[189] The week before he was taken, he married two persons; and being in the Leewood, John Weir and his wife brought him his dinner. Being pressed to eat, he said, Let me alone, I cannot be pressed: for I took not that meal of meat these 30 years but I could have taken as much when I rose up as when I sat down. Vide Walk. Relation, page 45.
[190] See his examination and answers at large in Wodrow's history Vol. II. page 184.
[191] Vid Walker in his remarkable passages, &c.
[192] See a more full account of this in Wilton's impartial relation of Bothwel-bridge, page 13. &c.
[193] The reader will find an account of these their transactions in their own register now published of late, under the title of Faithful Contendings displayed, &c.
[194] What relates to this worthy, I have extracted from the account of his life wrote by himself when in prison yet in manuscript; what concerns his trial and martyrdom, I have collected from history and other writings.
[195] {illegible} he says they saw a remarkable flash of fire the elements seeming as it were to open and then to close again.
[196] In his narrative he condescends upon four different times he apprehended he heard or saw the enemy; the last of which he was in company with another returning from a sermon. But I forbear to relate these as I did with a late instance in the life of Mr. Cargil lest they should seem incredible in this sceptical age.
[197] I have been more full in relating the way and manner of this skirmish, as it is omitted, so far as I can learn, in the histories of the sufferings of the church of Scotland.
[198] This seems to have been the skirmish at Bewly bog only mentioned in history.