d not address that mongrel court, at any rate.
However the doctor, of his own accord, did it without his knowledge, and
gave in a petition to the council, in the strongest terms he could
devise. The petition being read, some of the lords interceeded for Mr.
Hog, and said, That he lived more quietly, and travelled not the country
so much as other presbyterians did. Upon which bishop Sharp, taking up
the argument, said, That the prisoner did, and was in a capacity to do,
more hurt to their interests, sitting in his elbow-chair, than twenty
others could do by travelling from this corner of the land to the other;
and if the justice of God was pursuing him, to take him off the stage,
the clemency of the government should not interpose to hinder it; and it
was his opinion that if there was any place in the prison worse than
another, he should be put there. Which motion, being seconded by the
prelates, was put to vote, and carried, To the closest prison in the
Bass; which was speedily put in execution. When the keeper intimated
this to Mr. Hog, he said, It was as severe as if Satan himself had
penned it. His servant William Bulloch, being with him when he carried
him down to that low, nasty dungeon in the Bass, fell a-weeping, and
cried, Now, master, your death is unavoidable. But the good man,
directing his eyes up, said, Now, that men have no mercy, the Lord will
shew himself merciful; from the moment of my entering this dungeon I
date my recovery. And so it fell out, for the very next day he recovered
surprisingly, and in a short time was as well as ever. Yet afterward,
when speaking of the arch-prelate, he never shewed any resentment, but
merrily said, Commend him to me for a good physician.

In the end of the year 1679 being brought to Edinburgh before the
council, and refusing to take the bond to live peaceably, he was
remanded back to prison, and afterwards liberated, but on what
conditions we do not learn.

About the year 1683, he fell again under the displeasure of the
managers, for holding private conventicles, and was banished by the
privy council, and ordained to remove off the kingdom in 48 hours,
unless he gave caution not to exercise any part of his ministry, under a
penalty of 5000 merks over and above performance; which conditions he
would by no means submit to, and therefore retired to Berwick, and from
thence to London, with a design the first opportunity to go from thence
to Carolina; but the pretended plo