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purse and thirty guineas in it: when he came to his father, he gave the purse to him: his father said, Johnie; if I had known this, you should not have gone your footlength with them; there is more here than any horse is worth. Mr. Veitch convoyed him to London. When Mr. Veitch parted with him, he said Give my love and service to all friends where we have been, especially to my free-communing landlady Mrs. Bitleston. From that he went to Holland, and was abroad to the middle of May 1685. and then came to Inverary with some men, and many notable arms. Monmouth came to England that same summer.
After Argyle landed, one morning walking at the water-side very sad. Mr. Thomas Urquart, who suffered in the Grass-Market that same summer. came to him, and said, I am sorry to see your Lordship so melancholy. He said. How can I be otherwise? I see few coming to our assistance; I am persuaded I will be called infatuate Argyle; but all that does not trouble me so much as that unhappy wicked vote I gave against that good man and minister, Mr. Cargill; and I am now persuaded I'll die a violent death in the same spot where he died.
However, Argyle got together above 1500 men and expected a great many more would have joined him in order to oppose the King and Council in their bloody cruelties carried on in these days but he was disappointed; and after several unsuccessful attempts without ever coming to any total action and his officers differing among themselves, the most of his men deserted; and finding it impractical to do any thing to purpose, he dismissed the whole, and put himself in disguise, but was soon taken by a few militia at the water of Inchianan. He was carried to Edinburgh with a strong guard and by order of the Council carried up the street with his hands tied behind his back, and bare-headed, the hangman going before him, and lodged in the Castle. And in order to make quick work, the sentence that was passed against him 1681, three years before, for his explication of the Test, was put in execution, without bringing him to any further trial.
