of his
daughter's marriage, his steward declared, that a cup of wine that day
being put into his master's hand, turned into congealed blood. However,
in a short time, he fell from his horse, and was killed dead--_Wodrow_,
_Appendix to the Cloud_, &c.

---- WHITEFORD, son to Whiteford, pretended bishop of Brichen, (who was
excommunicated by the Assembly 1638) went first to England; thence to
Holland, where he killed Dorislaus, and being turned papist, to be out
of Cromwel's reach, he went over to the duke of Savoy's service, and was
there when the terrible massacre was committed upon the poor Vandois
(probably about 1655) where he committed many barbarous murders upon
them with his own hands. He returned home, and it appears, he was made a
captain of the guard, and had a share in the persecuting work. However,
he had a small pension given him for such service. But he sickened
before York's parliament sat down, 1686, and being haunted with an
intolerable horror of conscience of the execrable murders he had
committed, called for some ministers, and told them his abhorrence of
popery: "For (said he) I went to priests of all sorts; they all
justified me in what I had done, and gave me absolution. But now I am
persuaded by an awakened conscience." And so he died as one in despair,
roaring out against that bloody religion that had undone him.--_Burnet's
history_, &c.

PHILIP STANDFIELD, son to Sir James Standfield of New-milns, was a
mocker of God and all things religious. While student at the university
of St. Andrew's, he came to a meeting where Mr. John Welch was preaching
in Kinkell Closs: in the time of the sermon, out of malice and mockery,
he cast somewhat that hit the minister, who stopped and said, He knew
not who it was, that had put that public affront upon a servant of
Christ; but be who it would, he was persuaded that there would be more
present at the death of him who did it, than were hearing him that day;
and the multitude was not small. However, this profligate went home and
continued his wicked courses, till the year 1688, that he murdered his
own father; for which he was taken to Edinburgh, and executed. In time
of his imprisonment, he told some, he was confident that God was now
about to accomplish what he had been before by his servant forewarned
of.--_Wodrow_.

JOHN ALLISON, sometime chamberlain to the duke of Queensberry, to please
his master, became a most violent persecutor of God's people. It were