of John Cockburn, &c. 5 



found Bull , with a Halter about his Neck, 

 ready to be hoifed up to the Yard Arm, 

 and the reft furrounded by feveral Men, 

 who were to fee us ferved in the fame Man- 

 ner. To thefe they rufhed up, and in a vi- 

 olent Rage demanded what they intended to 

 do with us, faying withal, they thought we 

 had been ufed cruelly enough already, and 

 rather than they would fuffer any farther 

 Violence to be done us, they would lofe every 

 Drop of Blood in their Bodies. The others 

 feeing how refolutely bent they were to fave 

 us, and knowing them to be Men of defpe- 

 rate Difpofitions, and that whatever they 

 took in hand, they would perform to the 

 utmoft of their Power, thought fit to defift 

 from their Enterprize, left they fhould raife 

 fuch a Difturbance, as might not be eafily 

 appeafed ; and thus were we fuddenly, 

 and as it were miraculoufly delivered from 

 Death, when all Hope or Expe&ation of 

 Life was vanilhcd. 



But foon after this they came to a ferious 

 Debate among themfelves how to difpofe of 

 us without taking away our Lives, conclud- 

 ing it was not fafe to let fomany Men remain 

 B 3 among 



