was a dramatist and agitator for the Roman Catholic cause in Scotland and England.
He wrote The Fatal Jealousy (1672), The Morning Ramble (1672), and The Siege of Constantinople (1675).
After he finished writing plays, he was heavily involved in the Montgomery Plot in 1689, and was captured and put to two days torture on 10 December 1690, in the last legal use of "judicial torture" in the United Kingdom.
His fate is unknown; Montague Summers's The Works of Aphra Behn suggests 1710 for his death date, but offers no cite.
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