800
foot and 12 horse strong, Vol. II. page 295,--299.

[148] See the fulfilling of the scriptures, part I. page 434. Wodrow's
history, vol. I. page 143.

[149] See the process and his answers at large in Wodrow's history, vol.
1. page 144.

[150] Wodrow's history, vol. I. page 113.

[151] See Stevenson's History, vol. III. page 223.

[152] It is generally told, that when his mother was ready to be
delivered of him, his father, being in the next room, intreated the
midwife, if possible, to stop the birth a few minutes, but she answered,
She could not. Afterwards, being asked the reason of it, he answered, He
would not die an ordinary death.

[153] Wodrow's history, vol. I. page {illegible}92.

[154] Mr. Wodrow thinks he was at Pentland; but in his answers before
the committee he says otherwise.

[155] Crookshank's history, vol. 1. page 343.

[156] The author of the narration of his torture, which is inserted at
large in Naphtali.

[157] Wodrow's history, vol. I. appendix, No. 93.

[158] In his history, page 415.

[159] See this petition inserted in Naphtali.

[160] See this testimony at large in the same book.

[161] Wodrow's history, Vol. I. page 443.

[162] Mr. Crookshanks, in his history page 419, calls him Mr. James
Welwood, which alteration proceeds probably from a mistake in P.
Walker's remarkable passages of the lives of Semple, Welwood, &c. page
26. edit. 1728.

[163] Vid. Rutherford's letters, epist. 139.

[164] Here observe that though this worthy gentleman mentions the right
of patronage, yet it is with this proviso and limitation, the choice or
consent of the people; otherwise says he it would wrong the majesty of
God, take away the Christian liberty of the people, and invalidate his
own right; and how unlike is this to the species of patronage and claim
of patrons at the time, when nothing but absolute power and arbitrary
measures will satisfy them.

[165] His son Alexander Gordon here narrowly escaped being taken, by
means of one of his tenants, who knowing him as he rode thro' Hamilton,
made him dismount, put on woman's cloaths, and rock the cradle. After
this he went over to his brother in law Mr. Hamilton, to represent the
low case of the united societies to the churches of the Netherlands; he
was by them called home, and when returning back a second time, he was
apprehended by the enemy and put to the torture, but by means of his
friend the duke of Gordon, his life was spared. H