bondage. Few of them died a natural
death.

Mark Ker, one of the principal actors, and who was said to wound him
after he was taken, and who it is said got his sword, was afterwards
killed on a summer evening at his own door, (or run through by the same
sword), by two young men who called themselves col. Rumbol's sons, and
who, it is said, went off without so much as a dog's moving his tongue
against them, &c.

George Mair, being abroad, when returning, wandered and fell over
Craignethen craigs, got some of his limbs broke, and stuck in a thicket,
and when found next day was speechless, and so died in that condition.

One ---- Wilson was killed by the fall of a loft. Another in Hamilton
(commonly called the long lad of the Nethertoun) got his leg broken,
which no physician could cure, and so corrupted that scarce any person
for the stink could come near him, &c.

---- Weir of Birkwood fell from his horse, and was killed; and his son
not many years ago, was killed by a fall down a stair in drink after a
dregy.

Gavin Hamilton who got his buff coat, (out of which Rumbol's blood could
by no means be washed) lived a good while after a wicked and vicious
life, yet his name and memorial is become extinct, and the place of his
habitation is razed out, and become a plain field.--_M. S._

* * * * *

But what needs more?--Examples of this kind are numerous. God has
provided us with his wonderful works, both in mercy and judgment, to be
_had in everlasting remembrance_,--that their ends may be answered, and
that they may serve for a memorial of instruction and admonition to
those _on whom the end of the world is come_.

_The Lord is by the judgments known
which he himself hath wrought:
The sinners hands do make the snares
wherewith themselves are caught._

_N. B._ To the foregoing prodigies of wickedness, I intended to have
added a number of examples of the same nature in England and elsewhere
under the auspices of popery; but the Scots Worthies having swelled so
far above expectation, to which this behoved to go as an Appendix as
proposed, I was not only obliged to desist from my intended design in
this, but even to contract or abridge my former transcript of these
historical hints and omit several practical observations thereon, which
might have been useful, or at least entertaining to the reader.--At the
same time the reader is to observe, That all the authors are n