tive
exile. _He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in
the wilderness_, &c.--_History of popery under James_, _Martyrs in
flames_, &c.

SIR ARCHIBALD KENNEDY of Colzen, another violent persecutor in Carrick
and parts adjacent; for having got the command of a troop of militia, he
ranged the country in quest of the sufferers, (a very puny employment
for a gentleman) and amongst other cruelties killed one Wm. M'Kirgue at
Blairquachen mill 1685, and the same year surprized a meeting for prayer
near Kirkmichael, and shot Gilbert M'Adam for essaying to escape. And,
though he got over the persecuting work, he obtained no reformation of a
cruel and wicked life for some time after the Revolution.--The
remarkable occurrence at his burial is sufficient to indicate in what
circumstance he died; for, if we shall credit one present, as soon as
the gentlemen lifted his corpse, a terrible tempest of thunder arose, to
the terror of all present: when going to the church-yard it ceased a
little; but when near the place of interment it recurred in such a
fearful manner, that the flashes of fire seemed to run along the coffin,
which affrighted them all: nay, from the lightness of the bier, it is
said, that some were apt to conclude the body was thereby consumed, or
else taken away by the devil from among their hands, before they gained
the place of interment. A note of God's fiery indignation on such a
fiery persecutor. _Upon the wicked he shall rain fire and brimstone, and
an horrible tempest._--_Crookshanks, A--d R--n_.

DUNCAN GRANT, a cripple with a tree leg who vaunted of his wickedness,
was another of this hellish crew, (for so I may by this time call them).
His leg did not hinder him from running, or rather riding up and down
the country oppressing and killing God's people. In Clydesdale he
uplifted 1500l. of fines. And being one of lord Airly's petty officers,
he got a commission 1683, to hold courts in East Kilbride parish, upon
which he quartered his party and harrassed them in a cruel manner. He
spoiled the house and goods of John Wilson in High-Flet, to the value of
673l. seizing crops and land and all: and, though he got the gift of
some land there, he did not long possess it; for, after the Revolution,
he was reduced to extreme poverty, and went through the country now
begging, (instead of robbing) until the day of his death, which was a
very terrible one, if we may believe what I have often heard relate