, "That he
could boast that he had made 26 journeys in a year in pursuit of the
whigs." And, if the same with Bailiff Charters who was on the scaffold
with John Nisbet of Hardhill, and though the martyr spoke most meekly
there, yet this Charters was rude to him. But that night he had a child
overlaid in the bed, and in two days fell into great horror of
conscience, crying out, Oh, for the life of John Nisbet. His friends
thought to have kept it secret, and diverted him; but he became worse
and worse, still crying out, Oh, for the life of John Nisbet, until he
fell into a most terrible distraction. So that he sat night and day
wringing about his nose and roaring ever, John Nisbet, to the terror of
all around him[280].--_Appendix to the Cloud of Witnesses, and Lady
Earlstoun's Letter from Blackness in manuscript_.

MR. ---- EVANS, a man of no great note, but abundantly qualified to make
merchandize of the people of God; for being master or commander of a
ship wherein 190 of Christ's prisoners were put to be banished 1685, to
the West-Indies, during their voyage of three months space, he made them
endure the most excruciating hardships. They were crammed in so close
night and day, that they could have no air, and so tormented with hunger
and thirst, that they were obliged to drink their own urine: Whereby 32
of them died. After their arrival in Jamaica, they were imprisoned and
sold for slaves. But Evans fell sick, and his body rotted away
piece-meal while alive, so that none could come near him for stink. This
wrought horror of conscience in him; whereupon he called for some of the
prisoners, and begged forgiveness, and desired them to pray for him,
which they did; so he died. Howard's case who got the price was still
less hopeful; for he fell down betwixt two ships, and perished in the
Thames. Nor were the ship's crew who assisted them much better; for 40
of them took a pestilent fever, and turned mad and leapt over board and
perished.--_Wodrow_.

SIR ROBERT LAURIE of Maxwelton, was another enemy to the poor people of
God. When Cornet Baillie had met with W. Smith in Glencairn parish,
1684, his Father being one of Sir Robert's tenants, went to beg favour
for his son. But Sir Robert presently sentenced him to present death.
Bailie refused to execute it, because illegal. But the cruel monster
threatened him to do it without delay; and being shot, Maxwelton refused
him burial in the church-yard: The same day being the day