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 told me, that he followed him some good piece of the way to detain him until he got his child baptised. He said, 'I resolve to come back shortly, and I hope the Lord will preserve your child." Which accordingly he did. After baptism he said to Peter, "If the man of the parish (Mr James Vetch one of the them actually indulged) had baptised your child, you would have got your horned beasts keeped and now you will lose them." Which came to pass in a few days. The enemy came and took away his cattle every hoof, but he fled with his horses.

10 In the same year 1682, he married John Kirkland and Janet Lindsay, my acquaintance, who told me, that when they were before him he sighed deeply, and said, "First one busbandhusband [sic], killed and then another, and must have a third, if it must be so, let her say, Good is the will afof [sic] the Lord. Which came to pass: Her husband, Thomas Weir in Cumberhead, was deadly wounded at Drumclog, by Claverhouse, on the 1st efof [sic] June 1679, being the Sabbath. and died on tnethe [sic] 5th day thereafter: And Ensign John Kirkland was killed in Flanders. Kersland, Fullerton, and he, were all buried in on grave. Since then, William Spence, Baillie in Coulter, who was also my intimate acquaintance, married her. They are both now in their graves.

11 In the year 1681, he was in Ireland, in the house of John Slowan, in the parish of Conert, in the county of Antrim; about ten o'clock at uightnight [sic], sitting at the fire-side discoursing with some peopepeople [sic], started to his feet, and said, "Flee auld Sandy and hide yourself, for Colonel.is coming to this house to apprehend you; and I advise you all to do the like, for they will be here within an hour." Which came to pass And when they had made a very narrow search within and without the house, and went round