of their meetings, yet
he was refused, and so could never influence them to publish any of
their declarations. But more of this, if the Lord will, elsewhere on
another occasion.

The reader will find the above mentioned patent on the frontispiece of
his memoirs: And what satisfaction he himself had in this dirty work and
wicked courses in the courts interest, as he himself calls it, and how
he was by them repaid as he deserved, in these memoirs, from page 31 to
81, &c.

[183] It appears that it was about this time, that he resolved to go
over to Holland, but we have no certain account where or what time he
stayed there; but from the sequel of the following account it could not
be long.

[184] See Walker's remarkable passages of the life of Mr. Cargil, &c.
page 8.

[185] The first of these was clearly verified in the case of lord
Rothes, and the second was verified in the remembrance of many yet
alive. (1.) Every person knoweth that Charles II. was poisoned. (2.) His
brother the duke of York died at St Germains in France. (3.) The duke of
Monmouth was executed at London. (4.) The duke of Lauderdale turned a
belly god, and died on the chamber-box. (5.) The duke of Rothes died
raving under the dreadful terror of that sentence, &c. (6.) Bloody Sir
George MacKenzie died at London, and all the passages of his body
running blood. (7.) General Dalziel died with a glass of wine at his
mouth in perfect health. See Walker's remarks, page 10.

[186] About this time the Gibbites were all taken and imprisoned in the
tolbooth and correction house of Edinburgh, but, by the duke of York and
his faction, were soon liberated; after which the four men and two women
went west to the Frost moss, betwixt Airth and Stirling, where they
burnt the Holy Bible, every one of them using expressions at that horrid
action which are fearful to utter.

[187] To these two men he said, If I be not under a delusion, (for that
was his ordinary way of speaking of things to come) the French and other
foreigners with some unhappy men in this land, will be your stroke: it
will come at such a nick of time when one of these nations will not be
in a capacity to help another. For me, I am to die shortly by the hand
of those murderers, and shall not see it, I know not how the Lord's
people will endure it that have to meet with it; but the foresight and
forethought of it make me tremble. And then, as if it had been to
himself, he said, Short but very sharp.