it was not those
adhering to Mr. Hepburn.

[222] The foresaid old copy says, This was within two hours of his
death.

[223] Renwick's life wrote by Mr. Shields, page 99.

[224] Some have doubted of the certainty of this interview; however,
there is no seeming improbability in it, nor does it make any thing to
the disparagement of either Mr. Peden, or Mr. Renwick.

[225] After this (says Patrick Walker) that troop of dragoons came to
quarter in Cambusnethen, two of them were quartered in the house of
James Gray (one of his acquaintance) and being frighted in their sleep,
they started up and clapped their hands, crying, Peden, Peden. These two
dragoons affirmed, That out of their curiosity they opened his coffin to
see his corps, and yet they had no smell, though he had been forty days
dead.

[226] John Ker of Kersland, in his memoirs, page 8 where he adds, that
when some people were going to join Argyle in 1685, Mr. Peden after a
short ejaculation, bid them stop, for Argyle was fallen a sacrifice that
minute. Some taking out their watches marked the time, which accordingly
answered his being taken.

[227] Amongst the branches of this numerous family, were Mr. Adam
Blackadder, who was first imprisoned in Stirling at seventeen years of
age, and afterwards in Blackness, in the year 1684, for waiting on his
father John Blackadder, who came over with Argyle 1685, and was
apprehended, but afterwards set at liberty; and that religious gentleman
Colonel Blackadder sometime governor of Stirling castle since the
revolution. Whither that Dr. William Blackadder mentioned in history was
that Mr Blackadder who was at Bothwel, or if he was son to Mr John
Blackadder and brother to the above mentioned, I cannot say at present.

[228] It was one Mr. William Blackadder that was at Bothwel.

[229] A historian says, that Mr. Blackadder was as free to have declared
his disapprobation of what was done there, as he was of his not being
there--But whether it be not a slur thrown upon the memory of this
worthy man, to insinuate that he should suffer such hardships and so
many years imprisonment merely out of ill nature, when he was free to
have declared what would have satisfied them, must be left with the
reader.

[230] See this in his testimonials from the classes, which are inserted
in his life at large, pag. 25, &c.

[231] This seems to have been when he made a hasty journey thither in
the year 1684 and 1686. See his letters page