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 shall not escape it." Very shortly after, she was walking upon the rock, and there came a blast of wind and sweeped her into the sea, where she perished.

While prisoner there one day walking upon the rock, some solders passsing by him, one of them said, "Devil take him" He said, 'Fy. fy, poor man, thou knowest not what thou art saying; but thou wilt repent that." At which word the soldier stood astonished, and went to the guard distracted, crying aloud for Mr. Peden, saying, the devil would immediately take him away. He came to him again, and found him in his high mind under deep convictions of great guilt. The guard being changed, they desired him to go to his arms; he refused, and said, he would lift no arms against Jesus Christ his cause, and persecute his people; he had done that too long. The governor threatned him with death to-morrow about ten of the clock; he confidently said three times, though he should tear all his body in pieces, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the governor put him out of the garrison setting him ashore. He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian, Mr. Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others, who informed me

7 When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him in Dec. 1678 and sixty more fellow-prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America never to be seen in Scotland again, under the ; after this sentence was past, he several times said, that the ship was not yet built that should take him and these prisoners to Virginia, or any other of the English plantations in America.— One James Kay, a solid and grave Christian, being