(when
the executioner poor Sutherland a native of the highlands would not do
it) for which divine vengeance did pursue him; for coming down from the
gibbet, the boys stoned him out of the town, and the noise of such an
infamous action running faster than his feet could carry him, made him
be hated of all honest men. This and horror of his own conscience
haunting him made him go over to Ireland, where he was little better:
almost no man would give him work or lodging. At last, he built a little
house upon some piece of common ground, near Dublin, which in a little
after accidently took fire, and so he and it were both burnt to
ashes.--_Crookshank's history_, _Walker's remarks_.

---- MURRAY who, lest Kersland should escape, went behind the bed with a
light and catched him standing with his Bible, while waiting on his sick
lady in 1669, in a few days after became distracted, and in his lucid
intervals (while alive) would cry and roar out under that agony, Oh,
that ever he was instrumental in that matter.--_Wodrow_, &c.

---- one of these cursed wretches, who carried Mr. King from Glasgow
1679. After he had, with his companions on horseback, drunk to the
confusion of the covenants and destruction of the people of God, rode
off with the rest; and meeting one of his acquaintance at the
Stable-green Port who asked where he was going, he said to carry King to
hell; and then galloping after the rest, whistling and singing on the
Lord's-day: But before he had gone many pace, behold, the judgment of
Divine Omnipotency, his horse foundered on somewhat in the path, and his
loaded carabine went off and shot him, and so he tumbled from his horse
dead.--_Wodrow_.

DAVID CUNNING, or Cumming, being willingly hired by that bloody crew
(who took Mr. King in the parish of Dalry near Kilwinning) to be their
guide to Glasgow: but the horse they provided for him going stark mad,
he was obliged to go on foot (after which the horse became as calm as
ever.) But after Cumming's return, it was observable, that every person
on meeting him started back, as if they had seen an apparition; for
which they could give no other reason. However he had no success in the
world, and died despicably.--_Missive in Manuscript_.

WILLIAM AUCHMUTIE, another of this black gang, riding with the rest of
his party to Couper 1679, and espying that young excellent gentleman,
young Aiton of Inchdarnie riding at some distance, brake off from the
rest full speed after