coming to a certain poor woman's house in the
east country, he got quarters, and for a bed she made him (what we call)
a shake-down before a mow of peats (being all her small convenience
could afford). On which he lay down, she going out on some necessary
errand; a little after, when she returned, she found the wall of peats
fallen upon him, which had smothered him to death; a very mean end for
such a courageous soldier.--_Wodrow_, &c.

JAMES GIBSON, (called sometime bailie Gibson of Glasgow) brother to the
merchant, but one qualified to barter the bodies of Christ's suffering
members. He got the command of his brother's ship with those sufferers
that were banished to Carolina in the year 1684. The inhumanity he
exercised upon them in their voyage is incredible: they were thrust
below hatches, and a mutchkin of water allowed them in 24 hours: so that
some of them died of thirst, although they had 14 hogsheads to cast out
on their arrival.--These who were sick, were miserably treated; and two
endeavouring to escape, were by him beat 8 times a-day, and condemned
to perpetual slavery. Nor could they have liberty to serve God; when
they began to worship, they were threatened by him in an awful manner.
After their arrival, they were by him sold for slaves, and for the most
part died in that country. He returned to spend their price till 1699,
that he again set out captain of the Rising Sun, with that little fleet
for the settlement at Darien.--But being one of the most wicked wretches
that then lived, and some of the rest nothing better, the judgment of
God pursuing him and them, they fell from one mishap into another, until
put off by the Spaniards from thence, they went to Jamaica; from thence
every one made the best of their way to their own country. Captain
Gibson set off from Blue-fields July 21, 1700: but before he made
Florida their masts were off by the boards, which made them with much
difficulty come up to Carolina, and making Charleston bar, the very
place where he landed Christ's prisoners, just as one of the ministers
were gone out, and some more with him, a hurricane came down Sept. 3.
and staved the ship all in pieces, where Gibson and 112 persons every
soul perished in the surges of the rolling ocean. _The Lord is known by
the judgments which he executeth_.--_Wodrow, History of Darien_, &c.

JAMES, Duke of York, a professed papist and another excommunicated
tyrant, used no small cruelties while in Scotland 16