army marched along the bridge, and having fired four field pieces at the Rebels horse, they all fled, and left their foot at the mercy of the Duke and his army. There were about fifteen hundred prisoners taken, and they owned there was a great number killed on the spot. Drumclog and Archbishop of St. Andrews' murder, were sufficiently revenged that day; and if Clavers and Oglethorp had been left to their own discretion, they had put an end to that rebellious crowd; and purged the nation of much superfluous and corrupted blood.

After the defeat the Rebels received at Bothwellbridge, according to their innate principles, they still continued rebellious in the West of Scotland, which obliged the government to send Clavers to Galloway, with a party of horse and dragoons, to suppress their rebellious assemblies, who acted with so much discretion and prudence, sometimes threatening them with the rigour of the law, at other times using them with unexpected and undeserved clemency, that in a great measure he gained the affections of both the gentry and commons of that country. He was not covetous; for though he fined them according to law, he always forgave them, on condition they would go to church, submit themselves to the government, and live peaceably at home. But his dragoons were the only medicines to be applied to their distempers, and made them more tractable than all the advice he could give them.

For, on the seventeenth of July, 1680, about three hundred banditti of the Whigs, gathered together near Airsmoss, in the shire of Ayr; Earl C

Hall, Clavers' lieutenant, having received information, marched immediately with eighty horse and dragoons to disperse them; who as soon as the king's troops appeared, retreated to the moss, fought it desperately, and killed seventeen of the king's troops; but at last were defeated, and many of them killed. The famous minister Cameron, and his brother, were both killed; and Haxton of Rathillet, one of the murderers of the Bishop of St. Andrews, was taken. This was the last actual rebellion they committed in K. Charles II.'s time, though they had many private meetings, which Clavers suppressed with so much prudence and tenderness, that the good character he received from his enemies as well as friends, obliged King Charles to create him a privy-counsellor; and it was observed, that in all his undertakings he was as successful as bold; for though my Lord Aberdeen's learning and politics recommended him to King Charles and the Duke of York, yet Clavers turned him out of favour, and was a great instrument of the Earl of Perth's advancement.

At a circuit court at Dumfries, some mistakes happened between Queensberry and Clavers, which obliged Clavers to leave the circuit, and in one day, when the ground was covered with snow, he rode from Dumfries to Edinburgh, which is above sixty long miles, the next day he took journey for London, and was there when King Charles died; and at King James' accession to the crown, he joining with Perth and Melford, they turned Queensberry out of favour.

About this time the Whigs began to renew their

rebellions in Galloway, where they murdered the minister of Creforn in his bed, and coming afterwards to Kircudbright, killed a poor man there who was one of the sentries on the tolbooth, only for challenging who comes there? About six miles from Kircudbright, Clavers, with some horse and dragoons, attacked that party of Rebels that murdered the minister, chased them into a bog, killed seven or eight of them, and took some prisoners, who told him the murderer of the minister lay dead on the spot.

This is all I can observe transacted between Clavers and the Rebels in King Charles II.'s time, except some barbarous murders committed by the Rebels on Clavers' soldiers, whereof there are now living many eye-witnesses, both in England and Scotland.

William Cunningham and Andrew Cleveland, two dragoons, going out of Cumlock, in the shire of Ayr, were set upon by seven country fellows out of a wood; Cunningham was murdered, and at the intercession of some gentlewomen Cleveland was saved.

Oliphant and his comrade, two dragoons, quartered in the parish of Newmills, in the shire of Ayr, were both murdered by the Whigs on a Sunday morning, as they went to their conventicle: a glorious work before prayers!

Irvine, a dragoon, was killed between Douglas and Lanark, by a man and a woman who went along the road with him, until they came to a pass; the man threw him off his horse, and the woman killed him with his own sword.

Flesher, a trooper, coming home to his troop in Clydesdale, was murdered by six Whigs, thrown in a river, and found six weeks afterwards.

Two troopers, who went out of the garrison of Blahan, in the shire of Ayr, in the evening to walk, were both shot from the wood by the Whigs.

A single dragoon coming into a public house to ask the way to Blahan, a woman spinning on her distaff told him she would show him, and instead thereof, she immediately called six or seven men, and murdered the dragoon

At Entricken hill, some Whigs, hid in bushes, shot two of a party of Dundee's horse, as they passed that way.

At Swine-Abbey, in Linlithgowshire, James Carmichael, Laird of Little Blackburn, with a party of about fifty Whigs, murdered Captain Duncan Stewart, and Captain Kennuay, both gentlemen in the king's horse guards; and when several of the murderers were taken, the government was so merciful, as to offer them their lives, if they would but acknowledge that it was a murder, though they did not confess themselves to be the murderers; and moreover say, God save the King, which they obstinately chose rather to be hanged, than say. So if ever that party be in power, we see what monarchy and episcopacy may expect. This James Carmichael, of Little Blackburn, some years after he was married, got two women with child, and when they told him of their misfortunes, he appointed them separately to meet him at a private place, where he murdered them both, and threw them into a coal-pit. Some weeks afterwards he fell

sick, and confessed the murder both of the captains and the women, and gave his confession in writing under his hand. Afterwards he recovered, and lived many years in King William's reign, without ever being questioned for the murders, because he was a holy brother.

At Bella-Path near Cumlock, in the shire of Ayr, the Whigs took one Houston a prisoner, from a small party of horse, commanded by Mr. James Affleck, and killed three of his party. And to foment our rebellions in Scotland, much about the time these murders were committed,

Argyll sailed from Ulye in Holland, on the 2d of May, 1685, with three ships, one of thirty, one of twelve, and one of six guns, and twenty boats. On the 5th of May, he appeared before the isles of Orkney, and sent his steward Mr. Spence, and his chirurgeon ashore, who were both apprehended by the inhabitants, and sent prisoners to the privycouncil at Edinburgh. Argyll not finding that encouragement in the Orkney and other islands, and in the North of Scotland, he expected, sailed to the western parts of that kingdom, and landed at Dunstaffnage castle, in Lorn, where he left a strong garrison, and marched farther into the country, and there he published his rebellions declarations and manifestoes, which no man took notice of but his own friends and followers. Afterwards, he marched into Kintyre with three troops of horse, and about eight hundred foot, and from thence to Tarbot, where he was joined by two hundred Isla men: his ships and boats came round, and were attending his orders in the offing of Kintyre: there he went