nerk, when tying Mr. Cargil's feet
hard below the horse's belly, Mr. Cargil said, "Why do you tie me so
hard? Your wickedness is great: you will not long escape the just
judgment of God; and if I be not mistaken, it will seize you near this
place." Nor was this all; having apprehended George Jackson 1683, in the
Lord's night, he offered to set him on a horse's bare back, and tie his
head and feet together, and offered him the king's health, which he
refused. On the morrow, when setting him on the horse, he caused hold a
trumpet to his ear and bade sound him to hell: at which the martyr
smiled. In the same year having apprehended twelve prisoners, he carried
them to Hamilton, then to Lanerk, where they were augmented to thirty.
They were cast at night into a dungeon without fire or candle: next
morning, he tied them two by two on a horse's bare back, and their legs
twisted below the horses bellies to the effusion of their blood, and so
drove them to Edinburgh at the gallop, not suffering so much as one of
the poor prisoners to alight to ease nature. But being now arrived at
the very summit of his wicked cruelty, he returned to Lanerk, and at the
very place where he had bound Mr. Cargil, one of his drunken companions
and he falling at odds, while he was easing himself on a dunghill, his
comrade coming out with a sword, ran him through the body till the blood
and dirt, with Eglon's, came out. His last words were, "God damn my soul
eternally, for I am gone." _Mischief shall hunt the violent man, till he
be ruined._--_Wodrow, Walker's remarks_.

CHARLES II. succeeded his father Charles I. He was from his infancy such
a dissembler, that he could metamorphose himself unto any profession
that was most for his carnal ends and political interest. In his exile,
he confined himself to popery. When he came to treat with the Scots for
a crown, he became a Protestant and a Presbyterian too. So that he took
the covenants twice in one year at Spey and Scoon, and emitted a
declaration at Dunfermline of his own sins and his father's wickedness.
Upon his being again expelled these dominions, he turned papist again,
and came under obligations to promote that interest, if ever he should
be restored again. No sooner was he restored, than he restored
episcopacy in England, and by the help of a set of poor time-serving
wretches got the work of reformation overturned in Scotland, and then
episcopacy, prelacy, and arbitrary power began to shake it