, being
acquainted with him, begged but one quarter of an hour to prepare for
death; all he got from him was, "What the devil, have ye not got time
enough to prepare since Bothwel?" and so he was shot. The same summer,
Annandale having apprehended G. Short and D. Halliday, and having bound
them, after quarters granted, the monster Lag came up, and, as they lay
on the ground under cloud of night, caused shoot them immediately,
leaving their bodies thus all blood and gore. Nay, such was their
audacious impiety, that he with the rest of his bon companions,
persecutors, would over their drunken bowls feign themselves devils, and
those whom, they supposed in hell, and then whip one another as a jest
on that place of torment. When he could serve his master this way no
longer, he wallowed in all manner of atheism, drunkenness, swearing and
adultery, for which he was excommunicated by the church after the
revolution, and yet by the then powers was made justice of the peace
sometime before 1714; a disgrace to any civilized nation, not to mention
a presbyterian profession. Thus he continued in his wicked obstinate
courses to an old age, although his name and estate are now extinct. But
death's pangs at last arresting him, and all other refuges failing him
under the views of his former wicked nefarious life, in imitation of his
master Charles, he feigned himself of the popish profeshon, because a
popish priest made him believe, for money, he could pardon all his sins,
and even when in purgatory for them, he could bring him to heaven. And
so we must conclude he died 1733, Dec. 23d, and went down to Tophet with
a lie in his right hand, and so remains in spite of all the priest could
mutter or mumble over him, as the author of his Elegy in his master's
name well expresses it:

For when I heard that he was dead,
A legion of my den did lead
Him to my place of residence,
And there he'll stay and not go hence.
This Lag will know and all the rest,
Who of my lodging are possest.
On earth they can no more serve me;
But still I'll have their companie, &c.

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_To the foregoing List I shall subjoin a few more of these Satannical
Heroes of inferior note, who also persecuted the Followers of the Lamb
during the suffering period._

CORNELIUS ANDERSON, who was one of those ten sentenced to die at Air and
Irvine, 1666, to save his own life became executioner to the rest