did not die under the torture, but lived
to be afterwards pardoned and rewarded, though not to be ever believed in
any more. Dangerfield, the only other one of that crew left alive, was
not so fortunate. He was almost killed by a whipping from Newgate to
Tyburn, and, as if that were not punishment enough, a ferocious barrister
of Gray's Inn gave him a poke in the eye with his cane, which caused his
death; for which the ferocious barrister was deservedly tried and
executed.

As soon as James was on the throne, Argyle and Monmouth went from
Brussels to Rotterdam, and attended a meeting of Scottish exiles held
there, to concert measures for a rising in England. It was agreed that
Argyle should effect a landing in Scotland, and Monmouth in England; and
that two Englishmen should be sent with Argyle to be in his confidence,
and two Scotchmen with the Duke of Monmouth.

Argyle was the first to act upon this contract. But, two of his men
being taken prisoners at the Orkney Islands, the Government became aware
of his intention, and was able to act against him with such vigour as to
prevent his raising more than two or three thousand Highlanders, although
he sent a fiery cross, by trusty messengers, from clan to clan and from
glen to glen, as the custom then was when those wild people were to be
excited by their chiefs. As he was moving towards Glasgow with his small
force, he was betrayed by some of his followers, taken, and carried, with
his hands tied behind his back, to his old prison in Edinburgh Castle.
James ordered him to be executed, on his old shamefully unjust sentence,
within three days; and he appears to have been anxious that his legs
should have been pounded with his old favourite the boot. However, the
boot was not applied; he was simply beheaded, and his head was set upon
the top of Edinburgh Jail. One of those Englishmen who had been assigned
to him was that old soldier Rumbold, the master of the Rye House. He was
sorely wounded, and within a week after Argyle had suffered with great
courage, was brought up for trial, lest he should die and disappoint the
King. He, too, was executed, after defending himself with great spirit,
and saying that he did not believe that God had made the greater part of
mankind to carry saddles on their backs and bridles in their mouths, and
to be ridden by a few, booted and spurred for the purpose--in which I
thoroughly agree with Rumbold.

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