans, a Scotsman, and one Mr Paton, from the north of Ireland to Dublin, to present it to the Lord Lieutenant the which when Mr Peden heard, he said, Mr Gowans and his brother Mr Paton are sent and gone the devil's errand, but God will arrest them by the gate. ”

“ I had this account from John Muirhead, who staid much in that house and other Christian people, when in Ireland.
20. After this, he longed to be out of Ireland through the fearful apprehensions of that dismal day of rebellion in Ireland, that came upon it four years thereafter, and that he might take part with the sufferers in Scotland. He came near the coast one morning: John Muirhead came to him; lying within a hedge: he said, Have you any news, John? John said. There is great fear of the Irish rising. ”

“ The twenty-six Scots Sufferers that were with him, having provided themselves with arms, and being designed to return to Scotland, there being then such a noise of killing; and the report was no greater than the deed, it being then in the heat of killing time, at the end of February, 1685, when at exercise in the bark, he said, 'Lord thou knowest these lads are bad spirited, lay an arrest upon them, that they may now fear; their time is not yet ”

“ The skipper who was to receive them there, and carry them to Virginia, came to see them, they being represented to him as thieves, robbers, and evil-doers; but when he found they were all grave Christian men, banished for Presbyterian principles, he said he would sail the sea with none such. ”

“ On the morning after they landed, he lectured before they parted, sitting upon a braeside, where he had awful threatenings against Scotland, saying, the time was coming that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale, and did 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 having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian. Mr Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others, who informed me.
7. When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him, in Dec. 1678, and sixty more fellow-prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death; after this sentence was past, he several times said, that the ship was not yet built yet that should take him and these prisoners to Virginia ”

“ And honestly desired him to take his corpse out to Airmoss, and bury them beside Richy (meaning Cameron) that he might get rest in his grave, for he he had gotten little through his life: but he said he knew they would not do it.
28. Within forty-eight hours he died, January 28th, 1686, being past sixty years; and was buried in the Laird of Afflect's Isle. The enemies got notice of his death and burial, and sent a troop of dragoons, and lifted his corpse and carried him to Cumnock gallows foot, and buried him there (a (illegible text) being forty days in the grave) beside others. ”

“ He was no more set to work, nor to lie with the lad; and he staid a considerable time in the place, and was a blesscd instrument in the convcrsion of some, and civilizing of others, though that place was noted for a wild rude people, all the fruit of his labour appears unto this day. There was a servant-lass in that house, that he could not look upon but with frowns: and sometimes, when at family-worship, he said, pointing to her with a frowning countenance. You come from the barn and from the byre reeking of your lusts, and sits down among us; we do not want you, or none such. ”