heaven and they will get no more. This being again related to Mr.
Cargil, he answered, yes, we will get more, we will get God glorified on
earth, which is more than heaven. However Mr. Violant out lived the
revolution, and was sometime minister of the established church, being
one of these nominated by the general assembly 1690, to visit the south
of Tay. While on his death-bed one of his brethren came to visit him,
and asking how it was with him now? his answer was, "No hope, no hope."
Whether this terminated in his final destruction {illegible} otherways,
we know not: but sure we may say with the Psalmist, _Thou tookest
vengeance of their inventions_.

[278] The author of Claverhouse's memoirs, says, That they were shot by
James Carmichael laird of little Blackburn, and fifty whigs,--Vid. page
17.

[279] I could here relate several stories by tradition of his deceiving
the devil with his shadow at a race in Muscovy, his delivering a woman
from him by the burning of a candle,--his supplanting him in a hat full
of money, &c. But I forbear.

[280] We have no account of Charters' death, but it is more than
probable he died in that condition, as few or none of that tribe we read
of were ever again recovered.

[281] Perhaps, some may think this anent proof of shot a paradox, and be
ready to object here as formerly concerning bishop Sharp and Dalziel,
"How can the devil have or give a power to save life? &c." Without
entering upon the thing in its reality, I shall only observe; That it is
neither in his power or of his nature to be a saviour of men's lives; he
is called Apollyon the destroyer. 2. That even in this case, he is said
to give only inchantment against one kind of mettle, and this does not
save life; for the lead would not take Sharp and Claverhouse's life, yet
steel and silver could do it: and for Dalziel, though he died not on the
field, he did not escape the arrows of the Almighty.

[282] Concerning the death of the Duke of Drumlanerig, alias Queensbury,
we have the following relation:--That a young man perfectly well
acquainted with the Duke (probably one of those he had formerly
banished) being now a sailor and in foreign countries, while the ship
was upon the coast of Naples or Sicily, near one of the burning mounts,
one day they espied a coach and six all in black going toward the mount
with great velocity, when it came past them they were so near that they
could perceive the dimensions and features o