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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Brief Account of Captain WILLIAM GOVAN, His la&s;t Speech and Prayers, with a Miraculous In&s;tance after his Death, Concerning the Bleeding of his <HI>Head.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the Year 1661, the now Decea&s;t Earl of <HI>Midletoun,</HI> and Chancelour <HI>Cunningham</HI> and others, who then had the Government among their Hands, thinking to Ingratiat them&s;elves in the Kings favours by Bloody Expiations; Several innocent Per&s;ons &s;uffered by their cruel|ty, and particularly one Captain <HI>Govan</HI> then de&s;igned of <HI>Kirktounholme</HI> he and Mr. <HI>James Guthrie</HI> a Mini&s;ter, were Execute at the Cro&s;s of <HI>Edin|burgh</HI> both in one day. And it is recent in the Hearts &amp; Minds of many Hone&s;t Hearted Chri&s;tians yet Living how it was the common Talk then, of that Cruel Per&s;ecuting party, that there were a nece&s;&s;ity for &s;ome of every one of thir three Stations and Qualities following to die, <HI>Viz.</HI> of the Nobility, Gentry and Clergy, <HI>Argile</HI> he behoved to die for the Nobility, Captain <HI>Govean</HI> and <HI>Swintoun</HI> of <HI>That Ilk,</HI> if he had not happily made his e&s;cape, for the Gentry, and Mr. <HI>James Guthrie</HI> for the Mini&s;try. And it is very well Remembred by many, how that Captain <HI>Govan</HI> when he was upon the Ladder Speaking his la&s;t Words to the World, he Prayed Heartily for the King, and for the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and that his Blood might not be on the Nation, nor on the City, and that GOD might pre&s;erve his Church and Hedge and Fence in his Vine Yard, from the Crafty Foxes and Di&s;troying Boars of the Forre&s;t, moreover he told the Spectators how that <HI>Midletoun</HI> and he had been fellow Souldiers, and that many a time both of them had equally Hazarded their Lives in the King's &s;ervice, though now unequally Rewarded, the one with a Throne, being the Kings High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the other with a Rope, and Condemned to die an Ignominious Death. Yet You may tell <HI>Midletoun</HI> &s;aid he to the Spectators, that I will not (though it were in my offer) change my Rope for his Throne for I hope in GOD through the Merits of my Redeemer, to be in a bet|ter State within a few Minutes.</P>
<P>Nor was it any Fable, that there fell &s;ome Drops of Blood from his Head upon Chancelour <HI>Cunningham's</HI> Coach, who was the main In&s;trument of taking away his Life, which never could be Wip'd out, till they were forced to out away the Looder, Blood and all where it fell on. And the&s;e dropes of Blood, Droped from his Head or rather the Dry Bones, after the Head had been Bon'd, Oil'd, Dry'd and Parched with the Heat of the Sun, Wind and Weather a long time.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o to be Noted, that a great Deal of what he Prophe&s;ied hath already perfectly come to pa&s;s, as al&s;o tho&s;e la&s;t Words and Prophe&s;ies of others who &s;uffered for the &s;ame Cau&s;e, which he did, are now very much Accompli&s;hed, and part of them are yet to be Accompli&s;hed.</P>
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<P><ADD>Reverend Sir plea&s;e Remember Capton Govans Daughters <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to the Reverend Pre&s;byterie of Edinburgh</ADD></P>
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