98, and 136.

[232] See his letters and the answers, with the reasoning on Cathcart's
affair at large from page 84 to 97.

[233] Mr. Peden on his death-bed sent for him, and after some conference
owned he had been misinformed anent him; exhorted him to go forward, and
he would be carried honestly through; asked his forgiveness, and desired
him to pray with him before he departed: all which Mr. Renwick did with
great cheerfulness. See Walker's remarks of the life of Mr. Peden.

[234] See his letter to Earlston, page 163.

[235] Mr. Hugh Kennedy then moderator.

[236] This testimony was again of late republished by some friends to
the same cause.

[237] For besides these reproaches already noticed, with many others, he
and his followers were charged as men of anarchical, murdering and
bloody principles, which makes it the less wonder that their successors
should be still charged with the same.

[238] And it is to be remarked, that many of the Jury were professors,
and eminent in the tolerated meetings; while others, even of the
malignants, chose rather to run the hazard of the penalty, as the laird
of Torrence, who compeared not, and Somerville chamberlain of Douglas,
who, though when he appeared, yet when he saw Mr Renwick turn about, and
direct his speech to them, he ran away, saying, He trembled to think to
take away the life of such a pious like man, though they should take his
whole estate. The list of the Assizers is as follows:

James Hume of Kimmergen.
John Hume of Nine wells.
John Martin clerk to the manufactory.
Alexander Martin sometimes clerk of ----
Robert Halyburton merchant.
Thomas Laurie merchant.
Archibald Johnston merchant.
Thomas Wylie merchant.
James Hamilton vintner.
William Cockburn merchant.
James Hamilton jun. stationer.
Robert Currie stationer.
Joseph Young merchant.
John Cuningham merchant in Glasgow.
Ninian Banantine of Kaims, chancellor.

[239] Wodrow's history, Vol. I. page 71, &c.

[240] In this testimony among other things they say, "We do profess our
dissatisfaction that the civil powers should take upon them to prescribe
public humiliation and thanksgiving, with the causes and diets thereof,
to all the ministers and members of this church, as being contrary to
the well warranted privileges and constant practice of the church
itself, and in its own nature introductory to greater encroachments, and
putting into the hands of the civil powers the modelling of the public
wo