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 will not go out, that we may begin our work!"--Then there was a woman went out, ill-looked upon for a witch. John Muirhead (formerly mentioned) told me, that when he came from Ireland to Galloway, he was at family-worship, and giving some notes upon the scripture read, there was a very ill-looking man came in, and sat down within the door. He haltad and said, "There is some unhappy body just now came into this house I charge him to go out and not stop my mouth. The man went off, and he insisted; but Mr Peden saw him neither come in, nor go out.

27 In that bloody year 1685, he came to a house in the shire of Ayr Captain John Matthison and other 12 of our wanderers bring in the house, he said, "Lads, ye must go to the fields and seek your beds, for the enemy will be here this night, and I'll go my cave." They said, "Some of us will stay with you, for you will weary alone-No said he, I will not weary. For a sign that the enemy will be here this night, a godly eminent Christian man, whom I often have heard of, but never saw, will come and be with me this night." All which came to pass: for the men fled, and he entered the cave, and fell asleep; and a little thereafter, the said man coming to the family asked for Mr Peden, and desired access to the cave to ly with him. When in bed he found Mr Peden slumbering, but in a little he awoke, and naming the man, asked him how he did? The soldiers came that night, but missed their prey. The next morning when these said men returned, he said, "Lads it was well you came to this house, yesternight, otherwise ye had been among their bloody hands this day

28. In the said year 1685, he came to Welwood, to Captain John Cambell's he having,