I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

He returned later and tried to hold a communion but the service was interrupted and he was arrested briefly. After Cameron's death in July at the hand of dragoons Cargill continued to preach in the Torwood near Stirling and in September pronounced the sentence of excommunication against the key government figures who were persecuting the Covenanters: Charles II James Duke of York and James Duke of Monmouth Privy Councillors John Duke of Lauderdale and John Duke of Rothes the King's Advocate Sir George McKenzie and General Tam Dalziel of the Binns.