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thinking on what you said to us, and we cannot understand what you mean by it. After musing a little (for that was his ordinary, especially when they enquired any thing cuncerning the times) he said, If I be not under a delusion (for this was his ordinary also, when he spoke of things to come) the French, and other foreigners, with wicked, unhappy men in this land, will be your stroke; and it will come in such a nick of time, when one of these nations will not be in a capacity to help another; for me. I am to die shortly by the hands of these murderers, and will not see it I know not how the Lord's people will endure it that have it to meet with, but the foresight and the forethought of it makes me to tremble! And then, as his ordinary was, as it had been to himself, said, Short but very sharp.
There were two very young lads, who were my very dear billies, whose converse and prayer together have been very edifying to me and the remembrance of it this day is savoury, who lived in the Starry-shaw, was very rear the Benty-rig where he was, Thomas and John Marshal, to whom he said, at that same time, Lads, ye have meikle need to pray in earnest you have a sharp storm to meet with and many strange faces to see and your bones shall lie in a strange land. This came to pass three years thereafter, in December 1634, about the same time that I fell into the enemies' hands; Meldrum that wicked persecutor, (whom the world hath heard of) apprehended them, and carried them to Glasgow.—Walter Gibson merchant there, got a gift of them and other twenty-eight, who starved and poisoned them with little and bad victuals, above all that ever I heard of that carried our banished to foreign lands; few of them in that ship lived any time in Carolina: Thomas died in a little time after their landing there; John lived for some time, and died there also.
That which was the occasion of our banished being carried to so many different places in the world was, in these days there were Scots regiments in France, Flanders, and Holland; and when their men decayed,officers
