est side of the
town, questioned the prisoners, particularly if they would pray for King
James VII. They answered, they would pray for all within the election of
grace. Balfour said Do you question the King's election? They answered,
sometimes they questioned their own. Upon which he swore dreadfully, and
said they should die presently, because they would not pray for Christ's
vicegerent, and so without one word more, commanded Thomas Cook to go to
his prayers, for he should die.---- In this narrative Wodrow saw nothing
improbable; and I shall not easily be convinced that any writer now
living understands the feelings and opinions of the Covenanters better
than Wodrow did. (1857.)]

[Footnote 291: Wodrow, III. ix. 6. Cloud of Witnesses.]

[Footnote 292: Wodrow, III. ix. 6. The epitaph of Margaret Wilson, in
the churchyard at Wigton, is printed in the Appendix to the Cloud of
Witnesses;

"Murdered for owning Christ supreme
Head of his church, and no more crime,
But her not owning Prelacy.
And not abjuring Presbytery,
Within the sea, tied to a stake,
She suffered for Christ Jesus' sake."]

[Footnote 293: See the letter to King Charles II. prefixed to Barclay's
Apology.]

[Footnote 294: Sewel's History of the Quakers, book x.]

[Footnote 295: Minutes of Yearly Meetings, 1689, 1690.]

[Footnote 296: Clarkson on Quakerism; Peculiar Customs, chapter v.]

[Footnote 297: After this passage was written, I found in the British
Museum, a manuscript (Harl. MS. 7506) entitled, "An Account of the
Seizures, Sequestrations, great Spoil and Havock made upon the Estates
of the several Protestant Dissenters called Quakers, upon Prosecution of
old Statutes made against Papist and Popish Recusants." The manuscript
is marked as having belonged to James, and appears to have been given
by his confidential servant, Colonel Graham, to Lord Oxford. This
circumstance appears to me to confirm the view which I have taken of the
King's conduct towards the Quakers.]

[Footnote 298: Penn's visits to Whitehall, and levees at Kensington,
are described with great vivacity, though in very bad Latin, by Gerard
Croese. "Sumebat," he says, "rex saepe secretum, non horarium, vero
horarum plurium, in quo de variis rebus cum Penno serio sermonem
conferebat, et interim differebat audire praecipuorum nobilium ordinem,
qui hoc interim spatio in proc|tone, in proximo, regem conventum praesto
erant." Of the crowd of suitors