brave men are striving for their rights it is fitting that one of the
old rebel house of Clarke should be among them.'

I took the letter, and wandering off into the fields, I settled
myself under a convenient tree, and set myself to read it.
This yellow sheet which I now hold in my hand is the very one
which was brought by Decimus Saxon, and read by me that bright May
morning under the hawthorn shade. I give it to you as it stands;


'To my friend and companion in the cause of the Lord, Joseph Clarke.--
Know, friend, that aid and delivery is coming upon Israel, and that the
wicked king and those who uphold him shall be smitten and entirely cast
down, until their place in the land shall know them no more. Hasten,
then, to testify to thy own faith, that in the day of trouble ye be not
found wanting.

'It has chanced from time to time that many of the suffering Church,
both from our own land and from among the Scots, have assembled in this
good Lutheran town of Amsterdam, until enough are gathered together to
take a good work in hand. For amongst our own folk there arc my Lord
Grey of Wark, Wade, Dare of Taunton, Ayloffe, Holmes, Hollis,
Goodenough, and others whom thou shalt know. Of the Scots there are the
Duke of Argyle, who has suffered sorely for the Covenant, Sir Patrick
Hume, Fletcher of Saltoun, Sir John Cochrane, Dr. Ferguson, Major
Elphinstone, and others. To these we would fain have added Locke and
old Hal Ludlow, but they are, as those of the Laodicean Church, neither
cold nor warm.

'It has now come to pass, however, that Monmouth, who has long lived in