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 that town the next day, "Ye need not fear to let me stay in your house, for some, of these soldiers shall keep sentry at this door but shall not come in." Which came to pass: His landlord being digging stones at the end of the village, told the officers that he was afraid the soldiers would plunder his cottage. They said "Poor man, you deserve encouragement for your virtue, be not afraid for your house, we will order two soldiers to stand at your door, that nobody enter to wrong you," Which they did.

24 He lying sick about the same time, his landlord was afraid to keep him in his house. The enemy being in search of hiding people, he was obliged to make a bed for him among the standing corn; at which time there was a great rising of the water, but not one foot to be observed within ten feet of his bed.

25 About his time he came to Garfield, in the parish of Mauchlin to the house of Matthew Hog a smith. He went to his barn, but thought himself not safe, foot and horse of the enemy being searching for wanderers as they were then called. He desired the favor of his loft, which Matthew refused: He said, "Well, well, poor man, you will not let me have the shelter of your roof, but that house shall be your judgmen and ruin." Some time after, the gravel of that house fell and killed both him and his son. Their boddies were severely crushed.

26 About the same time he came to Andrew Normand's house, in the parish of Allaway, shire of AvrAyr [sic], being to preach at night in his barn After he came in, he halted a little leaning on the back of a chair with his face covered. When he lifted up his head, he said, "They are in this house that I have not one word of salvation unto!" He halted a little again, saying, "This is strange, that the devil