ed at Irvine and Air.--He
perjured himself in Mr. Mitchel's case, and was the contriver of that
barbarous unheard-of cruelty exercised on worthy Hackston of Rathillet.
Nay, such was his zeal in serving his master Charles (or rather
Diabolus) that he professed his willingness to set up popery in Scotland
at the king's command, for which, with his other flagitious wickedness,
such as uncleanness, adulteries, ordinary cursing, swearing,
drunkenness, &c. he was one of those excommunicated by Mr. Cargil at
Torwood, Sep. 1680. Thus he continued to wallow in all manner of
filthiness, till July next year, that death did arrest him, Mr. Cargil
being then in custody, he threatened him with a violent death; to whom
Mr. Cargil answered, that die what death he would, he should not see it:
which came to pass; for that morning (Mr. Cargil was to be executed in
the afternoon) Rothes was seized with sickness and a dreadful horror of
conscience; some of his wife's ministers were sent for, who dealt
somewhat freely with him: to whom he said, "We all thought little of
that man's sentence, (meaning Mr. Cargil) but I find that sentence
binding on me now, and will bind me to eternity." And so roaring
out, till he made the bed shake under him, he died in that
condition,--_Wodrow, Walker's life of Mr. Cargil_, &c.

HUGH PINANEVE, factor to the lady Loudon while the earl was a refugee in
Holland, was a most wicked wretch both in principle and practice, and an
inveterate enemy to the sufferers, in so much, that being at a market at
Mauchlin some time after Mr. Cameron's death, when drinking in a room
with one Robert Brown, before they took horse, he brake out in railery
against Mr. Cameron and the sufferers: Mr. Peden, overhearing him in the
next room, came to the chamber door and said, Sir, hold your peace, ere
twelve o'clock, you shall know what for a man Mr. Cameron was: God shall
punish that blasphemous mouth and tongue of yours in a most remarkable
manner for a warning to all such railing Rabshakehs. Brown, knowing Mr.
Peden, hastened the factor home and went to his own house, and Hugh to
the earl's house. But when casting off his boots, he was suddenly seized
with great pains through his whole body. Brown, using to let blood, was
immediately sent for.--But when he came, he found him lying, and his
mouth gaping wide, and his tongue hanging out: he let a little blood,
but to no effect; he died before midnight in this fearful
condition.--_Pede