No. VII. From the King, liberating Mr. William Veitch, 504 No. XIII.-Letter from King William to the Privy Coun- OF MR. WILLIAM VEITC MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, CONTAINING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS EXTRACTION AND RELA AND OF SEVERAL REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES, AN GULAR DELIVERANCES, HE WAS TRYSTED WITH I LAND, ENGLAND, AND HOLLAND, WHERE HE TRA AND PREACHED TWENTY-TWO YEARS, BEING FOR LIFE AND FORTUNE; ALSO THE TIME HE PREAC WHITTON MEETING-HOUSE NEAR KELSO THREE IN THE TIME OF KING JAMES HIS LIBERTY; THAT SETTLED, FOUR YEARS IN PEEBLES; ANI MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AT DUMFRIES; IN ALI FIFTY YEARS. Psal. lxvi. 16. "Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and declare what he hath done for my soul." Psal. cxvi. 8. "He hath delivered my soul from death, min from tears, and my feet from falling." Psal. Ivi. 8. "Thou tellest all my wanderings, put my tears bottle; are they not in thy book?" Psal. lvii. 1. "Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I ma refuge, until these calamities be overpast.' Psal. xxxii. 7. "Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt prese from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliver Psal. lxxvii. 10. "I will remember the years of the right the Most High." Ver. 11. " I will remember the works of the surely I will remember thy wonders of old." Psal. xlii. 6. "O my God, my soul is cast down within me : fore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the monites, from the hill Mizar."-The Land of Jordan is the Scot English ground on both sides of the Tweed: The Hermonites are the dalites : ́ Mizar is the Carter, where I hardly escaped the enemies' se OF MR. WILLIAM VEITO MR. VEITCH was born at Roberton, in t of Clydesdale, seven miles from Lanark, that presbytery, in the year of our Lor April 27. He was the youngest child John Veitch,* minister of that place for th of about forty-five years. His mother pious and frugal woman, very dexterous in keeping and educating of children; wh husband knew little of as to family affairs name was Elizabeth Johnston, a me daughter in Glasgow. He (Mr. John Veitch) had many son whereof were ministers, and of no mean in this church, viz. Mr. John Veitch was n Mr. John Veitch, the father, was ejected from his p in September 1664 was residing at Lanark. In 1671 h alive; for in that year, October 6, we find a retour— Veitch, late minister at Robertoun, heir of Mr. Davi schoolmaster at Salton, his brother. (Inquis. Retorn. Ge |