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 kindness, that minds me of that note.' The jaylor at night, said, "John, you are called an honest man if you will promise to return tomorrow, I will let you home to your own bed." John said "That I will not do." The keeper said, "Will you run for it?" He said, "No, no; I have done no ill thing that needs make me either afraid or shamed. "Well, said the jailor, go home to your bed, and I will send a servant for you to-morrow's morning." When he went home, it was his ordinary in his family-worship, to sing these lines in the 109th Psalm.

When ended, he said to his wife, "I never found such a gale upon my spirit as in the singing to these lines." She said it was so with her also. "Well said he, let us commit our case & cause to the Lord, and wait on him; and we shall know the meaning of this afterwards"---The unhappy man fell immediately ill and said, that all the mischief had come upon him for what he had done against John Goodale; and caused write and signed a dischare, and sent it to the said John, that he might not be troubled for the expence he has been at, in the getting of that captain. He died under great horror of conscience. Notwithstanding he was detained three years prisoner working at his enploymentemployment [sic] in the Talbooth, in the day timtime [sic] and went home to his bed at night The said John went home, and died since the Revolution His wife, when dying at Leith gave this relation.

3 When Mr Peden was prisoner in Edinburgh, under sentence of banishment, James Millar, merchant in Kirkcaldy, was under the same sentence and his wife came to visit him Mr Peden said to her, "It is no wonder you be troubled with your husband's going to the plantations;