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 him to Cumnock-gallows-foot, and buried him there (after being forty days in the grave) beside others. His friends thereafter laid a gravestone above him with this inscription:

After this, that troop of dragoons came to quarter in the parish hfof [sic] Cambusnethen: Two of them were quartered in the house of James Gray, my acquaintance: they being frighted in their sleep started up, and clapped their hands, crvingcrying [sic] Peden Peden. These two dragoons affirmed, that out of their curiosity they opened his coffin, to see his corpse, and yet he had no smell, though he had been forty days dead.

All the foregoing articles I was assured of, except the 20th which is said he spoke to Margaret Lumbernor within the bounds of Carrick in 1684, and has been passing from hand to hand in writing, I sent a friend twenty miles to her for the certainty of it: and although she was my old acquaintance, she delayed giving it. But I am informed that some other friends enquired at the said Margaret, who owned that 20th. passage was all one, for substance, with what Mr. Peden said to her.