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 together for their own defence who were broken at Pentland-bills, he with Mr Welch and the laird of Glorover, in the parish of Balentrea, wire riding together in the same parish, and met upon the way a small party of the enemy's horse, and no eviting of them; the Laird fainted, fearing they would all be taken. Mr Peden seeing this, said, "Keep up your courage and confidence for God hath laid an arrest upon these men, that they shall not harm us." When they met, they were courteous, and asked the way: Mr Peden went off the way, and shewed the ford of the water of Tit. When he returned, the laird said, 'Why did you go with them; You might have sent the lad" He said, "No, no, it was more safe for me; for they might have asked questions at the lad, and he might have fainted and discovered us For myself, I know they would be like the Egyptian dogs, they would not owe a tongue against me; for my hour of falling into their hands, and the day of trial, is not come that is abiding me." There is an old Christian gentlewoman in Edinburgh, a daughter of the said lairds, who told me of late, that she had several times heard her father give an account of this. She also told me, that since Bothwel-bridge fight, she heard him preach in the fields in the foresaid parish; and a woman sitting before the tent, looking up to him, he said, "How have you the confidence to look up? look down to hell where you are going; the devil has a fast grip of you, & will not lose it." That woman lived and died under the mala fame of a witch, and presumptions of the same.

2 About the year 1670 he was in Armagh, in Ireland, one John Goodale with his wife two zealous serious Christians, living in Armagh, who had gone from Scotland, who was a wheel