Note 255 — REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1673-1685. (continued 2)

Several of the inhabitants of Mull told me, that they had conversed with their relatives that were living at the harbour when the ship was blown up, and they gave an account of a remarkable providence that appeared, in the preservation of one Dr Beaton (the famous physician of Mull), who was on board the ship when she blew up, and was then sitting on the upper deck, which was blown up entire, and thrown a good way off; yet the doctor was saved, and lived several years after.—Martin’s Descrip. West. Isles, 1703. See of the present work, vol. i. p. 189.