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( 28 ) mother’s houſe, being in Dublin, informed the State againſt Mr. Blair and me. Order is given ro apprehend us! One night one Andrew Young, a ſervant of Mr. Blair’s, who dwelt hard by our houſe, overheard a Purſeuant calling to a Stabler, to prepare againſt to-morrow morning, becauſe they had orders to go to the North, and bring up two Scottiſh depoſed miniſters. This Andrew immediately goes to a ſtable, prepares a horſe, and rode all that night, and in two days after brings us word, ſo that Mr. Blair and I went out of the way, and came over to Scotland. When we came to Irvine to Mr. Dickſon's, he told us. That ſome good gentlemen in that country had been with him, having heard that we were come to Scotland, and deſired him not to employ us to preach, for fear that at ſuch a time, the Biſhops being then upon the urging of the ſervice-book, might take occafion thereby to put him out of his miniflry: but ſaid he, I dare not follow their opinion ſo far to diſcountenance you in your ſufferings, as not to employ you as in former times, but would think rather, ſo doing would provoke the Lord, that I might be on another account depoſed, and not have ſo good a conſcience. We were very unwilling either to occaſion his trouble, or diſſatisfy any of the gentlemen of the country; but he urged with ſuch grounds, as we could not get refuſed. After that I went by Dean, and Lowdon, and Lanerk, to Edinburgh, and remained there ſome ſpace; being at ſome private meeting every day. And when I returned to the communion of Irvine, which was the 26th of March, I found that my wife having come only a viſit from her mother’s houſe to Newtoun, to ſee the lady Airds, and finding ſome of our Killinchie folks coming by to go to Irvine communion, ſhe preſently came along to Scotland with them, bringing with her the child ſucking her breaſt:, and a ſervant-woman to wait on him; Ihe came with a purpoſe to have gone back preſently, but I kept her ſtill, and brought her with the child to Lanerk to my father’s, and ſent to Ireland for ſome of our goods, and remained in Lanerk, till I went to Stranrawer. While